The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 27th of November, 2025.

00:00:05.700 I'm John Badan and Josh, and today we're going to be talking about the doomsday budget that is way worse than you may have imagined at first blush.

00:00:13.940 America is finding out that actually maybe, just maybe, bringing in all of these Afghans as consequences. 1.00

00:00:20.960 And then we're going to be talking about the motability aristocracy that you're paying for.

00:00:24.200 They just love being a serf. I love being a serf. It's so fucking great.

00:00:27.180 Anyway, before we begin, tomorrow, Friday at 3 o'clock, we have the gold Zoom call for our gold-tier subscribers.

00:00:35.780 So if you're a gold-tier subscriber, I will see you then. But until then, let's begin.

00:00:40.400 I think they've also got the Americans got their warm-up Christmas today, the Thanksgiving thing.

00:00:45.440 Oh, okay.

00:00:46.220 I've had dozens of Americans over the years trying to explain to me why it's not just a rehearsal Christmas,

00:00:50.500 because they have a turkey dinner and stuff, but none of them have been able to convince me.

00:00:53.380 To be honest with you, I'm sold. I like the idea of a turkey.

00:00:55.700 Oh, no, it's a good idea.

00:00:57.180 I like the idea of a second Christmas as well.

00:00:58.700 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:01:00.600 So, yes, Rachel Reeves' budget, which I am dubbing her choice your money.

00:01:05.640 So one of the things I won't be able to do is go through all the ways in which this budget is bad,

00:01:11.700 because the way budgets work is she stands up in the House of Commons and gives a little blah, blah, blah, 1.00

00:01:15.580 and then the detail is all buried in the document.

00:01:18.600 Yes.

00:01:18.760 So it normally takes a good few days to a week or so to wash through all the things that have gone bad.

00:01:24.060 But, I mean, this is just one of the things that we picked up this morning.

00:01:27.340 You know, this Sasha Lord chap here was saying his phone's off the hook because the Chancellor announced help for hospitality.

00:01:34.380 It turns out what that help was was hospitality was going to help fill the coffers for her. 0.87

00:01:40.980 Massive tax rises.

00:01:42.020 Yeah, because it turns out it's a massive tax increase.

00:01:44.120 And we've got various people, such as this poor lady here, saying that her pub rates, business rates,

00:01:49.760 have gone from 18 and a half grand to 73 grand.

00:01:53.120 That's almost quadrupled.

00:01:55.080 Yes.

00:01:55.360 I mean, she posts a screenshot of it, just down a little bit, doesn't she?

00:01:59.780 I believe she does, yes.

00:02:00.680 Like, this is just mad.

00:02:03.160 So pretty much every pub outside of London is going to disappear.

00:02:07.580 Yeah, I mean, look, rateable value in 2023 was $18,500, and now it's $73,000.

00:02:14.160 Who can afford that kind of rate of inflation?

00:02:16.700 No one.

00:02:17.440 That is mad.

00:02:18.820 And this went down as helping hospitality in the budget.

00:02:23.560 So there's going to be loads of things like that where we're not going to know the true horror of what's in the budget

00:02:28.720 until everybody has a chance to crunch the numbers that have been hidden away in it.

00:02:31.960 So I can only give you the sort of top-line stuff.

00:02:34.060 But, I mean, even that is quite bad enough.

00:02:36.640 And this whole thing started with a complete and utter shambles.

00:02:39.520 I'll just play you this video because the entire budget, well, as well as Rachel Reeves leaking a whole bunch of stuff 1.00

00:02:45.580 that a lot of it she didn't actually end up doing in the end, and we'll talk about that in a moment.

00:02:49.040 Yeah.

00:02:49.280 The entire budget was leaked on the morning by the OBR.

00:02:52.040 The Office of Budget Responsibility leaked the budget.

00:02:56.460 Yes, failing the responsibility bit.

00:02:58.440 So who gets held to account for that?

00:03:01.000 Is someone fired for that?

00:03:02.280 Well, I mean, there was a Labour Chancellor a few decades ago who had an offhand conversation with a journalist

00:03:07.980 about half an hour before the budget and leaked an element of what was going to be in the budget.

00:03:12.280 Yeah.

00:03:12.400 And he was basically sacked for it.

00:03:15.660 Yeah.

00:03:16.000 So is the OBR not going to be...

00:03:18.640 Is someone not getting sacked for that?

00:03:20.140 Well, the chief certainly isn't.

00:03:22.120 He came out and basically just said he's going to do an investigation and sack some underling.

00:03:25.580 Oh, right.

00:03:26.700 Rachel Reeves isn't going to resign, even though she leaked vast elements of the budget.

00:03:30.300 But, yeah, I'll quickly play this video.

00:03:31.980 You can see her here, if that works.

00:03:36.060 Well, we'll only have to wait a few minutes for the full details of the budget.

00:03:41.240 Just as Keir Starmer was saying, you're going to have to wait for the full details of the budget.

00:03:45.820 There she is discovering that the full details of the budget have already been announced much, much earlier.

00:03:51.780 Which made it considerably easier for Kemi, because, of course, she could stand up and her team had a couple of hours to actually go through all the detail.

00:03:59.560 Yeah.

00:04:00.140 And Kemi did absolutely thrash her over the place. 1.00

00:04:02.400 She did.

00:04:02.840 It was very mean girls. 1.00

00:04:03.900 I liked it.

00:04:04.520 It was.

00:04:05.440 And then the woman who was the chair was like, you know, I'm going to longhouse the lot of you. 0.97

00:04:09.980 It's brilliant.

00:04:11.200 It's brilliant.

00:04:11.660 I hate the way this country is being run.

00:04:13.700 Another small detail is they finally found some money for digital IDs that hadn't been funded before.

00:04:17.920 So they're going to take, and bear in mind, if you remember, digital IDs were sold as these are going to enhance border security.

00:04:25.080 Yes.

00:04:25.300 We don't know how, but that was the selling pitch.

00:04:28.180 So do you know where they're getting the 1.8 million for digital IDs?

00:04:31.100 They're taking the money from border security.

00:04:35.380 Right.

00:04:36.460 Oh, just.

00:04:39.020 Okay, so digital IDs, yes.

00:04:40.720 Pubs, no.

00:04:42.240 Yeah, well.

00:04:43.380 Okay.

00:04:43.960 It gets so much less.

00:04:44.660 Security, no, as well.

00:04:45.720 I did a little heuristic that kind of, you know, points out how it works.

00:04:50.600 If you're wondering why this is so beautifully done, it's because I did it myself in paint.

00:04:54.040 But essentially, this is the decision triangle that Labour have got.

00:04:57.680 They can please, they can kind of put their budget anywhere within this triangle.

00:05:02.520 And if it's up here, it's pleasing backbenchers.

00:05:05.420 If it's down here, it's, sorry, who's it upsetting?

00:05:09.000 So if it's upsetting Labour, it's got spending cuts.

00:05:12.040 If it's upsetting the voters, it's got tax rises.

00:05:14.180 And if it's upsetting the bond market, it's got big deficits.

00:05:17.640 Now, the correct answer should probably be, who do you want to upset?

00:05:22.020 You probably want to put it, you know, basically A.

00:05:27.900 I mean, put it up on A, spending cuts.

00:05:29.940 That's the only thing that works.

00:05:31.640 What they actually did is they put it down here at B.

00:05:34.060 So a combination of tax rises and big deficits.

00:05:37.700 Well, at least the backbenchers weren't upset.

00:05:40.060 Well, and that was, I mean, our...

00:05:42.000 They're not going to be MPs in about four years' time, so, you know.

00:05:45.520 I mean, our bottom line, what the strategy is here, the strategy is,

00:05:48.840 and it's quite clear from having a look at this budget,

00:05:51.520 is that Starmer knows he is not going to be Prime Minister in 2029.

00:05:55.280 And so what he's doing is he's planting the biggest possible fiscal bomb

00:06:00.080 that goes off in 29, 30.

00:06:04.400 The best argument against democracy has always been,

00:06:07.520 well, people don't have any need for forward planning.

00:06:11.300 And it's like, yeah, but what if you had forward sabotage?

00:06:15.020 It is precisely what he's doing.

00:06:17.040 Well, what seems to be going on here is it's being squeezed from both sides,

00:06:20.820 because not only are we getting in more debt because there's more spending,

00:06:24.420 but also there are more taxes as well.

00:06:26.560 So it's squeezing productivity and the economy from both sides.

00:06:30.940 The Labour backbenchers aren't upset.

00:06:32.760 But the spending comes now.

00:06:34.520 The benefit spending, that comes now.

00:06:36.700 The giveaways, that comes now.

00:06:38.720 The tax rises are mainly loaded towards the end of the Parliament.

00:06:42.120 So people won't feel the pain whilst Labour is in office.

00:06:45.960 They feel the pain when reform come in.

00:06:47.880 Unless reform don't do these tax rises, which they shouldn't,

00:06:50.540 which just means they get an enormous deficit handed to them.

00:06:53.960 And I'll go into how bad.

00:06:55.740 That'll justify enormous spending cuts.

00:06:58.400 Yes.

00:06:59.440 Well, that is exactly what should happen, yeah.

00:07:02.420 So, yeah, so she's dumped a bomb on reform with a huge structural deficit, 1.00

00:07:07.760 the biggest tax burden in peacetime ever.

00:07:13.660 I mean, I saw people saying there was a calculator on the Daily Mail or something.

00:07:17.940 And I put my salary into it.

00:07:19.960 And they were just like, yeah, you're going to be a grand off worse.

00:07:22.540 Yes.

00:07:23.320 Every month or whatever.

00:07:24.480 Yeah, that's basically the deal up to, well, I presume you're mainly structuring things

00:07:31.460 through dividends as would be sensible and orderly.

00:07:34.360 But basically anywhere up to 50, 60 grand, you're about a grand better off.

00:07:38.140 Over 60 grand, it then goes to about two grand.

00:07:41.180 And then over 100 grand, it goes back to a grand again, because it's a bit weird.

00:07:45.240 The big, the big, well, I'll talk in a bit who the big beneficiaries of this are.

00:07:49.900 It's the unemployed, isn't it?

00:07:51.400 Well, yes.

00:07:52.840 I didn't, I haven't looked at the budget at all.

00:07:54.500 I'm just guessing.

00:07:56.180 Yes.

00:07:57.100 It genuinely is, though.

00:07:58.060 It's whoever you would assume, without doing any research, Labour would benefit.

00:08:03.280 That is the people who benefit.

00:08:04.640 Well, loafers.

00:08:05.520 The wonderful thing is that there was a two-pronged attack on working people in freezing the tax

00:08:13.620 thresholds, which, of course, if you're...

00:08:15.520 It's a stealth tax.

00:08:16.520 It is, indeed.

00:08:17.360 If your salary rises with inflation, you're increasingly going to be pushed into higher tax

00:08:21.480 spans, and therefore pay more income tax without formally raising taxes.

00:08:26.300 Yes.

00:08:26.480 And also the pension sacrifice spending, whereby if you're putting money away out of your salary

00:08:33.660 into your pension for the future, so, you know, to be able to do that, you've sort of

00:08:38.900 got to be middle income, middle class, perhaps, to be able to afford to do that in the first

00:08:43.740 place, while if it's over £2,000 a year, then it becomes taxed, which is just...

00:08:51.040 It's just going to push people away from pensions. 0.62

00:08:53.260 Well, it's going to make people only do short-term spending, because there's very, very little

00:08:57.940 in the economy at the minute that incentivises long-term financial planning.

00:09:01.740 Everything is short-term.

00:09:02.980 Oh, very much so, yes.

00:09:04.160 And you think, well, we're in a country that has a demographic time bomb going off.

00:09:09.060 We have a pension crisis, long-term saving crisis, and yet she targets pension savings,

00:09:16.900 which is bizarre.

00:09:17.920 And that's why you can really see the Starmer strategy.

00:09:20.040 The Starmer strategy is, I'm going to blow up the medium term and the long term purely

00:09:24.920 to protect myself with Labour backbenchers in the short term.

00:09:27.580 That's wild.

00:09:28.060 That's what the whole thing is about.

00:09:29.580 And, you know, I mean, we've got young guys in the office.

00:09:32.060 We've got a whole bunch of editors in their 20s.

00:09:35.540 And for some god unknown reason, Karl insists on paying them more than minimum wage.

00:09:39.920 And I've tried having a word with him.

00:09:41.280 He claims he's not a liberal anymore, but he insists on paying them a decent wage.

00:09:44.840 It's paternalistic conservatism.

00:09:46.220 Yeah, you say I want them to have a house and stuff.

00:09:48.160 Anyway, so they were having a talk about taxes the other day.

00:09:51.240 Glad to look, lads.

00:09:52.140 Yeah.

00:09:52.740 Sorry.

00:09:54.560 I'm trying to make it work, but the government keeps putting their knee on our necks.

00:09:58.500 I don't know what to tell you, man.

00:10:00.180 And, yeah, they were saying to me, oh, is there anything we can do about this?

00:10:03.220 And I said, well, about probably your main decent option.

00:10:06.600 I mean, I ran for a couple, but the main decent one for your taxes is probably going to be salary sacrifice.

00:10:10.380 You can earn a bit less.

00:10:11.660 And you'll actually take home more.

00:10:13.520 Yeah.

00:10:13.780 And a few weeks later, yeah, she torpedoes that as well.

00:10:16.480 Oh, Jesus Christ.

00:10:17.160 Yes.

00:10:19.040 The strangest thing about this budget, though, was that she's been leaking possible ideas for months now.

00:10:26.440 Yeah.

00:10:27.420 And, I mean, it was things like exit taxes and extra capital gains and extra taxes.

00:10:34.240 I think this is a strategy, right?

00:10:35.940 So if she's like, oh, there are going to be exit taxes and doesn't do it, then everyone's like, oh, actually, it's a lot better than we thought it was going to be.

00:10:42.760 Well, that's a really bad strategy because wealthy people don't wait for the exit taxes to be put in place.

00:10:49.000 There was one billionaire who dodged the other day.

00:10:50.940 Oh, there's a few.

00:10:51.600 I know, but there was one high-profile one.

00:10:53.580 And he's like, yeah, no, it's the inheritance tax.

00:10:56.700 I can't stay here.

00:10:57.520 I interpreted this as more of her not really knowing what to do.

00:11:01.740 And so she was leaking things to see how people react.

00:11:05.140 I think it's more that than a strategy.

00:11:06.540 I think it's incompetence rather than tactics.

00:11:08.640 If I were the one doing it, it would be a strategy, right?

00:11:13.640 So Rachel is considering a 20% tax on the assets of people deciding to leave the UK.

00:11:20.400 Yeah, well, come and get it.

00:11:21.580 You know, like, yeah, this is the guy I was talking about.

00:11:24.180 So this is Lashkram Mittal, and he's the seventh richest man in the UK.

00:11:30.400 He's an Indian billionaire who came here in about 2000 when he was already a billionaire.

00:11:35.380 And he's basically been bringing money into the UK because he decided this is a nicer place to live than India for whatever reason. 0.62

00:11:41.960 And that's not to be true anyway.

00:11:43.280 Well, yeah, and I'm all in favour of encouraging people to remigrate. 1.00

00:11:47.120 But you don't start with this guy.

