The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1366

00:00:00.000 Hello, and welcome to the podcast of The Lotus Eaters, episode 1366 for, what day is it, Tuesday, the 3rd of March, 2026.

00:00:10.080 It's Tuesday, mate.

00:00:11.400 Yeah, there we go.

00:00:12.180 Sorry.

00:00:12.600 Right.

00:00:12.960 It's for the Americans.

00:00:13.840 We've passed the first part of the podcast. We've got the day right. Excellent.

00:00:17.940 Well, I'm joined today by Josh and Stelios.

00:00:21.200 Hello, everyone.

00:00:21.840 Hi.

00:00:22.100 And today we're going to be talking all about what the British position on Iran and the conflict that's now in the region should be.

00:00:31.280 We're then going to be talking about Scotland's migrant problem.

00:00:35.000 And then we're going to be talking about the EU's insane plan to tackle terrorism, which I know nothing about.

00:00:43.120 But based on...

00:00:44.040 I don't think anyone knows anything about it, and that's the plan.

00:00:46.880 Previous EU plans, yeah.

00:00:48.060 There's a bit of a thread running through all these segments so far, isn't there?

00:00:51.220 Deliberately muddy the waters.

00:00:53.140 Yeah, but the world's in a messy, messy place.

00:00:55.920 And I suppose we ought to start there then, hadn't we, ladies and gentlemen?

00:00:59.080 So obviously, over the weekend, all of these months and even years of escalations between America, Israel and Iran have come to a head.

00:01:09.580 And we've seen an exchange of missiles and explosions and casualties from both sides.

00:01:15.820 Of course, the Ayatollah of Iran is now dead.

00:01:19.500 And I know that Firas did a RealPolitik segment yesterday talking all about the actual geopolitical situation between all of the nations engaged in it.

00:01:30.560 But what I want to go through today is what should Britain's position be?

00:01:36.700 What should our role be?

00:01:37.640 How engaged in this conflict should we get?

00:01:40.700 And I think that in order to come to a definitive point on this question, we have to begin by looking at where do things seem to stand right now?

00:01:52.600 What is the objectives of the American administration in the Israeli position?

00:01:57.180 What is the position of Iran and how long do we expect this conflict to go on for?

00:02:02.360 So shall we begin by looking at Trump making this recent statement on how long, sorry, the mouse is out there, how long this conflict is expected to go on for?

00:02:14.960 A threat indeed it is.

00:02:16.460 We have the strongest and most powerful by far military in the world, and we will easily prevail.

00:02:25.200 We're already substantially ahead of our time projections, but whatever the time is, it's okay.

00:02:33.960 Whatever it takes, we will always.

00:02:35.580 And we have, right from the beginning, we projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that.

00:02:46.700 We'll do it.

00:02:47.180 Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, the president wants to do it really quickly.

00:02:52.660 After that, he'll get bored.

00:02:53.740 I don't get bored.

00:02:55.600 There's nothing boring about this.

00:02:57.240 Do you agree with me?

00:02:58.340 So we get the point.

00:02:59.620 There is every chance that this conflict could go on to last for a very, very long time.

00:03:04.720 And this comes from a man as well who said that he would manage to round up the conflict in Ukraine and Russia within the first day of becoming president.

00:03:13.980 And it doesn't really seem like America is done with that war yet either.

00:03:17.900 And so all of a sudden there seems to be a lot of plates spinning.

00:03:23.160 I want to say one thing because we are talking about Donald Trump and he is the president at the moment.

00:03:30.680 And he is fighting right now.

00:03:34.860 It's not just the Zelensky-Putin dynamic.

00:03:39.400 It's the dynamic in which he's much more principally involved.

00:03:44.900 And right now he isn't talking to the voters.

00:03:49.340 Right now he's talking to the Iranians.

00:03:52.160 And what he says, and I think that this is from a U.S. perspective, it's a good statement.

00:03:58.460 Because when you fight a war, you don't tell the other side, well, I'm going to do this.

00:04:03.240 But if some people start protesting, I'm going to stop.

00:04:07.660 No, you say I'm going to win.

00:04:10.060 There's no point in getting into a war and not being.

00:04:12.180 You express resolution.

00:04:13.460 Yeah.

00:04:13.640 So it makes sense.

00:04:14.800 And we need to draw a distinction between veridical statements and statements of resolution.

00:04:22.220 Here he's on the negotiating side.

00:04:24.660 This is the let's make a deal, Trump.

00:04:27.740 It's not the Trump who is making a value-free analysis on the matter.

00:04:32.980 I think the thing that most people are concerned in terms of U.S. intervention is more what the state Iran is going to be after the fact.

00:04:41.700 And the inevitable instability you get when you bomb Middle Eastern country is that lots of Islamists just spawn out of the sand and start causing problems around the rest of the world. 1.00

00:04:54.960 Yeah, and I agree with you.

00:04:57.020 And to add very quickly, I think that this is something that is interesting is that you hear both sides, several sides.

00:05:04.120 One side says that Iran isn't like Iraq.

00:05:07.140 It's much more homogenous.

00:05:10.440 And there is a sense of allegiance to an Iranian identity.

00:05:15.360 The other bit is very pessimistic.

00:05:18.720 And they say that, for instance, it's not exactly clear what the objective is.

00:05:23.780 It's definitely it's to hurt China. 0.98

00:05:26.920 I think Trump has been clear about this from the very beginning.

00:05:30.420 But if we look at the geography of Iran, it's very rocky and mountainous.

00:05:35.720 It's like Greece in some respects.

00:05:38.380 And if you can understand, if the regime gets toppled, there's always the possibility of multiple groups hiding in the mountains and waging guerrilla warfare afterwards.

00:05:51.660 So I think that's one of the key worries about this.

00:05:55.340 I think you're on the money with the notion that it's to be against China.

00:05:59.300 But I think it's part of a broader effort to expand the U.S.'s sphere of influence and to deny Russia and China the sort of other parallel sphere of influence.

00:06:10.040 And the multipolarity thing.

00:06:11.920 But based on many decades of conflict now in the Middle East, we do have a precedent for, as we're saying here, massive destabilization of the region, refugee crises and, you know, many, many people flooding into Europe, which is not something that America has to consider being, you know, wedged between two vast oceans.

00:06:33.120 But also we have to guard the borders.

00:06:35.140 We do have to guard the borders.

00:06:36.620 But as well, we seem to be governed by people who give no heed to such sensible notions.

00:06:42.620 And so there is the concern as well, the pragmatic concern as to whether or not the EU would actually defend the borders of Europe should all of these refugees come in. 1.00

00:06:55.040 Or are we going to have another Angela Merkel situation? 0.85

00:06:58.100 And so I was quite surprised in many ways to see how torn many of Britain's political parties turned out to be when it came to what should be done on the question of Iran.

00:07:11.200 Let's just listen to Faraj speaking here.

00:07:15.000 Look, a British sovereign base is under attack.

00:07:18.200 Are people nervous about getting involved in foreign wars given the extent of 20 years in Afghanistan and then giving it all back to the Taliban? 0.96

00:07:25.780 Of course they are.

00:07:26.920 And I understand that.

00:07:28.020 But as I say, this is very different to the Iraq decision.

00:07:31.840 Very, very different.

00:07:33.260 Because, yes, they do pose a threat to the whole of the Middle East, to the world and indeed to us as well. 1.00

00:07:39.500 And it's a cause that I personally felt very strongly, you know, for many, many, many, many years.

00:07:46.240 The world would be a better place without these ghastly people.

00:07:49.160 I mean, I only wish that Faraj felt quite as strongly about demographical replacement in Britain.

00:07:56.260 But seeing as that seems to be off the table to him, and there is, of course, something to be said, and we'll get into it later, about the airbase in Cyprus and all of that.

00:08:04.720 But for now, the point is that Keir Starmer, who is actually the Prime Minister and not Nigel Farage, has really been dragging his feet on this issue.

00:08:13.120 Of course, it took a long time for him to grant access to the Americans to use the airbases.

00:08:18.820 And this has certainly frayed the diplomacy between the United Kingdom and between the United States as well.

00:08:27.160 And as we see here, as Starmer said, it was my duty to judge what is in Britain's national interest, and that is what I have done, and I stand by it.

00:08:35.200 And so Britain, for the time being, is not going to involve itself more heavily in the conflict.

00:08:41.040 And I just want to make it absolutely clear that is also my position on the matter.

00:08:46.040 I don't want to see Britain getting dragged further into the Middle East. 0.98

00:08:51.100 Because ultimately, as well, though Trump can, you know, get very, very angry about the fact, and it goes on to say in this conversation that he had with Harry Cole,

00:09:01.560 Donald Trump has suggested that Keir Starmer is pandering to Muslim voters by refusing to back his war against Iran,

00:09:08.300 warning that Britain is no longer such a recognisable country anymore.

00:09:12.060 In the withering assessment of Sir Keir's recent performance, the president also said Britain is,

00:09:16.600 it's repeated that twice, sorry, and one that to stop people from coming in from foreign lands who hate you.

00:09:23.660 And he declared that he never thought he would see the once most solid of all special relationship in such peril amid the biggest rupture in UK-US relations in decades.

00:09:36.560 And the, sorry, are you going to say something, Josh?

00:09:39.120 No, no, you go ahead.

00:09:39.900 I was just going to point out as well that it feels in many ways like we've just kind of looked our way into Starmer making a very pragmatic foreign policy decision

00:09:52.680 and actually coming to the right decision for the wrong reasons.

00:09:56.980 Because I do think that there is undoubtedly, and obviously we're not privy to, you know, British intelligence and what exactly inform their decisions in all of this.

00:10:06.780 But I would be very surprised if the high Muslim presence in the United Kingdom and particularly in the last constituencies that are actually voting Labour

00:10:18.140 haven't had something to do with this moral equation.

00:10:23.220 Well, I mean, it also doesn't make sense because the Muslim population of the country isn't that high. 1.00

00:10:29.460 I mean, you look at somewhere like Russia that has a higher percentage of its population than a Muslim and also a larger population.

00:10:35.640 So more Muslims generally, and they were able to wage campaigns in Syria and the like, and it was no problem for them.

00:10:45.000 One thing that is interesting is that there is a very different approach towards Russia and towards Iran right now.

00:10:54.060 And several people think that this has to do with more and wider infiltration of Muslims in the UK.

00:11:04.620 Because if you listen to Keir Starmer and other European leaders, when it comes to Russia, that's when they become war hawks.

00:11:11.040 But when you listen to them about, let's say, regimes like the IRGC, they aren't that war hawkish.

00:11:21.340 But I think it's more coming from enthusiasm for being close to Europe from the sort of British left, isn't it?

00:11:30.440 In that continental Europe is very concerned about Russia, particularly Eastern Europe.

00:11:35.480 And they take it very seriously because they think, oh, well, we could be next.

00:11:39.380 And so I think it makes more sense to interpret it through that lens than, you know, we're secretly being run by Islamists.

00:11:47.940 Even though there is a bit of a problem with them in the home office, but it's not to the extent yet.

00:11:53.360 You also don't see that many Islamists in Eastern Europe.

00:12:00.320 No, of course not.

00:12:01.100 That's another issue there.

00:12:03.520 You can also see in Spain and, you know, the Mediterranean and stuff.

00:12:07.400 But one thing to say here is I haven't understood yet what form this backing the war means.

00:12:15.980 Does it mean, well, don't go to the UN and say that I'm a war criminal?

00:12:20.880 Or does it mean get British troops on the ground?

00:12:23.900 I haven't heard the latter.

00:12:26.680 So when Trump says Starmer refuses to back the war against Iran, what sort of thing does he have in mind?

00:12:35.320 Using bases and things for bombing because I don't think the vocalized intention yet has been to get boots on the ground because you get bombed down.

00:12:44.400 Well, I think there's a possibility of it.

00:12:48.520 But the point is that there is a lot to consider with this.

00:12:51.220 This is clearly a war that is going to go on for quite a while.

00:12:55.520 It's going to probably, as it already is doing in, you know, less than a week of it, redefining long-term political alliances.

00:13:04.780 And has the potential to obviously have far-flung ramifications in ways that we just can't anticipate.

00:13:12.000 So we have here Marco Rubio giving some sort of an explanation as to why this all happened so suddenly in the blink of a weekend.

00:13:20.480 The second question that's been asked is, why now?

00:13:24.200 Well, there's two reasons why now.

00:13:25.840 The first is it was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone, the United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond and respond against the United States. 0.56

00:13:35.220 The orders had been delegated down to the field commanders.

00:13:38.060 It was automatic and, in fact, it bared to be true because, in fact, within an hour of the initial attack on the leadership compound, the missile forces in the south and in the north, for that matter, had already been activated to launch.

00:13:52.600 In fact, those had already been pre-positioned.

00:13:55.300 The third is the assessment that was made that if we stood and waited for that attack to come first before we hit them, we would suffer much higher casualties.

00:14:04.680 And so the president made the very wise decision.

00:14:06.760 We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. 0.57

00:14:09.760 We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.

00:14:13.060 And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed.

00:14:21.260 And then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that indeed.

00:14:26.340 Terrible place to hold a press conference that hallway.

00:14:28.980 It has the dramatic lighting that I see.

00:14:31.340 But one thing I want to note is because some people play this video and there is also a previous response to another question where he was saying, and it's important for context, that within a year and a half, the Iranian regime would have access to more missiles and longer range.

00:14:51.200 So they're nuclear weapons, yeah.

00:14:53.720 And we've heard that one before, haven't we?

00:14:56.260 We have.

00:14:56.860 And obviously there were raids in Iran not too long ago either.

00:15:00.540 And we were told that a lot of Iran's capacity to fight back against Israel and America had been, you know, mitigated then.

00:15:08.500 And actually that most of the threat had been neutralized.

00:15:11.560 And so based from previous statements we've had from Americans, you know, the American administration in previous months, this does all of a sudden seem like a contradiction in the narratives.

00:15:21.160 I will say we've gone from Iran being a neutralized state that isn't going to present any threat to suddenly once again in a mere matter of months, they posed a threat to the entire Middle East and American interests. 0.99

00:15:34.360 I think one way of interpreting that is that their initial bombing might have hit their targets, but it didn't do enough damage or it was easy enough to rebuild that they were able to have capability again.

00:15:44.660 That would be one way in which those statements could be consistent.

00:15:47.740 But at the same time, I think that they had their minds set and any excuse.

00:15:52.680 So that was eight months ago.

00:15:54.140 And in eight months, you can take steps to develop nukes.

00:15:59.220 Sure.

00:15:59.560 Especially if you have already done so before.

00:16:01.940 I'm a bit of a slacker.

00:16:03.080 It takes me a bit longer.

00:16:05.060 Just you alone in your workshop.

00:16:07.740 I've not even got started.

00:16:08.860 I'm terrible.

00:16:09.440 No.

00:16:09.980 But the other point as well that I just want to add is the fact that if we go down this route of being involved first in Iran, it will not stop there.

00:16:19.800 We've obviously already seen Israeli forces going into Lebanon.

