The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1241
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Summary
Elias and Bo discuss the case of the Bell Hotel in Epping, and the counter-protest against it, and Keir Starmer's comments on immigration. They also discuss how the Green Party is a total joke, and how weak the opposition is.
Transcript
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters. I'm your host, Elias, and
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I'm joined today by Bo. Hello, Bo. And this is episode 1241, and this is Friday the 29th
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of August of 2025, I believe, unless I'm horribly mistaken. Right. And today we're going to
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discuss how Labour betrays us again, how the Green Party is a total joke, and how Democrats
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are weak, and they can't bench. They really can't bench, and what a pathetic sight. Right.
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So at 3 p.m. we have the Gold Zoom. It would be really nice for all of you to be there.
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And we have Islander issue number four. Check it out. This is the fourth issue of our very
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successful magazine. We have articles in it by Carl, by our editor Rory, by Luca. We have
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also by Morgoth's Review, Dave Green. Lots of people are writing for the Islander. Check
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it out. Just £14.99. It's not even £15. Right. We're live streaming on YouTube, so do leave
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us a comment and we'll read it out towards the end of the segment. Thank you very much.
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And today we're going to have a really good discussion, I think, because we are talking
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simultaneously about pressing issues, the case with Bell Hotel in Epping, and the back and
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forth between the council and the government and the people in the protests and the counter
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protests. And then we're going to have, I'm sure, some really good discussion about things.
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Right. So I think that one of the things we need to bear in mind when we're talking about
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politics is that actions matter much more than words. Discourse is secondary relative to
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action. And I think that labor is giving us completely mixed signals. It's like one of
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those cases where you want to date a woman and she isn't exactly certain whether she wants
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to date you or not. And she gives you mixed signal. I think that's what labor is doing
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Yeah, mixed signal. It's a classic flip-flop. It's been their technique and the conservatives'
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technique for years and years and years to sort of signal that they're going to be really
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hard-line, really strong on something. And then when they don't and are brought to account
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for it, they try and excuse themselves by coming out with some globalist hogwash. And
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then at some point in the future, flip back to saying something really hard-line. It's
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just, it's just all an exercise in wasting time. Yeah. And we're flooded by more and more
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people all the, meanwhile. It's just that, on repeat. That's exactly what it is. So here
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we have Schrodinger's Enoch Powell, Sir Keir Starmer, PM of the UK. He says, if you are thinking
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about coming to the UK, legally don't. You will face detention and return.
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Just not true. In very, very few cases anyway, is that true? Don't you believe him? He's
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going to be ultra tough. Ultra tough against, you know, he's not for impunity. He also says
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here, illegal immigration is driven by criminal people smuggling gangs. We're dismantling their
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organizations, shutting down online accounts and arresting those responsible, smashing their
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business model and securing your borders. Not doing any of that, it seems. If they are,
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it's on such a small scale that it's not really making a dent. But Bo, he made the Island of
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Strangers speech. Oh, right. So there you go. So that's... So what's going on? What's going
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on here? Again, it's an exercise in wasting time. Yeah. So let's forget what Keir Starmer
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says and let's see what the Labour government and the Home Office are doing. Right. So
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we're going to talk about the infamous case of the Bell Hotel in Epping. I believe this
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is in Essex. And Bo, you're from Essex. Yeah. Born and bred. Yeah. Yeah. Essex, the magnificent.
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Essex boy. Born and bred. For anyone who doesn't know, that's a genuine Essex accent there.
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Yeah. Yeah. No, I didn't even go up all that far from Epping. Debden, Fadenbois. Yeah. Yeah. I know
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that part of the country. Yeah. Epping Forest is lovely. So to give you a good summary, if you're
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watching from the US and are in particular familiar with the ongoing case with Epping, there's a hotel
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in Epping that is used to house illegal migrants. I believe this is for decades now. It's not just
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that it just happened now. They've done it even decades ago. And recently, a migrant was charged
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with sexually assaulting a 14 year old. And there were protests. There were counter protests
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by leftists. And we have all this discourse about the human rights of illegal migrants.
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And then the council took legal action. They said, right, we need to do something about it.
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They took legal action. And the high court decided to temporarily ban the hotel being used as a
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asylum seeker, as a place to house asylum seekers. And then the government appealed the decision.
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They say, we don't like your decision. We don't like your verdict. So maybe let's have different
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judges. Different verdicts. I don't know. How does it sound?
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Yeah. I mean, the fact that the government, the Home Office, decided to sort of intervene
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there at all speaks volumes. It's like, no, it's not what we wanted. We wanted to force these people
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on you. And like sort of, how dare you try and do anything about that?
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I mean, that's what it is. That's exactly what's going on here. There's no other way.
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Yeah. But if we bear in mind what Keir Starmer said, you would expect him to be a bit tough on it.
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But it seems like he isn't. And it seems like the Home Office, led by Yvette Cooper, isn't.
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In fact, it does the exact opposite. It doesn't say we're going to be tough on crime.
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It doesn't say we're going to be tough on this.
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It actually communicates that, no, we are going to protect this, this whole venture.
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And the question is, you know, what is their line of argumentation at the end of the day?
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And it's not so, they basically said the quiet part out loud.
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Asylum seekers' rights are more important than the concerns of the people of Epping,
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On Friday, a judge will rule whether Epping Forest District Council can close a hotel housing illegal migrants
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or the Home Office can continue to use it to house asylum seekers.
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On Thursday, Home Office lawyers told the Court of Appeal that Yvette Cooper had a duty as Home Secretary
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to prevent asylum seekers from being made destitute under the European Convention of Human Rights
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and so they should continue to live at Bell Hotel.
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That's funny, because the PM said that they'll just be detained and deported.
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I tried to get into the mind of a politician, you know,
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who tries to speak a lot without saying anything.
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In the meantime, it looks like or feels like that being, quote-unquote, detained is being put up in a hotel
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They're saying that the judges who will be assessing the Epping case all have a leftist background.
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So to me, this doesn't exactly scream legitimacy.
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It says, I don't agree with the judiciary and the verdict of the judge who said something I don't like.
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So I will appeal this and I'm going to have different judges who most probably, I think it's 99%,
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will yield a verdict that is pro-Yvette Cooper and Home Office.
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So we have some claims here saying that they're going to appeal to Article 3 of the ECHR.
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The people who are representing the side of the Home Office.
