The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1380

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Monday,

00:00:03.620 the 23rd of March, 2026. Yes, it's Monday. I'm joined by Nate and I'm joined by Ferris.

00:00:09.220 And today we're going to be talking about how the mission of the state is going to continue,

00:00:12.980 whether you like it or not. It doesn't matter what you vote for. It doesn't matter what you

00:00:16.300 ask for. It doesn't matter how unpopular everything that they do is. You're guessing

00:00:20.520 it's whether you like it or not. Then we're going to be talking about how Saturday Night Live UK

00:00:26.060 edition has been a massive flop and actually i'm starting to feel kind of bad for them to be honest

00:00:30.740 i know i wouldn't go that far yeah i know but i i the more i was researching into it i was like

00:00:36.060 oh no uh and then we're going to talk about how things are going to get so much worse and your

00:00:41.740 energy bills are going to get so much higher uh so you know enjoy that but before we begin

00:00:46.280 of course we have the live event on 11th of april it's selling very well and it's going to be very

00:00:50.660 good uh so get your tickets now it's in swindon and uh look forward to that and after the show

00:00:56.580 at 3 p.m we have realpolitik live is it live with faris so uh what are we talking about here

00:01:03.380 talking about whether or not trump actually is serious about negotiating with the iranians

00:01:07.900 and um you know what are some of the consequences if he doesn't well i mean it's the art of the

00:01:13.980 deal, isn't it? No, not this time. Not this time. Is it not? Interesting. Okay, so join us at 3pm

00:01:22.700 on the website for that. And anyway, let's begin. All right, well, I wanted to talk about the

00:01:28.600 state's mission, their propaganda machine, their globalist utopia, whatever you want to call it.

00:01:36.200 They're on rails and we can't deviate from it no matter what. It is an impossibility,

00:01:42.100 or it's seemingly an impossibility you are going to be paying for it through your taxes though

00:01:46.560 oh yeah massively another inevitability there yeah massively and this all stemmed actually from

00:01:51.520 this and another example i'm going to give you um but this is quite a shocking

00:01:56.480 shocking turn of events darlington PE teacher was banned from teaching for life what for life

00:02:04.520 for life can appeal in two years but we'll discuss that um over small boat posts and it's actually

00:02:10.980 way worse than just banned right okay so of who banned him what what did he say about the small

00:02:17.860 boats really not that bad at all to be honest so let's have a look so

00:02:23.100 he teacher who wrote deploy the navy in response to a social media post about illegal migrant so

00:02:31.320 he didn't say illegal migrant invaders it was a post about illegal migrant invaders he said deploy

00:02:35.800 the navy has been barred from the classroom after an official investigation the illegal migrant

00:02:43.900 invaders is a literally correct description of what happens when they get on boats and break

00:02:49.100 into our country it's definitionally correct correct yeah and deploying the navy is a actually

00:02:55.280 very commonly held opinion it's a sensible position to hold when you're being people break

00:02:59.960 into your country why do you have a navy yeah if not to defend us from the sea yeah it's it's quite

00:03:06.000 mad so the individual in question is a samuel everett who taught at one horton academy in

00:03:12.980 darlington co durham uh and he was found guilty again of unacceptable conduct by a panel of the

00:03:21.100 teaching regulation agency after a hearing which ended last month so that was so he's not allowed

00:03:26.320 to publicly voice an opinion

00:03:27.740 on the illegal invasion

00:03:28.940 of his own country?

00:03:30.160 Yeah, no, not to, no, no.

00:03:31.660 No.

00:03:32.700 Okay.

00:03:33.560 Yeah, it is quite mad.

00:03:34.840 So what he said

00:03:35.540 actually wasn't that bad.

00:03:36.520 He did this on X, right?

00:03:38.300 Yeah.

00:03:38.920 So Elon,

00:03:39.800 maybe help a guy out,

00:03:41.600 you know?

00:03:42.540 I remember there was

00:03:43.260 the legal fund,

00:03:44.540 wasn't there,

00:03:44.960 for anyone that was cancelled

00:03:46.860 on X.

