The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1303

00:00:00.160 Hello, and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1303 for Tuesday, the 25th of November, 2025.

00:00:10.040 I'm your host, Luke Cook, joined today by Firas and Nate.

00:00:13.560 And today we're going to be talking to you all about how the youth are drowning in debt.

00:00:18.800 We're then going to talk about the growing tensions between China and Japan.

00:00:23.680 And then Nate is going to explain to us how he single-handedly created the master plan for saving British democracy, which we're very much looking forward to.

00:00:36.600 Before we go into the segment, though, I just want to alert you to the Daily Channel.

00:00:40.800 Now, this is, of course, not new, but as you can see there, it's ticking up over 90,000 subscribers now.

00:00:47.340 And so if you weren't aware of it, I just wanted to let you know it's where we go on and do just have some off-the-cuff remarks and some musings,

00:00:56.640 some meditations on things in the news that have grabbed our attention.

00:01:00.800 And so there's lots of interesting stuff on there.

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00:01:08.360 All right, then. Well, Firas.

00:01:10.200 So, everything that we seem to see today involves placing more and more burdens on the youth with the old essentially using them as cash cows. 0.98

00:01:23.940 Usury is responsible for a big chunk of this.

00:01:26.660 And today I'm going to talk about a specific aspect of usury, the buy now, pay later business model.

00:01:32.960 And here we have Paris Hilton promoting this through a company called Klarna, which is one of the biggest providers in this field.

00:01:42.980 And she will inform you how to buy a nice suit for your very ugly dog. 1.00

00:01:50.420 I don't know why you'd have a famous hound.

00:01:52.160 The people's priorities.

00:01:54.060 Yes, exactly.

00:01:56.700 But this is a growing business model.

00:01:59.120 And you sort of see now Deliveroo working with Klarna.

00:02:03.180 If you're still using Deliveroo, by the way, please stop.

00:02:06.920 It's bad for your health.

00:02:08.220 It's bad for your country.

00:02:09.500 It's bad for everybody around you.

00:02:11.360 Boycott.

00:02:11.760 Cultural boycott.

00:02:12.580 Complete boycott.

00:02:13.460 Do it.

00:02:13.920 But anyway, now you can buy a kebab on credit.

00:02:17.120 Thanks to Deliveroo.

00:02:18.580 If that isn't very wonderful, I don't know what to say to you.

00:02:22.500 It's a sign of...

00:02:23.760 Sorry to interrupt.

00:02:24.340 I don't know if it'll be your overarching point, but it's a sign of a really bad economy.

00:02:30.160 I'm going to get to that.

00:02:31.080 Buy now, pay later.

00:02:31.860 That's just...

00:02:32.860 I am going to get to that.

00:02:34.960 Yes, absolutely.

00:02:36.120 It really is.

00:02:37.340 You can buy useless stuff at H&M, again, with buy now and pay later.

00:02:43.740 And there are a huge number of providers.

00:02:46.660 So please don't assume that I'm picking on Klarna or anything like that.

00:02:50.080 I'm picking on all of them.

00:02:51.340 They're all crap.

00:02:52.280 Exactly.

00:02:52.720 We hate them all.

00:02:53.600 PayPal, PayIn3, Monzo, ClearPay, Zilch, I don't know, whatever it is.

00:03:00.680 The point is, they're all bad for you.

00:03:03.680 And they are deeply predatory.

00:03:06.360 Now, if you look at the market data for this from June 2023 by a sort of specialist research team,

00:03:13.420 the behavioral insights team, they will tell you that not only is this growing,

00:03:18.920 it is going to double, and it has indeed more than doubled in one year, the use of it.

00:03:25.320 The majority of users are young.

00:03:27.460 They're under 40.

00:03:28.420 People are using these things for day-to-day essentials, and this is part of the business model.

00:03:39.080 I'm going to get to that.

00:03:40.000 Half of the users are saying that because the prices are much higher, thank you, Rachel Reeves,

00:03:47.560 they are using a buy now, pay later a lot more often.

00:03:50.740 They are using them a lot more if they are struggling or squeezed.

00:03:56.860 So this is aimed at the poorer people, essentially.

00:04:00.380 And those struggling or squeezed, the poor, are struggling even more.

00:04:10.360 They've had to use money out of the little savings that they have,

00:04:14.040 and they've had to delay buying other essentials in order to pay down these growing debts.

00:04:21.660 And the lure here, the attraction is that, oh, you can just buy it now, and it's at 0% interest.

00:04:27.100 You don't have to worry about it, but there is a hidden reality that you should keep in mind.

00:04:34.060 Now, when you want to understand this kind of business model, you want to think about casinos.

00:04:39.280 One study on casinos, and you can find this replicated endlessly.

00:04:42.680 It's always the same with casinos.

00:04:44.380 The vast majority of their revenue, something like 80%, 90% of their revenue,

00:04:48.760 comes from a small percentage, 5%, 10% of the actual clients.

00:04:53.940 And the public perception is that this is harmless fun.

00:04:58.500 You can just gamble a little bit, enjoy yourself, whatever.

00:05:02.080 But for the casinos, they don't make money from the people who are engaging in a bit of harmless fun.

00:05:09.740 The people that know how to say no are not the gambler's best friends.

00:05:13.140 Exactly.

00:05:13.480 It's the ones that go, oh, just one more, it won't hurt.

00:05:15.440 Just one more, it won't hurt.

00:05:16.580 Exactly.

00:05:16.820 Oh, I've lost it.

00:05:17.760 Oh, I need to try and get all of it back.

00:05:20.460 One last, yeah, no.

00:05:21.540 Exactly.

00:05:22.200 And it's the same exact thing with the buy now, pay later model.

00:05:26.520 It's the same predatory behavior.

00:05:28.800 And you see this across the board with debates on drugs, on gambling,

00:05:32.920 on all kinds of vices where the religious right will tell you this is illegal, it should be banned,

00:05:39.980 it is immoral, and the libertarians will say, oh, but who are you to limit people's choice?

00:05:45.640 Well, if an industry relies on predation, on the most vulnerable to make its money,

00:05:53.200 we as Christians should keep these people in mind and try to protect them.

00:05:56.980 You don't sit there and say, well, you know, that drug dealer is just, they're fine dealing those drugs.

00:06:05.860 Exactly.

00:06:06.160 That's that person's choice.

00:06:07.660 It's like...

00:06:08.540 Exactly.

00:06:08.860 Exactly.

00:06:09.660 You don't do it that way.

00:06:11.300 Yeah.

00:06:11.720 Now, the way that these companies market themselves is quite interesting.

00:06:16.020 This is a study on the psychology that is used in order to get people hooked into it.

00:06:22.340 And then you go to payday and you've sort of made your budget and you want to buy a little extra.

00:06:29.120 And they will tell you, well, why don't you use buy now, pay later?

00:06:33.280 Why should you pay for it in one go?

00:06:35.180 You can feel a little bit richer.

00:06:36.540 And even the colors that they use, you will notice that this is noted in this piece here.

00:06:43.660 You will notice that if you're dealing with an established bank, their cards will be dark gray, black, navy, colors that convey seriousness and responsibility.

00:06:53.480 Whereas with these things, they're using Paris Hilton to promote their stuff and they're using pink and lime green and other colors.

00:07:01.380 And this is deliberate.

00:07:02.640 And this is deliberate.

00:07:03.240 They're going after...

00:07:04.480 It's right.

00:07:05.260 Yes.

00:07:05.920 Exactly.

00:07:06.600 Exactly.

00:07:07.180 Non-serious, non-threatening.

00:07:08.880 They want to make you feel as you did as a kid without any responsibility and you can sort of escape it with a little luxury.

00:07:16.600 And they rely on people using this kind of thing in a downturn, using a psychological, if you're into behavioral economics, thing called the lipstick effect.

00:07:30.920 The lipstick effect is basically that in a recession when times are hard, women will still buy a lot of lipstick because it's seen as a small luxury, as something that, okay, it's expensive, but I'm going to enjoy myself.

00:07:45.500 And that's the same exact kind of appeal.

00:07:47.520 It very much relies on a good understanding of human psychology and of our vulnerabilities to sort of lure you into just, why don't you just borrow some money?

00:07:57.220 It's zero interest.

00:07:58.260 It's zero interest.

00:07:58.900 You don't have to worry about it.

00:07:59.800 It's just zero interest.

00:08:01.820 But it's not really like that because the consequences, when you actually look at them, are quite bad and they're happening at a time where the economy is terrible.

00:08:12.320 So 20% of adults in Britain are using these kinds of buy now, pay later schemes.

00:08:19.120 That's a huge amount.

00:08:20.480 That's a huge market.

00:08:22.440 That's a huge market.

00:08:23.960 And the rate of increase is 25% from 2002.

00:08:30.980 So these guys are making record levels of growth.

00:08:34.940 And so you will see them, you will see the users saying, the typical user in this case is a woman, and this one is used here as an example who says, I'd like being able to split the cost of something over a few months, helps to build my credit score.

00:08:50.820 But some months definitely cost more than others.

00:08:53.780 I mean, they are right in saying that you have to use credit to have a good credit score, which is also part of the whole system, the whole sort of financial and monetary system is designed in a way.

00:09:05.580 It's designed in a way to be predatory, to be fair.

00:09:08.540 Like, you can't get a mortgage unless you have accessed high amounts of credit.

00:09:12.460 I mean, it's ridiculous.

00:09:14.320 I could go to a bank and be like, look, I've paid my rent, you know, this much for this many years.

00:09:20.620 That would mean I could have bought a house by now, give me a mortgage.

00:09:23.700 And they go, no, because you've not took out a loan.

00:09:27.700 Exactly.

00:09:28.180 What?

00:09:29.040 Exactly.

00:09:29.360 I've been responsible with my money.

00:09:31.120 You've purposely put yourself at risk.

00:09:33.420 It's just nonsense, isn't it?

00:09:34.440 We've avoided risk and now we're punishing you.

00:09:36.340 So the objective of the system is to get you addicted to usury and to get you dependent so that the most vulnerable can have their assets stripped.

00:09:49.380 It's one of those things that, like, when you grow up and you learn this, you're like, that actually doesn't make any sense.

00:09:54.780 Like, that is, I mean, it makes sense from a sort of a villainous, evil perspective.

00:10:00.380 Yes, thank you.

00:10:01.140 But it doesn't make sense from like a, well, this is just critical thought.

00:10:03.880 Like, I should be able to do this because I've had this many years of rent.

00:10:08.700 And this is, again, one of my sort of tinfoil hat theories of why they're dumbing people down and not teaching them critical thinking skills.

00:10:15.060 Because otherwise everyone would go.

00:10:17.580 The system is rigged.

00:10:18.640 This is nonsense.

00:10:19.660 Give me my mortgage.

00:10:21.740 This is usury.

00:10:22.580 This is evil.

00:10:23.520 You're trying to trap me into debt.

00:10:25.080 This is deliberate.

00:10:25.740 And that's why I'm going through the series.

00:10:28.560 We're sort of covering different angles.

00:10:31.160 I think a couple of weeks ago I covered how usury is being used against the young in the form of student loans.

00:10:38.500 And this is another example of how the young are being encouraged to buy into a usurious system that is intended to break them.

00:10:49.740 This is not coincidental.

00:10:53.520 This is deliberate.

00:10:54.900 We're going to go through the series.

00:10:56.100 We're going to cover these things.

00:10:56.960 We're going to talk about them.

00:10:58.020 Because they should be talked about and because it is evil.

00:11:00.760 30% of 25 to 34-year-olds are using these kinds of schemes.

00:11:11.040 So you're getting a third of your population trapped into debt initially at an age where they haven't built up any assets.

00:11:18.060 And in the extreme cases, you find people using these schemes to pay for groceries.

00:11:27.360 Just your basic everyday needs.

00:11:29.420 Exactly.

00:11:29.820 I can't buy them.

00:11:31.460 So I've got to do buy now, pay later.

00:11:32.840 I mean, that's just, that's atrocious.

00:11:35.540 That's awful.

00:11:36.280 Like, you shouldn't be preying on the poor in this way.

00:11:39.320 No, no.

00:11:39.840 No.

00:11:40.240 And in this example, it's a single mother.

00:11:42.020 And the summary of this is that because she's accumulated a lot of debt, she's trapped in a cycle of debt. 0.68

00:11:52.200 Yeah, yeah.

00:11:52.600 Because she couldn't afford one month, two months, three months.

00:11:56.620 She got hooked on it being perhaps financially literate.

00:12:00.700 You can blame her and say she's being irresponsible. 0.55

00:12:02.580 But you must also, in the same way that you punish the drug dealer, punish the companies that are dealing the drug of cheap credit.

00:12:12.060 Or the illusion of cheap credit, because it's not cheap credit when you don't pay.

00:12:15.440 And stop them from doing this.

00:12:19.340 I mean, if you blow that out to a bigger scale, I mean.

00:12:22.560 Let's blow that out to a bigger scale.

00:12:24.760 That's exactly where we're going with it.

00:12:26.060 Well, I was just going to say, are you going to blow it out to like a national level?

00:12:30.120 As in like the country's debt and the fact that we borrow money to pay off our debt?

00:12:34.260 Not in this segment, but.

00:12:35.900 I mean, that's what we do, right?

00:12:36.860 I mean, that's just insane.

00:12:37.700 That's exactly what's happening.

00:12:38.400 Everyone would look at this now and go, that's really sad.

00:12:41.520 How did that woman get like that? 1.00

00:12:42.900 It's exactly what we're doing on a national level.

00:12:44.900 So I posted on X that Kronos is seen as the evil god in Greek mythology because he was eating his children.

00:12:54.000 Yes.

00:12:54.560 That's exactly what's happening.

00:12:56.240 Wealth is being transferred from the poor, from the young, to the rich and the old.

00:13:02.060 And that is inherently destructive.

00:13:03.840 And the mechanism in which this is done is uterine.

00:13:06.300 And what's more as well, these young people can't get jobs because of being outcompeted by millions of foreign laborers. 1.00

00:13:14.000 Who are working for a fraction of the wages.

00:13:16.160 Exactly.

00:13:17.080 Exactly.

00:13:18.580 They're not from here, so they're not going to sort of buy houses and so on.

00:13:21.880 They're going to live five people in a room and just have a completely different structure of consumption.

00:13:32.080 The Guardian here says, and we have to agree on the left when they're right.

00:13:36.000 Even if we don't agree with the solutions, you know, their solution here in The Guardian, because they're a bunch of communists, is that we should tax the rich so that we give everybody free money when they become an adult.

00:13:48.500 No, you should encourage saving and financial responsibility and ban usury preying on the young and the weak.

00:13:56.300 But that would teach people things.

00:13:59.680 I know.

00:14:00.160 That would teach people responsibility.

00:14:01.740 Can't have that.

00:14:02.720 None of that.

00:14:03.620 No.

00:14:03.880 None of that.

00:14:04.280 That is verboten, sir.

00:14:06.500 That is verboten.

00:14:07.780 So they did a survey on this kind of thing.

00:14:11.440 And they found that too many people in the UK without a financial cushion, especially young people, 0.90

00:14:16.720 they have found that a third of 25 to 34-year-olds have negative wealth.

00:14:24.640 Now, if you're between 25 and 34, your priorities should be building up some savings to buy a house and start a family.

00:14:32.900 If you can't do that, the natural consequence is going to be, let me enjoy the small pleasures of life now by using things like Klarna.

00:14:42.040 Let me forget about reproducing.

00:14:44.100 Let me forget about having a family and a meaningful life and therefore become a debt slave into your 70s because now you can get a 50-year mortgage in America.

00:14:53.820 And if it's coming to America, it's probably coming to Britain.

00:14:56.440 So we know how this whole thing works, you know, 47% of the young in Wales have negative wealth.

00:15:05.860 That is more debt than assets.

00:15:08.940 47%.

00:15:09.540 Catastrophe.

00:15:10.700 And it's only in London where the rate is low.

00:15:14.000 And by low, I mean just 18%.

00:15:15.780 So almost a fifth of adults in London where there are opportunities, where people should be thriving, have negative wealth.

00:15:24.020 The average net debt is over eight grand.

00:15:28.600 Yes.

00:15:29.260 What are you doing with your life?

00:15:30.880 That's so bad.

00:15:32.080 And as a percentage of average income or starting income, so that's more than a third of a year's salary, you know?

00:15:39.220 That's terrible.

00:15:40.580 Exactly.

00:15:41.340 Exactly.

00:15:42.160 And then you add student loans to it and you see where this goes.

00:15:45.800 But the intent is clearly to cripple the young by making them the slaves of usurers. 0.87

00:15:51.040 Especially if you...

00:15:51.860 That's what's happening.

00:15:52.240 If you are, because, you know, back when I used to live in London for about five years, and most of that time I was just living month to month, you know, off of the salary that I had.

00:16:02.460 And so even though I didn't obviously go down this route, you can see how it would be so enticing to just the ordinary worker.

00:16:10.000 Yeah, I briefly did because I was just very ignorant about how these things worked and it was just destructive.

00:16:15.360 Yeah.

00:16:15.480 It destroyed my life for two or three years of just struggling to just get out of a debt trap, essentially.

00:16:23.680 The increases in indebtedness are also worth noting.

00:16:28.060 So 25% increase in real indebtedness between 2010 and now.

00:16:32.140 And then you ask yourself, well, why are the young being radicalized?

00:16:35.280 I don't know.

00:16:35.960 Maybe because you're trapping them in eternal debt and you don't give them any outlets like a normal healthy family life that would make them functional members of society.