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The lawyers representing the Home Office and the illegal migrants being housed in Epping.
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So they very immediately and very directly appeal straight to human rights legislation in the ECHR?
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I may be wrong, but I don't think it helps the UK.
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But even more, I think the problem isn't so much with the ECHR.
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It's with the people entrusted in interpreting the ECHR.
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I think it's a bit more sensible than people make of it.
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If you read Article 8 and you see what they are saying, the whole rhetoric, it's, say, maybe no.
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I'd side with the ECHR of the Labour any day of the week.
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Just out of interest, just as an aside, does Greece struggle with ECHR?
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Do their leftists always cite the ECHR, why they can't deport?
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So we do have all these, all these regulations.
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And, I mean, but does it, is it constantly the reason why your government refuses to deport people that have come straight across from North Africa, say?
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Also, there's pressure from NGOs and obviously the money behind it.
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Because it's not some weird activists, ultimately, who have the last word.
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We have all sorts of NGOs who constantly talk about human rights violations.
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They invent fake news sometimes with people who are dead in the borders and die from border crossings, which are lies.
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And it's also the issue, we have seaborders, and they're talking constantly about pushbacks and how illegal, sadly, we are.
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And the point is, in Greece, at least, you see some attempts to curb illegal migration.
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But you also see, again, all the leftist establishment is trying to go inside with you.
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So, broadly speaking, it's the same playbook, broadly speaking, in Greece.
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So, the people representing the Home Office, pardon me, are going to appeal to Article 3 of the ECHR, which says prohibition of torture.
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The same way that deportations have been taking place for a long time, they don't constitute torture, necessarily.
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There could be some cases, but I don't instantly see why they're putting it this way.
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But most probably they want to have a crazily sentimentalist rhetoric.
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And they say, no one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
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So, the thing is, you've got someone from, let's say, originated in North Africa or Sub-Saharan Africa or wherever, really, from Albania, from Bangladesh, whatever it is.
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And they're sitting in a camp for weeks or months on end in the Pas-de-Calais, Normandy somewhere.
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But they're not actually, they're not guilty of any sort of punishable crime in their home country.
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And then they get a boat across the Channel, and now we can't deport them because they might be subject to torture.
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Like, the other day, when Reformer Nigel came out with the thing that they want to deport 600,000 over five years.
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I see someone, I can't remember who it was, some classic lefty guardianist person on Twitter saying, these 600,000 people will be killed if they're sent home.
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We don't know who either of us are actually talking about.
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And you're saying they're all going to get tortured and or murdered if we deport them.
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So it's a crazy thing to hide behind that Article 3, is to use that as a complete coverall for never, ever deporting anyone ever.
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And also, let us bear in mind that a lot of these people are asylum seekers.
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They're not going through the legal route of going to embassies and asking for an asylum application via the embassy.
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And lo and behold, record 111,000 UK asylum applications in past year figures show.
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Obviously, the more inviting a system is, the more appealing it is to people, the more it sends the message, come here and we are going to give you access to all social benefits and money and housing.
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So, Article 8, right to respect for private and family life.
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Number one, everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
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Clause number two, there shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right, except such, as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security.
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And it has the right to respect for the rights of national security, public safety, public safety or the economic well-being of the country for the prevention of disorder or crime for the protection of health or morals or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
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So, there is no clause, there is nothing about this clause that screams that we support unconditional rights for anyone.
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No matter what, you are entitled to the best treatment there is.
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If a lawyer wanted to use that as an argument, they absolutely could, couldn't they?
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If they wanted to sort of lean on Article 8 instead of Article 3, they could.
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Because all this says, I think this makes perfect sense because it says that, right, okay, maybe there needs to be a process, a legal process to recognize some asylum seekers in some cases.
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I don't think the entire planet is in, you know, the Warhammer level type of war that suggests these numbers, but any kind of, any kind of gratitude that is shown to the asylum seeker by the state and society is conditional.
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And it's conditional upon things like national security, public safety, economic well-being of the country, the prevention of disorder or crime.
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So, if you see this practice regularly making the economy worse by, you know, splitting, by lowering the GDP per capita.
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Yeah, decreasing wages for the working class, for the native working class.
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If there is a surge in crime, if there is also a corruption of morals, because let's not kid ourselves, when people look at the treatment of the raping gangs case by the authorities,
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yeah, they do have the idea that, you know, this practice loses legitimacy, that the state doesn't help them.
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So, this doesn't contribute to any good situation.
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So, I think that this is definitely an article and a clause that is more than enough to appeal to, in order to say that, guys, let's stop kidding ourselves.
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Just because they are, they choose to do so for matters of political expediency.
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If the government, if the Home Office, or rather the teams of Home Office lawyers, wanted to lean on Article 8, the bit in there alone that says economic well-being,
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you could argue that unless these boat people or any asylum seeker can prove beyond sort of any questionable doubt that they're going to be an economic positive,
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i.e. truly someone like a surgeon or an engineer, an experienced engineer with great skill sets that can go straight into the workplace and earn loads of money and pay loads of tax.
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Unless you're one of those people, like unequivocally, then you constitute sort of a negative effect on the, quote, economic well-being.
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So, your lawyers, your Home Office lawyers could go down that route and argue that all the time if they wanted to.
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And they don't because ultimately it's an issue of people.
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And when it says there, for instance, the economic well-being of the country or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others,
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it looks like there is a surge in crime in some cases and there are lots of victims of, you know, people from particular backgrounds who come here illegally.
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So, this is, their rights aren't taken into account.
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And let me just give you an example with the Jamaican rapist who wasn't deported to Jamaica because they said that he was a member of the LGBTQ community and Jamaica isn't particularly work-friendly.
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So, by taking, by deporting that person back into Jamaica, the risks of him falling victim to bad treatment would rise.
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The question is, if you have people like this and do their sentence here and not, and they don't get deported afterwards, the same risk that they would run if they were deported is actually, is something that characterized those people here.
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So, actually, virtue signaling governments who hide behind abstract human rights rhetoric are actually taking risks with people in their constituencies and in their countries that are risks that they aren't willing to take with the people that don't want to see deported, who are sometimes, you know, terrible criminals.
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And when it says that the economic well-being of the country, we need to remember that this is an abstract document.
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The question is, who are the people who are interpreting it?
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And again, I'll show you this before you anticipate, you sort of anticipated what I was going to say.