00:03:47.340 This is literally a guy

00:03:48.040 being cancelled

00:03:48.600 because of an X post, yes.

00:03:49.980 Yeah, so Elon,

00:03:51.420 help him out.

00:03:52.800 So it was a judgment

00:03:54.520 published online.

00:03:55.340 it was found that he wrote deploy the navy we've covered already in response to a post saying

00:03:59.440 more boats filled with illegal migrant invaders are approaching our shores every day only britain

00:04:05.900 first would stop the boats and deport all illegal migrants now that's why this has been done well

00:04:11.740 this is this is actually where it gets it's way more sinister than just that is it it gets way

00:04:16.900 it's actually really really really sinister so there was a panel okay there's a panel uh sort

00:04:23.720 of a review panel which reviewed it and discussed his conduct they said that the britain first was

00:04:30.520 widely known as a far-right organization i mean they're not really okay they're not that bad i

00:04:36.640 guess so it doesn't matter what our opinion on britain first is it is fairly true that widely

00:04:40.860 known as a far-right organization that is the common opinion of britain true but the indication

00:04:45.300 here raising that is the state and the educational institution has one political allegiance and

00:04:57.740 that's the only allowable political allegiance yes so it's you're guilty of wrong political

00:05:04.580 leanings yeah i mean which is insane that's mad it is but britain first have been prescribed in

00:05:11.860 the common culture and say no you're just not allowed like i saw um who was it the other day

00:05:17.340 it was jacob rees mogg he was being he was on a an interview i think with um i can't remember who

00:05:22.820 it was actually um but it wasn't uh it wasn't someone i was too familiar with i think but he

00:05:28.300 he said well there's no further right position than tommy robinson and the the the person in

00:05:34.240 was like um no they're way further right and he was like no no no but this is the point in the

00:05:38.880 common parlance Tommy Robinson in the mainstream mind occupies the most far-right position Britain

00:05:45.820 first occupied the most far-right position even though there's a gulf of difference between just

00:05:49.220 those two organizations those people so yeah very very true yeah so the panel concluded they said

00:05:55.500 the post to which Mr Everett was replying used the word and invaders which was relevant to the

00:06:02.120 context of Mr Everett's reply to the effect that the navy should be deployed yeah but that's

00:06:06.540 Literally what's happening.

00:06:07.800 Yes.

00:06:08.100 They're literally raping and plundering.

00:06:10.300 But that is what happens in an invasion.

00:06:13.340 Have you thought about that might be oasis?

00:06:17.740 Ah.

00:06:18.400 To point out the obvious.

00:06:21.040 What, the massively disproportionate levels of sexual assault

00:06:24.540 that are being done by illegal immigrants who break into the country?

00:06:28.180 That literally invade, yeah.

00:06:29.640 No, you're not allowed to notice these things.

00:06:31.420 Right, okay.

00:06:31.960 Not allowed.

00:06:32.480 So they said the purpose of deploying the Navy

00:06:34.600 in the context of the word invaders was offensive oh so it was offensive to the invaders was it

00:06:40.180 i mean what what are we doing yes there's literally it's offensive to the invaders yeah

00:06:47.240 uh well it was offensive because it implied advocating the use of military force against

00:06:52.900 unarmed people in small boats yeah well how do you know they're unarmed for starters we actually

00:06:57.560 don't know that true but that also doesn't mean just bombing them or shooting them it can mean

00:07:02.720 and literally catching them and just sending them back.

00:07:05.480 Or just a blockade, I mean.

00:07:06.540 Yeah, exactly.

00:07:06.920 Which actually Australia did that, didn't they?

00:07:08.360 They blockaded people.

00:07:09.140 It doesn't mean murdering them.

00:07:10.900 Yeah, and then his posts,

00:07:15.260 the language may have got a bit fruitier,

00:07:17.520 but it wasn't off the mark.

00:07:20.460 So he also posted, just get rid of the lot of them.

00:07:24.400 And so he's quantified the next statement.

00:07:25.980 He says, if they hate this country so much,

00:07:28.120 they should F off.

00:07:29.360 I mean, agreed.