00:16:45.380 It's just a stab in the dark here.

00:16:47.800 Could be wrong.

00:16:48.820 Could be wrong.

00:16:49.360 And it goes on to explain how having some assets, even just a thousand pounds in savings, actually has a positive long-term impact.

00:17:00.000 Why?

00:17:00.340 Because you have some kind of stability and responsibility and you're encouraged to have it.

00:17:03.960 Instead of Paris Hilton encouraging financial irresponsibility and borrowing money to buy a freaking kebab. 1.00

00:17:11.400 For crying out loud.

00:17:13.360 For God's sake.

00:17:14.180 What is this?

00:17:14.760 So you see this process of more and more youth being trapped in debt and it is just disturbing.

00:17:23.320 Now, I want to mention the broader economy that you alluded to.

00:17:28.260 17% growth in cards in the last year.

00:17:33.980 Remember, the economy is barely growing at 1%.

00:17:37.140 The economy in Britain is barely growing at 1%.

00:17:40.720 12% growth in personal loans.

00:17:43.900 That's 15% in mortgages.

00:17:45.680 Just 2% in auto finance because people are using their cars until they die.

00:17:51.140 Because that's the sort of last priority in terms of lifestyles.

00:17:56.820 But the fact that cards and personal loans are growing at such an atrocious rate that is so much larger than the growth in the economy shows you that what is happening is that you are handing over a bigger share of the economy to the usurers.

00:18:15.600 That's what's happening.

00:18:16.460 Because the economy is not growing at 15% or 17% or 12%.

00:18:22.800 It's growing at barely 1%.

00:18:24.700 So what's happening is a transfer of wealth.

00:18:28.280 More of the GDP of this country, more of the national wealth that is created every year, national income, I should say, that is created every year, is being transferred to money lenders.

00:18:39.420 And that is an inherently bad and evil thing that you do not want for your society.

00:18:45.120 Now, Klarna is getting into a bit of trouble because consumer credit losses grew by 17% last year.

00:18:56.820 Meaning that as of the first quarter of 2025, a lot less people are paying their debts.

00:19:04.360 Now, this essentially means that the consumer is screaming.

00:19:10.200 They're borrowing this money and they're not getting anything for it.

00:19:13.840 They're getting cheap goods.

00:19:15.900 They're getting kebabs, for God's sake.

00:19:18.100 They're getting all kinds of pointless things that don't help them build a prosperous future.

00:19:23.360 All kinds of consumer goods and consumption that doesn't benefit them in the long run.

00:19:28.640 But they're not worried about this.

00:19:30.180 They're saying that this $136 million of money that isn't being paid is just 0.5% of the total, of the total borrowing.

00:19:41.900 That's astonishing.

00:19:43.200 So it's a very small increase in the amount of money that they're not being paid.

00:19:49.320 Why is that so?

00:19:50.720 Because the growth in borrowing is so high.

00:19:54.400 And a quarter of those using buy now, pay later, are using them for groceries compared to just 14% a year ago.

00:20:07.220 This is atrocious data.

00:20:09.140 If you were in the treasury, you should be screaming about this, about your people becoming more and more indebted.

00:20:15.040 They don't care.

00:20:16.140 They don't care at all.

00:20:17.380 They're not bothered by it in any shape, way or form because they don't care about you.

00:20:22.480 And if you look at the rest of the Experian report, sorry, let's go to that Experian report.

00:20:30.280 It just shows you how much the increase in borrowing is.

00:20:35.880 And the result of this is predictable.

00:20:38.420 So the Financial Times is saying that more young adults are leaving Britain because of low salaries, rising taxes, etc., etc.

00:20:47.300 You're not getting anything except the debt cycle.

00:20:50.660 And if you keep on allowing this, if you keep on allowing this kind of immigration, you're going to have to suffer the consequences of brain drain, which is a massive problem in the third world, where the best and brightest leave and the most indebted and the most burdened and the least productive remain. 0.99

00:21:11.140 And so you get more radicalism of the left, but also of the right eventually, because it is obvious that the root cause of all of this is usury.

00:21:23.300 So this is a very destructive and evil cycle.

00:21:29.020 And because of the nature of how it makes money, it obviously has every incentive to keep that.

00:21:34.460 It's fundamentally predatory.

00:21:35.680 It's fundamentally predatory.

00:21:37.200 It doesn't work without that small minority that ends up relying enormously on debt.

00:21:43.920 And I think you see this in this page about the number of young adults who are being trapped in debt, who just barely graduated from school, from college, from university.

00:21:57.780 They don't really understand finances as well as they should, because they're not taught about them.

00:22:04.600 And this culture...

00:22:06.120 Perhaps in sanction.

00:22:07.140 Yes.

00:22:07.940 This culture is hostile to the idea of responsibility and accountability.

00:22:11.940 You're always a victim.

00:22:14.060 And so 23% of people between the ages of 18 and 24 are in financial difficulty.

00:22:21.500 Now, it's slower than the rest of the adult group, but that's only because the economy gets worse as you get older.

00:22:30.880 That's not a good thing.

00:22:32.460 That's not a good thing.

00:22:34.060 It's not a healthy sign.

00:22:37.840 Unemployment is a big driver of it, meaning that there is an oversupply of labor.

00:22:43.000 Thanks, Boris Wave.

00:22:44.540 Thank you, Open Door Immigration.

00:22:46.580 This is wonderful.

00:22:47.360 But when you get that big supply of labor competing with the young on starter jobs, you get this kind of indebtedness because they have nowhere else to go.

00:23:00.520 They are supposed to be adults.

00:23:02.260 They're supposed to be living their lives.

00:23:03.580 They're supposed to be responsible.

00:23:05.200 And you trap them in low income, meaning that whatever money that they borrow is harder to repay in the future because wages aren't growing.

00:23:12.580 We all know that real wages in this country have been declining since 2007 when essentially Britain stopped exporting energy and flung open the doors to immigration even more.

00:23:25.600 And so you see this becoming a much bigger problem for the youth.

00:23:32.460 And you understand its impact on family formation, mental health is a fashionable word, and obviously it's going to affect your mental health extremely negatively.

00:23:43.440 And it's just a very, very destructive cycle.

00:23:45.960 Now, with Klarina and WorldPay and Monzo and all of these others, when you don't actually pay your debts, first they start adding fees.

00:23:58.720 And the fees are around 25% of the purchase value.

00:24:02.680 So you do get charged interest if you don't repay.

00:24:08.200 It's a trap, and it's deliberately intended to be a trap.

00:24:13.580 And the most vulnerable obviously end up having the highest rate of interest, which goes to 25%.

00:24:19.640 And if you're in that position in the first place where you're starting down the track of using these things, you're obviously not in a position, a strong place of strength, to actually be able to pay these debts back in the first place.

00:24:31.440 Exactly.

00:24:31.860 So it's kind of guaranteeing that you're going to, even if it's not the first payment, the second might get you, or the third might get you, and so on.

00:24:40.740 Exactly.

00:24:41.320 And you have this list of debt recovery companies who will then look at you and buy from Klarina or from WorldPay or whoever the debts that are owed to them, and then they will work on collecting.

00:24:58.740 And this is a big moneymaker for them.

00:25:01.440 Because it is extremely profitable.

00:25:04.860 First, they buy the debt at a huge discount.

00:25:08.100 Second, they get to charge borrowers legal fees and agency fees and travel expenses.

00:25:14.980 So everything that they do to collect the debt gets added onto you.

00:25:20.440 The company takes a hit, maybe, on some of those debts.

00:25:25.460 They make some money from fees with retailers.

00:25:28.460 So every time you use Klarina on Deliveroo, they are paid 2% to 8% of the purchase value.

00:25:35.920 So that's a guaranteed income, meaning that that's how the zero interest works.

00:25:40.220 They're getting fees from the retailers themselves.

00:25:42.680 But then when you are part of that 5%, 10%, 20% group that ends up with problem debt, well, you're screwed.

00:25:52.080 Because it's sent to a debt collection agency and then the debt collection agency will not only try to collect the full amount, even though they bought it at a massive discount, they will then try to collect legal fees and their own fees and expenses and so on and so forth.

00:26:09.500 So they will show up at your door and here is a brochure from one of them explaining to you what they will do.

00:26:17.460 They will wipe the grin off the borrower's face and they will send this gentleman.

00:26:26.040 Sorry, just quickly.

00:26:26.960 I love how all of a sudden the yellows and the pinks have suddenly disappeared.

00:26:31.480 Exactly, exactly, exactly.

00:26:32.860 And we go straight to the blacks and the reds. 1.00

00:26:35.320 Exactly.

00:26:36.740 And they will, this kind of gentleman, they will have this kind of gentleman knocking at your door and pursuing you through the courts.

00:26:45.740 Or this friendly chap here going and pursuing you and knocking at your door any time that they want between the hours of 8am and 9pm and calling and harassing and threatening you with additional fees and saying that if you don't pay, you're going to have to pay additional legal expenses, which they will charge you for.

00:27:09.440 And then the vicious debt cycle that you're in continues until you're actually bankrupted.

00:27:15.740 So this is a fundamentally evil model.

00:27:19.820 It's based on predation.

00:27:22.280 It should not be legal.

00:27:24.760 Now the Financial Conduct Authority is talking about better regulation and things like that and tinkering around the edges to make it more ethical.

00:27:32.420 Nonsense.

00:27:33.500 Ban it.

00:27:34.380 Stomp it out.

00:27:36.300 That's my segment.

00:27:38.720 Well, thank you.

00:27:39.680 That was really blackpilling.

00:27:41.440 Anyway, let's talk about war with China, shall we? 0.86

00:27:43.740 Yeah, let's just move on to something cheerful.

00:27:46.260 Well, let's just go through the rumble rants from this.

00:27:48.960 We've got Logan 17 Pine who says, years ago in 2020, I somehow got a loan with 35% interest.

00:27:56.140 By the time I paid it off, I paid $2,000.

00:28:00.720 Cranky Texan says, this has happened before, many times.

00:28:04.080 One of the oldest known is Babylon.

00:28:05.980 See, revelation.

00:28:07.540 Come out of her here. 0.94

00:28:09.500 I'm not sure if that's supposed to say my people.

00:28:11.320 My people.

00:28:11.740 But the collapse was already planned to usher in CBDC slavery.

00:28:18.240 It's going to make everything much worse.

00:28:19.800 Yeah.

00:28:20.220 And Cranky Texan also says, private debt drives government spending in order to soak up currency out of the economy to prevent inflation.

00:28:29.500 You can't solve this with fiscal responsibility at the state level.

00:28:32.900 It's a cultural problem.

00:28:34.420 Which is why you need to ban this kind of thing from the outset.

00:28:37.060 Like, it's not about educating the youth a little bit.

00:28:40.360 It's just about stomp it out.

00:28:42.960 We've got a rail yard.

00:28:45.700 Goss says, we'd love to hear your opinions on sports gambling.

00:28:49.000 It was restricted 10 years ago and now entirely mainstream in the United States.

00:28:53.700 There you go.

00:28:54.040 You've got his opinion on it.

00:28:55.160 And Luke Stewart says, good day.

00:28:58.520 I hope everyone's doing okay.

00:28:59.800 I don't like the pay later loans.

00:29:02.400 But if I ran out of savings, had to fix my car for work, I could see the benefits.

00:29:06.720 If you have an asset against it, it's slightly different.

00:29:11.080 But these are unsecured debts that are intended to drive the poorest into bankruptcy.

00:29:16.820 That's how the real money is made.

00:29:19.000 So there are some arguments about this.

00:29:21.800 But if you're in this bad of a situation, you should be in a society where you and your mates can come up with 500 bucks and then you repay them without interest.

00:29:29.560 Once interest is introduced into it, it turns predatory.

00:29:33.640 All right.

00:29:36.620 So we're going to talk about Japan now.

00:29:39.280 Now, normally when one of us hosts a Japanese segment, it's usually about immigration or cultural problems that Japan is facing.

00:29:47.680 But this segment is of a more geopolitical nature because really what we're going to discuss is the rising tensions between Japan and China,

00:29:57.340 chiefly over the sovereignty of Taiwan and obviously Japan being a key strategic ally of the United States against China.

00:30:08.720 Before we do that, though, let me draw your attention to a play that I just covered for Chronicles, which is actually banding China.

00:30:15.560 How about that?

00:30:16.280 Now, this is An Enemy of the People by Friedrich Ibsen.

00:30:19.880 It was a play from 1882.

00:30:21.820 And it is a fantastic play all about how societies basically collapse when they hit the nature of where the truth within them,

00:30:32.580 the internal truth that holds up society basically withers and dies.

00:30:36.880 And this is an interesting one because actually it's all about public health and it's about they have these steam baths that all the tourists are going to come to and the baths have been poisoned.

00:30:48.780 So this play also got a lot of attention in the past few years over the COVID pandemic and everything as well.

00:30:55.620 It actually was very, very relevant.

00:30:57.300 But one of the things as well, and just to segue in, is that one of the points that is made that certain, when there's a convergence of circumstances that come together in society to create truth,

00:31:10.340 well, slowly, year by year, decade after decade, those circumstances change.

00:31:16.000 And with it, the truth changes as well.

00:31:18.940 The old truth dies and new truth comes in.

00:31:21.420 And this is really, he says in the play, truths have at best sort of a shelf life of about 70 years before something else comes through.

00:31:31.160 And this is exactly what we're seeing now with Japan.

00:31:35.220 The old truth that Japan existed in after the post-war consensus of basically military isolationism, not getting involved in foreign conflicts,

00:31:46.500 basically having the military only for defensive purposes at the courtesy of the United States, allowing them to have it.

00:31:54.940 This is now changing.

00:31:56.680 We're entering a new paradigm now where the factors that existed in the 50s aren't the same now.

00:32:02.800 And so we're seeing Japan having to sort of rear its head again, rearm itself.

00:32:08.680 And so let's just begin here, shall we, by talking about this assessment from last year, talking about Taiwan and basically the era of Chinese dominance.

00:32:20.600 Because it says that in addition to India and a slew of southeastern Asian nations, it is Japan that has the potential to support Taiwan's sovereignty through a multifaceted partnership.

00:32:31.300 While Japan-Taiwan diplomatic engagements face a handful of challenges, Tokyo's gestures to Taiwan offer a silver lining for a nation under duress.

00:32:42.220 And it goes to point out as well that the defense cooperation took a turn towards increased collaboration on the 25th of September last year,

00:32:52.400 when the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force sent a naval vessel through the Taiwanese Strait between Taiwan and China, right?

00:33:02.400 Ballsy move.

00:33:03.340 There's a big, really big balls.

00:33:05.420 Right.

00:33:05.760 And they're just like, yeah, we'll float on by.

00:33:07.800 Right.

00:33:08.240 We'll have a look.

00:33:09.480 And so, but all of this has been under, and correct me if I'm wrong on this, Firas,

00:33:14.940 but the idea that Japan has supposed to have upheld some sort of ambiguous nature on its actual policy, on the Taiwanese question.

00:33:23.940 China has not been able to, they've not explicitly said, this is what our plan is, this is what our aims are with Taiwan.

00:33:30.920 They've had to keep China in a position where they're at least guessing their intentions a little bit.

00:33:36.880 Even though they're a key strategic ally of America, of course, the question has to be to what extent would Japan dare to intervene?

00:33:45.600 Not whether they will, but how much?

00:33:47.440 Yes.

00:33:47.860 So they've been working with the Americans on building up the logistics to be able to supply the eastern ports of Taiwan in the event of a war,

00:33:56.720 because these are the closest to Japan and they are Japanese islands, or at least contested islands, very close to Taiwan.

00:34:04.820 And the assumption being that we can keep supplying Taiwan in order to maintain a ground fight using naval capabilities.

00:34:14.460 Is that true? Isn't that true? A whole different and very long debate.

00:34:18.840 But all of this has suddenly taken a very sharp escalation after the beginning of this month,

00:34:25.280 where the new prime minister, Sano Takaichi, basically was at a parliamentary hearing.

00:34:32.980 This was on November 7th.

00:34:34.940 And she said,

00:34:36.060 What measures would China employ to bring Taiwan fully under the control of China or the Beijing government,

00:34:42.080 if it were to use warships and resort to military force, and I believe this would,

00:34:47.560 by any measure constitute a situation that could threaten Japan's survival?

00:34:52.540 Now, the actual phrasing of this statement is very, very important,

00:34:58.240 because what it is doing is it is basically invoking Article 9,

00:35:03.060 which basically interprets from Japan's 2015 security legislation,

00:35:08.160 which allows the deployment of self-defense forces in a survival-threatening situation.

00:35:14.340 So the way to think about this is that most shipping that goes to South Korea and Japan both goes through the Taiwan Strait.

00:35:22.860 But also, obviously, most shipping to China goes through the Taiwan Strait,

00:35:26.940 because Chinese ports are concentrated in the north of the country.

00:35:30.100 And so if you control Taiwan, you can choke China off economically. 0.51

00:35:33.860 The flip side of it is that if the Chinese control Taiwan, 0.57

00:35:37.720 they can do enormous damage, at least, if not completely choke off, Japanese and South Korean trade.

00:35:44.960 So Taiwan is necessary for both sides. 0.69

00:35:48.440 In a sane world, we'd have some kind of armed neutrality by Taiwan, 1.00

00:35:53.200 saying we will allow all legitimate shipping through, similar to sort of Turkey and the Bosphorus.