00:16:23.280 Other countries all across the Gulf states are going to get embroiled in it as well.

00:16:27.480 And though I've just taken this tweet here where it talks about the fact that Israeli officials say that after Iran, Turkey is going to be the next major threat to its existence.

00:16:39.140 How do you feel about that, Stelios?

00:16:42.080 Depends.

00:16:42.480 As I've said, when it comes to Turkey, I may need a hair transplant in the future.

00:16:48.560 Well, I was going to say anything short of reclaiming Constantinople for the Greeks. 0.97

00:16:55.340 I don't really see it.

00:16:56.540 But this is really the point.

00:16:58.120 Do we see, sure, we're in the year 2026 now.

00:17:01.700 But when we get to the year 2036, could we see ourselves at war with Turkey as well to fulfill Israel's geopolitical interests in the region to shore up its own?

00:17:12.960 And sure, I appreciate the fact that they have their own sense of self-preservation.

00:17:17.760 But my point is that so should we in all of this as well.

00:17:21.280 So should we.

00:17:22.540 And it's not necessarily the case that what is always good for Israel is always good for us.

00:17:27.980 And in fact, as bizarrely, Kiyos Dahmer himself has shown as well in this recent turn of events, what is good for America is not necessarily also good for us as well.

00:17:41.000 Right.

00:17:41.600 So I want to say about this here, I think that this is much more targeted to, in general, the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:17:47.520 And this rivalry now, the rising rivalry between Israel and Turkey has to do with the extent to which Erdogan and the current Turkish regime wants to develop nuclear weapons, but also wants to position themselves as the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:18:11.800 Yes.

00:18:12.400 And if Iran falls and that will fill that, Turkey will fill that vacuum. 0.87

00:18:16.680 But it is also painting a target on their own backs to a certain extent, because not even the Islamic world is necessarily a fan of the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:18:25.880 Yeah.

00:18:26.160 Yeah.

00:18:27.020 And you did see a few months ago, Trump started declaring certain parts of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorists.

00:18:34.280 Then some people started following.

00:18:37.740 And then so obviously we get to things from the British perspective.

00:18:41.040 Now, the Telegraph are already putting out articles basically invoking World War II nostalgia, saying that Starmer's response to the United States and Israeli strikes on Iran was more Chamberlain than Churchill.

00:18:53.380 And it goes on to point out in this article, you know, this writer here, Jake Wallace Simons, goes on to say, well, Kemi Badenoch was very clear, saying,

00:19:02.120 I stand with our allies in the U.S. and Israel as they take on the threat of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 0.98

00:19:07.720 Nigel Farage has demanded damn the evil regime and called on the prime minister to back the Americans in this vital fight.

00:19:14.200 But what did Keir Starmer have to say about this?

00:19:17.520 After several hours, we found out, and it says that the prime minister's statement highlighted that Britain had played no role in these strikes, and he talked about de-escalation.

00:19:28.220 And true, he condemned the Iranian regime as utterly abhorrent, but he's used far stronger language before about Elon Musk's grok or the Southport riots.

00:19:39.120 And yeah, go on, Stelius.

00:19:41.060 No, no, I appreciate this.

00:19:43.220 And I think, again, this comes back to what we said before about what does Trump want from Starmer and what does it mean to back his work?

00:19:52.700 What form does this take?

00:19:53.800 But this is just declarations.

00:19:57.020 And although I'm not saying I agree or disagree with Starmer here, I'm very much critical of him.

00:20:03.760 But it's a bit different for a PM to say this than for a leader of an opposition party to say it.

00:20:11.160 Sure.

00:20:11.420 When you're a leader of the opposition party, you can be a bit more liberal with your rhetoric.

00:20:16.780 But which I understand in this case from Starmer may have an extra reason to be concerned about this because he is the PM.

00:20:28.340 Another thing that he could be concerned about, which I think is a valid concern, is that when we see escalation in the Middle East, there do follow, sadly, there do follow terrorist attacks around the world.

00:20:47.440 And frequently it's Muslims and Jews. 0.82

00:20:50.180 I'll give you two examples.

00:20:51.640 In Manchester, there was someone who went and killed people in synagogue.

00:20:55.620 Was that in October?

00:20:57.580 Or something like that.

00:20:58.780 Yeah.

00:20:59.160 Then in Australia, there was the Bondi Beach massacre during Hanukkah in December.

00:21:03.780 So Starmer could have this in mind.

00:21:07.120 And he may be saying, I want to take some distance in order to prevent a terrorist incident happening in the UK.

00:21:16.500 This is a charitable interpretation for why he may be doing it.

00:21:20.660 And truly, we don't actually know Starmer's motives in all of this.

00:21:24.400 But towards the end of the article, he points out, compare all this with the cousins of our culture.

00:21:28.440 In Israel, 20,000 reservists were called up while missiles rained down on Jerusalem.

00:21:33.540 In the bomb shelters, crowds were filmed dancing and singing out for the love of their people and the dream of a free Persia.

00:21:40.440 On the streets of Tehran, meanwhile, amid the carnage and trepidation, people cheered on American and Israeli jets and danced defiantly in the streets.

00:21:49.380 They know the price of liberty and are prepared to pay for it.

00:21:52.340 What courage.

00:21:53.120 Imagine if Britain had not lost its way.

00:21:55.800 So there are a lot of things I want to say about this.

00:21:59.140 The first of which is that this entire article is very much centred in its language around defending Jews, defending Israel, and all of these sorts of things.

00:22:10.400 Very little concern or consideration seems to be put into it as to actually protecting British members of the public.

00:22:18.640 Right.

00:22:18.840 There is no real consideration here.

00:22:21.160 The framing of it coaxes this like it's one grand crusade and it all is against them.

00:22:30.620 And even in the way that he argues it here, I'm not suggesting that there aren't obviously good Iranians who don't want to be free from the regime.

00:22:38.540 But there's no admission of the fact that actually there is the regime does still have some power in Iran.

00:22:46.300 And then they will fight tooth and nail.

00:22:48.500 And as I say, this is going to be a very, very long war.

00:22:52.220 And if this is going to be a very, very long war, the British military is in a really, really sorry state.

00:22:59.940 We can see here, as Callum puts up, the current state of the Royal Navy, which currently consists of two aircraft carriers, six destroyers, and about seven frigates, as well as 10 submarines, which you can't see on that graph because they're underwater.

00:23:13.200 I knew you were going to say that, but I'm happy you did.

00:23:16.820 Oh, there you go.

00:23:18.740 But also, of course, there are areas where perhaps we should intervene as well.

00:23:23.580 And that, of course, is in the recent attacks on Cyprus.

00:23:27.160 Now, obviously, the base, RAF Akratore in Cyprus was subjected to a missile barrage this past weekend.

00:23:37.720 That was a British. 0.51

00:23:39.080 Yeah, this was a British.

00:23:40.040 An RAF base.

00:23:41.000 British RAF base in Cyprus, which is, of course, deeply humiliating.

00:23:45.580 And fortunately, it seems that no personnel were actually killed.

00:23:49.160 Wasn't it just two drones?

00:23:51.540 So it's like a very token thing of just, send two drones.

00:23:55.880 Yeah, but it also speaks to the actual British, well, establishment being asleep at the wheel.

00:24:03.840 There's some complacency in there.

00:24:06.020 And the fact that now we have the French sending air defence systems to the island to protect it.

00:24:11.700 It's also Greeks.

00:24:12.860 And also HMS Duncan is being sent to Cyprus now, or should be.

00:24:18.400 And of course, as you say, Stelios, the Greeks are also deploying multiple warships to protect Cyprus as well.

00:24:23.760 I want to say one thing very, it's a bit funny, but I say yesterday that, you know, Greece should stand by Cyprus, which is the least, one of the least controversial statements ever made by a Greek.

00:24:34.840 And I still have people accusing me of getting 7K to write this. 0.87

00:24:40.020 So that's mental illness. 0.51

00:24:41.440 For sending the Greek Navy to Cyprus. 0.99

00:24:42.980 Yeah, that's just mental retardation, Stelios. 1.00

00:24:45.800 I mean, is it a Greek island anyway, Stelios?

00:24:48.520 Imagine I got 7K to say the least controversial thing I could say.

00:24:54.900 It's like saying, yeah, I hate Turks, I've been paid off. 1.00

00:24:58.880 Yeah, I literally had someone say, Greek shouldn't die to give Turkey to Bibi. 0.99

00:25:05.480 Just, who, do you know what you're talking about?

00:25:10.500 There was a conflict over Cyprus between Greece and Turkey, for those in the audience who don't know.

00:25:16.160 It's just, you know, the way that leftists take the white versus black dynamic in the US, especially in the early 19th century, and they apply this everywhere. 0.59

00:25:27.520 There are people here who do this with, you know, the Jews and the anti-Jews.

00:25:33.240 It's just the only way they view the planet.

00:25:35.500 It's like matter and anti-matter.

00:25:37.320 It's like the only way, the only lens they can view things with.

00:25:43.980 It's a bit annoying.

00:25:45.500 Yeah.

00:25:45.940 So, yes, I am all in favor of intervention insofar as it means defending our own RAF bases on the island of Cyprus.

00:25:54.240 But it is very obvious that even though Keir Starmer is currently prime minister, of course, he is not ahead in the polls.

00:26:01.860 And the Starmer government is very, very frail.

00:26:04.360 And so all of this can change very, very quickly.

00:26:07.080 And with reform at present being the incumbent party that seems to be the one that will have the majority and probably form the next government, we could see a much more full-throated committal to Britain's part in the conflict in the coming years or months, however long Starmer's government lasts.

00:26:28.540 We've no way of knowing.

00:26:29.560 And the problem with all of this is that Richard Tice was, as reformed deputy leader, was straight away saying that, well, our position should, of course, be that we're taking in all of the Iranian refugees and obviously we'll vet these refugees for anti-Semitism as soon as they arrive here.

00:26:50.840 It's like, Richard, there seems to be a real poverty of consideration.

00:26:54.200 Okay, right.

00:26:56.020 I have some, I'm not going to speak in defense of Richard Tice.

00:27:01.580 I'm trying to say another thing.

00:27:04.080 Right.

00:27:04.320 So let's say that you're concerned that the English government doesn't put the English, doesn't care about the English enough.

00:27:14.440 Yeah.

00:27:14.660 Or that the British government doesn't care about Britain enough.

00:27:17.420 One argument would be that perhaps they should take a stronger stance because especially one of the main reasons why, if they're afraid like now to do something about the grooming gangs because they're afraid of retaliation.

00:27:33.180 And there are powerful lobbies and obviously not all people from these groups are the same.

00:27:41.460 I'm not putting all eggs into one basket, but especially when we're talking about regimes that are incredibly destabilizing of that region, but also are funding terrorism.

00:27:51.920 Their pernicious influence could be one of the reasons why, let's say, governments that are a bit cocked, can we say this on YouTube?

00:28:05.860 You just did.

00:28:06.320 Are a bit cocked, are afraid to do things about things like the grooming gangs.

00:28:12.340 So that could be an extra argument that, for instance, some Americans could give because on the one hand, every time Rubio Vance comes here and they talk about to the EU, we're usually clapping in with good reason.

00:28:28.640 But there could also be another side of it is that it's not that lots of European leaders may be afraid.

00:28:38.800 Yeah, they could be afraid of the very pernicious influence of particular groups, let's say, or regimes.

00:28:45.760 I suspect that they are.

00:28:46.480 That's the question is that Trump, Rubio and other people could have the argument that, listen, you say your government,

00:28:55.720 you criticise your governments for not doing enough on that front, but we're actually doing something to topple the regimes that are actually causing the problem to an extent.

00:29:09.400 But if all of these regimes just, again, I'm just very cautious and, well, I'm mostly cautious of time, but I'm also cautious of the fact that we're going to end up in the position of great destabilization.

00:29:21.940 And Farage had to basically come out and say, no, we won't be taking any more refugees from the conflicts and basically just covering over Tice's previous comments.

00:29:31.940 But ultimately, and I agree with Rupert Lowe on this one, Britain has enough problems and we should not be bombing Iran because, I know, I know. 0.99

00:29:40.540 But because really, and this is my key point, in the United Kingdom, in Britain, we probably have about two decades, three decades left at the most generous time given to actually have sovereignty in our own country, right?

00:29:58.860 The demographic situation right now is absolutely on the precipice and we, rather than going around the world fulfilling the political objectives of Israel or America, we have to deal with our own domestic problems now.

00:30:14.020 And that means, as Rupert says here, basically, for the time being, just doing away with foreign regime change around the world.

00:30:22.800 And what's more as well, we've seen time and time again that even when these foreign regimes fall and some Western power comes in to try and remould them in a more Western, liberal, enlightened frame, it doesn't work.

00:30:37.200 Because they're not from the same inheritance and they don't want it.

00:30:41.280 Ultimately, it comes down to the point that we shouldn't be entangled in permanent alliances with any nation on Earth.

00:30:49.220 We should always try to put our own particular interests first.

00:30:53.180 And this war, frankly, I don't believe meets that criteria.

00:30:56.940 It seems that the Israelis have acted very, very hastily in their own defence, banking on the fact that the Americans would naturally be drawn into the conflict to support them.

00:31:07.660 And that really, off the back of that, it was kind of taken as a bit of a given that the rest of the nations of Europe would start dancing to America's tune as well and giving them any backing and just saying, yes, Donald, how high, Donald, in all of these particular ways.

00:31:27.320 And I don't think that that's moral.

00:31:29.720 And it certainly doesn't centre the consideration and safety of our people.

00:31:34.760 It doesn't put that as a priority.

00:31:36.600 And so Rupert Lowe's position here is far more sensible.

00:31:41.280 And though people will try and say, ah, yes, well, but that position of non-intervention and, you know, not getting involved and not allowing, not using the air bases to also strike around, because at the moment our RAF are only being used for defensive purposes and not actually engaging in offensive manoeuvres on Iran.

00:32:01.880 But if we start doing all of these things as well, how long before more commitment is demanded from us and more commitment until you find that we're all so at war in Lebanon and then Turkey and on and on it goes.

00:32:15.160 And frankly, we're not in a state for it and we don't owe it to the rest of the world to do this either, right?

00:32:22.100 We are more, we should be looking after our own interests.

00:32:25.720 That means building back up our defence and ensuring that our nation, our people survive here in our own homeland.

00:32:32.740 That's my position on the subject and, anyway, we are running over on time, so I'll draw it to a close there, but I think that we should stay out of this.

00:32:42.620 All right, I'll just go through some of the rumble rants, and there's a lot of them, so thank you.

00:32:51.780 For $2 says, LukeSaint91 says,

00:32:55.680 G'day, to be honest, we wouldn't have the Islamic problem if we're being a bit more selective about who we let in instead of just being like, oh yeah, come on in. 1.00

00:33:03.680 Yeah, absolutely, and this is not just true for the Middle East, but this is true for every country around the world,

00:33:10.700 that all of a sudden our ability to express a sovereign will as a people, as a British people,

00:33:18.440 has been diluted and obscured by the fact that we now have to give moral consideration to many, many ghettos and diasporas 0.88

00:33:27.480 that have, you know, taken residence here in Britain, and that care absolutely nothing for us,

00:33:33.580 but demand that we care about all of their conflicts around the world.

