The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1226

00:00:01.000 Who are the men that pick for scraps amongst the ruins at the end of history?

00:00:05.800 You should know, because you encounter them every day.

00:00:08.620 Between the towering buildings of a fallen empire, we find the Felaheen, the historyless men, 1.00

00:00:15.760 who know nothing of the turning of the cosmic wheel and find themselves outside of civilisation itself.

00:00:22.400 Cut loose from the great chain of being, they represent the loan into which our dying culture will return. 1.00

00:00:29.040 That is, unless we choose to take up the burden once again.

00:00:34.840 This Felaheen condition is the subject we explore in issue 4 of Islander magazine.

00:00:41.080 On sale, while stocks last, and available worldwide at shop.loadseaters.com.

00:00:47.980 Hello everyone, welcome to the podcast of the Loadseaters.

00:00:51.140 I'm your host, Elios, and I'm joined today by brother Luca and brother Nick.

00:00:56.420 For the greater good.

00:00:57.060 For the greater good, and we are going to discuss a mob attacking big bulls, 1.00

00:01:01.660 Ant Middleton being a chad, and an idiot being abroad. 0.99

00:01:06.720 Right, and this is episode 1226. 1.00

00:01:12.220 Right.

00:01:13.580 So, we're going to start by talking about an absolute chad.

00:01:17.880 Very few people can actually say that they have been tested to the degree that Edward Koristein has been tested,

00:01:25.480 and he passed that test.

00:01:27.020 Lots of people talk, they say how tough they are,

00:01:29.900 and how we should all act courageous, in a courageous manner, in difficult circumstances.

00:01:35.760 But very few actually do it.

00:01:37.920 Most are just talking about it.

00:01:40.980 And we are going to talk to you about what happened to Edward,

00:01:44.860 and how he reacted, and Trump and Musk were talking about the issue.

00:01:52.640 But before we begin, Luca has a message for us.

00:01:55.660 Oh, hear ye, hear ye, Islander 4 is upon us, if that's how messages are supposed to be delivered.

00:02:02.620 But we have Islander issue 4, ladies and gentlemen.

00:02:05.820 I have actually, this time as well, started to be able to read through the essays myself,

00:02:10.840 and I can assure you that they are just as high a quality as those in the previous issues.

00:02:16.460 Some terrific essays in there by Carl, Morgoth, Rory.

00:02:20.940 I've written a Lord of the Rings one, and I will continue to remind you all of the fact,

00:02:25.260 because I'm very, very happy with it.

00:02:26.860 And so, yeah, for £14.99, you can get it from our website,

00:02:32.700 along with all of the merch that comes with it.

00:02:35.700 And I really hope that you enjoy the magazine.

00:02:38.680 And you've even got Ed Dutton in there.

00:02:40.420 Dutton.

00:02:41.020 The miscreant.

00:02:42.220 Yes.

00:02:43.720 Right, so ex-doge staffer nicknamed Big Bulls left bloodied

00:02:48.620 after a savage DC carjacking attempt by 10 juveniles.

00:02:52.280 So I'm going to tell you, roughly speaking, what happened.

00:02:54.740 And last Sunday at around 3 a.m., there was a carjacking attempt by a juvenile of around 10, 12 teenagers,

00:03:08.580 basically thugs, and they tried to steal a car.

00:03:13.240 A woman was in it, and luckily for her, Edward Corristine was there, also known as Big Bulls. 0.67

00:03:20.500 And he took his girlfriend out of harm's way, and he literally saved also the girl.

00:03:28.500 He was beaten very much by them.

00:03:31.320 He has a broken nose and a concussion.

00:03:34.260 I wish him a speedy recovery.

00:03:36.860 Luckily, police officers were there, and they helped him,

00:03:40.040 and they arrested two people.

00:03:45.960 And you see here, we're not going to show some pictures of him.

00:03:53.180 They're all over the internet, but we're not going to show them.

00:03:55.880 But he saved them.

00:03:58.640 He saved the girl, and that's very admirable.

00:04:02.080 It is.

00:04:02.660 It's a nominative determinism in action.

00:04:05.260 Big Bulls, and he actually did have them.

00:04:08.060 Exactly.

00:04:08.620 And you know that in marketing, they say that one of the worst things is over-promising, under-delivering.

00:04:14.600 So in a sense, you could say this is over-promising, but it's not under-delivering.

00:04:19.120 And over-delivering.

00:04:20.220 Yeah, yeah.

00:04:20.560 Right.

00:04:20.840 Very brave, especially after the Daniel Penny thing, and you can get in so much trouble now for doing the right thing.

00:04:24.500 Yeah, absolutely.

00:04:25.660 Absolutely.

00:04:26.020 So let us see here the Wikipedia article about him, just very briefly.

00:04:31.340 He is 19 years old, and he is an American college student and programmer, formerly appointed to the Doge.

00:04:39.540 And he was made a permanent federal employee with the title Senior Advisor at the highest pay grade GS-15

00:04:46.640 in the General Services Administration at the end of May 2025.

00:04:50.540 Karastin resigned weeks later in June before taking a job at the Social Security Administration.

00:04:56.280 So he is very young, and he has taken some already.

00:05:02.040 It seems like this is a good start for your career.

00:05:04.500 Remarkably well-driven, clearly.

00:05:06.600 Clearly.

00:05:08.100 And character-wise, it seems like he totally deserves it.

00:05:12.120 And also, if we judge according to outcome, because I don't think Elon would just give him a job like that if it wasn't worth it.

00:05:26.460 Oh, no, no.

00:05:27.000 I don't think so either. 0.55

00:05:28.120 I wonder if Elon saw a bit of himself in him, because there's a clip maybe later where he talks about risk and having a high risk tolerance big balls.

00:05:35.540 And so does Elon Musk.

00:05:36.360 If you read his biography, his friends even said he might be addicted to risk.

00:05:40.860 Musk's like, oh, I'm going to learn to fly a plane now.

00:05:42.980 You know what I mean?

00:05:43.680 He just loves risk. 0.85

00:05:45.540 So I feel like maybe big balls is the new Musk in some ways. 0.73

00:05:50.320 Could be. 0.95

00:05:51.200 So Elon says, a few days ago, a gang of about a dozen young men tried to assault a woman in her car at night in D.C.

00:05:59.820 Elon does the same thing with other outlets.

00:06:04.100 But he talks about men like that.

00:06:06.600 A Doge team member saw what was happening, ran to defend her and was severely beaten to the point of concussion.

00:06:12.740 But he saved her.

00:06:13.600 And he says it's time to federalize D.C.

00:06:16.760 And here is also Trump who is saying crime in D.C. is totally out of control.

00:06:21.640 Local youths and gang members, some only 14, 15 and 16 years old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming and shooting innocent citizens at the same time, knowing that they will almost be immediately released.

00:06:35.380 And he's talking about how the city needs to be federalized.

00:06:41.840 And there's another clip of him.

00:06:44.660 The machine, this isn't working, where he says here basically that they need to straighten

00:06:51.940 their act out and unless they do in D.C., he is going to federalize Washington, D.C.

00:07:00.800 Right.

00:07:01.380 So there's a lot of question, questioning with respect to what does federalization mean.

00:07:08.400 And from what I saw, Washington, D.C. is not a state, it's a city and it's not governed as a state.

00:07:20.120 And in the drafting of the Constitution in 1789, it was considered that there should be a federal district that didn't belong to a state.

00:07:30.140 And that was Washington, D.C.

00:07:31.580 And what happens, generally speaking, is that cities are parts of counties, counties are parts of states.

00:07:39.320 So when cities can't, let's say, function in some respects, they get help from the states they are a part of.

00:07:48.120 Yes.

00:07:48.920 Right now, because they don't have a state, they're not a state, the question is, who are they going to ask for help?

00:07:57.020 And as we're going to say, they have a long tradition of leftist infiltration in their institutions.

00:08:05.800 Their mayors for many decades are leftists and they don't want to be helped.

00:08:10.540 But it seems like they're very, they're very happy with chaos.

00:08:14.420 So someone like Trump and someone who would be more of a Republican persuasion would say something needs to be done about it,

00:08:21.660 would say most probably that this is a problem that needs to be solved.

00:08:25.620 That's why Trump says that unless they straighten their act out, the D.C. should be federalized.

00:08:33.400 And he says personally here that Big Balls is a hero and he is planning on calling him.

00:08:40.040 Yeah, I noticed he avoided saying his name, but he says, we're going to call the person.

00:08:44.060 And I was thinking, is Trump going to say Big Balls? 0.92

00:08:45.760 They call him Big Balls, folks.

00:08:47.560 But he didn't go there.

00:08:48.760 But yeah, right.

00:08:51.160 And we have here a really funny post by this parody account saying,

00:08:56.720 when I federalize Washington, D.C., the executive order shall be called the Big Balls Act.

00:09:03.280 It's a fun one.

00:09:04.140 So what I wanted to show you here is that in the D.C. there are, there is at least half a century of Democratic mayors.

00:09:14.860 So you see here from 1975 to present, we have seven mayors, Democratic, Democratic, Democratic, Democratic, Democratic, Democratic, Democratic.

00:09:31.740 You also see here Marion Barry, who was mayor four times.

00:09:37.580 And I've been told by a neon realist that he was, there's a very classic clip of him.

00:09:44.840 He was smoking crack with a prostitute and he was, he got caught doing so.

00:09:51.160 So he's very much just setting the trend for Washington going forward. 0.95

00:09:54.960 And he started accusing her all the time.

00:09:57.700 Oh, right.

00:09:58.180 Only she set him up.

00:10:00.180 He had no responsibility for what he did.

00:10:02.760 He had no choice.

00:10:03.640 He had no choice.

00:10:04.540 He was just a victim of structures.

00:10:06.200 She had all the agency.

00:10:08.620 I love that.

00:10:09.160 You just see him there with a crack.

00:10:10.240 How dare you?

00:10:11.400 And he just like points at her.

00:10:12.640 And it's like, it's like David Brent.

00:10:14.120 You made me do it.

00:10:15.180 You remember when he was putting that stuff in my mind.

00:10:17.400 Well, he addressed the structures that made me do this.

00:10:21.660 Isn't that what critical theory is supposed to be about?

00:10:24.920 Understanding the structures that create problems for the left's allies.

00:10:29.020 Yeah.

00:10:29.560 Because they can, they're never responsible for wrongdoing.

00:10:33.780 No.

00:10:34.000 They're always responsible for doing something well.

00:10:37.960 Society made them do it.

00:10:39.440 Yeah.

00:10:39.620 But everyone else who isn't an ally of the left is very much responsible for wrongdoing.

00:10:44.300 Right.

00:10:44.580 Right.

00:10:45.060 And even anyone like Trump says something and other people riot, he's responsible for that.

00:10:49.200 You're even responsible for other people's actions.

00:10:50.840 Yeah.

00:10:50.960 Yeah.

00:10:51.140 But on the left, you're not responsible for your own actions.

00:10:53.480 It's like for the left, everyone, unless you're a leftist, you need to atone yourself for original sin.

00:11:01.400 That's how it goes.

00:11:02.480 You're constantly responsible for wrongdoing unless you're a leftist.

00:11:06.180 If you're a leftist, you can't engage in wrongdoing.

00:11:09.380 You're a poor victim of structures.

00:11:11.260 And this is a kind of mentality that all these mayors have because all the leftists have, especially with a new left from the 60s onwards, this is how they infiltrated institutions.

00:11:25.080 And this is how they govern and how they adjudicate.

00:11:28.800 And we have here Justice Janine Pirro, U.S. attorney in D.C.

00:11:35.860 She is affiliated to Trump and she became a U.S. attorney now.

00:11:43.420 And she says essentially that youth violence is on the rise across the country and they have to stop coddling leftists.

00:11:55.080 She says the age of responsibility needs to lower to 14.

00:12:00.160 Now, what I want to say about this is that it's not just that's just a start, lowering the age of responsibility, because what she says is that there are lots of criminals who are adults who take young children and young teenagers and essentially make them do it.

00:12:22.640 So this is one thing.

00:12:24.460 But also you need to have people within the system, because if you lower the age of responsibility to 14 and you bring this case into a court and the court adjudicates according to woke principles, even if you drop it to 10, the result is going to be the same.

00:12:41.760 They're going to be let out.

00:12:44.700 And so let us listen to what she says here to Laura Ingram.

00:12:49.140 Tell us what we can expect from your time as U.S. attorney.

00:12:54.640 First of all, there was another homicide.

00:12:56.680 So we're now at 99 homicides so far this year.

00:12:59.700 There's no question that Washington, D.C. has an incredible amount, incredible number of homicides.

00:13:05.840 You know, and you can say that violence and crime is down, but the truth is, violent is more lethal than it's ever been.

00:13:14.120 And when we say it's down, down from what?

00:13:16.760 Right, real high.

00:13:17.360 Okay?

00:13:17.740 We've got carjackings that are up 111%.

00:13:21.200 The problem in D.C. and President Trump, in his effort to make D.C. safe and beautiful, said to me, I want you to enforce the law to make sure that there's accountability.

00:13:31.820 And I spoke to the president yesterday at length about what was going on here.

00:13:35.500 I said, if you're 14, 15, 16, or 17 years old, you get coddled, as you do in most American Democrat cities.

00:13:42.380 So I can't charge these people.

00:13:44.280 This young kid who worked at the White House was beaten to a pulp.

00:13:47.820 He's got a broken nose.

00:13:48.900 He's got a severe concussion.

00:13:50.420 He's battered all over his head, okay, by a gang of punks, 10 of them, I believe.

00:13:56.860 Two have been arrested, two 15-year-olds.

