Faras and Stelios discuss the latest scandal to shake the BBC, and how it relates to the Trump speech on Panorama in 2021, and the conspiracy theories surrounding it. They also discuss how the BBC got it wrong with a report about the BBC Arabic service being biased towards Hamas, and why the future of Britain and the West might be in ethnic enclaves.
00:03:17.840We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.
00:03:29.160Right, so what happened was basically that in the first clip, the Panorama program took something that Trump said 54 minutes after the first sentence,
00:03:39.880and they put it together, and they created this impression that Trump basically said,
00:03:45.480we're going to go there and we're going to fight.
00:03:47.980Right, so I'd say that this is a shameless fabrication.
00:03:53.600I mean, there's no other way of putting it.
00:05:19.180They'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.
00:05:36.120I remember also, we need to fact-check Kiyostama, who was speaking about sausages.
00:05:43.060The one that always sticks with me is when the BBC translated a Gaza Palestinian children's cartoon.
00:05:49.820And 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.
00:05:57.840And actually, it was just the Arabic word for Jews.
00:05:59.500And 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.
00:06:17.100Yes, but as Firas has completely correctly, I think, reported, most people tend to silence the migration issue when they are reporting on the report.
00:06:29.500So when you look at the media reporting, it seems like it's about Trump, Israel, and the LGBT stuff.
00:06:36.660And 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.
00:07:40.200Yeah, that's one of the questions that are being asked now.
00:07:43.360Because there is a debate as to whether this is an isolated incident or a culture.
00:07:47.720Now, 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.
00:08:00.580Which is interesting because they do the same thing here for the BBC while simultaneously claiming that the BBC isn't biased towards them.
00:08:10.180I'm not even, like, you know, upset about that.
00:08:12.480Obviously, both sides do exactly that, obviously.
00:09:03.120So, yeah, we have here from the, this is a BBC article.
00:09:08.880BBC director general Tim Davian, CEO of News, Deborah Ternas, have resigned after a newspaper report suggested a BBC panorama documentary, blah, blah, blah.
00:09:19.780Misled viewers by editing a speech about.
00:09:26.200The 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.
00:09:35.620To the extent that they made, I think, 12 notifications on their sort of notification service about Russell Brand, but almost none about illegal immigration.
00:09:44.640Like in one month, Russell Brand gets 12 notifications and illegal immigration gets next to nothing.
00:09:51.960And the thing is, well, sorry, can we get back to that?
00:09:56.400That'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.
00:10:05.180You know, it turns out that immigration was not 750,000 net.
00:10:09.260It was 900,000 because it got revised up last July or whatever, right?
00:12:26.840And, 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.
00:13:09.660He should just turn the BBC into a subscription service.
00:13:11.800If 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.
00:13:22.340But then it shouldn't be called the BBC.
00:13:34.700And 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.
00:14:32.480You need a particular kind of software.
00:14:33.800You need to know how to use the software.
00:14:34.880And you need to actually spend some time actually splicing those things together and erasing the evidence that that wasn't just one contiguous sentence.
00:15:15.840And 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.
00:15:29.380I just think Alastair Campbell is a clown.
00:15:32.520I just wouldn't take any of his analysis.
00:15:52.440You 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.
00:16:05.060Not mentioning that he's a man is obvious bias.
00:16:07.280But as far as Alastair Campbell is concerned, they insist on doubling down, which I want to make a point here.
00:16:12.940It shows an issue with the difference between the left and the right.
00:16:15.800The 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.
00:16:36.560But I mean, quick thing to remember is Alastair Campbell was Tony Blair's spin doctor.
00:16:40.200He was just a professional liar for Tony Blair throughout the Blair government and then became the head of communications for the government or whatever.
00:16:46.100Also, 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?
00:23:51.460It's as if cattle thought that they were journalists and genuinely believed.
00:23:54.420That's more of a useful idiot diagnosis of the situation.
00:23:57.760I think that there is another bit that is a bit more conscious.