00:33:37.780 And he also says, I've heard this theory, this is also to hurt Russia with Iran sending supplies to Russia for the war.

00:33:44.560 Also, half of our problems will be solved if the government actually punished everyone equally.

00:33:49.880 Well, it'd be a start.

00:33:51.400 Wesley for $5, thank you, says,

00:33:53.480 Why are the British bases under attack? Are they being used as a staging ground for the United States attacks on Iran?

00:34:00.300 Well, I believe, if I have my chronology right, these were actually attacked before Stammer gave license to America to use our bases, so...

00:34:09.760 I think so, yes.

00:34:10.680 Yeah, so I'm not sure...

00:34:12.180 Because it was Greek bases that were used to help the Americans.

00:34:16.980 Luke also says, I think I remember watching China on...

00:34:20.480 On top of others.

00:34:21.960 Yes, yes.

00:34:22.880 China Uncensored, one of those channels talking about Iran getting a ton of missiles or something from China,

00:34:28.840 or just weapons, it was a while ago, okay?

00:34:32.880 Yuki Watu says,

00:34:35.240 Apparently in the recent talks, the US offered to fund Iran's nuclear power ventures indefinitely

00:34:40.860 if Iran didn't pursue the bomb, but Iran refused.

00:34:45.040 Well, then that was their folly, wasn't it?

00:34:51.200 Okigdor says, Josh, look up the nuclear Boy Scout. 0.51

00:34:54.960 I am just doing that now.

00:34:56.340 Right.

00:34:56.600 Thank you.

00:34:56.960 And for the sake of time, base tape for $5 says,

00:35:01.060 Stammer's, we had nothing to do with its speech, was entirely him just begging the imports not to launch attacks on the British people. 0.61

00:35:08.380 That's all it was, on his knees begging his master.

00:35:11.660 Yet the framing of his speech did certainly point to that being one of his considerations.

00:35:18.460 And by the way, I do know about this guy, David Han, isn't it?

00:35:21.800 I've heard of him before, the nuclear Boy Scout guy.

00:35:24.140 Just one thing to say to this comment, because it shows the tragedy of where we are.

00:35:31.160 And when I say we, I mean, generally speaking, in several senses of identity,

00:35:35.500 because it's what I said before about the charitable interpretation,

00:35:39.880 that Stammer doesn't want any kind of incident to happen in Britain.

00:35:45.640 On the other hand, it is a form of admission of being blackmailed.

00:35:53.400 It absolutely is.

00:35:54.480 But on the other hand, if that is the case, and this is the world that we have inherited,

00:35:58.900 and in a sense the situation he has inherited as a PM,

00:36:02.300 why accelerate all these crazy multiculturalist policies? 0.57

00:36:06.920 Well, this is a contradiction, isn't it?

00:36:09.500 If Stammer was motivated by trying to keep peace on the streets of Britain,

00:36:14.280 then there are quite a few other things he could do as well to ensure that that actually happens.

00:36:20.400 But as we know, Labour consider those to be entirely off the table.

00:36:24.880 Anyway, Josh, tell us about Scotland.

00:36:28.000 So, as many people know, Scotland is still rather ethnically homogenous,

00:36:32.880 but that doesn't necessarily mean that they're not without their problems from migration.

00:36:37.180 And in fact, I want to use this segment not only to highlight the issues of Scotland,

00:36:41.760 which we don't do enough because there are many egregious problems closer to home,

00:36:45.960 but also to highlight the argument that, you know, a community grows to a certain size

00:36:51.140 and then there are problems that eventually manifest if they're not, you know,

00:36:55.820 spread around the community or whatever.

00:36:57.580 All of these arguments that say that there's a way of sneaking multiculturalism in,

00:37:01.360 and it's just very difficult.

00:37:02.380 No, no, no, no, no.

00:37:03.280 Any of these people, anywhere in a country, is enough to cause problems.

00:37:08.620 And this is going to be probably the best demonstration of that 0.83

00:37:12.680 because, as we can see here, most of Scotland is white.

00:37:19.520 In fact, the vast majority, I think it's something like 92 to 96,

00:37:24.200 depending on which numbers, if it's white Scottish or white British.

00:37:27.140 Hans Yusuf did try to escalate things a little bit when he was First Minister.

00:37:30.480 He did indeed.

00:37:31.940 So, as we can see here, the number of asylum seekers in Scotland

00:37:37.580 has recently reached a new high.

00:37:39.720 This was the end of last month, so only a week or so ago.

00:37:44.160 And obviously there are going to be consequences to this.

00:37:47.740 And we're going to be looking at some of those consequences

00:37:49.560 because, of course, this is a preventable problem.

00:37:52.600 I know Scots can be a little bit stabby, 1.00

00:37:55.000 but normally it's their gangs and not necessarily just random people on the street

00:37:59.320 that get caught up with this sort of thing.

00:38:01.780 And the one I want to draw attention to

00:38:04.340 is something that was actually ongoing yesterday.

00:38:07.420 So, here's a picture of a knifeman, as you can see. 0.66

00:38:11.260 He is not a native Scot.

00:38:13.460 You know, Scots might sometimes be swarthy.

00:38:15.740 I mean, I've got my Scottish father's appearance,

00:38:18.300 and I've got some olive skin, but we don't get to that level.

00:38:20.920 And so, it resulted in things like a school lockdown

00:38:25.960 because, apparently, the police and the authorities haven't said anything.

00:38:30.140 But a couple of people on the ground who know the area

00:38:32.880 said that he was going in the direction of a school.

00:38:36.600 Police have also asserted that it was apparently not terror-related.

00:38:41.260 It was a mental health-related thing.

00:38:44.200 It's like clockwork, isn't it?

00:38:45.440 So, if you do stab someone at random in the street,

00:38:49.680 one would presume that's a prerequisite.

00:38:51.860 But also, I want to know how did they internalise what they were doing.

00:38:57.060 I want to know exactly why they're doing it,

00:38:59.340 what part of the world they're from,

00:39:01.220 and also how I can send them home, ideally.

00:39:04.100 But I know we don't live in that world.

00:39:06.740 So, two people have been taken to hospital.

00:39:09.080 So, apparently, as he was heading towards the school,

00:39:14.680 a native Scot gave him a beating with a spirit level,

00:39:18.220 but apparently that wasn't enough to dissuade him,

00:39:20.240 a spirit level, you know, because it was to hand more than anything.

00:39:22.980 Yeah, yeah.

00:39:24.780 And the police were present while a lot of this was going on,

00:39:28.300 while he was wandering the streets,

00:39:29.800 but they were not allowed to get out of their cars

00:39:31.620 because they had to wait for the armed response units to turn up

00:39:35.660 because they're the ones that are supposed to deal with it.

00:39:37.840 And so, you had this bizarre situation where members of the public

00:39:41.340 were trying to dissuade him more than the police

00:39:44.320 because the police weren't allowed to do anything

00:39:46.640 until the people with the guns turned up,

00:39:49.000 which, you know, I know.

00:39:51.620 There's a lesson there, I'm sure.

00:39:53.780 And then, eventually, he barricaded himself in his flat

00:39:57.300 and had a long standoff with police

00:40:00.080 before he was eventually captured and arrested.

00:40:04.040 But one thing I did want to point out

00:40:06.220 is the fact that members of the public intervened.

00:40:10.700 First of all, well done for putting yourself at risk.

00:40:13.380 But it reminds me of this wonderful story

00:40:17.500 of a man who kicked a flaming terrorist 0.97

00:40:20.480 so hard in the balls that he injured his own foot, 0.94

00:40:23.960 which, by the way, to the people of Scotland, 0.98

00:40:26.380 you must be doing something right if you're producing people like this.

00:40:30.140 Sadly, though, the guy who did this,

00:40:33.180 I think he's died of cancer since then.

00:40:35.320 Oh, that's terrible.

00:40:36.340 But, yes, we can see a video of the guy here

00:40:40.660 walking around with knives.

00:40:42.220 I'm going to mute it

00:40:43.260 because you don't hear very much.

00:40:47.780 It's just people shouting, really.

00:40:49.860 But you can see he's just milling around

00:40:52.020 with some knives in his hands.

00:40:54.080 It looks grim there as well.

00:40:55.360 No wonder people don't want to migrate to Scotland.

00:40:58.040 Blimey.

00:40:59.160 And he also trashed a shop for some reason.

00:41:01.840 So I don't know what was going on here.

00:41:05.100 And the most infuriating thing about all of this

00:41:08.840 is that you know from the Scottish government

00:41:12.140 there'll be no reflecting on this.

00:41:14.020 There'll be no tinkering with the asylum policy.

00:41:16.480 There'll be no reflections on

00:41:19.040 how to actually save more Scottish lives in the future.

00:41:22.320 Things will simply carry on as they always have done.

00:41:25.720 It will make them watch adolescents.

00:41:28.040 Yeah, no one can deserve that.

00:41:30.080 But it does seem to be the case

00:41:32.060 that the more Scotland is exposed to this sort of thing

00:41:34.280 the more people are radicalising.

00:41:36.280 Join the club.

00:41:37.260 Yeah, I know.

00:41:38.500 And it's good to see people not walking blindly

00:41:42.020 into the destruction of their own civilisation.

00:41:44.620 And, of course, the Scots don't deserve that.

00:41:46.500 But one thing that did annoy me is here he is

00:41:52.120 after he'd barricaded himself in, I believe, someone else's flat.

00:41:55.580 It's not even his own.

00:41:56.540 Right.

00:41:58.480 After stabbing three people and he's there in the window

00:42:00.760 just sort of smiling at the police down below.

00:42:03.340 It's something that's just so infuriating

00:42:06.980 that you invite these people in,

00:42:08.640 give them a better quality of life

00:42:10.120 than they'll ever possibly get, 0.97

00:42:12.080 and they return the favour by stabbing some people,

00:42:16.200 you know, destroying a shop,

00:42:17.860 and then having armed police,

00:42:20.360 like all of the police in the local area,

00:42:22.400 having to converge on him.

00:42:24.220 This is the what-are-you-gonna-do-do-to-me face.

00:42:26.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:42:27.140 Yeah, it's the look of someone

00:42:30.080 who knows that he absolutely has the power in this situation.

00:42:33.600 It is.

00:42:34.400 And it would be nice to live in a world

00:42:36.940 where he didn't have that power.

00:42:39.180 No.

00:42:39.540 Where he wouldn't be leaving that building

00:42:41.460 except in the form of a body bag.

00:42:43.820 That would be my ideal society.

00:42:46.220 But, alas, we're too soft at the minute

00:42:48.600 because people like to live in their comfortable delusions.

00:42:51.280 So, here is Edinburgh City Council,

00:42:56.640 because it happened around their sort of area,

00:43:00.640 said,

00:43:00.980 Moments like this remind us of the need to stand together

00:43:03.600 and of the importance of community, spirit, and tolerance.

00:43:07.500 Everyone has the right to feel safe in their home,

00:43:09.940 at work, on the streets, and in their neighbourhood.

00:43:12.500 Edinburgh is a proud, welcoming, and diverse city.

00:43:15.380 Our biggest strength lies in those who live here.

00:43:18.200 People from all walks of life, cultures, and backgrounds,

00:43:20.660 and we all have a part to play in making sure it stays that way.

00:43:23.660 Well, where were you...

00:43:24.800 Where were statements like this

00:43:26.200 when there were Southpots riots going on?

00:43:28.080 It'd be like saying, you know,

00:43:29.720 you know, they're only standing up for their country.

00:43:32.760 They're only resisting, you know,

00:43:34.580 people who do harm to their community.

00:43:36.760 Well, you know, put the shoe on the other foot.

00:43:39.480 You're basically apologising for a foreign man 1.00

00:43:42.700 who randomly stabbed people by saying this.

00:43:44.800 That's what I take from this is that you don't care about the native Scots

00:43:49.280 and you care more about virtue signalling to foreign, violent men

00:43:54.640 than you do about the welfare of presumably your own people,

00:43:59.040 judging from her name, 0.99

00:44:00.860 which in Year of Our Lord 2026,

00:44:04.640 you should know a bit better than that.

00:44:06.320 It's not some sort of new phenomenon.

00:44:08.500 The framing of that, though,

00:44:09.800 our biggest strength lies in those who live here.

00:44:12.000 And it's like people from all walks of life, cultures and backgrounds.

00:44:15.060 It's like, okay, but what about that guy?

00:44:17.700 What about the guy who caused the incident

00:44:19.440 that you're actually responding to?

00:44:20.980 And if he's not one of those people

00:44:22.960 and actually your biggest strength

00:44:24.420 doesn't lie with having that man in the city of Edinburgh,

00:44:27.920 then does it not perhaps stand to reason

00:44:30.500 that there might be some other people in the city of Edinburgh

00:44:33.880 and indeed cities up and down Scotland

00:44:35.780 who are also incompatible with the peace and community?

00:44:39.600 Because this entire thing of the idea of the importance of community spirit,

00:44:44.440 I'm quite sure that if there's one thing Scotland has not lacked

00:44:49.120 throughout its history, it's some sense of community spirit.

00:44:53.000 Yeah, and I don't remember when my grandfather was telling me

00:44:55.500 about living in rural Scotland.

00:44:56.980 He wasn't saying, oh yeah, we had to hike across the highlands

00:45:00.640 and then we had to dodge some Africans with some knives. 0.85

00:45:04.740 There were no stories of this.

00:45:06.280 It didn't happen, it's a new problem

00:45:09.080 and you can dress it up all you like

00:45:10.880 in some wishy-washy, liberal, flowery language, but...

00:45:15.000 Suicidal levels of tolerance.

00:45:17.240 Sorry, Stelios, I mean, you know, social liberal, lefty language.

00:45:23.020 I saw you grow in there.

00:45:26.640 And then there are also other things...

00:45:28.220 I wasn't aware of what's thinking, by the way.

00:45:29.260 Okay.

00:45:30.240 There are also other things going on, like this.

00:45:34.460 Oh, I really want to mute this because it's going to be loud.

00:45:38.500 Samson, if you could turn it down a little bit...

00:45:40.260 Maybe we need to listen so we can understand

00:45:42.880 what being in this situation is.

00:45:45.940 Samson, basically a group of men, just in a...

00:45:52.560 Just men. 0.69

00:45:53.840 Quite a nice-looking car, I don't know whether it's stolen,

00:45:57.220 robbed a safe from a house in Dunbar in Scotland

00:46:00.820 and then a woman went to fight them off. 1.00

00:46:03.540 This looks like quite a nice area of Scotland as well.

00:46:05.800 It does.

00:46:06.440 And then they're just breaking into houses,

00:46:08.020 stealing entire safes in the backs of cars.

00:46:11.080 I don't know, maybe you shouldn't be making...

00:46:15.280 Apologies, it fell out as well.

00:46:17.900 Worst criminals I've ever seen.