00:13:59.000 None of them come to my office, Laura, because they're not considered criminals.

00:14:02.480 They go to family court where the effort is rehabilitation.

00:14:05.620 The D.C. council, and the president is right, they've got to stop their coddling.

00:14:10.420 Number one, we've got to lower the age of responsibility to 14.

00:14:15.160 I'm tired of having these kids commit crimes in their crews, not gangs in D.C.

00:14:19.840 We've got an intern, you said it in your open.

00:14:22.560 He's an intern from college.

00:14:25.100 He gets shot going out for McDonald's at 10.30 at night.

00:14:29.040 This kid is trying to help his girlfriend or his friend to a car.

00:14:32.220 He gets assaulted and butt for a cop going by.

00:14:35.600 They would have, had they gotten him on the ground,

00:14:37.500 they would have stopped him and finished him.

00:14:39.140 He was...

00:14:40.420 So, she's talking about another incident that was very tragic,

00:14:47.500 and it happened about a month ago.

00:14:49.240 Congressional intern killed in Washington, D.C. shooting.

00:14:54.080 Eric Terpinian-Jakim was an intern for Kansas Republican Ron Estes,

00:15:00.340 and it says here,

00:15:01.300 a 21-year-old congressional intern was shot Monday night

00:15:05.100 after getting caught in targeted gunfire in northwest Washington, D.C.,

00:15:09.140 police said.

00:15:09.740 Police and congressional officials identified the victim as Eric Terpinian-Jakim

00:15:15.500 of Granby-Masakim, who died Tuesday after being shot near the intersection of 7th and M Street.

00:15:22.420 Investigators have recovered the suspect vehicle and stated that while the shooting was targeted,

00:15:29.360 Tarpinian-Jakim was not among the intended victims.

00:15:32.480 So, the way it sounds, D.C. doesn't sound like a very safe place.

00:15:38.060 No, well, I'm gathering that.

00:15:39.740 I mean, it's all cities.

00:15:40.980 It's good to know it's not just us, it's America as well.

00:15:44.300 It's like all Democrat-run cities particularly, right?

00:15:46.740 Like San Francisco and all these places.

00:15:48.660 Or Portland.

00:15:50.020 Leap holes.

00:15:50.520 No, absolutely terrible.

00:15:55.440 Yes, and I think that it's particularly bad when we have this coddling mentality

00:16:01.460 that has been communicated by the left,

00:16:06.780 because essentially they're saying our protected people,

00:16:11.940 our people are not essentially never liable for wrongdoing.

00:16:16.140 And I think that people need to wake up to this

00:16:19.240 and understand that the left is basically brainwashing generations of young people

00:16:26.900 into thinking that so long as they do something in the name of social justice,

00:16:30.620 they can do no wrong.

00:16:31.840 Yeah, it's almost beyond coddling, isn't it?

00:16:33.140 Into the victim is the, the criminal is the victim of society.

00:16:36.540 As you sort of said before, but the leftists think of society itself as the oppressor,

00:16:42.060 you know, in these kind of Rousseauian terms.

00:16:43.640 Whereas, you know, you're stopping the people just doing what they would do,

00:16:47.080 they're held down by some force.

00:16:49.280 So the criminal is the victim.

00:16:51.540 And yeah.

00:16:52.760 Well, and also just, you know, from a cultural perspective,

00:16:55.460 just the glamorization of crime as well itself.

00:16:59.220 And obviously the lack of a deterrent.

00:17:01.720 You know, if they know that, well, they're not going to blame me personally for what I do,

00:17:05.420 they're going to blame the structures.

00:17:06.760 They're going to give me a little slap on the wrist and away I'll be.

00:17:10.420 Exactly.

00:17:10.740 And this is what the left is all about.

00:17:14.260 Remember the defund the police call for the BLM.

00:17:16.960 And just look at how AOC and Zoran Mamdani are talking.

00:17:22.020 It's as if all crime is to be blamed to the presence of the police.

00:17:28.020 As if you defund the police, all crime is going to go away.

00:17:30.300 The only thing that sometimes stops it is when one of these mayors gets attacked themselves.

00:17:33.820 Remember that woman in Seattle being attacked?

00:17:35.620 I can't remember what role she was, but she was someone who'd said defund the police.

00:17:39.560 I think it was Seattle.

00:17:40.260 It could have been somewhere else.

00:17:41.200 The woman said defund the police.

00:17:43.000 Then she got attacked.

00:17:43.960 She was a Democrat.

00:17:44.580 She went, hang on.

00:17:45.400 We need more police.

00:17:46.520 You know.

00:17:46.620 Let's fund it again.

00:17:50.060 Let's not be hasty here.

00:17:52.140 When I said defund, I meant fund.

00:17:54.640 Yes, exactly.

00:17:55.400 Yeah.

00:17:55.580 I was trolling.

00:17:57.120 Right.

00:17:57.260 So, I think that it's really important to praise people who have acted courageously.

00:18:05.280 And congratulations, Edward.

00:18:07.940 And hope a speedy recovery for you.

00:18:12.020 Right.

00:18:12.780 Let's go to the comments.

00:18:15.000 And also, please, Samson, this doesn't work.

00:18:17.640 So, Nick may want...

00:18:20.260 Oh, you've got to pull it out and put it back in.

00:18:22.040 I did, but it's...

00:18:22.740 It's the classic.

00:18:23.680 Turn it off and on again.

00:18:24.740 Put it back in.

00:18:26.440 Yeah, yeah.

00:18:27.020 It doesn't work.

00:18:28.280 So...

00:18:28.560 All right.

00:18:28.900 Right.

00:18:29.180 Let's talk to the comments.

00:18:31.020 The engaged few.

00:18:32.760 For living up to his name, his reward will be the title of nerdiest warrior in Valhalla.

00:18:40.120 Yeah. 0.98

00:18:40.320 So, where did the big balls... 0.97

00:18:41.900 Because I didn't know this guy. 0.98

00:18:42.920 Where does the name actually come from?

00:18:44.900 Actually, it has a nice story.

00:18:46.400 He was saying that he just dislikes people who take themselves very seriously.

00:18:51.780 On LinkedIn, specifically.

00:18:53.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0.96

00:18:53.920 So, he called himself big balls on LinkedIn. 0.89

00:18:55.760 Yeah. 0.92

00:18:55.960 He said people take themselves too seriously and they're too risk-averse.

00:19:00.880 So, in this one gesture, he sort of casts both of those aside.

00:19:05.640 Well, his actions reflect his name as well, as you say.

00:19:08.360 And here is Windpill Seeker. 0.90

00:19:10.820 Democrats and Democratic are two different things.

00:19:13.840 Absolutely.

00:19:15.360 Democrats hate democracy and the democratic process.

00:19:18.200 All those mayors were Democrats, not democratic.

00:19:21.180 Their name is a psyop and a misconception.

00:19:23.680 I love Stelios.

00:19:24.600 I love you too, as well.

00:19:26.460 Thank you very much.

00:19:28.220 Now, I love...

00:19:29.400 Just one thing.

00:19:30.160 I really like how Felahin sounds like a protein, creatine, Felahin.

00:19:36.940 Right.

00:19:37.280 Count your macros.

00:19:38.160 Get some Felahin and buy Islander 4.

00:19:40.800 Right.

00:19:41.660 Okay.

00:19:42.620 Let's get it.

00:19:44.700 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:19:45.200 Mine's working.

00:19:49.020 Let's see.

00:19:49.680 Okay.

00:19:50.400 No, it's not working.

00:19:51.580 Well, as long as yours is working.

00:19:52.920 Mine's working.

00:19:53.580 I'm fine with mine.

00:19:54.020 Yours works.

00:19:54.480 I've got a special one.

00:19:55.360 We're okay.

00:19:56.140 Okay.

00:19:56.680 Yeah, mine works.

00:19:57.960 You've got to know the text, Stelios.

00:19:59.440 You've got to be quite gifted.

00:20:00.980 So, do you want to do my bit?

00:20:01.880 You've not been working there as long as Nick.

00:20:03.780 Yeah, it's true.

00:20:04.620 You're not expected to know these things.

00:20:05.120 I'm from the old office, you know.

00:20:06.440 Things are different.

00:20:07.860 Should you do my bit?

00:20:09.200 Yeah?

00:20:09.520 Oh, yeah.

00:20:09.660 After I plug, of course, Islander and the great work the lads are doing, Rory and the gang,

00:20:14.320 I was surprised to see my friend Ed Dutton in here.

00:20:16.000 So, there you go.

00:20:16.600 Loads of people in there.

00:20:17.820 Maybe one day I'll write a piece.

00:20:18.840 And you wrote one on Lord of the Rings.

00:20:20.040 I did, yeah.

00:20:20.700 Big talking guy.

00:20:21.820 Huge.

00:20:22.720 Bigly.

00:20:23.260 Maybe you can do one of my talking stream with me, which I've been planning on doing.

00:20:26.440 Oh, yeah.

00:20:26.820 I do streams now.

00:20:27.580 I would never plug my own channel when I'm here, but I do streams on my YouTube.

00:20:30.260 But subscribe to Nick's channel.

00:20:31.420 On my YouTube.

00:20:32.520 All right.

00:20:33.420 Awesome.

00:20:33.840 So, that's Islander. 0.93

00:20:34.660 Go and check it out.

00:20:35.560 What's the Islander link?

00:20:36.720 Shop thingy?

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00:20:40.020 While stocks last.

00:20:40.820 Okay.

00:20:41.160 And now we'll do my section, which is called, well, I'm calling it Ant Middleton is the leader

00:20:46.000 we need, but you can insert your own title.

00:20:48.940 And I was going to kind of play that video, but it's not going to play.

00:20:52.460 It doesn't matter.

00:20:52.720 It can play.

00:20:53.540 It doesn't matter.

00:20:54.180 But that was just going to be in the background while we talk.

00:20:56.000 But with the sound off.

00:20:56.780 I thought it just so we can see the man himself in all his glory.

00:20:59.460 So, if anyone who doesn't know, somehow doesn't know about the legend Ant Middleton,

00:21:02.720 he is an elite special forces guy.

00:21:05.140 So, the SAS is known as the best of the best in the entire world.

00:21:08.940 It's the best military special force in the world.

00:21:11.660 And he was part of the SBS, which is the boat version, special boat service.

00:21:15.480 Some say it's even harder because you're constantly in the water, but it's certainly equal with the SAS.

00:21:19.720 So, this guy's the real deal.

00:21:21.320 He was a sniper in the SBS.

00:21:22.540 And he achieved the holy trinity of the UK elite forces, which is serving in the Royal Marines,

00:21:27.940 the Nine Parachute Squadron, and the SBS and Special Forces.

00:21:32.860 So, he's a serious dude.

00:21:34.340 I mean, if you read his book, First Man In, he was the guy that would come into the room, 0.97

00:21:38.500 kick the door down, and just deal with whatever's in there, which is usually blokes that need to be shot. 0.90

00:21:43.360 So, this is a serious dude. 0.94

00:21:46.000 I mean, something that very few people in Parliament could claim to have done.

00:21:50.680 Right. It's like, how many people have you killed?

00:21:53.340 I mean, so, I just give that as a context.

00:21:55.880 One, to see his pedigree, but also, when Ant says stuff, he's not messing about.

00:21:59.820 And he also became topical because he was running, here he is doing a speech for Reform UK,

00:22:04.840 which is back in September 24, but things have changed a little since then.

00:22:08.700 And we saw a tweet saying, this was just yesterday,

00:22:11.520 it's understood Reform UK have replaced Ant Middleton as their London mayoral candidate with Leila Cunningham.

00:22:17.640 And she's this Muslim woman that Reform have been sort of parading around, 1.00

00:22:21.340 going, look, she's stylish and cool, and she's against Islamophobia laws, but she's a Muslim. 1.00

00:22:25.860 By the way, did you know we're not racist?

00:22:27.720 Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

00:22:28.820 How could we be racist? She's a Muslim. 1.00

00:22:31.100 Yeah, there's loads of that going on.

00:22:32.860 And people are saying, well, hang on, you've replaced Ant with her.

00:22:35.120 This is a disaster.

00:22:36.020 Now, of course, this is actually not correct, really.

00:22:38.600 And it's debunked here, and he says,

00:22:42.060 Ant Middleton has never been Reform's mayoral candidate for London.

00:22:44.840 He was never selected or designated as such, ever.

00:22:47.000 Our candidate in 2024 was Howard Cox,

00:22:48.920 and has simply expressed interest in the role for 2028, blah, blah, blah.

00:22:52.600 And it goes on and says he's not being replaced because he's not the candidate.

00:22:55.680 It even says Leila's not the candidate yet either,

00:22:58.360 though I think she'd be a great candidate.

00:22:59.780 Anyway, so he wanted to do it, but in the speech,

00:23:04.000 he says he's talking to Reform about being a special advisor on security,

00:23:08.260 which is his expert topic.

00:23:09.700 But anyway, you'll see soon why he could never be the Reform mayor.

00:23:13.900 Sorry, just one thing, if I may, as well, with that,

00:23:16.060 in terms of like, oh, should it be Leila for mayor, Reform candidate?

00:23:22.700 Doesn't matter because they're not going to win.

00:23:25.180 Right?

00:23:25.400 Neither of them are going to win.

00:23:26.900 They can't be Sadiq Khan.

00:23:27.900 Right.

00:23:28.940 So you're really...

00:23:30.080 Sadiq Khan was mayor forever.

00:23:31.060 Yeah.

00:23:31.340 Forever.

00:23:31.740 You're not going to straighten out London and law and order through taking the mayoralty.