00:07:30.160 I mean, but he's saying, if they hate the country.

00:07:32.140 Radical position.

00:07:32.720 I know, yeah, it's radical, isn't it, to be like,

00:07:34.680 well, if you don't like the country, you shouldn't be here.

00:07:36.440 Something like two-thirds of the people in all of the country think this.

00:07:39.760 Whoa!

00:07:40.360 It's literally one of the most well-attested political opinions in this country.

00:07:44.060 Well, the state does not allow that.

00:07:45.680 Well, yeah, of course, yeah, good point.

00:07:47.240 And I'm saying the state for a very clear reason here, actually,

00:07:49.840 which I'll get to.

00:07:51.120 And so that was in a response to a comment which said,

00:07:53.360 we have imported many more who hate the country.

00:07:55.960 The only way we survive is through patriotism and understanding our history.

00:07:59.680 Obviously.

00:08:01.180 He sounds like somebody who might have read Tolkien at some point.

00:08:05.440 I mean...

00:08:05.760 Yes.

00:08:06.480 He sounds like a dangerous extremist.

00:08:08.880 This is so trivially true, though.

00:08:11.600 It's just trivial.

00:08:13.480 Don't import people who hate your country.

00:08:15.180 The only way the country survives is by knowing its own history and liking itself.

00:08:18.660 These are normal opinions.

00:08:21.360 Yeah, it's trivial.

00:08:22.400 Utterly trivial.

00:08:23.120 These are normal, baseline opinions that the majority of the country hold,

00:08:27.780 but no, you're not allowed.

00:08:28.880 so it continues further right there was another of his posts that said completely agree if you

00:08:33.480 don't respect our laws culture and way of life you should leave and goose stepping as he said

00:08:39.300 this or something because again that's the most boomer coded like centrist patriot position

00:08:46.060 that is possible to have i mean kia starmer would probably say that well i mean he said worse didn't

00:08:52.000 he yeah exactly yeah but this is this is probably the sort of thing that kia starmer would say

00:08:57.440 Yeah.

00:08:58.260 We don't go to other people's countries

00:09:00.000 and tell them they're wrong

00:09:01.280 or how they go about things.

00:09:03.420 Which is a shame.

00:09:04.400 We used to.

00:09:05.500 And the world was a place for it, actually.

00:09:07.460 Yeah, the world was a place for it, yeah.

00:09:09.160 So this is actually where it gets really sinister.

00:09:11.940 Right.

00:09:12.220 Okay, so Mr. Everett was employed

00:09:13.840 by the Horton Academy,

00:09:15.280 which was part of the Education Village Academy Trust

00:09:17.540 as a PE teacher from 2022

00:09:19.300 until he was dismissed in June 2024

00:09:21.620 after someone raised concerns about his post on X.

00:09:25.280 The panel...

00:09:27.120 The panel said he was guilty, but they recommended that Mr. Everett be allowed to continue teaching,

00:09:32.160 given his remorse and a successful placement in another school.

00:09:35.240 Oh, that's so... I hate it. That's so pathetic, isn't it?

00:09:37.920 Oh, no, it's way worse than that.

00:09:38.760 He's had to sit there and go, no, no, really, I'm actually in favour of my country being invaded.

00:09:42.740 No, we shouldn't like ourselves, and we shouldn't know our own history.

00:09:45.060 Oh, no, I'm so sorry. I hate it.

00:09:47.300 But what happened?

00:09:48.260 Go on.

00:09:49.000 The panel was overruled by Mark Cavey on behalf of the Secretary of State for Education.

00:09:56.740 right so the government literally interceded yeah to get this guy fired and banned for teaching

00:10:02.340 from yeah literally that is mad isn't it mad that is so you've got your normal due process with a

00:10:08.480 panel in the education system but no no don't don't worry about that we're not gonna we don't

00:10:12.440 accept that ruling actually but this is the explicit stated position of shabana mahoud

00:10:16.780 like literally we will stop the boats we'll smash the gang stop the boat we insist on integration

00:10:22.400 We insist on integration, we insist on following the rules,

00:10:25.240 being part of the community and all this sort of stuff.