00:24:01.180And 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,
00:24:12.960that Trump is creating Weimar conditions and that they are threatened and they aren't threatened, at least in such a way.
00:24:24.880Because 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,
00:24:36.440they will say, right, it didn't happen because Ed Davey spoke against it, because Harriet Harman,
00:24:42.640because David Yellen spoke against it.
00:27:25.820Yeah, I mean, the thing is, okay, so the heads have been chopped off the Hydra,
00:27:30.460but there are all sorts of layers of bureaucracy in which the decision was signed off.
00:27:37.900So all of those people are culpable too.
00:27:40.440And 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.
00:29:31.340So if you're a small business, this is obviously the first step towards becoming a big business.
00:29:37.660You have to go through this step first.
00:29:39.220And 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?
00:29:46.000A 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.
00:30:46.700But it was absolutely terrible, it seems, because growth is under 1%, something like that.
00:30:56.320And this isn't big enough for small businesses to thrive.
00:30:59.640And weirdly enough, the consumer-facing sectors of wholesale and retail and accommodation were especially downbeat in the second quarter of this year.
00:31:10.260You'd think that with all of the migrants being placed in hotels, this would be positive.
00:31:14.280But no, it's been obviously terrible, because people are so squeezed that they're only spending on the basics.
00:31:21.380The 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.
00:31:40.720So what they're trying to do is basically impose equality.
00:31:43.780Dan 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.
00:32:29.260Because 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.
00:33:03.940It'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.
00:33:20.500So, it's really, even from a social perspective, it's really important to have small businesses thrive because they build a functioning society.
00:33:30.260That's why the small villages look so good.
00:33:40.740And 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.
00:34:00.460This is a particular problem with the European Union, and this is a very strong argument that was made during Brexit.
00:34:04.860And for some reason, the Conservative government did nothing with it.
00:34:08.240So, there's a kind of homogenizing effect that is far easier to bear if you're a big business.
00:34:13.800So, 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.
00:34:30.260So, 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.
00:34:50.000This is the bureaucrat's dream and the normal person's nightmare that small businesses live under at the moment, just FYI.
00:34:58.500So, 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.
00:35:07.760If you're a small business, haha, good luck.
00:35:11.900You'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.
00:35:19.700You are everything in your company if you own it yourself.
00:35:23.620You 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.
00:35:35.500This is why the Forum of Private Businesses says you need to turn regulation on its head.
00:35:41.080Instead 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.
00:36:33.140And 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.
00:36:54.620And 92% of businesses are terrified about it.
00:36:58.180Weirdly enough, big businesses, I think, are only maybe 1% or 2% of all businesses.
00:37:04.740So 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.
00:37:16.220But also, what problem is this solving?
00:37:18.840Is the problem in Britain a lack of employment rights?
00:37:24.560And 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.
00:37:45.440I 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.
00:38:03.160Sorry, this is another insane and very annoying point, is that all of this is done by consent.
00:38:09.800So 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.
00:38:34.020So the good news here is that Nigel Farage seems to understand this.
00:38:37.620And 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.
00:38:51.980Because 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.
00:39:00.600Firstly, HR and everything to do with equalities law and things of that nature.
00:39:04.560So 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.
00:39:28.580So if your staff gets sick and you're a small shopkeeper, you still have to pay them.
00:39:32.420You'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.
00:40:31.500And 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.
00:44:30.760So, there is this need to actually do something to get the economy growing.
00:44:37.020And the only way to do that is to get small businesses involved.
00:44:40.640And 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.
00:44:51.240And there's hope that we will see something better.
00:44:55.300Farage went as far as to say that we're living in an age where big businesses virtually control and own the political arena.
00:45:35.080As with everything involving reform, the issue is implementation.
00:45:38.920Because 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.
00:45:52.300He didn't actually identify the policies that would have to be implemented and what these would look like.
00:45:58.820This is important and this is always an issue.
00:46:02.040But 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.
00:46:16.700So, it's not enough because the economy is collapsing.