00:11:49.320 Yeah, if we're going to have immigration, I will tolerate billionaire immigration.

00:11:52.880 Yes.

00:11:53.300 Just on the raw, you know, numbers of the dozens.

00:11:56.180 So he's paying about $3 million a year in taxes.

00:11:59.580 And that's...

00:12:00.980 Get that from the pubs.

00:12:01.940 Was that?

00:12:02.400 Get that from the pubs.

00:12:03.380 Well, yes, quite.

00:12:05.140 But, you know, they...

00:12:07.120 And $3 million, by the way, that's an average year.

00:12:10.280 I mean, he bought some property off the royal family, I think, a while back, and he paid like $18 million in taxes that year.

00:12:15.860 Yeah.

00:12:16.160 So he's actually the kind of immigrant that you can tolerate because even on a quiet year, he is doing the job of about 600 to 700 average taxpayers.

00:12:25.840 Yeah.

00:12:27.200 That burden is being lifted.

00:12:28.980 He left.

00:12:29.980 Now, why was he the seventh richest man in the UK?

00:12:32.060 Because the other seventh richest man left about two months ago, that was a Norwegian billionaire, loads of money in North Sea oil.

00:12:39.940 And so this is the staggering genius of Rachel Rees, is that she delivered a budget that does harm, and I'll talk about that.

00:12:49.040 But she also managed to do the harm of about three or four other bad budgets, the stuff that she didn't even do. 1.00

00:12:55.620 I don't mean to laugh, but it's so stupid. 0.98

00:12:57.560 It's like you, if you made it up and wrote like a, you know, screenplay of it, like, you know. 1.00

00:13:03.840 Oh, you wouldn't get away with it.

00:13:04.660 Exactly. 0.98

00:13:04.980 People would go, well, that's ridiculous.

00:13:06.560 That's the big problem with fiction is it needs to be believable.

00:13:09.140 Yes.

00:13:09.440 Well, the thick of it was actually more sensible than a lot of what goes on in modern politics today.

00:13:14.800 Yes, because they were flip-flopping in the background.

00:13:17.160 They weren't flip-flopping in public.

00:13:18.460 So she managed to cause capital flight without actually doing anything, without actually doing anything, to cause hiring freezing, cancelled investment. 0.99

00:13:28.840 I mean, I could go through, I mean, I won't, but I could go through a whole list of businesses that said, oh, yeah, we were going to invest this money in the UK and expand this, do this.

00:13:36.360 We're just cancelling it.

00:13:37.220 So she managed to cause capital flight, hiring freezes, cancelled investments, and it was based purely on rumour, and she didn't actually even do them in the end. 0.99

00:13:46.340 I mean, to my mind, this is a rare talent.

00:13:49.340 And her defence was, you're mansplaining at me.

00:13:51.460 Yes.

00:13:52.140 Like, just, there are any, I saw literally, the New Statesman podcast, I'm like, going, well, I mean, there was a lot of misogyny directed towards her. 0.99

00:14:01.320 It's like.

00:14:01.820 Not enough.

00:14:02.360 Yeah, yeah, like, sorry, if you think this woke nonsense is going to be a sufficient defence for what she's doing, you are having another thing coming.

00:14:11.100 Like this, sorry, go on, carry on.

00:14:12.820 I'll quickly run through the list of who she punished and who she rewards. 0.96

00:14:16.560 You have to watch my Brokernomics, which I'm filming this afternoon, which will be out on Tuesday, if you want to go into more detail, because I just haven't got time in a segment like this.

00:14:24.220 But people, she's. 0.95

00:14:24.840 It's just carpet bombing everything.

00:14:26.320 Yes, just don't have time.

00:14:28.060 Let's fly in the B-52, shall we?

00:14:31.220 So she punishes homeowners, drivers, there was an EV tax. 1.00

00:14:35.800 So yeah, everybody buy an EV because you have to to save the planet.

00:14:38.800 Right, now don't buy an EV because now we're going to tax it.

00:14:41.060 Yes.

00:14:41.280 It's because fuel duty collapsed, didn't it?

00:14:43.080 Because lots of people bought EVs because the government incentivised them buying EVs.

00:14:46.520 And then all of a sudden, they.

00:14:48.020 This is the thing that government does not understand.

00:14:51.900 When you tax something, like, so for example, we tax speeding and cigarettes because we don't want people to speed.

00:14:57.920 We don't want them to buy cigarettes.

00:14:59.260 Yeah, we tax work and driving and all of these other things.

00:15:03.900 And they expect it to have no effect.

00:15:05.740 So she taxed, what was it?

00:15:07.280 Homeowners, drivers, savers, pensions, online shoppers, because, of course, there's a bit of revenue hiding in your Amazon package.

00:15:15.060 That needs to be done.

00:15:17.940 Landlords and the self-employed.

00:15:19.460 All of those were the big ones here.

00:15:20.860 Oh, plus pubs, which we found out this morning.

00:15:22.720 She also had a raid on.

00:15:24.060 Anything productive in this country.

00:15:25.980 Yes.

00:15:26.360 She also had a raid on online gambling and tried to frame it as a moral thing. 0.52

00:15:30.160 Yep.

00:15:30.380 Just like, well, these people are, you know, they're exploiting people, but then left.

00:15:34.120 So are you.

00:15:34.720 Brick and mortar gambling untouched.

00:15:36.780 Amazing.

00:15:37.260 Yes.

00:15:37.660 Interesting, isn't it?

00:15:38.640 It's funny how morality is that selective.

00:15:40.200 If you're going to gamble, make sure you turn up in person.

00:15:44.740 It's more fun that way, anyway.

00:15:45.720 Who did she reward? 1.00

00:15:47.440 Labour mayors.

00:15:48.460 They got a chunk of new cash.

00:15:51.240 So they're getting billions more.

00:15:52.780 Sadiq Khan got more money.

00:15:54.620 Yeah.

00:15:55.220 And the other ones.

00:15:56.400 Andy Burnham.

00:15:57.520 Large immigrant families were probably the biggest winner, and I will come back to that in a moment.

00:16:01.720 The two-child benefit cap thing is disgusting.

00:16:03.940 Well, if you're disgusted with it now, let me come to my numbers in a minute.

00:16:08.640 No, it's not going to get worse.

00:16:10.200 Benefits, green grants, and bureaucrats. 0.98

00:16:13.260 And after that list I've given you, bear in mind she described it as a growth budget.

00:16:19.540 Which is...

00:16:20.540 I just don't understand.

00:16:21.680 I mean, oh my God.

00:16:24.600 Literally just the worst things you could have gone for.

00:16:28.860 Pay for the things that we basically don't need.

00:16:31.540 And also she gave lots of money to Scotland.

00:16:34.300 Another thing we basically don't need.

00:16:36.620 So she raised £26 billion in taxes.

00:16:39.820 And actually, your point that you made earlier on about the tax bans.

00:16:42.720 When you factor in even modest inflation, and just taking it out to the end of this parliament, really it's a £40 billion tax increase.

00:16:51.820 Which is the same as the last budget.

00:16:53.940 That was also a £40 billion tax increase.

00:16:56.280 Mind you, I didn't include the inflation in that calculation, but fine.

00:16:59.040 So we've had £80 billion of extra taxes.

00:17:02.480 And yet her black hole keeps getting bigger.

00:17:04.380 Because she can't understand that the Laffer curve exists.

00:17:08.100 She doesn't think that anybody is going to leave the country.

00:17:11.240 Any responsible journalist should literally ask her, could you explain the Laffer curve to me, Rachel?

00:17:17.040 Yes.

00:17:17.480 That would be the thing to ask her.

00:17:18.820 Yes.

00:17:19.660 She also assumes that nobody is going to refuse overtime or promotion.

00:17:24.480 Why wouldn't I just work harder, for longer, for less money, to watch it going in the pockets of foreigners and bureaucrats? 0.97

00:17:31.460 I guarantee that most people watching this have considered refusing overtime or promotion or whatever it is, in order to avoid higher tax.

00:17:39.960 What a wild position we've ended up in.

00:17:44.600 Yeah, I'm thinking about signing on, quitting my work and just living off of the state, finally get my tax rebate.

00:17:51.880 I'm coming to that bit, and you might actually want to go for it.

00:17:55.020 I mean, legitimately, you might want to actually go for it.

00:17:57.780 And also, I mean, it's not in the budget, but she also assumes that Labour's right to work reforms that they're bringing in won't impact hiring.

00:18:06.240 So they're getting rid of things like the probationary period.

00:18:10.880 Right.

00:18:11.280 So if I can't hire someone for six months, find they're not good, and then get rid of them.

00:18:15.780 Yeah, and who does that hurt most of all?

00:18:17.560 It hurts young people.

00:18:18.520 Because if you're going to hire somebody and you can't get rid of them, well, you're safer going for somebody who has a track record.

00:18:24.980 Whereas you're really taking a gamble with a young person.

00:18:26.980 They might be brilliant, but they might be awful.

00:18:29.840 Yeah.

00:18:30.520 So you're just not going to hire young people.

00:18:32.040 That's such a common sense thing as well to overlook.

00:18:35.800 Yeah.

00:18:36.460 And, you know, I talked about it being, you know, she says that it's a growth budget.

00:18:41.280 Before Tony Blair took office in 1997, growth was 4.9%.

00:18:46.200 Yeah.

00:18:47.000 Which meant the economy doubled every 14 years.

00:18:50.020 Right.

00:18:50.260 And what is it now?

00:18:51.160 1%.

00:18:51.640 Which means it now takes 70 years for the economy to double.

00:18:55.740 I've been beating this drum for a long time.

00:18:57.700 People understand this on an individual level.

00:18:59.700 That if, for example, I actually wrote this in an article that's coming out soon.

00:19:03.560 But if a millionaire makes 15,000 pounds, that's 1.5% growth.

00:19:09.660 You'd think that they'd probably failed that year.

00:19:11.660 If they had a million pounds and they only grew their wealth by 15,000 pounds.

00:19:14.640 That would be a shocking result.

00:19:15.720 It would be.

00:19:17.020 Whereas when it's the government, that's presumably an achievement.

00:19:20.340 And, of course, everyone understands the more wealth you have, the easier it is to generate more money.

00:19:23.740 And that doesn't disappear.

00:19:25.540 The laws of economics don't just disappear at scale.

00:19:28.200 Well, and the other thing...

00:19:28.960 That scales brilliantly, actually.

00:19:30.220 It does, yeah.

00:19:30.880 The other thing is what changed after 1997.

00:19:33.140 We were told that mass immigration was going to lead to higher growth.

00:19:35.980 And it led to an absolute collapsing growth.

00:19:38.320 Yeah.

00:19:39.180 As it stands today, taxes are 39% of GDP.

00:19:43.500 And state spending is 45% of GDP.

00:19:47.560 In communist China, it's 26%.

00:19:50.940 That is just mad.

00:19:52.080 For every pound that is in the British economy, the government spends 45%.

00:19:56.500 I use the analogy of when we ran the British Empire at its height in the 1920s, tax rarely exceeded 25% of GDP.

00:20:05.100 And we ran a quarter of the world's land mass and population from Westminster.

00:20:10.820 Before 1905, for the century before that, it averaged about 15%.

00:20:13.880 Yeah.

00:20:14.580 So, I mean, we have a state which is twice the size of communist China and three times the size of communist Venezuela.

00:20:22.960 I mean, just, you know, bear that in mind.

00:20:24.840 There was also a mansion tax introduced. 1.00

00:20:27.360 God, I can't afford to live in a fucking mansion. 1.00

00:20:29.520 Well, it depends. 1.00

00:20:32.120 Mansion tax. 0.72

00:20:32.900 This is like helping the bloody pubs, isn't it?

00:20:36.860 Well, mansion tax were introduced at two levels.

00:20:40.100 Two million pound properties and five million pound properties.

00:20:42.240 Now, you might wonder why those particular numbers were picked.

00:20:45.120 I can tell you now it's because Keir Starmer and David Lammy live in a property that's worth just under two million.

00:20:52.180 Oh, really?

00:20:52.540 And Ed Miliband lives in a property which is worth just under five million.

00:20:55.920 So that's why those two numbers were picked.

00:20:57.520 However, the two million pound mansion tax.

00:21:00.720 You've got to remember that the debasement of sterling is running at about 11 to 14% a year.

00:21:06.200 So just run that forward.

00:21:08.220 It means in 14 years, the average free bedroom house in the south of England should be worth two million.

00:21:14.220 Jesus.

00:21:15.220 Yes.

00:21:16.500 So everybody will be paying this mansion tax and your kids, give it another 14 years of that,

00:21:22.200 your kids will be paying a mansion tax on their starter flat.

00:21:25.020 So on a long enough timeline, we all become Zimbabwean millionaires.

00:21:28.040 Well, it's basically the story of higher rate tax all over again.

00:21:32.300 So higher rate tax was introduced in 1988.

00:21:34.800 And at the time, it only hit about two or three percent of earners.

00:21:37.860 I mean, even a lot of premiership football players didn't pay higher rate tax when it was introduced.

00:21:42.420 I mean, that's partly a function of premiership football players earning less at the time.

00:21:46.040 But still, it was a very select few group of people in 1988 paid higher rate tax.

00:21:50.880 And now it's going to be, well, it's already over 15% and it should get to 25% before the end of the decade.

00:21:59.120 So it's basically the standard rate is now the higher rate.

00:22:03.820 So the mansion tax, it is going to be that all over again.

00:22:08.100 Now, going back to my original point, you know, couldn't they save the money elsewhere?

00:22:12.220 If you took the welfare bill, just the disability welfare bill, back to pre-COVID levels, she'd wipe out this black hole that she keeps talking about.

00:22:22.760 Right.

00:22:23.440 Because it's gone from 15 billion to 50 billion.

00:22:26.000 Well, a quarter of the country is apparently disabled now, which I don't see, you know, one in every four people going around in a wheelchair.

00:22:34.020 So I presume that there's some fraud going on.

00:22:36.420 Probably wasn't that bad off the Battle of the Somme.

00:22:38.600 No, of course not.

00:22:39.680 And that 50 billion will probably be rising to about 70-something billion very soon.

00:22:44.300 And Robert Peston had this observation.

00:22:46.600 Over the next five years, the OBR is forecasting that welfare spending will rise from 70 billion to 400 billion.

00:22:54.540 It's not the next 50 years, guys.

00:22:56.680 The next five years.

00:22:57.300 Oh, five, sorry, five years.

00:22:58.980 Sorry, I've got this light on my screen.

00:23:00.960 Not 50 years.

00:23:01.900 Yes.

00:23:02.160 You know, 100 years.

00:23:03.160 Five years.

00:23:03.960 Five years welfare spending will go from 70 to 400.

00:23:07.400 If any of you can't see that this is unsustainable, if any leftists have stumbled across this channel and you genuinely can't see that this is unaffordable, I don't know what to say to you.

00:23:18.460 Where's a lot of that money going?

00:23:19.760 Matt Gidwin points out that 500 immigrants a day are now signing up for welfare benefits in Britain.

00:23:25.780 So we're just importing people, 500 a day, and basically giving them a free house and benefits. 0.87

00:23:31.660 And we're already spending over a billion a month on foreigners claiming welfare. 0.96

00:23:35.500 Yes.

