The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1292

00:00:00.260 Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the podcast The Lotus Eaters for Monday the 10th of November 2025.

00:00:06.160 I'm joined by Stelios and Faras, and today we're going to be talking about how the BBC effed around and has now found out,

00:00:12.940 how Farage finally gets it on business, small business in particular,

00:00:18.380 and how the future of Britain and the West more generally is ethnic enclaves, and what this might look like.

00:00:26.120 No particular announcements today, so let's just begin.

00:00:28.980 Right, so last week we did this segment, the scandal that will shake the BBC, and the title was true.

00:00:37.840 This scandal has shaken the BBC and we already have the first resignations,

00:00:43.040 the Director General and also the Chief Executive of the News, Deborah Ternis,

00:00:49.100 and we are at the stage where the BBC is finding out.

00:00:54.540 Yeah, that's pretty impressive.

00:00:55.920 And not only this, we are at the center of a narrative war where people are trying to spin the news

00:01:03.760 in order to, you know, make this thing as a sort of event that suits their narrative and their purposes.

00:01:13.180 But also I want to say that I think that a large number of people are reacting in the same way that the Democrats reacted

00:01:20.980 over the non-cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel.

00:01:23.920 So they constantly, out of nowhere, you had the Democrats who were attacking free speech

00:01:28.940 and the First Amendment for years, perhaps a decade, and then suddenly they became the defenders of the First Amendment.

00:01:35.620 And they suddenly said that Trump is trying to deprive us of free speech.

00:01:43.740 And Jimmy Kimmel wasn't cancelled.

00:01:46.060 Absolutely necessary and critical voice of Jimmy Kimmel who adds nothing to the conversation.

00:01:51.600 Yes, and the issue is that when you're creating problems out of nowhere

00:01:54.760 and you're convincing people out of nowhere that there are such problems, you can have easy wins.

00:01:58.800 Right, so let's see what happened in a nutshell.

00:02:03.500 We have an internal report by Michael Prescott, who was sort of a member of the Standards Committee of the BBC for many years.

00:02:14.100 He resigned, I think, earlier this year.

00:02:17.660 In June.

00:02:18.260 In June 2025, who was a bit unhappy with how things were going.

00:02:22.660 And he asked people within the BBC to do an internal investigation.

00:02:27.220 And so they did.

00:02:29.300 And they found out that there were several problems with the way things were running.

00:02:34.500 Now, this is not a surprise for you if you're watching us for more than two or three weeks, I'd say.

00:02:40.620 Right, the most important thing here is the fabrication of the speech Trump gave on January 6th, 2021,

00:02:48.420 which the BBC Panorama program made and also aired a week before the 2024 U.S. elections.

00:02:57.900 And it's basically altered so it gives the impression that Trump incited people to the riot.

00:03:07.100 Let's listen to what it says.

00:03:09.140 We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and I'll be there with you, and we fight.

00:03:16.240 We fight like hell.

00:03:17.840 We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.

00:03:29.160 Right, so what happened was basically that in the first clip, the Panorama program took something that Trump said 54 minutes after the first sentence,

00:03:39.880 and they put it together, and they created this impression that Trump basically said,

00:03:45.480 we're going to go there and we're going to fight.

00:03:47.980 Right, so I'd say that this is a shameless fabrication.

00:03:53.600 I mean, there's no other way of putting it.

00:03:55.580 It couldn't be more cut and dried.

00:03:56.780 Right, and there are also other considerations that people have had.

00:04:01.100 You say that it couldn't be more cut and dry.

00:04:03.740 I'm seeing an insane number of people on X saying that actually this is an accurate reflection of the spirit of Trump's speech.

00:04:11.900 Oh.

00:04:12.420 And that there is nothing wrong with making changes along these lines,

00:04:16.180 and that it didn't mislead anybody because it correctly captured the spirit of what Trump was saying.

00:04:23.420 Now, he actually says we're going to the Capitol peacefully.

00:04:26.780 Yes, to peacefully.

00:04:27.440 And it's going to be a peaceful protest.

00:04:29.060 Yes.

00:04:29.700 And he repeats that, but they insist that they did nothing wrong.

00:04:34.700 Yeah, but these people are what we call journalists.

00:04:37.880 Yeah.

00:04:38.200 They're known for professionally lying, so I don't take them terribly seriously.

00:04:42.440 But it is worrying that they have a constituency that will defend flagrant lies.

00:04:47.320 Yep.

00:04:48.260 Right.

00:04:48.600 We also have reports about the BBC Arabic program having a bias towards Hamas.

00:04:56.500 Can you remember?

00:04:57.460 Really?

00:04:58.240 Yeah.

00:04:58.540 And one thing that I should have said.

00:05:00.520 It's the first time hearing of it.

00:05:01.480 I should have said in the previous segment, but I forgot to mention, is that BBC Arabic is partly funded by the Foreign Office.

00:05:09.260 Mm-hmm.

00:05:09.860 Right.

00:05:10.080 So basically, they say that the broadcaster's Arabic service has had to make 215 corrections over the past two years.

00:05:17.520 And let me just give you an example.

00:05:19.180 They're saying that one of its complaints involved a BBC Arabic report in January this year about the treatment of hostages by the Al-Qassan Brigade, in which the Hamas unit was described as guarding the hostages and being responsible for securing the hostages rather than holding them captive.

00:05:36.120 I remember also, we need to fact-check Kiyostama, who was speaking about sausages.

00:05:42.200 And they're really...

00:05:43.060 The one that always sticks with me is when the BBC translated a Gaza Palestinian children's cartoon.

00:05:49.820 And in the children's cartoon, the translation said, oh, well, we need to make sure the Israelis do this, or we need to get the Israelis or whatever. 0.65

00:05:57.840 And actually, it was just the Arabic word for Jews.

00:05:59.500 And this report had several extra mentions of problems, such as the BBC's biased coverage of all sorts of topics, such as the trans issue, reporting on racial issues, and also on migration.

00:06:15.740 Or a dance at a dartboard.

00:06:17.100 Yes, but as Firas has completely correctly, I think, reported, most people tend to silence the migration issue when they are reporting on the report.

00:06:29.260 Yeah.

00:06:29.500 So when you look at the media reporting, it seems like it's about Trump, Israel, and the LGBT stuff.

00:06:36.660 And it's happening in a coordinated way where the two other very big issues of criticism, immigration and race, are completely missed from the conversation.

00:06:46.920 And so it becomes a bit of a bait.

00:06:49.480 Get the Americans involved with the Trump stuff.

00:06:53.160 Get the right-wing involved with the LGBT stuff.

00:06:57.800 And also focus on the Israel side.

00:07:00.420 Now, BBC Arabic is a cesspit.

00:07:02.080 And Arabic media in general is pretty bad.

00:07:07.260 The UAE media is less bad than the others.

00:07:10.880 But even they are, you know, at least they're very careful not to get people who are supportive of Hamas and present them as journalists.

00:07:20.060 If they interview somebody who wants to present Hamas's perspective, they get somebody from Hamas. 0.97

00:07:23.820 What the other Arabic media do is present people who are very pro-Hamas and pretend that they're neutral.

00:07:30.340 And this is a huge problem.

00:07:32.860 And it's a problem with the BBC as well.

00:07:35.060 And it's deeply ingrained in the culture.

00:07:39.220 Deeply ingrained.

00:07:40.200 Yeah, that's one of the questions that are being asked now.

00:07:43.360 Because there is a debate as to whether this is an isolated incident or a culture.

00:07:47.720 Now, we do know that the left does have a sort of disposition to try to minimize blame for themselves and maximize blame for the other side.

00:08:00.580 Which is interesting because they do the same thing here for the BBC while simultaneously claiming that the BBC isn't biased towards them.

00:08:10.180 I'm not even, like, you know, upset about that.

00:08:12.480 Obviously, both sides do exactly that, obviously.

00:08:16.660 It's just so obvious.

00:08:18.460 It's so self-evident that the BBC is just a bastion of globalist liberalism.

00:08:24.400 Yes.

00:08:24.780 It's the most extreme version of it.

00:08:26.920 And it is constantly making these mistakes, as you said before the podcast.

00:08:30.960 These mistakes, only a mistake, only ever goes in one direction.

00:08:34.340 It's so self-evident.

00:08:35.540 So, like, I'm tired that we're not having an honest conversation about what's happening.

00:08:39.780 Well, let's talk about bias.

00:08:40.720 Let's talk about, what are you talking about?

00:08:42.960 What this is, is the BBC is a castle in a culture war.

00:08:47.040 And it is sending out troops whenever it makes these kinds of lies, whenever it publishes these kind of lies.

00:08:52.000 And they've been, they've fallen into a round trap and been completely crushed.

00:08:57.200 They've been completely destroyed.

00:08:58.120 And so the director general is like, well, I've got to resign then because I'm the one who's responsible for this.

00:09:03.000 Yeah.

00:09:03.120 So, yeah, we have here from the, this is a BBC article.

00:09:08.880 BBC director general Tim Davian, CEO of News, Deborah Ternas, have resigned after a newspaper report suggested a BBC panorama documentary, blah, blah, blah.

00:09:19.780 Misled viewers by editing a speech about.

00:09:22.000 Yeah.

00:09:22.140 Like even here is the same exact problem.

00:09:23.960 President Trump.

00:09:24.660 Even here is the same exact problem.

00:09:26.200 The content of the report wasn't just that they misled viewers with that speech, is that they were consistently biased on all of the left-wing culture issues.

00:09:35.320 Yes.

00:09:35.620 To the extent that they made, I think, 12 notifications on their sort of notification service about Russell Brand, but almost none about illegal immigration.

00:09:44.640 Like in one month, Russell Brand gets 12 notifications and illegal immigration gets next to nothing. 0.84

00:09:51.960 And the thing is, well, sorry, can we get back to that?

00:09:53.980 Yes, of course.

00:09:54.860 Saying, oh, it misled viewers.

00:09:56.400 That's such a soft way of approaching things because you could say, well, you know, you were factually incorrect about a claim and that misled viewers.

00:10:05.180 You know, it turns out that immigration was not 750,000 net.

00:10:09.260 It was 900,000 because it got revised up last July or whatever, right?

00:10:12.640 And you just left that out.

00:10:14.140 And so, actually, you'd misled them by just not being factually correct.

00:10:17.440 Fair enough.

00:10:18.040 Bit of a mistake.

00:10:18.820 Sorry.

00:10:19.040 No, the BBC Director General and the CEO of News don't resign over accidentally misleading people.

00:10:26.520 Suggested that they misled.

00:10:27.840 Exactly.

00:10:28.240 After a suggestion that someone has been misled.

00:10:30.320 You don't resign those levels over those things.

00:10:33.780 No, this is because you deliberately fabricated lies.

00:10:37.140 You fabricated lies for partisan reasons about the leader, the president, of our closest and most important ally.

00:10:44.440 As if you were trying to damage the relationship between Britain and America itself over a partisan objection to who the president is.

00:10:52.860 Like, this is really serious.

00:10:54.640 And the report goes into more detail than that.

00:10:56.600 It wasn't just that they doctored this video to make it appear this way.

00:11:00.220 It's that they insist on calling abortion reproductive health care.

00:11:04.500 Yes.

00:11:05.200 Or reproductive rights. 0.92

00:11:06.420 Everything.

00:11:06.820 It's that they fully sided with pretty much every Democrat talking point.

00:11:10.340 It's that they gave no critical coverage of Kamala Harris.

00:11:12.760 It's very extensive bias that's being documented.

00:11:18.420 And it's not in a newspaper report.

00:11:20.960 It's in an internal memo from somebody whose job is to do this.

00:11:25.860 And that memo details a litany of failings, including about race, including about immigration, including about everything else.

00:11:33.460 Although my view is that the report is too soft and doesn't focus anywhere near enough on the racism issue and the immigration issue.

00:11:40.620 But they present it as a newspaper report suggested.

00:11:46.960 But no, no.

00:11:47.680 It's another, it's another, it's a cover up of the failings.

00:11:50.860 It's a lie within the lie.

00:11:52.420 So, like, I mean, technically this, and this is how the media lies all the time.

00:11:55.760 They're professionals at this.

00:11:57.240 This is what journalists do, right?

00:11:58.340 After a newspaper support suggested, not because a newspaper support suggested, and technically that's true.

00:12:05.820 It is technically true that after it was published in the Telegraph or whatever, then this happened.

00:12:10.760 That is completely correct.

00:12:12.140 But it's not because it was published in the Telegraph.

00:12:14.100 It's because of the report that the BBC had commissioned itself to do internally.

00:12:18.980 That's why this happened.

00:12:20.140 They are lying to you.

00:12:21.800 They are constantly lying.

00:12:23.160 And they're experts at lying as well.

00:12:26.840 And, I mean, this is, again, I mentioned it's a BBC article, so they are trying to minimize damage and minimize blame and obfuscate the issue that it's a culture issue.

00:12:36.720 You were caught lying.

00:12:37.140 Well, I've got a report on us lying.

00:12:38.860 Right.

00:12:39.600 Don't lie about that.

00:12:40.760 I hear so much.

00:12:41.880 Sorry.

00:12:41.980 We have the Telegraph live stories, and I want to show you some statements, and I want to ask you what you think about them.

00:12:51.900 So, saying they're risking great risk to future, whatever, Warren's former director.

00:12:58.980 Yeah, good.

00:12:59.200 Nigel Farage.