00:23:38.960 Sean Bailey did better than anyone thought.

00:23:41.420 It suggested that if people really voted, you could get rid of Khan, but he still didn't win.

00:23:45.960 And even with the unpopularity of Khan, not even amongst people like us who obviously hate him with a passion,

00:23:51.940 but just like average Londoners who hated him because of all the you Les stuff.

00:23:55.560 You know, because when I worked in London, I didn't go a day without some Londoner just complaining about you, Les.

00:24:02.520 And that wasn't enough at all.

00:24:04.260 You know, so even things in London can get tangibly worse year after year,

00:24:10.820 and it doesn't really affect his consolidation on power at all.

00:24:14.880 You know who else hates Sadiq Khan? 0.78

00:24:16.220 Muslim taxi drivers. 0.80

00:24:17.500 You speak to a taxi driver, they're like, no, we hate Khan.

00:24:20.000 He doesn't do anything.

00:24:20.940 I'm like, who does like this guy?

00:24:22.580 That's his main demographic.

00:24:24.020 Who likes this guy?

00:24:24.980 So yeah, no one knows who likes him, but like you say, he's impossible to get rid of.

00:24:28.700 Anyway, but Ant was never going to stand.

00:24:32.000 So back in June, Charlie Sampson said,

00:24:34.080 I'm being told by sources in Reform UK that Ant Middleton is not being considered for mayor.

00:24:39.460 And then Ant replies, incorrect, Charlie, we are still very much aligned.

00:24:43.820 I mean, he said he's not aligned with Farage and they've drifted away.

00:24:47.280 And Ant says, no, that's not true.

00:24:49.100 We haven't drifted away.

00:24:50.920 However, I've always voiced an option to run independently,

00:24:53.720 which may have been a cause of certain rumours.

00:24:56.280 I hope that's cleared things up a bit.

00:24:57.240 So Ant's saying I was never necessarily going to be the candidate.

00:24:59.260 Just to get the facts.

00:25:00.260 We like to get the facts.

00:25:01.000 We'll like BBC verify here.

00:25:02.300 And oh, yeah, I know what this is.

00:25:05.420 For a second, I looked at it.

00:25:06.100 I go, what the heck is that?

00:25:07.260 I have the mouse.

00:25:07.860 Can I scroll?

00:25:08.460 Let's see if I can scroll.

00:25:10.040 And we have some slight tech issues there, but let me see.

00:25:12.280 So I just wanted to bring up this just to say that people talking about whether Layla

00:25:16.520 will actually be the candidate.

00:25:17.580 Well, it does say here that, to quote Tim Shipman in The Spectator,

00:25:24.100 senior figures in the party believe that Cunningham would be a formidable candidate for mayor of

00:25:27.800 London in 2028, a moderate Muslim mother who can communicate very effectively and talk

00:25:32.000 since one says she could win. 0.93

00:25:34.400 So that's somewhere in this article.

00:25:35.360 There you go.

00:25:36.100 So anyway, that was just to say that she'll probably be the candidate. 0.59

00:25:39.180 And we all know that's definitely what they're planning.

00:25:41.720 But anyway, let's go on and see, though, why Ant maybe wouldn't be the obvious choice for a

00:25:47.320 centre-left or I say far-left party-like reform.

00:25:50.680 And you'll see from some of his policies.

00:25:52.340 And some of his policies, by the way, go beyond the remit of mayor.

00:25:55.800 They're more like just general policies of if Ant was like maybe...

00:25:58.900 If he was king.

00:25:59.640 Maybe king, yeah.

00:26:00.860 And let's see some of his policies.

00:26:02.200 So I'm so sorry, Stelios. 0.74

00:26:03.440 I don't know your exact background, but first, second and third generation immigrants should

00:26:08.340 not hold top-tier government positions.

00:26:10.780 Our great nation, our culture and our great people are not naturally at the forefront of

00:26:14.560 their hearts and minds.

00:26:15.940 It's just not in their nature or DNA.

00:26:19.220 Drop the DNA.

00:26:20.140 Well, to be fair to you, I don't think you were pining after a cabinet position, were you, Stelios?

00:26:24.100 No.

00:26:25.120 Getting elected is not my style.

00:26:27.340 He said to me he wanted to be top-tier.

00:26:28.920 He was heartbroken when he saw that.

00:26:30.700 He was like, oh, Ant won't let me when he's mayor.

00:26:34.180 So patriotism cannot be taught or bought and needs to be run through the veins of those

00:26:37.860 at the very top to ensure our country and our people's needs and demands are not only

00:26:41.600 understood but prioritized.

00:26:43.140 You get the idea.

00:26:43.760 He then attacks Sadik Khan and says we're a Christian country.

00:26:46.580 That's a pretty bold policy to just announce that.

00:26:49.280 I looked at his tweet.

00:26:49.940 I'm like, this makes Lotus Eaters look like GB News.

00:26:52.120 This is like out there stuff.

00:26:53.640 It is.

00:26:54.260 It is.

00:26:54.960 But also what's remarkably impressive about it is the fact that he does go back as many

00:27:01.900 generations as that.

00:27:03.340 Because you kind of have this thing now where a lot of people will say, oh, well, we need

00:27:09.180 to reverse the Boris wave.

00:27:10.800 Right?

00:27:11.140 Right. 0.99

00:27:11.460 Because that was ridiculous. 0.94

00:27:13.420 And obviously they can't be allowed to stay. 0.84

00:27:15.140 It's like, okay, but also the false premises of all of the migration, mass immigration 0.83

00:27:21.060 under Blair is also ridiculous.

00:27:23.820 And, you know, so really it just comes back to as far as, well, if the British public for 0.91

00:27:28.700 generations and generations never consented to all these generations of immigrants who 1.00

00:27:35.140 have come here, then how far back do you want to go?

00:27:38.140 And so Ant is a bit of a trailblazer.

00:27:41.160 Absolutely.

00:27:41.660 He's a thorough bloke.

00:27:42.560 If we know one thing about him, he's thorough.

00:27:44.140 You've got to be thorough in the military, Luca.

00:27:45.900 You've got to go.

00:27:46.240 He's got a third, three generations.

00:27:48.280 Some people didn't like this, including, since you mentioned the Tories, a conservative

00:27:51.700 politician, Ben Obese Jechti, who said, I've put, have you got a history with this

00:27:58.180 guy or something?

00:27:58.820 No, it's just funny because he's called Obese.

00:28:01.040 Oh, yeah.

00:28:01.280 It's hilarious.

00:28:01.840 Yeah. 0.82

00:28:01.960 I mean, it's ridiculous. 0.81

00:28:02.660 I've pointed out. 0.96

00:28:03.620 And I'm a child.

00:28:04.600 You could have Ben Kenobi.

00:28:05.820 You have Ben Obese.

00:28:07.720 It's tough, isn't it?

00:28:08.560 But anyway, I pointed out, you could really not get fat with that name.

00:28:11.480 You couldn't even get slightly fat.

00:28:12.640 Do you know what I mean?

00:28:13.240 Yeah.

00:28:13.380 Because you're just going to be called him.

00:28:14.280 But you're going to be like, he's going to be the thinnest guy you've ever seen his

00:28:16.700 whole life.

00:28:17.220 That's the one advantage.

00:28:18.360 I pointed out Ant Middleton's unsuitability and ineligibility to be the mayor of London

00:28:23.160 on a number of occasions, given he's already been to prison for assaulting a police officer.

00:28:27.180 But this level of overt racism shows who he really is once he lets the mask slip.

00:28:30.980 Ant did have a little bit of an issue when he got out of the military of sparking blokes out

00:28:34.760 in his hometown. 0.54

00:28:35.540 You get out of the military, your job has been to kill people for the queen and country, 0.97

00:28:40.080 now king.

00:28:40.700 And then you get home and you go, oh, I'm just knocking around Essex or Portsmouth or

00:28:44.320 whatever.

00:28:44.600 And you're like, what am I going to do? 0.97

00:28:46.000 Punch a load of people.

00:28:46.980 So he had a bad time.

00:28:48.760 But if you read his book, his court case was treated quite unfairly and things for telling

00:28:54.760 the truth.

00:28:55.140 But anyway, he had a bit of an issue.

00:28:56.860 That's what he's referring to there.

00:28:58.740 But he calls him racist.

00:29:00.120 And Ant's not having any of it.

00:29:01.560 Here we go with the race card.

00:29:02.760 This card is only ever used now when they can't defend an argument because it's true

00:29:05.940 or makes complete sense.

00:29:07.100 It used to work, Ben.

00:29:07.940 Not so much now, buddy. 0.91

00:29:09.200 Let me tear that card off and throw it back in your face. 1.00

00:29:11.980 I just like this rejection, the complete rejection of the race card, which is what we've got to 0.85

00:29:16.140 do these days.

00:29:18.140 All obvious to Lotus-eaters people. 0.66

00:29:20.040 But anyway, this is his next policy.

00:29:22.540 I thought we'd get on to.

00:29:23.220 If I were PM, so he's gone past me now into just PM, I'd halt all Pakistani visas for 1.00

00:29:28.980 12 months as the crime is so heinous and deport this individual.

00:29:32.340 He's talking about the person that sexually assaulted an eight-year-old, which is horrific.

00:29:36.180 I don't know which words we can say on here, but we've had so many of these recently.

00:29:39.120 Absolutely horrific.

00:29:39.960 So no airport in Miripur in Pakistan.

00:29:42.860 Probably not.

00:29:43.400 He's probably going to reduce spending on the Miripur airport, maybe halt that project.

00:29:48.220 And he's saying halt all Pakistani visas for 12 months.

00:29:50.780 I think that's quite reasonable.

00:29:53.140 Yeah, I don't know what Obese is complaining about here. 0.98

00:29:56.040 This is perfectly moderate.

00:29:57.700 No, no, exactly.

00:29:59.020 Zero tolerance, he wants.

00:30:01.020 Absolutely, why not?

00:30:02.020 So that's one of his policies that he'd do as PM.

00:30:04.140 I think he's just going to go on.

00:30:05.260 Just another thing about this as well, Nick, is that people are looking, because of the

00:30:10.480 state that we're in now, people are just looking for strength.

00:30:14.800 They're looking for people who exude strength.

00:30:17.340 And so you can understand why a guy like Ant, right?

00:30:21.180 It's also, you know, it's not just in his record, but it's in his physiology.

00:30:24.580 He looks, as you say, he looks like a leader.

00:30:27.240 He, everything about him just exudes strength. 0.98

00:30:29.640 And when you've got, you know, people like Obese, just, oh no, no, shut up. 0.78

00:30:36.480 We don't have time for this anymore. 0.93

00:30:38.320 I don't want to kick him out for his name alone.

00:30:39.780 I don't want anyone Obese, even in the name. 1.00

00:30:41.540 Get out.

00:30:42.000 But that was a decent impression.

00:30:44.100 Yeah, he's, and I forgot to say at the start, yeah, partly this is a humorous sort of segment,

00:30:48.140 but also there is a serious element, which is people are so sick of everything.

00:30:52.940 They are looking to like the military.

00:30:55.020 They're looking like, why can't we solve the small books?

00:30:57.160 And if Ant's saying these things, you can imagine that the veteran community and the

00:31:00.520 military probably are feeling this frustration as well, because that's where he comes from.

00:31:04.020 And he's talking to people on the inside.

00:31:05.660 They may not phrase it exactly like him, but there is a serious element.

00:31:08.500 This is another policy he has.

00:31:12.420 He's talking about knife crime.

00:31:13.720 And there was this person, a migrant, that stabbed a victim four times and avoided prison 1.00

00:31:17.220 because the judge said he'd be better rehabilitated in the community than in prison.

00:31:21.880 And Ant Middleton says, what a great deterrent message, an example for not only carrying a knife,

00:31:25.620 but using one to commit murder.

00:31:27.300 With my new zero tolerance policies for London, just for carrying a knife,

00:31:30.900 you will automatically serve one year for every centimetre of the blade.

00:31:34.580 If you've used a knife and it has pierced or cut skin in any way, shape or form,

00:31:37.720 you'll automatically serve two years for every centimetre of the blade.

00:31:40.720 On top of the actual charge itself, I'll bring knife crime in London to an all-time low

00:31:44.400 within my first term of London mayor.

00:31:46.720 How about that?

00:31:47.400 Novel ideas as well.

00:31:48.720 Centimetres, yeah.

00:31:49.560 I like the mathematical function that is used to calculate the punch.

00:31:55.060 Yeah, isn't it?

00:31:55.640 I mean, don't worry.

00:31:56.320 The length of your knife.

00:31:57.000 He should be judging it by imperial measurements, of course.

00:32:00.120 That's true.

00:32:00.620 And not metric measurements.

00:32:01.980 But if anyone's like, you call that a knife, this is a knife, get a massive knife,

00:32:04.860 and out will be like, well, you call that a prison sentence, that's at least 80 centimetres.

00:32:10.400 You're getting jailed for 80 years.

00:32:12.280 I mean, I don't know, you know, the machete attacks as well.

00:32:16.960 That's insane.

00:32:17.500 Longer weapon.

00:32:18.160 Think about the centimetres.

00:32:19.080 Longer sentence.

00:32:19.940 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:32:21.180 Let's go on.

00:32:21.800 It's a great policy.

00:32:22.980 And this is his other policy.

00:32:23.960 He's going to ban Uber from London.

00:32:25.380 This is where I go, steady on.

00:32:26.980 I'm not sure this is going to work.

00:32:28.960 You like that or not?

00:32:30.640 Well, given the current Uber drivers, yes.

00:32:33.620 The only problem is getting anywhere in a non-expensive way.