00:46:20.760And as we've said in previous episodes, at any point, Britain could face a major financial crisis as well as the rest of Europe.
00:46:27.380But it's really good that Farage seems to get this.
00:46:30.540What's needed is really more of the same.
00:46:32.980You need somebody deeply involved in farming to also be running for MP.
00:46:37.320You need people who really know the fishing industry to be involved in your new endeavor if you're going to govern.
00:46:46.080So, the key here is not just to get the policies right.
00:46:52.580The 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.
00:47:01.000Because look around in parliament, nobody knows what the hell they're doing.
01:02:24.680Um, because this chap's the leader of, uh, an organization called Return to the Land.
01:02:30.620And so this subverts and gets around America's civil rights laws by operating as a private club.
01:02:39.420And so this private club has bought land.
01:02:41.420And 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.
01:02:54.220And so they can, they can choose who they want joining their private members association as they want.
01:03:10.420And, 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.
01:03:21.360Orwell insists that what he's doing is entirely legal because it's a private club.
01:03:25.300So it's exempt from equality legislation.
01:03:30.240But 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.
01:03:39.380This is a worldview that is shared with everyone.
01:03:41.420I speak to a reaction against what they see is left-wing politics pushed too far.
01:03:45.060But many of the opinions that we hear have become relatively mainstream that mass immigration is out of control.
01:03:50.360The Western societies are in danger of losing their fundamental character as a result.
01:04:06.480A part of it is a feeling of sameness and togetherness and identity.
01:04:11.040These are all true things about these.
01:04:14.240And so they can complain that this is something that is happening.
01:04:18.040But 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.
01:04:26.380And before the last 30 years, it's also the question of freedoms without responsibility.
01:04:32.780Because you can't want to be treated as an equal without also having your fair share of responsibilities.
01:04:41.040So 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.
01:05:06.240Like, there's an inequality of obligation and an inequality of duty.
01:05:13.860And 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.
01:05:22.500And so the question for one chap who visited a white sunny town and thinks it could happen here.
01:06:46.000She's just writing about this chap's Ben Zand went to Klein Fontein.
01:06:55.080And 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.
01:07:06.160Why does it make him uncomfortable to go to an area that is ethically homogenous for white people?
01:08:03.800He says, I think people are becoming increasingly small-minded around identity and want to live in countries that are specifically white British.
01:08:10.540Well, 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.
01:08:50.080It's the extremism involved, the extreme one-sidedness.
01:08:55.040Again, going back to the extremism of the BBC, going back to the extremism of the left in general.
01:09:00.940They can never see the world through anybody else's eyes except their own.
01:09:04.820The 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.
01:09:23.400And so when you see Bangladeshis congregating, Pakistanis, Chinese, blacks, whatever it is, what do they want?
01:15:25.100If you were to look at Iran outside of Iran, it's deeply segregated.
01:15:29.720Like 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.
01:15:37.440Outside of a few big cities, it's very deeply segregated.
01:16:12.840I 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.
01:16:20.880And they're easy because they're not really hurting everyone.
01:16:23.700But being exclusively one race is massively problematic.
01:25:48.480Yeah, I can't say a lot of that there.
01:25:50.000His ideology tries to fix what isn't broken while refusing to fix what is broken.
01:25:55.320Well, the thing is, the thing is about the ideology is because it's rules focused.
01:26:01.140If the thing isn't in violation of the rule, it doesn't see it as a problem, right?
01:26:06.040And 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.
01:26:18.140What you feel is affirmative and relational.
01:26:21.160And 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.
01:26:27.360But the liberal's like, okay, but what rule has been broken?
01:27:19.060I completely forgot that this was the five year anniversary.
01:27:22.040And yeah, everyone is doing a great job, obviously, and is incredible.
01:27:27.420And 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.
01:27:39.860Beloved 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.
01:27:48.920I do enjoy how much they're upset by that Sidney Sweeney stuff.
01:28:42.280You'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?
01:28:54.160They 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.
01:29:04.040Yeah, I mean, this is the thing, isn't it?