00:35:58.540 But we are not in a sane world.

00:36:00.900 No, no. And we're dealing with China, which has a great grudge after the century of humiliation 0.99

00:36:07.360 and is not really in a position for half measures or compromise, right?

00:36:12.720 It's going to use its prowess to basically strong arm every nation it can

00:36:18.100 to doing things exactly as they wish.

00:36:20.960 And this is certainly reflected in the response to Kaichi's statement

00:36:26.680 by the Chinese, China's Consul General in the city of Osaka,

00:36:32.940 where he basically said that, as to Kaichi's remarks,

00:36:37.100 the dirty head that sticks itself in must be cut off.

00:36:41.860 So...

00:36:42.140 I mean...

00:36:43.020 This tweet was since deleted, which is why I'm not showing you it.

00:36:47.340 Right.

00:36:47.540 But you get a little, you know, you see behind the mask.

00:36:51.060 Yeah, a bit of flavor, a bit of spice in there.

00:36:54.160 And Tokyo has said that, obviously, this was extremely inappropriate.

00:36:58.380 And Tokaichi was quick to backpedal and just say,

00:37:02.100 well, I was just talking hypothetically.

00:37:04.460 Yes.

00:37:04.740 But even if you are talking hypothetically,

00:37:07.320 you're still giving some way into actually, no,

00:37:09.800 within the Japanese constitution, we would have every right...

00:37:14.280 Shouldn't have backpedaled.

00:37:14.980 To, you know, obviously involve ourselves...

00:37:17.880 They want to maintain the ambiguity.

00:37:18.700 Right.

00:37:19.120 Maintain a threat and then backing down.

00:37:21.960 This is what Biden was doing about will they, won't they intervene

00:37:24.680 in the event of a conflict of Taiwan.

00:37:26.980 The policy is to keep China guessing

00:37:29.520 and therefore keep China from saying,

00:37:34.080 yes, we will do this militarily

00:37:35.200 and trying to prolong the status quo for as long as possible.

00:37:40.500 Anyway, so the Beijing government has reacted

00:37:43.540 quite firmly to this, as you would imagine,

00:37:46.080 and basically urged its citizens to avoid traveling to Japan

00:37:49.120 in the near future.

00:37:51.160 And they also went on to say that it was a blatant provocation

00:37:55.120 regarding the remarks in Japan.

00:37:58.440 And what's more as well, of course,

00:37:59.860 so because so many Chinese tourists go to Japan,

00:38:05.320 it's...

00:38:05.920 I think I had it here, yes.

00:38:07.300 Basically, shares in Japan's department stores were hit hard

00:38:11.300 with the parent company of Mitsukoshi and Isetan chains

00:38:16.900 plunging by almost 12%.

00:38:19.160 And various...

00:38:21.680 Disneyland Resort as well ended the day with 5.8% lower.

00:38:25.820 So these are huge chunks that are being taken out

00:38:28.460 by basically taking the Chinese tourists out of the Japanese market.

00:38:33.360 Now, obviously, we could go on to have a conversation

00:38:36.940 about not being so dependent on those tourists

00:38:41.800 when you know that tensions could turn just like that.

00:38:45.100 He's merciless, man.

00:38:45.940 With your neighbor, of course.

00:38:47.560 But it says that tourism accounts for about 7%

00:38:50.840 of Japan's overall GDP.

00:38:55.440 And this is obviously with a fifth

00:38:58.020 of all of those 12% being Chinese.

00:39:02.120 So it's a huge number.

00:39:03.840 A big portion.

00:39:04.320 And it will have a very, very damaging effect

00:39:06.820 as things go on.

00:39:08.900 Now, naturally, obviously,

00:39:11.060 Trump had to get involved in this as well.

00:39:13.500 So as soon as this statement was had,

00:39:16.000 as of this weekend, I believe it was,

00:39:18.560 now Beijing initiated,

00:39:20.800 and I think that's a crucial point as well,

00:39:22.820 they were the ones that seemed to have initiated this call.

00:39:25.300 They asked for a call with Washington.

00:39:28.120 Right.

00:39:28.680 And basically, it was quite interesting, actually,

00:39:31.320 because as you can see from this post here,

00:39:34.160 with scroll through the text, wall of text,

00:39:37.260 Trump comments on the fact

00:39:39.220 that he's obviously had this phone call with Xi,

00:39:42.200 but nowhere in here is Taiwan or Japan actually mentioned.

00:39:47.260 The one thing that it was obviously really about.

00:39:50.960 So Washington are playing the cards

00:39:52.260 very close to their chest on this.

00:39:53.900 And we know from the Japanese prime minister

00:39:57.280 who was on the phone immediately after this call

00:40:00.580 that they went on to discuss Taiwan

00:40:03.140 and what was happening in the Straits.

00:40:05.640 And it seems that, obviously,

00:40:09.300 America needs Japan. 0.93

00:40:11.600 America needs Japan and America needs Russia. 0.93

00:40:14.240 And if you wanted to pursue a containment strategy

00:40:17.060 against China, you would have South Korea, 0.93

00:40:20.280 Japan, Russia, India, the Philippines, Australia,

00:40:26.780 kind of collaborating and creating a wall of containment

00:40:30.220 around China to stop it from being

00:40:32.620 the dominant power in Eurasia.

00:40:34.940 The policy has been pretty much the opposite.

00:40:37.820 It has been to push Russia and China closer together. 0.80

00:40:41.320 We'll see if the Ukraine war gets resolved,

00:40:44.040 how it gets resolved,

00:40:44.960 to push Iran closer to China 0.89

00:40:48.340 and to facilitate the dominance of Eurasia by China.

00:40:51.940 So it's a really very reckless policy

00:40:54.460 that's been pursued, I'd argue, since Clinton

00:40:57.660 that has sort of resulted in this behemoth

00:41:01.640 assembling against the United States.

00:41:04.140 Right. But what's more as well, of course,

00:41:06.520 it's left Japan in a very, very tense state.

00:41:10.100 And so now you can see China criticizing Japan

00:41:13.100 for deploying missiles on an island near Taiwan.

00:41:17.020 So it goes on to say that the defense minister

00:41:19.320 said on Sunday that plans were being steadily moving forward

00:41:24.080 to deploy a medium-range surface-to-air missile unit

00:41:28.020 at a military base on Yonaguni,

00:41:31.380 an island about 68 miles off of Taiwan's east coast.

00:41:35.780 And on Sunday, Kazumi said that the missile deployment

00:41:39.360 aimed to protect Yonaguni,

00:41:42.200 adding that we believe that having this unit in place

00:41:45.320 will actually lower the chances of an armed attack

00:41:48.580 against our country.

00:41:50.380 So the idea is that Yonaguni is being used

00:41:54.580 as a logistics hub to supply the eastern part of Taiwan.

00:42:00.020 The war planning, what it looks like to me,

00:42:03.660 is to use the Philippines to connect

00:42:06.360 to the southern, to the southeastern port,

00:42:10.560 and to use Japan to connect to the northeastern port

00:42:13.700 so that Taiwan will have two ports under its control

00:42:17.200 from which it can get supplies in a military conflict.

00:42:20.160 That seems to be the planning.

00:42:21.800 The Chinese planning is to besiege all Taiwanese ports. 1.00

00:42:25.160 And so having this kind of air defense capability

00:42:27.980 is significant.

00:42:29.680 We're still talking about medium range,

00:42:31.800 so you might need something longer.

00:42:33.920 Medium range can cover up 70, 80 kilometers.

00:42:38.780 You would need something bigger still

00:42:40.860 in order to extend that protective area.

00:42:43.840 And the way that you work with air defense

00:42:45.720 is that you layer it

00:42:46.720 so that there is something that is very short-range

00:42:49.220 to intercept things like cruise missiles

00:42:51.660 and so on at sort of before they hit the targets

00:42:55.000 and gradually increase the ceiling

00:42:58.560 so that you have this defensive capability.

00:43:01.140 What's more as well, if this all comes to a head,

00:43:04.540 what strength does Japan actually have

00:43:08.100 to hold out economically, totally cut off from China?

00:43:11.960 You've seen what just removing the tourists

00:43:14.100 has done to many of its companies.

00:43:16.180 Now, I know we were speaking about this earlier,

00:43:19.000 weren't we, about Japan's semiconductors

00:43:21.200 and the fact that they're trying to basically

00:43:24.140 just have a domestic supply made up again.

00:43:27.400 But this is going to cost trillions,

00:43:30.120 trillions and trillions of yen.

00:43:32.300 And so really, I mean, obviously,

00:43:34.720 I'm not going to suggest that because of all this,

00:43:37.100 China are going to go for Taiwan tomorrow.

00:43:39.480 But this clumsiness,

00:43:43.420 I think I would describe it as

00:43:45.260 from the Japanese prime minister,

00:43:47.920 does sort of reveal a hand to China

00:43:51.320 more so about what the actual threat is

00:43:54.020 from their geopolitical interests.

00:43:56.740 And it gives them more information

00:43:58.880 and it does seem like it could

00:44:00.640 at least escalate things faster

00:44:02.640 than we were initially going to be planned.

00:44:05.300 And I suppose it's not a coincidence as well

00:44:07.920 that all of a sudden you're seeing

00:44:09.720 propaganda adverts coming out

00:44:12.380 from the rocket force of the Chinese army

00:44:15.840 with things like this.

00:44:20.340 I'm sorry.

00:44:21.200 Why are the record forces loading?

00:44:39.040 Is that it, Fear House?

00:44:40.780 Five out of ten, not enough rockets.

00:44:42.760 Not enough rockets.

00:44:43.580 Not enough rockets.

00:44:44.660 Better than our bloody

00:44:45.440 black trans lesbians

00:44:47.680 that we see in our adverts

00:44:49.000 for this kind of stuff.

00:44:49.860 I mean, give the Chinese 1.00

00:44:52.820 some props there, unfortunately.

00:44:54.880 At least it looked cool.

00:44:57.080 I think they mean it.

00:44:59.700 I think they mean it.

00:45:00.880 Obviously, it's just propaganda

00:45:02.140 and scare tactics,

00:45:03.400 chest punching and intimidation.

00:45:05.820 Yes.

00:45:06.200 But it's the most open secret, right?

00:45:09.160 We know what China want from Taiwan. 0.88

00:45:12.160 Yeah.

00:45:12.460 And we can only hope...

00:45:13.640 China for years.

00:45:14.480 Yeah.

00:45:15.120 It's obvious of obvious things.

00:45:16.220 But we can only hope, of course,

00:45:18.280 that whatever the conversation was

00:45:20.340 between the Japanese PM and Trump,

00:45:23.760 that it was constructive.

00:45:25.740 And hopefully...

00:45:27.300 I do believe, in fact,

00:45:28.460 there is a meeting

00:45:29.240 between diplomats

00:45:31.440 from Japan and China today.

00:45:33.380 Right.

00:45:33.560 So I'll definitely follow up on that

00:45:35.760 and we'll see what develops.

00:45:37.060 But for now,

00:45:38.620 it's a tense time,

00:45:40.720 ladies and gentlemen.

00:45:41.880 Well, the issue is that

00:45:43.180 everybody's economy

00:45:44.180 is so dependent on China.

00:45:46.460 And it's clear that a break is coming.

00:45:49.440 It is obvious that a break is coming.

00:45:51.500 And nobody wants to admit that

00:45:53.460 because then

00:45:54.240 what they would have to do

00:45:55.580 to replace Chinese supply trains

00:45:57.120 is going to be enormous.

00:45:59.160 And it's not yet clear

00:46:00.480 what are the safe supply chains

00:46:01.860 going to be.

00:46:03.020 As in, if you're Japan, 0.65

00:46:04.260 you want to work with the Philippines,

00:46:05.460 you want to work with

00:46:06.320 all of Indochina,

00:46:07.360 you want to work with

00:46:08.360 ASEAN, Australia,

00:46:10.380 the United States, etc.

00:46:12.100 But what is the actual

00:46:13.440 Chinese missile capability?

00:46:15.380 And how much can

00:46:16.420 the Chinese Navy do?

00:46:17.880 The thing is that

00:46:18.500 the Chinese haven't fought a war 0.99

00:46:19.800 in a very long time.

00:46:21.460 And they don't have any experience.

00:46:22.920 And Xi keeps replacing

00:46:24.400 the top generals of the PLA

00:46:26.960 on a very regular basis.

00:46:29.160 And it isn't clear

00:46:30.840 why this is happening.

00:46:32.420 Is he afraid of a coup?

00:46:33.900 Or does he have disagreements

00:46:34.900 with them over Taiwan policy?

00:46:36.540 Or are they supposed to be

00:46:38.040 further ahead

00:46:38.840 in the planning process

00:46:39.920 for a Taiwan invasion?

00:46:41.280 And they're just not getting there?

00:46:43.200 But I think when we were

00:46:44.500 speaking earlier,

00:46:45.260 we mentioned that

00:46:46.120 the Chinese have built 0.99

00:46:48.780 these platforms

00:46:50.100 that are intended

00:46:51.840 to allow them to deliver

00:46:53.640 armored vehicles,

00:46:55.980 soldiers, tanks

00:46:57.080 into Taiwan

00:46:59.520 in a way that bypasses

00:47:01.500 Taiwan's natural defenses.

00:47:03.060 Because the key issue

00:47:04.300 is that there aren't

00:47:05.040 there aren't enough

00:47:05.940 beaches

00:47:07.240 where China can 0.95

00:47:09.940 properly invade,

00:47:10.960 set up a force

00:47:11.640 and then send that force out.

00:47:13.640 Sort of how the West

00:47:14.660 dealt with Normandy.

00:47:16.200 You need to capture something,

00:47:18.400 consolidate

00:47:18.860 and then expand.

00:47:21.420 The Taiwanese have been 1.00

00:47:22.440 planning for this forever

00:47:23.640 to make it as difficult

00:47:25.060 as possible.

00:47:25.640 So the Chinese solution 1.00

00:47:27.040 has been

00:47:27.500 let's build the capability

00:47:29.160 to deliver these forces

00:47:31.480 away from these beaches

00:47:33.680 onto the main highways

00:47:35.020 of Taiwan

00:47:35.680 bypassing the geographic element

00:47:38.680 and being able to spread out

00:47:40.080 in a lot more effective way

00:47:42.560 so that the Taiwanese defenses

00:47:44.840 can be properly flanked.

00:47:46.480 So they're planning

00:47:47.380 for the ground war

00:47:48.160 and the way that they're

00:47:49.740 building up their missile capability

00:47:51.160 and their rocket capability

00:47:52.120 is intended to cripple 0.85

00:47:53.680 Taiwanese ports.

00:47:54.880 Because Taiwan has to import

00:47:57.180 something like a million

00:47:57.980 barrels of oil per day

00:47:58.900 and I believe they have

00:48:00.600 around three months

00:48:01.380 of reserves

00:48:02.000 that are sitting there.

00:48:03.700 On natural gas

00:48:04.860 they have maybe

00:48:05.660 two weeks of reserves

00:48:06.560 and they have to import

00:48:07.840 a huge chunk of that.

00:48:09.480 And because everybody

00:48:10.820 is insane

00:48:11.520 they've decommissioned

00:48:12.340 some of their nuclear plants

00:48:13.380 which is the one thing

00:48:15.980 that you need to keep.

00:48:18.880 So there is the energy question

00:48:20.980 when it comes to that

00:48:21.840 and there's the question of

00:48:22.800 well what does the Chinese invasion

00:48:24.300 actually look like.

00:48:26.700 They had built a model

00:48:28.880 of the presidential palace

00:48:30.460 of Taiwan

00:48:31.020 and the neighborhood around it

00:48:32.640 to prepare their special forces

00:48:34.920 to storm it.

00:48:36.480 They built it somewhere

00:48:37.740 in the desert

00:48:38.260 in maybe Jingjiang province

00:48:39.900 or something like that

00:48:40.660 and their special forces

00:48:42.000 are training on storming

00:48:43.260 that compound.

00:48:45.080 So they are getting ready

00:48:46.940 for an invasion

00:48:47.660 and the military preparation

00:48:49.280 is all there

00:48:49.920 and all of their training exercises

00:48:51.880 allow them to besiege 0.50

00:48:53.360 Taiwanese ports

00:48:54.140 and perhaps to cut off

00:48:56.200 the subsea cables

00:48:57.280 that connect Taiwan

00:48:59.020 to the rest of the world

00:49:00.140 and therefore just isolate Taiwan.

00:49:03.140 But now as the Japanese 1.00

00:49:05.240 Prime Minister has said

00:49:06.160 if it could bring in

00:49:08.180 Japanese warships

00:49:09.340 right

00:49:10.300 then that brings

00:49:11.460 a whole other thing

00:49:12.520 to the equation.

00:49:13.320 So Japan is maybe 0.88

00:49:14.220 the third largest navy

00:49:15.300 in the world

00:49:15.760 and they have around

00:49:17.560 25% of global

00:49:18.740 shipbuilding capability.

00:49:20.240 There is another 25%

00:49:21.880 in South Korea

00:49:22.500 and then 50% in China.

00:49:24.740 The rest are just

00:49:25.680 rounding errors.

00:49:26.940 So India, Russia, 0.85

00:49:28.300 the United States combined

00:49:29.440 are rounding errors

00:49:31.600 in terms of global

00:49:32.920 shipbuilding capability.