00:46:22.200 You've got to strap it down, otherwise it falls out.

00:46:24.400 That's how physics works.

00:46:25.380 I mean, anyway, why am I telling robbers how to do that job?

00:46:28.440 They're not engineers and physicians.

00:46:31.260 I was told there were doctors and engineers, Stelios.

00:46:34.100 They should know this by now.

00:46:37.200 It's also things like this, just petty things,

00:46:40.300 where you have...

00:46:44.700 They're claiming here they're a Pakistani migrant.

00:46:47.000 I can believe it.

00:46:47.840 I don't know where they're from in the world.

00:46:49.620 But they're just dumping...

00:46:51.160 Apparently it was like bones and old meat and stuff into a river.

00:46:57.100 Apparently they stopped a car and dropped it off at this specific spot,

00:47:01.300 which, you know, I know my Scottish grandparents

00:47:05.940 weren't the cleanest people in the world,

00:47:07.400 but they didn't do stuff like this.

00:47:10.760 You know, they believed in basic sanitation

00:47:12.940 and someone like that is only going to harm the environment around them

00:47:17.900 by bringing their third world behaviours into the country 0.99

00:47:20.880 and there's no pressure to make them stop.

00:47:23.140 And nor will they, even if there was.

00:47:25.300 There's also things like this.

00:47:26.880 This is pretty horrifying.

00:47:29.760 Where a lady went out for her 21st birthday

00:47:33.480 and then a Syrian refugee followed her to a house

00:47:38.100 and for the sake of YouTube sexually assaulted her,

00:47:43.240 leaving her understandably traumatised. 0.96

00:47:47.240 This guy, you know, Syrian refugee.

00:47:50.220 Syria is a safe country again now, presumably. 0.88

00:47:53.180 He could go back.

00:47:54.340 He should have gone back.

00:47:55.120 He never should have been here in the first place.

00:47:56.980 We've got no obligation to the country of Syria 0.98

00:47:59.260 and nor their people.

00:48:02.780 And yet this is allowed to happen for the sake of this diversity

00:48:07.040 and this is apparently our strength.

00:48:09.420 People getting stabbed,

00:48:11.300 the denigration of your living conditions

00:48:13.660 and rampant sexual assault.

00:48:16.860 Well, great.

00:48:17.720 Great.

00:48:18.160 Well done.

00:48:18.540 And then you have the grooming gangs as well in Scotland

00:48:25.140 because since there's been spotlight on there,

00:48:28.320 there's also been realisations that this is going on in Scotland as well

00:48:32.180 and at least the Scottish government has ordered an inquiry into them

00:48:36.200 unlike, say, Labour,

00:48:39.340 who are unwilling to have an inquiry into them.

00:48:41.680 So that's something I suppose if I'm being particularly charitable

00:48:45.500 but they've allowed the problem to exist in the first place.

00:48:49.860 So cleaning up your own mess, so to speak,

00:48:52.200 although it's a bit of a vulgar way of putting it,

00:48:54.800 is not good enough, in my opinion.

00:48:57.040 You should expect your government to protect you,

00:48:59.580 not to endanger you,

00:49:00.920 and then you give them credit for sweeping up their own mess.

00:49:04.500 I think that's far too charitable for my mind, to be honest.

00:49:09.900 And as you can imagine,

00:49:12.600 there have been quite a few demands made

00:49:15.240 to close all of the migrant hotels in Scotland

00:49:17.320 and this is even coming from the Scottish Tories

00:49:20.680 as well as other people as well,

00:49:23.280 which shows how far things have come

00:49:24.960 because, of course, the migrant hotels

00:49:26.480 was a Conservative Party policy in the first place.

00:49:29.920 So it's interesting to hear that they're pushing back on it now.

00:49:33.260 Very convenient.

00:49:34.500 But I'm sure there are many, many people

00:49:36.540 who are not just Conservatives in Scotland

00:49:38.660 who want to get rid of them

00:49:40.300 because they understandably bring dangers

00:49:42.880 everywhere where they are.

00:49:44.840 It shouldn't be the position of this party or that party.

00:49:49.380 This should be an entirely apolitical policy.

00:49:53.400 It's just beyond politics.

00:49:55.220 Does this endanger the Scottish people?

00:49:57.560 Yes, then we're not doing it.

00:49:58.960 And there should be entirely unanimous consideration

00:50:02.240 from all of the parties of Britain on this point.

00:50:05.400 Well, if there are any Scottish leftists watching,

00:50:08.940 it's a very English thing to welcome diversity.

00:50:11.740 And you're very not patriotic if you do it.

00:50:14.320 And so by welcoming diversity, you're a bad Scot. 1.00

00:50:17.340 There you go.

00:50:18.380 Because it's a quintessential...

00:50:19.680 I'm just trying to wind you up.

00:50:21.100 But I also wanted to give an update on that Scottish girl 1.00

00:50:26.120 that went very, very viral because there was a bit of a resolution

00:50:31.400 to her story that didn't really get nearly as much publicity

00:50:36.440 as people talking about the issue itself.

00:50:39.640 So, you may remember this.

00:50:44.160 She's been censored because she's obviously a child.

00:50:47.940 And it was framed absurdly.

00:50:50.120 Like, Dundee man.

00:50:51.140 This is just a man from Dundee.

00:50:52.960 This clearly not white British person.

00:50:59.320 Isn't Fatos a quintessentially Scottish name?

00:51:03.840 I think that's Fat-arse, isn't it?

00:51:06.240 It says Fatos Ali.

00:51:08.120 Isn't it the average Scottish?

00:51:09.960 I think he's a Bulgarian gypsy, 1.00

00:51:13.040 which says all you need to know.

00:51:15.780 At the centre...

00:51:16.620 Yeah, Dundee man at the centre of far-right misinformation row

00:51:20.140 speaks out.

00:51:20.840 And they're trying to present this guy as a victim.

00:51:23.340 And then here's the standard.

00:51:25.200 Saying, migrant confronted by schoolgirl 12

00:51:28.480 wielding axe in Dundee says he came to UK legally

00:51:31.140 and did nothing wrong.

00:51:33.040 And here he is with his partner.

00:51:34.640 Look at him.

00:51:35.060 He's just a happy migrant trying to make it in the world.

00:51:40.280 Yeah, feel bad for him.

00:51:41.660 It's these terrible 12-year-olds being mean to him for no reason.

00:51:45.880 It's racism.

00:51:47.200 Young child racism.

00:51:48.840 Of course it isn't.

00:51:50.980 And then here's the BBC.

00:51:51.940 Police issue misinformation warning.

00:51:53.940 That's a weird dystopian Orwellian-style phrase all on its own.

00:51:58.700 Over girls' weapons arrest.

00:52:00.560 So of course she was brought into custody

00:52:03.640 because she had weapons in public, 0.74

00:52:05.340 which knowing the law wasn't necessarily surprising, unfortunately.

00:52:10.980 But then it turns out the man behind the knife video

00:52:15.500 is a self-described gypsy gangster.

00:52:19.120 And then you see him here with big tattoos on his chest,

00:52:23.120 swearing, trying to be a gangster. 0.97

00:52:26.700 He looks like a right wuss that could be snapped like a twig. 0.99

00:52:29.940 He has a tattoo on the neck. 0.99

00:52:31.460 He does.

00:52:31.680 That's not a good sign.

00:52:33.080 That's a pretty good sign that you mean trouble, isn't it?

00:52:36.440 Or at least, you know, it's a good way of signaling.

00:52:39.280 So in a comedy...

00:52:40.200 You can actually just make these life-saving prejudices.

00:52:43.040 It's perfectly fine.

00:52:44.160 Yeah.

00:52:44.560 And in fact, it's easier to just, when you meet someone,

00:52:48.360 just say, I have an IQ in double digits.

00:52:50.760 Just save yourself the money on getting the tattoo.

00:52:54.380 But I thought there were more pictures of him here.

00:52:57.500 But you could see that the guy was no good.

00:53:01.920 And thankfully, there was a fundraiser for the girl

00:53:04.840 who was targeted for having the weapons

00:53:07.180 because she was clearly being accosted by this guy,

00:53:10.820 by this couple, in fact.

00:53:12.440 It was both of them.

00:53:13.740 And she received £74,000,

00:53:16.520 at least at the time of this article.

00:53:20.020 And I don't know whether it went directly to her

00:53:21.700 or whether that was to help the legal case.

00:53:25.760 But either way, I'm sure it's very helpful.

00:53:28.420 But then, very, very quietly,

00:53:31.660 man and woman charged after girls' weapons arrest.

00:53:35.260 And this is a very short article.

00:53:37.520 You can see it's already over.

00:53:40.580 It's just a few lines.

00:53:43.180 And you'd be forgiven to think,

00:53:46.020 well, who are these man and woman?

00:53:47.760 Is it the girls' parents?

00:53:49.020 Who are these people?

00:53:50.320 And it says,

00:53:50.740 A man and woman has been charged over an incident

00:53:52.640 that saw a 12-year-old girl

00:53:53.820 allegedly brandishing weapons on a Dundee street.

00:53:56.320 The girl was charged. 0.98

00:53:57.200 Yes, we talked about that.

00:53:58.140 Police Scotland said officers made extensive inquiries

00:54:00.660 into the incident and repeat pleas

00:54:02.100 for people not to share misinformation on social media.

00:54:05.000 And it talks about the footage.

00:54:06.780 I mean, Elon Musk,

00:54:07.680 much of the speculation focused on the ethnicity

00:54:09.520 and actions of the people confronted by the girl.

00:54:13.320 They talked about her being referred.

00:54:14.880 But then, there's absolutely nothing about these two people

00:54:18.760 that have been arrested.

00:54:21.340 And the only two people, I think,

00:54:23.860 that were involved in this entire thing,

00:54:27.920 man and woman, were them.

00:54:30.580 Other than that, it was those two kids.

00:54:33.200 So, unless the police arrested her parents for some reason,

00:54:38.900 which I can't see any reason for that,

00:54:41.100 then one would presume it was them that were arrested.

00:54:46.360 And actually, they did do something wrong.

00:54:48.700 And it was just hushed up,

00:54:51.740 which I can entirely believe happening.

00:54:54.420 Because in post-Southport Britain at the minute,

00:54:57.960 I am absolutely convinced

00:54:59.660 that there has been some sort of intelligence briefing

00:55:02.540 to say that, listen,

00:55:03.880 the country is very, very unstable.

00:55:08.040 Yeah, it's very unstable.

00:55:10.960 And so, we have to control how information is presented

00:55:13.900 to keep the stability

00:55:15.260 and make sure there isn't a collapse of, you know,

00:55:19.680 order and widespread social unrest.

00:55:22.480 And so, there is precedent for this, by the way.

00:55:25.560 We've done this in many different conflicts

00:55:27.700 over the years.

00:55:28.960 The intelligence agencies have instructed

00:55:30.560 media outlets to frame things in certain ways.

00:55:34.360 And I would not be surprised

00:55:35.640 if this sort of thing was going on,

00:55:36.980 to not add fuel on the fire.

00:55:39.160 And this sort of unprecedentedly muted response here.

00:55:43.680 Man and woman charged,

00:55:44.840 so they've followed their obligation to report on it.

00:55:48.460 But the information in the article,

00:55:50.180 there's none there at all.

00:55:52.020 This is useless to you relative to the headline.

00:55:57.040 And that makes me think that

00:55:58.380 they're just deliberately trying to sweep things under the rug.

00:56:02.220 If you hadn't been keeping up with the story previous to this,

00:56:05.900 you'd have absolutely no idea

00:56:07.480 as to who that man and woman were.

00:56:09.740 And it's remarkable how the campaigning on this,

00:56:12.480 as you were saying,

00:56:13.160 the fact that there's clearly some coordinated effort

00:56:16.400 in terms of, like, message discipline,

00:56:18.920 in terms of how migrant crime is being reported on.

00:56:22.020 But I would suggest to the British state

00:56:24.380 that if they want to preserve the cohesion and safety of Britain,

00:56:29.400 maybe not mustering all of the arms of the media

00:56:33.160 to lie about these events

00:56:35.360 and basically use them to defend people who shouldn't be here.

00:56:39.160 And to maybe actually, I don't know,

00:56:40.860 report the truth wholeheartedly

00:56:42.780 and just accept that perhaps this isn't the utopia

00:56:46.240 you'd wanted it to be

00:56:47.520 would be a good way of starting that.

00:56:49.540 It would be nice, wouldn't it?

00:56:51.420 But yes, that is my round-up

00:56:53.480 of what's been happening in Scotland with migration.

00:56:56.360 And obviously there's been a lot of other things,

00:56:58.700 but I'm limited for time.

00:57:00.040 But my point being that even in Scotland,

00:57:02.580 which is still vastly majority white Scottish,

00:57:06.380 they're having all of the problems

00:57:09.300 that you experience elsewhere,

00:57:10.980 perhaps to a lesser scale,

00:57:13.240 but still it doesn't make the lives of the people affected

00:57:16.180 any less worse for that fact.

00:57:19.540 And that people should be considering

00:57:22.680 the impact of these sorts of things

00:57:24.360 on their local community,

00:57:25.620 no matter their politics,

00:57:27.100 and keeping people safe

00:57:28.800 should be the primary goal of any government.

00:57:33.600 Controversial.

00:57:34.460 I know.

00:57:36.200 There's a potential Fed post.

00:57:38.760 I'm not surprised.

00:57:40.860 Yeah, yeah.

00:57:42.180 Be alarmed.

00:57:43.540 I'm not actually sure.

00:57:44.620 Are you referring to this one?

00:57:46.300 Which one are you referring to?

00:57:47.320 Yeah, probably.

00:57:47.860 Yeah, probably.

00:57:48.860 No, no.

00:57:49.300 I was actually just going to address this

00:57:51.140 because Luke,

00:57:53.320 Nighty Wong,

00:57:54.320 just rumble around.

00:57:55.200 Thank you.

00:57:55.960 It says,

00:57:56.600 I feel like Mustache Man

00:57:57.900 referring to me.

00:58:00.200 You can just call me Captain Darling.

00:58:01.920 It's tidier.

00:58:03.140 It says,

00:58:03.720 you've got to be careful

00:58:04.620 if you don't end up

00:58:05.540 personifying the saying

00:58:07.760 that all it takes for evil to triumph

00:58:09.600 is for good men to do nothing.

00:58:11.360 I just want to make it clear

00:58:12.520 that is not my position.

00:58:14.020 There are wars worth fighting.

00:58:15.880 There are causes worth dying for.

00:58:18.160 I'm simply suggesting, Luke,

00:58:19.520 that this one isn't it, chief.

00:58:21.580 That's all.

00:58:22.340 And I hope you'll take that charitably.

00:58:23.820 All right.

00:58:26.040 And then Sigil Stone

00:58:27.220 from your segment says,

00:58:28.380 sure, they all know

00:58:29.440 it's just part and parcel 1.00

00:58:31.120 of living in a gay clown world, 1.00

00:58:33.440 which does seem to be the case. 0.99

00:58:36.700 Oh, yes.

00:58:37.360 You'll need that one.