00:10:27.200 This is the explicit stated position of the Labour government.

00:10:31.480 Stores should say that they were going to make him a spad

00:10:33.740 for the next education sector.

00:10:35.220 Yeah, yeah.

00:10:36.140 Seriously.

00:10:37.260 That is the way to counter this and demoralise these extremists.

00:10:42.280 When I said it gets more sinister, I mean, how sinister can you get,

00:10:46.780 literally, just the state coming in and going,

00:10:49.180 no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:10:50.740 This is like...

00:10:51.220 We recommend, well, ruled, sorry, not recommend.

00:10:53.920 We ruled that he should be barred from teaching for life.

00:10:57.900 Holding the government's opinion on the small boats.

00:11:01.560 And just holding a normal, milquetoast opinion.

00:11:05.340 Sure, but that's one thing.

00:11:06.800 If the government was like a radical left-wing government,

00:11:09.780 that was the exact Polanski government,

00:11:11.200 that was like, no, every migrant will replace every Briton

00:11:13.900 by 2035 or something, you'd understand it.

00:11:16.720 But this is the government's own opinion on this.

00:11:18.960 Yeah, it is. It's truly insane. So Mr. KV found, quote, in this case, and while noting the evidence of insight and remorse found by the panel, I have placed considerable weight on the seriousness of the misconduct that it has found, which included a teacher engaging in offensive dialogue on a public social media platform, thereby demonstrating a lack of tolerance and a lack of respect for the rights and beliefs of others.

00:11:44.960 sorry sorry so he doesn't he doesn't want to tolerate in being invaded he doesn't tolerate

00:11:51.580 breaking the law and he doesn't respect invaders no no but he the the he's not tolerating they're

00:11:57.720 breaking the law yeah and tolerating the lack of respect for the rights and beliefs of others

00:12:02.580 they believe they have a right to break our laws and he doesn't tolerate that yeah this is sinister

00:12:08.160 it is actually same yeah also as if he's committed a crime where's the crime he hasn't been charged

00:12:13.260 with anything right so no nothing what is going on yeah this is insane you see what i mean we're

00:12:19.240 on rails yeah and we will not deviate from this no matter what i mean we're going to restore

00:12:25.340 britain we'll win but this is this is the machine in action genuinely i've never seen i mean there's

00:12:31.980 been lots of examples but this to me was a really clear-cut example of the machine the globalist

00:12:38.080 entity just in action we're on this train you will not get off but the fact that they're like

00:12:43.540 right you can't even apply a appeal for two years now yeah what's he supposed to do for two years

00:12:49.600 i mean the whole point is destroy his career right yeah that's not moralizing not just his

00:12:54.780 career i'm sure he's got a mortgage to pay for yes like this is destroying his life yeah

00:13:00.120 and so he said further i've i've also placed considerable weight on the negative impact of

00:13:06.020 this behavior and the reputation of the profession well so the reputation of old teachers must be

00:13:11.580 that they are woke retards massively left-wing right because it's you you can't associate with

00:13:17.120 anything right-wing you think of the train of events you can't associate shibana mahoud can't

00:13:21.900 associate with right-wing politics so like britain first for instance you can't associate with

00:13:25.580 a normal position shibana mahoud's a position an opinion

00:13:29.000 this is mad it's insane it's almost speechless like it it's crazy but it's so interesting how

00:13:39.080 it's about persecuting the plebeians to keep them in their place yeah that's what this is

00:13:44.380 this is no no no you will never speak about this or else we will ruin your life

00:13:48.740 and we quite literally quite literally ruin your life you haven't committed a crime he would have

00:13:53.020 studied for what like five six years something like this quite a high amount of time but the

00:13:57.980 point is he hasn't committed a crime he's not in violation of the law he is professing the

00:14:02.340 government's own stated opinion which is we need to stop illegals breaking into the country

00:14:06.740 and somehow this is now and again look what he's been fought for demonstrating a lack of tolerance

00:14:12.840 and a lack of respect for the rights and beliefs of others oh no as in you are not allowed to have

00:14:18.420 a contrary opinion to people who are breaking into the country illegally this is insane yeah

00:14:24.560 This is genuinely mad.