00:49:35.080 And so Japan 0.74

00:49:36.680 can do something

00:49:37.780 significant

00:49:38.620 with its capabilities

00:49:40.340 but the West

00:49:41.440 is left in a position

00:49:42.500 where they can't

00:49:43.420 build ships

00:49:44.080 and they want to go

00:49:45.360 and fight in East Asia.

00:49:47.160 And what's more

00:49:48.080 totally hooked

00:49:49.240 on the Chinese markets.

00:49:51.040 Yeah.

00:49:51.940 Totally.

00:49:53.100 So dark days ahead

00:49:54.960 I suppose.

00:49:56.520 Alright, I'll just go

00:49:57.580 through some of those

00:49:58.380 YouTube comments.

00:49:59.780 I've got

00:50:00.480 sorry

00:50:01.160 this sounds like

00:50:04.460 sorry

00:50:05.600 Easy

00:50:06.480 E says

00:50:07.720 a Japanese

00:50:08.360 med school

00:50:09.380 prevented Chinese 1.00

00:50:10.300 students from

00:50:10.880 applying to it

00:50:11.860 by embedding Tiananmen

00:50:13.980 Square into the

00:50:14.880 website code

00:50:15.660 so that the

00:50:16.180 Chinese firewall

00:50:17.020 blocked it.

00:50:17.940 That's brilliant.

00:50:18.600 It just takes

00:50:19.520 a political will

00:50:20.440 that.

00:50:21.940 Relva says

00:50:22.740 Japan is

00:50:24.140 America's

00:50:24.760 number one

00:50:25.280 friend.

00:50:25.820 We must keep

00:50:26.400 her safe.

00:50:27.500 Well, it's Israel. 0.75

00:50:28.520 How dare you

00:50:29.020 blaspheme.

00:50:31.700 And

00:50:32.300 Dreadnought

00:50:33.780 Logan says

00:50:34.540 Japan should have 0.99

00:50:35.580 the same

00:50:36.120 relationship with

00:50:37.000 the USA

00:50:37.540 that Israel has.

00:50:39.060 They make

00:50:39.940 a better ally

00:50:40.760 and the

00:50:41.500 Zoomers love

00:50:42.040 Japan like 0.99

00:50:42.980 the Boomers

00:50:43.500 love Israel.

00:50:44.720 Well, as I

00:50:45.300 said

00:50:45.620 truths have

00:50:47.820 shelf lives.

00:50:49.020 Anyway,

00:50:49.660 okay, over to

00:50:50.900 you Nate.

00:50:52.100 Tell us all about

00:50:52.900 how you're going

00:50:53.560 to fix

00:50:54.760 democracy for us.

00:50:56.060 Right, say.

00:50:57.760 Right.

00:50:58.880 Let's not comment

00:50:59.720 on this image

00:51:00.400 that you see

00:51:01.000 on your screen.

00:51:02.260 I think he put

00:51:02.840 it here for

00:51:03.480 comment actually.

00:51:04.540 Should we

00:51:04.880 comment on it?

00:51:05.500 I don't know.

00:51:06.280 It's

00:51:06.480 you want to

00:51:07.680 explain yourself

00:51:09.120 sir.

00:51:09.540 I do.

00:51:10.300 What exactly

00:51:11.000 are your plans?

00:51:14.340 You keep that

00:51:14.860 tucked under

00:51:15.460 the back of

00:51:16.080 your shirt

00:51:16.800 to you.

00:51:19.640 This is my

00:51:20.300 great

00:51:20.740 photo shop.

00:51:20.900 Normally this

00:51:21.480 is how he walks

00:51:22.060 into the office

00:51:22.680 by the way.

00:51:23.320 He sort of

00:51:23.620 we make him

00:51:25.020 we have to

00:51:25.580 beat him

00:51:26.060 hold him down

00:51:26.660 and make him

00:51:27.120 wear a suit

00:51:27.700 because he

00:51:28.700 comes into

00:51:29.140 the office

00:51:29.520 dressed like

00:51:30.100 this.

00:51:30.420 His armour

00:51:30.860 is just

00:51:31.200 resting on

00:51:31.660 the sofa.

00:51:32.780 It's terrible.

00:51:33.940 You have no

00:51:34.380 idea what we're

00:51:35.020 dealing with

00:51:35.540 in the

00:51:35.880 Lotus Eaters

00:51:36.340 offices.

00:51:36.840 Anyway, we'll

00:51:37.460 let you have

00:51:37.780 a word in

00:51:38.200 your own

00:51:38.500 segment now.

00:51:42.820 This is my

00:51:43.700 epic Photoshop

00:51:44.740 skills.

00:51:45.660 Let me try

00:51:47.620 to introduce

00:51:48.100 this segment.

00:51:49.520 British democracy

00:51:50.560 is broken.

00:51:52.740 Here's how

00:51:53.760 I am going

00:51:54.840 to fix it.

00:51:56.080 Me

00:51:56.520 being the

00:51:58.220 god emperor

00:51:58.760 of New

00:51:59.140 Britannia.

00:52:00.940 The year

00:52:02.080 is 2034.

00:52:03.380 I didn't

00:52:03.840 vote for you.

00:52:04.420 Nigel

00:52:05.240 Farage

00:52:05.720 has failed.

00:52:07.440 And the

00:52:08.220 country is

00:52:08.740 calling out

00:52:09.200 for leadership.

00:52:10.180 And a new

00:52:10.860 force enters

00:52:11.480 the fray.

00:52:12.260 Whoa! 0.71

00:52:13.540 Alright?

00:52:16.180 So as

00:52:17.040 emperor of

00:52:17.820 mankind

00:52:18.040 as the

00:52:21.740 emperor of

00:52:22.180 mankind

00:52:22.660 my primary

00:52:23.460 focus is

00:52:24.380 to fix

00:52:25.300 British

00:52:25.900 democracy.

00:52:26.760 So here's

00:52:29.660 how we're

00:52:29.860 going to do

00:52:30.140 it.

00:52:30.380 So together

00:52:31.180 we shall

00:52:31.960 create

00:52:32.400 New

00:52:32.720 Britannia.

00:52:33.620 Point of

00:52:34.180 order.

00:52:35.080 If you

00:52:35.480 become

00:52:35.920 emperor of

00:52:37.480 mankind

00:52:37.840 how retarded 1.00

00:52:38.640 do you have

00:52:39.000 to be to

00:52:39.320 restore

00:52:39.560 democracy

00:52:40.000 sir?

00:52:40.720 Well

00:52:40.940 I'm a

00:52:42.120 lenient

00:52:42.500 authoritarian.

00:52:43.220 Okay.

00:52:44.860 If that

00:52:46.440 is a thing.

00:52:46.960 So what

00:52:47.440 you're saying

00:52:48.200 is it

00:52:48.560 would be

00:52:48.820 He's a

00:52:49.020 gentle soul.

00:52:50.020 He's a

00:52:50.360 gentle soul

00:52:50.940 really.

00:52:51.400 We just

00:52:51.580 give him

00:52:51.800 a hard

00:52:52.020 time.

00:52:52.160 I need

00:52:52.400 the illusion

00:52:53.540 of choice.

00:52:54.320 Like

00:52:54.480 democracy

00:52:55.000 really.

00:52:55.580 So the

00:52:56.100 idea is

00:52:56.740 I come

00:53:00.320 in here

00:53:00.520 in Blackpool

00:53:00.960 all the

00:53:01.160 time so I

00:53:01.540 just thought

00:53:01.840 I'd do

00:53:02.180 this as

00:53:02.500 a bit of

00:53:03.460 a lark.

00:53:04.400 So the

00:53:05.000 idea is

00:53:05.480 I become

00:53:05.840 an

00:53:05.980 authoritarian

00:53:06.360 god

00:53:07.100 to establish

00:53:09.020 new

00:53:09.960 Britannia

00:53:11.640 to then

00:53:12.640 gift that

00:53:14.480 to my

00:53:15.120 Anglo

00:53:15.460 children.

00:53:16.840 Right.

00:53:17.200 And then I

00:53:18.100 saunter off

00:53:18.980 with a

00:53:19.980 I don't

00:53:20.920 know.

00:53:21.400 Into your

00:53:21.620 citadel.

00:53:22.320 Exactly.

00:53:23.220 My golden

00:53:23.820 throne.

00:53:24.420 Yes.

00:53:24.840 Not a

00:53:26.020 decomposing

00:53:26.480 corpse.

00:53:27.360 And I can

00:53:27.940 just watch

00:53:28.500 over everyone

00:53:28.980 and enjoy

00:53:29.360 it.

00:53:29.820 Okay.

00:53:30.380 After

00:53:30.700 bestowing

00:53:32.460 upon them

00:53:33.000 a brand

00:53:33.780 new

00:53:33.920 democracy.

00:53:35.460 So

00:53:35.540 best

00:53:39.800 Photoshop

00:53:40.160 ever.

00:53:40.480 So first

00:53:41.180 things first.

00:53:42.240 Okay.

00:53:43.400 First

00:53:43.800 things first.

00:53:44.900 No

00:53:45.280 MP should

00:53:46.120 get paid.

00:53:47.820 Okay.

00:53:48.320 Okay.

00:53:48.820 This is

00:53:49.340 this on

00:53:50.000 so all

00:53:50.880 jokes aside

00:53:51.300 this is how

00:53:51.720 we start

00:53:52.040 to get to

00:53:52.400 the nub

00:53:52.800 of what

00:53:54.440 I fundamentally

00:53:55.180 think some

00:53:55.780 of the issues

00:53:56.180 are with

00:53:56.520 democracy at

00:53:57.120 the moment.

00:53:57.500 Right.

00:53:58.760 So no

00:53:59.420 MP should

00:53:59.860 get paid

00:54:00.180 at all.

00:54:00.760 Well that

00:54:00.980 would be a

00:54:01.340 return to

00:54:01.800 a tradition.

00:54:02.840 Yeah.

00:54:03.360 No.

00:54:03.560 Exactly.

00:54:04.080 Right.

00:54:04.380 So I

00:54:06.340 don't know

00:54:06.540 what I'm

00:54:06.780 working with

00:54:07.300 here.

00:54:07.440 So they

00:54:07.620 never

00:54:07.800 actually

00:54:08.020 used to

00:54:08.340 get paid

00:54:08.720 as you

00:54:08.960 can see

00:54:09.260 here.

00:54:09.460 This is

00:54:09.860 you know

00:54:11.080 a gov 0.69

00:54:11.660 website

00:54:12.020 basically.

00:54:13.020 They never

00:54:13.380 used to

00:54:13.620 get paid

00:54:13.860 at all.

00:54:14.180 So in

00:54:14.400 1911

00:54:15.500 MPs

00:54:16.120 received a

00:54:16.540 salary for

00:54:16.940 the first

00:54:17.280 time to

00:54:18.300 try and

00:54:18.680 improve

00:54:18.900 accessibility

00:54:19.360 for candidates.

00:54:20.420 But we

00:54:21.860 didn't vote

00:54:22.220 for that.

00:54:23.180 No one

00:54:23.400 voted for

00:54:23.820 that.

00:54:24.260 They voted

00:54:24.620 it for

00:54:24.900 themselves.

00:54:25.560 They just

00:54:25.900 was like

00:54:26.800 yeah we'll

00:54:27.060 get paid

00:54:27.420 now.

00:54:27.960 And then

00:54:28.180 they've

00:54:28.400 consistently

00:54:28.940 so that's

00:54:29.400 not democracy

00:54:30.040 straight away.

00:54:31.300 It's not

00:54:31.940 democracy that

00:54:32.640 they get

00:54:32.960 paid.

00:54:33.400 We didn't

00:54:33.780 vote that

00:54:34.180 they would

00:54:34.500 get paid.

00:54:35.280 They just

00:54:35.640 do insider

00:54:36.140 trading like

00:54:36.660 Nancy Pelosi.

00:54:37.560 Yeah

00:54:37.760 effectively.

00:54:39.600 So they

00:54:39.900 voted

00:54:40.220 themselves to

00:54:40.800 get a

00:54:41.040 salary.

00:54:41.600 Convenient.

00:54:42.300 It's not

00:54:42.560 democracy.

00:54:44.200 And before

00:54:44.580 this and

00:54:45.800 obviously after

00:54:47.040 this as well

00:54:47.800 so there is

00:54:49.060 some crossover

00:54:49.680 but the

00:54:50.260 caliber of

00:54:50.820 politician was

00:54:51.520 far and

00:54:51.900 above what

00:54:52.240 we have

00:54:52.480 today.

00:54:53.000 Oh sure.

00:54:53.780 Right.

00:54:55.040 Not simply

00:54:55.840 because of

00:54:56.220 course people

00:54:56.560 are getting

00:54:56.800 dumber which

00:54:57.700 they are.

00:54:58.820 Soz.

00:55:00.000 But because

00:55:00.720 it was a

00:55:01.040 duty right.

00:55:01.820 So people

00:55:02.460 were already

00:55:03.240 established in

00:55:03.920 life.

00:55:04.360 They wanted

00:55:04.580 to help.

00:55:06.520 There was

00:55:07.840 of course

00:55:08.300 some self

00:55:08.720 serving

00:55:09.120 individuals but

00:55:10.480 certainly not

00:55:11.280 to the level

00:55:11.720 that we have

00:55:12.240 in this day

00:55:13.060 and age.

00:55:13.500 Right.

00:55:14.160 Because that

00:55:15.160 effectively

00:55:15.640 created the

00:55:16.560 career politician.

00:55:17.780 Yes.

00:55:18.520 Right.

00:55:18.780 So you

00:55:20.300 know that

00:55:21.440 would be my

00:55:21.880 first thing.

00:55:23.340 No one

00:55:23.640 gets paid.

00:55:24.800 Return to

00:55:25.320 that.

00:55:25.560 No one

00:55:25.800 gets paid.

00:55:26.260 I don't

00:55:26.480 think anyone

00:55:26.780 should get

00:55:27.040 paid.

00:55:27.760 So who

00:55:28.400 currently

00:55:29.340 well who

00:55:30.660 can stand

00:55:31.180 as an

00:55:31.460 MP in

00:55:32.680 my New

00:55:34.160 Britannia.

00:55:35.340 To understand

00:55:36.240 that we need

00:55:36.880 to see who

00:55:37.760 can stand as

00:55:38.340 an MP at

00:55:38.800 the moment.

00:55:39.920 So to stand

00:55:40.660 as a

00:55:40.880 candidate in

00:55:41.320 a UK

00:55:41.620 parliamentary

00:55:42.100 general

00:55:42.440 election you

00:55:43.420 need to be

00:55:43.820 at least 18

00:55:44.320 years old and

00:55:44.820 be either a

00:55:45.300 British citizen

00:55:46.040 or a citizen

00:55:47.020 of the Republic

00:55:47.520 of Ireland or a

00:55:48.640 citizen of a

00:55:49.200 Commonwealth

00:55:49.440 country who

00:55:50.440 does not

00:55:50.740 require leave

00:55:51.980 to enter blah

00:55:52.520 blah blah blah

00:55:52.860 blah.

00:55:53.680 And so what

00:55:54.620 disqualifies you

00:55:56.200 for standing as

00:55:56.740 an MP?

00:55:57.680 Members of the

00:55:58.220 police force,

00:55:59.060 members of the

00:55:59.500 armed forces,

00:56:00.240 civil servants,

00:56:00.880 judges, people

00:56:01.800 are subject to

00:56:02.300 bankruptcy, people

00:56:03.260 have been judged

00:56:04.080 bankrupt, blah blah

00:56:05.440 blah.

00:56:07.140 So in my, I need

00:56:10.200 to keep moving this

00:56:10.760 mouse around, in my

00:56:11.580 New Britannia,

00:56:12.240 from here anyway,

00:56:15.960 you can basically

00:56:16.440 see that you, you

00:56:18.140 can actually have a

00:56:19.020 career entirely funded

00:56:20.140 by the taxpayer.

00:56:21.100 Yes.

00:56:21.540 Because although this

00:56:22.400 disqualifies you.

00:56:23.560 Somebody like

00:56:23.880 Jeremy Corbyn, who

00:56:24.760 you are suggesting.

00:56:26.080 Jeremy Corbyn,

00:56:27.140 Keir Starmer,

00:56:28.040 Ryan Abbott.

00:56:29.080 Yeah, Clive

00:56:30.080 Lewis, Andy

00:56:31.560 Burnham, all these

00:56:32.580 people.

00:56:33.640 So currently you

00:56:35.800 can have a career

00:56:36.600 permanently funded

00:56:38.200 by the taxpayer

00:56:38.840 because although

00:56:39.520 these things

00:56:41.740 disqualify you for

00:56:42.580 standing as an MP,

00:56:43.420 you can end one

00:56:44.440 and then begin as

00:56:45.240 another.

00:56:45.760 So you can just

00:56:46.540 hop and skip your

00:56:47.500 way through being

00:56:49.120 subsidised by the

00:56:50.000 taxpayer forever.

00:56:52.680 For eternity.

00:56:53.260 And then the nice

00:56:53.920 comfortable peerage in

00:56:54.860 the House of Lords.

00:56:56.040 Precisely, right?

00:56:57.040 So in New

00:56:57.820 Britannia, if the 0.64

00:56:59.460 lack of salary doesn't

00:57:00.460 stop the career

00:57:01.060 politician and the

00:57:02.800 hop-skip jumping

00:57:03.560 around being dependent

00:57:04.880 on the taxpayer, I

00:57:06.080 will make it mandatory

00:57:06.960 that no one who has

00:57:08.740 been paid from the

00:57:09.460 public purse can

00:57:10.300 stand for a minimum

00:57:11.320 of 10 years.