00:12:59.640 Gordon Brown rejects claims of BBC bias.

00:13:02.580 So, like the great risk to the future thing, they're probably worried that Nigel Farage will come on and do something, right?

00:13:08.300 Because he should.

00:13:09.660 He should just turn the BBC into a subscription service.

00:13:11.800 If you want to pay for people who are left-wing, openly biased, and will lie to your face repeatedly and lie about the lies afterwards, then that should at least be voluntary.

00:13:22.340 But then it shouldn't be called the BBC.

00:13:24.620 Call it whatever you like.

00:13:25.740 I don't care.

00:13:26.380 But as long as I don't have to pay for it, you know, I don't want to have to pay for the TV license.

00:13:31.600 I think it's £181 per year.

00:13:34.560 Yeah.

00:13:34.700 And they also send you, if you don't pay, they send you this ridiculous, ridiculous mail saying that the army is going to come in if you don't pay the license or something.

00:13:43.380 Yeah.

00:13:44.020 Sorry, what did the most relevant prime minister in British history say?

00:13:47.860 He rejects claims of BBC bias.

00:13:50.420 He's a communist.

00:13:50.900 Gordon Brown.

00:13:52.220 Yeah.

00:13:52.460 They just made a mistake.

00:13:55.120 I like how they're trying to portray the deliberate fabrication of something as a mere mistake.

00:14:01.140 So I just want to go back to the video.

00:14:02.660 Can we get this video up again just so you can see it?

00:14:05.480 Yep.

00:14:06.920 Just reload it.

00:14:08.660 Yeah, reload it.

00:14:09.320 Just to the beginning, right?

00:14:10.460 So what they've done here is actually a really smooth transition.

00:14:15.060 Like when you watch it, you can't see the fact that it's edited.

00:14:20.020 Yes.

00:14:20.260 Like there's no sort of like flash on the screen or obvious jump cut or anything.

00:14:23.880 It was an incredibly smooth transition.

00:14:26.320 And as someone who has edited many a video and is terrible at video editing, that's a skill.

00:14:31.600 Like that's a talent.

00:14:32.480 You need a particular kind of software.

00:14:33.800 You need to know how to use the software.

00:14:34.880 And you need to actually spend some time actually splicing those things together and erasing the evidence that that wasn't just one contiguous sentence.

00:14:44.980 Like this is not an accident.

00:14:46.440 That took work to do.

00:14:48.300 Just FYI.

00:14:49.300 We have another statement here that I'm sure it's going to be Carl's favorite.

00:14:53.880 It's abhorrent to man in British politics.

00:14:54.300 Internal right-wing, by Alastair Campbell, internal right-wing forces working to undermine BBC.

00:15:00.220 So the right has secretly infiltrated the BBC and is trying to capture the institution.

00:15:08.880 Yeah.

00:15:09.320 God, give me the right of the left's imagination, please.

00:15:12.960 Yes.

00:15:13.460 Yes, exactly.

00:15:14.440 That's all I ask for.

00:15:15.840 And he says the real weakness of the BBC, as exemplified by recent events, is its failure to stand up to ludicrous claims from the right that it is somehow hugely biased to the left. 0.98

00:15:29.380 I just think Alastair Campbell is a clown. 0.93

00:15:32.520 I just wouldn't take any of his analysis. 0.98

00:15:33.760 I think it's worse than that.

00:15:35.300 I think that they are genuine believers.

00:15:39.020 Like they truly believe the BS that they spew. 0.96

00:15:42.800 I mean, in the full memo that covers the BBC's biases, they mention stories about when they report that a woman raped a woman. 0.93

00:15:52.100 Yes.

00:15:52.440 You know, what they actually mean is that a man who pretends to be a woman or who yesterday began pretending to be a woman after he was jailed, raped a woman and was convicted.

00:16:02.500 And so this is bias.

00:16:05.060 Not mentioning that he's a man is obvious bias.

00:16:07.280 But as far as Alastair Campbell is concerned, they insist on doubling down, which I want to make a point here.

00:16:12.940 It shows an issue with the difference between the left and the right.

00:16:15.800 The right is constantly self-policing and self-critiquing and making sure that it's really playing by these nice liberal norms and that it's not saying anything offensive.

00:16:26.000 The left doesn't care.

00:16:27.480 They take no prisoners.

00:16:29.000 They do not compromise.

00:16:30.600 They will give you nothing.

00:16:32.700 I will say, I mean, I'm happy that we have standards.

00:16:35.940 That's good.

00:16:36.560 But I mean, quick thing to remember is Alastair Campbell was Tony Blair's spin doctor.

00:16:40.200 He was just a professional liar for Tony Blair throughout the Blair government and then became the head of communications for the government or whatever.

00:16:46.100 Also, if it's ridiculous to claim that the institution has a left-wing bias and it's good or has a right-wing bias, why should the right-wing do a coup inside the BBC?

00:16:59.380 Not just that.

00:16:59.960 Yeah, that's a great question.

00:17:00.860 Was there a single story where the BBC had to apologize for a mistake because it leaned too right-wing?

00:17:07.600 It was too overbearing on immigration or something like that.

00:17:10.980 Was there a single story where the mistake went in favor of the right?

00:17:15.300 The mistake, the bias went in favor of the right?

00:17:18.740 Never.

00:17:19.200 Just a quick thing on Alastair Campbell.

00:17:20.780 How conspiratorial is this as well?

00:17:23.440 This is genuinely a conspiracy theory that right-wing forces exist in the BBC and are working to undermine the corporation.

00:17:29.280 I wish...

00:17:30.360 Yeah, but what are you talking about?

00:17:31.940 This sounds like David Icke levels of nonsense.

00:17:34.820 Like, right-wing force, what? 0.76

00:17:36.160 Lizard men, what are you on?

00:17:38.120 Name someone in the BBC who could be plausibly described as right-wing.

00:17:42.580 Just this one person I would like to see.

00:17:44.620 Sorry.

00:17:44.740 It's just the hologram that is created that tells you that there are no right-wing people. 0.98

00:17:48.820 It's so ridiculous. 0.99

00:17:49.800 It's just right-wing lizards. 0.99

00:17:56.140 Reptilian right. 0.96

00:17:57.160 Are lizards naturally right-wing or left-wing?

00:17:59.400 That's a great Lazzauer.

00:18:00.640 Yeah, we should...

00:18:01.680 Reptilian right should totally be a thing. 1.00

00:18:03.980 Anyway, let's carry on.

00:18:05.000 Right, okay.

00:18:05.660 So, we have all sorts of ministers saying that...

00:18:10.440 Yeah, heads should roll.

00:18:11.100 That's correct.

00:18:12.560 Trump was enraged by BBC bias.

00:18:14.440 I want to show you the statement by Trump.

00:18:16.500 He said that top people in the BBC, including Tim Davy, the boss, are all quitting, fired

00:18:20.980 because they were caught doctoring.

00:18:23.620 Like, very good, perfect speech on January 6th.

00:18:27.760 Thank you to The Telegraph for exposing these corrupt journalists.

00:18:31.440 These are very dishonest people who try to step on the scales of a presidential election.

00:18:36.200 True.

00:18:36.480 On top of everything else, they're from a foreign country, 1.00

00:18:39.260 one that many consider our number one ally.

00:18:41.880 What a terrible thing for democracy.

00:18:43.340 So, lots of people are trying to take this entirely fair critique,

00:18:48.200 and they're trying to say that Trump is attacking British democracy.

00:18:52.780 What British democracy?

00:18:54.960 Sorry to keep pausing on everything, but how does this attack democracy?

00:19:01.960 The BBC lied about me.

00:19:03.560 Oh my God, that's an attack on our democracy.

00:19:04.980 Sorry, is our democracy predicated on being able to publicly lie about Donald Trump?

00:19:09.160 Is that genuinely what they're saying?

00:19:10.880 Yes.

00:19:11.100 Because that seems to be the only inference you can reasonably take from that.

00:19:13.940 But that's exactly what they mean.

00:19:15.560 Exactly.

00:19:16.340 What else could you draw from that?

00:19:18.860 Sorry, sorry.

00:19:19.780 It's not just that.

00:19:20.200 It's Samir Shah, who is the chair of the BBC,

00:19:24.360 who is talking to the MPs right now with the letter.

00:19:29.240 He basically characterized what happened as an error of judgment.

00:19:33.700 I mean, it is an error of judgment to lie.

00:19:35.840 Yeah, but it is.

00:19:36.880 But what is it based on?

00:19:38.680 I'm not interested in the description.

00:19:41.140 What is it based on?

00:19:42.180 It's based on a culture.

00:19:43.280 Right.

00:19:43.760 It's based on a worldview.

00:19:45.440 Ed Davies writing to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenok, and Nigel Farage,

00:19:49.320 urging them to condemn Trump's attack on the BBC.

00:19:52.020 Is this guy the dancing videos guy?

00:19:53.520 Yes, he is.

00:19:54.100 Yes, yes. 0.99

00:19:54.540 This is the clown who runs the Lib Demo. 0.96

00:19:56.500 The thing that's important about this is it gets to Estelios' point. 0.92

00:20:00.360 If the BBC is somehow not a left-wing bastion,

00:20:04.540 why are left-wingers coming out and claiming it?

00:20:06.760 Saying that we must defend the BBC because it's ours against the evil right-wing

00:20:11.280 who are trying to assault it by using evidence of us lying about them

00:20:15.760 as somehow a way of delegitimizing us.

00:20:18.220 If that wasn't the case.

00:20:19.620 It's so transparent.

00:20:21.000 I'm so tired of the pretense.

00:20:22.780 Or maybe he wants to say that it is impartial.

00:20:27.340 And it's the right-wingers who want to capture it to make it impartial.

00:20:31.140 Which is why no one takes Ed Davies seriously.

00:20:33.000 Right.

00:20:33.280 Okay.

00:20:33.640 So Ed Davies again says,

00:20:35.880 it's easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world's number one news source.

00:20:40.560 We can't let him.

00:20:41.980 The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.

00:20:44.920 The PM and leaders from across the spectrum should be united in telling Trump

00:20:49.620 to keep his hands off of it.

00:20:50.960 He's not buying the BBC, Ed. 0.99

00:20:53.720 The BBC is not being privatized, you dolt. 0.99

00:20:56.740 What it is, it's a lying institution that you're forced to pay for. 0.99

00:21:00.780 Good God.

00:21:01.500 This is...

00:21:02.180 I'm sorry.

00:21:02.940 I'm...

00:21:03.340 That's what I said in the beginning.

00:21:04.880 It's so annoying.

00:21:05.600 They're trying to create a problem that doesn't exist.

00:21:08.120 It's open partisanship.

00:21:09.380 Now it's just like BBC hours therefore good, Trump not hours therefore bad,

00:21:13.760 regardless of what the truth of the matter is.

00:21:16.240 So Ed Davies is more supportive of the BBC than people right now,

00:21:20.700 some people right now in the BBC.

00:21:22.540 Than the people in the BBC.

00:21:23.980 Yeah.

00:21:24.120 And here we have someone else, Oliver Ryan, who says so many new media influencers,

00:21:30.600 journalists, presenters, populists and funders of the political extremes completely despise

00:21:35.520 the BBC, are jealous of the BBC, want to see the end of the BBC for their own benefit.

00:21:40.860 If we want the BBC to survive, we have to be prepared to defend it.

00:21:44.120 I don't want it to survive.

00:21:45.120 Don't defend it.

00:21:46.020 It's a legacy institution of empire that needs to go.

00:21:49.800 It's time has passed.

00:21:50.540 That's the thing.

00:21:51.260 The claim of credibility for the BBC was from third world countries who thought

00:21:55.760 at least these guys either don't hate us or hate us all equally and therefore will be neutral.

00:22:01.960 Yeah.

00:22:02.260 And therefore they relied on the BBC at a time when there was only state media as an alternative.

00:22:06.220 Yeah.

00:22:06.540 Like who are you going to trust, the BBC or the Egyptian government media?

00:22:09.360 No, obviously the BBC.

00:22:10.240 Also for us, I don't know what you're going to make of it,

00:22:12.580 but the first response has 666 likes.

00:22:18.860 He's right.

00:22:19.520 We don't want to, we don't want the BBC to survive as it is.

00:22:22.080 Yeah.

00:22:22.480 But this is the problem though.

00:22:23.900 Like this, this is just another problem of the end of empire and the lack of reformed institutions

00:22:28.300 that Britain is currently saddled by.

00:22:30.740 We are burdened by institutions that still think it's 1920.

00:22:34.480 Yeah.

00:22:34.820 And it's, things have changed.

00:22:36.840 Things have to change.

00:22:38.080 We have again, David Yelland, who I think was an editor of The Sun.

00:22:42.580 Who says,

00:22:44.280 What has happened today at the BBC is nothing short of a coup.

00:22:48.520 A national disgrace.

00:22:49.740 The corporation's board has effectively been undermined.

00:22:52.920 And elements close to it have worked with hostile newspapers, editor, former MP, blah, blah, blah.

00:22:58.600 If you look at the only honourable players are Tim Davey and Deborah Turner.

00:23:02.480 So again, just never getting any accountability.

00:23:06.440 Never showing any.

00:23:07.440 If you look at the details of the report, the memo that's involved here.