00:32:36.820 Like, I was at GB News.

00:32:38.800 I was working until 12 a.m., you know, on that show.

00:32:41.120 And three times a week, they took away the taxis.

00:32:43.560 Oh, right.

00:32:44.440 Budgetary reasons.

00:32:45.180 And I was like, now I'm going to get the tube at 12 a.m., which is just a dystopian,

00:32:49.400 apocalyptic nightmare.

00:32:50.940 You don't say anything like it.

00:32:51.800 No shoes, chicken bones, screaming, fights, drugs.

00:32:55.540 I'm just like, so you sometimes think, maybe I'll get an Uber cheaper, but I know what

00:32:59.720 you mean.

00:33:00.460 Anyway, Ant says, a huge problem in London.

00:33:01.980 I stopped using Uber many years ago.

00:33:03.440 So the person below was saying that the one time they used an Uber, they were reckless,

00:33:06.980 dangerous, shouldn't be on the road.

00:33:08.400 And it says that is very much the case.

00:33:11.020 I look for, I look into, I will look into banning Uber from London and look into uniting

00:33:15.260 London's heritage transportation, black cabs, double-decker buses, trains, and our famous

00:33:19.360 underground and structure some form of collaboration.

00:33:21.700 I like what he calls it.

00:33:22.620 He says it'll be part of England's Crown Jewel Transport Experience working title.

00:33:26.960 See, he's got a lot of ideas.

00:33:28.880 Dad's dream.

00:33:30.040 Wouldn't you love that, though, Ant as mayor?

00:33:31.720 It'd be so good.

00:33:33.720 Anyway, so what's quite interesting about these next few tweets is just that partly I just

00:33:38.340 love reading his tweets.

00:33:39.140 It's just my hobby.

00:33:40.080 But like, I do this and watch drumming videos on YouTube.

00:33:42.960 But it's kind of interesting for a military guy to be so against the state, because they're

00:33:49.640 there to protect the country.

00:33:50.960 That's what they're giving, they're sacrificing themselves, risking their lives.

00:33:54.880 Allegiance to the king.

00:33:55.960 Well, but if you look at how bad it's gone.

00:33:58.000 No, no.

00:33:58.420 I want to say that the state is not the same as the people and the country.

00:34:03.360 So I can definitely understand.

00:34:05.480 Someone says that the state isn't promoting the interest of the people of this country.

00:34:11.200 Therefore, I'm very anti-state.

00:34:13.300 Yeah.

00:34:14.000 Because I love the country.

00:34:15.440 Yeah, I know.

00:34:16.200 But you're sort of used to following orders.

00:34:17.820 You're used to hierarchy.

00:34:18.900 So I think it's significant.

00:34:19.940 Although you're completely right.

00:34:20.740 It's significant when someone like Ant. 1.00

00:34:21.760 You don't have to be a brainless idiot. 1.00

00:34:23.500 No. 1.00

00:34:24.100 And he certainly isn't.

00:34:24.860 Because if you look at these next tweets, just the level of vitriol he has towards the

00:34:29.360 government.

00:34:29.700 So this person says, one of my mates who's always been on the left is now all of a sudden

00:34:32.780 concerned after the government has moved a load of men into his daughter's street.

00:34:36.520 And Ant says, when it arrives at your doorstep and immediately affects you and your children,

00:34:39.480 which it will if this continues, it will be too late and your whole family will have

00:34:42.240 to live with nightmares and destructive trauma for generations to come.

00:34:44.900 Obviously talking about migrants in your street. 0.97

00:34:47.880 And where it struck me is he says, if they were, I'm so tired I can't read.

00:34:53.200 If they were, they prioritized.

00:34:54.780 So they prioritized British citizens and our country above all and put an immediate stop to it.

00:34:58.320 But this part, stick together and look after one another and be prepared to fight for each

00:35:01.480 other.

00:35:01.840 Oh, no, it's this bit.

00:35:02.580 Sorry, he says, the government have failed and betrayed you and unfortunately are not

00:35:06.960 on your side.

00:35:07.560 So I just think that's kind of a bold thing for former military person to say.

00:35:11.060 And also, he was someone who was just on Channel 4 doing a reality show, SAS Who Dares

00:35:16.280 Wins.

00:35:17.000 And he'd been canceled slightly for being like not woke or not thinking COVID was as big

00:35:21.140 a deal as they were making it.

00:35:22.220 But then to go to like this stage, like, you know, he's sort of like celebrity level canceled.

00:35:26.120 But this is like going in hard.

00:35:28.320 And he goes further.

00:35:29.480 He says, the police are against you.

00:35:31.100 So they're talking about the protests at the Britannia Hotel.

00:35:35.160 And someone quotes talking about the police.

00:35:37.220 And he says, you have every right to protest.

00:35:38.920 This is where it counts.

00:35:39.680 And this is where you hold the line, strengthen numbers, keep up the tempo, overwhelm, stretch

00:35:43.940 local resources and control the situation.

00:35:46.080 You are well within your rights to protest.

00:35:47.840 Do not listen or trust the police.

00:35:49.620 That is bold.

00:35:50.420 He's telling people how to sort of render the police, you know, sort of.

00:35:56.420 Yeah, but also he's just giving them advice for, but he's also just giving the population

00:36:01.880 advice for how to do things safely, legally and responsibly as well.

00:36:06.860 But he's saying if you basically overwhelm the police with numbers, they can't do anything.

00:36:09.580 Yeah.

00:36:09.720 I suspect he says, do not trust the police telling you that you don't have the right

00:36:13.740 to protest.

00:36:14.380 Good point.

00:36:14.720 As we saw with South Park.

00:36:16.080 Also, you know, overwhelm the local resources.

00:36:19.440 I'd like to think in my head what he means by that is like, look, they've only got so

00:36:24.440 many anti-racist protesters that they can just sort of van all over the country.

00:36:29.660 Yeah, that's true.

00:36:31.000 Another one like this.

00:36:32.100 He says they can't be trusted, plain and simple.

00:36:34.160 Talking about the Met.

00:36:34.940 The Met police have been hugely compromised and need ripping apart, restructuring and

00:36:38.220 retrain.

00:36:38.960 Something I'll do with immediate effect when I become mayor of London.

00:36:41.440 They're a complete embarrassment and internally fractured organization.

00:36:44.340 And this is coming from within their ranks, as I know many.

00:36:47.120 So that's what I'm saying.

00:36:48.180 He knows that people in the, it's not the police of individual officers.

00:36:51.440 It's the political organization of the Met.

00:36:54.360 This one.

00:36:55.240 So someone says to him, well, what about you're sort of sitting at home like a keyboard

00:36:58.460 where you're inciting people?

00:36:59.580 And he says, and not sacrificing anything yourself.

00:37:02.380 And he says, no, no, my sacrifices have been plentiful and I've decades more to come.

00:37:07.260 Trust me.

00:37:08.140 And stepping into the political field requires more sacrifice than you could ever imagine.

00:37:12.180 So if we want to save our country and people, we must all sacrifice together.

00:37:15.460 There's some like myself more than others.

00:37:17.080 What are you doing about it?

00:37:18.500 Mr. Rodgersley replies to the person trolling.

00:37:20.400 I just thought it was worth including because the obvious, the attack is always where you're

00:37:23.820 just sitting there telling people to go out and do stuff, but you're not doing it.

00:37:27.580 He's saying, well, no, I am doing it by getting involved.

00:37:29.980 I'd just like to make a point on that as well about sacrificing just the current moment

00:37:34.700 as well, because to, if I dare, to bring it back to what we were saying about the Lord

00:37:39.360 of the Rings briefly, Nick, as well.

00:37:41.120 One of the main points, of course, of the Lord of the Rings is that you're going to,

00:37:45.820 even if you save everything, right?

00:37:47.800 It's not going to be the same as it was before the evil set in, right?

00:37:51.900 You have to lose some things that are valuable to you in order to save what you can or to

00:37:59.420 save other things, or so that all the generations, you know, further down the line can enjoy the

00:38:04.980 things that you've sacrificed for.

00:38:07.320 And Ant seems to be very, very conscious of, you know, when he talks about, you know, all

00:38:14.140 the generations, you know, he understands the great chain of being.

00:38:17.420 He understands the Burkean contract just innately, right?

00:38:22.800 You don't even really need to articulate it.

00:38:26.040 You can just see when somebody embodies it and when they realize whether or not they

00:38:31.740 are a representation, you know, represent their own country in that way.

00:38:36.940 That's a great point.

00:38:37.720 And you're right.

00:38:38.160 We can't go back.

00:38:39.720 Frodo loses his finger.

00:38:41.260 He has to leave his home and so on, to use your analogy.

00:38:44.420 Nothing's quite the same at the end.

00:38:45.700 Yeah, there's a lot of sacrifice involved.

00:38:48.080 This one's really long, but this is just part of my series on Ant's views on the migrant

00:38:52.040 situation.

00:38:53.180 And he talks about how...

00:38:54.360 I didn't expect him to have any.

00:38:56.580 He's got quite a lot of views.

00:38:57.480 He seems such a moderate fellow.

00:38:59.640 He said, I declare a national emergency, deploy our Royal Navy to stop the boats and halt

00:39:02.900 any visa applications for six months to the offender's nationality from entering the country.

00:39:07.560 Boom.

00:39:08.320 I mean, and he talks about it in that reform speech that I played a clip of at the start

00:39:12.960 briefly.

00:39:13.540 He says our Navy is the best in the world.

00:39:16.140 They're still the best in the world.

00:39:17.080 So why can't they do this?

00:39:18.140 And it's so frustrating, as we know.

00:39:20.120 And just the level of his vitriol, the things he's prepared to say here are just quite notable.

00:39:26.860 He says, do not stand down.

00:39:28.860 They want and are willing to infringe on your human rights to protest, but are not willing

00:39:31.640 to do so for illegal, undocumented invaders.

00:39:34.500 I just thought it was interesting he'd use that language and dare call them invaders.

00:39:37.700 And he talks about, it shocks him that anyone would want to protect these savages, et cetera.

00:39:44.780 Anyway, you get the idea.

00:39:45.660 He's pretty bold on the migrant question.

00:39:47.920 Then he says, who owns the hotel in Canary Wharf?

00:39:49.980 Name, please.

00:39:50.680 And you're like, that guy's just absolutely bricking it.

00:39:53.500 Oh, no.

00:39:54.080 It's that guy, Alex Langston, isn't it?

00:39:55.620 Who I should have brought up a picture of because he just looks like you're sort of, 0.76

00:39:58.320 you know, rich, greedy villain. 1.00

00:40:00.600 He's a fat bloke. 0.99

00:40:01.780 You can imagine the movie scene and just shows up at his penthouse. 0.82

00:40:04.520 That's only going one way, but I won't say more in case I get in trouble.

00:40:09.320 And he also called out racism against white British girls.

00:40:11.560 Welcome to the world of the Monday white British girl. 1.00

00:40:13.520 Racism and bullying is despicable, must never go in challenge. 1.00

00:40:16.280 However, being groomed, sexually abused and raped for being a white British girl is probably 0.99

00:40:19.580 the worst form of racial abuse that exists out there. 0.99

00:40:22.160 Pretty bold.

00:40:22.940 This is your new reformed mayor candidate.

00:40:25.220 You can see why that didn't work out.

00:40:26.860 God, I wish.

00:40:27.920 Yeah, I wish.

00:40:28.820 I know.

00:40:29.140 You can see why they were not sure about that.

00:40:32.220 And of course, he hates Sadiq Khan.

00:40:33.660 And he even goes as far as saying, we need a native Brit such as myself looking after

00:40:37.460 and protecting our historic capital city.

00:40:39.300 Not many people saying stuff like that, you know?

00:40:41.640 No.

00:40:42.180 And what's more, all of the great landmarks London is associated with, you know, whether

00:40:50.460 it's Parliament or the British Museum or, you know, whatever, Tower Bridge, all of these

00:40:57.440 things now, they're, you don't walk around them, you know, the people of London, because

00:41:02.280 they are just not British. 0.99

00:41:04.740 They don't, they're not walking around and seeing their own inheritance reflected back

00:41:09.140 at them.

00:41:09.700 At most, they're simply, it's like an interactive museum, right?

00:41:13.620 The whole city is just a great big museum.

00:41:16.000 And oh, there's that thing.

00:41:17.180 I can take a picture of that.

00:41:18.360 And there's that thing.

00:41:18.980 I can take a picture of that.

00:41:20.180 Which, don't get me wrong, is perfectly fine and innocent if, when you're a bunch of tourists.

00:41:24.940 But in terms of, like, maintaining the city itself, maintaining its character and its memory.

00:41:31.960 But also, there's a side of, there's the dimension of symbolism.

00:41:36.340 Your capital needs to have a particular kind of character.

00:41:39.940 Yes.

00:41:40.240 That's why, for instance, if you look, London is, it's losing it.

00:41:43.940 You look at Brussels, it's losing the European character.

00:41:46.940 Right.

00:41:48.180 It's when, when people don't have particularly good intentions, they go after the capital.

00:41:53.620 Yeah.

00:41:54.000 Well, that's a great point.

00:41:55.540 And that's another thing that I, I remember thinking back when the whole cultural revolution

00:42:00.380 was going on in London, you know, and was starting to rename the place names and, you

00:42:05.600 know, have committed. 0.91

00:42:07.160 A mild May line and all this rubbish.

00:42:08.380 And have perfectly unbiased committees about which statues need to come down, what needs 0.85

00:42:12.880 to be put up.

00:42:13.600 It's like, no, no, you don't understand.