00:23:35.980 And for those of you like Bush or Osaka who can't understand per capita, yes, more natives are going on welfare every day. 0.94

00:23:44.060 So something in the region of 1,000 to 3,000 people a day are going on welfare because they're just saying, what's the point?

00:23:51.600 What is the point?

00:23:53.080 Well, that's a good question.

00:23:54.320 Yeah, exactly.

00:23:55.060 That's a fair question.

00:23:55.940 That's a good question.

00:23:57.360 You know, Alison Pearson points out here, thanks, Rachel.

00:24:00.000 If you don't work and have six kids, the hardworking taxpayer will give you 14,000 a year.

00:24:04.680 Actually, that's just for the child element.

00:24:06.740 I was going to say, they actually get way more than that because they're going to get housing benefit.

00:24:10.100 They're going to get, like, what were the other things they get?

00:24:13.960 I don't know because I don't get...

00:24:15.080 Well, shall I run you through it?

00:24:15.940 Yeah, please.

00:24:16.580 This is the highlight of the segment, this is.

00:24:19.960 I ran through the calculations and I did these manually and I couldn't believe the answers it gave me.

00:24:27.580 So I then went to three different AIs and got them to run the numbers.

00:24:32.380 They all came out the same.

00:24:33.760 And I still can't believe it.

00:24:36.760 I can't believe that I'm right and I can't believe that these three different AIs are right. 1.00

00:24:40.980 So I'm desperately hoping somebody in the comments is going to say, oh, you've forgotten a key element here.

00:24:44.920 But I'll give you my numbers, OK?

00:24:47.020 So let's assume you're on welfare and you've got six kids.

00:24:51.460 So child benefit, first of all, £112 a month for the first kid and then it's £75 a month for the following kid.

00:24:57.860 So that's close to 500 quid you're getting for that.

00:25:02.240 Universal credit child element.

00:25:03.860 That was the bit that became uncapped.

00:25:05.340 First child, £333.

00:25:08.360 Additional childs, £289 each.

00:25:10.820 So that's another almost £2,000 a month.

00:25:13.560 £2,000 a month?

00:25:14.880 Yes.

00:25:15.880 The universal credit basic allowance for a single parent, that's £400 a month.

00:25:20.080 Or if you're a couple, it's £600 a month.

00:25:22.540 Then you've got to look at the housing element as well.

00:25:24.400 So we're at nearly £3,000 a month now.

00:25:26.400 You look at the housing element.

00:25:28.020 Yeah.

00:25:28.260 A four or five-bed house, which you will get without many children.

00:25:31.060 I mean, realistically, you're looking at somewhere between £1,200 and £1,500 a month in benefit.

00:25:37.740 That will give you, depending on where you live in the country.

00:25:39.760 So let's just assume a midpoint with that.

00:25:41.820 Then let's remember that you get 100% council tax relief.

00:25:45.800 Of course.

00:25:46.380 So let's tot it all up.

00:25:47.360 Which is unbelievably expensive.

00:25:48.700 Yep.

00:25:49.040 We tot it all up.

00:25:49.900 £4,008 a month.

00:25:53.760 Right.

00:25:54.200 Now that is annualised an income of £48,000 a year.

00:25:58.340 Free housing, free healthcare, free school meals, free child support.

00:26:03.440 Well, because you don't need any, because you're not working.

00:26:05.960 No tax, no national insurance, no commuting, no pensions, no deductions, no buying work clothes,

00:26:11.820 no buying lunches from the cafe around the corner.

00:26:14.940 This is the equivalent to a disposable income of somebody earning £70,000 a year as a gross income.

00:26:23.360 Now, at that point, there might be some people in the comments saying,

00:26:26.320 ah, you've forgotten the benefits cap.

00:26:28.540 Okay, so let's include the benefits cap.

00:26:30.460 Didn't she just remove that? 1.00

00:26:32.000 No, that was the child cap.

00:26:34.840 There was still a benefits cap.

00:26:36.520 So if you put the benefits cap in place, it caps out some of these elements down to £2,300 a month.

00:26:44.940 Just for free?

00:26:46.300 For free, yes.

00:26:47.220 Again, you don't need to buy work lunches or work clothes.

00:26:50.580 You don't need to do anything.

00:26:52.180 And that's the equivalent of about £28,000 a year.

00:26:57.400 So, okay, you think, okay, so you can get, I'm sorry, that is an equivalent in disposable income terms,

00:27:06.340 because you're not paying for your housing.

00:27:07.340 Yeah, of course.

00:27:07.760 Which is a big factor.

00:27:08.480 Yeah, it's massive.

00:27:09.380 In disposable income terms, that is equivalent to £50,000 a year.

00:27:14.140 Actually, £52,000 something.

00:27:16.220 Right, and then let's roll it back a bit, because I said there's a benefits cap.

00:27:23.840 That only applies if you're not qualified as disabled.

00:27:27.680 Oh.

00:27:28.340 So actually, if you can say, if you can find a reason like, oh, I don't know, I'm terribly inbred or something,

00:27:33.580 or whatever it is, and I've got a large family.

00:27:35.660 Have nervous disposition.

00:27:37.420 Yes.

00:27:38.260 Then it is the equivalent to £70,000 a year.

00:27:41.440 So, you've basically got to ask yourself a question.

00:27:45.920 What is easier?

00:27:47.520 Is it easier, say you're, you know, you're a recent arrival to this country. 0.56

00:27:52.520 You just got off a boat, you and your missus.

00:27:55.140 Is it easier to learn the language and get a £70,000 a year job,

00:28:01.280 or is it easier to have six kids and fake a disability?

00:28:05.600 I mean, you could just give yourself a disability for that amount of money.

00:28:09.380 Yes. 0.99

00:28:10.260 I'd cut off a leg for that. 0.79

00:28:11.620 I'll just, you know, maybe a couple of toes or something, so you've got a bit of a limp. 0.94

00:28:15.900 And 500 immigrants a day are doing this. 0.93

00:28:20.760 Is it, is anyone surprised that we are falling down a financial black hole with this stuff?

00:28:28.540 Just.

00:28:29.500 Black Belt Barrister here, who, by the way, I want to do a brokonomics with about the juries being removed,

00:28:33.780 which is crazy.

00:28:34.520 I don't know if we've covered that, but that is absolutely mental that they're getting rid of juries.

00:28:38.560 Oh, yeah.

00:28:39.700 So if anybody knows him, or if he's watching this, get in touch, because I want to do a brokonomics with you.

00:28:44.060 He points out $16 billion increase in welfare payments in this budget alone.

00:28:50.180 I mean, it's just wild.

00:28:51.400 I mean, it's just crazy.

00:28:56.020 I mean, I don't even agree with welfare.

00:28:58.080 Yeah, in principle.

00:28:59.660 Yep.

00:28:59.860 And if I did, I don't anymore.

00:29:03.380 Yeah, well.

00:29:04.160 Like, Christ, I want it to be done privately.

00:29:06.440 Charity.

00:29:07.020 Any money that we give away for free has to be charitable.

00:29:09.820 Sick of this.

00:29:10.780 Well, the funny thing is, as well, this sort of thing, by doing it via the government,

00:29:14.760 it does further fracture communities as well, because people grow resentful, and rightfully so.

00:29:20.480 But not only that, you don't have to, like, if you're going to a charity, at least you've got to be thankful.

00:29:25.540 No, this is pure entitlement. 0.99

00:29:26.900 You don't have to be thankful as shit. 1.00

00:29:27.800 You are entitled. 1.00

00:29:29.700 It's crazy.

00:29:30.420 It's completely unaffordable.

00:29:32.020 The numbers don't even add up.

00:29:33.360 I mean, they're all basically done on this fake headroom trick.

00:29:37.540 Yeah.

00:29:37.760 Because the OBR makes wildly generously assumptions for Labour, and it's all based on growth that won't come through.

00:29:44.520 Yeah.

00:29:45.100 It's all based on people not changing their behaviour.

00:29:47.840 So the state that this country is going to be in when reform take over, 0.99

00:29:51.780 does Nigel Farage understand the absolute shit pile, 0.98

00:29:56.260 the amount of work he's going to have to be ready to do from day one? 0.98

00:30:01.140 If he doesn't, I mean, we've got real big problems coming down the track.

00:30:07.880 God, I just can't believe how bad this is.

00:30:10.260 It is a bit mental.

00:30:11.980 141 Paladin says, he talks about the National Guardsmen, so I'll save that for after my segment.

00:30:16.020 Josh did a UK manifesto segment.

00:30:18.540 Mr. H did his too.

00:30:19.780 I'd love to see a video on Danifesto, or how Dan would run the UK economy and the nativist government.

00:30:26.100 I did a UK manifesto segment?

00:30:27.920 I don't remember that.

00:30:28.940 That's worth thinking about, though.

00:30:30.480 Yeah.

00:30:30.940 Maybe I'll do a broken-edged final.

00:30:31.520 Have I invited Viva Fran to the podcast yet?

00:30:33.320 No, but he can come on whenever he likes, obviously.

00:30:36.640 Arcadia says, is the idea to destroy the UK economy and the country at large?

00:30:40.420 Because that certainly seems to be the direction of travel.

00:30:42.900 Everything raised to the ground in order to usher in the socialist utopia.

00:30:45.600 Well, like we've said before, it's all about equalising everyone into the same income band.

00:30:50.680 Well, I've got an answer for this, though, on the is it a strategy.

00:30:54.580 If you were to take, if I had the opportunity to assemble the greatest financial minds in the country

00:30:59.460 and told us to destroy the economy as quickly, as efficiently as we possibly could,

00:31:03.720 I don't think we could do it as well as Rachel.

00:31:05.940 So I don't think that this is genius strategy.

00:31:08.780 I think this is just incompetence that just finds the line somehow.

00:31:12.960 Because her claim to being an economist was she worked in IT support in a bank, right?

00:31:18.140 Yes.

00:31:18.900 Well, although she rarely worked, and she would have got fired for not turning up

00:31:22.740 if it wasn't for the fact somebody in HSBC management twigged that she might be an up-and-comer in labour one day. 0.97

00:31:28.280 A-State says, what is a milkshake tax, and why will I be £5.20 a week worse off because of it?

00:31:33.360 Let me enjoy my milkshake in peace.

00:31:34.740 Is there a milkshake tax?

00:31:37.160 There is.

00:31:37.500 I didn't find that bit.

00:31:38.260 It's applying the sugar tax to...

00:31:41.200 Oh, yeah, that's right.

00:31:42.260 So you're safe finally, Carl.

00:31:43.940 Yes.

00:31:44.700 Yes.

00:31:46.240 The public is red-pilled on immigration, but are they really ready to accept that millions of Britons 0.97

00:31:50.780 must be booted off benefits to balance the books?

00:31:53.060 This is going to surprise you, but yes, actually.

00:31:55.120 I think the average person actually hates benefit culture, and they have done for a long time.

00:31:59.720 And the more we make salient that actually it is foreigners disproportionately claiming it,

00:32:05.280 well, we can marry racism with a hatred of loafers and poor, and we can actually get the public supporting that.

00:32:11.980 It was my original xenophobia before I moved on to immigrants. 0.99

00:32:15.760 Oh, we still hate them, though.

00:32:16.840 Yeah, yeah, of course.

00:32:17.520 We still hate scroungers.

00:32:18.180 We haven't forgotten about them.

00:32:19.520 Anyway, can we get the next one up, please, Samson?

00:32:22.800 Excuse me.

00:32:23.380 I've had this cough for ages.

00:32:26.460 Very, very annoying.

00:32:27.320 Anyway, so there has been a shooting in Washington, D.C. of two National Guardsmen,

00:32:35.160 and I thought we would talk about it because, actually, it's very instructive.

00:32:38.860 It's actually reflective of the difference between Trump's government,

00:32:43.400 which is, for all of his faults, at least pro-America in some ways,

00:32:48.480 and our government, which is pro-oblivion for some reason,

00:32:52.980 pro the complete obliteration of the country in every way that you can imagine.

00:32:56.700 So, anyway, you'll remember that, of course, Trump, back in August, deployed the National Guard into D.C.

00:33:01.960 He declared that there was a crime emergency, deployed 800 National Guard,

00:33:05.360 and then sent in another 1,200 from West Virginia, Ohio, various places.

00:33:10.540 And these troops patrol tourist areas, metro stations, assist with beautification tasks,

00:33:15.680 like rubbish collection.

00:33:16.760 And, of course, the Democrats are like, how dare you do this to the anarcho-tyranny that we've been busy creating?

00:33:23.580 You know, there's a huge crime wave, but we basically would just keep letting these people off

00:33:27.440 and not prosecuting them and not recording it.

00:33:30.340 And so it didn't show up in the stats, and therefore there was no problem.

00:33:34.100 And so the Democrats were like, right, okay, we can't have Trump saving America

00:33:38.420 against our concerted plan to destroy it.

00:33:41.560 And so they're like, look, you need to start refusing unlawful orders.

00:33:46.000 Because they would start basically lying, saying that Trump was going to use the National Guard

00:33:50.520 to just shoot Americans. 0.83

00:33:51.880 I mean, here's one example on American TV. 0.94

00:33:55.360 Look at these videos coming out of places like Chicago.

00:33:58.240 It makes me incredibly nervous that we're about to see people in law enforcement,

00:34:03.480 people in uniformed military get nervous, get stressed, shoot at American civilians.

00:34:08.380 It is a very, very stressful situation for these law enforcement and for the communities on the ground.

00:34:16.440 That's responsible, isn't it?

00:34:18.120 By the way, you're going to have a National Guard in your city because of the insane ethnic minority crime rate 1.00

00:34:22.420 that we have allowed to foster there because of the Soros Bank judges who just keep letting them out, 0.61

00:34:27.100 which is why we keep seeing, I mean, there were three recent ones where a deranged black guy 1.00

00:34:32.880 murdered or attacked just some white girl. 0.85

00:34:35.660 And I saw this going on because between them they had 126 convictions.

00:34:41.820 The only thing that makes me hesitate on this, though, is that the Democrats have done this before.

00:34:45.920 And if you remember back to the early 2010s, the narrative were that all police were basically walking murder bots.

00:34:52.340 The moment they saw a black person, they would immediately open fire one. 1.00

00:34:55.060 And got for the body cams. 0.96

00:34:55.740 And the result, yeah, the result was a push for body cams, which has been a gift.

00:35:00.500 It has.

00:35:01.720 And something similar is happening in this, actually.

00:35:04.360 But the point is, is that responsible rhetoric?

00:35:06.600 You know, is that the sort of thing that really the American public, by the way, you're going to have a National Guard there.

00:35:11.080 They're not your fellow countrymen watching out for criminals who are going to do terrible things to you.

00:35:15.560 No, they're actually going to start shooting you.

00:35:17.060 I mean, they are literally fellow countrymen who have normal jobs and just volunteer for this.

00:35:21.600 A padded room in a straitjacket is missing an occupant.

00:35:24.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:35:24.900 You know, yeah, exactly.

00:35:25.960 If they were like, you know, special forces or something.

00:35:28.640 Yeah.

00:35:28.900 Okay, maybe that's a bit of a different thing.

00:35:30.320 But they're not.