00:23:11.180 The guy repeatedly mentions how him and a journalist called David Grossman, whose job was to write reports about this stuff,

00:23:21.620 continuously communicated with the editorial guidance and standards committee and highlighted to them the bias.

00:23:29.620 And the response that they got constantly was dismissal.

00:23:33.560 No, no, no, no, no.

00:23:34.180 It's not happening.

00:23:34.980 You will never get anything else.

00:23:36.400 And it's beautiful to see that the whole left shares the exact same mindset, but they're a herd who don't know that they're a herd.

00:23:47.220 Yep.

00:23:47.740 But that's their problem.

00:23:49.260 And I think that's the...

00:23:51.460 It's as if cattle thought that they were journalists and genuinely believed. 1.00

00:23:54.420 That's more of a useful idiot diagnosis of the situation. 0.99

00:23:57.760 I think that there is another bit that is a bit more conscious. 0.95

00:24:01.180 And essentially, the way that they are talking and throwing messages and quantity of messaging shows to me that basically what they want to do is to create this image yet again,

00:24:12.960 that Trump is creating Weimar conditions and that they are threatened and they aren't threatened, at least in such a way.

00:24:24.880 Because when they convince people that there is such a massive threat, which there isn't, when people see that no such threat comes to be realized,

00:24:36.440 they will say, right, it didn't happen because Ed Davey spoke against it, because Harriet Harman,

00:24:42.640 because David Yellen spoke against it.

00:24:44.760 I don't know, man.

00:24:45.360 I really want the end of Weimar.

00:24:46.780 They're creating a problem out of nowhere.

00:24:49.400 They're creating a problem out of nowhere to claim a victory that won't exist.

00:24:54.720 I mean, I just...

00:24:56.480 Quite possibly, but it's so frustrating that they don't...

00:25:02.000 I mean, I don't think it is the cattle herd that doesn't realize it's a herd.

00:25:05.940 I think they're conscious of it.

00:25:07.340 I agree with Stelis.

00:25:08.360 I think they're self-conscious.

00:25:09.200 And we can see this in the way that they characterize political people, as in Tommy Robinson is the far-right populist agitator,

00:25:18.560 and, you know, here's just a person from Novara Media.

00:25:22.920 Yes.

00:25:24.200 Sorry, if you're going to characterize anyone, characterize everyone, or don't characterize anyone.

00:25:29.260 That would be the neutral thing to do.

00:25:31.000 That's not what the BBC does.

00:25:32.380 Anyway, would you want backing from Harriet Harman?

00:25:34.400 She backed the paedophile information exchange.

00:25:36.140 Yes, she did.

00:25:37.340 But then the BBC covered up Jimmy Savile and what's-his-face, the Australian guy, the didgeridoo guy.

00:25:43.620 I can't remember the name.

00:25:44.900 There are many.

00:25:45.720 It's not just one.

00:25:46.660 Yeah, exactly.

00:25:47.100 Yeah, there are many.

00:25:47.880 And then they've got the pedo statue outside of it that was vandalized recently.

00:25:51.500 It's just, what are we doing here, folks?

00:25:53.440 Like, there's something clearly rotten in the BBC, and it's because of the untouchable and impenetrable nature of it,

00:26:00.200 and the institutional support it gets from politicians.

00:26:02.220 Like, it's obvious that this is going to be a vector for corruption.

00:26:05.960 Yes.

00:26:07.980 Anyway, should we leave that there?

00:26:09.340 Yeah, of course.

00:26:10.680 God, I hate the BBC so much.

00:26:12.500 And it's because it's trading on such a good reputation that it earned when it was actually worthy of earning it.

00:26:18.680 Anyway, TDK3K says, can't send your DM to a relevant post.

00:26:23.020 Thanks.

00:26:23.400 I'll look at that.

00:26:24.580 Malcolm Tucker was based on Alistair Campbell.

00:26:26.800 Yep.

00:26:26.940 I expect the BBC to edit to start having the Command & Conquer Red Alert Hell March start playing after the cut.

00:26:34.300 Well, I mean, honestly, that would have made it based on badass, but thank you, Sound of Car Legion.

00:26:39.420 I just hope the BBC website will perhaps use stock photos and actually proportionately represent the whole UK demographics,

00:26:44.140 not just London demographics.

00:26:45.600 Well, they can't do that because those things probably don't exist.

00:26:48.580 This will come as a very little surprise, but the BBC can't even mention proper figures when it comes to debt, deficit, and migration.

00:26:54.940 Yep.

00:26:56.100 Say no to digital ID protests in Birmingham's Cenotensary Square, 10 a.m., 20 a.m., 20 a.m., 20 a.m., 20 a.m., 20 a.m.

00:27:07.400 Please join us if you're able to.

00:27:08.720 Yep.

00:27:09.180 If you absolutely support digital ID protests.

00:27:12.360 From John O'Groats to Land's End, British culture we must defend.

00:27:14.760 I'd also like to take this opportunity to say I'm trying hard to share you all.

00:27:18.220 Well, thank you very much.

00:27:19.660 G'day, everyone.

00:27:20.140 Hope you're doing well.

00:27:21.340 While it's not the least the BBC have two of their members, resign.

00:27:24.900 Wish more would too.

00:27:25.820 Yeah, I mean, the thing is, okay, so the heads have been chopped off the Hydra,

00:27:30.460 but there are all sorts of layers of bureaucracy in which the decision was signed off.

00:27:37.900 So all of those people are culpable too.

00:27:40.440 And so, okay, the two people at the top might go, but they'll just get replaced with people who are not tremendously different and nothing will change.

00:27:49.040 Yep.

00:27:50.140 Very much so.

00:27:51.700 So let's talk about economics again and talk about being a small business in Britain.

00:27:57.100 Oh, I know something about that.

00:27:58.220 Yes, you might know something about this.

00:28:00.680 Napoleon called Britain a nation of shopkeepers, and it's worth sort of understanding how these small businesses are doing.

00:28:06.940 One indication is the IPO market.

00:28:10.340 IPOs are when companies make their initial public offering.

00:28:14.500 That is, list on a stock exchange.

00:28:16.620 That is, they go public, they raise capital from the markets, and that allows them to grow their businesses.

00:28:21.700 And these fell by 40% in 2023 in the good old days of the conservatives.

00:28:27.220 We don't have figures for 2024, but it seems like another big catastrophic drop.

00:28:35.420 And I think a total of a billion pounds only was raised on the IPO market, meaning that companies aren't listing in Britain.

00:28:44.000 They're not coming to Britain, and they're not raising money for Britain. 0.64

00:28:46.480 And meaning that small British businesses aren't growing to become big enough to go on the stock market.

00:28:55.200 This is important because small businesses, there's around 4.5 million of them, and they represent something like 99% of all businesses.

00:29:03.840 And something between 35% to 50% of total GDP, depending on how you count it, plus around 60% of all jobs.

00:29:12.380 So it really matters what is happening to small businesses.

00:29:15.800 If anything, you might wonder, why would you ever do anything to inhibit a small business?

00:29:19.920 Exactly.

00:29:20.380 If you're going to have a corporation tax, for example, wouldn't you exempt small businesses from it?

00:29:24.340 Exactly.

00:29:24.760 Things like this, you would do everything in your power, because this is where innovation comes from.

00:29:28.260 Unless you're a commie.

00:29:29.620 Unless you're a communist.

00:29:31.340 So if you're a small business, this is obviously the first step towards becoming a big business.

00:29:37.660 You have to go through this step first.

00:29:39.220 And just as a quick aside as well, if you're someone who works and doesn't own a business, which kind of business would you rather work for?

00:29:45.520 Exactly.

00:29:46.000 A business where you're, in fact, a large cog in a small machine, or a tiny cog in a gargantuan machine that can just be replaced like that.

00:29:51.940 Exactly.

00:29:52.100 Which one would you rather work for?

00:29:53.740 Exactly.

00:29:54.200 And I went through that transition.

00:29:55.600 I started off in a very small company.

00:29:57.660 I could just kick in the CEO's door, tell him what I thought, and he will tell me yes or piss off.

00:30:03.380 Went to a giant megacorp, and it was hell on earth.

00:30:06.400 Yes.

00:30:06.660 And thankfully, now I'm working for myself and for small businesses.

00:30:13.460 So it really, really matters what happens here.

00:30:16.800 Now, the businesses themselves, when you ask them, they are miserable.

00:30:22.220 Q1 2025 was a disaster the first quarter of the year.

00:30:25.800 There is no uptick in performance, and the sentiment is down at negative 44.

00:30:33.140 The way that these work is that I think 50 is neutral.

00:30:38.340 And so the lower the reading is, the worse the businesses are.

00:30:44.580 But we had so much immigration.

00:30:46.700 But it was absolutely terrible, it seems, because growth is under 1%, something like that.

00:30:56.320 And this isn't big enough for small businesses to thrive.

00:30:59.640 And weirdly enough, the consumer-facing sectors of wholesale and retail and accommodation were especially downbeat in the second quarter of this year.

00:31:10.260 You'd think that with all of the migrants being placed in hotels, this would be positive. 1.00

00:31:14.280 But no, it's been obviously terrible, because people are so squeezed that they're only spending on the basics.

00:31:21.380 The Small Business Federation explains, the Federation of Small Business explains, that these sectors are labor-intensive, and they are especially hard-hit by hikes in national insurance, thank you, Rachel Reeves, and in the national living wage, higher minimum wages.

00:31:40.720 So what they're trying to do is basically impose equality.

00:31:43.780 Dan has a very good segment of that, explaining how the objective of the state is to keep everybody between £30,000 and £40,000 a year.

00:31:53.720 Yes.

00:31:54.000 You get benefits or you get taxed.

00:31:55.800 Exactly.

00:31:56.580 There's an extra layer into this, because the left has a hatred for small businesses especially.

00:32:03.560 Yes.

00:32:03.740 Because they think that there is the proletariat and then the bourgeois.

00:32:08.440 And those who are in the low bourgeois, they look at them as the traitors.

00:32:13.080 Of course, you should have been ours, so they hate them especially.

00:32:17.340 Exactly.

00:32:17.520 And also there's the fact that most of them are rich.

00:32:19.960 Some of them are rich.

00:32:21.140 I'm talking about the leftists, champagne socialists.

00:32:23.880 Yes.

00:32:24.200 So, yeah.

00:32:24.940 The petty bourgeoisie are essentially a repudiation of the entire left-wing project.

00:32:28.960 Yes.

00:32:29.260 Because what it suggests is actually, even if you're in a system that is not equal, you can prosper if you work hard and you work for yourself.

00:32:38.020 Exactly.

00:32:38.200 And this is, honestly, being a petty bourgeois business owner is probably the best kind of life the average person can expect to live.

00:32:45.080 Yes.

00:32:46.400 Because it comes with independence, it comes with freedom, it comes with the ability to set your own working hours.

00:32:52.500 You become a sort of…

00:32:53.540 You're free.

00:32:53.940 Yeah, exactly.

00:32:54.340 You're free.

00:32:54.780 This is as close…

00:32:56.160 This is the English view of freedom right now.

00:32:58.100 Yes.

00:32:58.420 This is what it is.

00:32:59.620 So, anything with damage is bad.

00:33:01.940 It's not about the amount of wealth.

00:33:03.940 It's about the fact that your income is independent of everybody else and is reliant on your own efforts, meaning that nasty HR ladies can't impose anything on you, meaning that you're left alone by most people, meaning that nobody can pressure you because you're independent. 0.99

00:33:20.500 So, it's really, even from a social perspective, it's really important to have small businesses thrive because they build a functioning society.

00:33:30.260 That's why the small villages look so good.

00:33:34.480 Exactly.

00:33:34.900 It's because they're full of small business owners who care about the place in which they work.

00:33:39.160 Exactly.

00:33:39.820 Exactly.

00:33:40.440 Exactly.

00:33:40.740 And so, the Forum of Private Businesses, another association for small businesses, say that current policy and regulation are too rigid, don't take into account the impact of small businesses, and policymakers seem to view small businesses like a big business, only smaller.

00:33:58.680 And this is a perennial problem.

00:34:00.460 This is a particular problem with the European Union, and this is a very strong argument that was made during Brexit.

00:34:04.860 And for some reason, the Conservative government did nothing with it.

00:34:08.240 So, there's a kind of homogenizing effect that is far easier to bear if you're a big business.

00:34:13.800 So, for example, if you have 10,000 pages of regulations, which I don't know how much it is, but, you know, it's going to be a huge number of regulations.

00:34:21.040 Yep.

00:34:21.260 Well, as a small business, it's actually very difficult to overcome that hurdle just on administrative burden alone.

00:34:25.880 Exactly.

00:34:26.220 If you're a big business, you can employ an entire department of people to do that for you.

00:34:30.040 Exactly.

00:34:30.260 So, it's a way of essentially cutting out the competition and the market by reducing the amount of potential competition in small businesses that might innovate in ways that you don't, and therefore grow and essentially become the sort of creative destruction that Hayek would constantly go on about that is necessary for a healthy functioning economy.

00:34:49.820 Exactly.

00:34:50.000 This is the bureaucrat's dream and the normal person's nightmare that small businesses live under at the moment, just FYI.

00:34:58.500 So, a big business can afford a massive HR department and can afford a massive compliance department and give them jobs and pay them and still be profitable.

00:35:07.760 If you're a small business, haha, good luck.

00:35:10.000 There's no chance you can do that.

00:35:11.160 You've got to do it yourself.