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You have people like Gus O'Donnell, who was cabinet secretary between 2005 and 2011, who says,
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I think it's my job to maximize global welfare, not national welfare.
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So, how can you say on the one hand that I will abide by rules that say that I have to put the economic well-being of my country first and then say that I'm actually conceiving of my role as being the maximization of global welfare?
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For anyone who might not know, the role of cabinet secretary is extremely, extremely powerful.
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Loads and loads, well, nearly all government policy will go through the cabinet secretary.
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Right, so it's an insanely powerful, you're sort of the most, you are the most senior civil servant, really.
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It's men like this, in future generations, when historians look back and say, how did it happen that Britain, and all over the world, but how is it that Britain got flooded with fifth colonists and enemies of the state?
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Well, it's people like Gus O'Donnell that are ideologically captured and committed to that sort of thing.
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And I don't think the, and I think the question is, one question is, how did it happen and how did it start?
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But I think another question is, how does it continue?
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Because another, because I can definitely conceive of someone saying, right.
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The Cold War ended, now we're rampant individualists, the free market won, all kind of, you know, all the rhetoric of the Cold War, it ended.
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I can understand how people could be lured into it.
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But the point is, after a while, when we have lots of data suggesting that there are plenty of negative consequences, why do they react the way they react?
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Instead of actually saying, listen, guys, we were being honest, we were, we were a bit ideological about it, just like, you know, commies, we were very ideological, we were young, we were very ideologues about it.
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Let's just, okay, let's just mature, wake up, and...
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I guess it's because they are ideologically captured.
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I mean, they genuinely, I believe Gus O'Donnell genuinely believes that.
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It's not that he's being paid by some nefarious George Soros type to say that.
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That's why this, this idea that, it's like, it's the blue haired feminists that, that have done this.
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It's like, it's, it's like, it's some, some shadowy cabal that has done this.
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No, it's people like, it's people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and David Cameron and Gus O'Donnell.
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And I think I'll end the segment with, with this from LBC.
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The LBC frequently platforms some very left-wing people, like Luis Goro, who was talking about a hundred percent inheritance tax and trying to portray this as a sort of liberty maxing policy.
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They are talking to Nelufor Hedayat, who fled Afghanistan as a child, who is talking about the inhuman treatment of women there.
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And she says, Afghanistan is one of the worst places on earth to be a woman.
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The question is, why aren't we allowed to have this conversation when we're talking about domestic issues?
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And why are we just allowed to have this conversation only when, when the Farage or reform is talking about the prospect of deportations?
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So if LBC is platforming people or people who are saying this, I believe, yeah, okay, just fair, fair, fair, fair play.
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But we should absolutely have this conversation because why is it one of the worst places on earth to be a woman?
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It has to do with some practices and it has to do with some institutions and, you know, elements of the culture.
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So why is, is it, is it an extremist question to ask, you know, whether some cultures are compatible and whether, you know, why, why is, why is culture sadly an issue here, but not an issue when we have people like Chris Bryant saying that, no, human rights are universal.
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Not partial, not partial and deny the humanity of others and someone else will soon deny yours too.
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They are, they are actually people who deny the humanity of women in Afghanistan.
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It's just such a crazy and obvious double standard.
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When people are coming from Afghanistan to here, don't worry about it.
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Don't worry about their values and their culture.
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That'd be racist or bigoted to worry or even think or even talk about or notice that.
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But when it comes to sending them back, we couldn't possibly do that because of their terrible culture and everything.
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But yeah, I mean, someone like Chris Bryant is, to me, someone suffering from a type of insanity, a type of insanity to sort of refuse to accept reality.
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Reality, the evidence of your own eyes and ears at the cost, at the detriment of your country and your people on a massive scale.
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Not like the odd incident, the odd unfortunate incident, but on a mass scale to be gunning as hard as you can for the replacement of your own people in their ancestral homeland.
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And people like him sometimes deliberately shield themselves from evidence.
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They say, any person who shows me evidence commits hate speech.
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Stelios, it is not a lack of data or education that keeps these up.
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They did not care for the things we care about.
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Says, if we want international law to be upheld,
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I think the legal doctrine of necessity is a perfect, reasonable defense
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Kangaroo emoji, koala emoji, and upside down smile emoji.
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would you rather have all the illegals plus the Boris wave
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be replaced with French people or with Italians?
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Of course, I'm not going to choose Italians over...
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Asmongold has a video reacting to a Sargon video
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I care about how women are mistreated in Afghanistan,
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but I care more about how Afghans mistreat our women here.
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dishing out such uncompromising and vicious takes
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Tells us how he gets into fights with strangers.
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Wilvah K in Afghanistan soon as he gets his papers.
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We have 100 Swedish Corona donations by Anders L.
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There'll still be some sort of private health, I imagine.
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I mean, in countries where they don't have a completely socialized healthcare system,
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Also, I want to say I'm a bit tired of the demographic doom and gloom predictions of people
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because it's just, you know, it's below replacement or something.
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Demographic predictions or projections are notoriously mistaken.
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It doesn't mean that just because the birth rate is what it is right now,
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it doesn't mean it's always going to be like that.
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For a start, I don't agree that the bigger the population is,
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And secondly, exactly as you said, the idea that if the birth rate is below the death rate,
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that there's anything like that, like that that's an existential threat,
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like that will just keep declining until there's no one left.
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I mean, even if you look at the past where there's been like massive population decreases,
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like the amount of menfolk that died in World War I, say,
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I didn't mean that the population just went down, declined forever,
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Should we go on the total joke that the Green Party is?
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There's going to be a leadership, or there already has been, really,
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Throw away the history books, because there might be a change in the Green Party.
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No, I mean, sort of my angle on this is that the Greens are a joke, complete joke.
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That's one of the first points I'd like to make.
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The mainstream media like to make out that there's obviously the three main parties,
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or four now, but the Labour, Conservative, Lib Dems, the classic, old school, heritage, legacy,
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But now throw reform in, especially as they're actually leading the polls.
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So, after those four main parties, then the mainstream media will often like to throw in
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And the Greens will always get a shout in that sort of tier, that sort of echelon of the best
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So, they've been around since the 70s, I believe.
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And were sort of co-opted and infiltrated and subverted by commies, sort of, really quickly.
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Weren't they a creation of commies in the 60s where they said, right, we need to create
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I think in the very, very first instance, it was truly a movement or a party about sort
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But as I say, very, very quickly, within the space of just a few years, was, yeah, co-opted
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That there are broad trends when it comes to political thinking and worldview.