00:42:15.300 It's not just, I appreciate the fact that you think you've all won, right?

00:42:20.120 And that you've taken London.

00:42:21.960 But what you don't seem to appreciate as well is that there is an entire country attached

00:42:27.840 to London that is mostly filled by English people, or Scottish people, Welsh people,

00:42:34.240 British people.

00:42:35.840 And really, when you go to London, you should be seeing the highest reflection of what your

00:42:45.000 civilization has been able to achieve.

00:42:47.060 Yeah.

00:42:47.720 Right.

00:42:48.400 And can I add one thing, which is maybe a bugbear of mine, which is on the right, there's a tendency

00:42:52.080 to say, oh, London, you know, don't get me wrong.

00:42:55.160 If I ever leave London, I will say something like, I'm moving back to England.

00:42:57.960 I'm sure I'll tweet something like that.

00:42:59.240 Yeah.

00:42:59.440 I won't be so smug about it, though, because there's a tendency, someone on the right is

00:43:02.780 sort of leave London, they post about it, and they say, thank God I'm out of there,

00:43:06.560 and blah, blah, blah.

00:43:07.200 And they mock it when they go to it, and they say it's a bleep hole or whatever.

00:43:10.080 But it's like, that is our capital city.

00:43:11.720 I understand the demographics are screwed, but it's like, can we just not give up the capital?

00:43:16.000 Yeah, I'm not abandoning it.

00:43:17.240 That's what I'm saying.

00:43:17.900 No, definitely not.

00:43:18.140 People are abandoning it.

00:43:19.020 And I can't say, because I've lived there a long time, and it's like, and I'm from the north,

00:43:22.740 of course, I still think of myself as from the lakes and from Cumbria in the north, and

00:43:27.140 that's how I'll always think of it as my home.

00:43:28.900 But let's not abandon the capital city this easily.

00:43:32.120 Well, what's more, if you're willing to abandon the capital, then there's literally nowhere

00:43:36.220 that you're not willing to abandon.

00:43:38.200 Then you're happy to abandon Birmingham.

00:43:40.300 Then you're happy to abandon Leicester, and so on and so on, until you realize, hang on,

00:43:45.400 we've got nothing left.

00:43:46.380 Yeah, you're in a temporary retreat to the shires and the reservation.

00:43:50.480 That's where you're going to, but that's not going to last so long.

00:43:52.040 Or you could say, I mean, I'll be home.

00:43:54.840 You could say Canberra, for instance.

00:43:56.160 But I think the capital is really symbolic, because that's where the center of power lies.

00:44:01.120 So if any country loses its capital, culturally speaking, there is a message that is being

00:44:07.920 communicated that, you know, we have lost the center of power.

00:44:11.180 Yeah.

00:44:11.700 Culturally speaking.

00:44:12.040 Remember all those films back from about a decade ago now?

00:44:16.600 There were a few films at that time.

00:44:17.820 Like White House down and stuff like that, just crappy.

00:44:22.420 Olympus has fallen.

00:44:23.420 Yeah, Olympus has fallen.

00:44:24.500 All these action films.

00:44:25.580 London has fallen.

00:44:26.600 But like the idea of like, well, where's the biggest threat, you know, in the film for

00:44:31.940 them to occupy?

00:44:32.920 It's not New York.

00:44:34.120 It's not Los Angeles, right?

00:44:36.620 No, it's like taking Washington.

00:44:38.780 It's just take, you go straight for the capital.

00:44:40.860 Yeah.

00:44:41.100 And you lose the capital.

00:44:42.440 It inevitably falls.

00:44:43.320 But morale is going to shatter.

00:44:44.800 And it does enormous psychic damage to the nation.

00:44:47.540 Yeah.

00:44:47.820 And this is what I love is Ant's boldness of saying, I'm a native Brit.

00:44:50.880 We should have me running the capital.

00:44:52.300 And that's, that is true.

00:44:53.500 And that would make a huge difference.

00:44:55.580 And that just, that idea is massive when you've got someone like Khan in there.

00:44:58.580 But obviously achieving it would be another thing.

00:45:00.400 I thought we'd end just, I don't know how much time I got, but I thought I'd end on some

00:45:04.020 fun, random, mad tweets from Ant's pure, just for some bants, really. 0.57

00:45:09.660 He's throwing some hand grenades in.

00:45:10.980 Yeah.

00:45:11.260 And he thought the ones so far were kind of out there, but no.

00:45:14.180 So he says, so this one comes in response to a load of horrible statistics on sexual

00:45:20.840 assault, let's say.

00:45:21.940 And he says, the replacement of British culture, law and order, Christian values and principles 0.97

00:45:25.380 and some seriously poor emoji politicians.

00:45:27.980 And, oh, and not forgetting a multi-billion pound inclusivity program paid for by the

00:45:32.660 taxpayer that's catastrophically failed.

00:45:35.420 We who have funded it over the years are ultimately to blame.

00:45:38.060 I think a tax strike is the next step if nothing changes.

00:45:40.700 So he's just proposing a tax strike, which is the most.

00:45:43.960 Yeah.

00:45:44.420 Just think of the level of social engineering they're trying to do and people like Sadikan

00:45:48.640 are engaged in.

00:45:50.240 All of it is just constantly, you know, we need money in order to tell you what, in order

00:45:55.020 to deprive you of your freedom.

00:45:57.060 That's it.

00:45:57.980 Yeah.

00:45:58.680 And I agree.

00:45:59.520 But a tax strike is about the most bold thing you could suggest because the whole system

00:46:03.120 would collapse.

00:46:03.760 And that's the thing they're most scared of.

00:46:04.860 That's why they pursued John McAfee to the ends of the earth, you know, because he was

00:46:08.500 flagrantly not paying his tax and telling people how to get away with it.

00:46:11.300 And it's just like, yeah, stop paying your tax.

00:46:13.680 I'm the new mayor.

00:46:14.780 I just think that.

00:46:15.420 Jimmy Carr's just like, yeah, all right.

00:46:17.920 Way ahead of you, brother.

00:46:20.720 Another based one.

00:46:21.680 So Nick Buckley says the left have a lot to answer for, allowing the, are you allowed 0.63

00:46:26.860 to say this word on YouTube?

00:46:27.680 I'm going to skip it.

00:46:28.320 The grape of children has to be the greatest act of treason. 0.98

00:46:32.500 And then Ant replies, they will pay the ultimate price, fear not.

00:46:36.060 And you're like, all right, Ant, a guy that used to kill people for a living.

00:46:39.640 What do you mean by the ultimate price?

00:46:41.320 It's just like, I don't even know what it means.

00:46:42.500 He just means very, very long prison sentences.

00:46:46.060 I think he means their soul will go to hell perhaps as well.

00:46:49.880 He could also mean that.

00:46:51.040 Let's say he means that.

00:46:52.360 He makes a claim about the Lord.

00:46:54.100 Yeah.

00:46:55.640 Because otherwise that's just a really scary tweet.

00:46:58.780 But, you know, I don't want to get in trouble.

00:47:00.860 So I think he's probably making a spiritual claim. 0.99

00:47:03.900 This just to end on, Narinda has said something stupid about him assaulting a police officer, 0.98

00:47:09.320 which he says he didn't do, a female one, sorry. 0.99

00:47:11.220 And Ant says, fake news from a fake Brit.

00:47:13.440 Hashtag not welcome.

00:47:15.880 So, you know, he's not prepared to.

00:47:17.560 He's prepared to go there.

00:47:19.540 Just some fun based tweets from Ant.

00:47:21.340 And that's all that section was really about.

00:47:23.300 You know what, actually?

00:47:24.440 I know we were talking about.

00:47:26.440 I know I was saying just a minute ago, we can't abandon London.

00:47:30.900 Counterpoint to my own argument.

00:47:33.340 We get Ant in.

00:47:34.820 What we do is we find a city in England that Ant could win.

00:47:41.220 Maybe York or something, right?

00:47:42.900 Somewhere with...

00:47:43.380 Or Durham.

00:47:44.020 Somewhere with a good...

00:47:45.000 And we set it up as a counter-capital city.

00:47:48.900 And then from there, we use that to push out from.

00:47:52.280 Great idea.

00:47:52.820 I'm sure I'd love that.

00:47:53.380 But I love you thinking, mate.

00:47:54.280 Great idea.

00:47:55.160 I'm going to set up a counter-capital.

00:47:56.540 He'll be tweeting about that in days.

00:47:58.300 You'll see.

00:47:59.040 He could actually do it as well.

00:48:00.320 Really heavily armed.

00:48:02.060 Do you know what I mean?

00:48:02.440 Like heavily armed.

00:48:03.060 Because in his speech, he's talked about...

00:48:05.960 On his show, he brings people into a camp and he has a secure border.

00:48:09.400 And you've got to be safe first.

00:48:11.140 And then he sort of breaks down their identity and builds them up.

00:48:13.500 He's like, that's what we've got to do.

00:48:14.620 Safe border.

00:48:16.240 Get our identity established.

00:48:17.760 It'll be like a brutally fortified...

00:48:20.520 Ant, look at the vantage points you could have from the top of Durham Cathedral.

00:48:26.280 It's a great idea.

00:48:27.620 All right.

00:48:27.980 That is my bit.

00:48:28.580 Do we have to read something from somewhere?

00:48:30.940 Yeah, yeah.

00:48:31.300 Okay.

00:48:31.680 Right.

00:48:32.100 So we have TomRat247.

00:48:38.580 Middleton is the Heinleinianist candidate we need and deserve.

00:48:43.880 Right.

00:48:45.560 OPHUK, we don't need to fund an airport in Mirapur if we just...

00:48:51.420 Parachute, drop them out somewhere over Pakistan. 1.00

00:48:54.320 Did you not read that for a reason?

00:48:55.680 Then I just read it.

00:48:56.380 You know, I was thinking, is this Feddy or not?

00:49:01.060 Yeah, right.

00:49:01.700 And I just went for it.

00:49:02.800 Parachutes are perfectly safe in the...

00:49:04.540 That whole section was a bit Feddy.

00:49:06.740 We shouldn't have probably said any of it.

00:49:08.080 Logan, 17pine.

00:49:09.780 As someone that has to work in the crack den of LA,

00:49:13.060 you wish for the bloody code when you see your 50th shoplifter in a week.

00:49:18.580 And Skinhoodon says, something Arvel said the other day,

00:49:21.580 hey, these big cities came from the US, came from us, he says.

00:49:26.460 If we leave, we will remake new cities again.

00:49:28.980 The culture goes with us, not the invaders, and they can't maintain it. 0.86

00:49:32.440 Interesting counterpoint there. 0.99

00:49:34.040 All right, ladies and gentlemen, I want to talk to you all about An Idiot Abroad. 1.00

00:49:40.000 And I only wish that it could be the endearing, comical type of idiot abroad, 1.00

00:49:45.680 like Kyle Pilkington. 1.00

00:49:47.100 But unfortunately, there's a much greater idiot at large, 1.00

00:49:51.020 much more insufferable, 1.00

00:49:52.640 with no seemingly redeemable qualities whatsoever.

00:49:56.180 What did he do to you, Luca?

00:49:58.600 He bothered me.

00:49:59.840 Okay.

00:50:00.500 He bothered me greatly.

00:50:02.260 Before I talk about why he bothers me so much, though,

00:50:05.220 let me just tell you about something that doesn't bother me,

00:50:07.920 which is the new Islander.

00:50:10.020 Terrible, terrible segue.

00:50:12.040 That's actually a good segue.

00:50:13.760 Oh, well.

00:50:14.300 I thought so. 0.88

00:50:15.000 Far too self-defecating.

00:50:17.000 But anyway, Islander issue four is out now, ladies and gentlemen.

00:50:21.000 It's a wonderful issue.

00:50:23.520 Rory, again, you go through it.

00:50:24.980 The aesthetics are terrific.

00:50:27.440 The essays are very, very intellectually nourishing.

00:50:31.700 And there's some fantastic writers in there.

00:50:33.960 We've got Ed Dutton.

00:50:34.920 Ed Dutton.

00:50:35.420 We've got Morgoth.

00:50:36.800 And you've got Sting on the cover.

00:50:38.180 I'm not quite sure why, but...

00:50:39.920 No, no, that's Rory.

00:50:41.000 Okay.

00:50:41.620 That's Rory.

00:50:42.280 He posed for it, and we shaved his head.

00:50:44.720 Fair dude.

00:50:45.360 But otherwise, do go and buy it for $14.99 on the website,

00:50:50.460 as well as the merch store as well.

00:50:52.300 Is he contemplating how fragile we are?

00:50:54.980 Yes.

00:50:55.960 Yes.

00:50:56.340 Well, I can actually...

00:50:57.640 Oh, no.

00:50:58.180 Is this...

00:50:58.840 Yep.

00:50:59.740 You can see here, there's all sorts of little esoteric symbols in there.

00:51:03.980 What does it all mean?

00:51:05.480 Go and read the magazine and find out for yourself. 1.00

00:51:09.140 So, gentlemen, shall we discuss the idiot? 1.00

00:51:11.980 We have here Brian Krasenstein, who is honestly... 1.00

00:51:17.580 You know how you just get those left-wing reply guys on Twitter just all the time?

00:51:23.300 You know how when Musk took over, they all said, oh, we're going to leave.

00:51:26.340 And to be fair, there was a mass exodus to Blue Sky.

00:51:28.640 But of course, some of them remained to tormentors.

00:51:33.120 And I wanted to go through Krasenstein's here because it's a perfect contradiction.

00:51:39.200 It's a perfect contradiction.

00:51:40.340 So, he goes through and he just says,

00:51:41.760 I just returned from two weeks in Japan.