00:35:11.900 You've got to do it yourself because you are the CEO, the chief technology officer, the chief compliance officer, the chief legal counsel, etc., etc., etc.

00:35:19.700 You are everything in your company if you own it yourself.

00:35:23.620 You have to do all of these different jobs, whereas if you're a big business, you can afford to hire departments and departments for this.

00:35:31.000 And this is why…

00:35:32.200 Professionals who know exactly what they're doing and only do this thing.

00:35:35.180 Exactly.

00:35:35.500 This is why the Forum of Private Businesses says you need to turn regulation on its head.

00:35:41.080 Instead of first thinking about big businesses, what you ought to be doing is thinking about the impact on small businesses, then deciding whether or not to impose the regulation.

00:35:50.640 Alternatively, you can scale things.

00:35:53.260 You can be very nationalistic and interventionist on very mega businesses like energy, things of that nature.

00:36:03.140 But you can be very libertarian when it comes to shops and shopkeepers.

00:36:07.660 You can leave them alone.

00:36:09.440 If they get big enough to pose systemic risks, then, yeah, fair enough.

00:36:13.260 The state needs to intervene.

00:36:14.420 But to treat every business as a big business is insane.

00:36:17.520 And that's what small businesses are calling for.

00:36:20.940 We wonder why we're not getting growth.

00:36:22.820 Exactly.

00:36:23.340 Wonder why.

00:36:24.280 The economy has just been persistently hamstrung by regulation.

00:36:27.760 Exactly.

00:36:28.160 This kind of overburdensome and indiscriminate regulation.

00:36:32.320 Exactly.

00:36:33.140 And now the ghost of Angela Rayner is going to impose the employment rights bill, which limits private businesses further and imposes new restrictions on them and has all kinds of reporting requirements intended to create absolute equality between everybody everywhere, which is, again, communism.

00:36:54.620 And 92% of businesses are terrified about it.

00:36:58.180 Weirdly enough, big businesses, I think, are only maybe 1% or 2% of all businesses.

00:37:04.740 So this is basically some very small individual businesses, one-man shows, who think, I don't care about employment rights bills because I don't hire anybody, and big businesses because they have the giant compliance departments.

00:37:16.220 But also, what problem is this solving?

00:37:18.840 Is the problem in Britain a lack of employment rights?

00:37:22.560 Yep.

00:37:23.020 That was not the problem.

00:37:24.280 Exactly.

00:37:24.560 And you see this constant attempt by the state to deal with the problem of companies being registered improperly, all kinds of fraud, all kinds of schemes, all kinds of nasty activities that are coming directly from immigration. 0.59

00:37:45.440 I think there was a link there for a BBC article covering how you had this huge addition of basically people working illegally by refusing to comply with any of the laws because they're migrant. 0.87

00:38:03.160 Sorry, this is another insane and very annoying point, is that all of this is done by consent.

00:38:09.800 So the people who want to follow the rules and want to follow the laws, they will get punished for doing this, whereas the average Turkish barbershop probably isn't even registered.

00:38:20.100 They don't matter.

00:38:21.240 Like the slave labor that was going on in the factories in Leicester, you think they're applying the employment rights bill?

00:38:27.460 No, because they don't cooperate.

00:38:29.800 And so the government just ignores it.

00:38:31.880 Exactly.

00:38:32.560 Exactly.

00:38:34.020 So the good news here is that Nigel Farage seems to understand this.

00:38:37.620 And so what he has announced now is a Small Businesses for Reform forum, this new outfit that is intended to address the fact that businesses in Britain are overregulated.

00:38:51.980 Because in case we didn't convince you that small businesses are under enormous pressure, here are some of the things that they have to worry about.

00:39:00.600 Firstly, HR and everything to do with equalities law and things of that nature.

00:39:04.560 So if you hire a laborer who is of a non-British ethnicity, well, they can at any point come up with some kind of inequality claim or come up with some kind of discrimination claim, keeping you in absolute terror.

00:39:20.040 I'm looking at Stelius carefully.

00:39:24.100 And me.

00:39:25.600 You have statutory sick pay.

00:39:28.580 So if your staff gets sick and you're a small shopkeeper, you still have to pay them.

00:39:32.420 You're looking at the fact that you can't get contractors because there are regulations intended to prevent you from working with people as contractors.

00:39:40.960 You're looking at business rates.

00:39:42.640 For our American audience, British businesses that rent a premises have to pay half of that rent in a tax.

00:39:51.140 Yes, we do.

00:39:52.100 Which is insane.

00:39:53.920 It's absolutely mad.

00:39:55.020 It's just crazy.

00:39:56.180 And that's not talking about the normal tax you have to pay.

00:39:58.080 Exactly.

00:39:59.460 And so corporation tax by, you know, it's 19 percent.

00:40:03.840 It's high.

00:40:04.380 But then everything that you actually take out of the corporation on dividends and so on, you have to pay taxes on them.

00:40:11.060 You have ridiculous approvals and regulations for pretty much everything.

00:40:17.140 Interest rates for small businesses reach as high as 29 percent.

00:40:20.680 You think?

00:40:20.980 Yeah.

00:40:21.600 For some small businesses, they reach as high as 29 percent, which is...

00:40:26.240 It's on loans that they take, is it?

00:40:28.060 Yes.

00:40:28.460 I'm lucky I've not had to take a loan.

00:40:30.000 Yeah.

00:40:31.500 And to not only high minimum wages and so on and so forth, to make it all worse, when you die, you have to give the government 40 percent of your business.

00:40:42.020 An inheritance tax.

00:40:43.160 So the level of insanity here, the level of extremism here, of egalitarianism, reaching full-scale communism, is crazy.

00:40:56.420 And Farage seems to get this, finally.

00:40:59.140 On the plus side, at least, I mean, we know who Farage is.

00:41:03.860 He's been a public figure for 30 years.

00:41:05.620 And at least he...

00:41:07.660 It's self-evident that Farage has this deeply embedded in his DNA.

00:41:13.100 Yes.

00:41:13.160 He has this libertarian streak.

00:41:14.820 Yeah.

00:41:15.200 Where he obviously...

00:41:15.860 Which is necessary.

00:41:16.780 The more Vacherite aspect.

00:41:18.180 Exactly.

00:41:18.680 He wants small business owners to prosper.

00:41:20.700 He's always thought this.

00:41:21.940 Yes.

00:41:22.120 And this is something that's very...

00:41:23.400 It's a very easy win for him.

00:41:24.600 It's very reliable.

00:41:25.680 I mean, this is the sort of thing that actually might help him in the Southwest.

00:41:29.300 Yes.

00:41:29.460 Because the Southwest is full of independent entrepreneurs who run small businesses.

00:41:33.880 Yep.

00:41:34.000 And we're a Brexit voting area.

00:41:35.940 There's no reason we should be governed by the Lid Dems.

00:41:38.340 This is actually something that reform might be able to make some progress here on.

00:41:41.420 Yes.

00:41:41.860 Exactly.

00:41:42.760 So, he seems to get this problem.

00:41:45.040 He seems to get that the burden on small businesses is enormous.

00:41:49.080 And more importantly, that this is a vote winner.

00:41:52.320 Because 60% of workers...

00:41:54.000 Exactly.

00:41:54.540 60% of workers work for small businesses.

00:41:57.940 And if these businesses do better, well, guess what?

00:42:00.320 They can pay you higher wages because there's going to be more employment, more competition.

00:42:04.000 I mean, seriously though, right?

00:42:05.940 Like, we would be about 25% to 30% bigger as an operation if we didn't have to pay such exorbitant taxes.

00:42:13.720 Yeah.

00:42:14.080 If we didn't have to pay all of that, we would just have more staff.

00:42:17.300 And we'd be doing more things.

00:42:18.860 This is the thing.

00:42:19.640 The government...

00:42:20.240 I mean, we spoke about this last week when we had Pete North here.

00:42:23.920 The government doesn't seem to understand the Laffer curve.

00:42:26.700 That the higher you raise taxes, the less revenue you get.

00:42:30.960 There is a point after which higher taxes means less revenue.

00:42:35.180 And you have to get this right.

00:42:37.380 Yeah.

00:42:37.700 But also, they may be doing it deliberately because...

00:42:40.900 They probably are.

00:42:42.220 You know, I...

00:42:42.960 They probably are.

00:42:43.380 I suspect it's actually not deliberate.

00:42:45.440 I suspect it's actually that none of them have any experience in this realm whatsoever.

00:42:50.560 That's also very true.

00:42:51.340 If you look at them, what...

00:42:52.540 Like, look at any of the past few governments.

00:42:54.840 Like, what have these people actually done?

00:42:57.360 Like, Boris Johnson, professional politician.

00:43:00.240 Keir Starmer, a human rights lawyer.

00:43:02.480 Yeah.

00:43:02.600 Like, they don't know anything about this.

00:43:04.560 Yep.

00:43:04.720 The only person who did would have been someone like Rishi Sinek.

00:43:08.180 Yes.

00:43:09.200 Weirdly enough.

00:43:09.940 Yeah.

00:43:10.280 Who was only involved in big finance.

00:43:12.320 So, he doesn't even get...

00:43:13.000 So, he doesn't even get the...

00:43:13.860 Yeah.

00:43:14.340 He doesn't even get the difference.

00:43:15.460 He still thinks that, you know, it's the same thing.

00:43:17.560 It's small business.

00:43:18.080 It's just a big business, but it's small.

00:43:20.660 Instead of understanding this.

00:43:22.380 So, the good news is that he's gotten somebody called Kevin Barn to be involved in this.

00:43:27.860 And this guy founded something called Checker Trade,

00:43:31.540 which is a website where you can find people to do small jobs for you.

00:43:36.060 Oh, yeah.

00:43:36.400 And to do trading jobs.

00:43:37.540 And it's really good.

00:43:38.540 It's a review website as well.

00:43:40.300 Exactly.

00:43:40.760 So, you know, it's genuinely a kind of self-policing network.

00:43:44.800 Yes.

00:43:45.240 That you use if you want to get your bathroom restored or something like that.

00:43:48.840 Think about it this way.

00:43:49.700 It's guilds in the modern age.

00:43:51.520 Yes, it is.

00:43:51.860 It's what guilds would be like in the modern age.

00:43:54.060 So, somebody who understands this, being heavily involved with reform and having a say in this,

00:43:59.200 is actually very good news.

00:44:00.760 Yeah, it's excellent.

00:44:01.540 I can't wait until Farage kicks him out for saying something about immigration.

00:44:04.940 Ah, here's...

00:44:06.900 Sorry.

00:44:07.380 Yes.

00:44:07.960 I don't mean to be cynical.

00:44:09.120 That possibility is here.

00:44:10.080 I've just seen it so many times.

00:44:11.380 Next link.

00:44:12.100 This guy cancelled.

00:44:13.640 That possibility is there.

00:44:15.460 But there seems to be an understanding that supply-side economics are necessary here.

00:44:20.100 Oh, yes. 0.78

00:44:20.560 That you need to release businesses and stop being a Keynesian lunatic. 0.97

00:44:26.540 Wasn't Keynes a pedophile as well, by the way? 0.94

00:44:28.780 I have heard that he might have been. 0.90

00:44:30.360 Yes.

00:44:30.760 So, there is this need to actually do something to get the economy growing.

00:44:37.020 And the only way to do that is to get small businesses involved.

00:44:40.640 And if you consider the fact that this is a very clear vote winner, if you consider the fact that this is really necessary, well, then, yeah, there's hope now.

00:44:51.240 And there's hope that we will see something better.

00:44:55.300 Farage went as far as to say that we're living in an age where big businesses virtually control and own the political arena.

00:45:01.580 Completely true.

00:45:02.180 Completely true.

00:45:02.640 This is absolutely true because they're the ones who can afford to invite Keir Starmer to go watch the footy.

00:45:09.320 They can afford to lobby the government.

00:45:10.620 In special lounges.

00:45:11.180 They can afford the lobbying.

00:45:12.640 Yeah.

00:45:12.900 We can't afford lobbying, obviously.

00:45:14.680 Exactly.

00:45:15.060 So, he seems to get this right.

00:45:18.040 And this got him into a bit of trouble from the journalists who were very keen to defend the big businesses, weirdly enough.

00:45:22.700 They were.

00:45:23.160 But he seems to understand that this thing is happening and that it's important.

00:45:29.240 And this realization could be transformational.

00:45:32.540 Yes.

00:45:33.480 It's really necessary.

00:45:35.080 As with everything involving reform, the issue is implementation.

00:45:38.920 Because while Farage declared that he's going to have this big new initiative and he promised that there is going to be this upgrade here, he didn't actually say what he's going to do.

00:45:52.300 He didn't actually identify the policies that would have to be implemented and what these would look like.

00:45:58.820 This is important and this is always an issue.

00:46:02.040 But somebody like Kevin Barron is the kind of person who can sit on parliamentary committees and who can ask intelligent questions and have the experience of having owned and ran a very successful business and be able to contribute.

00:46:16.700 So, it's not enough because the economy is collapsing.

00:46:20.760 And as we've said in previous episodes, at any point, Britain could face a major financial crisis as well as the rest of Europe.

00:46:27.380 But it's really good that Farage seems to get this.

00:46:30.540 What's needed is really more of the same.

00:46:32.980 You need somebody deeply involved in farming to also be running for MP.

00:46:37.320 You need people who really know the fishing industry to be involved in your new endeavor if you're going to govern.