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The idea that if you're right-leaning, let's use America, for example, if you're sort of
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a MAGA person or a Republican, you are very, very likely to not be particularly interested
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They don't necessarily have anything to do with each other.
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In terms of pure political ideology, like having a small government and all that sort of thing,
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doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be anti-environmentalism.
00:36:16.720
It's just often the way, isn't it, that sort of environmentalism will go hand in hand with
00:36:26.360
You can get extremely conservative people with a small C who are completely into and extremely
00:36:31.540
interested and worried about the environment and things.
00:36:33.920
And vice versa, you can get a hardcore lefty that is all about oil rigs.
00:36:47.160
You can get a socialist that loves dropping litter or whatever, you know.
00:36:58.060
It is the case that the Green Party are, they're astroturfed, really.
00:37:02.600
They're given more airtime and more sort of column space and more sort of interest from
00:37:10.160
mainstream media than they deserve, in my opinion.
00:37:12.500
And the irony of that is that they quite often, people like this quite often, are moaning
00:37:15.860
about, you know, a small party like, I don't know, like David Curtin's party or even reformed
00:37:22.500
They would always moan, why are you platforming these Nazis?
00:37:25.560
Why are you even letting anyone know that they exist?
00:37:33.600
I think they're containment, basically, who is bred for coalitions.
00:37:38.020
Because occasionally they find themselves in several governing coalitions.
00:37:41.520
And they give a sort of virtue signaling, you know, aura or dimension in the coalition.
00:37:53.240
I can think of them in Germany, for instance, and it's peak micromanagement of decline.
00:37:58.900
Like, crime surges in train stations, let's have women-only carriages.
00:38:11.640
You have to get Big Brother's permission to have a kitchen.
00:38:18.580
And the blade on the cleaver can't be too keen.
00:38:27.220
I was going to leave it towards the end, but let's just say it now.
00:38:29.800
Yeah, if we're moving, and it seems that we are, moving into a world of many, many more
00:38:34.720
parties, a much more multi-party world, in Great Britain anyway, then, yeah, smaller
00:38:41.000
parties, have even got like two or three or five MPs or something, really will be of much
00:38:47.800
more significance if, like, coalitions sort of have to be formed all the time, or much
00:38:55.380
Because in Britain, we, I mean, there's the Cameron, Lib Dem, Nick Clegg years, but beyond
00:39:04.780
And I think in the future, I think, I mean, I'm even talking decades in the future, it'll
00:39:09.420
be much more likely that coalitions will be formed.
00:39:12.840
And you're right that sometimes a small party with, I mean, you look at the Unionists, Northern
00:39:20.020
Ireland Unionists or something, yeah, they could be the difference between being able
00:39:23.220
to form a government or not, when they've only got a tiny number of MPs.
00:39:26.500
So, yeah, the Greens, so their first MP was Caroline Lucas in like 2010.
00:39:33.260
So, they've been around since the 70s, but they never actually even had one MP until 2010.
00:39:40.880
And even now, they've only got a very small number, haven't they?
00:39:46.840
Yeah, and they've got a number of councillors and things.
00:39:49.760
And to be fair, they're not, I don't mean to say that they're utterly insignificant.
00:39:56.060
I believe at the last election, they got something in the order of 6% or something, 5, 6, 7%.
00:40:11.140
I can conceive of Greens entering into coalitions with both, you know, small-c conservatives and
00:40:18.120
leftist parties, but I can think of them, I can conceive of them creating problems for
00:40:24.440
a coalition that is led by small-c conservatives, but I can't think of them as creating trouble
00:40:34.060
Well, I've got an article towards the end that I was going to read, but in that, yeah,
00:40:37.140
one of their main people, which I'll talk about in a moment, is Zach Polanski.
00:40:42.660
He said, he just explicitly said that he'd be willing to work with, closely work with,
00:40:51.680
Yeah, so, yeah, of course there would be happy bedfellows with any sort of lefties, and I
00:40:59.060
imagine, or wouldn't want to, it wouldn't be their first choice to work with any right-leaning
00:41:07.400
The point is, honestly, when I hear Greens, they just don't seem to be the types of people
00:41:16.340
Well, this is the thing, this is the thing, this is my main angle about them, is that
00:41:20.960
the environmental side is now, at this point, purely and obviously, just a smokescreen
00:41:28.560
to cover up communism, and globalism, and Islamism, all the things that aren't in the interest
00:41:47.180
They've got a new leader, they've had a leadership campaign.
00:41:51.400
And the results, I believe it's already happened, and their members have already voted and everything,
00:41:54.960
and the results are going to be released on Tuesday next week.
00:41:58.020
Okay, so, a lot of people that are in the know said that maybe this Zach Polanski chap
00:42:10.580
I've seen him on LBC, I've seen him on Laura Kunisberg, on the BBC, you get on ITV, Sky News,
00:42:21.520
Meanwhile, his own YouTube account's got 2.8 thousand subs.
00:42:42.900
To be honest, I was glad and lucky before this segment, because I didn't know of him.
00:42:49.400
But I have the impression that you are going to actually make me cringe with what you're
00:42:55.960
Oh, well, he just says anything and everything.
00:43:04.520
I mean, it's the classic, it's the politics of resentment and envy and jealousy, and that
00:43:12.680
The Greens of all the world have nothing to lose but their diesel engines.
00:43:17.740
It's just not possible that any foreign person could be a concern.
00:43:30.220
I can't make peace with them, because they want to turn the entire country into a EULA zone.
00:43:37.480
That's actually going to harm the working class, because, you know, diesel is cost-effective
00:43:43.860
They're barely even talking about environmental stuff anyway.
00:43:46.140
No, they're talking about, yeah, other stuff, yeah.
00:43:52.760
He's a Jewish, gay, vegan, socialist in a green, in a green skin suit.
00:44:03.200
And so, yeah, just all over the news is Zak Polanski, Zak Polanski, Zak Polanski, the Guardian.
00:44:18.560
What does he say there in the Guardian article?
00:44:39.900
And, to be fair, and this is a value judgment, purely my own personal opinion, he's really
00:44:46.880
On top of having the worst worldview, a terrible worldview, something that would completely
00:44:57.400
And just like a pure, pure, well, something approaching evil in my mind.