00:51:44.900 And I have to be honest, it really opened my eyes to how far behind the United States is falling in so many basic ways.

00:51:53.040 Some things that stood out.

00:51:54.320 In two weeks across some of Japan's most densely populated cities, I saw only two visibly homeless people.

00:52:02.460 I saw one person who appeared to be struggling with addiction.

00:52:06.080 High-speed rail made affordable, clean, efficient transportation the norm, not a fantasy.

00:52:12.780 I never once felt unsafe letting my kids walk freely beside me in public.

00:52:18.040 Despite having far fewer public trash cans, Japan's streets had a fraction of the litter.

00:52:23.560 The country's reduced income inequality was visible everywhere, from housing to public services.

00:52:31.380 And I already know what some far-right folks will say.

00:52:35.600 It's because Japan has low immigration or it's not run by Democrats.

00:52:40.440 But those are lazy excuses and distractions from the real issues.

00:52:45.100 The truth, we've normalized dysfunction in the United States.

00:52:49.100 And we make excuses for it instead of demanding better.

00:52:52.740 Yeah, but you see how he has already...

00:52:55.120 I think he...

00:52:56.520 Right, so I'm trying to understand what he and his brother are going on about, generally speaking.

00:53:02.400 And I think that...

00:53:03.580 You'll never win.

00:53:04.860 Maybe, maybe.

00:53:05.960 But if you scroll up a bit, you see essentially he has put forward the alternative explanation of the left,

00:53:12.440 which is, according to him, reduced income inequality.

00:53:16.120 So, for the left, it's only and it can only be an issue of money, not culture.

00:53:22.900 So, every time you see any kind of problem coming from the left or from the people the left is supposed to defend,

00:53:32.000 their knee-jerk reaction is, we need to raise your taxes. 0.98

00:53:36.100 Is there more crime in, let's say, migrant communities? 1.00

00:53:38.560 Yes, they may accept it, but the remedy is to raise taxes in order to give more money to them.

00:53:45.980 So, it's blame the rich.

00:53:47.240 But even if, and I agree with you, Stelios, but even if, say, for argument's sake,

00:53:52.480 that his economic presuppositions about inequality driving crime were correct, say that they were,

00:53:59.660 does it not also follow that, well, can you not address income inequality and also not import millions and millions of people every year?

00:54:09.940 Good idea.

00:54:10.720 Right?

00:54:11.380 Yeah, the issue is, though, that according to...

00:54:14.280 It's one thing to say that income inequality is a factor and quite another to eventually treat it as the one and only factor.

00:54:22.680 Yes, which...

00:54:23.280 They may not say this explicitly, but generally speaking, this is the pattern, the way they go about it.

00:54:29.660 Absolutely.

00:54:29.960 Can I say one thing?

00:54:30.740 Yeah, please.

00:54:31.080 He's only even saying this caveat because they'll have been savage so many times on Twitter.

00:54:35.640 Just getting mocked.

00:54:36.340 Because he's saying, I know they'll say that.

00:54:38.300 Because the left doesn't even, they're not even aware of these arguments.

00:54:40.400 Now they've become aware because they're on X and it's been taken over.

00:54:43.660 So he's going, I know you'll say it's because of immigration.

00:54:45.940 By the way, two visibly homeless people in Japan is a cause for great shame. 1.00

00:54:49.520 Someone had to probably do ritual suicide and disembowel themselves out of pure shame.

00:54:53.640 You know what I mean?

00:54:54.000 Even the two in Japan are like, ah, the streets are not safe. 0.97

00:54:58.000 So dishonorable.

00:54:58.760 But he's completely wrong because Dr. Paul Morn has talked about this.

00:55:01.940 Japan, have you heard him talk about the trilemma?

00:55:04.580 He says that when you've got low birth rates, there's three options.

00:55:08.200 He talks about, he says countries choose from two of these three, but they can't have all three.

00:55:13.320 So you've got economic growth, you've got ethnocentrism, and you've got what he calls egotism,

00:55:18.300 which is just conveniently to have another E, meaning not having children and pursuing your own life.

00:55:22.860 So he says you can choose two out of three.

00:55:24.900 And he points out Japan chose ethnocentrism and economic, and egotism as in not having children. 0.52

00:55:30.080 So they've lost some of the economic growth.

00:55:31.780 That was the case.

00:55:32.720 Whereas like Israel has got the ethnocentrism, so they have a high birth rate, and they've got the economic growth.

00:55:40.280 They haven't got the egotism of not having children.

00:55:42.280 So we've chosen in this country economic growth and egotism of not having children, but we lost what he's calling the ethnocentrism.

00:55:49.240 And we didn't even get the economic growth.

00:55:51.420 We didn't in the end even get it, so we couldn't only get one of them.

00:55:53.900 But that's what most, you know, that's, he's saying something else about Japan.

00:55:56.880 But also notice how the word culture doesn't feature in this post.

00:56:01.320 Oh yeah, absolutely.

00:56:02.300 Because he talks about there being no fraction of a litter, and one of the issues, one of the main features of Japanese culture is cleanliness.

00:56:12.360 They tend to consider about, they tend to think of public spaces as their own spaces, rather than just trash cans.

00:56:20.860 Right.

00:56:21.400 And what's more as well, the fact was that they used to have rubbish bins all over the place, but they were taken away.

00:56:29.580 This is what they took from you.

00:56:31.080 Look at what they took from us.

00:56:33.620 I suppose the other way you can do it is just authoritarianism.

00:56:36.020 Singapore, I said, it may have said it before, but Lee Kuan Yew looked at England and he says, wow, this is an incredible high trust society.

00:56:42.140 People paying for papers and leaving the right amount, whatever, and not taking all these things.

00:56:47.160 And he just looked at it and said, we can never have that in Singapore.

00:56:49.560 But the only way we can try and achieve it is just with authoritarianism, which is basically what he did.

00:56:54.100 Because he had this multicultural setup of Indian, Malay and Chinese.

00:56:59.540 Japan is considered very high trust.

00:57:01.980 I know, but the only other way to achieve this is in a multicultural society is with authoritarianism is what I'm saying. 0.98

00:57:08.960 And then you might end up with a similar level to Japan, but they've achieved it through high trust, like you say.

00:57:13.840 And again, we just seem to lose out because we have the multiculturalism now, we're definitely getting the authoritarianism, and we still don't have any of the perks of what it's all about. 0.97

00:57:25.900 So, but Mitch here, again, I love that.

00:57:28.200 It's like, oh, I know you're going to say it's about immigration.

00:57:30.940 It's like, yeah, and just because you've said, I know you're going to say that, that doesn't mean we're going to not say that, right?

00:57:36.540 So when Mitch is like, wow, it's almost like having strict immigration laws, a homogenous population, functional families, zero tolerance for crime, and no DEI consultants, actually works.

00:57:47.700 And you can see Brian there at the bottom, it's like, so then why did you vote for a convicted felon with the immigration, immigrant wife, if you truly believe that?

00:57:56.860 Again, Brian, right?

00:57:58.500 Whether or not, like, again, like, for a guy-

00:58:01.320 Besides the point.

00:58:01.960 Well, one, it was entirely besides the point, but second of all, it's like, yeah, he was prescribed a felon by his political enemies, yeah, okay.

00:58:10.260 And then, but also, it's like, no, yeah, but his policies, Brian, the things that MAGA was advocating for would lead on to all of these problems that Mitch points out there being, well, not all of them, but some of them being addressed. 0.99

00:58:26.500 You know, I think they're like, sometimes they function like Blades of the Sun, you know, the really crazy leftist posts where they're going to post something that is really stupid. 0.95

00:58:36.940 Then everyone's going to give them millions of views. 0.94

00:58:39.140 Engagement fund.

00:58:39.800 Yeah, because we're going to go ballistic over it.

00:58:42.600 Yeah.

00:58:42.820 And they get money.

00:58:43.800 Yeah, that's when they're in the Kurds. 0.98

00:58:44.880 I mean, you look at it, yeah.

00:58:46.800 By the way, that convicted felon thing, I was doing interview with David Starkey, hopefully coming out on Monday, not plugging myself, but they just, he said, the left believe in magic, they believe in words.

00:58:56.520 And then the words make things so.

00:58:58.440 They're like, he's a convicted felon.

00:58:59.540 Yeah, because you guys called him that two minutes ago, as you said.

00:59:02.000 It's like, why is no one taking this seriously?

00:59:03.860 Because it's obviously just nonsense.

00:59:05.340 It's lawfare that you've just done.

00:59:06.840 Yes.

00:59:07.020 They're like, well, he's a convicted felon.

00:59:08.060 They thought that was actually going to work.

00:59:09.180 The magic is in their mind.

00:59:10.580 That's a really good point, actually.

00:59:11.980 Because if you think of lots of revolutionaries and leftists, they just say, well, okay, we legislated for it.

00:59:17.540 That's it.

00:59:18.160 Yeah.

00:59:18.460 Finish.

00:59:19.020 Yeah.

00:59:19.300 You actually have to also oversee the policy.

00:59:23.180 Oh, it's legal immigration.

00:59:24.580 Oh, well, then you can destroy the country.

00:59:26.020 Yeah, yeah.

00:59:26.740 Yeah, absolutely.

00:59:29.260 So you have here, let's go through some of Brian's views on things, shall we?

00:59:33.340 I support legal immigration because it strengthens our country and ensures a fair process for those who want to contribute to America.

00:59:40.880 I oppose illegal immigration because a nation without borders is a nation without laws. 0.83

00:59:45.680 We'll come back to that in a minute.

00:59:47.200 I'm against tearing families apart for those who have been here over three years.

00:59:52.440 Right.

00:59:52.660 So he's not against that one.

00:59:54.360 Right.

00:59:54.620 Again, already contradicting himself.

00:59:56.520 Well, no.

00:59:56.920 But if you've been here for three years, then you're, what, not illegal anymore?

01:00:01.840 Tom Holman always said, just send the family back as well.

01:00:04.020 Yeah, yeah.

01:00:04.400 Done.

01:00:04.980 Yeah.

01:00:05.800 Advocate for massively increasing the funding to expedite the immigration process.

01:00:12.500 I believe in securing the border responsibly whilst ensuring compassion for these fleeing the danger.

01:00:18.020 The thing is, right, when you look at Japan, if Japan entirely governed itself by principles of compassion,

01:00:25.460 they would have far more Kurds in the country right now.

01:00:29.140 And with 3,000 Kurds in Tokyo, they're already causing enormous problems for the local people. 1.00

01:00:37.260 And you can see Josh and Bo were just covering the other day talking about the fact that how quickly this new party in Japan,

01:00:46.560 this Sansaito party, has been able to get itself up and running based on the fact that people just don't want this.

01:00:54.500 Right. They just, they don't want it and they're voting on the single issue to just nip it in the bud right now.

01:01:00.960 And this is something that people like Brian will never wish to address and never get hold of.

01:01:07.460 Look at this here.

01:01:08.320 Notice, the incoming Trump administration is planning a large-scale immigration raid in Chicago next week.

01:01:14.660 So tipping that, again, oh, I'm not against illegal immigration, but I'm just going to tip off this city so that you can hide all of the illegals in it as quick as possible. 1.00

01:01:26.080 So, again, he talks about the fact that, oh, Japan's so safe.

01:01:30.540 But, again, just doesn't advocate for a single policy that would actually create or foster that sort of society in America.

01:01:39.700 This is what I really dislike about the rhetoric of people like Jon Stewart because it's like you're either going to go for Putin's Russia level of authoritarianism

01:01:49.500 or you're going to have, you know, San Francisco level of defecation on the street.

01:01:54.820 It doesn't have to be an exhaustive dilemma.

01:01:57.640 No.

01:01:58.700 No, no, it doesn't at all.

01:01:59.880 And, you know, we obviously can't forget that all European countries used to be like this until just a few generations ago.

01:02:09.220 That's what they took from us.

01:02:11.180 Yeah.

01:02:12.300 Again, award.

01:02:14.920 So if I go on as well, he's pro-legal immigration and H-1B visas because that's real American first. 0.78

01:02:22.900 Here's a shitlib here to tell you what real America first is. 0.97

01:02:26.540 I don't understand what that means unless you're a bigot. 0.98

01:02:28.860 So you have to have Indians undercutting your wages or you're a bigot and you're not America first.

01:02:35.140 Yes.

01:02:35.720 Loyalty to the United...

01:02:37.100 Well, what is good for America is to have allegiance to every single human being on the planet who lives outside of America but wants to get into it.

01:02:47.260 And none at all for the, you know, the wasps and Europeans who actually built up America into the place of prosperity that the whole world wants to move to. 1.00

01:02:58.980 And this is the thing.

01:03:00.160 What he doesn't appreciate...

01:03:01.180 He can duck the immigration thing all he wants, but the fact of the matter is that the Japanese are the custodians of their civilization

01:03:09.260 and have been for basically millennia at this point and so they feel that responsibility for it in a way that you just simply don't see.

01:03:19.860 Just to come back to something a little more, well, not trivial, but like, you know, like the situation of all the rubbish in the streets, right?

01:03:28.480 It is the Japanese people don't need the state to intervene in order for them to understand the importance of a clean street, right?

01:03:40.060 And just living in a clean society, clean city, clear village, wherever it may be, in a way that the people currently in squatting in Birmingham, right, just don't appreciate and don't understand.

01:03:55.200 Oh, the bins haven't come to be collected, so I'm just going to allow myself to continue living in squalor and filth, right?

01:04:02.740 Like, you and I would have the initiative to just do what we can to make sure our plot of land or our house looks presentable from the front.