00:14:26.060 And you always think you're over the horizon of madness, right?

00:14:29.900 There's a little bit more.

00:14:31.780 You think, right, it can't get any more mental than this.

00:14:34.980 And now it's just like you can't have a career in teaching.

00:14:38.960 But the state actually intervened in the standard process.

00:14:43.760 How is this something the government is paying attention to?

00:14:46.980 Well, right.

00:14:48.140 And they even said,

00:14:49.220 I have also noted the panel's findings that Mr. Everett's behavior was deliberate

00:14:53.140 it and that there was no evidence he was acting under duress in my judgment the panel has in

00:14:58.460 making its recommendation that a prohibition order should not be imposed failed to give sufficient

00:15:03.680 weight to these factors so they're like no you're wrong i'm right mad that's genuinely mad it's

00:15:09.520 disgusting it's actually disgusting and look at it from a broader context as well the the teaching

00:15:15.400 profession is short-staffed running low they're like nope no no no no no he's one we can do without

00:15:22.840 regardless don't worry about it yep that's fine what did he do well no crime no nothing illegal

00:15:30.280 no and yet the state will intervene in this but need i remind everyone about batley grammar school

00:15:35.760 yeah and the poor chap that is still in hiding i mean this is genuinely like political crimes

00:15:40.980 things are not on the statue this is very soviet you know now it's you're in a virtual gulag where

00:15:47.960 you you don't have a profession anymore so good luck and especially in this economy i'm sure

00:15:52.760 you'll find no problem finding another job.

00:15:55.340 It's consigning someone to oblivion, basically,

00:15:57.660 for having done nothing other than counter-signal the party,

00:16:01.820 but not even counter-signaling the party,

00:16:05.540 just signaling what the party actually believes,

00:16:07.420 just in the wrong way.

00:16:09.180 Yeah, it is actually insane.

00:16:11.720 And so, again, we're on rails.

00:16:13.820 This will continue, although it won't, again.

00:16:16.740 We are going to win.

00:16:18.380 This can't go on.

00:16:20.000 And then another great example, just by coincidence,

00:16:22.600 actually came out today um friend of the podcast uh lewis brackpool posted this and i was like what

00:16:30.420 is this for the sake of copyright we're not going to watch it but it's um the bbc show i saw this

00:16:36.180 come up in my timeline too well they're actually insane they're portraying journalists who ask for

00:16:41.520 freedom of information requests from the home office uh are essentially extremists or side by

00:16:48.120 side one step removed from being essential terrorists and then as i understand it that

00:16:52.440 character goes on to try and shoot a kid in a small boat that's crossing across oh my thing

00:16:57.680 no no it's genuinely mad i don't know if it's like in the replies here but that's that's a meme

00:17:02.480 but uh i saw like other clips from it where the the same guy is like eyeing up with a sniper scope

00:17:09.920 on there are children in the boats crossing the channel amazing that's unusual yeah exactly very

00:17:14.660 yeah when does that and it's just like what are we what also the fact they the bbc which is

00:17:20.820 thanks to lewis's work we know from his foi request does work directly with the government

00:17:27.220 yeah so we know that they're hand in hand already and so then they they decide oh hey whoa

00:17:33.380 this guy's a nuisance to the home office we'll portray him in in a drama as an extremist and

00:17:39.640 that's the thing the guy's he's been a real nuisance to the home office like oh no the holy

00:17:43.160 home office yeah oh no good it's like what if i had my way i'd dissolve the home office i mean

00:17:49.380 yeah but again it's just a perfectly indicative of no you're a nuisance i'm going to try and

00:17:56.340 destroy who you are the system knows it's got no legal claim against you in fact the legal claim

00:18:01.240 is the freedom of information request okay so what can we do well we can try and pollute the

00:18:05.540 public mind against this person yeah the normies for following what we implemented i think it was

00:18:11.320 Blair, it must be Blair's government.

00:18:12.740 And that's the thing which he said was his greatest regret.