00:58:38.200 Yeah.

00:58:38.540 Go on then.

00:58:38.900 The EU is joining the fight

00:58:44.820 against terrorism

00:58:45.780 with unorthodox methods.

00:58:48.460 We are going to talk to you

00:58:49.880 about these methods

00:58:50.960 in this very segment.

00:58:53.540 Do you think that the EU

00:58:55.540 is going to be very strong

00:58:56.700 against terrorism?

00:58:57.980 I think they're going to be

00:58:58.800 unintentionally strong

00:58:59.860 in favor of it

00:59:00.680 or intentionally,

00:59:01.500 depending on your interpretation.

00:59:02.840 But I think they're certainly

00:59:04.140 going to be keen

00:59:04.740 to give welfare to terrorists.

00:59:06.760 They like doing that sort of thing.

00:59:08.340 A track record isn't great.

00:59:10.960 Are they going to strike terror

00:59:12.280 in the hearts of terrorists?

00:59:14.440 I wouldn't be surprised

00:59:16.480 if Ursula von der Leyen

00:59:17.520 came out and said,

00:59:18.360 we're going to have

00:59:18.880 bomb-making classes

00:59:20.080 for our recent intake into Europe.

00:59:23.340 You know,

00:59:23.940 they're doing everything

00:59:24.720 they possibly can

00:59:25.640 to facilitate

00:59:26.440 the sort of spread of terrorism.

00:59:31.380 I mean,

00:59:31.660 it's already quite well established,

00:59:33.020 so that's why

00:59:33.440 I was hesitant to say it.

00:59:35.000 But they're doing everything

00:59:36.520 in their power

00:59:37.300 to do nothing.

00:59:39.280 Yes, exactly.

00:59:40.560 Right now,

00:59:41.460 as we speak,

00:59:42.980 Macron is doing

00:59:43.840 some serious aura farming

00:59:45.520 and talk about

00:59:46.700 nuclear deterrence,

00:59:48.120 which is a good thing.

00:59:49.220 But the EU,

00:59:50.980 not Macron on his own,

00:59:52.980 the EU on its own

00:59:54.200 is fighting terrorism

00:59:55.600 with regulations.

00:59:57.980 And as you would expect...

00:59:59.740 The only weapon

01:00:00.520 in the EU's arsenal.

01:00:01.900 And as you would expect,

01:00:05.200 regulation is only as good

01:00:07.580 as the will to enforce it,

01:00:09.200 if it makes sense.

01:00:11.480 I don't know if it makes sense,

01:00:13.120 actually.

01:00:13.920 If this particular thing

01:00:15.360 that they are proposing,

01:00:16.280 I don't know if it makes sense.

01:00:17.680 Right.

01:00:17.860 I mean,

01:00:18.180 maybe they're trying to

01:00:19.460 weaponize German bureaucracy, 0.63

01:00:21.280 which is notorious

01:00:22.480 for being convoluted

01:00:23.960 and a very long

01:00:25.600 and drawn-out process.

01:00:26.920 And with a terrorist

01:00:28.120 being confronted with that,

01:00:29.160 they lose their will

01:00:30.240 to end their own life

01:00:32.300 in a martyrist sense

01:00:34.100 and just want to do it regularly.

01:00:35.960 I mean,

01:00:36.240 when I confront bureaucracy,

01:00:37.720 I often feel

01:00:38.600 somewhat that way.

01:00:40.060 Yeah.

01:00:40.560 It's like,

01:00:41.360 you don't understand,

01:00:43.000 I wanted to do my bit

01:00:44.480 for Paradise,

01:00:45.300 but there was so much

01:00:46.200 red tape around me.

01:00:47.500 I had to fill out

01:00:48.200 so many forms.

01:00:49.520 There was so much paperwork.

01:00:52.580 Right.

01:00:52.980 So there's the

01:00:53.740 Protect EU initiative.

01:00:56.840 The EU Commission

01:00:58.020 presents a new

01:00:58.980 counter-terrorism agenda.

01:01:01.480 Now,

01:01:02.060 this agenda... 0.84

01:01:02.980 Death by a thousand 0.98

01:01:03.700 paper cuts, 0.82

01:01:04.440 I bet.

01:01:05.060 Exactly,

01:01:05.720 yeah.

01:01:06.320 Right.

01:01:06.660 So let's see

01:01:07.620 what the details

01:01:08.740 of this agenda

01:01:09.900 are about.

01:01:10.580 On the 26th of February,

01:01:11.920 the European Commission

01:01:13.000 presented a new agenda

01:01:14.180 to prevent

01:01:15.180 and counter-terrorism.

01:01:17.520 The new agenda

01:01:18.260 sets out the way forward

01:01:19.440 to reinforce

01:01:20.180 Europe's collective response

01:01:21.720 to evolving

01:01:22.380 terrorist and violent 0.68

01:01:23.460 extremist threats.

01:01:24.860 I'm sure that means

01:01:28.080 the right,

01:01:28.660 doesn't it?

01:01:29.140 It means the right wing.

01:01:30.940 The evil baddies are...

01:01:32.420 Haven't you seen

01:01:32.900 Star Wars?

01:01:33.420 The baddies are...

01:01:35.020 Scary.

01:01:35.620 Well, see what it means

01:01:36.440 because from a cursory...

01:01:39.160 From a just glance,

01:01:40.420 I couldn't understand

01:01:41.420 how people are supposed

01:01:43.580 to talk about things

01:01:45.000 without being framed

01:01:46.920 as terrorists.

01:01:48.320 That's always nice,

01:01:49.440 isn't it?

01:01:49.760 When you can't have

01:01:50.980 a conversation

01:01:51.620 without being worried

01:01:52.740 that you're going to be

01:01:54.280 put in the same category

01:01:55.380 as a member of ISIS.

01:01:57.220 It can only help

01:01:58.100 some people

01:01:59.240 who are involuntary celibate.

01:02:02.140 Maybe they...

01:02:02.940 With women 0.51

01:02:03.480 who like bad boys.

01:02:05.200 They could say,

01:02:05.660 hey, listen,

01:02:06.220 the EU says I'm a terrorist.

01:02:08.040 To be fair,

01:02:09.020 I've not tried

01:02:09.780 the chat-up line,

01:02:10.740 hey, I'm on a terror watch list.

01:02:13.340 But I think it wouldn't

01:02:14.480 go down well,

01:02:15.240 to be honest.

01:02:16.820 So the EU

01:02:18.040 has strengthened

01:02:19.100 its response

01:02:19.940 to terrorism

01:02:20.680 and violent extremism

01:02:21.880 over the past decade.

01:02:23.740 Has it?

01:02:24.160 How?

01:02:25.140 Has it?

01:02:26.240 I must have missed

01:02:27.320 that decade.

01:02:27.880 By strengthening it,

01:02:28.860 they mean they've

01:02:29.500 imported more Islam

01:02:30.680 so there's no need

01:02:31.480 to attack Europe anymore

01:02:32.640 because we're indistinguishable

01:02:34.340 from their home countries.

01:02:36.440 However,

01:02:37.240 the evolving nature

01:02:38.420 of these threats

01:02:39.340 requires an adapted

01:02:40.520 and stronger response.

01:02:41.920 A flagship initiative

01:02:42.860 under the Protect

01:02:43.680 the European

01:02:44.540 Internal Security Strategy,

01:02:46.680 the new counter-terrorism agenda

01:02:48.360 puts forward

01:02:49.060 a comprehensive

01:02:49.920 set of cross-sectoral

01:02:52.560 initiatives

01:02:53.240 to step up

01:02:54.020 preparedness

01:02:54.440 and response,

01:02:55.820 better protecting

01:02:56.560 people and businesses

01:02:57.800 in the EU.

01:02:59.880 Right,

01:03:00.180 so I'll just give you

01:03:01.200 the six key pillars

01:03:02.260 and then we're going

01:03:03.120 to move forward

01:03:03.680 because

01:03:04.140 we are going to

01:03:06.100 talk again

01:03:06.960 about the DSA

01:03:07.820 and we're also

01:03:09.740 going to talk about

01:03:10.500 how

01:03:10.960 a very similar

01:03:12.420 initiative

01:03:13.360 in the UK

01:03:14.780 manage to

01:03:16.780 actually do nothing

01:03:18.260 and in some cases

01:03:19.400 do things worse.

01:03:21.000 Who would have thought?

01:03:21.900 Yeah,

01:03:22.140 we have talked about it

01:03:23.160 before about the

01:03:23.820 Prevent UK

01:03:24.920 and who counts

01:03:26.700 as a terrorist

01:03:27.700 in the eyes

01:03:29.040 of the Home Office

01:03:29.720 and whether in some cases

01:03:30.980 it may be a bit

01:03:32.460 far-fetched.

01:03:33.400 I think

01:03:33.920 the Home Office's

01:03:35.640 new criteria

01:03:36.620 of terrorism

01:03:37.800 applies more to us

01:03:39.700 than radical Islamism

01:03:41.060 to be honest.

01:03:42.100 It speaks very

01:03:43.060 much of their

01:03:44.380 political priorities.

01:03:45.760 They're like,

01:03:46.000 well,

01:03:46.560 let's not talk about

01:03:47.500 those guys anymore.

01:03:48.580 They might blow us up

01:03:49.580 but,

01:03:50.400 you know,

01:03:50.800 have you seen

01:03:51.420 the far right?

01:03:52.200 They're talking about

01:03:52.780 taking over their country.

01:03:53.940 My goodness,

01:03:54.480 they're becoming

01:03:54.820 more popular.

01:03:55.920 They're actually

01:03:56.280 getting sympathy.

01:03:57.040 This is terrible.

01:03:58.880 So,

01:03:59.380 according to the EU,

01:04:01.740 the youth

01:04:02.520 is being radicalised.

01:04:04.340 Now,

01:04:04.500 the question is

01:04:05.120 why?

01:04:06.820 Conditions.

01:04:07.620 There are several

01:04:08.280 conditions why

01:04:09.240 that the youth

01:04:10.320 would be

01:04:11.480 radicalised

01:04:12.680 but the

01:04:13.300 number one

01:04:14.240 thing is

01:04:16.280 the consistent

01:04:17.700 failure

01:04:18.640 of the European

01:04:19.820 establishment

01:04:20.520 to actually

01:04:21.540 deal with

01:04:22.120 some problems.

01:04:23.740 It's always

01:04:24.720 a failure

01:04:25.740 from the

01:04:26.260 state

01:04:28.780 that is

01:04:29.540 the number

01:04:29.960 one thing.

01:04:30.880 Well,

01:04:31.000 I mean,

01:04:31.220 you can look at it

01:04:31.800 like this.

01:04:32.320 Even if

01:04:32.900 you're a ruler

01:04:35.040 and there are

01:04:36.120 people with

01:04:37.480 illegitimate

01:04:38.240 concerns

01:04:38.860 that are

01:04:39.380 just causing

01:04:40.560 trouble,

01:04:41.440 a competent

01:04:42.020 ruler is able

01:04:42.960 to navigate

01:04:43.480 that situation

01:04:44.440 and put it

01:04:46.020 to bed.

01:04:46.860 So,

01:04:47.120 any way you

01:04:47.680 look at it,

01:04:48.220 they've failed.

01:04:49.300 Yeah.

01:04:50.260 Right.

01:04:50.700 So,

01:04:51.360 they are saying

01:04:52.300 that the youth

01:04:52.960 is being radicalised

01:04:54.220 and that the

01:04:55.180 modern landscape

01:04:56.500 with social media

01:04:57.820 is changing

01:04:59.160 the game

01:04:59.820 of being

01:05:01.400 lured into

01:05:02.160 terrorism.

01:05:03.540 Okay,

01:05:04.180 now I'm

01:05:04.580 absolutely sure

01:05:05.540 we're not

01:05:05.920 talking about

01:05:06.500 the same

01:05:06.840 terrorism

01:05:07.340 as a EU.

01:05:09.000 Yeah.

01:05:09.400 Yeah.

01:05:10.100 Because I go

01:05:11.280 on Instagram

01:05:11.780 and look at

01:05:12.340 pictures of

01:05:12.860 animals,

01:05:13.460 I'm now

01:05:14.140 joining

01:05:15.000 Al-Qaeda.

01:05:16.260 But look

01:05:17.020 at what

01:05:18.200 happened

01:05:18.600 before.

01:05:19.580 And let

01:05:20.100 us tie

01:05:20.580 this to

01:05:20.920 what we

01:05:21.240 said before

01:05:21.720 that the

01:05:22.160 state and

01:05:23.500 the establishment

01:05:24.160 failure comes

01:05:25.100 usually first.

01:05:26.500 The EU is

01:05:27.340 trying to

01:05:27.900 regulate

01:05:28.440 social media.

01:05:29.840 That's why

01:05:30.440 they are

01:05:30.720 putting forward

01:05:31.380 the DSA

01:05:32.280 as they're

01:05:33.700 saying here

01:05:34.100 that they're

01:05:34.500 going to

01:05:34.880 enforce it

01:05:35.520 even more

01:05:36.100 rigorously.

01:05:37.960 But they're

01:05:38.560 not focusing

01:05:39.860 on mainstream

01:05:40.680 media.

01:05:41.980 And I think

01:05:42.640 one of the

01:05:43.680 issues is that

01:05:44.600 alternative media

01:05:45.800 has the

01:05:47.540 reach it has

01:05:48.700 and the

01:05:48.980 prestige it

01:05:49.600 has primarily

01:05:51.860 because

01:05:53.160 one of the

01:05:55.380 big reasons

01:05:55.920 why the

01:05:56.940 alternative media

01:05:57.820 have the

01:05:58.920 prestige that

01:05:59.780 they have is

01:06:00.440 because mainstream

01:06:02.380 media has been

01:06:03.160 delegitimized.

01:06:04.100 It's lost the

01:06:04.640 mandate of heaven

01:06:05.400 basically and

01:06:06.440 it's inevitably

01:06:07.040 going to

01:06:07.880 die. 0.99

01:06:09.020 And mainstream 0.97

01:06:09.980 media is

01:06:11.800 propped up by

01:06:13.240 mainstream politics

01:06:14.100 because they're

01:06:14.900 both in bed

01:06:15.460 together in

01:06:17.140 Reform's case

01:06:18.380 quite literally

01:06:19.040 and many

01:06:21.640 others as well

01:06:22.420 where there's

01:06:24.520 such a close

01:06:24.960 relationship between

01:06:25.680 the two that

01:06:26.300 everyone knows

01:06:26.900 they're the

01:06:27.240 same sides of

01:06:28.600 the same coin

01:06:29.260 or the two

01:06:30.280 sides of the

01:06:30.720 same coin

01:06:31.100 should I say

01:06:31.620 and that's

01:06:33.440 why they're

01:06:33.740 dying is that

01:06:34.380 they're not a

01:06:34.880 reliable source

01:06:35.720 of information

01:06:36.280 they're not

01:06:36.640 truthful and

01:06:37.480 although alternative

01:06:38.620 media sources

01:06:39.400 have their

01:06:40.440 prejudices and

01:06:41.320 have their own

01:06:41.840 opinion at least

01:06:43.260 we're honest

01:06:44.160 about it right.