00:35:31.000 They're actually normal people who are volunteering.

00:35:33.100 And the propaganda coming of the Democrats, yeah, they're going to start gunning you down the streets.

00:35:37.500 Yeah, the dentist who volunteers at the National Guard is just going to mow you down. 0.82

00:35:41.020 Mad. 0.91

00:35:41.340 Mad.

00:35:41.660 So anyway, like I said, two of them were shot and the first thing that happened was people went to Blue Sky to cheer about it.

00:35:48.100 Now, apparently we can't get that up because, as you can see, due to local laws, we are temporarily restricting access to this content until X estimates your age.

00:35:56.480 Oh, thank you, online safety bill.

00:35:57.860 Yes, the online safety bill.

00:35:59.260 But this is from Andy Ngo, this tweet.

00:36:01.720 And the quote is, I can't show you, quote,

00:36:04.800 Don't enforce fascism and you won't get shot.

00:36:06.920 But it's, it's, the National Guard deserve it, say the very sane people on Blue Sky.

00:36:13.520 This is a point I always have to make, that the American system is set up in such a way with the separation of powers that even if Donald Trump was this evil fascist that they claim him to be, he still wouldn't have as much power as your average British Prime Minister.

00:36:26.580 And no one's saying the evil, well, actually some people are these days.

00:36:29.340 I'm saying it. 0.99

00:36:29.860 Yeah, the evil fascist UK, but, you know, it's silly. 0.93

00:36:34.340 Well, if Trump is watching this, consider a job swap with Keir Starmer, we'll take you on, give you unlimited power. 0.77

00:36:39.420 There was actually a poll the other day that showed that Trump was something like third for people's preferences to be the Prime Minister.

00:36:47.320 Who was first and second?

00:36:49.620 Farage, and I can't remember who the second one was.

00:36:52.420 But anyway, so the Democrats were like, right, you need to be seditious, you've got to refuse unlawful orders.

00:36:59.860 Because they think that Trump's going to start ordering them to just fire on random civilians or something.

00:37:04.920 And so Trump was like, well, that's punishable by death.

00:37:07.080 And they were like, Michael, he's threatening us to death.

00:37:08.320 And it's like, well, I mean, you know.

00:37:09.960 Anyway, the point being.

00:37:11.300 Can I just say, when I die, I want to go to a heaven which was created in the mind of a lefty.

00:37:17.640 Why?

00:37:18.020 I want to live in that right-wing world that they're imagining.

00:37:21.020 Oh, right, yeah.

00:37:21.920 I mean, that's true, yeah.

00:37:23.380 Yeah.

00:37:23.960 Anyway, so this is the context.

00:37:25.900 This has been happening in the last week.

00:37:27.160 And this is the context in which America has been discussing the deployment of the National Guard to prevent crime in Democrat cities. 0.90

00:37:36.560 Oh, no, actually, we did get that.

00:37:37.860 Sorry, which one was this?

00:37:40.100 Oh, this, sorry, this one was actually the video of the shooting that I can't show you.

00:37:43.740 But, no, we do get the blue-sky lunatics who, of course, you know, the Guardsmen, are there for target practice.

00:37:51.120 Literal target practice. 0.52

00:37:52.300 The fascist regime hopes they will draw fire and justify retaliatory measures.

00:37:55.700 Yeah, okay.

00:37:56.240 All right, mental. 0.67

00:37:57.140 Absolutely mental.

00:37:57.900 Anyway, so like I said, two National Guard soldiers were shot in a targeted attack.

00:38:02.580 Just read you the details.

00:38:03.760 They were shot on Wednesday near the White House, which is, you would think, a concerning thing.

00:38:09.500 In what officials described as a targeted ambush, the suspect was in custody after suffering gunshot wounds during the attack.

00:38:16.720 Guard soldiers were part of a high-visibility patrol around 2.15pm near the corner of 17th and 1st Streets, a few blocks from the White House.

00:38:23.880 And when the suspect came around the corner, he ambushed them, says the Metropolitan Police Assistant Chief Jeff Carroll in a press briefing.

00:38:31.340 The shooting unfolded near Farragut Square, a popular lunch spot for workers just a few blocks away from the White House.

00:38:37.840 The park, where the light posts are wrapped in wreaths and bows for the holiday season, is flanked by fast, casual restaurants and a coffee shop, as well as two metro stops.

00:38:45.280 After the exchange of gunfire, the other Guard members were able to subdue the suspect.

00:38:49.580 Two wounded soldiers were in a critical condition at the hospital, say, FBI Director Kash Patel, which, as far as the best of my knowledge, is the current situation as we are broadcasting.

00:38:59.840 The motive for the shooting was not immediately clear, but they believed the shooter acted alone.

00:39:04.260 The identities of the suspect had not, when this was printed, made public.

00:39:08.180 In a social media post, Trump called the suspected shooter an animal, who would pay a very steep price and praise the National Guard.

00:39:14.500 Do we want to play some bets?

00:39:16.080 What kind of person decided to ambush the National Guard of Washington, D.C.?

00:39:21.360 Hmm.

00:39:22.960 Well, that's tricky.

00:39:23.880 I know, right?

00:39:25.080 Is he a small-pound Christian conservative?

00:39:28.100 It could be.

00:39:28.980 It could be.

00:39:29.480 He's disappointed about the amount of money that Trump sends to Israel, maybe.

00:39:32.460 Was it a Girl Scout, perhaps?

00:39:36.180 Maybe a grandmother?

00:39:37.860 It could be anyone.

00:39:38.760 I don't actually know.

00:39:39.420 I haven't seen this.

00:39:39.940 Well, that's the point.

00:39:40.520 You don't actually know, right? 0.84

00:39:41.440 Because it could be some insane radical lefty, like the type who shot Charlie Kirk.

00:39:45.060 It could be some ethnic minority who's been radicalized, like the Democrats. 0.90

00:39:49.520 But we're playing tranny or ethnic game. 0.94

00:39:51.320 I mean, it's difficult to know at this point.

00:39:52.920 It could be anyone.

00:39:54.120 Yes.

00:39:54.720 And so, for anyone who was placing their bets, it was an Afghan immigrant. 1.00

00:40:00.080 Ah, right.

00:40:00.600 Okay.

00:40:00.760 So, Ramanula Lakhanawal, the Muslim migrant suspected of launching the attack, as Andy

00:40:07.320 Noe reports, had entered the US in 2021 from Afghanistan after Biden's ridiculous withdrawal

00:40:14.940 from Afghanistan.

00:40:17.000 Right.

00:40:17.320 So, Biden had brought in an Afghan refugee, someone who worked against his own country 1.00

00:40:22.920 with the US forces and British forces there, and had fled, because, of course, the Taliban 0.99

00:40:27.600 would probably have something to say about being a traitor.

00:40:29.480 Um, but, uh, he claimed to be a refugee and applied for asylum in 2024, which was granted

00:40:34.200 in 2025, April, uh, the, uh, Customs and Immigration Services says.

00:40:40.400 Um, and this is something that, well, again, it could have been anyone.

00:40:45.780 It just happened to be one of the American-supporting Afghans who was brought over decided, for some

00:40:51.960 reason, to shoot a bunch in the National Guard.

00:40:53.700 I don't know how many of the Americans have taken in, but we recently got an extra batch of 1.00

00:40:57.180 23,000.

00:40:57.880 We'll get to that.

00:40:58.560 We'll get to that.

00:40:59.480 Uh, so anyway, Trump has obviously condemned this, um, uh, monstrous, uh, attack that was

00:41:06.700 carried out by the Afghan national who arrived during America's chaotic withdrawal from

00:41:11.460 Kabul.

00:41:12.260 Uh, this attack underscores the single greatest national security threat facing our nation.

00:41:16.100 Uh, he has vowed to, quote, re-examine every single alien who has entered the US from Afghanistan

00:41:20.600 under the previous government.

00:41:22.020 Because, of course, this is just pure Biden.

00:41:24.240 All Biden's fault.

00:41:25.020 Uh, I'm determined to ensure the animal perpetrator of the atrocity will pay the cheapest price.

00:41:29.600 And what's really interesting is they spoke to his family members.

00:41:32.240 It's like, yeah, he served in the Afghan army alongside US Special Forces troops for 10 years.

00:41:39.060 And then when Biden's chaotic, catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, that for no reason, it's not like the Taliban, just for anyone who forgot, didn't have like five divisions marching on Kabul or something.

00:41:52.440 The Americans were like, well, we're going to get overrun here, lads. 0.99

00:41:54.600 We have to get out.

00:41:55.720 Purely ideological.

00:41:56.520 And for some reason, they decided to pull the soldiers out first, leave loads of military

00:42:01.380 equipment there, and then had to struggle to evacuate civilians.

00:42:04.880 Like, there was no pressure.

00:42:06.200 No one was making them do it.

00:42:07.420 It was just completely ideological.

00:42:09.240 Shambolic.

00:42:09.840 It was because Biden wanted it to be on 9-11, I think, wasn't it?

00:42:13.040 Yeah.

00:42:13.180 Something like that.

00:42:14.100 But, you know, it was just no reason for it.

00:42:17.120 Didn't have to happen.

00:42:18.320 13 people died during it.

00:42:19.980 Not killed by the Taliban, by the way.

00:42:21.440 Um, this whole thing, he'd been serving with the Afghan army alongside the U.S. Special Forces 10 years, comes to the U.S. four years ago, given citizenship, and then, like, yeah, now he needs to shoot a couple of national... 0.70

00:42:35.140 I mean, I think the point you're making is no matter what level of vetting...

00:42:38.580 Yeah, exactly.

00:42:39.360 ...he would have passed it.

00:42:40.560 Exactly the point.

00:42:41.840 He would...

00:42:42.440 And he did pass it.

00:42:44.000 He did pass all of the vetting, and yet he still went on a mass shooting.

00:42:48.520 It's almost as if Western countries should be inhabited with Western people.

00:42:55.660 Bold idea.

00:42:56.920 Yeah.

00:42:57.600 Yes.

00:42:58.320 But it's also the mythos around, well, these people served with us in Afghanistan, and therefore...

00:43:05.080 And therefore what?

00:43:06.260 Tell us what. 0.99

00:43:06.920 They could still kill you.

00:43:08.160 They didn't sign up from another country.

00:43:10.360 They were fighting in Afghanistan because they're from Afghanistan.

00:43:13.560 Yeah.

00:43:13.900 And they were on a specific side of...

00:43:16.720 A civil war, basically.

00:43:17.620 Yeah, exactly.

00:43:18.860 He grew up in Kost Province.

00:43:21.120 He was living in Bellingham, Washington, with his wife and five children.

00:43:24.280 So it's not like...

00:43:24.820 If he was just some sort of loner, radicalized online by Bin Laden propaganda or something,

00:43:30.560 okay, a bit more understandable.

00:43:31.760 No, he's living a family life.

00:43:33.400 And he hated America more than he loved his wife and five children.

00:43:36.420 Yes.

00:43:37.580 That seems to be the case.

00:43:39.060 I mean, we haven't got any direct statements from him.

00:43:41.460 But from what we can take so far, it's like, but you spent 10 years working with America.

00:43:46.680 Then you fled to America.

00:43:48.440 You'd think, okay, fine.

00:43:49.480 This was what I was aiming for, really, to bring America to Afghanistan. 0.98

00:43:53.560 You know, that's what I was fighting for, the Americanization of Afghanistan. 1.00

00:43:56.840 That failed, but they at least took me in.

00:43:58.880 They gave me citizenship.

00:43:59.760 I mean, if that were me, I'd be living the life I would...

00:44:03.920 To the Western mind, you cannot understand how they would not be eternally grateful for that.

00:44:08.080 Exactly.

00:44:08.560 To the Afghan mind, something different.

00:44:10.920 I guess so.

00:44:11.780 And the wife and five children must be like, what happened?

00:44:14.240 Your dad went on a shooting spree.

00:44:15.880 Luckily, he's not dead, but he's definitely... 0.90

00:44:17.720 He's probably going to get the death penalty.

00:44:19.240 Two guardsmen are, though.

00:44:20.460 Well, they're not dead yet.

00:44:21.920 No, I believe it's been confirmed yet.

00:44:23.560 Oh, has it?

00:44:24.020 I think I saw something from the governor that...

00:44:25.660 I think there's been mixed signals on this.

00:44:28.060 That's the thing.

00:44:28.440 I have seen that people have said that, but I think they just assumed that they were dead because they were shot.

00:44:33.780 So I'm not convinced.

00:44:34.960 But, you know, either way, they're in critical condition, so not good.

00:44:39.080 So what's Trump's response?

00:44:41.360 Well, I mean, his response is, we're not having any of this, actually.

00:44:44.840 He's going to send more troops to Washington, D.C., deploy more National Guard, 500 more.

00:44:50.380 This happens just steps from the White House and will not stand.

00:44:53.400 And that's why Trump asked Hegseth, and I will ask the Secretary of the Army and the National Guard

00:44:58.060 to add 500 troops to the National Guard, which says Hegseth.

00:45:00.920 So you double down on what you're doing, right?

00:45:02.500 The first thing is you double down.

00:45:04.200 It's like, no, we will not tolerate this.

00:45:06.240 You will not do this.

00:45:07.340 If you're like, we only had 800 National Guard there, but now we're going to...

00:45:09.980 Or 12,000.

00:45:12.200 Now we're going to have even more.

00:45:13.560 But the most pertinent thing is you make sure this doesn't happen twice.

00:45:17.020 And Trump is like, yeah, right, okay, no more Afghans then. 1.00

00:45:21.120 Oh, God.

00:45:21.860 It's so weird watching somebody who actually likes their country govern a country.

00:45:26.520 I know.

00:45:29.040 The U.S. has just suspended all immigration requests from Afghanistan after this.

00:45:34.360 And it's like, yeah, that should have happened on the first day in the first one.

00:45:36.560 We didn't do that after bloody Axel Rubana hacked up a room full of bloody schoolchildren. 0.98

00:45:40.880 No more bloody Rwandans. 1.00

00:45:43.040 Sorry. 0.97

00:45:43.920 You know.

00:45:44.260 God, I'm getting serious leadership envy here from the U.K.

00:45:48.820 I know.

00:45:49.400 And, you know, I know people complain about his stance on Israel, though.

00:45:52.200 I don't care.

00:45:53.360 I want no more Afghans, right? 1.00

00:45:56.180 And the services that are involved are making a review of security and vetting protocols.

00:46:01.700 The problem is he passed all of them.

00:46:03.560 He wouldn't pass all of them because he literally served 10 years with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan.

00:46:09.180 So there's not a lot you're going to be...

00:46:10.620 Oh, if there's a tiered list, he'd be right at the top.

00:46:12.480 Exactly.

00:46:12.840 And that's why they evacuated him when they left Afghanistan, because he was right at the top. 1.00

00:46:18.900 Because he was exactly the kind of person that they thought, oh, well, we can integrate that person.

00:46:24.020 He will, you know...

00:46:24.640 They thought wrong.

00:46:25.420 Yeah, exactly.

00:46:26.140 They thought wrong.

00:46:27.160 Trump's called this an act of terror and said he would take steps to remove foreigners from any country who does not belong here.

00:46:33.980 Which, okay, great.

00:46:35.300 You can cast that net as wide as you want.