00:45:01.660
On top of that, he's actually obnoxious as well.
00:45:05.360
So, Starmer needs to be more scared of us than reform.
00:45:10.700
Is he talking about Treebeard and the Ents about to attack Isengard with the trees?
00:45:17.100
Starmer needs to be more scared of us than reform.
00:45:23.920
I mean, he reckons he's going to get 40 seats at the next general election.
00:45:26.940
Yeah, but it's elite theory because his 2.8k subscribers may form a shadowy cabal of elites
00:45:36.440
Every single one of those 2.8,000 subs are like super powerful Westminster elites.
00:45:42.060
They're the chads that are going to resurrect antiquity.
00:45:47.000
Okay, so, I mean, imagine if you were, unfortunately I've got to say, sort of fairly credulous, gullible
00:45:57.860
You were just like a little old lady that was really into recycling and making sure you
00:46:01.520
put the right bit of plastic and paper in the right bin.
00:46:03.780
And you really care about how polluted the oceans are.
00:46:14.640
You voted green ever since the 70s or whatever.
00:46:17.180
And now you realise, and suddenly, like at what point do you realise, oh, the Green Party,
00:46:23.600
I was just interested in having like a, oh, what's the thing you put on your roof?
00:46:31.020
I was just interested in having solar panels on my roof, but now we're talking about getting
00:46:36.220
rid of the rich and 100% inheritance tax or 50% inheritance tax or something.
00:46:43.400
I feel sorry for those people, those genuine environmentalists that are just worried about
00:46:55.220
I feel a bit sorry for them because they've been, they've had the mickey taken out of them.
00:46:59.200
They're being duped if those people are still voting green.
00:47:08.180
If you're a uni party person, you've got a couple of different options.
00:47:11.000
If you're a full Islamist person, you can vote for Corbyn.
00:47:19.620
But I thought, you know, let him, let Polanski, let's let him speak for himself.
00:47:31.260
So, this is his little pitch to be the leader of the Green Party.
00:47:35.880
Said he wanted to stand on a beach like this one, with a gun, and shoot the people coming
00:47:44.240
Said it like he was just talking about the weather.
00:47:50.100
Because it's this obsession that has gripped the country.
00:48:08.620
And all those in power can do is blame the boats.
00:48:13.000
Wait, you talk about the NHS crumbling and rents going through the roof and wages down.
00:48:17.960
But it's wrong to worry about the influx of loads more people.
00:48:32.700
I'm saying that you consume more products and you have to take away your rubbish.
00:48:41.320
I thought you were worried about the environment.
00:48:42.920
But no, a million more people a year, every year, endlessly, still.
00:48:50.720
You could only believe it if you, like, if you suffer from such cognitive dissonance that
00:48:56.060
you've abandoned paying any attention to your own cognitive dissonance.
00:49:06.240
And then they stoke racist narratives about strangers.
00:49:29.600
It's just an endless spiel of bullshit from this chump.
00:49:34.020
On the lies, the scapegoating, the idea that there's no money left in this country,
00:49:43.720
There's still some rich, there's some kulaks left.
00:49:47.200
Don't you dare pretend you haven't got any money left that we can't steal from you.
00:49:58.240
Since COVID, there are more billionaires than they've ever been.
00:50:09.280
Yeah, he's watching too much Squid Game all the time, maybe, you know, just.
00:50:13.100
This thing that all leftists have, like, the billionaires are like, that's the problem.
00:50:21.460
Sitting there in the lounge, you know, with a foodstool there, saying, oh, play a 456.
00:50:29.600
Like, it is the classic true communist eat the rich.
00:50:38.540
That's, it's the kind of grift, you know, I mean, I like Aerosmith, the band, but you
00:50:45.540
But also, they don't seem to me to be particularly poor themselves.
00:50:55.440
Maybe he forgot it because he was a bit stoned when he wrote it.
00:50:58.140
So, let's finish up with this, this, this complete mug.
00:51:02.700
Their wealth doubled, ours has been stripped away.
00:51:08.560
Because while we feel the walls are closing in, the elites, they got to work.
00:51:17.060
Oh, it's Westminster being flooded with lobbyists that's the problem.
00:51:23.420
Not, not, not the actual towns and cities being flooded with unvetted foreign criminals.
00:51:57.360
Because where do you think these stories come from?
00:51:59.580
All this time they've been pointing at the small boats telling us they were the people to blame.
00:52:04.540
But the problem this whole time was the super rich and their yachts.
00:52:13.940
But also, especially some billionaires who are funding some NGOs are in the problem for him, let's say.
00:52:22.280
Yeah, those billionaires were all right, though.
00:52:24.080
Yeah, they're the anointed and the enlightened.
00:52:29.120
Like, the problem is not that you're being invaded and replaced, whether legally or illegally.
00:52:38.500
It's that there's some billionaires who own yachts.
00:52:47.140
Maybe people are going to dunk on me, but I think it was absolutely hilarious when it came to the video Farage did with deportations.
00:53:05.280
They got a whole team of media people to come up with this.
00:53:10.480
We're going to have to have some very serious music over the top of this one.
00:53:13.280
People will say, what does this have to do with the Green Party?
00:53:26.380
The man who wanted to go on a beach and shoot people, he wasn't born like that.
00:53:33.720
He probably was born with an innate in-group preference.
00:53:44.080
You've got the nerve to talk about poisoning minds, Zach.
00:53:53.020
Not just so we can survive, but so we can all thrive.
00:54:00.340
This kind of alarmism is incredibly dangerous, polarising, and it's leading to actual harm in some cases.
00:54:11.520
It's leading to the destruction of our economy and the very fabric of our society.
00:54:17.800
So, anyway, earlier on I mentioned that not just communism, but also Islamism.
00:54:23.620
Some people might think, oh, that's a bit alarmist, Beau.
00:54:26.020
That's a bit of a far-right fantasist thing to say.
00:54:28.560
What's the Green Party got to do with Islamism, of all things?
00:54:32.800
Surely there's no sort of unholy alliance between, like, Islam, radical Islam, and the Green Party that cares about sort of clean rivers and clean oceans.
00:54:44.560
Oh, well, let's just hear from Mothin Ali, a Green Party councillor.
00:54:57.220
You might think he'd talk about bins and recycling stuff, but no.
00:55:24.560
But luckily, luckily they don't actually have any massive support.