00:57:12.960 A decade.

00:57:13.860 Because a decade

00:57:14.620 should be enough,

00:57:15.740 obviously all well

00:57:16.840 and good, everything

00:57:17.340 else being great in

00:57:18.000 the country.

00:57:18.800 A decade should be

00:57:19.520 long enough for you

00:57:21.320 to establish yourself

00:57:22.300 in society as

00:57:23.980 someone, just as

00:57:25.680 someone.

00:57:26.260 Yes.

00:57:26.640 Right?

00:57:27.340 So that's one thing.

00:57:29.460 Okay?

00:57:30.540 So there's that.

00:57:31.840 I think that begins

00:57:32.840 to help clear up

00:57:33.840 democracy and remove

00:57:35.220 the career politician.

00:57:36.760 Yes.

00:57:37.000 And then enter

00:57:38.220 perhaps my most

00:57:39.280 controversial thing,

00:57:40.880 but we need

00:57:41.600 mandatory IQ tests.

00:57:44.400 Okay?

00:57:45.760 Because it's clear

00:57:46.540 as day that we have

00:57:47.200 actual retards. 0.96

00:57:48.020 I don't know where

00:57:48.340 this is going, yes.

00:57:49.140 Well, you know,

00:57:49.880 we actually have

00:57:50.700 retards in government 1.00

00:57:51.420 right now.

00:57:52.900 So we've got Rachel

00:57:53.760 Reeves, Angela

00:57:55.120 Weiner, that is not

00:57:57.040 a misspeak.

00:57:58.620 Keir Starmer, and

00:57:59.580 of course the blinder

00:58:00.440 is David Lammy,

00:58:02.340 if we could just

00:58:02.780 play this.

00:58:04.440 Samson or

00:58:05.000 Robert, do you want

00:58:05.360 me to play this?

00:58:06.320 Who acceded to

00:58:07.560 the English throne

00:58:08.120 at the age of nine

00:58:08.860 on the death of

00:58:09.400 his father, Henry

00:58:10.020 VIII, in 1547?

00:58:13.500 Henry VII.

00:58:14.780 Edward VI.

00:58:15.580 In chemistry,

00:58:16.220 what French word

00:58:16.920 is used for a

00:58:17.540 tube for transferring

00:58:18.420 measured amounts

00:58:19.260 of liquids?

00:58:19.700 This will never

00:58:19.900 not be hilarious.

00:58:21.280 Which country

00:58:21.880 so-called...

00:58:22.600 Yeah, I mean,

00:58:23.220 we could lose

00:58:23.920 brain cells

00:58:24.480 watching that.

00:58:25.880 Yes.

00:58:26.440 Honestly,

00:58:27.200 I don't know

00:58:28.360 how they actually

00:58:29.060 broadcast that.

00:58:30.000 No, neither do I.

00:58:30.620 I'm surprised

00:58:31.180 that didn't get

00:58:31.860 buried in there.

00:58:32.400 I don't understand

00:58:33.220 how his career

00:58:34.160 didn't end

00:58:34.940 instantly afterwards.

00:58:36.680 What I don't

00:58:37.280 understand is...

00:58:38.140 We'll get to that.

00:58:39.100 How?

00:58:39.640 Okay.

00:58:40.380 We'll get to that.

00:58:41.440 So, there must be

00:58:43.340 a minimum IQ

00:58:43.980 requirement for

00:58:44.620 politicians in

00:58:45.340 New Britannia.

00:58:46.180 Okay?

00:58:46.500 The god emperor

00:58:47.060 has spoken.

00:58:48.180 All right?

00:58:48.460 The Anglo 0.83

00:58:48.920 god himself.

00:58:51.580 Mr. H.

00:58:52.980 Basically, so we

00:58:53.700 can't be led by

00:58:54.180 absolute morons, 0.53

00:58:55.220 obviously.

00:58:55.920 This minimum IQ

00:58:57.100 is 115.

00:58:59.080 That's what I've

00:58:59.820 stated.

00:59:00.220 The minimum IQ

00:59:01.340 must be 115.

00:59:02.820 Makes sense.

00:59:03.600 Now, perhaps a

00:59:05.320 little bit more

00:59:05.760 controversially,

00:59:07.880 kind of a bit

00:59:10.860 like trading cards,

00:59:13.140 you know, like,

00:59:13.860 you know, HP

00:59:14.480 and, you know,

00:59:16.680 hit points and

00:59:17.520 health and things

00:59:18.260 like that, you

00:59:18.920 know, XP.

00:59:19.960 This must also be

00:59:21.040 displayed on all

00:59:21.720 campaign leaflets

00:59:22.580 and canvassing

00:59:24.000 materials by law.

00:59:25.580 So, you're just

00:59:29.820 putting your IQ

00:59:30.940 through people's

00:59:31.860 letterboxes as you 0.99

00:59:33.020 go around

00:59:33.720 campaigning.

00:59:35.240 Yeah.

00:59:36.380 Because if the

00:59:37.720 money didn't stop

00:59:38.500 people applying,

00:59:39.820 then the IQ

00:59:42.360 might.

00:59:43.780 Because then

00:59:44.440 you're filtering

00:59:45.720 it out and then

00:59:46.860 you're filtering it

00:59:47.320 out even further.

00:59:47.800 Now, look, okay,

00:59:48.740 obviously, IQ is

00:59:50.080 not the be-all and

00:59:50.620 end-all.

00:59:51.300 Right.

00:59:51.580 But it will be a

00:59:53.240 way to help

00:59:53.760 establishing a

00:59:54.340 higher calibre of

00:59:55.100 politician.

00:59:55.820 Right.

00:59:56.860 So, there's

00:59:57.280 that.

00:59:58.340 So, that's one

00:59:59.820 way.

01:00:00.740 You know, that's

01:00:01.260 the sort of,

01:00:02.900 that's who can

01:00:04.080 stand for

01:00:04.580 parliament.

01:00:04.940 These are two

01:00:05.000 very interesting

01:00:05.600 propositions.

01:00:06.400 I've got more.

01:00:07.240 I've got more.

01:00:07.680 I'm sure.

01:00:08.320 So, that's who

01:00:09.720 can stand for

01:00:10.380 parliament.

01:00:11.060 All right.

01:00:11.740 And we can sort

01:00:12.780 of bring this

01:00:13.540 back in a minute.

01:00:14.580 But let's talk

01:00:15.060 about the nation

01:00:15.660 and who can vote

01:00:16.380 in my New

01:00:17.480 Britannia.

01:00:18.120 Yes.

01:00:18.500 Because democracy

01:00:19.060 is two-sided.

01:00:19.820 There are two

01:00:20.320 sides of the

01:00:20.740 equation.

01:00:21.580 A bit like

01:00:21.940 supply and demand.

01:00:22.980 People always

01:00:23.440 conveniently

01:00:23.820 forget the demand

01:00:24.540 aspect because

01:00:25.180 you're leftist

01:00:25.780 morons.

01:00:26.860 But let's talk

01:00:27.500 about the

01:00:27.740 voters.

01:00:28.140 So, not merely

01:00:28.600 the candidates.

01:00:29.340 Let's talk about

01:00:29.920 the voters.

01:00:31.380 So, no foreigners 1.00

01:00:31.980 can vote.

01:00:32.600 Simple as.

01:00:33.020 Okay.

01:00:34.940 I'm with this so

01:00:35.620 far.

01:00:35.960 All right.

01:00:36.260 So, how do we

01:00:36.840 define a foreigner?

01:00:38.260 Well, quick and

01:00:39.080 simple.

01:00:39.840 God Emperor has

01:00:41.220 spoken.

01:00:42.080 Someone who doesn't

01:00:42.960 have British

01:00:43.520 ancestry going back

01:00:44.560 at least ten

01:00:45.100 generations.

01:00:46.640 Ten generations as

01:00:47.680 defined by about

01:00:48.280 thirty years of

01:00:49.920 generations, basically.

01:00:51.040 So, not only are

01:00:52.240 they putting IQ

01:00:53.000 tests through the

01:00:54.180 letterboxes, they're

01:00:54.980 also putting DNA

01:00:55.840 tests as well.

01:00:57.300 Well, no.

01:00:57.700 So, yeah.

01:00:58.820 Well, basically,

01:01:00.120 this is under the

01:01:01.520 implication that we've

01:01:02.420 effectively got rid of

01:01:03.240 everyone anyway.

01:01:04.280 But it's just filtering

01:01:05.440 out through the

01:01:05.980 dross.

01:01:06.900 Right.

01:01:07.580 Filtering out the

01:01:08.940 Huguenot, you know.

01:01:10.300 Yeah.

01:01:10.880 Well, you know,

01:01:11.680 because it might be

01:01:12.180 some people that have

01:01:12.880 sort of married in a

01:01:14.400 few generations back

01:01:15.420 and things like this.

01:01:16.140 So, they're here

01:01:16.760 already and, you

01:01:18.020 know, they weren't on

01:01:18.940 the mass deportations

01:01:19.780 list.

01:01:20.060 They've been a net

01:01:20.520 taxpayer, all that

01:01:21.180 kind of stuff.

01:01:21.580 That's okay.

01:01:22.240 But I still don't

01:01:22.940 want to vote.

01:01:23.320 On a more serious

01:01:25.100 note, I've been in

01:01:27.360 conversations with

01:01:27.960 people like Pete

01:01:28.560 North and yesterday

01:01:29.400 with Joseph

01:01:29.820 Robertson.

01:01:31.200 I've been saying

01:01:31.940 that it should be

01:01:32.620 1945 cut-off date.

01:01:34.960 Yeah, yeah.

01:01:35.260 So, that's my

01:01:36.180 ten generations.

01:01:38.240 You wouldn't have to

01:01:38.920 go back ten

01:01:40.460 generations, just

01:01:41.180 three, because the

01:01:43.400 population of Britain

01:01:44.660 has been so settled

01:01:45.540 for so long.

01:01:46.240 So, I agree.

01:01:46.960 But the only reason

01:01:47.920 the god emperor, me,

01:01:49.800 says ten generations.

01:01:52.140 Yes.

01:01:54.020 Was it ten generations?

01:01:55.160 Yeah, it was ten

01:01:55.600 generations.

01:01:56.380 It's just because, I

01:01:57.760 mean, we are in

01:01:58.380 2034 at this point.

01:01:59.720 Yes.

01:02:01.000 So, you know, I

01:02:02.340 want it to be

01:02:03.020 backdated a little

01:02:03.880 bit at that point.

01:02:04.500 I just want to be

01:02:05.400 secure so that my

01:02:07.100 Anglo children can

01:02:08.760 have a great future.

01:02:09.960 It's like, when you

01:02:10.560 think of, you know,

01:02:11.860 one of the most

01:02:12.300 famous MPs we've

01:02:13.300 ever had, Edmund

01:02:14.080 Burke, of course, 1.00

01:02:15.400 Burke was born in

01:02:16.180 Dublin.

01:02:16.780 Right.

01:02:17.060 Now, he came from

01:02:18.020 Ireland, and so to

01:02:19.280 go from Ireland to

01:02:21.500 the British Parliament,

01:02:22.900 and, you know, one of

01:02:23.660 the things that was

01:02:24.440 commented on at the

01:02:25.120 time was that he

01:02:25.720 was saying, well,

01:02:26.740 basically, if I can do

01:02:28.460 some good for my

01:02:30.040 country of Ireland,

01:02:31.260 whilst not harming,

01:02:33.200 actively trying to

01:02:34.340 harm or drag down the

01:02:35.880 country that has taken

01:02:36.800 me, then that's really

01:02:38.600 the best that I can do

01:02:39.500 as an MP.

01:02:40.360 But Burke is,

01:02:41.260 obviously, was a man

01:02:42.400 of quite singular

01:02:43.720 quality, and he's the

01:02:45.040 exception, not the

01:02:46.720 rule.

01:02:47.120 Well, yeah.

01:02:47.680 Most people.

01:02:48.420 Well, yeah.

01:02:48.860 So, yeah, well,

01:02:49.480 exactly.

01:02:49.860 Yeah, we'll get to

01:02:50.420 that.

01:02:50.760 So, why do we say that

01:02:52.240 we have to go back

01:02:52.980 ten generations?

01:02:53.620 Well, if we haven't

01:02:54.520 got rid of the dross by 0.69

01:02:56.500 doing all those other

01:02:57.180 things, deportations,

01:02:58.120 et cetera, we get

01:02:59.540 subversive imbeciles

01:03:01.920 like this.

01:03:04.100 All independent

01:03:05.060 candidates across

01:03:06.260 Birmingham will be 0.98

01:03:07.880 supported by the

01:03:09.780 Independent Candidate

01:03:10.760 Alliance and by

01:03:11.460 support we mean.

01:03:12.720 Brilliant.

01:03:13.100 Let's stop listening

01:03:13.860 to that.

01:03:14.600 Gobbledy geek that

01:03:15.660 masquerades as

01:03:16.340 English.

01:03:16.840 So, basically, this is

01:03:17.780 subversive.

01:03:18.640 Yes.

01:03:19.120 We're actually one of

01:03:20.000 the only countries that

01:03:20.700 allow this nonsense.

01:03:22.040 This is how democracies

01:03:24.180 fall, by allowing those 1.00

01:03:25.500 that come from

01:03:26.320 locations without

01:03:27.600 democracies and

01:03:28.980 allowing them to

01:03:29.580 vote.

01:03:31.020 So, you're saying

01:03:31.840 Tower Hamlets is not

01:03:32.980 a shining example.

01:03:34.180 No, I mean, if I

01:03:35.000 could, like, I mean,

01:03:36.960 if I could effectively

01:03:37.560 get a spade, I mean,

01:03:38.500 I could because I'm

01:03:39.100 the God Emperor.

01:03:39.880 If I get a spade and

01:03:42.220 just sort of hollow

01:03:43.060 that area out and

01:03:44.640 then off over into

01:03:46.940 the channel.

01:03:47.720 Right.

01:03:48.440 Then I would do

01:03:49.200 that, actually.

01:03:49.720 You're not worried

01:03:50.060 about harming France,

01:03:50.840 are you?

01:03:51.740 Oh, no, I couldn't

01:03:52.240 give a shit. 0.91

01:03:52.660 Encourages it,

01:03:53.280 actually.

01:03:53.560 No, no.

01:03:55.240 But obviously, it's

01:03:56.140 subversive, right?

01:03:57.300 Yeah, obviously.

01:03:58.200 These people shouldn't

01:03:59.000 be here.

01:03:59.460 They shouldn't be

01:03:59.860 allowed to vote at

01:04:01.520 all.

01:04:01.560 And again, that's

01:04:02.340 independent.

01:04:03.380 I'll just cut the, you

01:04:04.480 know, cut the crap. 0.94

01:04:05.620 Like, we know what it

01:04:06.480 is.

01:04:06.900 It's the Muslim 0.98

01:04:07.620 Candidate Alliance.

01:04:09.500 Call it the Muslim 1.00

01:04:10.040 Candidate Alliance.

01:04:10.780 Be done with it.

01:04:11.600 Thank you very much.

01:04:12.540 Yeah, exactly.

01:04:13.300 So, there's that,

01:04:15.380 right?

01:04:15.780 And, you know, we can

01:04:16.940 get into, you know, I

01:04:18.660 once planned a whole

01:04:19.360 segment on discussing

01:04:20.180 how the sort of

01:04:20.740 subversive elements

01:04:21.520 of our politics have

01:04:23.240 kind of grown and

01:04:24.260 things like that.

01:04:24.860 But basically, don't

01:04:26.260 invite people that

01:04:27.020 shouldn't be here to

01:04:27.780 be able to take part

01:04:28.500 in the franchise.

01:04:29.520 I agree that I

01:04:30.400 shouldn't be allowed

01:04:30.900 to vote.

01:04:31.540 So, we're going to

01:04:32.160 agree.

01:04:32.280 It's a simple ad,

01:04:32.960 right?

01:04:33.260 Like, it'd be weird if

01:04:35.620 I went to Japan and

01:04:36.440 was able to subvert

01:04:37.500 their politics.

01:04:38.140 That's just, it's

01:04:38.580 just odd.

01:04:39.420 But we allow it in

01:04:40.380 the West because

01:04:41.220 imbeciles. 0.85

01:04:42.700 So, let's drill down

01:04:46.380 into potentially some

01:04:47.480 more controversial

01:04:48.180 things.

01:04:50.120 And you'll see

01:04:50.900 probably where I'm

01:04:51.520 getting at here.

01:04:52.840 No one on any form

01:04:53.960 of benefit can vote.

01:04:56.720 I think that's

01:04:57.600 reasonable.

01:04:58.160 In my New

01:04:59.780 Britannia.

01:05:01.440 Because I think it's

01:05:02.240 insane that as a

01:05:03.280 nation, over half the

01:05:05.640 UK population is in 1.00

01:05:07.440 receipt of some form

01:05:08.100 of benefit.

01:05:09.260 They basically take

01:05:10.140 more from the tax

01:05:11.100 man than they do

01:05:12.300 pay in.

01:05:13.920 Now, that is insane.

01:05:15.020 It literally can't

01:05:16.660 continue.

01:05:17.340 Especially when you

01:05:18.180 consider how high

01:05:19.840 taxation is in

01:05:21.080 Britain.

01:05:21.460 Yeah, precisely.

01:05:21.880 I mean, I am paying

01:05:22.580 to subsidize ridiculous

01:05:24.300 amounts of people

01:05:25.100 here.