00:46:46.080 So, the key here is not just to get the policies right.

00:46:50.560 This is one big part of it.

00:46:52.580 The other key is to get people with the right experience in business and bring them back into parliament and end the careers of these career politicians.

00:47:01.000 Because look around in parliament, nobody knows what the hell they're doing.

00:47:07.200 Nobody's run a business.

00:47:08.360 Nobody's managed anything.

00:47:09.500 Nobody's had to deal with anything except political backstabbing.

00:47:13.460 So, I'm optimistic that we're beginning to see this change.

00:47:19.140 It's a bit overdue considering that this government could sort of collapse at any moment under the next scandal.

00:47:27.060 But it's a positive step.

00:47:28.800 And so, we want to thank Nigel for this.

00:47:31.000 And we want to say, yes, please.

00:47:32.160 More of the same.

00:47:33.600 Yes.

00:47:34.200 Definitely more of this, please.

00:47:36.040 Yeah.

00:47:37.280 Sigil Stone asks, so Tyler Olivier or a video frame by frame breakdown man?

00:47:41.080 I don't know what that is.

00:47:42.340 No idea.

00:47:42.820 Anyway, let's move on.

00:47:44.140 So, it looks to me as if the future of Britain is pretty much set.

00:47:50.760 Whether we like it or not, we have embarked on a crusade of mass immigration. 1.00

00:47:56.540 And I doubt that any government in the near future is actually going to do anything significant about that.

00:48:01.000 And so, there are certain consequences that we can extrapolate from this.

00:48:08.520 Now, I have here the 2019 British Office of National Statistics information on financial benefits and taxes paid by household.

00:48:22.400 And the reason I've got the 2019 one and not a more recent one is because this was the last year that they produced, is it this one?

00:48:32.480 Yeah, this.

00:48:33.180 For some reason, it's coming up black, so it's hard to read.

00:48:36.720 But as you can see, this is the summary of effects of taxes and benefits by Ethnic Group.

00:48:43.160 On more recent ones, they literally say, we don't want to publish this because people will infer things from it.

00:48:52.360 Now we know what it says without even having to look.

00:48:55.480 Yes, we do.

00:48:56.280 And I can't even make that.

00:48:57.980 I can't get that to be more readable.

00:49:00.980 Sorry.

00:49:02.480 Yeah, if you can turn that dark mode off.

00:49:04.240 There we go.

00:49:05.080 Right.

00:49:05.360 So, this, as you can see, has a position of zero.

00:49:09.720 So, this would be where everyone was net neutral.

00:49:15.820 And then you have the taxes broken down.

00:49:17.860 You've got in dark blue here, benefits in kind.

00:49:22.080 So, these are benefits of services and things like that.

00:49:26.600 Then you have cash benefits.

00:49:28.140 So, that's literally the government giving you money.

00:49:30.280 And then you have direct taxes that you are paying, as in from your wages.

00:49:33.960 And then you have indirect taxes, such as VAT and things like that.

00:49:37.800 And as you can see, this produces a number at the bottom, which is the net position.

00:49:43.680 So, for example, they say white people are minus 4,149 pounds per year in beneficiaries to the state.

00:49:55.480 And so, that means they give to the state and not take from the state.

00:49:59.800 And as you can see, basically, no one else, apart from Asians, but that's a very broad category.

00:50:09.400 Yes.

00:50:09.500 So, that includes Chinese and Indian and Bangladeshis.

00:50:14.020 So, you could split that out quite a lot.

00:50:17.920 But nobody else...

00:50:18.500 And then the real horror show would begin.

00:50:20.580 And then the real, which is why they don't do it.

00:50:22.480 Yeah.

00:50:22.640 And so, that's barely scraping it at minus 503.

00:50:27.400 So, slightly net contributor.

00:50:30.060 You have other, which is a net position of 913, which is negative.

00:50:33.880 So, they're just taking 913 pounds.

00:50:36.500 Or the mixed, which is 1,232.

00:50:40.020 Or the ethnic minorities. 0.90

00:50:41.860 I don't even know what that's supposed to categorize.

00:50:43.540 I think that's just, you know, whatever that is.

00:50:45.700 The net position of minus 125.

00:50:48.460 And then the black community, which is minus 6,371.

00:50:51.460 Plus 6,000.

00:50:52.900 No.

00:50:53.680 The net position is they take from the state 6,000.

00:50:56.440 Yes.

00:50:56.840 Yeah.

00:50:57.220 So, that's actually...

00:50:58.260 It's a negative from our perspective.

00:51:00.060 Exactly.

00:51:00.380 Yeah.

00:51:00.520 Fair enough.

00:51:01.100 Fair enough.

00:51:01.220 They take from the state that much.

00:51:02.720 You give to the state 4,149 on average.

00:51:06.960 So, this...

00:51:07.420 You can see...

00:51:08.060 So, literally, Windrush is basically... 0.95

00:51:10.360 The net result of Windrush is a subsidy to black people. 0.87

00:51:13.000 Yeah.

00:51:13.860 So, it's literally what it is.

00:51:15.420 Yes.

00:51:15.740 And it's not just the Windrush.

00:51:18.080 It's also the MENET countries from the Middle East and North Africa.

00:51:21.960 Yep.

00:51:22.440 I think across Europe, it has been proven that they represent a net drain.

00:51:26.820 Yep.

00:51:26.980 So, diversity is not working to function...

00:51:29.820 To raise the GDP in their respect.

00:51:32.300 Yes.

00:51:32.500 Somehow.

00:51:33.580 Yes.

00:51:34.200 So, the Asian category would include Chinese and Indians, who do actually generally work

00:51:40.020 and contribute.

00:51:41.040 And it will also include Pakistan, Bangladesh...

00:51:44.540 Afghans. 0.99

00:51:45.280 Afghanistan, the Middle East, things like that, who don't.

00:51:48.200 Which is what's dragging them down.

00:51:49.600 Because otherwise, they probably would be a net beneficiary on par or above the white population 0.81

00:51:53.260 of Britain.

00:51:53.740 So, the reason that I point this out is because, okay, well, we have a fairly crystal clear

00:52:01.540 demonstration of who is actually supporting the country, who is actually making the things

00:52:07.460 affordable.

00:52:08.260 And who's supporting who?

00:52:09.400 Yeah, who's supporting who?

00:52:10.240 But who actually makes this country affordable?

00:52:14.100 As in, the money for the NHS, the money for the services, the money for this, the money

00:52:18.800 for that.

00:52:19.060 We all know who this is producing.

00:52:20.620 Now, what happens when that population goes down as a percentage of the overall country?

00:52:27.540 Well, it's fairly straightforward, and everyone can tell, that that means there are going to

00:52:32.500 be more dependents than there are people paying into the system.

00:52:35.400 In fact, that's how it is now, at 53%.

00:52:37.560 But how much worse can it get?

00:52:39.700 Well, a lot worse, actually.

00:52:41.580 And so, this is a bit of an issue.

00:52:43.840 As you can see, the projected demographics are not great.

00:52:48.100 But we are currently about here, and it's just going to get worse, and worse, and worse,

00:52:53.580 and worse.

00:52:53.840 So, bring this back to the amount of money that people are paying.

00:52:57.860 You can see that we have an unsustainable system on our hands.

00:53:00.580 Because it turns out that people are not, in fact, universal, fungible, interchangeable

00:53:04.600 widgets who all operate in the same way.

00:53:07.200 Different cultures matter.

00:53:10.320 So, anyway, moving on to the census.

00:53:14.300 Now, one thing you can see here, this is just me taking the Asian, Asian-British, or Asian-Welsh

00:53:20.420 Pakistanis.

00:53:22.100 What does that mean?

00:53:23.000 What does Asian-Welsh mean?

00:53:25.100 You can see that they're actually really quite segregated.

00:53:28.280 The areas of zero are literally zero.

00:53:33.380 Right?

00:53:34.260 Right?

00:53:35.100 Literally.

00:53:35.820 There are no Pakistanis in these areas.

00:53:38.840 Like, there's like one or two running a corner shop or something in the occasional small town.

00:53:44.040 But there are literally areas where there's just zero.

00:53:46.500 Because this is where the English live. 0.99

00:53:48.240 This is England.

00:53:49.420 Right?

00:53:50.500 Then, you have the Indians. 1.00

00:53:52.860 Now, what did you notice about that?

00:53:56.820 They don't live in the same place.

00:53:58.700 No.

00:53:59.680 They live in different areas.

00:54:01.180 The Indians are much more concentrated in London and Birmingham.

00:54:04.580 And if you look at the Birmingham, it's different areas of Birmingham in which they're concentrated.

00:54:09.000 The Pakistanis are much more in the north there.

00:54:11.460 You'll notice these different...

00:54:12.420 Okay, what about the Chinese?

00:54:13.560 I mean, the Chinese are much smaller, but like Bangladeshis are the same. 1.00

00:54:15.960 But the Bangladeshis and the Pakistanis actually live in different areas of London.

00:54:21.100 People this similar self-segregate.

00:54:24.280 Yep.

00:54:24.660 There used to be one country. 0.88

00:54:25.560 What about the blacks? 0.91

00:54:26.220 Oh, they're in a different area. 0.98

00:54:27.240 What about the black Africans? 0.58

00:54:28.600 Look at the London one here.

00:54:30.140 You'll notice that the black Africans and the black Caribbeans are in different areas of London.

00:54:34.440 The dark blue bit flipping over.

00:54:36.400 Yes.

00:54:36.840 Well, you can see in London.

00:54:38.020 This area here, there, in Barking and Dagenham.

00:54:44.200 Then, what's that flip?

00:54:46.280 Yep.

00:54:46.660 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:54:47.560 These areas are self-selecting and self-segregating.

00:54:51.700 So, the minorities themselves are creating their own little segregated enclaves. 0.98

00:54:57.220 And you know what?

00:54:57.800 That's normal.

00:54:59.320 That's completely normal.

00:55:00.640 Especially as they don't all play nice.

00:55:02.460 I mean, you'll have seen this going around recently.

00:55:05.180 I'm just going to play it so you can hear it from the Your Party event.

00:55:10.260 Thank you.

00:55:11.540 These events, these activities, this unity must grow and continue and take over not just

00:55:19.780 parts of Birmingham, but the whole of Birmingham, the whole of the Western England, the whole

00:55:24.840 of the Western England.

00:55:28.340 That was an independent Gaza MP called Iqbal Mohammed, for your party.

00:55:33.560 The guy who defended cousin marriages in Parliament.

00:55:35.800 Yes.

00:55:36.100 The guy who was chosen to defend cousin marriages in Parliament.

00:55:39.020 And I think he's married to his cousin as well.

00:55:40.880 Well, probably.

00:55:41.140 And is probably the product of, okay, fine.

00:55:43.700 Yeah.

00:55:43.960 I mean, you know, literally coming out and saying, we want to take over not just the

00:55:48.620 whole of Birmingham, the whole of the West Midlands, but the whole of the UK.

00:55:52.680 So, well, yeah, I bet he is thinking that.

00:55:55.120 But like, why would he say, why would he say Birmingham?

00:55:57.700 Because that's where the colony is.

00:56:00.180 That's where this colony is.

00:56:02.900 And so it's one of those things where, right, okay, this is the future of the country, segregated

00:56:08.820 ethnic enclaves.

00:56:10.520 And they're, of course, going, well, what does that mean?

00:56:13.540 Well, we have examples going into the future of when everyone does that.

00:56:18.800 For example, in South Africa, you have Irania. 0.91

00:56:21.320 Now, this was established in 1991 on the Orange River in South Africa.

00:56:25.140 And it was created with the goal of having a literal town, a city, that was just for

00:56:32.100 Afrikaners as a minority group in South Africa.

00:56:35.500 And so they have a very controversial position of just not allowing non-Afrikaners to live

00:56:43.520 there.

00:56:44.020 Now, this, of course, flies in the face of the Rainbow Nation, but in every other way is 1.00

00:56:48.980 massively on the decline.

00:56:50.860 I mean, I don't, do I need to persuade anyone that South Africa...

00:56:54.140 It's a total failed state.

00:56:55.740 I've had the misfortune of action.

00:56:57.180 Do I need to enunciate how the problems have carried on?

00:57:01.000 And the population of this is growing faster than anywhere else.

00:57:03.880 There's 10% annual growth rate in this town.

00:57:06.760 Wow.

00:57:07.020 It's absolutely booming because people have a desire to live amongst people that they

00:57:13.100 recognize and are familiar to themselves, and they understand how the community operates,

00:57:17.600 especially if you want a high standard of living in a high trust community.

00:57:22.480 For example, I doubt they have rolling blackouts in Irania.

00:57:26.800 I doubt there are very many random farm murders in Irania.

00:57:31.160 And of course, this is described by the Guardian as extremism.

00:57:34.360 Again, this white Sony town in South Africa was difficult.

00:57:39.820 Even sadder was the racist backlash in the UK.

00:57:43.540 And this Adi Adipitan...

00:57:47.360 I can't pronounce that.

00:57:48.680 But he made...

00:57:49.080 It's a horrible name.

00:57:50.160 He...

00:57:50.460 Yeah.

00:57:51.180 He made a documentary about Irania.

00:57:54.460 And he said, quote,

00:57:57.680 I want to understand why these people held such extreme views, what the consequences were,

00:58:02.040 and what lessons could be learned.