00:46:37.160 So what are we like in Britain, right?

00:46:39.480 Because there's this general maxim that the Americans now have, which is whatever Britain does, just do the opposite of that, right?

00:46:46.700 That's actually quite a good maxim.

00:46:47.980 It is a good maxim, because it's true, right?

00:46:50.780 On the economy, on immigration, on free speech, if you watch the Tucker Carlson, Piers Morgan chat.

00:46:58.020 Like, there's just...

00:46:58.500 Whatever we're doing, just do the opposite if you want a good country, and you'll get it.

00:47:03.160 Because, I mean, you may remember that based conservative Robert Jenrick, in 2023 under the Rishi Senate government, was like, yeah, no, we're going to sneak in tens of thousands of Afghans.

00:47:17.060 It was a lot more than that, you covering the lying and hiding.

00:47:19.400 I'm just going to summarise it for the sake of this segment.

00:47:22.740 But, you know, something like 25,000 in total, they snuck in.

00:47:26.460 And then they took out a court injunction to stop us knowing about it.

00:47:29.780 They did, and that was overturned only very recently, so that's why we're allowed to talk about it.

00:47:35.280 But they were also allowed to bring their dependents.

00:47:37.880 Now, that could be, you know, who knows how many per one.

00:47:41.800 I mean, this guy who was just, he was, that was six dependents for that guy, his wife and five children.

00:47:47.160 So if we multiply that by a factor of six, we are talking about 200,000.

00:47:52.480 They do have large families, don't they?

00:47:53.840 They have very large families.

00:47:54.920 So 200,000 Afghans were snuck into the country under the cover of night by the Conservatives on the premise that, in fact, we've got a statement from Robert Jenrick in this.

00:48:06.020 This is from 2023.

00:48:07.840 The Immigration Minister, Robert Jenrick, said two years ago, we undertook one of the largest evacuations in recent history, bringing 15,000 people and the rest, Robert, from Afghanistan, safety in the UK at short notice.

00:48:17.740 Through the tireless work of our dedicated home office staff, we now have provided these Afghans with the home they need to begin the next chapter of their life.

00:48:24.580 You're paying for it.

00:48:25.360 You're paying for this.

00:48:26.980 Not only can Afghan families now fully integrate, find employment, and provide their children with stability.

00:48:33.600 Ending the temporary use of hotels will save the taxpayer millions.

00:48:37.300 Blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:48:37.840 Right, okay, whatever, Robert.

00:48:39.360 Okay, but on that he says, we have evacuated them to safety.

00:48:43.160 Yeah.

00:48:43.520 What about our safety?

00:48:44.740 What about our safety?

00:48:45.340 What about my kids' safety?

00:48:46.160 Well, since that statement's been made, I can think of several cases of Afghans brought over to this country where they've, you know, attacked people, sexually assaulted people. 1.00

00:48:56.000 Well, there was one that raped a 12-year-old girl the other day. 0.98

00:48:58.220 Yep.

00:48:58.500 And, of course, you'll, in fact, this is, again, from September 2025, right?

00:49:03.160 So you're like, oh, this is in 2023.

00:49:05.060 Maybe he's walked back.

00:49:05.860 No.

00:49:06.800 In September 2025, in the Daily Telegraph.

00:49:09.820 This is on his website, by the way.

00:49:12.000 It's just a copy of his Telegraph article.

00:49:13.860 So, again, he's doing the Trump double down, but in the complete opposite direction.

00:49:17.740 In the opposite direction.

00:49:19.680 As the last U.S. military aircraft lifted off from the airport that had witnessed unimaginable tragedy and remarkable heroism, just an eight-hour flight away in my Nottingham constituency, I walked to a house in a peaceful corner of my local town to meet an Afghan family who were my newest constituents. 0.96

00:49:35.400 What a cuck.

00:49:36.060 Amadilla and his wife and daughters had arrived in the U.K. a few weeks back.

00:49:39.740 Their quarantine was over.

00:49:40.680 We salute the armed forces.

00:49:42.260 Amadilla had served as a translator with British Special Forces in Helmand Province.

00:49:46.200 He'd risked his life assisting our troops.

00:49:48.800 He was fulsome in his pride and loyalty to the men and women he served with, with hopes to reconnect with them and perhaps even serve alongside them again, should the opportunity arise.

00:49:56.440 Just like this other guy.

00:49:58.440 Just like this other guy.

00:49:59.700 And then, of course, I mean, people all remember the Uxbridge triple stabbing, this Safi Dawood.

00:50:05.580 And is it, hang on, I'm just missing.

00:50:07.960 Is this the same Robert Jenrick that everybody is saying should be Tory leader because he's the most based one?

00:50:13.040 Yep.

00:50:14.440 The very same.

00:50:16.320 Right.

00:50:16.900 Speaks to the dire state of the Tory party, doesn't it?

00:50:19.240 Yep.

00:50:19.400 And so, I mean, you know, there was another one more recently, the raping of a 12-year-old girl, but then you've got, it was Safi Dawood who broke into the country on a lorry in 2020.

00:50:31.380 So this was even before the evacuation of Afghanistan.

00:50:34.500 And these are also the ones that get media coverage because there's an inordinate number of these sorts of level of crimes.

00:50:40.020 Maybe not a triple stabbing, but crimes of this sort of nature and severity that just don't get picked up by the media.

00:50:46.180 Because there's so many now that they can only pick a selection.

00:50:49.060 Oh, yeah, if your wife gets harassed and grabbed and all the rest of it on the way back from the shops, that's not ending up on Sky News. 0.99

00:50:53.440 It's not even going to be on the local news, really.

00:50:55.320 Yep.

00:50:55.860 Because it's just normal.

00:50:57.380 But anyway, this Safi Dawood champ, he'd broke in in 2020 via a lorry.

00:51:02.200 And guess who gave him leave to remain?

00:51:05.560 Guess?

00:51:06.040 Jenrick again.

00:51:06.740 It is Jenrick.

00:51:07.560 In 2022, Jenrick, Minister of State for Immigration, decided he was granted asylum and indefinite leave to remain.

00:51:14.520 And then just three years later, he thanked Robert Jenrick for his service by murdering a guy who was walking his dog and then stabbing two other people.

00:51:25.500 Thankfully, they survived. 0.85

00:51:26.380 Very best the Conservatives have to offer is a massive immigration cuck. 1.00

00:51:30.380 Yes.

00:51:31.360 It's just, like, sorry, actually, I don't really want Afghans in my country. 1.00

00:51:36.480 It's just the way things are.

00:51:38.280 But too many of these things have happened, and Trump has taken the right move by just suspending immigration from Afghanistan.

00:51:47.460 George says, here's my humble contribution to a year's VPN subscription for £100.

00:51:51.340 Thank you very much.

00:51:51.980 No, that's very kind of you, sir.

00:51:53.800 Oh, we have an update.

00:51:55.200 The National Guardsmen are dead.

00:51:56.380 They died about three hours later.

00:51:57.660 Right, okay, thank you.

00:51:58.520 I did know.

00:51:58.920 I saw people, like, contradicting one another, and there have been various reports, so.

00:52:07.580 There was another one.

00:52:09.840 It's been a regular occurrence for years now that the National Guardsmen get deployed with empty rifles.

00:52:13.740 I was in Germany during Allies Refuge.

00:52:15.560 I had to do 12-hour shifts as an MP for these Allies.

00:52:19.180 Military police, I think, guys.

00:52:20.220 Right, okay, I didn't even know, but these guys were actually armed, so they were able to shoot the attacker.

00:52:27.240 And the, for some reason, he was naked when they were arresting him, like, completely naked.

00:52:31.660 I have no idea why.

00:52:33.020 That's so weird.

00:52:33.740 I know, it's really bizarre.

00:52:35.340 But anyway, let's move on.

00:52:39.840 Thank you.

00:52:40.440 Thank you.

00:52:45.780 Do you want to imagine what it's like to be a feudal serf in the medieval period?

00:52:50.060 Well, you don't have to, because you can be a feudal serf in Britain for the motability aristocracy. 0.95

00:52:58.200 But first, I'm going to give you a quick rundown on what the motability scheme is,

00:53:01.560 because on the face of it, it doesn't actually sound that bad.

00:53:04.880 So the read-up here is, it says,

00:53:07.120 Use your qualifying mobility allowance to lease a new car, wheelchair-accessible vehicle, scooter, or powered wheelchair.

00:53:14.200 We also have adaptations to help with driving, getting in and out, or storage.

00:53:17.700 So, obviously, helping disabled people to drive is not a bad thing,

00:53:22.760 especially people with serious disabilities, obviously.

00:53:26.960 You know, if anyone deserves help in society, it's probably them.

00:53:31.560 And so I'm not having a go at them when I talk about some of these other things.

00:53:35.640 So please bear that in mind, not having a go at actual disabled people.

00:53:39.420 But we're always having a go at the government.

00:53:41.100 Yes. 1.00

00:53:41.840 It's always the goddamn government. 0.99

00:53:43.380 Speaking of the government, this scheme is not government-run. 0.99

00:53:47.360 The government just provides them money for it.

00:53:49.760 The motability charity does the policy and oversight and grants.

00:53:55.180 And then there's a limited company, which does the leasing services.

00:53:59.900 And then there are a network of private dealerships and adaptation specialists in the private sector

00:54:05.020 that, you know, give you the cars and adapt them to your needs.

00:54:10.140 And to be eligible, you have to receive one of the following.

00:54:14.480 Higher-rate mobility component of Disability Living Allowance, or DLA.

00:54:20.140 Enhanced-rate mobility component of Personal Independence Payment, or PIP.

00:54:25.460 Armed Forces Independence Payment, which I think few people are going to be taking.

00:54:29.940 Or War Pensioners Mobility Supplement, which, again, I imagine very few people are probably

00:54:36.460 taking to get these cars.

00:54:38.160 And the general idea is the recipient of this welfare can direct their welfare money via

00:54:45.320 the government to pay the lease of the car directly, rather than them having the money

00:54:49.220 sent to them and then paying the lease.

00:54:51.400 And so it makes it simpler for people with disabilities.

00:54:53.800 That's the principle of the thing.

00:54:54.920 And in return, they get a brand new car leased to them for three years before getting another

00:54:59.280 car when the lease expires.

00:55:01.480 And it also includes insurance for up to three named drivers, which is interesting, servicing

00:55:07.520 repairs and breakdown cover, replacement tyres and windscreen repairs, routine maintenance

00:55:12.420 and road tax.

00:55:13.460 So pretty much everything is paid for by this allowance.

00:55:17.720 And the person who receives this car only personally pays for fuel and optional extras on the car that

00:55:25.600 are not covered by the scheme.

00:55:28.020 And of course, the scheme also covers any modifications to the vehicle to accommodate for the beneficiary's

00:55:33.740 disability.

00:55:35.120 And there is a bit of a problem with this.

00:55:37.740 And it is this.

00:55:39.460 The latest survey reveals 25% of the UK's population now has a disability.

00:55:44.040 Yeah, well, I mean, that's because you get what you incentivise, as we have seen so far.

00:55:48.720 If you incentivise people to be disabled by giving them free cars... 1.00

00:55:53.660 But that obviously isn't true.

00:55:57.600 No, of course not.

00:55:58.480 When you walk around, and then people like to say, oh, well, not all disabilities are visible.

00:56:04.800 But I feel like if you're getting a free car for your mobility, I want to see something

00:56:10.360 that signifies you're not able to move.

00:56:13.040 What if I have anxiety about my disability?

00:56:17.300 We'll see the criteria soon.

00:56:19.020 So obviously, if you're a beneficiary of one of these, and one of the main ones is PIP,

00:56:24.700 or personal independence payments, sorry.

00:56:28.280 Let's have a look at this, shall we?

00:56:29.840 So I'm going to scroll down a little bit.

00:56:31.640 So personal independence payments can help with extra living costs if you have both a long-term

00:56:37.540 physical or mental health condition or disability, difficulty doing certain everyday tasks or

00:56:43.860 getting around because of your condition.

00:56:45.760 Yeah, I'm depressed at the state of my country.

00:56:47.640 It makes me...

00:56:48.340 I find it difficult to go outside.

00:56:49.960 I'm scared of going outside.

00:56:51.200 Yeah.

00:56:51.700 I'm allergic to knives.

00:56:53.300 You can get PIP even if you're working, have savings, or getting most other benefits.

00:56:59.520 So, you know, it doesn't matter.

00:57:01.060 You can get this regardless.

00:57:03.400 And, you know, there's not really any downsides.

00:57:06.020 And then I looked up, well, how many people are getting this?

00:57:09.220 Because it's got to be a fair few, 3.7 million claimants in England and Wales alone.

00:57:17.420 And there was a 2% increase from last year as of the 31st of October.

00:57:22.800 And apparently 37% received the highest level award, which qualifies them for whichever car

00:57:30.860 they want, yeah.

00:57:32.540 And people have cottoned on to perhaps this could be abused.

00:57:36.120 And so, is this right?

00:57:40.760 Is that the right link?

00:57:41.580 No, it's not the right link.

00:57:43.560 But that should be Motability Check, which is a website which allows you to check whether

00:57:51.680 a car is motability or not.

00:57:54.000 Yeah.

00:57:54.440 Okay.

00:57:55.520 Is this Max Temper's website?

00:57:57.620 I think so.

00:57:58.480 Or at least he's associated with it.

00:58:01.280 Okay, links to the motability scheme.

00:58:03.900 So this isn't...

00:58:04.740 This is new, isn't it?

00:58:05.620 Because, Samson, I saw you copy that in the URL.

00:58:08.920 So motability check...

00:58:10.000 Let me see what...

00:58:10.500 Now links to Motability.

00:58:11.720 Okay.

00:58:12.000 I don't know.

00:58:13.160 Because that is the right link.

00:58:14.680 Never mind.

00:58:15.040 That's weird.

00:58:15.580 That didn't happen yesterday.

00:58:17.280 But anyway, there's a website where you can check whether a car is...

00:58:20.240 Is it just .com, is it?

00:58:21.540 It's motabilitycheck.com, yes.

00:58:24.540 Is it working for you?

00:58:27.180 No.

00:58:27.620 You will be redirected to the Motability...

00:58:29.700 Oh, right.

00:58:30.340 No.

00:58:30.540 Right.

00:58:30.740 The website itself has been shut down.

00:58:32.520 Okay.

00:58:32.800 There's a little message there that says it's served its purpose, therefore we've shut it.

00:58:35.700 Yeah.

00:58:36.060 They heard you were going to do your segment.

00:58:37.380 Oh, okay.

00:58:37.400 It was...

00:58:37.800 Shut it all down.

00:58:38.720 ...budget.

00:58:39.260 Well, it did exist.

00:58:40.340 Well, Max Temper's wins again.

00:58:41.820 He does, yeah.

00:58:42.720 So, where were we?

00:58:46.420 Sorry, I need to get the mouse back.

00:58:48.180 So, the government did attack this website when it existed, so they were changing things

00:58:54.480 like the API and the like, where they were getting the data from the DVLA to deliberately

00:59:00.960 sabotage it.

00:59:01.780 They actually had people saying from the DVLA that the only reason this update's gone forward

00:59:06.500 is to sabotage your Motability Checker, which sort of suggests...