01:04:11.840 You know, all those old Pather, British Pather videos, you know, just women out sweeping their doorsteps every morning and all that just like quaint stuff. 1.00

01:04:20.700 Like, those days are gone.

01:04:21.640 Yeah, that's what I was trying to say before. You have the high trust society naturally.

01:04:25.640 Once that goes, it's incredibly hard to have. And once it goes, like Lee Kuan Yew couldn't believe that we had it.

01:04:30.300 Once it goes, you only get it artificially with authoritarianism.

01:04:34.000 And by the way, on that previous one, Elon Musk agrees with him on H1B visas.

01:04:38.200 Oh, I know.

01:04:39.000 Maybe that's why he gets such good engagement on Twitter.

01:04:41.420 Maybe he is.

01:04:42.040 He's an e-tech bro with Elon.

01:04:43.140 Yeah. Well, I mean, I personally don't believe that...

01:04:46.680 One thing to... So, apologies. One thing to add to what you say, Nick. I think when Musk was talking about a third party, both brothers were considering it.

01:04:56.960 Really?

01:04:57.560 Yeah.

01:04:57.960 Imagine that party, Elon Musk and the two Krasnstein's. It's like the more... I mean, Elon Musk, obviously genius, but not on politics.

01:05:04.940 He's like, let's have the America party. It's like, can we not, Elon, can we not have a...

01:05:08.680 Krasnstein ticket.

01:05:11.920 Just dual vice presidents and just... Because they're one... I always think they're like one weird person.

01:05:17.080 Co-councils of the consuls of the Republic.

01:05:19.820 Imagine you have VP Brian Krasnstein.

01:05:21.940 To be fair, Musk is kind of... He comes across kind of weird. Obviously a genius, but kind of weird, right? I think we all agree.

01:05:26.660 So, they would be even weirder than him. That would offset his way. Like, I'm the normal one. I think I'm... I'm sorry. Look at these guys.

01:05:33.100 That's what it is, right. It's come across more normal. That's the only reason you get them on board.

01:05:37.620 But, of course, apparently there are hidden trade-offs to Japan's crime-free society and...

01:05:44.600 So much safety.

01:05:45.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:05:46.640 Yeah, safety makes you weak and bored and complacent and soft. Soft times create bad times.

01:05:54.440 So, Japan's abundant social capital and cultural cohesion also translates into one of the world's lowest incarceration rates.

01:06:03.240 Japan has a death penalty, but with a twist. 0.73

01:06:06.560 The condemned aren't informed of their execution date until the morning it's scheduled to occur.

01:06:14.720 So, you're dying today. You know, simple as that.

01:06:19.960 And so, there's this form of, like, psychological warfare that you're basically playing with your criminals.

01:06:26.480 Just every night they're awake, you're like, is this my last night on Earth? That, for all time.

01:06:33.260 Do you know what? I thought I was based wanting to bring back the death penalty. I was a total lib.

01:06:37.620 It's death penalty and you don't tell them till the day. That's the new standard for me now.

01:06:41.700 Surprise, motherfucker. 0.99

01:06:42.480 And, yeah, but obviously there are considerable ethical issues about this practice in Japan and it's a bad thing. 1.00

01:06:53.400 What are they?

01:06:54.340 I just told you them.

01:06:56.700 Oh, that was them.

01:06:57.620 Yes.

01:06:57.780 Physical and spiritual cleanliness are interlinked in Japanese culture.

01:07:02.980 The philosophy parallels the broken window theory of crime, which suggests that minor signs of disorder, like broken windows or graffiti, subtly degrade respect for the law, encouraging more serious criminality.

01:07:17.920 And, similarly, Japan's meticulous cleanliness functions as an unspoken deterrent to misbehavior, reinforcing a high standard of order that infuses the entire society.

01:07:30.740 And, again, this is something that we used to have, you know, to come back to what I was saying earlier.

01:07:35.560 But I do think also it is – I don't want to speak as if I think that just because we've lost these things, we can't reclaim them again, right?

01:07:47.000 I do think with time and patience and education and just moral standards that we can actually return to those things.

01:07:56.480 But it won't be with the current demographic state.

01:08:00.840 No, Japan is even more like this.

01:08:02.660 They talk about meticulous cleanliness.

01:08:04.160 I mean, they have those toilets that shoot out a little jet of water. 1.00

01:08:06.960 Have you seen those?

01:08:07.900 And they play music.

01:08:08.980 I mean, Japan takes it to the next level.

01:08:10.700 I was watching that thinking, I'm so much like the Japanese.

01:08:12.780 Like, you've got to respect the Japanese, right?

01:08:15.320 The cleanliness, the neatness, the nice architecture.

01:08:18.620 It's all great stuff.

01:08:20.060 One of the things as well I love is that the rules, you'd expect them – because you hear about the cleanliness and all of these sorts of things,

01:08:28.860 you'd expect them to be just really austere, right, and just really serious about following almost like German in their psychology. 0.97

01:08:36.300 But they're really arbitrary about which rules are – they are madmen when it comes to, like, cycling. 0.95

01:08:43.240 Absolute madmen. 0.77

01:08:44.540 Like, yeah, if the light is red, then they won't cross the road.

01:08:48.220 But otherwise, I was in Osaka and I saw a woman texting one-handed down a busy market stall with a baby in the front basket.

01:08:58.200 Just like this.

01:08:59.880 Like, the crowd's just parting.

01:09:02.120 Everything.

01:09:02.780 It's like so – you know, there is some chaos in there as well.

01:09:05.840 Yeah, also, is it true that the Battle Royale was not fiction?

01:09:12.180 I don't know.

01:09:13.200 That's something I'll have to look into.

01:09:15.420 Well, it definitely wasn't fiction back in the 1400s.

01:09:20.580 Yeah, yeah.

01:09:21.080 That's for sure.

01:09:21.980 That's for sure.

01:09:23.180 So, but also –

01:09:25.840 I'm talking about – sorry, I'm talking about – you know the movie.

01:09:28.280 Yeah, yeah.

01:09:28.800 I've not seen it.

01:09:29.520 With new generations that were a bit not disrespectful of the elders.

01:09:34.240 So, they said every year we're going to pick a class.

01:09:37.000 Right.

01:09:37.300 Make them just fight each other to the death.

01:09:40.060 I'll have to watch the film, to be honest with you.

01:09:42.000 I saw it, but it was a long time ago.

01:09:43.160 Yeah.

01:09:43.600 I don't remember.

01:09:44.180 I don't recognize what he's saying.

01:09:45.500 No.

01:09:46.700 Go on.

01:09:47.060 But we're sure it's true, Stelios.

01:09:48.200 So, just to wrap up as well.

01:09:51.460 So, what I just wanted to say, right, between World War II and then the two atomic bombs and then American occupation, right, it goes to show that decline and disgrace and uncleanliness, all these things that he remarks on are, as he points out, they are in some ways a choice, right?

01:10:16.540 Of course, they are a choice, but the people who inhabit your nation make up those choices, right?

01:10:24.360 And because of cultural differences, some people are more likely to make certain choices than others.

01:10:32.140 And so, I just wanted to really just use this as an opportunity to rant about all that.

01:10:37.900 I hope you'll all forgive me, but, all right, let's go to the comments.

01:10:45.020 Yeah, I'll read through these.

01:10:46.340 Okay.

01:10:47.060 If I can drag my mouse.

01:10:48.480 Thank you.

01:10:52.380 Skittenhund says...

01:10:54.500 We said this.

01:10:56.280 Oh, did we?

01:10:56.740 The next one is hapsification. 0.99

01:10:58.680 All right.

01:10:59.360 Deranged woke leftists go to a country that is ethnically and culturally homogenous and sees the...

01:11:07.020 Sorry, it jumped.

01:11:08.820 Sees the country function properly. 1.00

01:11:10.480 Yeah, you see, true communism works.

01:11:14.340 The mass immigration would be happy with... 1.00

01:11:17.900 Sorry, I would be happy with, sorry, is East Asian bikini models. 1.00

01:11:24.040 I'm sure it would, Logan.

01:11:25.720 I'm sure it would.

01:11:26.700 Maybe in your name.

01:11:27.720 You don't have to go just East Asian for bikini models. 0.99

01:11:31.320 That's where you need to be inclusive.

01:11:33.120 Where would you...

01:11:33.940 Greek bikini models, I assume.

01:11:35.140 No, no, I'm inclusive.

01:11:36.580 Bikini models. 0.94

01:11:37.400 Right.

01:11:37.980 Yeah.

01:11:38.620 Like Lizzo.

01:11:40.500 Yeah.

01:11:43.700 Oh, it's this way.

01:11:44.700 Sorry, I think I was...

01:11:45.740 Yeah, sorry, people keep moving.

01:11:47.740 I'll stop it.

01:11:48.260 The mass immigration... 0.98

01:11:49.560 Yeah, sorry.

01:11:50.660 Hapsification, deranged woke leftists also want the same proper functioning system 0.87

01:11:56.040 in his own country, but advocates everything that is against a proper functioning system.

01:12:00.660 Yeah, absolutely.

01:12:02.420 Hapsification against...

01:12:03.340 Oh, sorry.

01:12:03.760 It's a...

01:12:04.460 Oh, no.

01:12:05.320 Deranged woke leftists gets all his policies, all the policies he advocates for.

01:12:09.960 Results are nothing like the homogenous country and gets worse results. 1.00

01:12:14.920 Leftist is confused.

01:12:16.380 Why not same results?

01:12:17.580 Yeah.

01:12:17.860 And then...

01:12:18.300 But continue to learn nothing.

01:12:20.120 And I suppose that's the thing as well.

01:12:21.540 It's like...

01:12:22.200 And honestly, it really opened my eyes.

01:12:24.580 No, it didn't, Brian.

01:12:25.560 Your eyes have not been opened in the slightest.

01:12:28.680 I could say a comment about Asian people and how...

01:12:32.700 No, I won't.

01:12:34.880 I was halfway there, but I won't.

01:12:37.360 You're a lib.

01:12:38.240 You've got some standards.

01:12:40.000 Come on.

01:12:40.200 The Engage View, the only notice the condemned deserve is that first comes up the scaffold.

01:12:49.580 They're ascending.

01:12:50.540 See, he's taking it to the next level.

01:12:52.680 Like, you call that base, he's like, no, no, no.

01:12:54.740 Not told in the morning.

01:12:56.200 Engage View's Aunt Middleton posting.

01:12:58.240 Yeah, yeah.

01:12:58.700 Exactly.

01:12:59.460 Tell them seconds before.

01:13:01.300 Not even tell them.

01:13:01.920 They see it.

01:13:02.840 Jihad says, I do hope Great Britain gets itself together.

01:13:06.040 It would be rather heartbreaking if the land of my ancestors and its landmarks that gave

01:13:11.380 us our name were suddenly renamed by the invaders.

01:13:14.500 Don't worry, Jihad. 0.90

01:13:15.340 We've got this.

01:13:16.620 And Habsification says, there is a solution to the Great Switcheroo. 0.99

01:13:22.420 Get married and have 10 kids.

01:13:25.060 So everyone on the panel have a duty to get married and have 10 kids.

01:13:29.160 I'm far too busy working at the Lotus Eaters these days, to be honest with you.

01:13:33.500 But I'll add it to the list, Habsification. 1.00

01:13:35.560 I'm just one away.

01:13:36.500 I've got the nine scattered around the country.

01:13:39.540 Right.

01:13:40.020 That last one.

01:13:40.580 So let's go to the video comments.

01:13:44.060 First one, Michael Drabble.

01:13:45.840 Jeremy Corbyn wants your help in naming his new party.

01:13:49.040 Well, I have a good one for him.

01:13:51.200 He can call it the British National Socialist Workers Party. 0.99

01:13:56.580 And he's just the kind of moron, along with most of his followers, who will think that's 0.99

01:14:03.120 a great idea. 1.00

01:14:05.640 It's so funny because it actually now seems like it is being called your party.

01:14:09.000 I thought they said it wasn't.

01:14:10.140 It was registered as that, I think.

01:14:12.200 I saw a tweet. 0.99

01:14:12.820 It's a ridiculous name. 0.98

01:14:14.140 It's still, yeah. 0.98

01:14:15.080 They're calling your party U2.

01:14:17.160 They'll totally end up just calling it your party. 0.81

01:14:19.920 Bono is prime minister.

01:14:21.340 Yeah.

01:14:21.520 Yeah.

01:14:21.660 You need to be on the spectrum itself to be considered English.

01:14:41.120 Magnificently put together.

01:14:43.340 Nice.

01:14:44.180 Right.

01:14:44.860 Do we have any?

01:14:46.040 Right.

01:14:46.260 Let's go to the written comments.

01:14:49.840 Let's go.

01:14:50.860 First of all, I want to say, Roman Observer, what you said about Lizzo on the live chat

01:14:55.860 was absolutely hilarious.

01:14:57.860 Couldn't stop laughing.

01:14:59.600 He said Lizzo is all plural by herself.

01:15:05.500 Right.

01:15:06.020 So Omar Awad says, even if Big Bulls doesn't have the big fists to match on 10 to 1 odds,

01:15:13.940 no less, where would you ever find such an example on the left?

01:15:17.960 Does anyone believe Daniel Penny is a far leftist?

01:15:21.060 Even their memes in comics are cucked.

01:15:23.500 Oh, maybe the thief will be happier with my staff than me. 1.00

01:15:27.180 Cowards. 0.99

01:15:28.160 Through and through. 0.98

01:15:28.580 You remember that woman who was knifing in New York a few months back, and she left him

01:15:38.180 there, bleeding in the gutter, and then went on to not only abandon him, but to not press

01:15:48.760 charges against the killer, and then went on to vote for Mamdani.