01:05:25.300 I was...

01:05:26.040 Who then have a way

01:05:26.640 in voting for where

01:05:28.200 my money goes in

01:05:29.000 future.

01:05:29.560 This is absurd.

01:05:31.040 So, the highest

01:05:32.020 level, historically

01:05:33.020 speaking, was during

01:05:34.760 the Napoleonic Wars

01:05:35.800 when the British

01:05:37.840 government ended up

01:05:38.940 controlling around

01:05:39.680 20% of GDP.

01:05:40.580 GDP.

01:05:41.520 And before that, it

01:05:42.900 had been between 6%

01:05:44.260 and 9%.

01:05:45.140 That was the total

01:05:47.800 net income of the

01:05:50.960 country.

01:05:51.600 Something between 6%

01:05:52.780 and 9% was in the

01:05:53.960 hands of the

01:05:54.340 government.

01:05:55.140 And you're looking at

01:05:55.640 it.

01:05:55.720 It wasn't income

01:05:56.280 taxes for the most

01:05:57.140 part.

01:05:57.580 It was mainly

01:05:58.240 tariffs and taxes on

01:06:01.520 land and on all

01:06:03.540 kinds of things.

01:06:04.120 rather than the

01:06:06.360 sort of insane

01:06:07.180 income tax, whereby

01:06:08.680 if you produce more,

01:06:10.160 we're going to take

01:06:10.600 more away from you.

01:06:11.620 And a bigger

01:06:12.160 proportion of your

01:06:12.940 work will become

01:06:13.800 ours.

01:06:14.520 Yeah.

01:06:14.720 So, fair enough.

01:06:16.240 That's a substantive

01:06:17.440 point.

01:06:18.020 Yes.

01:06:18.520 Yeah.

01:06:19.100 So, that's one thing.

01:06:21.340 No one on benefits.

01:06:23.360 No one currently in

01:06:24.680 receipt of benefits.

01:06:25.520 What's more as well,

01:06:26.360 that would incentivize 0.95

01:06:27.520 people to get off

01:06:28.620 them.

01:06:29.060 Yes.

01:06:30.060 Become contributors.

01:06:31.900 Yeah, exactly.

01:06:33.960 Absolutely.

01:06:35.280 100%.

01:06:35.760 And then we get to

01:06:37.140 probably one of the

01:06:37.960 most controversial

01:06:38.480 things.

01:06:39.400 No pensioner can vote 1.00

01:06:40.540 in New Britannia.

01:06:42.080 Sorry, but no.

01:06:44.120 Absolutely.

01:06:44.860 I'm just not having

01:06:45.700 it.

01:06:46.280 In my Britain, you've

01:06:47.760 had your time.

01:06:49.060 Okay.

01:06:49.760 I'm currently paying

01:06:50.860 for you to sit around

01:06:51.440 and enjoy life.

01:06:52.360 I'm surprised that you

01:06:53.360 will allow pensions in

01:06:54.820 your Britain.

01:06:55.720 Well, so, yeah.

01:06:58.940 So, this is kind of

01:06:59.700 trying to work still

01:07:00.480 within some sort of

01:07:01.340 a pattern.

01:07:01.540 I'm trying to fix

01:07:04.540 what we're currently

01:07:05.220 in, basically.

01:07:06.040 Right.

01:07:06.320 You've got to have

01:07:07.160 pensions.

01:07:08.280 I would have

01:07:08.800 dismantled the

01:07:12.300 wealthy state.

01:07:13.100 Yeah, so would I.

01:07:13.880 And relied on

01:07:14.260 private charity.

01:07:15.000 So would I.

01:07:15.440 But if I became

01:07:16.740 God Emperor tomorrow,

01:07:17.900 this is how I would

01:07:18.400 just immediately

01:07:18.960 quickly fix democracy.

01:07:20.320 And it's a blueprint

01:07:21.180 on how to fix

01:07:21.640 democracy now,

01:07:22.800 basically.

01:07:23.340 So, no pensioner 0.99

01:07:24.400 should vote.

01:07:25.460 You don't get a say

01:07:26.140 in how the future

01:07:26.620 goes after you're

01:07:27.540 gone, considering

01:07:28.280 you're voting

01:07:29.440 record and your

01:07:32.960 sensibilities have

01:07:33.980 given us the

01:07:34.480 predicament that we're

01:07:35.280 in now.

01:07:36.040 So, no, you can't

01:07:37.300 vote.

01:07:37.940 I have to push back

01:07:38.800 against this, if you

01:07:39.520 will indulge me for a

01:07:40.380 minute.

01:07:40.940 I mean, I can try.

01:07:41.780 I am the God Emperor.

01:07:42.560 Thank you.

01:07:43.160 Thank you for your

01:07:43.640 indulgence.

01:07:43.900 We seek an audience.

01:07:45.780 I'll allow it.

01:07:47.120 Thank you.

01:07:47.500 Thank you.

01:07:48.640 Just to petition

01:07:49.780 your majesty.

01:07:52.640 Well, domestic

01:07:54.740 was of the view

01:07:55.520 that you could only

01:07:56.300 petition the king

01:07:57.020 for things rather

01:07:57.820 than sort of demand

01:07:58.720 things.

01:07:59.100 And I sort of agree.

01:08:00.960 But Chesterton

01:08:01.760 made a point about

01:08:02.560 tradition being the

01:08:03.400 democracy of the dead.

01:08:04.980 That basically this

01:08:06.560 wisdom and experience

01:08:07.480 that is accumulated

01:08:08.280 over the ages

01:08:09.320 should have its

01:08:10.560 place.

01:08:10.900 So, I think if

01:08:12.820 somebody has their

01:08:13.760 own private pension

01:08:14.820 and wishes to vote,

01:08:16.920 it's one thing.

01:08:17.920 I'll get to that.

01:08:18.300 Whereas if someone

01:08:19.100 is on a state pension

01:08:20.140 and wishes to vote,

01:08:21.340 it's a different story.

01:08:22.560 So, I agree and

01:08:23.700 disagree because,

01:08:24.580 again, people's

01:08:25.600 voting records and

01:08:26.760 sensibilities have

01:08:27.520 still garnered us

01:08:28.880 the predicament that

01:08:29.620 we're in.

01:08:30.800 And so that still

01:08:31.420 has to be a factor.

01:08:32.960 Because you have to

01:08:33.540 keep the triple 0.95

01:08:33.940 and a state pension.

01:08:34.660 This is what we're

01:08:35.580 going to get to.

01:08:36.920 So, no children

01:08:38.140 should be allowed to

01:08:38.800 vote, obviously.

01:08:40.120 That's dumb.

01:08:41.900 Revolutionary.

01:08:44.140 Revolutionary.

01:08:45.100 Really?

01:08:46.340 Come on.

01:08:48.740 Come on.

01:08:49.520 Come on.

01:08:49.980 You can't buy

01:08:50.480 cigarettes.

01:08:51.020 You can't buy

01:08:51.480 alcohol.

01:08:52.300 But you can vote.

01:08:53.120 Come on.

01:08:53.600 Yes.

01:08:54.020 I'm with you.

01:08:55.180 I'm with you.

01:08:55.860 Please.

01:08:57.080 Be aif. 0.93

01:08:59.580 Let's just not.

01:09:02.380 I blackpill everyone.

01:09:03.640 I'm trying to

01:09:04.360 give some levity here.

01:09:05.720 Very jolly.

01:09:06.460 Carry on.

01:09:07.160 Basically, what I'm

01:09:08.060 getting at is we

01:09:08.780 need to get rid of

01:09:09.360 all of the client

01:09:10.260 classes.

01:09:11.300 We have in this

01:09:12.040 country.

01:09:12.480 This is the overarching

01:09:13.300 theme of this.

01:09:13.900 Get rid of all the 0.89

01:09:14.400 client classes.

01:09:15.320 Right?

01:09:16.220 Get rid of them.

01:09:16.940 You mean do not

01:09:17.540 allow them to vote.

01:09:18.460 Yeah.

01:09:19.440 Client classes should

01:09:20.680 not be a thing.

01:09:21.880 Yeah.

01:09:22.000 If you have a client

01:09:22.720 class, they shouldn't

01:09:23.420 be allowed to vote.

01:09:24.240 And this actually

01:09:24.760 comes from both

01:09:25.360 sides.

01:09:25.780 So, it comes from

01:09:26.860 voter and candidate.

01:09:28.460 You can have a

01:09:29.040 client candidate in

01:09:30.320 the political spectrum,

01:09:31.780 i.e.

01:09:32.200 career politicians.

01:09:33.640 Right?

01:09:33.800 Yes.

01:09:34.320 And you have to get

01:09:36.040 rid of those people.

01:09:37.120 You have to.

01:09:38.920 So, what you're

01:09:39.500 saying is essentially

01:09:40.300 you must have skin in

01:09:41.560 the game.

01:09:42.080 Yeah.

01:09:42.340 So, this is my

01:09:42.940 closing point.

01:09:43.200 To be able to

01:09:43.700 participate.

01:09:44.260 Exactly.

01:09:44.760 So, my closing point

01:09:45.520 is you must have a

01:09:46.560 stake in the country.

01:09:47.560 Yes.

01:09:47.800 Only net taxpayers

01:09:49.380 should vote, which

01:09:50.860 will instantly eliminate

01:09:51.980 50% of the population.

01:09:53.220 So, that's brilliant.

01:09:54.820 Not like that.

01:09:55.860 Just inability to

01:09:57.480 vote.

01:09:59.460 And this is net

01:10:00.480 across your lifetime.

01:10:01.720 Yes.

01:10:02.420 Net across your

01:10:03.360 lifetime.

01:10:03.920 Right.

01:10:04.640 And so, now I open

01:10:05.620 it to the floor for

01:10:06.540 suggestions.

01:10:07.360 I will offer, I will

01:10:08.840 enable some petitions

01:10:10.660 for the God Emperor's 0.84

01:10:11.960 democratic future.

01:10:14.200 Well, I mean, for

01:10:16.000 me, just the darkest

01:10:17.880 aspect of all of

01:10:19.480 it.

01:10:19.720 And I really can't get

01:10:20.840 it out of my head.

01:10:21.720 Just that daily that

01:10:23.960 I made a few weeks

01:10:25.280 back for Remembrance

01:10:26.940 Sunday, where, you

01:10:28.000 know, it was that chap

01:10:28.820 on Good Morning

01:10:29.380 Britain.

01:10:29.880 Yeah.

01:10:30.180 Just saying, wasn't

01:10:31.640 worth fighting for.

01:10:32.620 You know, what we have

01:10:33.340 now wasn't worth, you

01:10:34.340 know, when you just

01:10:35.200 think about the number

01:10:37.060 of men who went over

01:10:38.680 the top in World

01:10:39.440 War I.

01:10:40.320 Yeah.

01:10:40.660 On the promise that

01:10:42.580 their service would

01:10:43.620 give them the vote.

01:10:44.860 That was the final

01:10:45.820 hurdle.

01:10:46.800 And once they'd

01:10:47.620 fought in World

01:10:48.640 War I, they'd 0.99

01:10:49.800 slaughtered themselves

01:10:50.900 for the behest of

01:10:51.860 the elites and their

01:10:52.820 geopolitical interests

01:10:54.060 in Europe, that they

01:10:55.620 will be given the

01:10:56.300 vote.

01:10:57.140 What was the point of

01:10:58.060 that entire exercise

01:10:59.440 to then just ignore

01:11:01.700 everything that they

01:11:02.700 actually voted for

01:11:03.780 and wanted?

01:11:05.100 Yeah.

01:11:05.340 So, for decade

01:11:06.060 after decade.

01:11:06.860 No, that was a truly

01:11:10.180 heartbreaking thing to

01:11:11.140 see.

01:11:11.540 Yeah.

01:11:11.800 That was a genuinely

01:11:12.480 heartbreaking thing to

01:11:13.260 see.

01:11:14.240 When you consider that

01:11:15.380 this sacrifice and

01:11:16.760 bravery was rewarded

01:11:17.880 with what exactly?

01:11:19.020 I don't fully

01:11:20.000 understand it.

01:11:22.720 To give birth to 0.76

01:11:24.520 this.

01:11:27.320 Yeah.

01:11:28.260 I don't think that's

01:11:29.620 going to make him feel

01:11:30.200 much better.

01:11:30.940 No, no.

01:11:31.280 That individual will

01:11:33.580 probably never be on

01:11:34.720 TV again because they

01:11:35.780 went completely off

01:11:36.440 script, which is just

01:11:37.380 truly damning anyway.

01:11:39.020 If anything, the

01:11:40.780 correct response would

01:11:41.820 have been from a

01:11:42.500 true, just, morally

01:11:43.820 correct society would

01:11:45.940 be to platform him

01:11:46.740 further and actually

01:11:48.080 drill deeper into what

01:11:49.400 it is that he sees the

01:11:50.440 country has gone wrong.

01:11:51.780 Actually platform deeper

01:11:53.040 interviews and things

01:11:53.660 like this, but no,

01:11:54.280 just completely ignored.

01:11:55.060 That's someone that

01:11:55.620 should actually have

01:11:56.160 had an audience with

01:11:57.500 the king.

01:11:58.180 It should be someone

01:11:58.740 that has an audience

01:11:59.680 in parliament to get

01:12:01.160 up and actually say,

01:12:01.980 yeah, this is what we

01:12:02.720 fought for and this is

01:12:03.620 why it's gone wrong.

01:12:04.480 What have you done?

01:12:05.480 Right?

01:12:05.680 But no, we didn't do

01:12:06.380 that.

01:12:06.860 We've just given

01:12:07.380 everything away to

01:12:08.220 the tricer.

01:12:08.820 Maybe we should

01:12:09.100 invite him here one

01:12:10.140 day.

01:12:11.400 Maybe we should try

01:12:11.900 and invite him here.

01:12:12.700 Yeah.

01:12:13.460 That'd be good,

01:12:14.120 wouldn't it?

01:12:14.140 Speak to him.

01:12:15.600 But also it gets

01:12:16.900 into the point as

01:12:17.680 well that, and you're

01:12:18.820 absolutely right to

01:12:19.700 diagnose this, which

01:12:20.640 is that it just like

01:12:21.960 one man, one woman,

01:12:23.440 one vote.

01:12:24.080 It's like, okay, but

01:12:24.940 like, I'm sorry, I'm

01:12:26.460 just not willing to

01:12:27.580 entertain the fantasy

01:12:28.560 that my vote somehow

01:12:30.360 counts equally to the

01:12:32.960 guy in Tower Hamlets.

01:12:34.180 Yeah.

01:12:34.480 I mean, look, I'm just

01:12:35.400 not willing to believe

01:12:36.980 that.

01:12:37.360 No, obviously not.

01:12:38.520 And that's the system

01:12:39.360 that we're trapped in.

01:12:40.380 As a net taxpayer who

01:12:43.100 has paid just extortionate

01:12:44.820 sums of tax across my

01:12:45.760 life, I know because I

01:12:47.360 file my taxes myself, I

01:12:48.560 know how much I'm paying

01:12:49.380 and it's absurd.

01:12:51.660 Some random, even a

01:12:54.640 native, it doesn't, it

01:12:55.760 doesn't even have to be

01:12:56.400 a third worlder.

01:12:57.180 Just some random

01:12:58.320 native that is sitting

01:12:59.520 there on his arse, gets

01:13:01.640 to dictate where my

01:13:02.840 money goes?

01:13:03.880 No.

01:13:04.200 While collecting

01:13:04.440 benefits.

01:13:05.660 That's the truly

01:13:06.280 insulting point.

01:13:07.000 Exactly.

01:13:07.280 While collecting

01:13:07.740 benefits.

01:13:08.260 No, you don't.

01:13:09.560 You could make the

01:13:10.860 civic nationalist

01:13:12.240 argument that, well, if

01:13:13.700 he's also a taxpayer and

01:13:15.920 he's also doing

01:13:17.060 responsible things, he

01:13:18.760 has some kind of say in

01:13:20.260 where his tax money is

01:13:21.300 spent.

01:13:21.560 But the fact that there

01:13:23.300 is this disproportionate

01:13:24.580 reliance on benefits from

01:13:27.140 the immigrant communities

01:13:28.160 while they vote in

01:13:29.860 sectarian and tribal

01:13:31.000 blocks just makes it that

01:13:33.260 much more jarring.

01:13:34.480 Yeah.

01:13:34.760 The client, the client

01:13:36.500 class has to be abolished

01:13:38.180 completely.

01:13:39.020 And you'll see it

01:13:39.920 tomorrow.

01:13:40.780 Hot prediction from the

01:13:41.920 emperor of mankind.

01:13:42.960 You'll see it tomorrow in

01:13:44.940 the budget.

01:13:45.520 Whenever this is released,

01:13:46.620 I don't know.

01:13:47.600 Rachel Reeve's budget

01:13:48.880 where she will pander 0.98

01:13:49.980 to multiple client

01:13:51.380 classes.

01:13:51.900 You will see this.

01:13:52.820 The two-child benefit

01:13:53.880 cap.

01:13:54.400 That's immigrants.

01:13:55.000 It's foreigners. 1.00

01:13:55.680 The pensioners. 1.00

01:13:56.440 The triple lock.

01:13:57.720 These are two client

01:13:58.720 classes straight away.

01:13:59.780 As I covered in the

01:14:00.760 segment, the young are

01:14:02.840 being too indebted to

01:14:03.960 actually build families.

01:14:06.100 It's a disgusting

01:14:06.820 system.