01:06:44.960 I think that you

01:06:46.300 can't overcome

01:06:46.960 bias this notion

01:06:47.920 in the mainstream

01:06:48.580 that you're

01:06:49.380 magically able to

01:06:51.000 overcome all of

01:06:51.900 your human biases

01:06:53.100 by being a human

01:06:54.360 being alive in the

01:06:55.180 world is a

01:06:57.840 delusion and it's

01:06:59.020 much much better to

01:07:00.120 present things as

01:07:01.060 here's what I think

01:07:02.100 here's my evidence

01:07:02.920 make up your own

01:07:04.040 minds that's far

01:07:05.000 healthier.

01:07:05.620 Exactly and there's a

01:07:06.360 pattern that I'm

01:07:07.200 noticing when it

01:07:08.140 comes to the

01:07:08.740 European establishment

01:07:09.700 and its relationship

01:07:12.120 to mainstream media

01:07:13.160 is that instead of

01:07:14.780 focusing on

01:07:15.720 reforming themselves

01:07:17.480 and say right let us

01:07:19.220 actually make people

01:07:20.440 feel safer so they

01:07:22.180 don't feel that

01:07:22.960 they're less safe and

01:07:24.200 that's going to make

01:07:24.740 them more angry and

01:07:25.660 aggressive and etc

01:07:27.160 and prone to be

01:07:28.420 lured to extremist

01:07:30.280 ideology instead of

01:07:31.300 reforming themselves

01:07:32.400 they try to say no

01:07:34.380 no we are going to

01:07:35.180 carry on the very

01:07:36.160 same policies that

01:07:37.660 are setting up the

01:07:39.440 fire and we're going

01:07:40.240 to complain about

01:07:40.900 smoke.

01:07:41.640 Well they can't see

01:07:42.840 beyond their own

01:07:43.840 paradigm really can

01:07:44.860 they it's like the

01:07:45.440 end days of the

01:07:46.160 Soviet Union in that

01:07:47.200 they're pretending

01:07:47.700 like everything is

01:07:48.480 fine and carrying on

01:07:49.720 as normal when

01:07:50.320 everyone knows it's

01:07:51.180 over.

01:07:51.780 I think there's just

01:07:53.220 a point to add to

01:07:53.940 that as well which is

01:07:54.940 the fact that a lot

01:07:57.640 of these old parties

01:07:59.100 all the parties that

01:08:00.520 currently make up the

01:08:01.420 EU and you've got 0.81

01:08:02.260 you know CDU in

01:08:03.380 Germany and you've

01:08:04.100 got Macron's party

01:08:05.140 and all these sorts of

01:08:06.200 parties obviously a lot

01:08:08.480 across Western Europe

01:08:10.140 could be overturned

01:08:12.100 by populist parties

01:08:13.340 in the next five to

01:08:15.240 ten years or so

01:08:16.240 and yet this has not

01:08:18.700 caused the EU to

01:08:19.900 pivot and in the

01:08:21.740 same way that you

01:08:22.420 know the establishment

01:08:23.780 don't really seem to

01:08:25.320 be too panicked about

01:08:26.360 reform and Farage in

01:08:28.820 the same way that they

01:08:29.520 are about restore and

01:08:30.860 I think that what this

01:08:31.740 should signal to us is

01:08:33.240 the fact that actually

01:08:34.220 the populist parties

01:08:36.020 is getting in to

01:08:37.560 power and having

01:08:38.400 access to the full

01:08:40.160 you know strength of

01:08:42.200 the EU doesn't

01:08:43.420 actually alarm them

01:08:44.380 and isn't actually

01:08:45.380 that paradigm breaking

01:08:46.520 in the grand scheme

01:08:47.600 of things.

01:08:48.520 As far as they're

01:08:49.600 concerned a few

01:08:50.620 populist parties poking

01:08:51.880 up across Europe is

01:08:53.520 kind of business as

01:08:54.320 usual and it doesn't

01:08:55.420 threaten anything too

01:08:56.620 critical to their

01:08:57.340 ambitions and aims.

01:08:58.520 They view it like a

01:09:00.400 gardener might view a

01:09:01.460 few weeds popping up

01:09:02.500 in his flower bed.

01:09:03.640 They can be plucked

01:09:04.680 out it can be dealt

01:09:05.440 with whereas they're

01:09:07.520 not recognizing the

01:09:08.960 desperation of their

01:09:10.600 situation.

01:09:11.380 You're correct and I

01:09:12.360 want to show you

01:09:12.920 exactly where this all

01:09:14.540 this goes and how the

01:09:16.220 EU is going to counter

01:09:17.380 and prevent terrorism.

01:09:19.340 Right so they're

01:09:19.940 saying anticipating

01:09:20.800 threats increasing the

01:09:23.360 resources and capacities

01:09:24.440 of intelligence analysis

01:09:25.740 at EU level

01:09:27.260 reinforcing Europol's

01:09:28.740 analytical support

01:09:29.740 capacities strengthening

01:09:31.260 security research

01:09:32.400 preventing radicalization

01:09:34.260 that is the acronym

01:09:35.520 psych for the like

01:09:38.300 we're going to monitor

01:09:39.020 terrorists psych.

01:09:41.180 Nice. 0.77

01:09:42.040 But look at this here.

01:09:43.700 Of course they did.

01:09:45.180 A five million euro

01:09:46.220 community engagement

01:09:47.500 and empowerment

01:09:48.320 program supporting

01:09:49.960 projects that focus on

01:09:51.240 early prevention of

01:09:52.540 radicalization focusing

01:09:54.420 on youth empowerment

01:09:55.580 digital resilience and

01:09:57.240 communist community

01:09:58.600 cohesion.

01:09:59.340 Basically they want to

01:10:00.080 give money to

01:10:00.620 communists.

01:10:01.600 I was going to say I

01:10:02.200 like your Freudian slip

01:10:03.280 slip of just

01:10:04.340 communist cohesion.

01:10:06.000 You had it right

01:10:07.020 there.

01:10:07.460 You didn't need to

01:10:07.960 reiterate.

01:10:08.820 Yeah you did.

01:10:09.980 Okay.

01:10:11.640 Protecting people

01:10:12.360 online by enforcing

01:10:14.000 the DSA.

01:10:15.140 This is the Thierry

01:10:16.000 Breton thing that we

01:10:17.380 have been talking

01:10:17.900 about all the time.

01:10:19.180 Everyone's an

01:10:19.780 extremist according to

01:10:20.960 them.

01:10:21.540 Protecting people in

01:10:22.720 the physical

01:10:23.420 environment.

01:10:25.900 IRL.

01:10:26.740 By the way this is

01:10:27.900 what the state needs

01:10:29.100 to do this in state

01:10:30.140 101.

01:10:31.220 Protect the thing.

01:10:32.720 I don't know why

01:10:33.300 this has to be step

01:10:34.640 four of a particular

01:10:36.140 initiative of the EU.

01:10:39.220 Yeah what are they

01:10:39.940 going to do anyway?

01:10:40.780 Put up more diversity

01:10:41.800 barriers because they're

01:10:42.560 not going to physically

01:10:43.300 remove the people

01:10:44.280 doing it.

01:10:45.100 They're going to

01:10:45.440 disarm the police.

01:10:46.900 They're going to ban

01:10:47.620 knives.

01:10:49.640 Responding to threats

01:10:50.640 and attacks.

01:10:53.700 This is again what the

01:10:55.200 state is supposed to be

01:10:56.620 doing.

01:10:57.280 It shouldn't be step

01:10:58.140 five of this

01:11:00.460 obscure initiative.

01:11:01.700 They're going to

01:11:02.580 respond to attacks.

01:11:03.960 My goodness.

01:11:04.780 You can absolutely

01:11:05.760 tell they all went

01:11:06.700 out for drinks after

01:11:07.680 this and thought

01:11:08.280 they've done a good

01:11:08.980 few years work.

01:11:10.560 They Euromaxed 0.99

01:11:11.460 afterwards.

01:11:13.940 Cooperation with

01:11:14.660 international partners.

01:11:16.080 Actually this makes

01:11:16.840 sense.

01:11:17.780 This does make sense.

01:11:18.980 Right?

01:11:19.260 Okay.

01:11:20.420 The Digital Service

01:11:21.540 Act.

01:11:22.340 We have talked about

01:11:23.360 it.

01:11:23.660 I'll refresh your

01:11:24.920 memory.

01:11:25.300 It's rules for

01:11:26.740 online services used

01:11:28.080 by European citizens

01:11:29.160 in the everyday life

01:11:30.420 and it's constantly

01:11:31.220 used to regulate

01:11:32.440 social media platforms

01:11:34.140 like X.

01:11:35.680 And I want to show

01:11:37.820 you the first page

01:11:40.060 here.

01:11:41.240 The European 0.80

01:11:41.600 Commission releases

01:11:42.980 a new plan to

01:11:43.700 prevent terrorism

01:11:44.600 that includes,

01:11:46.020 I want to show you

01:11:46.620 this, they say that

01:11:48.260 the EU has seen

01:11:49.560 fewer large-scale

01:11:50.640 coordinated terrorist

01:11:51.800 attacks in the

01:11:52.980 later years.

01:11:53.700 That's true actually.

01:11:55.240 The threat has not

01:11:56.340 gone away completely.

01:11:57.280 It has evolved.

01:11:58.140 Right?

01:11:59.140 They say between

01:11:59.740 2019 and 2023

01:12:01.440 the number of

01:12:02.260 terrorist incidents

01:12:03.040 more than doubled

01:12:04.000 from 57 to 120

01:12:06.060 before dropping to

01:12:07.620 58 in 2024.

01:12:09.440 Doesn't that mirror

01:12:10.160 migration numbers

01:12:11.160 just to the EU?

01:12:13.060 Out of weird

01:12:14.240 correlation there.

01:12:15.260 I wonder if those

01:12:16.100 could be linked.

01:12:17.080 I don't know if it's

01:12:17.760 exact but the issue

01:12:19.240 is that if you check

01:12:20.520 out the major

01:12:21.500 attacks with most

01:12:22.820 of the victims

01:12:23.520 they all seem to

01:12:24.700 confirm a particular

01:12:26.240 kind of bias.

01:12:28.200 But all of these

01:12:28.980 as well, they're all

01:12:29.780 ideological.

01:12:31.120 You know, as it

01:12:31.560 says here about

01:12:32.280 democracy values,

01:12:33.840 anti-LGBT and

01:12:35.200 anti-Muslim hatred,

01:12:36.660 all these sorts of

01:12:37.320 things, right?

01:12:37.680 They're based on 0.60

01:12:38.840 forms of ideology.

01:12:40.940 But what is there

01:12:41.800 to be said for the

01:12:42.940 people as we had

01:12:44.580 in the last segment

01:12:45.360 on Scotland?

01:12:46.480 Like the guy there

01:12:48.120 who just stabbed a

01:12:48.960 bunch of people and

01:12:49.820 tried to enter a

01:12:50.760 school, that's not

01:12:51.580 an ideological attack.

01:12:53.280 So, you know, it's

01:12:54.040 not a political attack

01:12:55.080 so technically it's

01:12:55.960 not terrorism but

01:12:57.120 that doesn't mean

01:12:57.800 that it's no lesser

01:12:59.300 threat or something

01:13:00.180 to be dealt with.

01:13:01.300 Yeah, people from

01:13:02.400 certain areas of the

01:13:03.100 world are just

01:13:03.600 ticking time bombs.

01:13:04.420 Yeah.

01:13:04.700 It's the way it

01:13:05.840 should be viewed but

01:13:06.680 they're not going to

01:13:07.340 view it realistically.

01:13:08.640 To be fair, they're

01:13:09.600 better than the UK

01:13:10.600 government here in

01:13:12.000 that they acknowledge

01:13:13.240 that jihadist 1.00

01:13:14.460 terrorism remains the

01:13:15.680 most prominent and

01:13:16.840 lethal terrorist threat.

01:13:18.260 What was it?

01:13:18.720 98 point something,

01:13:21.260 96% of all attacks

01:13:23.260 since 2005 in the UK

01:13:24.800 that were lethal were

01:13:26.900 Islamic in nature.

01:13:28.420 So that's pretty

01:13:29.460 resounding.

01:13:30.520 But I was just going

01:13:32.080 to say that we've had

01:13:33.540 efforts in Britain for

01:13:34.500 a long time to

01:13:35.820 exaggerate the

01:13:36.540 political threats

01:13:37.380 faced by the left

01:13:40.200 more than anything

01:13:41.140 and that we had this

01:13:42.540 recategorisation of

01:13:44.820 far-right terror threats

01:13:47.540 and all it did was it

01:13:49.120 pushed a bunch of

01:13:50.360 pensioners into the

01:13:52.320 terror watch list and

01:13:53.800 so all of these

01:13:55.800 pensioners were getting

01:13:56.560 contacted by Prevent

01:13:57.680 even though they're in

01:13:58.580 wheelchairs and

01:13:59.660 nursing homes but

01:14:01.180 because they're scaring

01:14:02.180 and far-right and they 0.58

01:14:03.140 hate foreigners 1.00

01:14:03.780 therefore they must be 0.99

01:14:06.060 terrorists and I feel

01:14:07.180 like there's probably a

01:14:08.160 similar line through

01:14:09.700 this as well.

01:14:10.520 It's a truly a more

01:14:11.860 radical place in Britain

01:14:13.320 than the bingo hall.

01:14:15.340 I want to describe to

01:14:19.300 you what motivations

01:14:20.680 they believe are

01:14:22.080 involved in terrorism

01:14:24.240 and make several

01:14:25.920 comments there and

01:14:26.820 listen to what you

01:14:28.320 have to say.

01:14:28.980 Right, so they're

01:14:29.460 saying that while

01:14:30.540 jihadist terrorism

01:14:31.720 remains the most

01:14:32.580 prominent and lethal

01:14:34.260 terrorist threat,

01:14:35.740 terrorists and 0.86

01:14:36.540 violent extremists are

01:14:37.940 driven by a growing

01:14:38.980 range of motivations.

01:14:40.520 not always attached

01:14:42.080 to a specific

01:14:42.900 ideology including

01:14:44.160 the rejection of

01:14:45.820 European democratic

01:14:46.800 values, anti-Semitism,

01:14:49.440 anti-Muslim hatred

01:14:50.480 and other motivations

01:14:52.200 are anti-LGBTQ

01:14:54.320 hatred, misogyny, 0.89

01:14:56.380 racism, anti-system

01:14:57.760 ideologies, nihilism,

01:14:59.920 accelerationism and

01:15:01.640 a range of ideologies

01:15:03.040 that hold that the

01:15:03.900 existing state of

01:15:05.040 society is beyond

01:15:06.620 redemption and

01:15:07.500 requires destruction of

01:15:08.860 the system and a

01:15:09.680 fresh start.

01:15:10.520 I want to make two

01:15:11.700 claims here.

01:15:12.580 I feel attacked.