01:15:53.740 Yeah.

01:15:54.360 Yeah.

01:15:55.200 Just look at... 1.00

01:15:55.880 Just scum. 1.00

01:15:56.660 Yeah. 1.00

01:15:57.200 Genuine scum. 1.00

01:15:58.080 Just look at how they treat Luigi Mangione. 1.00

01:16:02.880 How's the name?

01:16:03.580 Yeah.

01:16:04.040 It's actually...

01:16:04.560 They stand for the killer.

01:16:06.120 Yes.

01:16:06.600 Yes, they do.

01:16:07.480 Do you want me to read some of these still?

01:16:08.660 So do you want to read...

01:16:09.280 I don't know how...

01:16:09.800 Sometimes...

01:16:10.220 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:16:11.160 I'm just trying to help out.

01:16:12.260 There's a lot of them, though.

01:16:13.480 So Lord Nevera says, Ant Middleton is strong, capable, competent.

01:16:17.120 He has an ancestry in this country, and a deep care for it.

01:16:19.780 Exactly who you'd want to lead.

01:16:21.080 So naturally, Farage has canned him.

01:16:23.180 Yes, if he has, but he's...

01:16:24.760 Not on my watch.

01:16:25.900 Yeah, yeah.

01:16:26.400 Yeah, yes.

01:16:27.280 Maybe he'll still help him with security stuff, but he won't be mad.

01:16:30.920 Omar Awad.

01:16:32.000 I'm not sure wet political slime like Farage have fully considered the ramifications of

01:16:36.300 removing people like Ant Middleton from political solutions.

01:16:38.780 Ant sounds like the kind of bloke to solve problems however he needs to.

01:16:42.080 Absolutely.

01:16:42.940 David Ward.

01:16:43.500 Really liking Ant, viva Middleton.

01:16:46.120 Absolutely.

01:16:47.100 Alpha of the betas.

01:16:48.060 It doesn't matter how radical Ant Middleton's policies are.

01:16:50.380 They're still policies.

01:16:51.360 They're still a political solution to an existential threat.

01:16:54.180 Every person who hand waves this away as extreme takes us step by step closer to a non-political

01:16:58.460 solution.

01:16:59.020 I think that's fair.

01:17:00.720 Michael Kyle.

01:17:01.380 I saw an article insinuating Middleton's suggestion of barring up to third generation 0.99

01:17:06.000 immigrants from high office was stupid because Churchill's mother was from Brooklyn. 0.99

01:17:09.940 A man couldn't have made me more supportive. 1.00

01:17:13.160 Yeah.

01:17:13.760 Checkmate there.

01:17:14.380 David Ward.

01:17:16.700 Hope Middleton stands anyway.

01:17:18.980 Nige picks another venerator of the, can we say desert nonce? 1.00

01:17:23.480 I don't know if we're allowed to say that.

01:17:24.800 You just did.

01:17:26.460 Probably, almost certainly.

01:17:27.560 We're not on YouTube now.

01:17:28.760 No, that's what I was thinking.

01:17:29.680 But I was thinking, what are Carl's rules?

01:17:30.740 This is a safe space, Nick, for you.

01:17:34.340 Yeah.

01:17:34.800 I mean, I'm not sure I can say anything about Zia.

01:17:37.100 I don't want to get Carl's sued, so maybe we'll skip on.

01:17:41.000 There are so many.

01:17:41.960 So, thank you for the comments, though.

01:17:43.160 But Geordie Swordsman, the founder of the SBS, on having his proposal for the formation rejected,

01:17:48.960 decided to prove the concept by breaking into a ship, writing his name on the captain's door,

01:17:53.160 and then stealing a gun cover, which he walked into the officer's mess with.

01:17:56.840 He was promoted on the spot, given some men, and told to get on with it. 0.97

01:18:00.380 Too lot, TLDR, the SBS are absolute madmen.

01:18:03.940 That is, that's Lord Martin.

01:18:05.320 I'm going to look into that.

01:18:06.500 That's, yeah, a remarkable story.

01:18:08.420 Huge, if true.

01:18:10.140 David Ward.

01:18:10.700 But if certain demographics are incapable of functioning in a civilised society, they have to be removed. 0.98

01:18:15.120 Interesting.

01:18:16.320 I'm not committing myself.

01:18:17.880 Jimbo G.

01:18:18.620 If I hear Sadiq Khan say diversity one more time, you will hear the sounds of my plates smashing from Swindon there.

01:18:25.880 Richard Johnson, are used court cases being lowered to 16 in the UK or 18 when they get the right to vote?

01:18:32.740 After all, if they can vote in the country, so they not also get the same rights as an adult and be punished as an adult criminal.

01:18:39.060 One vote can tip an election result.

01:18:41.280 Very, very true.

01:18:42.720 Yes, if they're going to be 16, we're going to have to say they're adults if you're going to be able to vote.

01:18:46.900 Yeah.

01:18:47.760 Just one thing about what Jimbo was saying about Sadiq Khan just saying diversity as well.

01:18:52.700 It's like, at this point, he really does feel like such a time capsule of a man, doesn't he?

01:18:58.940 2014 wants his politician.

01:19:00.320 Oh, God, yeah, honestly.

01:19:01.900 It's like, no, no, no, Sadiq, we're so far past this, mate.

01:19:05.620 Yeah.

01:19:06.400 Mate.

01:19:07.340 Like, we're so far on from all.

01:19:09.360 He was telling Trump, he was saying he wanted to show Trump around the mosque, wasn't he, the other day?

01:19:13.400 Yeah, yeah.

01:19:14.620 Yeah, I haven't heard about it.

01:19:17.000 But honestly, he introduced the Ula's laws.

01:19:21.840 There's just no salvation for this.

01:19:23.780 It's irredeemable.

01:19:25.400 Absolutely.

01:19:26.600 Every time you have to go to TFL.

01:19:28.200 When Khan's like, oh, I'll show him around Tower Hamlets. 0.93

01:19:31.060 It's like, oh, yeah, what's it notable for?

01:19:33.320 Mosques and voter fraud. 0.97

01:19:34.960 Right, yeah.

01:19:36.400 There's a lot of, what are all these mosques?

01:19:38.480 It'll just be like, yeah.

01:19:39.860 Showing Trump a lot of mosques in Tower Hamlet.

01:19:42.220 Wow.

01:19:42.700 Here's where we keep the weapons. 0.99

01:19:45.420 Yeah, here's where the police told us to put our ass off. 0.79

01:19:48.420 Here's where we stash the weapons because we have our own police. 0.92

01:19:51.300 Anyway.

01:19:52.360 Lord Inquisitor Hector X.

01:19:53.840 Luke, my disappointment is immeasurable that it's not Kyle Pilkington.

01:19:57.160 Me too, Rex.

01:19:58.540 Me too.

01:20:00.020 Fiorist Dan says he denies solutions and rejects explanations and immediately says we've normalised

01:20:05.980 dysfunction and made excuses for it.

01:20:08.240 It's not an accusation.

01:20:09.640 It's a boast.

01:20:11.000 Yeah, I can see that point, Dan.

01:20:12.680 Well said.

01:20:13.420 Yeah, because if you think, how many years are they governing?

01:20:16.680 Because they have Obama.

01:20:18.660 They had eight years of Obama and then four years of Biden.

01:20:22.040 Mm-hmm.

01:20:23.220 Yeah.

01:20:24.100 But what's more, Obama led to Trump.

01:20:29.720 Yeah.

01:20:29.960 That's how much dissatisfaction there was in the system.

01:20:34.940 And whatever people say and whatever our opinions are now on Trump's backsliding, that win in 2016

01:20:41.780 was truly astonishing.

01:20:43.640 I mean, that was an against all odds victory.

01:20:45.520 You read Brian Krasenstein and you ask yourself, has he never paused to ask himself?

01:20:52.180 I mean, we are constantly making excuses for everyone we want to, we call our allies, for

01:20:59.780 all the, you know, the minorities.

01:21:01.600 When you habituate people into not being accountable, when you habituate them into thinking that

01:21:08.880 there are no consequences for their action, yeah, of course they're not going to excel

01:21:13.460 at anything.

01:21:14.120 Of course they're not going to have the drive to make something out of it.

01:21:17.840 And when you constantly brainwash people saying that, no, society hates you and society systemically

01:21:25.820 hates you and everyone else needs to change for you to be well, well, yeah, they're not

01:21:32.540 going to love it.

01:21:33.860 They're not going to love their country.

01:21:35.600 So they're going to hate it.

01:21:38.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:21:39.000 And we've just been living in this malaise for so long now that generations just don't 0.99

01:21:45.320 know anything different.

01:21:47.120 It's terrible.

01:21:49.320 Got a Roman observer, 100% agree with Stelios. 0.98

01:21:52.660 Destroy the capital to destroy the country.

01:21:56.760 For Rome, they first moved all the industries and banks to Milan, leaving us to rot with

01:22:01.900 just public employees and tourist attractions.

01:22:05.900 Now we're getting the enrichment.

01:22:08.400 Yeah, actually I'd need to look into that more as well because from what I could tell when

01:22:14.100 I last looked at the demographics of Rome, there was still about 90% Italian, which is capital

01:22:20.360 cities around Western Europe go.

01:22:22.660 It's quite impressive.

01:22:24.600 But yeah, I've been led to believe that that's quickly changing now as well.

01:22:28.880 So very, very tragic stuff.

01:22:31.220 Yeah, I don't think Maloney is serious.

01:22:33.380 No, she's not. 0.98

01:22:34.180 No, she's a complete charlatan. 1.00

01:22:36.160 Complete charlatan. 0.95

01:22:37.740 Omar Awad says the Krasenstein will always tell you that your country is in decline, but

01:22:44.760 never tell you why.

01:22:46.700 Famous conservative, you know, aristocrat Krasenstein, you know, it's all decline, decline, decline.

01:22:52.160 He's stolen your moniker though.

01:22:53.880 He's the Krasenstein and you're the Stelios. 0.99

01:22:56.920 The Oswald Spengler reading Krasenstein, you know, the decline of your country, you know.

01:23:03.300 He would vote against every single Japanese policy that got them where they are and then

01:23:09.200 blame you for not paying the hobo Dane gold. 0.97

01:23:12.800 Yeah, absolutely.

01:23:14.120 Absolutely.

01:23:14.980 And honourable mentions, a guy from Hungary says, great to see here Nick on the Friday

01:23:22.280 podcast.

01:23:23.800 Luca Stelios, stop the bullying, give Nick back his tie.

01:23:28.960 Yeah.

01:23:29.480 No.

01:23:29.660 Why do you want a tie?

01:23:32.340 We are wearing ties.

01:23:34.020 I don't look good in them.

01:23:35.200 I don't, I'm not saying I look good now, but I think I look worse in a tie.

01:23:37.960 Something about my beard, I don't know.

01:23:39.380 What if you were to try for the cravat maxing?

01:23:42.600 Maybe you're right.

01:23:43.240 Or maybe I should, I just need a better knot like yours looks quite a solid knot.

01:23:47.100 I don't know what I've been doing wrong.

01:23:48.300 You're not.

01:23:48.860 But let's read the next bit though.

01:23:49.880 That's the key bit. 0.97

01:23:50.820 I've been reminded I am behind in dicks and cocks. 0.99

01:23:53.420 You probably don't even know what that means. 0.98

01:23:54.640 But I have a podcast with Paul Cotts called dicks and cocks because that's the level of 0.97

01:23:58.740 our. 0.96

01:23:58.860 Very witty.

01:23:59.520 Yeah.

01:23:59.680 That's the level of our humour.

01:24:01.100 And it's like a weekly topical political podcast.

01:24:04.100 A bit like this.

01:24:04.720 So I would never plug it on this show.

01:24:06.400 Here we're just dicks and johnson. 0.60

01:24:09.160 That's good. 0.97

01:24:09.920 That's good.

01:24:10.420 Hey, you can come on as a guest.

01:24:11.560 That'll be so perfect.

01:24:12.700 When Paul's away on hold there, I'm going to bring you on just for that purpose. 0.98

01:24:15.320 Dicks and cocks and johnson. 0.99

01:24:15.660 Don't even care about your knowledge. 1.00

01:24:17.320 Dicks and johnson. 1.00

01:24:18.220 Special guest in dicks and cocks. 1.00

01:24:21.880 Yeah. 0.99

01:24:22.600 Johnson.

01:24:23.180 Johnson. 0.99

01:24:23.500 Dicks and cocks and johnson. 0.99

01:24:24.540 That's brilliant. 0.95

01:24:26.480 So, yes, it's a political topical podcast we do every week on my YouTube and my nickdicks

01:24:31.220 not on that.

01:24:31.980 I would never plug it here.

01:24:33.060 But since he's brought it up, I could say it.

01:24:35.680 I won't say it.

01:24:36.720 But I'm doing the Trump.

01:24:37.520 A lot of people are asking me to say it, but I won't.

01:24:39.720 Many people would say, plug your podcast.

01:24:41.480 I said, I'm not going to plug it. 0.99

01:24:42.760 But it's dicks and cocks. 1.00

01:24:44.140 Yeah. 0.99

01:24:44.620 Anyway, so that's what he's talking about there.

01:24:46.360 Right.

01:24:46.740 Okay.

01:24:47.140 So we have ran out of comments.

01:24:51.140 And we are going to see you at 3 p.m.

01:24:55.560 During Lads Hour.

01:24:58.040 See you and goodbye.

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01:26:03.460 Thank you.

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - August 08, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1226

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