00:58:04.120 Well, the consequences of thriving, prosperous town,

00:58:07.000 in the extreme view of, I'd like to live around people who are like me. 0.77

00:58:12.140 Crazy.

00:58:12.820 Which is completely normal, as you can see from the British census. 0.52

00:58:17.660 This is what all people do everywhere.

00:58:20.080 And so, there are some concrete reasons for that.

00:58:25.420 Have you ever heard of the...

00:58:27.040 What's it called?

00:58:28.460 Sorry.

00:58:28.880 The particular name for this monument.

00:58:33.440 I can't remember.

00:58:34.320 That's a Wit...

00:58:35.680 Wit Ruis monument?

00:58:38.140 This is...

00:58:38.640 The White Cross monument.

00:58:39.600 Yeah.

00:58:40.000 The White Cross monument.

00:58:41.000 Yeah.

00:58:41.160 And so, this is a monument to people who have been brutally murdered in random home invasions.

00:58:47.920 So, white Afrikaners farmers, but it's not limited to Afrikaners farmers, of course, 0.82

00:58:52.740 and it's targeted because they're white, have their farmsteads broken into by black South Africans, 0.72

00:59:01.180 and they're brutally murdered in some of the most horrific things you've ever read in your life. 0.95

00:59:06.860 Yeah.

00:59:07.200 Like, boiling children alive and various other things.

00:59:09.760 It's just the most horrific things you've ever heard.

00:59:13.340 And, unsurprisingly, there are some people in South Africa who are like,

00:59:17.320 I don't want that to happen.

00:59:20.360 And I don't think, actually, the Rainbow Nation is functioning quite as beautifully as everyone's making out.

00:59:27.380 And so...

00:59:27.720 It's just crazy.

00:59:29.240 And the Guardian would, of course, platform the craziest view.

00:59:33.060 Yeah.

00:59:33.520 And this is being regarded as an extremist position.

00:59:36.400 So, I mean, we have examples of this in Birmingham.

00:59:39.760 This is two men who shot a man and then just went and bought themselves fried chicken.

00:59:46.540 These are them walking away from having point-blank shot a man in the head in Birmingham.

00:59:53.680 And they're just like, yeah, we'll just go get some fried chicken. 0.98

00:59:56.440 So, are you mental?

00:59:58.300 Like, I don't want to live around people who don't care about this sort of thing. 0.89

01:00:01.980 Obviously, they don't know how to use guns, which is how he managed to injure himself in the process.

01:00:08.940 But, anyway, I'm not going to show anymore.

01:00:10.800 I don't think it actually shows anything in this, but, like, it's just insane, right?

01:00:15.040 And so, unsurprisingly, when you get...

01:00:17.180 And this is just one thing, right?

01:00:19.780 I mean, in fact, Harry, can you just do us a favour in the search?

01:00:22.720 Just type in Birmingham machete?

01:00:25.280 Like, just...

01:00:26.280 Because it's...

01:00:27.220 No, no, just...

01:00:27.800 Yeah, just in the search.

01:00:28.600 Just Birmingham machete, right?

01:00:30.160 Because this...

01:00:31.960 Birmingham is an I, not an R. 0.98

01:00:33.700 How are you?

01:00:34.060 Um, the point being, this happens all the time.

01:00:38.060 There's constant street violence going on.

01:00:40.060 And it's totally sociopathic.

01:00:42.180 And, don't worry about it, I'll just carry on.

01:00:44.500 And people, um, people don't want this.

01:00:47.740 And so, anyway, you get this sort of attitude expanding.

01:00:52.420 Now, this is another town in South Africa called Kleinfontein that they're complaining about.

01:00:58.180 It's a gated community for whites. 0.86

01:01:00.960 Why does it need gates?

01:01:01.680 Why does it need gates, indeed?

01:01:04.500 Um, same reason.

01:01:06.240 30 minutes from Johannesburg.

01:01:08.120 There's a link at the end that you haven't loaded up either, Harry.

01:01:12.120 I need as well at the end, please.

01:01:14.760 But this is a town that was founded in 1991, around the same sort of time as Orania.

01:01:19.900 And it's because they want to know that they can feel secure.

01:01:24.660 They want to feel safe.

01:01:25.960 And this is more easily done through homogeneity.

01:01:30.220 Which is, again, the precise reason that all of the ethnic minority communities in this country segregate themselves by design. 1.00

01:01:40.100 They do it normally, naturally.

01:01:42.780 It's a thing that is just what they do when they're given the freedom to do this.

01:01:47.940 And then you have another one in America, which is, uh, this is, um, in Arkansas.

01:01:56.440 What's the name of it?

01:01:58.240 It doesn't actually say, does it?

01:02:01.640 I'm sure I actually got the name of it.

01:02:03.440 Anyway, this is run by a guy called Eric Orwell, who is ideological, right?

01:02:08.220 So, in the previous ones, I don't think it was specifically ideological.

01:02:11.960 I think it was more sort of communal and instinctive, right?

01:02:16.420 We would just like these sort of towns where we don't get murdered by angry people in the Rainbow Nation.

01:02:23.280 But this one's more ideological.

01:02:24.680 Um, because this chap's the leader of, uh, an organization called Return to the Land.

01:02:30.620 And so this subverts and gets around America's civil rights laws by operating as a private club.

01:02:39.420 And so this private club has bought land.

01:02:41.420 And then it sells some of the land or a title to some of the land, uh, to people who then build houses on it, uh, which is exempt from civil rights legislation, uh, because it's a private members association.

01:02:54.220 And so they can, they can choose who they want joining their private members association as they want.

01:02:58.920 And why are they doing this?

01:03:00.620 Well, if you actually, I mean, you can see like throughout this, it's a constant, um, refrain of Nazis, right?

01:03:09.380 Nazis.

01:03:10.420 And, but what you can do is actually ignore the sort of anti these guys propaganda and just pick out some of the actual bits that are substantive.

01:03:21.360 Orwell insists that what he's doing is entirely legal because it's a private club.

01:03:25.300 So it's exempt from equality legislation.

01:03:28.440 Experts I spoke to doubt that.

01:03:30.240 But the group has invested tens of thousands of dollars in legal research and believes it's created a viable framework for many more communities, both in the U.S. and worldwide, to begin this way.

01:03:39.380 This is a worldview that is shared with everyone.

01:03:41.420 I speak to a reaction against what they see is left-wing politics pushed too far.

01:03:45.060 But many of the opinions that we hear have become relatively mainstream that mass immigration is out of control.

01:03:50.360 The Western societies are in danger of losing their fundamental character as a result.

01:03:54.280 Yes, everyone thinks that.

01:03:56.720 And that's why these ethnic groups all congregate together.

01:04:01.920 It's part of it is identity.

01:04:04.260 It's only bad when you do it.

01:04:05.580 Exactly.

01:04:06.480 A part of it is a feeling of sameness and togetherness and identity.

01:04:11.040 These are all true things about these.

01:04:14.240 And so they can complain that this is something that is happening.

01:04:18.040 But it is a direct result to the policy of mass immigration that has been imposed on Western populations in the last 30 years that nobody ever voted for.

01:04:26.380 And before the last 30 years, it's also the question of freedoms without responsibility.

01:04:32.780 Because you can't want to be treated as an equal without also having your fair share of responsibilities.

01:04:41.040 So what we have is we have the woke left that is constantly saying, right, you need to treat everyone as an equal, but not as an equal in respect of responsibilities.

01:04:51.380 Well, here's the answer.

01:04:53.100 This is exactly, exactly right.

01:04:55.600 Like, I'm sorry, but the point is this shouldn't have been possible for them to do.

01:05:01.320 It shouldn't be possible for them to draw out more than they're taking in.

01:05:04.720 And it's exactly your point.

01:05:06.240 Like, there's an inequality of obligation and an inequality of duty.

01:05:13.860 And so, yeah, we're at this point where people are like, well, actually, we're going to have to make what is actually a rational response to this.

01:05:22.500 And so the question for one chap who visited a white sunny town and thinks it could happen here.

01:05:28.200 Well, I mean, I don't know, man.

01:05:33.340 Like, the thing is, right, all of Britain was like that until mass immigration.

01:05:39.200 All of Britain was ethnically homogenous. 0.55

01:05:44.120 It's the dishonesty involved in defining Nigeria as naturally African, but Britain as not naturally European.

01:05:54.540 Sorry, I can't help but notice that it says here 0.0% of people in Eden are Pakistani.

01:06:01.160 That's true.

01:06:02.400 That was an accident.

01:06:03.240 I didn't mean to land on that.

01:06:06.520 What a strange coincidence.

01:06:12.480 But the point is, he's like, oh, my God, it could be in Britain that we have areas that are just essentially 100% white British.

01:06:19.660 It's like, that was the whole country, the entire country prior to about 1990.

01:06:25.700 And it was 95% English in England.

01:06:29.220 So you had, like, these areas in the cities, but almost nowhere else would you see non-English people. 0.98

01:06:37.140 It was completely normal.

01:06:38.420 And yet this guy is like, well, this could happen in Britain.

01:06:41.040 So it was in Britain.

01:06:43.200 Josie Copsom.

01:06:44.140 Well, it's not actually her.

01:06:46.000 She's just writing about this chap's Ben Zand went to Klein Fontein.

01:06:55.080 And while it's not unusual for him to cover subjects that may make people uncomfortable, even for him, a mixed race British Iranian man, it was a difficult but necessary story to tell.

01:07:06.160 Why does it make him uncomfortable to go to an area that is ethically homogenous for white people?

01:07:12.520 Do you feel uncomfortable in China?

01:07:14.580 No.

01:07:15.040 Do you feel uncomfortable?

01:07:16.120 I mean, like, do you feel uncomfortable when you go and visit Cornwall?

01:07:20.160 Like, just out of interest?

01:07:21.580 How many packs?

01:07:21.980 Zero packs of studies in the 21 census.

01:07:24.380 Does that make you uncomfortable, does it?

01:07:26.280 And if we go down, we can actually just get the actual white British population.

01:07:30.680 If it pop up, 93, 96, 94.

01:07:35.900 Like, this is totally normal.

01:07:37.820 It's completely normal.

01:07:38.820 All the dark blue areas are going to be around, you know, 90 plus percent English because this was all of England. 0.81

01:07:45.520 Why would you be uncomfortable if this is normal?

01:07:48.620 This is what a normal country looks like.

01:07:50.480 And this is the weird anomaly where this is where the colonization has been happening.

01:07:57.480 So why is he like, well, I mean, this is a difficult but necessary story to tell.

01:08:01.600 Okay, well, let's tell it then.

01:08:03.800 He says, I think people are becoming increasingly small-minded around identity and want to live in countries that are specifically white British. 0.54

01:08:10.540 Well, I mean, the thing is, if we go back to the Pakistani ones or the Indian ones, these people are not living in countries that are specifically white British.

01:08:22.100 They're trying to live in India. 1.00

01:08:24.500 They're trying to live in Bangladesh. 1.00

01:08:26.080 I remember an article on the BBC that was praising little Bangladesh here.

01:08:32.760 And there was a chap there that didn't speak English.

01:08:34.960 He was like, yeah, it's just like being in Bangladesh but in Britain.

01:08:37.140 It's like, yeah, that's normal.

01:08:39.160 That's what people want, what is familiar, what they understand, what is homely to them.

01:08:43.420 And so is it any wonder that British people are like, I would like that too, actually.

01:08:47.760 Is it any wonder?

01:08:50.080 It's the extremism involved, the extreme one-sidedness.

01:08:55.040 Again, going back to the extremism of the BBC, going back to the extremism of the left in general.

01:09:00.940 They can never see the world through anybody else's eyes except their own.

01:09:04.820 The fundamental point, if you're going to be an analyst, if you're going to sort of think about things, the duty that you have is to try to see the world through the eyes of other people in order to understand their perspective, get their worldview, see where they're coming from, see why they want things in a certain way.

01:09:23.400 And so when you see Bangladeshis congregating, Pakistanis, Chinese, blacks, whatever it is, what do they want? 0.61

01:09:30.900 They want familiarity.

01:09:32.740 They want to live in a world that they know and understand.

01:09:36.760 The basic definition of home for me is this.

01:09:39.580 When you walk down the street and you meet a random person, is there a very high chance that you and him share the same values?

01:09:47.700 You may not agree on much, but do you share the same frame of reference?

01:09:51.880 See, the issue with that definition is that values are something rational that you think about.

01:09:58.880 It's something that could be picked up and put down.

01:10:02.100 Not in the sense of British values.

01:10:03.540 Not in the sense of British values.

01:10:04.480 Well, that's the problem.

01:10:05.220 That's the more deeply ingrained...

01:10:06.500 It's not values, is it?

01:10:07.680 It's more the sort of...

01:10:09.920 Worldview.

01:10:11.080 Reflexive worldview, yeah.

01:10:12.440 Exactly.

01:10:12.940 Call it reflexive worldview.

01:10:14.300 Yeah.

01:10:14.560 Fine.

01:10:14.720 That you're brought up in and that you can't really change.

01:10:17.980 But do you have a compatible understanding of the world?

01:10:21.840 Yeah.

01:10:22.360 And what is right and what is wrong?

01:10:23.740 And what do you enjoy and what is good and what is bad?

01:10:26.160 Do you have an understanding of the world that is common and shared?