00:59:11.100 Max Temper's living in the minds of these people.

00:59:14.280 There we go.

00:59:15.160 Here he is talking about it, how the DVLA has produced a special patch there to sabotage

00:59:20.340 this.

00:59:20.840 Amazing.

00:59:21.200 But that's what it would look like when it existed.

00:59:24.620 I checked it yesterday.

00:59:25.680 This is annoying.

00:59:26.400 I liked it.

00:59:28.200 Rip the Motability Checker.

00:59:30.120 But let's have a look at some of the abuses, shall we?

00:59:33.060 So, this TikTok estate agent with his fifth floor flat in Bradford, he's got an expensive

00:59:43.840 BMW behind him, walking around perfectly ably.

00:59:48.420 Only problem is that this guy has a Motability car, and he also has a private plate worth around

00:59:57.880 20k on it as well.

00:59:59.960 So, a BMW Sport, private plate, clearly he's fine, he's disabled. 1.00

01:00:06.820 Oh, he's got deep anxiety.

01:00:09.880 So, what about this one?

01:00:15.220 Could a woman park that? 1.00

01:00:17.380 I don't know.

01:00:18.660 But, oh, there you go.

01:00:20.980 That's who parked it.

01:00:22.160 An immigrant parked that. 1.00

01:00:23.440 But this is a Motability car, provided by the taxpayer.

01:00:26.740 Two disabled young men just down there.

01:00:28.940 Stood up.

01:00:30.020 Miraculously cured by the impact.

01:00:31.520 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:00:32.620 I see why this was such a great website now, because if I could just check.

01:00:37.640 Yes. 0.56

01:00:38.520 Oh, bloody. 0.98

01:00:39.520 That's a shame they got shut down. 0.99

01:00:40.680 Genuinely.

01:00:41.160 But you can see why it was looming large in the minds of the people running this scheme.

01:00:44.420 Oh, and that's why the government had to get it shut down. 0.98

01:00:46.100 Yes.

01:00:46.380 Oh, I get you now.

01:00:48.080 Because people start to realise who's benefiting from this.

01:00:51.100 Like getaway drivers for multi-million pound heists.

01:00:57.220 This was done in a Motability car.

01:00:59.840 It even expressed a 99.9% certainty that it is Motability.

01:01:03.340 Mercedes, nonetheless, as well.

01:01:07.000 A guy driving around shouting free Palestine in a largely Jewish area of Manchester.

01:01:13.560 Lots of immigrants just ripping us off and getting BMWs from the taxpayer by lying that 1.00

01:01:18.700 they're fucking disabled. 1.00

01:01:20.740 Black Volkswagen for free from the state. 1.00

01:01:24.400 Oh, God.

01:01:25.360 Why are all the immigrants disabled? 1.00

01:01:26.920 Because they know that we'll give them free cars.

01:01:30.040 Ah.

01:01:30.740 Well, and going back to my segment earlier.

01:01:33.080 And various other things.

01:01:33.900 And 70 grand a year disposable income.

01:01:36.320 Oh, my God.

01:01:37.300 I hate this country so much.

01:01:38.380 So, even this guy who had, he stood there with David Averton with a patriotic car with a

01:01:48.700 union flag, a Welsh flag.

01:01:50.520 Patriotic BMW.

01:01:51.340 Even this guy, Sir Shoeb, he actually had an altercation with Tom Harwood, of all people,

01:01:59.520 who called him out.

01:02:00.500 So, you know it's going to be bad when he's doing it.

01:02:02.760 Even the patriotic immigrants. 1.00

01:02:04.680 Yes.

01:02:05.200 He had a Motability car, which is very amusing to me.

01:02:11.520 Also, quite a nice BMW.

01:02:14.180 It's an incredible.

01:02:15.260 Incredible car.

01:02:16.120 Is the inability to use toilets considered a disability or something?

01:02:19.700 I don't know.

01:02:20.260 But this driver here, this was in London, in Uxbridge, Boris Johnson's constituency. 1.00

01:02:26.300 Driving like a complete idiot, that's Motability. 1.00

01:02:30.320 But they didn't pay for the goddamn things. 1.00

01:02:32.260 Why would they care about the upkeep or maintenance? 0.99

01:02:34.420 Exactly.

01:02:35.300 If I crash this, they'll give me a new one.

01:02:39.020 Mm-hmm.

01:02:40.140 Because I am disabled.

01:02:41.700 Oh, I wonder why we're bankrupt as a country.

01:02:44.020 So, someone harassing people with a drone late at night.

01:02:48.720 Someone posted that it was a Motability car, based on the registration.

01:02:54.200 Of course, Max Tempers, it's worth mentioning, has been fantastic on this.

01:02:58.400 Single-handedly pushed this into Rachel Reeves' budget, more than anyone, I think.

01:03:02.880 Like, Max Tempers, you know, it's like the Puppet Master meme,

01:03:07.480 and it's just Max Tempers at the end of it, with the British budget.

01:03:10.080 I like to joke that when disabled people go to bed at night, they check under their bed for Max Tempers. 1.00

01:03:15.420 Rachel Reeves does.

01:03:16.920 Good for him, seriously.

01:03:18.900 But no, great work.

01:03:20.260 No one tell you that one person posting on Twitter doesn't do anything, because apparently it does.

01:03:25.540 We should get him on the podcast.

01:03:26.980 Well, I mean, I think his anonymity is part of the...

01:03:29.400 Yeah, I think that's a picture of Albert Camus with a good sat on.

01:03:33.080 He's only got 21,500 followers, that's the thing.

01:03:35.400 I'm going to follow him.

01:03:36.040 He started as a really small accountant.

01:03:38.760 He was just pinpointing that precise weakness, and suddenly, Rachel Reeves is like, yeah, in the budget.

01:03:47.480 So well done, Max Tempers.

01:03:49.040 Yeah, well done.

01:03:50.820 Here's another one.

01:03:52.040 He uses the term motability aristocrat.

01:03:54.660 Yeah.

01:03:56.020 They parked in the middle of the road, and you'll see them in a second, coming back.

01:04:00.560 Oh, yeah.

01:04:01.060 Walking, of course.

01:04:02.240 There she is.

01:04:03.160 Oh, yeah.

01:04:03.760 Clearly disabled person. 0.97

01:04:05.280 And buying crackers.

01:04:06.960 Look at the state of it.

01:04:08.840 Great.

01:04:09.660 Yeah, just holding everyone up with...

01:04:11.020 Second generation Caribbean.

01:04:12.620 There it is.

01:04:14.240 That's the car, motability.

01:04:18.040 And here's a woman on social media bragging about getting a free car. 1.00

01:04:24.140 So glad she's driving around.

01:04:25.780 For narcolepsy.

01:04:27.540 She says, I can't do public transport as I fall asleep randomly and miss my stops.

01:04:32.260 Jesus Christ!

01:04:33.180 He's like, what?

01:04:34.820 So I've been given a brand new car.

01:04:37.240 Let's hope it doesn't happen.

01:04:38.740 I can't use a bus because I fall asleep randomly.

01:04:42.200 Therefore, I should be in charge of two tons of car.

01:04:45.160 So, other than this being completely insane, it's worth mentioning that the data for people's sort of medical records and the reasons for getting it, technically this is a disability, yes.

01:04:56.260 Sure.

01:04:56.860 But it's not a disability that you should get a car for.

01:04:59.840 Like, if you're narcoleptic...

01:05:00.500 Narcoleptic.

01:05:02.060 Well, yes, apparently.

01:05:04.140 Right, okay.

01:05:04.960 Because you think that there'd be certain disabilities that may prohibit you from driving.

01:05:08.280 Well, I imagine the sort of person defending this, they would argue, well, this is for other people to drive her, but she can own the car. 0.66

01:05:16.440 I hope so.

01:05:17.440 Yeah, because I don't see that happening, though.

01:05:20.580 She also says it was from Kia in Bath, so you live near Bath.

01:05:24.180 Watch out for that Kia. 0.98

01:05:25.720 It won't be somebody else driving it.

01:05:27.820 No, of course it won't be.

01:05:29.180 This is a bit like saying we've got to take somebody off their job because they've got Parkinson's and their handshake, so we're going to put them in charge of the nuclear button instead.

01:05:35.940 How difficult is it to fake narcolepsy?

01:05:38.200 I can do it with a new car.

01:05:39.740 I mean, I don't even have to fake it anymore, I'm just tired.

01:05:43.640 Well, I bet almost everybody watching this will be better off on welfare.

01:05:48.340 Yeah, probably.

01:05:49.600 As long as you can fake a disability.

01:05:51.980 I hate the way this country's run so much.

01:05:55.480 So, I was curious, well, if one person on narcolepsy can get a car, how many actually have one on motability?

01:06:05.220 But thankfully, Max Tempers actually beat me to it.

01:06:08.060 Oh, yeah.

01:06:08.880 Apparently, there's 190 motability cars have been awarded for narcolepsy.

01:06:13.780 Jesus, that's just horrifying.

01:06:15.240 It seems like time bombs.

01:06:16.380 It's just like, you know, bombs moving around slowly, around, hopefully slowly, around the country.

01:06:24.720 Yeah.

01:06:25.280 I mean, that's presuming they're actually narcoleptic and not lying.

01:06:28.160 Yeah, I'm sure they're lying.

01:06:29.620 But I hope these ones are lying.

01:06:31.760 Yeah, of all the people, I hope they are lying.

01:06:33.700 And here we go.

01:06:37.120 A case of bad parking here.

01:06:39.660 That is a motability.

01:06:41.320 Good.

01:06:41.500 Also, this is a page that shows you bad parking, and up until today.

01:06:48.360 I bet they had a lot of bloody motability on it.

01:06:50.420 They did.

01:06:51.020 In fact, Max Tempers points out that most of the cars on that bad parking page were motability, which is interesting.

01:07:00.140 These are brand new cars.

01:07:01.080 A year of manufacture, 2023.

01:07:02.700 2023 makes you think that the kind of people who get free stuff from the government might not be particularly good people.

01:07:10.440 Not necessarily if you're actually disabled.

01:07:11.740 Again, if you're actually disabled, fine. 0.99

01:07:13.820 But that's not what's happening here, is it?

01:07:15.260 I don't think an actually disabled person parked there and got a parking ticket.

01:07:19.460 When I was living in London, I often wondered why all the ethnic types had brand new cars. 1.00

01:07:23.560 And I always just assumed it was because they were just remortgaging their house irresponsibly.

01:07:27.300 It never occurred to me that they didn't even need to do that.

01:07:29.220 The government would just give them a new car if they would lie.

01:07:32.660 The safer assumption is they're drug dealers.

01:07:34.200 That's what I always presume.

01:07:35.340 At least they're being productive in some way.

01:07:37.340 They can't all be rappers or drug dealers.

01:07:41.040 There can't be that much demand for a rapper and a cocaine.

01:07:42.880 A lot of organised crime going on, I don't know what to tell you.

01:07:45.500 They work at a Turkish barber's.

01:07:47.020 To be fair, those two industries do feed off of each other quite well.

01:07:50.040 Yeah, but they can't all be that.

01:07:51.560 But it turns out they're not.

01:07:52.540 I mean, a lot of them are just being given free cars by the government.

01:07:54.740 Yeah, well, apparently so. 1.00

01:07:55.820 They just think we're so stupid. 0.99

01:07:56.720 And also, I saw this when I was searching. 1.00

01:08:00.620 This is from July.

01:08:02.140 Just a sporty Mazda convertible.

01:08:04.700 They're just advertising that it's on the Notability scheme in the actual advert.

01:08:08.760 Just like, yeah, you can get this.

01:08:10.160 So my brother's got one of these, and I'm not disabled.

01:08:13.560 I can barely get into the thing.

01:08:15.560 Oh, they're tiny, aren't they?

01:08:16.520 Yeah, I've seen them before.

01:08:18.180 They're not...

01:08:19.200 Jesus Christ, that's 26 grand's worth of car.

01:08:22.380 Oh, it gets more expensive than that.

01:08:23.900 Some of the BMWs are like 45 grand.

01:08:26.160 Oh, my God. 0.93

01:08:27.500 It's ridiculous. 0.96

01:08:29.080 And I just couldn't believe it at this point.

01:08:32.160 And it's also worth pointing out as well that Send Kids can use their benefits to get a motability car.

01:08:38.900 That's like disabled children. 1.00

01:08:40.340 To get a motability car for their parents to drive them around, but the parents can still apply for a taxi service on the council bill.

01:08:47.720 And then use the state-given car not to drive their kids around, but get the state to ferry them around for them while they drive around the kid's car.

01:08:55.060 This costs us something.

01:08:56.380 I saw it today, actually, before the podcast.

01:08:58.500 Lancashire Council has asked for something like 1.6 billion for taxis for kids to get to school.

01:09:04.000 I'm sorry, but you can understand why the disability bill is about to go to 400 billion.

01:09:09.400 Yeah, you can, yeah.

01:09:10.420 I walked to school, and the people who didn't walk to school, weren't dropped to school, got a bus, or they cycled.

01:09:16.360 Or they went to a different school.

01:09:18.300 Does Rachel Rees spend all her time trying to find somebody who's come to this country who hasn't got benefits, and then rectify the situation? 1.00

01:09:25.320 I mean, Labour did canvas for people to bring here initially.

01:09:28.640 So it's not beyond the realms of possibility that we find out they do do this.

01:09:31.660 So even former Met Police detectives say certain people have motorbility cars sitting on their driveway, and yet their disabled children still get transport to and from school.

01:09:41.520 So apparently this definitely is happening, according to this man.

01:09:46.300 So it's not just a possibility.

01:09:47.460 No, no, it's absolutely happening.

01:09:49.940 And I found this quite funny.

01:09:54.080 So yeah, basically my ideology is raising taxes on people working here to pay for BMWs for people with anxiety, which is exactly what's going on.

01:10:02.880 And this did very well.

01:10:04.940 And people have observed that in dealerships, the Motability Scheme logo is actually larger than the BMW logo.

01:10:12.480 There's a dealership near my house that we drive past regularly that has this giant Motability side outside of it, because they obviously know it's guaranteed money.

01:10:21.740 Like if you, like, okay, I'm going to sell a car to a guy who's going to pay me £500 a month, well there's a chance that the average private citizen might not pay you that.

01:10:29.840 You might have to then involve debt collectors, it'll be a long hoo-ha to get that money, but if it's coming straight from the government or the charity paid for by the government, that money is guaranteed.

01:10:39.440 It's a license to print money, yeah.

01:10:41.360 Not just license to print money, it is just incentivizing you to know I'd rather sell Motability cars, because I know I'm getting that money, rather than selling to the private.

01:10:49.220 The entire economy is fake.

01:10:51.560 Yes.

01:10:52.340 Of course it is.

01:10:54.400 And, uh...

01:10:55.440 It's just...

01:10:56.600 There is some good news, though, because the only good thing, really, to come from Rachel Reeves' budget was this, that the luxury cars are being removed.

01:11:07.180 So, all of the most expensive ones, so the BMWs and, like, are being taken away, and all of these people flaunting their expensive cars that they got through the state are going to have to downgrade, which is, I suppose, something.

01:11:21.900 It's a start.