00:55:30.840
I mean, one thing that indicates that was this quite interesting article, which talks about essentially name recognition.
00:55:43.520
And so, you can well imagine that the Prime Minister, people know.
00:55:51.160
And, you know, the Brexit thing and going on, I'm a celebrity.
00:55:55.660
Again, the leader of the opposition, people know.
00:56:05.900
Few people know the leader of the Greens, the current one, Carla Denya.
00:56:13.240
Even people in their own party don't really know.
00:56:18.040
Yeah, it's because it's all just virtue signaling.
00:56:27.480
And, well, we're just moving away from that world where anyone can afford sort of a bullshit luxury view.
00:56:34.320
Particularly if, in fact, it's clearly a smokescreen for communism and Islamism.
00:56:39.880
Yeah, I mean, they talk about, you know, human nature and human nature and stuff.
00:56:44.280
And I think, ultimately, it's always about human nature because the nature is indestructible.
00:56:50.640
It may, if, you know, if the planet changes, it could be the ecosystem that sustains human life that could be theoretically destroyed.
00:57:02.260
So, at the end of the day, what I find interesting and a bit worrying is that lots of people who are supporting, you know, these movements, they very frequently shut their minds.
00:57:16.160
Sometimes stop reading about society and they just say, right, I want to focus on, you know, trees and rivers.
00:57:26.180
But I'm just saying that very often when I encounter people who have a green mindset, let's say, and a green party rhetoric,
00:57:35.740
I try to see whether they actually care about people, flesh and blood human beings, more than they do about virtue signaling.
00:57:52.000
I'll say, if you are one of those people, like a real environmentalist, don't vote for the Green Party because that's not what they're about.
00:58:01.540
They've been subverted and perverted a long time ago now.
00:58:05.680
You're not going to get, you're not going to get policies that actually benefit the best interests of, like, the British countryside.
00:58:16.600
So, then finally, there's this really in-depth article that I was going to read loads of, but there's no point now.
00:58:27.960
Yeah, well, okay, just to quickly say then, the article is, looks at the debate within the Green Party of whether they should sort of appeal to normies or whether they should appeal to hardline green stroke commie activists.
00:58:44.940
And that guy, Zach Polanski, wants to appeal to hardline green activists, like, whip up anger.
00:58:50.740
And a lot of the existing, like, the three, four existing green MPs are like, no, no, we tried that for decades.
00:58:58.580
We need to be, we need to be reasonable and appeal to normies.
00:59:08.420
They constantly predict the end of the globe, you know, every day.
00:59:13.080
And at some point, it's like, you stop listening to them.
00:59:18.920
So, Bass Tape says, for five pounds, thank you very much.
00:59:27.700
Jay for five dollars says, if things don't work out in the U.S., Europe should open up quick immigration opportunities to Americans with European ancestry.
00:59:42.340
Brother Doom for five dollars says, to both points, I often are, they often are eco-fascists, like Green Party members use the watermelon emojis.
01:00:09.880
If you want to go for swimming, go to the islands.
01:00:41.020
I don't know if 50 or 100 Swedish Coronas is like eight pence, or whether it's like 90 pounds.
01:00:50.160
Bo, sorry it is off topic, but what is the name of your new YouTube channel you mentioned
01:01:11.040
Please do consider going on YouTube, typing in, searching The State of Politics and subbing
01:01:16.540
If you want more of my takes and Mr. H, do that.
01:01:29.440
I don't blame the boats like that dude on the beach says.
01:01:39.020
I blame the atrocities they commit once here, et cetera, et cetera.
01:01:45.700
So, you see, you talk to me about communists and kulaks.
01:01:53.360
And I think basically we have a huge problem with communists.
01:01:59.500
Yeah, and socialists and other people who are masquerading as whatever they are, but they're
01:02:07.000
The sheep, no, the wolf under the sheep's skin.
01:02:13.180
Yeah, they're full-blown, insane, almost Pol Pot, and they pretend they're just social
01:02:20.680
So, you know, there was the British invasion of the US in the 60s with music.
01:02:45.920
And they have people like Zoran Mamdani who come out and they advocate for policies that
01:02:51.800
I just can't understand how people in the US are for.
01:02:58.800
And that shows a lot about how the democrat propaganda has worked and how the leftist
01:03:03.860
indoctrination within academia has worked since the 60s.
01:03:07.560
And we are going to talk to you about a democratic socialist today that can't bench, who can't
01:03:18.700
He can't lift even 135 pounds, which is around 60 kilos.
01:03:25.940
Yeah, but he should be able to, but he doesn't because he's too high and mighty for it.
01:03:30.720
Like a genuine socialist aristocrat is going to get the proletarians do it and say that
01:03:37.120
he does it for their own good because he knows their own good better than they do.
01:03:41.400
So let's see that the democrats are very dissatisfied with the US.
01:03:48.160
And they say that right now there are zero democrats who are satisfied with the way things
01:04:01.720
It's because they've got the bad orange man in the oval.
01:04:05.220
So they're just, whatever he does or says, whatever it is, they're not happy with it.
01:04:09.520
I mean, that's a bit, that's simultaneously tragic and a bit farcical.
01:04:14.940
Because, right, okay, I can understand for election purposes if they rump up a bit the
01:04:20.720
tram derangement syndrome, you know, for the rhetoric for the elections.
01:04:26.500
But the very fact that right now zero democrats seem to be satisfied with the way things are
01:04:39.260
So in a real poll, you wouldn't really ever see zero like that, would you?
01:04:43.720
Yeah, but even if it were true, I know, even if, let's assume it's true.
01:04:49.220
It shows a lot about how the Trump derangement syndrome wasn't just, you know, pragmatic
01:04:57.100
socialist rhetoric, no, pragmatic rhetoric just for the elections.
01:05:02.220
They have actually been brainwashed to such an extent that they can never see whether Trump
01:05:10.760
And I think that this is, it's very unlikely to view an administration and say that absolutely
01:05:21.440
I can get it, totally say that, yeah, Biden was mostly awful.
01:05:26.220
But just looking at an administration and saying there's zero good at it, just from a serious
01:05:32.680
perspective, it's a bit, you know, it's too ideological.
01:05:38.800
Their job was to create division and paint Trump as just sort of purely evil.
01:05:52.040
So it seems to me that they are paving the way for many decades now.