01:14:07.260 Exactly.

01:14:07.660 And that goes to why

01:14:09.680 Keir Starmer wants to

01:14:10.880 give the vote to 16

01:14:11.700 year olds.

01:14:12.380 It creates a new

01:14:14.140 client class.

01:14:15.220 You shouldn't be

01:14:16.120 trying to...

01:14:17.020 That's...

01:14:18.220 Opening the franchise

01:14:19.700 up even further is the

01:14:20.760 worst possible thing

01:14:21.840 to happen because it

01:14:23.560 just establishes a new

01:14:24.700 client class.

01:14:25.140 So no.

01:14:26.460 From the emperor of

01:14:27.220 mankind, no client

01:14:27.960 classes.

01:14:29.720 Let's get to some of

01:14:30.260 these super chats.

01:14:31.960 Let's go through that.

01:14:32.900 Yes, let's go.

01:14:33.720 Gimlio Gloin says,

01:14:35.140 All hail Emperor

01:14:36.140 Nate.

01:14:37.160 Also a question to the

01:14:38.100 Brits.

01:14:38.520 Milk and tea.

01:14:39.140 Yes or no?

01:14:39.940 Yes, of course.

01:14:40.840 Yeah.

01:14:41.580 Yeah, yeah.

01:14:41.920 Absolutely.

01:14:42.180 Yes.

01:14:43.180 Not green tea though.

01:14:44.240 It's gross.

01:14:45.760 Not...

01:14:46.200 Green tea is nice.

01:14:47.060 Just don't...

01:14:47.200 Yeah, just don't put

01:14:47.820 milk in.

01:14:48.080 Don't put milk in it.

01:14:48.860 Yeah.

01:14:49.080 Yes.

01:14:50.000 Heathen.

01:14:51.040 Will there be a civil

01:14:51.940 war between Beau's

01:14:52.740 Britain and God Emperor 0.96

01:14:53.560 H reviews New

01:14:54.440 Britannia?

01:14:55.120 Beau's Britain's gone. 0.56

01:14:56.440 What are we talking

01:14:57.100 about?

01:14:58.080 The coup has happened

01:14:59.260 already.

01:14:59.780 The God Emperor's

01:15:00.820 stepped over him.

01:15:02.300 We talking...

01:15:02.880 That picture of Stalin

01:15:04.280 where Beau just

01:15:05.080 disappeared.

01:15:06.120 He's still...

01:15:06.620 He didn't even have a...

01:15:07.840 There's no...

01:15:08.660 He didn't even get a

01:15:09.320 word in, mate.

01:15:09.940 He's gone.

01:15:10.420 It is a traditional...

01:15:11.680 Talking about...

01:15:12.060 When declaring a coup to

01:15:13.380 start with statement

01:15:14.200 number one,

01:15:14.760 it's customary to

01:15:17.220 sort of launch the

01:15:18.260 coup by issuing

01:15:18.920 statement number one

01:15:19.860 and everywhere in the

01:15:21.440 Middle East is understood

01:15:22.120 statement number one

01:15:22.860 means a coup has

01:15:23.440 happened.

01:15:24.160 Right, right.

01:15:24.280 So maybe you might

01:15:25.300 have sort of been a

01:15:26.840 bit more courteous to

01:15:27.960 Beau and informed him

01:15:29.440 in this traditional

01:15:30.100 means.

01:15:31.660 No, I just stepped

01:15:32.260 over him.

01:15:32.600 No?

01:15:33.080 No.

01:15:33.280 Fair enough.

01:15:33.920 We went from Nigel

01:15:35.560 Farage straight to

01:15:36.240 me.

01:15:36.640 Beau made the fatal

01:15:37.860 error of not being on

01:15:39.180 the podcast today so he

01:15:40.460 couldn't say a word in

01:15:41.340 his defense.

01:15:41.760 And so he was

01:15:42.300 usurped.

01:15:43.100 Exactly.

01:15:43.500 Well, you know, we can

01:15:45.180 learn whether he watches

01:15:45.960 these segments.

01:15:46.480 Nature abhors a vacuum.

01:15:47.660 He'll say something or

01:15:48.480 he won't.

01:15:51.560 Thomas Glinda says,

01:15:52.600 doesn't removing MPs

01:15:53.600 pay encourage corruption

01:15:54.860 and outside financial

01:15:56.120 interests?

01:15:57.540 Not really because

01:15:58.620 before it was

01:15:59.240 established.

01:16:00.000 I mean, yeah, it

01:16:00.880 can.

01:16:01.940 But we had a long

01:16:03.220 history of people that

01:16:04.120 were already

01:16:04.440 established.

01:16:05.420 They already had

01:16:06.120 established wealth

01:16:06.980 becoming members of

01:16:08.480 parliament.

01:16:09.360 That was what it was.

01:16:10.900 So it's trying to come

01:16:11.880 back to that instead.

01:16:13.220 You know, people that

01:16:13.920 are established in

01:16:14.880 society already just

01:16:16.060 wanting to make it a

01:16:16.700 better place.

01:16:17.760 It creates a member of

01:16:20.700 parliament more from a

01:16:22.040 charitable end rather

01:16:23.600 than an egotistical

01:16:25.440 end, right?

01:16:26.720 Trying to better

01:16:27.500 oneself.

01:16:28.680 No.

01:16:29.520 Remove that.

01:16:30.640 If you're already

01:16:31.180 established, then your

01:16:32.340 end goal would be

01:16:33.200 to try to better

01:16:33.900 other people's

01:16:34.520 lives, generally

01:16:35.320 speaking.

01:16:36.120 Like, it's reliant

01:16:38.120 on British people's

01:16:40.840 good nature, but we

01:16:41.940 have a long and

01:16:42.520 storied history of

01:16:43.200 actually being quite

01:16:43.800 charitable.

01:16:45.000 So a bit naive,

01:16:46.500 maybe, but I'll be

01:16:47.200 the god-empress.

01:16:47.840 I could crush them

01:16:49.000 if they don't.

01:16:49.240 I think we should

01:16:49.880 actually return to a

01:16:51.180 more Georgian flavor

01:16:52.600 of politics, which

01:16:54.100 is where, you know,

01:16:55.440 to sort of shore up

01:16:56.360 the vote in the

01:16:57.000 rotten boroughs and

01:16:57.840 things, they just give

01:16:58.860 you copious kegs of

01:17:00.780 ale.

01:17:01.000 So that you vote the

01:17:03.060 right way.

01:17:03.780 But think of the

01:17:04.640 eel.

01:17:05.140 No.

01:17:06.300 No, no, no.

01:17:07.260 Don't.

01:17:07.840 Think of the eel.

01:17:08.880 I won't be corrupted

01:17:09.660 by mummy, but a

01:17:10.780 tank of the home

01:17:12.260 brew.

01:17:13.280 That's different.

01:17:14.920 Luca could be a

01:17:16.600 client class, it

01:17:17.180 seems.

01:17:18.940 I'd be fine with

01:17:19.680 them getting a fair

01:17:20.240 wage, providing

01:17:20.980 their natives and

01:17:22.660 having an outside

01:17:23.200 interest that may

01:17:23.980 bias them.

01:17:24.740 Nope, because then

01:17:25.560 you enter career

01:17:26.240 politicians.

01:17:26.980 We have loads of

01:17:27.620 them.

01:17:28.260 So people just want

01:17:29.280 to be career

01:17:29.680 politicians.

01:17:29.920 We shouldn't have

01:17:30.560 that at all.

01:17:31.540 But yeah, I get

01:17:32.180 your point.

01:17:33.320 What's this?

01:17:34.640 Chris says, was

01:17:35.720 that just a very

01:17:36.260 long-winded way of

01:17:37.760 saying service

01:17:39.120 guarantees citizenship?

01:17:40.880 No, not really.

01:17:43.440 No.

01:17:45.000 But no.

01:17:46.180 Disenfranchise the 0.79

01:17:46.720 childless, the time

01:17:47.560 horizon of decisions

01:17:48.820 must extend beyond

01:17:50.500 one's own lifetime to

01:17:51.780 make competent policy

01:17:52.720 choices.

01:17:53.460 In the long run,

01:17:54.060 we'll all be dead.

01:17:54.780 Kings.

01:17:55.720 That's from JM

01:17:56.400 Workshop.

01:17:57.120 Noice.

01:17:57.420 Abcification makes 1.00

01:17:59.860 a good point.

01:18:00.820 Nate becomes the

01:18:01.920 most powerful

01:18:02.320 psycho.

01:18:02.880 Good point.

01:18:04.140 Yeah.

01:18:04.620 Well, also the

01:18:05.300 point of, since

01:18:06.220 you're God-Emperor,

01:18:07.320 you've got to have a

01:18:08.200 minimum and birth

01:18:09.320 rate requirement of

01:18:10.300 eight kids of the

01:18:11.580 indigenous.

01:18:12.660 Marriage requirement, 0.54

01:18:13.940 bare minimum,

01:18:14.660 seventh to eighth

01:18:16.600 cousin or further,

01:18:17.860 any lower considered

01:18:18.840 inbred.

01:18:19.920 I'm down with that.

01:18:21.420 I think four degrees

01:18:22.900 is fine.

01:18:24.200 The Christian

01:18:25.200 position, four degrees

01:18:26.100 is fine.

01:18:26.300 Well, careful,

01:18:26.840 the Middle Easterners,

01:18:28.540 no, I'm joking.

01:18:30.340 Four degrees is what

01:18:31.840 broke the tribes, 0.99

01:18:32.620 so it's worked in the

01:18:33.760 past, it can work in the

01:18:34.560 future.

01:18:35.540 All right.

01:18:36.020 Have we got any video

01:18:36.860 comments today,

01:18:37.760 Samson?

01:18:38.820 Oh, yeah,

01:18:39.180 Samson's back,

01:18:39.860 everyone.

01:18:41.600 Good to have him.

01:18:42.420 In today's episode of how

01:18:49.280 it's impossible to hate

01:18:50.200 the media enough, let's

01:18:51.900 take a look at some of

01:18:52.520 the headlines.

01:18:54.580 Ah, Reform MP,

01:18:56.840 jailed.

01:18:57.760 Ah, Reform MP,

01:18:59.340 jailed.

01:19:00.360 Ah, Reform MP,

01:19:02.100 jailed.

01:19:02.880 Ah, Reform MP,

01:19:04.560 jailed.

01:19:05.720 Ah, Reform MP,

01:19:07.680 jailed.

01:19:08.620 Ah, Reform MP,

01:19:10.120 jailed.

01:19:11.960 You getting the

01:19:12.700 message yet?

01:19:13.720 Strange that this case

01:19:14.900 of international bribery

01:19:16.080 wasn't met with the

01:19:17.020 same swift justice.

01:19:21.180 Yes.

01:19:22.500 Yes.

01:19:23.000 Hate it.

01:19:23.840 Fine classes.

01:19:25.220 Yes.

01:19:26.860 Career politicians.

01:19:27.720 Nate would fix this.

01:19:29.900 Just saying.

01:19:30.860 I'll do an episode,

01:19:31.680 I'll do a segment on

01:19:32.700 why BlackRock and

01:19:34.040 State Street and so on

01:19:35.580 are absolutely evil.

01:19:36.780 So that's probably

01:19:37.960 going to be worth it.

01:19:38.620 Today we are at the

01:19:42.660 grave of Enoch Powell,

01:19:44.460 the late and great

01:19:45.700 Enoch Powell.

01:19:47.100 If only he knew

01:19:47.800 that everything that

01:19:49.580 he was warning us about

01:19:50.540 would actually come to

01:19:52.580 fruition,

01:19:53.480 would actually come about.

01:19:56.180 If only we could speak

01:19:57.080 to him today.

01:19:59.700 I'm surprised he's

01:20:00.660 able to stand there

01:20:01.480 because he must be

01:20:02.220 spinning in his grave

01:20:02.920 so much.

01:20:04.780 Yeah.

01:20:04.880 Well, he was an

01:20:08.400 absolute titan.

01:20:09.480 He was, legend.

01:20:10.920 True hero.

01:20:11.880 And when we win,

01:20:12.600 he'll have a wonderful

01:20:13.300 big statue in

01:20:14.500 Parliament Square.

01:20:15.220 You should not seek 1.00

01:20:19.840 sex because if you 0.88

01:20:21.020 seek sex, 0.56

01:20:21.760 you will become

01:20:22.340 gay because sex 0.96

01:20:23.140 is a gay act. 0.65

01:20:24.840 It's totally gay. 1.00

01:20:26.740 The straightest thing

01:20:27.880 you could do

01:20:28.380 is to never have

01:20:29.500 sex.

01:20:30.000 That's,

01:20:30.560 and everyone knows

01:20:31.280 that's true.

01:20:32.920 Why?

01:20:33.260 I don't know why.

01:20:34.220 Because you retain 0.99

01:20:35.280 your semen 0.95

01:20:35.920 and you sublimate

01:20:36.960 your sexual desire

01:20:38.080 to creating things.

01:20:39.900 That's why

01:20:40.580 celibacy is the

01:20:42.100 straightest thing

01:20:42.640 because who,

01:20:43.120 who are the celibates? 0.95

01:20:45.440 Monks?

01:20:46.860 Priests?

01:20:48.120 Soldiers?

01:20:49.820 What the hell?

01:20:50.800 Um,

01:20:51.540 I don't know about

01:20:52.220 soldiers on that one.

01:20:54.600 Brilliant.

01:20:55.440 Great commentary there.

01:20:56.820 All right.

01:20:57.660 Cheers, Zesty.

01:20:58.700 All right.

01:20:59.240 Is that all of

01:21:00.100 the video comments,

01:21:01.380 Samson?

01:21:02.700 Shall we look at

01:21:03.260 the website comments

01:21:04.000 for a couple of minutes?

01:21:04.860 Yes, all right then.

01:21:06.400 From your segment,

01:21:07.660 Feras,

01:21:07.980 Zesty's back.

01:21:09.780 I hope something like

01:21:10.540 that would be your comment.

01:21:11.900 Even zestier,

01:21:13.120 I used to work

01:21:15.040 at a casino

01:21:15.900 and we got most

01:21:16.900 of our money

01:21:17.300 from regular addicts.

01:21:18.320 Yes, we know.

01:21:19.500 Every Christmas

01:21:19.980 we would get them

01:21:20.640 asking us

01:21:21.160 if we were open

01:21:21.920 Christmas Day.

01:21:24.540 Christ have mercy.

01:21:25.760 That's bad, isn't it?

01:21:26.780 When we told them

01:21:27.780 no,

01:21:28.180 they seemed sad

01:21:29.360 and confused

01:21:29.920 as to what they

01:21:30.740 would do that day instead.

01:21:32.060 Yeah, that's just,

01:21:33.480 that's why you should ban it.

01:21:35.180 Yes.

01:21:36.200 Kevin Fox says,

01:21:37.400 so could we then

01:21:38.980 shut down supermarkets

01:21:40.040 and go back to

01:21:40.700 bakeries, butchers,

01:21:41.480 griegos? 1.00

01:21:41.720 Because supermarkets

01:21:42.880 are saying,

01:21:43.240 that's a silly comment,

01:21:45.080 sorry.

01:21:46.380 Omar says,

01:21:47.500 in tight times,

01:21:48.420 lipstick is a small luxury,

01:21:49.640 but in tough times,

01:21:50.380 it's an investment.

01:21:51.880 It's a rather bleak thought

01:21:52.960 that even the world's

01:21:53.960 oldest profession

01:21:54.680 might one day

01:21:55.820 run on credit.

01:21:56.700 can I pay you

01:22:01.140 in three installments

01:22:02.220 of

01:22:02.720 Gal McClana? 0.85

01:22:07.000 Gal my PayPal

01:22:07.860 pay in three.

01:22:10.700 I can imagine

01:22:11.560 the Netherlands

01:22:12.020 doing this.

01:22:13.440 I can imagine

01:22:14.540 I bet they already

01:22:16.260 do.

01:22:16.860 I bet you they do.

01:22:19.300 Henry Ashman says,

01:22:20.460 as a rule,

01:22:20.960 I tend to only

01:22:21.720 really go for

01:22:22.480 any kind of

01:22:23.060 buy now,

01:22:23.480 pay later

01:22:23.980 when it's

01:22:25.000 0% interest.

01:22:26.020 It's never

01:22:26.480 0% interest.

01:22:28.100 I know I'm good

01:22:28.660 to pay it off

01:22:29.100 entirely at the time

01:22:29.860 if I had to,

01:22:30.580 but doing so

01:22:31.080 would require

01:22:31.500 dipping into my

01:22:32.140 savings.

01:22:33.040 Wait.

01:22:34.280 Nowadays,

01:22:34.840 people are not

01:22:35.320 saving money,

01:22:35.940 they are now

01:22:36.360 hoarding wealth,

01:22:37.420 and buy now,

01:22:37.960 pay later

01:22:38.300 is another method

01:22:38.980 to generate

01:22:39.460 eternal economic

01:22:40.160 growth out of

01:22:40.660 people,

01:22:41.400 whether they can

01:22:42.000 afford it or not.

01:22:43.040 I agree.

01:22:43.680 This is true.

01:22:46.980 Lord Inquisitor

01:22:47.920 Hector Rex

01:22:48.740 says,

01:22:49.120 there was a

01:22:49.600 young lady

01:22:50.000 who took a

01:22:50.440 $500 loan

01:22:51.740 at 700%

01:22:53.200 interest.