01:15:13.800 Then I want to hear

01:15:15.280 what you have to say.

01:15:16.460 First, I see the EU

01:15:18.400 making a promise that

01:15:19.880 they won't honor

01:15:22.480 because one of the

01:15:24.580 systems, one of the

01:15:25.780 ideologies that hold

01:15:27.120 the existing state of

01:15:28.680 society to be beyond

01:15:30.480 redemption and requires

01:15:32.380 the destruction of that

01:15:34.000 very system and a

01:15:36.400 fresh start is

01:15:37.840 communism.

01:15:39.020 communism, right?

01:15:41.480 I don't think that

01:15:42.800 they are going to say

01:15:43.860 that communism is

01:15:46.040 terrorism.

01:15:46.740 Something tells me that

01:15:47.740 the EU is not going

01:15:49.640 to say this.

01:15:50.700 It feels like they've

01:15:51.580 just defined a

01:15:52.520 terrorist as the

01:15:54.000 antithesis or exactly

01:15:55.860 everything that I

01:15:58.460 believe.

01:15:59.300 It's weird.

01:16:00.360 I'm doing the

01:16:01.260 Jose Mourinho, if I

01:16:02.500 speak, I'm in trouble.

01:16:04.160 Also, they're even

01:16:05.140 going for people who

01:16:06.140 don't believe in

01:16:06.920 anything in the

01:16:07.580 nihilists, which you

01:16:08.760 think if they didn't

01:16:09.420 believe in anything.

01:16:10.740 Yeah, you're an 0.96

01:16:11.340 absurdist. 0.97

01:16:12.240 You're an absurdist. 1.00

01:16:13.500 You're a terrorist. 1.00

01:16:15.320 Put that Camus down. 1.00

01:16:17.940 But also as well, the

01:16:19.060 way it says, including

01:16:19.860 the rejection of

01:16:20.680 European democratic

01:16:21.700 values and

01:16:22.460 semitism and

01:16:23.180 anti-Muslim hatred.

01:16:24.400 Nothing about hatred

01:16:25.400 of just the

01:16:26.300 indigenous people of

01:16:27.260 Europe.

01:16:27.580 Nothing about hatred

01:16:28.560 of whites and

01:16:29.660 Europeans and the

01:16:30.540 people in society

01:16:31.560 that are actually

01:16:32.600 coming in.

01:16:33.080 Absolutely.

01:16:33.980 And we will get

01:16:34.760 there in a minute.

01:16:36.260 Okay.

01:16:36.660 Because I want to

01:16:37.440 focus a bit on the

01:16:38.720 previous claim.

01:16:39.920 All right.

01:16:40.520 We will go back to

01:16:42.540 that very thing.

01:16:43.760 According to this

01:16:44.660 definition, correct me

01:16:46.180 if I'm wrong, but it

01:16:46.980 seems like the only

01:16:48.120 thing that would be

01:16:49.020 allowed in the left

01:16:50.140 according to that

01:16:51.000 definition to not be

01:16:52.580 terrorist is basically

01:16:54.020 social democracy.

01:16:55.320 Yeah.

01:16:55.480 That's the prevailing

01:16:57.860 paradigm.

01:16:58.740 Yeah, but left than

01:17:00.900 that, it would have to

01:17:01.900 be announced a

01:17:02.600 terrorist ideology

01:17:04.520 according to the

01:17:05.400 EU, would it?

01:17:06.680 Wouldn't it?

01:17:06.880 Well, it's not going

01:17:07.540 to happen, but by the

01:17:08.920 definition, there are

01:17:09.640 plenty of laws that

01:17:10.540 could apply to the

01:17:11.220 left, but don't

01:17:11.840 because they're not

01:17:12.340 enforced that way.

01:17:13.500 Yeah.

01:17:13.980 Right.

01:17:14.440 And now I want to go

01:17:15.620 to the point that

01:17:16.740 Luca made.

01:17:17.280 Yes, there isn't any

01:17:18.380 such thing as anti-

01:17:19.940 European hatred.

01:17:21.080 There isn't any such

01:17:22.180 thing as, you know,

01:17:23.960 ecophobia there or

01:17:26.660 hatred of one's own

01:17:28.220 society or white people 0.87

01:17:29.740 hatred or man 0.97

01:17:31.580 hatred.

01:17:32.260 We see misogyny, but

01:17:33.800 we don't see

01:17:34.360 misandry.

01:17:35.920 No.

01:17:36.100 There are a lot of

01:17:36.920 hateful, spiteful 1.00

01:17:38.000 feminists out there. 1.00

01:17:39.180 And here, yeah, and

01:17:39.940 here is where the

01:17:40.800 problem comes because

01:17:42.320 this is where the 0.56

01:17:44.380 ridiculousness of it 0.54

01:17:45.940 and the subjective 0.92

01:17:46.760 nature of it has a

01:17:48.220 very pernicious

01:17:48.960 dimension.

01:17:50.380 It's why also

01:17:53.540 woke legislation is

01:17:55.540 completely corrosive of

01:17:56.800 societies, also woke

01:17:58.600 rules are corrosive of

01:18:00.000 business environments

01:18:01.260 and it's the problem

01:18:03.000 with wokeness.

01:18:04.100 And it happens even in

01:18:05.300 spaces where you don't

01:18:06.320 have people with

01:18:07.060 minorities, from

01:18:08.220 minority groups. 0.88

01:18:09.140 It's the kind of

01:18:10.200 framework that is a

01:18:12.380 problem in and of

01:18:13.120 itself.

01:18:14.280 There are other

01:18:15.160 problems, but the

01:18:16.260 framework in and of

01:18:17.400 itself is a problem.

01:18:18.200 If we have rules that

01:18:20.540 are publicly, that

01:18:21.920 have criteria for, of

01:18:23.900 that are publicly

01:18:24.860 accessible, like do

01:18:26.860 not kill, do not

01:18:27.720 steal, do not incite

01:18:29.740 violence, that's

01:18:31.300 publicly accessible.

01:18:33.200 It's objective.

01:18:34.260 You have criteria.

01:18:35.860 Everyone can establish

01:18:37.240 whether someone has

01:18:38.260 stolen or killed or

01:18:40.500 incited to violence.

01:18:42.060 But when we're talking

01:18:43.260 about subjective

01:18:44.140 notions, that's

01:18:47.200 that's not, that's

01:18:50.740 not possible.

01:18:52.060 Hateful conduct.

01:18:53.200 Exactly.

01:18:53.680 You can't enter into

01:18:54.840 one's mind to say,

01:18:56.000 well, you have been

01:18:56.760 offended or not.

01:18:58.100 Thus, it's increasingly

01:18:59.860 more likely for people

01:19:01.200 to say, I have been

01:19:02.560 offended, therefore I'm

01:19:04.060 in a situation where I

01:19:05.180 have to defend myself

01:19:06.260 and people who are

01:19:08.880 against me, who are

01:19:10.780 offending me, are

01:19:11.880 terrorists against me.

01:19:13.140 And the issue is that

01:19:14.340 what they're creating,

01:19:15.240 they're creating a

01:19:16.040 system that is so

01:19:17.580 subjective where they

01:19:19.280 can selectively choose

01:19:21.700 who to name terrorists.

01:19:23.720 They're following the 0.96

01:19:24.280 Chinese model where

01:19:25.320 they make it so it's

01:19:26.540 impossible for most

01:19:28.320 people not to break

01:19:29.780 the law and then

01:19:30.600 selectively enforce

01:19:31.520 based on political

01:19:32.660 allegiance, which is a

01:19:34.160 way to maximize your

01:19:35.300 own centralized power,

01:19:36.520 which, funnily enough,

01:19:37.760 the EU has been

01:19:38.400 trying to do for a very

01:19:39.580 long time.

01:19:40.680 And it's again what

01:19:41.740 Lucas said, there

01:19:43.000 aren't any kind of

01:19:44.800 provisions for

01:19:45.820 hatred, which

01:19:46.660 personally, I think

01:19:47.540 that's too subjective.

01:19:48.560 It's a bad thing.

01:19:49.680 But even if we are to

01:19:50.980 have it, there aren't

01:19:52.520 any provisions for

01:19:53.460 hatred against

01:19:54.380 Christian people,

01:19:56.060 against European, 0.78

01:19:57.140 against men.

01:19:58.540 So it looks like

01:19:59.700 the enemy has been...

01:20:02.340 Yeah.

01:20:03.660 Oh, sorry.

01:20:04.360 No, I was just going

01:20:05.060 to say, it's entirely

01:20:06.180 ideological.

01:20:07.320 And whilst this goes

01:20:08.420 on, the EU will

01:20:09.420 continue to exacerbate

01:20:10.880 all of the problems

01:20:11.920 that it claims to

01:20:12.780 have these grand

01:20:13.880 plans to be able

01:20:15.920 to get on top of.

01:20:17.400 I was just going to

01:20:18.300 say, it used to be

01:20:19.060 a convention, I'm old

01:20:20.680 enough to remember

01:20:21.240 the before times,

01:20:22.900 in English common

01:20:24.620 law and Britain

01:20:26.280 more generally.

01:20:27.160 I know, of course,

01:20:28.120 no longer in the EU

01:20:29.020 and the like.

01:20:29.800 But we used to be

01:20:31.100 able to say that,

01:20:32.040 listen, the court

01:20:33.040 can't access what

01:20:34.060 goes on in your head

01:20:35.180 and therefore it's

01:20:35.940 not admissible as

01:20:36.940 evidence.

01:20:37.980 And you can't just

01:20:38.760 prescribe people

01:20:39.660 emotions, like you

01:20:41.020 can commit a hate

01:20:42.000 crime entirely

01:20:42.680 dispassionately, or

01:20:44.160 if you're me,

01:20:44.660 probably entirely

01:20:45.420 accidentally, just

01:20:47.880 by merit of saying

01:20:49.480 something that is

01:20:50.080 seen as insensitive

01:20:51.320 and offending

01:20:52.480 someone, even

01:20:53.220 though you could

01:20:53.920 be meaning

01:20:54.440 perfectly well.

01:20:56.100 And I want to

01:20:56.560 end with one

01:20:57.460 thing about

01:20:58.120 accelerationism,

01:20:59.200 which ties into

01:21:00.520 what I said in the

01:21:01.480 beginning about the

01:21:02.620 original sin of

01:21:04.140 the establishment.

01:21:05.120 I'm not an

01:21:05.780 accelerationist and

01:21:06.760 I don't, I think

01:21:07.860 that usually many

01:21:09.120 accelerationists are

01:21:10.820 basically, basically

01:21:11.900 think that they're

01:21:12.960 going to somehow get

01:21:13.840 away with it.

01:21:14.480 Yeah.

01:21:14.780 They have a complete,

01:21:15.600 very, let's say,

01:21:16.780 thwarted view of, of

01:21:18.180 reality.

01:21:18.800 I just think it's

01:21:19.380 hope, isn't it?

01:21:20.160 It's, it's finding a

01:21:22.100 way of feeling good

01:21:22.860 about things getting

01:21:23.560 worse.

01:21:23.680 It's like thinking

01:21:24.260 life's a video game

01:21:25.520 and yeah, okay, yeah.

01:21:27.740 You're going to have

01:21:28.300 some collateral damage

01:21:29.440 when your, your

01:21:30.580 cannons or someone

01:21:31.500 else's cannons are

01:21:32.860 destroying the city,

01:21:34.220 your ECT or

01:21:35.660 something.

01:21:36.160 But at the end of

01:21:37.220 the day, if the

01:21:39.100 EU wants to stop

01:21:40.220 accelerationism, yeah,

01:21:42.840 that can stop

01:21:43.560 promoting the

01:21:45.360 policies that are

01:21:46.120 destroying Europe.

01:21:46.960 It's like you can't

01:21:48.140 complain about the

01:21:49.000 smoke where you are

01:21:50.420 creating the

01:21:51.820 fireplace, putting

01:21:53.000 wood there and

01:21:54.560 turning up the,

01:21:55.660 lighting up a fire.

01:21:56.620 I'm quite surprised

01:21:57.320 they've got that

01:21:57.800 there because surely

01:21:58.600 an accelerationist

01:21:59.740 would be voting for

01:22:00.540 like the greens or

01:22:01.500 something like the,

01:22:02.700 the most destabilizing

01:22:04.120 force and so surely

01:22:06.000 they're all for that

01:22:06.880 being a sort of

01:22:08.960 weird, um, eldritch

01:22:11.880 horror of a

01:22:12.680 bureaucracy.

01:22:13.400 Yeah, there's kind

01:22:14.300 of a thing that

01:22:14.780 makes you think that

01:22:15.520 Melenchon should fall

01:22:16.960 under the position of

01:22:17.900 accelerationists.

01:22:19.120 I mean, yeah, he,

01:22:19.820 he, he does and I

01:22:21.060 don't see how

01:22:21.760 Melenchon, for

01:22:22.560 instance, in the

01:22:23.880 left would be, uh,

01:22:25.740 someone who is a

01:22:26.980 social democrat.

01:22:27.760 I think he's far,

01:22:29.340 well, way further to

01:22:30.940 the left than this.

01:22:31.900 Um, so according

01:22:33.960 to the, this view,

01:22:35.360 it looks like only

01:22:36.460 social democracy

01:22:37.420 would count as a

01:22:38.560 non-terrorist

01:22:39.920 ideology from the

01:22:41.020 left.

01:22:41.540 But he, he has

01:22:43.100 also said that he's

01:22:44.040 happy with European 0.93

01:22:44.860 people getting

01:22:45.680 replaced.

01:22:46.640 Also, one good

01:22:47.340 thing is that, uh,

01:22:48.800 I think that the,

01:22:49.980 the, the, the

01:22:52.100 Spanish Podemos

01:22:53.440 candidate, that, uh,

01:22:55.320 Spanish woman who 1.00

01:22:56.440 said she's happy for,

01:22:58.120 for Spani, Spaniards

01:23:00.020 being replaced.

01:23:00.780 I think she got

01:23:01.980 about 1% or

01:23:03.360 something in an

01:23:04.080 election.

01:23:04.580 She, she completely,

01:23:06.380 she got completely

01:23:07.220 destroyed.

01:23:08.060 Turns out people

01:23:08.580 don't want to be

01:23:09.320 replaced.

01:23:09.640 People don't want

01:23:10.220 that.

01:23:10.660 People don't want

01:23:11.420 that.

01:23:11.700 It's like, yeah,

01:23:12.240 you're going to

01:23:13.000 return home and

01:23:13.920 there's going to be

01:23:14.480 your foreign alter

01:23:15.300 ego in your house

01:23:16.380 completely replaced.

01:23:18.620 So I don't think

01:23:19.920 that this makes

01:23:20.540 sense.

01:23:21.400 It's typical EU

01:23:23.220 arbitrary authority

01:23:24.440 that is selectively

01:23:25.660 going to be applied

01:23:26.580 to whoever is the

01:23:28.120 enemy of the

01:23:29.920 ruling bureaucracy

01:23:31.680 of the EU.