01:05:56.440
They are paving the way for a more radical and more leftist agenda, which right now is
01:06:01.700
being upheld and promoted by politicians such as Zoran Mamdani, the New York City mayor
01:06:12.800
He hasn't been elected yet, but he seems to be about to win it.
01:06:25.000
So we are going to just quickly say, and we've done a segment on this before, I think.
01:06:30.420
I do find it hard to believe or not hard to believe.
01:06:32.880
I understand how democratic voting New York City is, but still the number of people in that
01:06:39.500
city, which must know, I mean, Jewish people for a start, just for a start, big, massive
01:06:47.480
They must know that this guy is not going to be acting in their interests.
01:06:51.040
No, he was actually, I think they would especially see him as hostile because he was leading the
01:06:58.380
chants that there were pro-Palestine in several cases.
01:07:04.940
And loads of different demographics of people in New York City must know that this guy is
01:07:16.820
I mean, I really hope not because his policies are really bad.
01:07:21.000
I mean, I can't throw too many stones in a glass house because we've got Sadiq Khan as
01:07:28.140
I just, I just hope he doesn't win, but it looks like he's going to.
01:07:35.680
But before we show you Mamdani's policies and also the hilarious video where he
01:07:40.100
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01:08:10.980
I did a good one with him about War of the Worlds.
01:08:18.580
So we have here Zoran Mamdani, calling himself a democratic socialist.
01:08:23.820
So can you imagine in the US, they basically led the Cold War against communism.
01:08:29.600
And we have someone saying there proudly, I'm a democratic socialist, and he is about to
01:08:48.040
We're going to come back to this article and see what he means by democratic socialism.
01:08:57.640
And we are going to show you some really hilarious videos before.
01:09:14.900
I'll turn the music off because I think they have a song and I don't want us to get.
01:09:23.320
If you're a politician on campaign and you're going to do something like this,
01:09:44.860
It looks like he's never done a bench press in his life.
01:09:53.840
Even the Hindustan times are making fun of him.
01:09:57.580
Weak little man, Zoran Mamdani, trolled for failing at bench press at Men's Day in Brooklyn.
01:10:03.420
And this has, you know, it has led to people trolling him.
01:10:08.420
I think ultimately the worst thing about him is his policies.
01:10:14.680
It is incidental whether he can do a heavy bench press or not.
01:10:18.400
What really matters is his worldview and his policies.
01:10:22.360
But I like how, you know, in a very meme-y way, this led to several people saying weak men create bad times.
01:10:32.820
And it is correct for him, not necessarily because he can't bench press, but because of his policies.
01:10:39.220
Because it's all weak, pathetic sentimentalism.
01:10:42.600
And, you know, it's the kind of zero foresight kind of rhetoric and policy.
01:10:51.140
It's like, you know, hey, I'm a socialist planner.
01:10:54.340
I just call myself democratic socialist and therefore I don't have any problem attached to me.
01:10:59.340
I don't have to, you know, contend with any strong objection against socialism.
01:11:06.140
And I'm going to devise this plan and it's not going to backfire and it's not going to have unintended consequences.
01:11:15.300
Do we know, has he got any sort of academic background?
01:11:25.940
This is part of his persona, that he doesn't feel embarrassed if he isn't seen as a sort of, you know, traditional man.
01:11:38.900
I won't have music again because I don't want us to get sued.
01:11:54.220
Yeah, all of you, check out Young Cardamom, Zoran Mamdani.
01:12:07.720
And let me show you also some ultra cringe parts here.
01:12:16.740
So this guy is going to become mayor of New York.
01:12:27.380
But democratic socialism basically is managed democracy, which means it's not a democracy.
01:12:32.100
It's some people saying we are the socialist board of directors.
01:12:36.600
And we know and we are just going to pretend that people are voting for us.
01:12:40.480
We're going to say that our enemies are anti-democracy.
01:12:44.340
As the Washington Post article said, democracy dies in darkness.
01:12:49.860
But somehow, democratic socialism is in darkness.
01:12:59.940
So he's a commie Muslim that does rapping with sub-Saharan Africans.
01:13:08.700
It's like everything and nothing at the same time.
01:13:20.320
I mean, honestly, I just can't understand how he tries to appeal simultaneously to the very Muslim vote
01:13:28.560
and also the very woke vote because it's just some things are absolutely imbalanced, let's say.
01:13:38.340
In the Democratic Convention, they had gender-neutral praying rooms for Muslims.
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I mean, I can't think of traditional Muslims approving this.
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It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic and insane.
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So if your attention span isn't just video clip, Taylor Swift video clip, congratulations.
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I kept the best for you because you're the special ones.
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So we have here the policies that he hasn't rejected.
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DI's schooling agenda, universal rent control, decriminalization of all drugs, remove cubs from schools.
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And let me say here, he's talking about communism.
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What the purpose is about this entire project, it's not simply to raise class consciousness, but to win socialism.
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And obviously, raising class consciousness is a critical part of that.
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But making sure that we have candidates that both understand that and are willing to put that forward at every which moment that they have, at every which opportunity that they are given.
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We have to continue to elect more socialists, and we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism.
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There are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it's BDS, right, or whether it's the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment.
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And what I want to say is that it is critical, the way that we organize, the way that we set up our, you know, set up our work and our priorities, that we do not leave any one issue for the other, that we do not meet a moment and only look at what people are ready for.
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When he said, seizing the means of production, that's terrifying.
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For anyone who doesn't know, that is a dog whistle for real communism.
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Certainly haven't done any sort of deep dive on the man.
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This is a dangerous, this is a dangerous person.
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It's a doctrine that's responsible for millions of deaths, famine.
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A 33-year-old Muslim, actual Marxist-Leninist type communist.
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It's like a child playing with matches, isn't it?
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We are going to do it, but at the moment we need to...
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The goal is communism or a form of Islamo-communism.
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So all of you guys watching in New York, this is a tactic.
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My platform is that every single person should have housing.
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the system has hundreds of thousands of people unhoused, right?
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And if there was any system that could guarantee each person housing,
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whether you call it the abolition of private property
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or you call it, you know, just a statewide housing guarantee,
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it is preferable to what is going on right now.
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And I think that people try and play like gotcha games
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And it's like, look, I care more about whether somebody has a home.
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The abolition of private property, did you just say?
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So he, what is interesting here, he tries to play the bleeding heart card.
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You know, they're in a really bad place, which, right.
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Right, yes, I don't like this either, obviously.