01:22:54.820 Wow.

01:22:55.900 Ended up costing

01:22:56.740 her thousands.

01:22:57.420 Yeah,

01:22:57.840 this should just

01:23:00.020 stomp it out.

01:23:01.020 This is what

01:23:01.320 they want.

01:23:01.960 Stomp it out,

01:23:02.560 exactly.

01:23:04.140 Arizona Desert Rat

01:23:05.160 says,

01:23:05.560 when we hit

01:23:05.900 another economic

01:23:06.560 depression,

01:23:07.100 it's going to be

01:23:07.600 because of

01:23:08.000 consumer debt.

01:23:08.720 Yes,

01:23:09.060 correct,

01:23:09.540 correct.

01:23:10.260 The economy

01:23:10.780 will eventually

01:23:11.280 run out of

01:23:11.840 money to lend

01:23:12.400 and people

01:23:12.860 won't be able

01:23:13.300 to spend

01:23:13.660 and then the

01:23:14.060 government

01:23:14.300 will print

01:23:14.720 more money.

01:23:16.200 This is the

01:23:16.980 disgusting cycle

01:23:17.700 that we're in.

01:23:18.220 It should have

01:23:18.620 happened,

01:23:19.120 at the

01:23:20.140 global financial

01:23:20.760 crisis.

01:23:21.300 A massive

01:23:21.940 crash,

01:23:22.600 massive wipeouts

01:23:23.500 of all kinds

01:23:24.000 of financial

01:23:24.420 institutions

01:23:25.020 should have

01:23:25.820 happened and

01:23:26.880 it would have

01:23:27.240 been incredibly

01:23:28.100 painful,

01:23:29.300 but then there

01:23:30.180 would be a

01:23:30.640 way out.

01:23:31.220 The answer

01:23:31.760 was to just

01:23:32.340 keep on

01:23:32.760 printing money

01:23:33.380 and delay

01:23:34.520 the inevitable.

01:23:35.980 And now

01:23:36.320 they're trying

01:23:36.740 to do the

01:23:37.160 CBDC thing

01:23:38.020 whereby they

01:23:38.540 can just

01:23:39.000 control the

01:23:40.340 entire economy

01:23:41.240 from central

01:23:42.940 banks'

01:23:43.260 headquarters.

01:23:44.520 It's criminal.

01:23:46.500 That's a

01:23:47.020 random name,

01:23:47.700 says,

01:23:48.120 great segment,

01:23:48.620 thank you.

01:23:49.460 I agree

01:23:49.880 that the

01:23:50.160 users are

01:23:50.660 enemies,

01:23:51.200 though isn't

01:23:51.700 it interesting

01:23:52.180 how...

01:23:54.220 Yeah,

01:23:54.420 let's not

01:23:54.700 go there.

01:23:56.360 We are on

01:23:57.220 YouTube and

01:23:58.480 that has

01:23:59.280 consequences,

01:24:00.040 unfortunately.

01:24:00.900 All right.

01:24:01.800 All right.

01:24:02.440 From my

01:24:02.800 segment,

01:24:03.720 Michael

01:24:04.160 Drabelba says,

01:24:04.900 my wife,

01:24:05.380 who is Japanese,

01:24:06.140 has expressed

01:24:06.640 that less

01:24:07.440 Chinese tourists

01:24:08.280 is actually a

01:24:09.040 good thing,

01:24:09.620 regardless of

01:24:10.320 the economic

01:24:10.780 effect.

01:24:11.520 The Chinese 0.89

01:24:12.040 aren't the

01:24:12.400 best guests.

01:24:12.900 No,

01:24:13.140 I'm very aware

01:24:13.920 of this,

01:24:14.420 Michael.

01:24:14.800 I've heard that.

01:24:15.000 That's in the

01:24:15.360 last segment

01:24:15.880 with the way

01:24:16.480 that they were

01:24:17.080 treating the

01:24:18.260 deer in Nara,

01:24:19.420 very infamous

01:24:20.080 for their

01:24:20.700 bad behaviour.

01:24:22.000 So I totally

01:24:22.700 take your point.

01:24:23.920 Kevin Fox

01:24:24.580 says,

01:24:24.860 it's not just

01:24:25.540 Japan suffering 0.93

01:24:26.260 from a lack

01:24:26.820 of Chinese

01:24:27.420 tourists,

01:24:28.820 Thailand has 0.85

01:24:29.420 taken a big

01:24:30.060 hit too.

01:24:31.020 This year,

01:24:31.700 it's seen a

01:24:32.380 40% drop

01:24:33.740 in Chinese

01:24:34.520 tourists,

01:24:35.480 serves them

01:24:35.880 right for

01:24:36.300 selling Thailand

01:24:37.180 to second-hand

01:24:38.720 submarines with

01:24:39.560 no engines.

01:24:40.600 Amazing.

01:24:41.480 I have to

01:24:42.680 look into this.

01:24:43.320 Yeah,

01:24:43.580 Baron Von Warhawk

01:24:44.480 says,

01:24:45.300 China's final

01:24:46.160 warning is a

01:24:47.520 Russian ironic

01:24:48.440 idiom originating 1.00

01:24:49.740 from the Soviet

01:24:50.440 Union that

01:24:51.480 refers to a

01:24:52.160 warning that 0.80

01:24:52.680 carries no real

01:24:53.620 consequences.

01:24:54.860 I would not

01:24:55.380 worry about

01:24:56.000 this too

01:24:57.160 much.

01:24:58.000 Well,

01:24:58.520 I don't think

01:24:59.300 we can afford

01:25:00.160 the luxury

01:25:00.760 of not

01:25:01.660 worrying about

01:25:02.340 it at all,

01:25:03.060 but obviously

01:25:04.800 there will be a lot.

01:25:05.500 Past is not

01:25:05.840 always a good

01:25:06.380 indicator of

01:25:07.000 the future.

01:25:08.260 Especially given

01:25:09.340 how much

01:25:09.980 China hates 0.98

01:25:10.940 its own

01:25:11.520 past as well

01:25:12.720 and is trying

01:25:13.580 to break

01:25:14.140 from the

01:25:14.520 past to

01:25:16.000 get away

01:25:17.280 from the

01:25:17.620 century of

01:25:18.060 humiliation.

01:25:19.300 That's a

01:25:19.740 random name

01:25:20.220 says,

01:25:20.700 the reason

01:25:21.240 why I'm

01:25:21.780 ultimately

01:25:22.200 less worried

01:25:22.800 about China

01:25:23.400 than Islam 0.99

01:25:23.980 is because

01:25:24.580 historically

01:25:25.120 China has 0.91

01:25:26.060 always been

01:25:26.620 a paper

01:25:27.020 tiger and

01:25:28.200 has never

01:25:28.760 successfully

01:25:29.320 invaded anything

01:25:30.580 outside of

01:25:31.380 their historical

01:25:32.060 borders,

01:25:33.000 unlike Japan 1.00

01:25:33.820 or the

01:25:34.240 Mongols. 0.82

01:25:34.740 I'm not

01:25:38.100 entirely sure

01:25:38.880 I agree

01:25:39.360 with that.

01:25:39.740 Their military

01:25:40.340 tradition overseas

01:25:41.060 is not

01:25:41.500 wonderful,

01:25:42.440 but when you

01:25:43.480 just see the

01:25:44.180 sheer volume

01:25:44.960 of production

01:25:45.620 and the fact

01:25:46.900 that they

01:25:47.220 now have

01:25:48.740 full access

01:25:50.140 to Russian

01:25:50.680 natural resources,

01:25:52.440 you have to

01:25:53.300 think again

01:25:54.020 about these

01:25:54.500 assumptions.

01:25:54.900 Dealing with

01:25:55.600 industrial China,

01:25:57.300 21st century

01:25:58.160 China.

01:25:58.600 And then

01:25:59.780 Derek Power,

01:26:00.860 master of

01:26:01.580 chippies,

01:26:02.160 always a good

01:26:02.680 username,

01:26:03.580 Japan and

01:26:04.220 the US

01:26:04.660 made a

01:26:05.240 relationship

01:26:05.840 the same

01:26:06.660 way men

01:26:07.120 do,

01:26:07.680 beat the

01:26:08.060 S out of

01:26:08.600 each other

01:26:09.160 and then

01:26:09.580 became best

01:26:10.200 buddies.

01:26:11.060 Yeah,

01:26:11.520 it works.

01:26:12.140 It's a

01:26:12.400 tried and

01:26:12.820 tested formula.

01:26:13.600 Brilliant.

01:26:14.680 And on mine,

01:26:15.400 Michael

01:26:15.900 Dreybelbiss

01:26:16.680 says on

01:26:17.040 Nate's

01:26:17.280 segment,

01:26:17.600 if you're

01:26:17.820 willing to

01:26:18.160 serve in

01:26:18.460 the armed

01:26:18.720 forces,

01:26:19.040 you should

01:26:19.340 get the

01:26:19.540 franchise as

01:26:20.100 well.

01:26:20.680 If you're

01:26:20.920 going to

01:26:21.040 put your

01:26:21.400 arse on

01:26:21.860 the line

01:26:22.180 for the

01:26:22.460 country,

01:26:23.180 that should

01:26:23.560 earn someone

01:26:24.080 the vote.

01:26:25.280 It should,

01:26:25.880 but not if

01:26:26.260 you're a

01:26:26.480 foreigner still.

01:26:28.140 Like,

01:26:28.860 yeah.

01:26:31.320 We're in

01:26:31.880 such dire

01:26:32.580 straits,

01:26:33.920 you've got to

01:26:34.340 correct it

01:26:34.900 quite full force,

01:26:36.180 basically.

01:26:37.280 Kevin Fox,

01:26:38.100 so you want to

01:26:38.460 bring back

01:26:38.780 democracy,

01:26:39.500 not a

01:26:39.980 Democrat,

01:26:40.840 our

01:26:41.060 democracy.

01:26:42.300 Yes.

01:26:42.600 Well,

01:26:42.880 that's the

01:26:43.480 thing,

01:26:43.660 when they

01:26:43.840 say our

01:26:44.160 democracy,

01:26:44.680 they're

01:26:45.380 encompassing

01:26:46.060 all of

01:26:46.780 that

01:26:46.920 clientele

01:26:47.520 class.

01:26:50.060 Yeah.

01:26:50.300 And then

01:26:52.820 there's a

01:26:53.020 great one

01:26:53.380 here from

01:26:53.880 Lord

01:26:54.800 Inquisitor

01:26:55.320 Hector

01:26:55.660 Rex.

01:26:56.400 The

01:26:56.480 God

01:26:56.640 Emperor

01:26:56.840 is

01:26:57.000 actually

01:26:57.200 such a

01:26:57.560 powerful

01:26:57.840 psycho

01:26:58.220 that you

01:26:58.500 can

01:26:58.620 walk

01:26:58.840 reality

01:26:59.260 around

01:26:59.620 him.

01:27:00.180 And

01:27:00.280 very few

01:27:00.620 people

01:27:00.840 know

01:27:01.160 what he

01:27:01.620 actually

01:27:01.820 looks

01:27:02.020 like.

01:27:02.460 The

01:27:02.720 image of

01:27:03.080 him in

01:27:03.260 the

01:27:03.360 armour

01:27:03.580 is

01:27:03.820 what

01:27:03.960 he

01:27:04.060 shows.

01:27:04.640 Nate

01:27:04.800 is

01:27:04.920 actually

01:27:05.140 wearing

01:27:05.340 the

01:27:05.460 armour

01:27:05.580 right

01:27:05.800 now.

01:27:08.280 You've

01:27:08.700 got me.

01:27:09.880 That's

01:27:10.240 what that

01:27:10.560 there is.

01:27:11.380 You've

01:27:11.560 got me

01:27:11.800 mate.

01:27:12.440 Sorry,

01:27:12.940 you've

01:27:13.320 got me.

01:27:14.440 Arizona

01:27:14.880 Desert

01:27:15.240 Rat

01:27:15.500 says an

01:27:16.080 IQ

01:27:16.280 requirement

01:27:16.680 for

01:27:16.860 politicians

01:27:17.260 they're

01:27:17.600 all

01:27:17.700 going to

01:27:17.800 be out

01:27:17.960 of a

01:27:18.120 job

01:27:18.400 in

01:27:18.600 the

01:27:18.700 UK.

01:27:19.240 New

01:27:19.360 Britannia.

01:27:19.800 Yeah,

01:27:19.920 that's the

01:27:20.760 point.

01:27:21.660 Yeah,

01:27:22.100 because our

01:27:22.580 political

01:27:22.920 classes are

01:27:23.700 jokers

01:27:24.700 now.

01:27:25.800 They're

01:27:26.340 ridiculous.

01:27:27.240 Furious

01:27:27.440 Dan

01:27:27.680 says I

01:27:28.580 can't

01:27:28.780 wait for

01:27:29.100 God

01:27:29.480 King

01:27:29.680 Nate

01:27:29.920 to

01:27:30.060 cut

01:27:30.180 the

01:27:30.280 homeless

01:27:30.500 in

01:27:30.660 half

01:27:30.980 with

01:27:31.540 fixed

01:27:31.880 democracy.

01:27:33.680 That

01:27:34.240 has

01:27:34.820 many

01:27:35.080 meanings.

01:27:36.940 That

01:27:37.500 has a

01:27:37.880 couple

01:27:38.080 of

01:27:38.360 meanings

01:27:39.540 there.

01:27:39.860 What

01:27:40.000 aesthetic

01:27:40.860 decisions

01:27:41.700 would you

01:27:42.160 make

01:27:42.460 when you

01:27:42.840 became

01:27:43.100 emperor?

01:27:43.940 A lot

01:27:44.460 of the

01:27:44.760 terrible

01:27:45.560 all the

01:27:46.880 brutalist

01:27:47.340 buildings.

01:27:49.660 But that's

01:27:50.900 the thing.

01:27:51.380 Architectural

01:27:52.020 restoration.

01:27:53.600 That's the

01:27:54.260 thing.

01:27:54.580 When you

01:27:56.100 feel part

01:27:57.380 of a

01:27:57.580 culture,

01:27:58.620 your

01:27:58.980 purpose

01:28:00.220 generationally

01:28:02.060 is to

01:28:02.400 leave it

01:28:02.680 better for

01:28:03.880 the generation 0.55

01:28:04.560 which will

01:28:05.140 come after

01:28:05.680 you.

01:28:06.240 A lot

01:28:07.900 of that

01:28:08.140 will be

01:28:08.600 fixed

01:28:08.920 from a

01:28:09.200 cultural

01:28:09.460 perspective.

01:28:10.120 On day

01:28:10.800 one, snap 0.70

01:28:11.600 your fingers,

01:28:12.100 all the

01:28:12.280 brucelless

01:28:12.600 buildings

01:28:12.960 would blow

01:28:13.800 up.

01:28:15.480 Not

01:28:15.900 like

01:28:16.560 Alan

01:28:18.320 snack

01:28:18.660 bar

01:28:18.880 style.

01:28:19.540 They

01:28:20.160 would

01:28:20.880 be

01:28:22.000 gone.

01:28:22.600 Then

01:28:22.840 some

01:28:24.240 lovely

01:28:24.560 Tudors.

01:28:30.420 Lovely

01:28:30.940 stuff.

01:28:32.220 We need

01:28:32.780 a few

01:28:33.080 more

01:28:33.560 thatched

01:28:33.980 barns

01:28:34.480 again.

01:28:35.720 That would

01:28:36.040 be wholesome.

01:28:36.740 Or

01:28:36.940 Cotswold.

01:28:37.900 Cotswold

01:28:39.820 roof,

01:28:40.360 Cotswold

01:28:40.720 stone

01:28:41.080 roof.

01:28:41.960 Beautiful

01:28:42.440 stuff.

01:28:43.180 We have

01:28:43.480 the ability

01:28:43.860 to do

01:28:44.220 beautiful

01:28:44.480 things.

01:28:44.840 We just

01:28:45.020 don't.

01:28:45.520 We have

01:28:46.140 corporate

01:28:46.960 glass

01:28:47.880 cylinders.

01:28:48.880 We're a

01:28:49.380 grey

01:28:49.520 country and

01:28:50.300 everything's

01:28:50.720 grey.

01:28:52.020 What?

01:28:55.020 Just the

01:28:55.740 way to

01:28:55.960 depress

01:28:56.400 everyone.

01:28:57.000 It's

01:28:57.040 awful

01:28:58.140 weather.

01:28:59.000 Everything's

01:28:59.340 grey and

01:28:59.840 horrible.

01:29:00.500 Then you

01:29:00.740 look around

01:29:01.280 and everything's

01:29:01.920 grey and

01:29:02.360 horrible from

01:29:02.780 the buildings.

01:29:03.560 It's the

01:29:03.780 worst possible

01:29:04.640 thing ever.

01:29:05.420 It drains the

01:29:05.940 energy right

01:29:06.560 out.

01:29:06.780 It is.

01:29:08.940 They're a

01:29:09.460 psychic

01:29:09.980 warfare.

01:29:10.800 Anyway,

01:29:11.360 that's all we've

01:29:11.900 got time for

01:29:12.480 today,

01:29:12.840 ladies and 0.98

01:29:13.180 gentlemen.

01:29:13.700 Hope you've

01:29:14.040 enjoyed the

01:29:14.500 show and

01:29:15.300 we'll see you

01:29:15.920 back at 1pm

01:29:17.020 tomorrow.

01:29:17.840 Have a good

01:29:18.200 day.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - November 25, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1303

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