01:23:32.820 It's definitely not

01:23:33.960 making things, uh,

01:23:35.580 better and it's

01:23:37.260 micromanagement of

01:23:38.360 decline and it's the

01:23:39.640 exact same thing that

01:23:41.000 happened here in the

01:23:42.200 UK where the

01:23:43.960 prevent program

01:23:44.960 characterized the,

01:23:47.080 uh, characterized,

01:23:48.900 uh, extreme

01:23:49.840 right-wing ideologies

01:23:51.740 as involving the

01:23:53.340 rhetoric according to

01:23:54.520 which Western culture

01:23:56.040 is under threat

01:23:57.120 from mass migration

01:23:58.220 and a lack of

01:23:59.580 integration by certain

01:24:00.880 ethnic and cultural

01:24:02.760 groups.

01:24:03.660 Meanwhile, it is the

01:24:04.860 left that is saying

01:24:05.800 for decades that

01:24:06.760 Western culture is 0.92

01:24:08.520 irredeemable. 0.96

01:24:09.920 It has to be 0.96

01:24:10.680 destroyed.

01:24:11.300 It has to be, um,

01:24:13.520 it has to somehow be

01:24:15.420 dissolved and created

01:24:17.520 anew in a way that, uh,

01:24:21.800 mass migration would, uh,

01:24:24.060 do.

01:24:24.780 And also they

01:24:25.940 themselves are the

01:24:27.140 people who constantly

01:24:28.180 appeal to lack of

01:24:29.280 integration of groups

01:24:31.280 when they want to say

01:24:32.860 that because these

01:24:34.000 groups haven't been

01:24:34.820 integrated, taxation

01:24:36.440 must rise and more

01:24:37.720 benefits must be given

01:24:38.880 to these very groups.

01:24:41.120 So it's just a

01:24:42.720 complete nonsense, 0.83

01:24:44.620 double standards,

01:24:46.500 and that's not exactly

01:24:48.560 something that counts

01:24:50.360 as particularly

01:24:51.660 non-terrorist by the,

01:24:54.220 the new EU

01:24:56.180 Prevent thing

01:24:57.020 initiative.

01:24:57.840 Yeah.

01:24:58.520 Well, it seems like

01:24:59.320 they've, uh, really

01:25:00.180 thought it all through

01:25:00.960 this time, haven't they?

01:25:02.240 Good for them.

01:25:02.920 There is a loophole

01:25:03.720 here that if we pretend

01:25:04.840 to be Islamic and say

01:25:06.140 it's a sectarian thing,

01:25:07.680 just like, ah, these

01:25:08.580 guys are a different

01:25:09.300 branch of Islam to us,

01:25:10.880 we could get away with

01:25:12.100 it and carry on

01:25:13.040 criticising immigration.

01:25:14.700 That's what I'm

01:25:15.420 getting from this.

01:25:16.140 I'll just read it.

01:25:16.860 For $5, uh,

01:25:17.920 Glee7777 says,

01:25:19.380 will the EU make

01:25:20.260 an Amelia for the

01:25:21.720 jihadis?

01:25:22.500 Is that their

01:25:23.100 secret strategy?

01:25:24.200 Well, you won't be

01:25:24.560 able to see her hair.

01:25:27.020 Who knows?

01:25:28.020 Who knows?

01:25:28.940 All right, video

01:25:29.680 comments, Samson.

01:25:31.560 If biological

01:25:32.640 ethnicity did not 0.99

01:25:33.740 exist, there would

01:25:34.740 be no basis for the

01:25:35.840 belief that diversity

01:25:36.920 is a strength.

01:25:38.320 An Englishman can

01:25:39.180 identify as an

01:25:39.960 African and fulfil

01:25:40.840 the diversity quotas.

01:25:42.460 But then again,

01:25:43.260 we are fighting

01:25:43.840 against brainwashed 0.99

01:25:44.920 midwits, after all.

01:25:46.400 Logic has no place.

01:25:48.780 I only identify as

01:25:49.700 an African when I'm

01:25:50.420 running late.

01:25:52.200 Just throwing that

01:25:52.940 out there.

01:25:53.340 You can still

01:25:54.020 identify as European

01:25:55.280 with that excuse.

01:25:57.120 Mediterranean, perhaps.

01:25:58.000 Yes.

01:25:59.880 Sorry, Stelios.

01:26:01.860 He embraces it.

01:26:05.380 Help! 0.98

01:26:06.060 Help, police!

01:26:07.140 Hey, I got problems

01:26:08.020 on my own right now.

01:26:09.280 Oh boy, this is gonna

01:26:10.480 get worse before it

01:26:11.520 gets better. 1.00

01:26:12.660 God, you're pathetic. 1.00

01:26:14.020 Ooh, fire. 1.00

01:26:15.020 Please don't burn me

01:26:16.000 or my possessions.

01:26:17.040 I'm so important

01:26:17.840 and flammable.

01:26:19.480 Is this a test?

01:26:20.620 No, not a test.

01:26:22.340 Come on, Mark. 0.99

01:26:22.920 Fucking hell. 1.00

01:26:23.360 Get your elbows in. 1.00

01:26:24.020 It's all gone back.

01:26:24.600 One of my favourite

01:26:28.920 memes from the

01:26:31.160 weekend is the one

01:26:32.120 with the

01:26:33.760 women with 1.00

01:26:36.640 the social media

01:26:37.820 influencers in Dubai

01:26:38.860 with the inflated

01:26:39.820 duck lips.

01:26:41.380 They're showing

01:26:43.900 the bombs

01:26:44.580 falling

01:26:45.120 the missiles.

01:26:46.760 I mean, Iran 0.72

01:26:47.480 could have done

01:26:47.960 something beautiful.

01:26:49.040 Ian Miles Chong

01:26:49.820 and a bunch of

01:26:50.520 dinos

01:26:51.180 and influencers

01:26:52.700 were in Dubai.

01:26:53.820 I mean, you really

01:26:54.700 messed it up.

01:26:55.880 Just saying.

01:26:56.840 Throwing it out there.

01:26:57.400 That's a very good point.

01:27:21.440 It's also nice to hear

01:27:22.680 concerns about our

01:27:24.180 domestic politics abroad

01:27:26.080 and, you know,

01:27:28.140 hoping you're staying

01:27:29.280 sane in California.

01:27:38.320 Time's up.

01:27:45.000 Here, which slows it

01:27:46.680 down, like, massively.

01:27:48.720 And then it runs

01:27:49.300 into the...

01:27:50.680 I feel like a very

01:28:04.600 male autistic part

01:28:05.980 of my brain has 0.78

01:28:06.820 just been given a

01:28:07.560 massage watching that.

01:28:08.520 Yeah, I know, right?

01:28:09.240 I could watch that

01:28:09.980 for hours.

01:28:11.360 I was thinking about

01:28:12.500 this as I was

01:28:13.020 watching it.

01:28:13.640 Like, it's the male 0.96

01:28:15.100 equivalent of when

01:28:16.160 a female friend

01:28:17.500 comes back with

01:28:18.100 shopping bags and

01:28:18.960 she's showing her

01:28:19.800 friend what she's

01:28:20.560 bought.

01:28:20.960 It's that but

01:28:21.840 machines.

01:28:22.580 You know, by the way,

01:28:23.660 I'm sure you're gonna

01:28:24.760 appreciate this, but I

01:28:26.080 really like watching

01:28:27.180 the extended...

01:28:29.360 Listening to the

01:28:30.280 extended Twin Peaks

01:28:31.300 theme with the

01:28:32.260 sawmill.

01:28:32.700 I can just look at

01:28:34.480 the sawmill for a

01:28:35.380 long time.

01:28:36.020 It's also

01:28:37.120 fireplaces.

01:28:40.020 From segment

01:28:41.300 one, Michael

01:28:41.880 Dribelba says,

01:28:42.840 this is how I know

01:28:43.880 that although Iran

01:28:44.980 has been overdue

01:28:46.520 for an attack

01:28:48.200 since 1979,

01:28:49.500 this isn't

01:28:50.520 necessarily a good

01:28:51.400 idea.

01:28:52.300 If the English 0.96

01:28:52.760 Brits aren't 1.00

01:28:53.400 coming out for

01:28:55.260 Donald, then it's

01:28:57.320 probably not a good

01:28:58.000 idea to have a

01:28:59.900 Donnybrook.

01:29:00.720 Forgive my

01:29:01.380 ignorance.

01:29:01.820 I don't actually 0.55

01:29:02.620 know what that

01:29:03.360 Donnybrook means.

01:29:05.580 And Cumbrian

01:29:06.220 Kulak says,

01:29:07.640 I wonder if it'll

01:29:08.560 be like any more

01:29:09.520 liberty-style events.

01:29:11.540 Honestly, I don't

01:29:12.700 know.

01:29:13.060 All I know is that I

01:29:14.120 don't think it's a

01:29:14.860 very reciprocal

01:29:15.500 relationship, Kulak.

01:29:18.160 And Fuzzy

01:29:18.560 Pirate says,

01:29:19.520 interesting how

01:29:20.220 America ensured oil 0.99

01:29:21.380 supply from

01:29:22.080 Venezuela before

01:29:23.320 launching a war on

01:29:24.340 Iran.

01:29:24.980 Well, I mean, if

01:29:26.020 that is the case,

01:29:27.020 then it's just...

01:29:27.640 That is fairly good

01:29:28.700 planning.

01:29:29.020 I think also Iran

01:29:30.240 is one of the

01:29:30.800 major sellers of

01:29:33.560 oil to China.

01:29:35.740 Yeah.

01:29:36.560 I didn't know

01:29:37.340 Michael Drabelbis was

01:29:38.460 a US veteran.

01:29:40.200 He has another

01:29:41.020 comment there.

01:29:42.120 Oh, yeah.

01:29:42.420 As a US veteran,

01:29:43.440 I will say that

01:29:44.060 going to war without 0.94

01:29:44.840 England-Britain is 0.99

01:29:46.760 like going hunting

01:29:47.660 without a proper

01:29:48.480 scope.

01:29:49.300 Yes, the United

01:29:50.560 States can go it

01:29:51.700 alone, but without

01:29:52.480 Britain, it's a 1.00

01:29:53.700 harder slog.

01:29:54.600 Well, that's a...

01:29:55.440 That's very nice.

01:29:56.260 That's a very

01:29:56.740 decent of you,

01:29:57.460 Michael.

01:29:57.680 Thank you.

01:29:58.680 I know that in

01:29:59.920 Iraq and Afghanistan

01:30:00.780 our intelligence stuff

01:30:02.920 was very helpful.

01:30:04.680 We punched above our

01:30:05.980 weight still.

01:30:07.620 Right.

01:30:08.160 Some of my comments.

01:30:08.980 Jimbo G says,

01:30:09.860 there has been another

01:30:10.480 multiple stabbing 0.83

01:30:11.160 incident today, this

01:30:12.000 time outside a

01:30:12.720 Birmingham school.

01:30:13.940 How am I not

01:30:14.420 surprised it's in

01:30:15.220 Birmingham?

01:30:15.900 It's getting crazy out

01:30:17.020 there, and it

01:30:17.720 certainly is to the

01:30:18.820 point of, you know,

01:30:21.800 retreat to the

01:30:23.020 countryside while you

01:30:24.140 still can, whilst it's

01:30:25.780 still safe.

01:30:26.640 I remember when you

01:30:27.720 made a thread on

01:30:28.600 X at one time where

01:30:29.620 you just went through

01:30:30.600 the news and was

01:30:31.280 like, here's an

01:30:31.780 example of every day

01:30:33.200 in this particular

01:30:34.620 week where someone's

01:30:35.680 been stabbed or

01:30:36.420 something terrible is

01:30:37.400 being done.

01:30:38.760 I mean, it's just

01:30:39.460 every day now.

01:30:40.880 Every day.

01:30:41.920 Yeah, I completely

01:30:42.440 forgot about that.

01:30:43.140 I need to start doing

01:30:43.720 that more.

01:30:45.020 Keep up the unbroken

01:30:46.280 streak.

01:30:47.920 Ewan Baker says,

01:30:48.780 we can't get rid of

01:30:50.580 these people, but a

01:30:51.460 Ukrainian family was

01:30:52.540 denied asylum and

01:30:53.620 were instead told to

01:30:55.320 block out bombs with

01:30:56.480 headphones.

01:30:59.220 Blimey, that's a bit

01:31:00.080 harsh, isn't it?

01:31:01.540 I mean, I did see that

01:31:02.700 4chan post of the

01:31:03.740 person who didn't leave

01:31:05.280 Kiev because Elden

01:31:06.720 Ring came out, which

01:31:07.700 is about as based as a

01:31:09.680 human being can ever

01:31:10.460 become.

01:31:12.260 Would you like to read

01:31:13.120 some of yours,

01:31:13.600 Stelios?

01:31:13.820 Yes, Sophie Liv.

01:31:15.020 Again, she may be

01:31:15.940 trying to trick me.

01:31:18.200 The home office

01:31:19.120 targeting native

01:31:20.220 nativists might have

01:31:21.660 something to do with

01:31:22.520 the majority of that

01:31:23.400 office being migrants,

01:31:24.480 so they're protecting

01:31:25.080 their own, just maybe.

01:31:27.240 There wasn't any

01:31:27.940 innuendo in this, in

01:31:29.340 this comment by Sophie.

01:31:31.380 No.

01:31:32.440 I remember that was

01:31:33.360 in the...

01:31:33.720 You're reeling from

01:31:34.760 that time.

01:31:35.660 Yeah, that was so

01:31:36.880 hilarious.

01:31:37.540 That was in the

01:31:38.100 Tolkien.

01:31:38.220 Yeah, yeah, the

01:31:38.940 Tolkien roundtable,

01:31:40.480 right?

01:31:40.680 You're still going

01:31:42.320 through...

01:31:42.760 It was a funny...

01:31:43.460 It was a funny...

01:31:44.580 Right, John V says...

01:31:45.960 Hi, John V.

01:31:46.680 When you first

01:31:47.440 mentioned there's a

01:31:48.240 new counter-terrorism

01:31:49.160 agenda, I thought,

01:31:50.000 well, it's a start, and

01:31:51.380 at least something

01:31:52.000 might get done.

01:31:52.780 Then the jargon

01:31:53.500 started, so never

01:31:54.780 mind.

01:31:55.680 And Alpha of the

01:31:56.620 Betters says, I

01:31:57.980 wouldn't be so sure

01:31:58.880 Joss isn't on a

01:32:00.220 terror watch list.

01:32:01.520 He's a spreader of

01:32:02.560 extremism in

01:32:03.440 Stammer's UK.

01:32:04.900 Thank you for

01:32:05.400 noticing.

01:32:08.060 All right, then.

01:32:08.980 Well, that's all

01:32:09.680 we've got time for

01:32:10.440 today, ladies and

01:32:11.140 gentlemen.

01:32:11.600 I hope that you've

01:32:12.360 enjoyed the show, and

01:32:13.420 we look forward to

01:32:14.340 seeing you in the

01:32:15.000 next one.

01:32:15.640 Have a good day.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - March 03, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1366

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