00:18:15.700 Exactly, for transparency.

00:18:17.420 It's like, well, okay, does the system actually want transparency?

00:18:19.820 No, it doesn't.

00:18:20.420 Apparently not.

00:18:21.380 And the thing is, the state would have, if they could,

00:18:25.320 have done the same to Lewis like they did with a teacher.

00:18:28.440 But they're unable to.

00:18:29.640 So they utilise another arm of power, another asset they have,

00:18:34.320 and so they can destroy, attempt to, it won't work,

00:18:36.840 attempt to destroy the public's view of individuals that do such work or just do that instead it's

00:18:43.780 like how deeply deeply sinister on the plus side it does also go show the insecurity of the state

00:18:49.720 yes the reason that it is doing these things is not just accidental or coincidental it's because

00:18:56.080 it feels threatened by the fact there are so many now citizen activists journalists people who are

00:19:02.120 awake to the situation that it's like okay well we're gonna have to start propagandizing the

00:19:06.600 normies we're gonna have to start punishing PE teachers whatever it was when they and even if

00:19:11.080 they've done nothing wrong we're going to get the government to intercede in the most trivial of

00:19:14.060 cases so okay that that's you grasping for control it's that is that is you wishing that you had all

00:19:20.080 of this locked down and you clearly don't the the clock is ticking this is going to end yeah it's

00:19:25.420 that phrase isn't it like it lashes out as it cries in pain or something well yeah i mean that's

00:19:30.520 basically what the state's that's the government for yeah uh and then just some honorable mentions

00:19:35.060 Just another example of the state machine

00:19:38.500 continuing to do whatever it wishes, regardless.

00:19:42.400 Do you remember when Priti Patel ordered police

00:19:44.740 to stop recording non-crime hate incidences?

00:19:47.960 Did they stop, did they?

00:19:49.540 No, not at all.

00:19:53.360 And then they were like, can you wipe them?

00:19:55.820 No.

00:19:57.060 I mean, theoretically, yes, but we're not going to.

00:20:00.200 Again, it's so sinister.

00:20:02.000 Why are you recording anything if it's not a crime?

00:20:05.060 non-crime means not your business yeah because you are the police it's your job to enforce the

00:20:12.460 laws if it's not a crime you have no business there what are we doing here folks it can only

00:20:17.300 mean political crime right it can only mean against the regime i mean presumably if you are

00:20:23.680 you know recorded as one of those whenever they do your vetting for various positions within the

00:20:29.200 government that's it you have been found guilty of a hate crime you are no longer eligible to work

00:20:34.200 it is a political crime

00:20:35.920 it's not even a hate crime

00:20:36.740 it's not a crime

00:20:37.760 exactly

00:20:38.420 well these are thought crimes

00:20:39.860 that's the thing

00:20:40.860 it's a registry of thought crimes

00:20:43.360 and the intention is to make sure

00:20:45.460 that the undesirables

00:20:46.540 do not manage to get into

00:20:48.380 the system

00:20:48.980 sanctum

00:20:49.360 so there you go

00:20:51.940 we're on rails

00:20:52.720 we will not deviate

00:20:54.040 it is a machine

00:20:55.320 and it has a job

00:20:56.360 will continue

00:20:57.380 Tom Ratt says

00:21:01.220 all jokes aside

00:21:01.800 Restore Britain

00:21:02.220 needs to make it clear

00:21:02.920 that their departments

00:21:03.480 that there are departments that will be binned and wholesale replaced,

00:21:08.360 and this includes the Home Office, HMRC,

00:21:10.600 and the Department of Work and Pensions, and now education.

00:21:13.540 Yeah, I mean, especially the Home Office.

00:21:17.540 Honestly, it's...

00:21:18.300 The Muslim network. You need to reverse DEI it.

00:21:21.240 Reconstituting...

00:21:21.920 You need to reverse DEI it at the very least,

00:21:25.260 but just reconstituting a new institution would probably be easier.

00:21:29.320 Aim high, vote low isn't a great slogan

00:21:31.080 because shouldn't vote low mean if we want to win?