01:11:23.540 All the car manufacturers have high-end luxury versions.

01:11:27.840 Yeah, that's true, yes.

01:11:29.700 So, luxury...

01:11:30.280 So, how much in total have we spent on Motability?

01:11:33.040 How many billions was it?

01:11:34.820 Many, many billions.

01:11:35.840 Trying to find out, yeah.

01:11:37.180 But the point is, you could have spent all of that money on designing, essentially, like, you know, some sort of Soviet-style car that was, like, you know, small but designed for people who were disabled.

01:11:45.620 Well, we used to have the three-wheelers that they gave to disabled people. 1.00

01:11:48.420 RS Miners. 0.69

01:11:49.040 Yeah.

01:11:49.660 I mean, you could build them a mech suit.

01:11:51.880 I didn't realize they were for disabled people.

01:11:53.620 But the point is, you could just, you know, design, okay, we need a modern car for disabled people, so, you know, have a particular kind of, you know, wide-opening thing, so they can get in and stuff like that.

01:12:03.620 You could design it for far less than we're spending on this, and then just give them one cheaply.

01:12:09.160 Here's another idea.

01:12:10.920 A car is not a human right.

01:12:12.200 If you can't afford one, don't buy one.

01:12:14.500 I don't have a car.

01:12:15.360 I haven't been given one by the government.

01:12:17.880 If you're disabled, you have even less reason, because you can't move. 1.00

01:12:21.320 Josh, why do you work?

01:12:22.740 What's the point?

01:12:23.700 Yeah, I think that every day, to be honest, unironically, at this point.

01:12:26.780 It's like, what is the point?

01:12:29.420 But yes, apparently, luxury cars from a whole host of manufacturers, including Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Alfa Romeo, and Lexus, are no longer going to be available on the motability scheme.

01:12:41.800 And I was able to look up the numbers, and currently, 860,000 people get help with their whole lease, or at least in part.

01:12:51.880 And apparently, the higher-end vehicles account for about 50,000 of the vehicles leased.

01:12:56.520 So it is a minority, but it's still 50,000 that shouldn't have been handed out in the first place.

01:13:03.600 Obviously, we're not going to be going after people like that estate agent with a 20 grand private number plate and saying, we want all of this benefit money back.

01:13:13.560 Obviously, we won't do that.

01:13:15.460 And I found something very interesting buried in this BBC article.

01:13:20.220 It's somewhere down here.

01:13:21.880 From a guy called Matt Ryder.

01:13:23.760 Where is it?

01:13:25.080 After this foreign woman saying how a motability car made her want to drive again. 1.00

01:13:30.460 Shut up. 0.95

01:13:31.880 It says, Matt Ryder, who used to work on motability policy for the Department for Work and Pension, said the problem with the scheme goes beyond offering premium brands. 0.97

01:13:40.800 He said the scheme, which only leases brand-new cars, which are replaced every three years, could become more efficient by supplying nearly new cars instead.

01:13:47.640 Yeah, why do they need brand-new cars?

01:13:50.160 You know, that most people can't afford to buy themselves.

01:13:54.780 But the thing is, this is kind of like trivial to point out because, I mean, of assets that depreciate in value.

01:14:01.880 Cars have got to be the top one.

01:14:04.960 You buy a car for like 25 grand and then you sell it the next year, it's worth like 10, right?

01:14:09.040 There's like a huge amount of depreciation on cars.

01:14:11.960 And so the question isn't why we buy them luxury cars, why we buy them brand-new luxury cars.

01:14:17.260 Like, that's a choice, right?

01:14:18.740 Like, anyone who is approaching this would like, okay, we've got a budget to fill and we need to keep it within these particular lines and we want to make sure that the people who are paying for this are being given value for their money.

01:14:29.880 They would obviously be like, yeah, well, you're getting second-hand cars, right?

01:14:33.420 These people would be getting old bangers off of, you know, car, second-hand car websites.

01:14:38.340 But that's not what's happening.

01:14:39.380 So this isn't about, like, you know, goodwill that underpins it.

01:14:44.580 This is about you being taken advantage of on purpose.

01:14:47.480 Like, imagine the conversation that led to brand-new luxury cars being provided to people like that guy with the 20 grand license plate from your money.

01:14:58.720 Like, that conversation must have involved a significant amount of malice towards you as the taxpayer.

01:15:05.000 Just saying.

01:15:05.900 They must know.

01:15:07.060 They must know.

01:15:07.780 So, like, this, like, oh, well, why aren't they just using second-hand cars?

01:15:10.900 Because they don't want to because they hate you.

01:15:12.460 That's why.

01:15:12.760 Yeah.

01:15:12.880 So, you would presume, okay, that this is pretty unobjectionable to most people, right?

01:15:18.560 But let's go to some of the reactions from the left.

01:15:22.340 And I'm going to show you the one reasonable reaction I was able to find from Aaron Bastani,

01:15:27.040 who said that actually the clause that says they have to be manufactured in the UK is a good one

01:15:31.080 because it will help British manufacturing, which is, you know, okay, fair enough, I guess.

01:15:36.120 It's still the economy being fake.

01:15:37.900 Yeah, of course.

01:15:39.240 And then...

01:15:39.600 This isn't growth of production.

01:15:40.860 It still falls off the cliff now with people like this saying the same people who complain

01:15:47.080 about disabled people getting BMWs are going to complain about six to 12 months' time 1.00

01:15:51.700 as second-hand BMW prices skyrocket because these idiots didn't realise who was propping 1.00

01:15:56.340 up the second-hand car market. 1.00

01:15:59.120 Was our tax money you moron? 1.00

01:16:01.120 Yeah. 1.00

01:16:01.900 Like, I'm sorry, you know, even if what you say is true and the second-hand car market

01:16:06.860 does go up, at least we would have more money.

01:16:09.800 Sorry, look at this reply. 0.99

01:16:11.300 Genuinely a nation of spiteful, miserably, miserable, typical Protestants. 1.00

01:16:15.740 Yes, get out. 0.99

01:16:17.060 If you don't like it, get out.

01:16:18.720 Surely that's a parody.

01:16:19.640 An absolute sponge.

01:16:21.140 I mean, quite possibly.

01:16:22.460 Uh, there's more.

01:16:23.600 It actually blows my mind that the people who are jealous of disabled people have caused

01:16:27.180 this change.

01:16:27.860 What about lots of wet wipes?

01:16:27.960 I didn't get given a free new luxury BMW, did I?

01:16:31.180 If owning an Audi is such an important part of your fragile identity, then take my illness

01:16:36.080 and go grab yourself. 1.00

01:16:37.060 Motivility user speaks out.

01:16:38.420 Right, okay.

01:16:38.840 Yes.

01:16:39.940 Um, here's another one.

01:16:41.740 Everyone who participated in the discourse and decisions who brought us to this point,

01:16:45.740 up to and including the people making the final decision here, over the last 18 months

01:16:50.200 is a disgrace to humanity, just to be clear, because you can't get free luxury cars. 0.99

01:16:54.460 Shut up. 1.00

01:16:55.600 Parasites. 1.00

01:16:55.980 But no criticism of the people who have been abusing it, the immigrants who have been doing 1.00

01:17:00.900 it.

01:17:01.260 No.

01:17:01.380 Well, they're all disabled people, you see. 1.00

01:17:03.680 Finally, the government is doing something to stop society's most evil group, disabled 1.00

01:17:07.080 people.

01:17:07.260 Thank you, Archie.

01:17:08.040 But people aren't complaining about this because of genuine disabled people, are they? 1.00

01:17:12.180 No.

01:17:12.440 We've seen all of the numerous examples of people abusing it, and it's obviously just

01:17:18.900 rife for fraud.

01:17:20.660 The mindset of this country is, if I can't have it, no one can, and it's disgusting.

01:17:24.080 Well, if I can't have the tax money stolen from me, I would rather no one had it, yeah.

01:17:28.760 I can't have it because they have it, Archie.

01:17:32.600 And what difference has that made to anyone, literally just appeasing the right wing for

01:17:36.960 the sake of it?

01:17:39.540 Your taxes, mate?

01:17:40.700 You do realise there's no such thing as free money?

01:17:42.760 I bet that if we were to calculate which side of the political spectrum pays the most

01:17:47.620 tax.

01:17:48.540 Oh, it's going to be the right, isn't it?

01:17:49.980 The worst thing half the country can imagine is a poor person consuming a luxury.

01:17:55.440 Yes.

01:17:57.020 Unironically correct.

01:17:57.820 My payroll, yes.

01:17:58.960 Yeah.

01:18:00.140 If you're literally just gaining benefits, you shouldn't be having any luxuries.

01:18:04.060 I personally would have it so that people on benefits would never actually take or handle

01:18:09.400 money in any way, shape, or form, right?

01:18:11.000 You would literally get red dwarf style, grey cans.

01:18:14.100 Here are your beans.

01:18:15.520 Here's grey bread.

01:18:17.260 Here is the bread.

01:18:17.960 Well, I would go back to work houses myself.

01:18:19.800 Well, sure.

01:18:20.400 But if we had to be in this paradigm, no, you will never get a penny, but you will get,

01:18:24.960 okay, you've got a government house.

01:18:25.980 What does it look like?

01:18:26.480 A Soviet tenement.

01:18:27.460 Enjoy.

01:18:28.080 Here's the Soviet bread.

01:18:29.560 Yes.

01:18:29.780 You want to live like you're in the Soviet Union?

01:18:32.020 Fine.

01:18:32.380 Here you go.

01:18:33.020 At any time you like, go and get a job.

01:18:34.820 Yeah, exactly.

01:18:35.380 If you don't like it, you can apply for a job.

01:18:37.900 I very much agree.

01:18:39.740 And Max Tempers here, laconically enjoying his victory here.

01:18:44.020 Good for him.

01:18:44.580 On your boat.

01:18:44.960 Good for him.

01:18:45.620 Good for Max Tempers.

01:18:46.560 Right on, Max.

01:18:47.540 Yeah.

01:18:47.880 Yes.

01:18:48.280 Absolutely.

01:18:48.720 Salute you, sir.

01:18:50.680 And the final thing he said was, or at least the one I'm including here, is it looks like

01:18:57.180 insurance premium tax exemptions on Motability are going, but not the full VAT relief.

01:19:02.360 So Motability posting has saved this country 300 million.

01:19:05.560 Patriot.

01:19:06.920 Patriot.

01:19:07.440 So a niche poster on Twitter saved the country 300 million pounds.

01:19:13.720 Unfortunately, Rachel Reeves is going to completely obliterate that saving, but the principle of the thing. 1.00

01:19:20.300 And the moral of the story is, if you point out fraudulent government schemes on the internet, actually it does seem to have some sort of effect.

01:19:35.080 And you can, in theory at least, save the taxpayer 300 million for a start, but there's still an angle of attack here.

01:19:41.680 It's not entirely gone.

01:19:42.660 And so there is more to be done.

01:19:44.840 But well done, Max Tempers.

01:19:46.040 Okay, let's go to the video comments.

01:19:48.120 George says, do you reckon that Rachel is going to trigger Narcoleptic Order 66 and mass car crashes will start happening?

01:19:54.360 Uh, I mean, I couldn't rule it out.

01:19:57.180 Give them all ration books.

01:19:58.720 That's the point.

01:19:59.820 That's the point.

01:20:00.420 You should be on rations if you are getting free money from government.

01:20:05.580 God, I hate this.

01:20:06.440 Sorry, government.

01:20:07.100 Let's play.

01:20:11.660 It's budget day, me lads.

01:20:14.640 At least she has hot groff food.

01:20:17.940 So pour this in the nail. 0.88

01:20:20.660 And drink before that's shafted.

01:20:24.360 Too late for that.

01:20:28.100 But I appreciate that.

01:20:30.100 Let's go to the next one.

01:20:31.160 It is important to know that China only projects the illusion of power.

01:20:35.360 They don't actually have power.

01:20:37.260 A notable example is this purported giant fighting robot they built back in 2018.

01:20:42.300 It is supposed to be able to walk on four legs and fight other giant robots.

01:20:46.020 And yet, it is attached to a massive metal grid conveniently not shown.

01:20:50.780 Don't believe everything you hear and only half of what you see.

01:20:54.360 Especially when it comes to supposedly advanced Chinese technologies.

01:20:58.520 I mean, our economy is fake.

01:21:01.100 So is China. 0.90

01:21:02.060 Well, the Chinese just copy the West but do it slightly worse and cheaper. 1.00

01:21:07.180 I saw a video of just a Chinese bridge collapse at the end of the day.

01:21:11.560 I couldn't help but laugh a little bit.

01:21:13.100 I hope no one got hurt because obviously I don't want any harm.

01:21:15.320 But I was just like, well, when your philosophy is you use concrete that's so crumbly that it collapses.

01:21:20.320 You've seen them like in the buildings where they can just break off bits of the wall.

01:21:23.100 It's just like, Jesus Christ.

01:21:24.140 I haven't seen that.

01:21:25.060 Have you not?

01:21:25.480 I'm going to look that up now.

01:21:26.380 Yeah, you've got these giant...

01:21:26.800 Oh, it's horrifying.

01:21:27.500 And they've got empty cities where they've just built cities for the sake of...

01:21:30.940 There's a term for it.

01:21:31.640 It's called tofu dreg.

01:21:33.700 It's called tofu dreg, apparently.

01:21:35.120 It's called Samson.

01:21:36.300 But yeah, literally, you accidentally punch a hole in the wall.

01:21:40.100 It's terrible.

01:21:41.020 Let's go for the next one.

01:21:42.700 Seriously, Harry, these things really aren't that bad.

01:21:45.940 But if it bothers you so much, don't do a soy face when you get it.

01:21:51.600 Instead, get one of these and make a man face.

01:21:55.420 Hmm.

01:21:56.920 By the way, I'm wondering if you guys would be able to get Matt Dillahunty onto your show

01:22:02.420 and ask him what he really thinks about what new atheism has done to the world.

01:22:08.780 I very much doubt it.

01:22:10.580 I have no idea who that is, I'm afraid.

01:22:11.820 He's a new atheist, YouTuber, and unlikely is definitely the answer. 1.00

01:22:18.100 Kevin says,

01:22:18.980 Unemployed Ahmed with four wives in four different houses and 14 kids under 16 1.00

01:22:22.720 could conceivably already be on $117,000 a year.

01:22:26.360 Add in the extra money, he will now get a no-child benefits cap, and you look at $160,000.

01:22:30.560 Yeah, it's just mad.

01:22:31.520 I mean, you get what you incentivize.

01:22:35.780 Yeah, and of course, a lot of these people will be holding now a full-time job

01:22:39.380 being an estate agent in London, as well as claiming all the rest of it in benefit.

01:22:44.700 And that's not talking about the ones who are just unemployed,

01:22:46.820 but then working in the black economy.

01:22:49.560 So, you know, selling drugs or whatever, and just claiming loads of money,

01:22:53.160 and bringing them another $100,000 a year.

01:22:55.520 I just...

01:22:56.520 Oh, it's radicalizing me, man.

01:22:59.500 It's absolutely radicalizing me.

01:23:00.840 I mean, the fascinating thing from this podcast is not why 25% of people are disabled,

01:23:05.640 it's why aren't 100% of them.

01:23:07.260 Yeah!