01:10:29.600 Everybody says, through voting with their feet, everybody says, voting with their feet,

01:10:35.580 that I want to live next to people who share my worldview.

01:10:40.080 And I want that familiarity to be part of my life and I want my children to grow up in it

01:10:47.320 and I want my children to know the values of their ancestors and to still practice them

01:10:52.060 long after I'm gone.

01:10:53.920 This is your aim when you raise your children.

01:10:55.900 You want your values to be passed down.

01:10:57.960 This is a part of you.

01:10:58.860 This is part of who you are.

01:11:00.100 Worldview values, we're using them interchangeably.

01:11:02.000 As far as the left is concerned, no, no, no, no.

01:11:06.700 In reality, you're all wrong and everybody wants to be in a rainbow nation. 1.00

01:11:11.120 But in the rainbow nation, the black Africans go around murdering the Zimbabweans and attacking 1.00

01:11:16.460 the Nigerians because they think that they're stealing their jobs and taking away from them 0.99

01:11:20.380 and they're not contributing and this and that and the other.

01:11:22.180 I mean, look at Leicester in 2022 with the riots between the Muslims and the Indians, the Hindus. 0.98

01:11:27.880 There was an amazing video of this Muslim couple in a car watching the Hindu chants walking past

01:11:35.240 and the woman was like, what's this?

01:11:38.180 And he was like, well, this is our equivalent of yelling Allah or Akbar, but in Hindu.

01:11:41.860 And it's like, but they had no idea because they live in segregated communities.

01:11:45.960 They don't know each other.

01:11:47.340 Exactly.

01:11:47.600 And so, but this, this, this guy's thought process tells you everything you need to know

01:11:51.780 about the remoteness of these people to reality, right?

01:11:55.340 Yes.

01:11:55.600 Because this is the world we live in.

01:11:57.160 The world we live in is the world in which there is essentially a kind of racial tax

01:12:02.560 on the majority population of this country.

01:12:05.200 There is just de facto segregation in this country.

01:12:09.800 And a racial subsidy for everybody else. 0.63

01:12:11.400 And a racial subsidy for everyone else. 0.51

01:12:12.720 But de facto segregation between different communities.

01:12:15.640 And everybody else's segregation is good.

01:12:18.120 It's just normal.

01:12:18.820 It's not even common.

01:12:19.280 But yours is bad.

01:12:20.260 But this, this guy then says, and I'm quoting directly, what does it practically look like

01:12:26.620 to live somewhere where there's actually only one type of person?

01:12:30.120 Well, pre-World War II.

01:12:32.800 It looks like the world from.

01:12:35.220 It's not even pre-World War II.

01:12:37.120 Like it's anywhere, anywhere in Britain, outside of this scarred area of our country.

01:12:44.140 Like you can, you can go to, you know, where's Great Yarmouth?

01:12:47.400 There we are.

01:12:48.260 It's like 88%.

01:12:49.380 Like that's basically that.

01:12:50.900 Like North Norfolk, 95.6%.

01:12:53.820 Areas in the Southwest, where it's like 96%.

01:12:57.900 Like, I know.

01:12:59.180 I used to live in Cornwall.

01:13:00.720 Like it just looks normal.

01:13:03.120 It's just normal.

01:13:04.740 Nothing very interesting happens, actually.

01:13:07.420 Which I think one summary of what the left is, is the war on normal.

01:13:12.040 Yes.

01:13:12.980 It's, it's just normal.

01:13:14.720 And so what happens when there's only one type of person?

01:13:17.640 Well, life carries on unimpeded by the dangers of diversity and multiculturalism. 1.00

01:13:23.160 Like very few murders happen.

01:13:25.220 Very few thefts.

01:13:26.540 People go out drinking.

01:13:28.160 Like I used to go to like the bars in Newquay and it was like a two mile walk home at like

01:13:33.240 three in the morning.

01:13:33.980 And every Saturday or Friday or whatever, I just walked two, three miles home drunk and

01:13:39.420 nothing ever happened.

01:13:40.600 I used to just walk home and women would walk home. 1.00

01:13:43.760 Like, you know, friends of mine would go out drinking and they'd all just walk home and

01:13:48.080 nothing would ever happen because everyone knew what the place was like and behaved appropriately.

01:13:55.020 The next question he says, is this a realistic way of life?

01:14:00.460 Is it a realistic way of life?

01:14:01.820 I think, I think I mentioned this.

01:14:03.220 It's, it's how it's spontaneously, it has spontaneously arisen.

01:14:08.500 What are we talking about?

01:14:09.820 Exactly.

01:14:10.600 Like, how, how is it that these people can just live in a homogenous communities?

01:14:14.860 Would we be happier if we just lived with our own race? 1.00

01:14:17.960 It's more an issue of the left trying to problematize everything.

01:14:21.900 Because everything they problematize is what they try to control.

01:14:25.660 Again, it's just, it's just, it's just one of the, yeah, that's correct.

01:14:29.320 It's just one of the things.

01:14:30.240 Would we be happier?

01:14:31.220 It's like, well, everyone does it by revealed preference.

01:14:33.760 Like, everyone lives in different areas through revealed preference.

01:14:38.320 Why are these, why are these colors flicking around every time I click on a different ethnic group?

01:14:44.620 Because through revealed preference, it's clear that people are happier when they live among people who are more like themselves.

01:14:50.940 It's self-evident.

01:14:53.040 And he explains, you know, well, as a mixed race dude, my conclusion is probably not.

01:14:58.140 It's like, well, I'm sorry, but I just don't think that's correct.

01:15:01.020 And I think that, actually, when people live among people who are like themselves, people prefer it.

01:15:08.560 And this seems to be, again, the revealed preference of everything that's happening.

01:15:12.700 And so he, he notes in his column, in his column, that there's nothing offensive about the place he visited either, Kleinfontein.

01:15:22.260 The funny thing is, this guy is half Iranian.

01:15:24.740 Yeah.

01:15:25.100 If you were to look at Iran outside of Iran, it's deeply segregated.

01:15:29.720 Like the Azeris live in one part of Iran, the Kurds live in another part, the Persians live in another part, the Arabs live in their own part. 0.92

01:15:37.440 Outside of a few big cities, it's very deeply segregated.

01:15:41.180 Yes.

01:15:41.880 And that's how people like it.

01:15:43.680 Nobody problematizes it about Iran.

01:15:47.460 In Saudi Arabia, the Shia have their own part.

01:15:50.480 The genuinely mixed part of Saudi Arabia is the, is the Western part of the country.

01:15:56.120 And the center is the tribes.

01:15:57.640 And it's just sort of very normal everywhere you go.

01:16:03.760 In Lebanon, the only Catholic city in the country is also the only Catholic city, is also the only city with 24 hours electricity.

01:16:11.000 So, goes to show you.

01:16:12.840 I mean, he says here, like, he's been to lots of different places, like a nudist retreat and legal brothel in Nevada and various other things.

01:16:20.880 And they're easy because they're not really hurting everyone.

01:16:23.700 But being exclusively one race is massively problematic.

01:16:27.860 To who?

01:16:29.020 Not to the people living in these areas.

01:16:31.140 Not to the Iranians. 0.99

01:16:32.340 But not even the Iranians. 0.99

01:16:34.000 It's not to the Pakistanis who live in this very densely congregated areas.

01:16:38.960 Who have decided, yeah, no, we're going to live in these areas.

01:16:41.780 Or these are the Caribbeans, but whoever.

01:16:43.500 You know, like, in these densely, it's not a problem to them.

01:16:46.520 Like, if you, and if we zoom in, you see that it's even more segregated.

01:16:52.960 Yes.

01:16:53.220 Right?

01:16:53.620 It's just, this is hiding the levels of segregation in Bradford.

01:16:58.260 We've got areas that are just almost, literally, like, overwhelming majority Pakistani.

01:17:03.740 It's like, sorry, people, why isn't he saying that to these people?

01:17:08.060 It's like, by the way, did you know, it's highly problematic that you have self-segregated in this way?

01:17:12.760 No.

01:17:12.880 Well, it's problematic to everyone who wants to project might on that area, but can't yet.

01:17:19.620 That's exactly what it is.

01:17:21.000 But it's also problematic to the liberal ideological sense of what a community is. 1.00

01:17:24.520 Yeah, they're useful idiots of these people. 0.99

01:17:26.300 Yeah, but it's the liberal morality, as in this was an unchosen fact about the person. 1.00

01:17:33.420 You didn't choose your race or your ethnicity or anything like this.

01:17:35.940 And organizing on this denies other people a choice.

01:17:40.040 And this is really what's at the heart of the problem.

01:17:41.640 Yeah, that's the idealism of it.

01:17:43.960 They can't accept that we live in a realistic world.

01:17:48.060 No, we live in a world where we have to be realistic.

01:17:50.420 And just look at what Zach Polanski said yesterday about nukes.

01:17:53.480 Yeah.

01:17:53.880 He just convinced Putin to throw his nukes away.

01:17:58.540 What do you reckon?

01:17:59.160 I think he hypnotizes them.

01:18:00.660 Yeah, yeah.

01:18:01.160 I think he hypnotizes Putin.

01:18:02.440 But that's, excuse me, I think.

01:18:04.300 Maybe he'll offer him a double deal.

01:18:05.680 He'll grow his thing and get him off the deal.

01:18:07.960 What he says was entirely deliberate because the consequence of this ideology tells to people in the Western world,

01:18:14.340 basically you need to give away your identity and banding together, but we are going to do it.

01:18:21.040 You need to be like Esau.

01:18:23.320 It's like having a cat in a world of other cats with nails and cutting its nails.

01:18:29.320 But the thing I want to highlight here is the ideology of the thing, right?

01:18:32.000 Because you'll notice as he says here, there's nothing offensive about the aesthetics of the place.

01:18:36.040 There are well-structured light stone houses, plenty of green space on which residents can ride their horses,

01:18:40.080 and a brightly colored playground for children to enjoy.

01:18:42.220 It's nice, right?

01:18:43.860 So it's not that the community it has created is a bad community.

01:18:48.460 It's a very happy, wholesome, thriving community, just like Arania.

01:18:51.580 These are perfectly good places.

01:18:53.080 But it's problematic ideologically because there are people who didn't get the option to live there.

01:18:59.100 I have to read this section.

01:19:01.480 Sorry, Carl, give me a second.

01:19:02.700 Yeah, go.

01:19:03.620 Even when I hate somebody's views, I want to try to chat with them.

01:19:07.060 There's an element of me that's a bit hippie.

01:19:09.300 I just love love.

01:19:10.560 And I believe in being nice to people.

01:19:12.400 I'm sure he'll find it there.

01:19:13.840 No matter what, I hope that I make the case that it's possible to talk softly about difficult things and still challenge them.

01:19:21.080 He's put himself on an insane moral pedestal.

01:19:23.880 He's seen a successful society.

01:19:26.240 He's decided that it's immoral.

01:19:28.220 Because it's not brown.

01:19:28.840 He's put himself, exactly, he's put himself on a moral pedestal,

01:19:31.760 and he's talking down to these people, and they were polite enough to him, 0.97

01:19:36.260 while I assume thinking that he's an absolute lunatic who has no idea.

01:19:39.700 He says, they were nice to me. 0.77

01:19:41.020 Yeah, exactly.

01:19:42.480 Like, he doesn't know anything about living in Johannesburg or something like that.

01:19:46.000 South Africa.

01:19:46.620 But he's decided that he's more moral than they are.

01:19:49.760 And this is the concealment of liberalism.

01:19:52.440 It conceals the reality and problematizes things that are otherwise good.

01:19:57.160 I'm running over a bit on this.

01:19:58.440 So, like, he comes down, and he gets to this, again, they're not really hurting anyone.

01:20:05.300 They really define people by their cultural heritage.

01:20:07.640 Hmm.

01:20:08.000 Strange, that.

01:20:08.740 Yeah, weird.

01:20:09.420 Can you imagine?

01:20:10.260 I define myself by my cultural heritage.

01:20:12.060 Same here.

01:20:12.840 He says, humans are so tribalistic.

01:20:14.960 And it reminded me that the other thing that makes us fantastic is that we create communities and love each other.

01:20:20.620 But that is a function of tribalism.

01:20:23.980 That is a consequence of the tribalism.

01:20:26.460 Yep.

01:20:26.900 It's when you don't have tribalism, when you don't have this kind of homogeneity in a community,

01:20:31.900 regardless of the axis around which it revolves,

01:20:35.120 then you have a low-trust, suspicious place that people aren't comfortable living in.

01:20:40.320 Right?

01:20:40.440 So, he's saying, look, I like the good thing, but I'm a liberal.

01:20:44.620 I'm a radical, globalist liberal who can't accept the things you have to do to make that thing come into existence.

01:20:51.700 In Clemfontein, they were so protective and kind to each other.

01:20:55.800 Yeah, I bet.

01:20:56.780 They've created a well-functioning area, and the collectivism is such that they all contribute money to fund the schools and hospitals.

01:21:03.040 But I want diversity, and that will destroy this. 0.70

01:21:07.400 I wonder where he actually lives.

01:21:09.860 Somebody asked him.

01:21:10.440 I didn't look it up, actually.

01:21:11.620 Somebody asked him if they could become Persian.

01:21:14.140 That's a brilliant question.

01:21:15.220 Yeah, well, exactly.

01:21:16.900 What do you think, Stelius?

01:21:17.600 You guys have a history with the Persians.