00:21:34.780 Gives a mixed message.

00:21:36.080 Well, I didn't come up with it.

00:21:38.300 Dwight says,

00:21:39.220 do you see on the news Mel Gibson

00:21:40.220 wrote the first three hours of his series

00:21:42.020 on the Siege of Malta?

00:21:43.080 I haven't seen that.

00:21:44.440 And Elon has apparently already helped Mr. Everett

00:21:46.660 actually by importing an Indian fill of job.

00:21:48.620 Well, Elon could indeed help out Mr. Everett

00:21:52.920 with legal costs and whatnot.

00:21:54.960 And since he's been counseled for what he's posted on X,

00:21:56.860 that's as good an argument as any.

00:21:58.720 Anyway, let's move on.

00:21:59.600 so you may uh actually may not be aware that saturday night live the very long running and

00:22:08.180 well frankly kind of failing uh late night um and i don't know is it political i suppose it

00:22:15.060 is political everything's supposed to be political comedy yeah yeah the political comedy show uh in

00:22:19.800 america that nobody watches uh has been imported to britain for nobody to watch it here which is

00:22:26.720 really weird and the first episode debuted over the weekend and i haven't actually watched it

00:22:33.380 because i don't have a sky tv subscription i don't no i don't have a tv license i don't know exactly

00:22:39.760 i don't either like i don't know anyone does um but there are lots of clips on social media that

00:22:45.920 i did watch and after cringe you know picking myself up out of the cringe i thought we'd talk

00:22:51.560 about it but before we begin we have a live event on the 11th of april in swindon it's going to be

00:22:56.520 Brilliant. All of the hosts are going to be there, and it's going to be great fun.

00:22:59.220 A link up in the description. We will see you there.

00:23:01.400 Unlike Saturday Night Live.

00:23:02.700 Unlike Saturday Night Live.

00:23:04.480 And so I thought we'd talk about this in the context of de-Yankification.

00:23:07.680 De-Yankification is one of those phrases that's going around the British political left,

00:23:13.780 which is highly ironic given how phenomenally Yankified the British political left is.

00:23:20.120 now everything they think originates in a left-wing intersectional social justice activist space

00:23:27.700 yeah it begins in harvard university they don't know the entire world view they don't know this

00:23:33.440 because they are all and i i mean this in the literal medical sense retarded like they are all

00:23:39.300 literally missing parts of their brain and they don't understand the de-anchification didn't begin

00:23:46.200 with donald trump uh but anyway you've got here my jimmy the giant as a prime example then you've

00:23:52.220 got uh i mean look at this right look this is such the case for de-amplification is building

00:23:56.260 what do you think this flag is where do you think pronouns in your bio came from like everything

00:24:03.820 you will have read as a trans feminist researcher will have come from an american the fact that you

00:24:09.480 can even be that yeah exactly American import the fact that you know look at the the gay pride flag

00:24:18.300 the trans flag these are all American imports the fact that you think of yourself as being

00:24:25.140 in favor of immigration is itself an American import immigration is yankification you brain

00:24:33.900 alerts anyway the melting pot the whole diversity exactly we've always been a nation of immigrants

00:24:39.560 all this sort of it's all yankification you are the most yankified people on the internet

00:24:43.720 and it's kind of embarrassing to watch i mean like this thing with jimmy the giant he's uh

00:24:48.420 wearing his baseball cap and t-shirt being like we need de-yankification now you wear a baseball

00:24:53.940 cap and t-shirt anyway moving on this was a broadcast to honestly no one's anticipation

00:25:01.500 frankly um the new york institution is making its way across the pond okay can we return to

00:25:07.180 that conversation about de-yangtification now please i actually am really interested in having

00:25:11.260 that conversation because nobody wanted this and nobody and we know this from the numbers actually

00:25:16.320 but we'll get back into that in a second anyway so it was hosted by uh tina fey i mean i'm i'm

00:25:23.720 I'm gonna, I'm gonna force you to watch some of this.

00:25:27.760 So, this is it guys,

00:25:30.480 the countdown to Saturday Night Live UK.