01:23:07.480 I'm actually going to throw myself down the stairs after this podcast,

01:23:12.120 just so I can authentically claim it.

01:23:13.980 Well, you don't need to do that.

01:23:14.900 You can spoil it.

01:23:15.260 I've got narcolepsy.

01:23:17.000 You know, just...

01:23:18.480 Honestly, I'm just...

01:23:20.600 I'm so radical at this point. 0.96

01:23:22.340 I sort of hope that they make racism a mental disorder, 0.94

01:23:26.140 and then I can just say, 0.99

01:23:26.840 I'm a terrible racist. 0.86

01:23:27.680 Look at my podcasts. 0.96

01:23:29.060 I can't go outside.

01:23:30.420 It'll be terrible for them.

01:23:31.540 Please give me money.

01:23:32.440 Give me the 70k.

01:23:34.440 Fuzzy Toaster says,

01:23:35.300 At this point, we should confiscate MPs' possessions,

01:23:37.520 so they more accurately portray the people they're supposed to represent.

01:23:40.600 Yeah, unfortunately, they're the ones who make those decisions.

01:23:42.740 Riss says,

01:23:43.460 I can't believe it,

01:23:44.220 but for once, I'm glad to be in Scotland.

01:23:46.060 It takes a lot to be worse than the SNP,

01:23:49.940 but Reeves is certainly giving it her best go. 0.64

01:23:52.100 I just can't believe she managed to do, like,

01:23:53.400 four budgets worth of damage to the economy.

01:23:55.940 One budget.

01:23:56.440 It's just mad.

01:23:58.540 It's amazing.

01:23:59.360 Baron von Warhawk says,

01:24:00.220 Rachel Reeves' doomsday budget reminds me of Frank Dicotta's quote

01:24:02.960 about how people survived under the rule of Mao Zedong.

01:24:05.380 The quote goes,

01:24:06.200 They lied, they cheated, they pretended, they hid,

01:24:08.020 they feigned obedience while protecting their own.

01:24:10.000 So, survival depended on outwetting the state.

01:24:12.860 Oh, God, I've just seen...

01:24:14.220 That's what's happening with the mutability set.

01:24:15.680 I've just seen something bloody awful.

01:24:17.300 A comment from Lord Inquisitor Hector X.

01:24:19.140 Did you see there was a woman who intentionally blinded her child 0.65

01:24:22.180 so she could get more benefits? 0.93

01:24:24.040 Oh.

01:24:24.420 Her first child was already blind,

01:24:26.360 and they believe she caused that too.

01:24:28.580 Well, I was going to say, yeah, he's already blind, was he?

01:24:30.480 Yeah.

01:24:30.860 Oh, God.

01:24:32.920 That is dark, isn't it?

01:24:34.520 Yeah.

01:24:35.860 The Illegal Truth says,

01:24:36.880 One of my local rags did a sob story about a single mum with four kids

01:24:39.520 who couldn't leave a universal credit of $3,900 a month. 1.00

01:24:42.860 Oh, fuck off. 1.00

01:24:44.020 Just... 1.00

01:24:44.940 I just...

01:24:45.740 When we win,

01:24:49.020 there's not going to be much mercy for this sort of stuff.

01:24:52.020 Like, oh, I need my money from the government.

01:24:54.100 That's too bad.

01:24:55.320 That's too damn bad.

01:24:56.320 What will I do? 1.00

01:24:56.860 Not my fucking problem. 1.00

01:24:58.200 I'll tell you that. 1.00

01:24:58.800 Brian says,

01:25:02.840 The London School of Economics was set up by the Fabian Society,

01:25:05.080 and it shows.

01:25:05.440 Yeah, I know.

01:25:07.760 Derek says,

01:25:08.420 Two words to describe Rachel from Account's budget?

01:25:10.500 Girl maths. 0.97

01:25:11.520 Whoa, whoa, right.

01:25:12.780 Derek, that's the misogyny that we've heard so much about.

01:25:15.960 Probably not inaccurate, though.

01:25:17.820 No.

01:25:18.460 No, I didn't...

01:25:19.100 Well, they never say...

01:25:20.300 Look, they'll call you all sorts of names,

01:25:21.600 but they never call you a liar, do they?

01:25:23.460 You know?

01:25:23.700 So, Ewan says,

01:25:26.740 If you phone up Pip,

01:25:27.760 the first thing you are asked by the robot is,

01:25:29.780 If you speak English, press one. 1.00

01:25:31.080 After that, it's all in foreign languages.

01:25:32.400 Of course it is.

01:25:33.200 Of course it is.

01:25:35.260 Oh, my God, man.

01:25:36.580 And again, like,

01:25:37.300 there are actual disabled people who actually need this,

01:25:39.480 and this is running for everyone.

01:25:41.780 Taffy says,

01:25:42.520 Self-employed man here,

01:25:43.600 listening to the vampire budget breakdown

01:25:45.040 while painting us a customer's kitchen.

01:25:47.360 Annoyed is a very mild way to describe me right now.

01:25:49.540 Yeah, I know.

01:25:49.880 I've just been in a bad day.

01:25:50.960 A bad mood all day, frankly.

01:25:52.600 Yep.

01:25:52.840 It's a grim mood.

01:25:55.700 Hector says,

01:25:56.600 Carl, both guardsmen are alive

01:25:58.060 with their families in hospital.

01:25:59.640 It's just been reported.

01:26:00.760 This is the thing.

01:26:01.240 It's all over the place.

01:26:02.100 I don't know why I'm getting so many reports.

01:26:03.600 That's why I was just like, you know.

01:26:07.520 Omar says,

01:26:08.400 I wonder how quickly selective pressures

01:26:10.220 will turn every guardsman racist.

01:26:12.660 Nobody wants to die,

01:26:13.580 and if racial profiling keeps you alive,

01:26:14.980 no amount of woke scolding

01:26:16.080 will turn off the colour vision.

01:26:17.620 Yeah, that's a really great question, isn't it?

01:26:19.740 Really great question.

01:26:20.560 Great question.

01:26:22.360 Warlord Wutu Tai says,

01:26:23.580 my mother-in-law has a gun variety Dacia

01:26:25.520 on motability because her knee doesn't function. 0.99

01:26:28.400 Right.

01:26:28.700 That, fine.

01:26:29.820 You know, if that was like,

01:26:31.020 look, we're going to spend like two billion a year

01:26:32.440 or something to make sure that, you know,

01:26:34.080 old ladies who can't walk, 1.00

01:26:37.060 or can't walk properly,

01:26:38.380 have like a very small, normal car,

01:26:40.780 I would do like it,

01:26:42.200 well, it's not that big a deal.

01:26:43.640 Dacia's aren't exactly luxury, are they?

01:26:45.020 Exactly.

01:26:45.480 They're not luxury cars.

01:26:46.560 Can't exactly get on my high horse about it.

01:26:48.820 When you've got Ahmed the prick 1.00

01:26:50.600 with his 20 grand fucking private license plate 1.00

01:26:53.120 swanning around in his suit 1.00

01:26:54.940 with his bloody brand new BMW. 0.82

01:26:57.180 And the point is, 0.99

01:26:58.220 if we cut down on all of that crap 0.99

01:27:00.420 and all the immigration benefits, 0.99

01:27:02.120 we could afford to be significantly more generous

01:27:05.020 to the actually disabled,

01:27:07.160 whilst at the same time saving hundreds of billions.

01:27:10.080 Yeah.

01:27:11.260 Easily.

01:27:12.260 Literally that simple.

01:27:14.060 Roman observer says,

01:27:14.840 Carl, are you still complaining about the Italian drivers?

01:27:17.360 Well, I mean, they are still really bad,

01:27:19.180 but at least they pay for their own cars.

01:27:21.740 You know, like Jesus Christ, man.

01:27:25.540 I am just honestly so angry.

01:27:28.440 Like, I know that like, it might not seem it,

01:27:30.660 but I'm just genuinely furious

01:27:32.620 about everything in the way that this country has governed.

01:27:36.180 It's like antithetical to an actual just way, isn't it?

01:27:39.600 It's like everything that is moral, let's invert it.

01:27:42.740 Profound injustices over and over and over.

01:27:45.700 And we are just treated like slaves.

01:27:48.820 You don't have a right not to have the government

01:27:51.940 steal everything you've got

01:27:53.460 and give it to some foreigner. 0.98

01:27:56.440 Honestly, I'm so angry.

01:27:58.880 I can see why a quarter of a million people a year

01:28:00.440 are just like, I'm out of here.

01:28:02.100 Why would I stay here?

01:28:03.980 Well, I mean, actually, there is a reason

01:28:05.080 as to why you should work

01:28:05.960 as opposed to just, you know,

01:28:07.480 make up a disability and go on it. 1.00

01:28:09.100 It's because this shit cannot last. 1.00

01:28:11.460 It's mathematically impossible 1.00

01:28:13.140 for this shit to go on much longer. 0.99

01:28:15.360 And so where are you going to be in a few years' time? 0.99

01:28:18.540 Are you going to be the person with a CV

01:28:19.880 or the person without a CV

01:28:21.520 when this country is bankrupt?

01:28:23.240 I assume the answer is,

01:28:24.140 I'll be the person on the barricades.

01:28:26.440 The insurrection begins.

01:28:28.220 I'll be leading the sort of Kaczynski-esque 0.97

01:28:31.040 anti-technology cult living in the woods,

01:28:33.960 I imagine, at that point.

01:28:34.900 Flying the banner of your battalion

01:28:35.900 as we sort this all out.

01:28:37.280 I mean, if you're not furious about this,

01:28:39.800 this whole thing is just,

01:28:41.500 you know, you're not paying attention.

01:28:43.640 Fuzzy Toaster says,

01:28:44.520 as tempting as it is,

01:28:46.000 I don't think my conscience

01:28:47.000 would let me scam the system.

01:28:48.880 Well, that's the thing.

01:28:50.100 Feel the same, yeah.

01:28:51.180 A lot of people just don't care, though.

01:28:53.040 The Illegal Truth says,

01:28:55.820 there are £70,000 electric cars

01:28:57.380 still on there,

01:28:58.420 even though the luxury brands

01:28:59.360 have been taken off.

01:29:00.360 Of course there are.

01:29:02.040 Do any vehicles wear burkas

01:29:03.400 in the cars universe?

01:29:04.360 Good question.

01:29:05.920 Without motability,

01:29:06.820 the electric vehicle quotas

01:29:08.720 would never be hit.

01:29:09.800 This is one of the biggest reasons

01:29:10.800 why the Gov is so happy

01:29:11.940 to hand out loads of PIP and DLA,

01:29:13.880 because if they don't,

01:29:14.720 the illusion that people actually want

01:29:15.780 electric vehicles

01:29:16.460 fails as there's no real market for them.

01:29:18.500 I think there is a real market

01:29:19.600 for the electric vehicles.

01:29:20.580 They do have some advantages.

01:29:21.460 Oh, they are.

01:29:21.820 They're really good.

01:29:22.380 I like them.

01:29:22.740 Yeah, but, like, it's, you know,

01:29:24.880 it's not nearly what the government wants

01:29:27.260 in order to save the planet.

01:29:28.900 Can I just go back to

01:29:29.520 Fuzzy Toaster's comment?

01:29:30.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:29:30.660 As tempting as it is,

01:29:31.460 I don't think my conscience

01:29:32.340 would let me scam the system.

01:29:33.840 If you think what a disability

01:29:35.040 originally was,

01:29:36.120 I mean, even the way that the word

01:29:37.500 is put together in the first place,

01:29:39.360 it was something that limited you.

01:29:41.480 Yeah.

01:29:42.280 Well, in modern Labour's Britain,

01:29:44.600 having a conscience

01:29:45.680 is the only genuine disability.

01:29:47.840 because it stops you

01:29:51.980 from earning free money.

01:29:54.280 I mean, it is just such an awful system.

01:29:58.460 Yeah.

01:29:59.160 Genuinely,

01:29:59.860 I'm trying not to FedPost.

01:30:04.680 I really am.

01:30:07.960 The depreciation on luxury cars

01:30:09.500 is higher,

01:30:10.240 the depreciation on cars

01:30:11.140 is higher on luxury cars

01:30:12.160 than on basic cards.

01:30:13.420 So by giving out luxury cars

01:30:14.480 for mobility,

01:30:15.120 it means the government

01:30:15.580 is losing a fortune

01:30:16.560 on the resale value

01:30:17.500 after the three-year contract as well.

01:30:19.160 That's a great point.

01:30:19.700 It's ridiculous that they then say

01:30:23.380 you need a new one

01:30:24.120 after three years

01:30:24.760 because in reality,

01:30:26.340 who's doing that

01:30:27.020 in the actual true private sector?

01:30:29.120 Who actually has a job and works

01:30:31.120 is getting a new car

01:30:32.480 every three years.

01:30:33.580 Hardly anyone.

01:30:35.120 It's unbelievable.

01:30:37.020 I think that at some point

01:30:38.460 in 50 years' time,

01:30:39.540 after the collapse has come,

01:30:41.200 the base revolution has happened.

01:30:43.180 We clear out everything,

01:30:46.420 just however that has to be done.

01:30:48.000 And people are not going to believe

01:30:49.780 what we are saying.

01:30:51.860 They're not going to believe

01:30:52.860 that this was the case.

01:30:54.240 If you try telling people

01:30:55.160 about some of the stuff

01:30:55.940 that went on in Wemmer, Germany,

01:30:57.020 they just simply don't believe you.

01:30:58.180 It would be like that

01:30:58.760 in 50 years, don't you?

01:30:59.600 People talk about this

01:31:00.640 and they'd just be like,

01:31:01.220 no.

01:31:01.900 Historians will be like, 1.00

01:31:02.700 well, I mean,

01:31:03.020 we don't have the data,

01:31:04.460 but that seems unlikely

01:31:05.840 because of these reasons.

01:31:07.020 That seems mathematically impossible

01:31:08.640 that you could run an economy

01:31:09.540 like that for 30 years.

01:31:10.680 Yeah, exactly.

01:31:11.420 Yeah, exactly.

01:31:12.040 They'll say stuff like that.

01:31:12.900 It's like, you know,

01:31:13.840 Xerxes didn't bring 1.00

01:31:14.660 two million people.

01:31:15.520 That's mathematically impossible.

01:31:16.360 Okay, well, I wasn't there.

01:31:17.800 You know, trust me,

01:31:19.000 I was here.

01:31:20.620 And Sneeda Chuck, 1.00

01:31:21.840 I think the good point

01:31:23.180 that we're going to end on

01:31:23.860 is the new budget is so bad

01:31:25.420 that Dan can't even afford a tie.

01:31:27.400 Yeah, it's getting really bad

01:31:28.880 in this country.

01:31:29.640 Yeah, it couldn't be worse, frankly.

01:31:32.000 Anyway, thanks for joining us, folks.

01:31:33.840 We will be back tomorrow.

01:31:35.380 And remember,

01:31:36.100 tomorrow at three o'clock,

01:31:37.820 you'll do Zoom calls,

01:31:38.620 so come and sign up to the website

01:31:39.660 and you can have a chat with me.

01:31:41.400 I'll be there.

01:31:41.820 Okay.

01:31:43.080 We'll be there.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1305

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