01:21:18.900 Could you just become Persian?

01:21:20.440 It's okay.

01:21:20.980 I think after a while, it's okay.

01:21:22.980 I don't have such an issue with Persians.

01:21:25.140 But, I mean, I can't be Persian.

01:21:28.560 I'm Greek.

01:21:29.060 I mean, it's just...

01:21:29.540 Well, this is what it is.

01:21:30.760 No, I don't have an issue with Persians.

01:21:33.600 It's a bygone.

01:21:34.660 It's water under the bridge.

01:21:36.040 Look at the...

01:21:36.360 Yeah, I know.

01:21:37.060 I'm Lebanese.

01:21:37.760 It's not.

01:21:38.360 It's sort of respectable foes as well, isn't it?

01:21:41.940 You know, the Persians are respectable.

01:21:43.060 And you won.

01:21:43.820 So, yeah.

01:21:44.860 So, you can't be salty about it.

01:21:46.520 Anyway, he says, there's a lot to be learned.

01:21:49.000 Like, if you work together, you can do great things.

01:21:51.500 But that has a darker side, as by caring for themselves, they've banded together against

01:21:56.640 other people whom they hate.

01:21:58.500 We need...

01:21:59.180 I don't think they hate anyone.

01:22:00.440 They didn't seem very hateful.

01:22:01.880 We need a sense of identity that goes beyond our race and culture as people on Earth.

01:22:06.400 It's like, sorry.

01:22:07.060 It's called Christianity, and Christianity recognizes nations.

01:22:10.440 Move on.

01:22:10.940 But hang on a second.

01:22:11.720 Why do we need that?

01:22:12.620 Because they seem to have a perfectly functioning society.

01:22:15.620 So, we need something that goes beyond race.

01:22:18.220 Hang on.

01:22:18.680 Why?

01:22:19.540 If the society that they have is very nice, very aesthetically pleasing, everyone's very

01:22:23.660 polite, and it's growing really nicely, why do we need something else?

01:22:27.920 And it's because he's like, I feel excluded.

01:22:29.860 That's too bad.

01:22:31.200 Go start your own community.

01:22:32.880 Like, you don't just get to destroy someone else's community because of your arbitrary 1.00

01:22:36.680 liberal bullshit. 1.00

01:22:38.220 Like, what are you doing? 1.00

01:22:39.420 Do you even listen to yourself?

01:22:40.820 And what would a sense of identity that goes beyond, like, parochialism even mean?

01:22:45.420 Oh, well, I mean, we all have an identity of human.

01:22:48.660 It's actually, because it includes everyone, it's not very useful.

01:22:51.820 It doesn't bond us together, because it doesn't mean anything.

01:22:56.100 Because it's all-inclusive.

01:22:57.140 It doesn't help.

01:22:58.340 There is no such thing as an all-inclusive identity.

01:23:01.160 You can't make sense out of it.

01:23:02.580 Well, even if you can, it's…

01:23:03.740 All identity is exclusive.

01:23:05.280 But even if you can, the identity of human, I think, is an all-inclusive identity, but

01:23:08.900 it doesn't mean anything.

01:23:10.540 Like, it doesn't…

01:23:11.540 No, you can understand it in distinction to things that aren't human.

01:23:16.460 Well, yeah, exactly, yeah.

01:23:17.460 Otherwise, like, you know, being with a capital B.

01:23:19.860 Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

01:23:21.060 No, no, you're absolutely right.

01:23:21.620 Which you can understand in distinction with nothingness.

01:23:25.060 But that's the point, and that's what he's asking.

01:23:27.140 He's asking for, essentially, the obliteration of a collective identity that people have.

01:23:32.700 Yeah.

01:23:32.940 He's saying, actually, everyone should just be an atomic individual. 0.99

01:23:35.320 And that's basically an attempt that there is an alliance between useful idiots and people 0.99

01:23:40.220 who hate that identity. 1.00

01:23:41.340 Yes.

01:23:41.820 Because they fully intend to keep their own identity, and they have the doors that are

01:23:46.600 open.

01:23:47.020 That's the Trojan horse. 1.00

01:23:48.140 And they're useful idiots that are playing their game. 1.00

01:23:51.100 The point, I like your point about him ascribing to himself kind of moral superiority. 1.00

01:23:55.880 It's like, he's, like, everyone who's living in this town, who is, like he said, you know,

01:24:00.580 they're being sort of collectivists in that they donate money to the church or to the schools

01:24:04.240 or whatever.

01:24:04.920 They've got safe spaces.

01:24:06.260 They've got a nice place.

01:24:07.800 You know, it's beautiful houses, et cetera, et cetera.

01:24:09.980 They are all moral people.

01:24:12.040 As in, they are doing things that are moral.

01:24:14.000 More so than him.

01:24:15.000 Way more so than him.

01:24:15.800 Because they're actually building a community that is prosperous and beneficial to their

01:24:19.480 children.

01:24:19.920 Exactly.

01:24:20.460 He's attacking them for that.

01:24:22.200 Yes.

01:24:22.480 He is immoral.

01:24:23.720 What he is doing is immoral.

01:24:24.960 Focusing on empirical data.

01:24:26.520 Because, I mean, from my perspective, everyone who judges morally does this.

01:24:31.680 So, yeah, I mean, I have no problem with occupying that position.

01:24:35.240 The point is that when you do this, you do your homework.

01:24:38.400 Yep.

01:24:38.660 And these people routinely don't do their homework.

01:24:40.720 Because it's what you're saying.

01:24:42.020 They just say, right, flat out, abstract human.

01:24:44.620 That's it.

01:24:45.380 Full stop.

01:24:45.840 But the thing is, this kind of appeal to abstraction is the essence of morality.

01:24:50.440 I just think is completely wrong.

01:24:52.440 Right?

01:24:52.600 As in, he's got a rule in his head.

01:24:54.180 There have to be a certain percentage of browns in this community, or else the community 0.90

01:24:57.740 is immoral.

01:24:58.960 But if you, which is literally what he's arguing, right?

01:25:01.300 That's the brown standard. 1.00

01:25:02.140 You know, we have the gold standard, the civil, the brown standard. 0.97

01:25:04.640 It's literally what he's arguing.

01:25:06.460 And it's like, but the community is thriving.

01:25:08.280 Everyone seems healthy and happy and good.

01:25:10.760 And they, like, you said, they are living moral lives.

01:25:14.080 And the product of that is self-evident.

01:25:15.860 And he has to admit that.

01:25:17.260 And yet still, he's like, well, this needs to be destroyed.

01:25:20.140 And it's like, no, that's evil.

01:25:21.560 What you're doing is evil to these people.

01:25:23.540 You're trying to bring evil to them.

01:25:25.700 And good for them for saying no, frankly.

01:25:28.320 Anyway, let's go to the video comments.

01:25:32.000 Luke says, fatigue.

01:25:33.960 I'm going to try and be cute.

01:25:36.100 The concept of the character by Flight from Syracuse talked from, talked about some of the,

01:25:41.160 look, man, we're on YouTube.

01:25:42.160 I can't say a lot of those things.

01:25:45.820 His ideology tries to fix.

01:25:47.120 Thank you, Luke.

01:25:47.880 Thank you, Luke.

01:25:48.480 Yeah, I can't say a lot of that there.

01:25:50.000 His ideology tries to fix what isn't broken while refusing to fix what is broken.

01:25:55.320 Well, the thing is, the thing is about the ideology is because it's rules focused.

01:26:01.140 If the thing isn't in violation of the rule, it doesn't see it as a problem, right?

01:26:06.040 And so if a low trust society is not in violation of liberal rules, so it doesn't recognize that there is a problem with a low trust society, what you feel isn't rules based.

01:26:18.140 What you feel is affirmative and relational.

01:26:21.160 And so you're looking around at the place you live going, well, my relation to this place and its relation to me is making me feel unsafe.

01:26:27.360 But the liberal's like, okay, but what rule has been broken?

01:26:29.740 None.

01:26:30.380 So it's blind to it.

01:26:31.700 It doesn't see it at all.

01:26:32.880 So it isn't even that it thinks that it's broken.

01:26:37.180 That's the thing.

01:26:38.160 But anyway, let's go to the video comments.

01:26:39.340 Today is the five year anniversary of episode one of the podcast of the Lotus Eaters.

01:26:53.760 It has been a tremendous journey and man has it been fun watching the team grow, procedures polished and content flourish.

01:27:02.580 I hope for many, many more years of holding our rulers accountable through intellectual discussion and most importantly shitposts.

01:27:09.340 My thanks to everyone in the office.

01:27:12.320 You do a fantastic job and I hope you all have a great day.

01:27:17.100 Thank you.

01:27:18.320 Well, that was awesome.

01:27:19.060 I completely forgot that this was the five year anniversary.

01:27:22.040 And yeah, everyone is doing a great job, obviously, and is incredible.

01:27:27.420 And I think that, you know, thank you for everything for signing up to the website, basically, guys, because we wouldn't have anything without you.

01:27:33.980 Let's go to the next one.

01:27:35.060 Breaking news from Swindon.

01:27:39.860 Beloved comedy page, IRL, loading screen tips, is having a normal one and crashing out massively over a certain interview that the rest of the world has already moved on from.

01:27:48.920 I do enjoy how much they're upset by that Sidney Sweeney stuff.

01:28:08.640 Let's go to the next one.

01:28:09.540 You're Nanda's OnlyFans for a tenner.

01:28:16.240 I like how that's some kind of insult as well.

01:28:19.000 It's not even you're Nanda's OnlyFans, it's that she does it for a tenner.

01:28:22.420 Maybe if she did it for 20 quid, it would be respectable or something.

01:28:26.400 Also, not many people know this about me, guys, but my name is actually Leo.

01:28:31.220 Wow.

01:28:34.160 That is funny.

01:28:36.740 The kinds of things you see there, it's funny.

01:28:39.580 Yeah.

01:28:39.920 Really funny.

01:28:42.280 You're telling me that the same people who protected the pedo statue, Jimmy Savile, Islamic grooming gangs, and numerous other pedophiles have been lying to us? 0.91

01:28:48.440 Imagine my shock. 0.70

01:28:49.840 Yeah, it's kind of shocking with the BBC, isn't it?

01:28:52.880 Omar says they're all in too deep.

01:28:54.160 They can't stop lying because acknowledging it brings certainty of consequences, even without the righteous backlash, breaking the mass charade, or bring down the wrath of other blood-sucking vermin behind the scenes.

01:29:04.040 Yeah, I mean, this is the thing, isn't it?

01:29:05.780 Like, they're all in so deep.

01:29:07.960 What are you going to do?

01:29:09.980 It's impossible to reach them.

01:29:11.580 It's very difficult to reach them.

01:29:15.140 Charles says,

01:29:16.000 Trump should extradite the responsible editor and prosecute for electoral interference.

01:29:19.880 Well, it's after the election, so he can't do that.

01:29:22.260 And I doubt they'd do that either.

01:29:24.680 But I'm glad that Trump made a big stink about it, to be honest, because, you know, deserve a few scalps from the BBC.

01:29:32.760 Canis Familiaris says,

01:29:34.620 recently moved to Germany, and I can feel what you say about the EU smashing small business.

01:29:39.640 The amount of stuff you can only find on Amazon here is wild.

01:29:42.900 Yeah, and it's a real tragedy as well, because, like, when you go visit somewhere,

01:29:48.480 visiting the local small businesses that have products that are only available in that area is what makes travelling interesting.

01:29:55.960 Yes.

01:29:56.500 And that's the fun bit of travelling.

01:29:58.840 Yep.

01:30:00.080 And the modernisation of everything is terrible.

01:30:02.480 Yeah, okay, yeah.

01:30:03.240 No, no, I want to say that when the prices are too high, it's not that great.

01:30:08.800 But what I want to say about it is that the EU is absolutely against business.

01:30:15.380 Oh, yeah, because the thing is, would you rather regulate and administer, like, you know,

01:30:20.660 two dozen international corporations who have professional bodies within them to deal with you and interface with you?

01:30:28.640 Or would you rather, like, I mean, if there are, you know, how many small businesses were there in the UK?

01:30:34.040 Four and a half million.

01:30:34.800 Right.

01:30:35.140 And that's, so let's assume that's one, and there are, what, 26 member states of the EU?

01:30:41.060 So you've got 100 million or so small businesses you've got to regulate all across the European continent.

01:30:45.400 Yep.

01:30:45.620 I'd rather not deal with that.

01:30:47.120 I'd rather deal with the giant corporations.

01:30:49.000 Doesn't matter what the consequence is.

01:30:50.480 So you can see from the bureaucrat's perspective, the natural bias towards big business,

01:30:54.920 just from a practical day-to-day administrative position is inevitable.

01:30:59.820 But anyway, the last one will be Barron von Warhawk.

01:31:02.220 The British state, welfare state has become the new white man's burden. 0.95

01:31:06.940 I mean, the thing is, that's what the numbers are saying, right?

01:31:11.220 That is what the numbers are telling us.

01:31:15.280 Ewan says, my area on that shows 88% white British, and that stat is definitely a lot lower now,

01:31:20.180 which, again, the 2021 census doesn't include the Boris way.

01:31:25.720 So thanks, Boris, for bringing another four plus million people who we didn't ask for,

01:31:30.400 and that you campaigned on getting not brought in.

01:31:33.120 Anyway, thank you everyone for joining us.

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - November 10, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1292

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