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But I think, you know, he doesn't play the sort of, you know,
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He chooses to frame his opposition to it as, well, you could call it abolition of private property.
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Yeah, so there are lots of red flags, lots of red alerts going off at the moment.
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I mean, I have the impression you would love communes.
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To go further, toward the Vienna model, we'll have to go beyond the market.
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We can establish community land trusts to gradually buy up housing on the private market
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We can give tenants a right of first refusal to buy out their landlords when buildings go up for sale.
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And we can fully commit to a new era of social housing,
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ending subsidies for luxury housing development
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and using our wealth to build beautiful, high-quality social housing projects
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that offer good homes and strong communities to everyone.
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Yeah, basically check out the ugly, brutalist houses of the USSR
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Looks like he's just woken up or he's high or something.
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Yeah, this is someone, this is a child LARPing.
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I don't think he knows, I'm not sure if he knows what he's really talking about.
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I feel like he's someone that's learned certain phrases and he's parroting them back out.
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So maybe he doesn't know that there was famine in the Soviet Union in the beginning
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And he is actually proposing city-owned grocery stores.
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Some stores are even using dynamic pricing, jacking up the cost over the course of a day
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I'm Zahran Mamdani and as mayor, I will create a network of city-owned grocery stores.
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We will redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city-owned grocery stores
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whose mission is lower prices, not price gouging.
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These stores will operate without a profit motive or having to pay property taxes or rent
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Yeah, but price fixing, that never, ever, ever works.
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Yes, working outside of the market, it was doomed to failure.
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What was the other thing he said where we both went?
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That leads directly to failure every single time.
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And when it leads to failure, it leads also to famine.
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It leads to, you know, general social disorder.
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This sounds like a package for just tanking New York City.
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There's like, how can we turn it into Gotham City?
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New York City has been targeted for termination.
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We have here, I don't think that we should have billionaires.
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It's just that, again, we said in the last segment, the politics of jealousy and envy
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The thing is, the super rich nearly always generate wealth and jobs and stuff.
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It's not like all of it is ready to be liquidated for cash.
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It's just its assets, producing wealth, sustaining, you know, people in jobs.
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Commies always think that billionaires are Scrooge McDuck with a giant room full of gold bullion
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and gems and that it's a zero-sum game and there's some poor person out there that's
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starving to death because of that giant silo of gold that the billionaire's got.
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Yeah, and I'll end the segment now by saying the following, that he speaks about seizing
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the means of production, about disrespecting the profit motive, about impunity, basically.
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He talks about communal spaces, which you have to be a communist to say this.
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But Brian Krasenstein says Mamdani isn't a communist.
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If you're tweeting this, it shows your ignorance.
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He's pushing city-run grocery stores, i.e. empty famine centers like Kansas City.
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Yeah, but you hear they say whether when you run out of money, you eat fast food.
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That it's not a matter of personal responsibility.
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Collective canteens work so well during the Great Link Forward.
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Everyone got fed if you had collective canteens.
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If taking away guns, pointed knives is necessary to save lives.
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Isn't free air conditioning and cheap electricity necessary as some people die from heat?
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That was five pounds for, excuse me, Samson, could we go?
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I have beheld the first of hopefully many England flags soon to come.
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I'm not entirely opposed to renters getting first bid when the property is up for sale,
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but that's about the only non-retorted thing he's said.
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New thought, add root for the, never thought, add root for the Cuomo mafia family.
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If Wall Street and New York banks are okay with him, it might be a scheme that New York
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City properties exchange hands so that new owners show up to help people with rents.
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Devon Tracy just released a Substack article exposing the Young Turks for directly inciting
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the Baton Rouge massacre might make a good segment.
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If anyone doesn't know, this person probably does know, I've done two, I've had Devon on
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After this latest transgender shooter, I can assure you, not one of you on the Lotus
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Eaters or anyone watching, or all of you combined, hate social media as much as I do, because
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I know that if I'd grown up in the era of social media, that would have been me.
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By the way, guys, your theme song has become quite iconic for you guys.
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I don't think live streaming on YouTube is worth giving that up.
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Well, I'm glad that you're well and not didn't turn up becoming more worse.
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Guys, your theme song has actually become quite iconic.
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Like, whenever I hear it, I just think Lotus Eaters.
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Do we have another video comment or should I go to the comments from the subscribers?
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So, Kevin Fox says, oddly though, even with a constant interference from the ECHR, we in
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Greece gets away with housing illegals in tents.
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Something the leftist lived hard, human rights lawyers in the UK will run crying to the ECHR
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We have the same issue with structures and they go in and again it's more money paid and
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And who exactly are these judges to rule that politicians should be allowed to gamble with
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It's sickening just how much contempt the establishment has for its people.
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Roman Observer says, it's never just about the laws by themselves.
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It's always about the people interpreting and abusing the law.
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And Colin P. says, we don't like the results, so let's change the judges.
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When I walk through my town center, I don't recognize it anymore.
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I feel out of place and like I'm being pushed out of the very place I grew up.
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The super rich are everywhere just loitering on benches and they completely outnumber the
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It's like they're taking business calls on speakerphone and leaving yachts everywhere
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just to rub in the fact that there's nothing we can do about it.
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Alpha of the Betters says, hardcore environmentalism goes hand in hand with overreaching
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managerialism because it relies on massive government regulation and overreach to function.
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It also relies on the premise that business is basically immoral and will always do evil
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unless held to the highest standards of the self-declared moralists.
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Binary Surfer says, he's not wrong that the small boats are a fig leaf, but not for the
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And Northblood says, I guess it doesn't matter which end of the globe you're on.
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And let's go to Chad Koala says, turns out muscle mass can be distributed.
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So, Lord Inquisitor Hector X says, even his muscles require government help.
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What's with a guy yelling, this is how you get ahead in the polls?
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I know, maybe he tried to uplift him and boost his morale because you say this guy is a weakling.
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He did it with his hands for one promo and then ate with a knife and fork for another promo.
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And Lord Nerevar says, to be fair, labor can't really betray us.
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And honorable mentions, the Wigan survivalist, happy Friday, lads.
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Please, could you do a lads hour reviewing film 300?
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So, I need to get a bit more in shape before that.
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So, on that note, we came to the end of our podcast.
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Definitely visit us at 3 p.m. UK time for a gold Zoom.
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And if not, we come back next Monday, 1 p.m. UK time.