00:25:35.700 Now we just need to figure out a way to let everyone know

00:25:37.800 the first live show is on Sky One at 10pm

00:25:40.880 on Saturday, 21st of March.

00:25:42.540 And can also be streamed on Now TV

00:25:44.400 if you're too busy getting laid.

00:25:45.920 How can we possibly communicate that to people?

00:25:48.320 We'll just find a way to pop it in.

00:25:49.660 Did someone say Poppins?

00:25:53.720 She's real.

00:25:56.720 Hey, Tina Fey.

00:25:58.720 Hey, Tina Fey.

00:26:00.720 Okay, I'll pull. Easy now.

00:26:03.720 Gather round, children.

00:26:06.720 Nanny is here with everything you need for a practically perfect...

00:26:10.720 You know what? I'm going to drop the voice.

00:26:12.720 I've got everything you need for your first ever SNL UK.

00:26:15.720 Got some of those. Oh, yeah, sure.

00:26:18.720 Wigs make the character.

00:26:21.720 Ooh, that's nice.

00:26:24.020 Oh, a crown, in case you guys want to do royal stuff.

00:26:28.000 Ooh, a really long shoe.

00:26:30.560 That could be funny.

00:26:31.540 Did she really toss the crown to an African woman?

00:26:36.280 Sure, but I don't think, who cares?

00:26:38.260 This is just not funny at all.

00:26:39.900 Deeply cringe.

00:26:40.880 What on earth was this?

00:26:42.480 Could they have any more of a lack of charisma?

00:26:45.660 I was going to say the same thing.

00:26:47.340 It's a complete charisma vacuum.

00:26:49.340 We've got to do this.

00:26:50.340 Yeah.

00:26:50.560 Like, you don't even sound excited.

00:26:52.660 And the thing is,

00:26:53.780 if you walked up to the average person on the street in Britain

00:26:56.600 and said, do you know who Tina Fey is?

00:26:59.460 Yeah.

00:27:00.140 No.

00:27:00.960 I didn't actually know who Tina Fey was either.

00:27:03.920 I think that guy's expression is perfect.

00:27:06.640 Yeah.

00:27:07.160 The guy closing his eyes and going, I think that's...

00:27:10.360 So apparently Tina Fey is an American comedian

00:27:12.780 who has won a bunch of, like, awards for being an American comedian

00:27:15.820 inside a very specific bubble in America.

00:27:19.580 and this doesn't penetrate outwards

00:27:21.600 because I, like I said,

00:27:22.520 I didn't know who she was.

00:27:23.760 So like when they're like,

00:27:24.540 oh my God, it's Tina Fey.

00:27:25.340 I'm like, oh my God, who?

00:27:27.440 You know, like I'm going to look this up.

00:27:29.940 Anyway, the entire thing

00:27:31.720 has this kind of tone, right?

00:27:34.700 So the first proper clip they put out,

00:27:38.000 there's this five minute clip

00:27:38.960 that was a parody of Keir Starmer's government.

00:27:41.800 Now, Keir Starmer is the moron

00:27:43.500 and David Lammy is the intelligent straight man.

00:27:46.180 Yeah, I watched this.

00:27:48.820 I think I watched this yesterday, and I was like, what?

00:27:51.200 Why is David Lammy the clever one?

00:27:53.220 Yeah, so all of this is complete nonsense.

00:27:55.860 I mean, you are doing a parody of David Lammy,

00:27:58.780 which, to be fair, is probably not that easy in itself, right?

00:28:01.560 Exactly.

00:28:02.060 The guy's a walking...

00:28:03.220 Yeah, he's a famous moron.

00:28:07.000 But this, like, again, was just very dire.

00:28:13.060 I mean, 180,000 views, 700 likes.

00:28:15.560 Brilliant.

00:28:16.660 Watch a little bit of it.

00:28:17.540 And that's all people expect.

00:28:20.540 Thank you, Lambie.

00:28:22.540 It just goes to show,

00:28:24.540 while we may not agree with everything America does,

00:28:28.540 we can still be civil

00:28:30.540 and embrace their wonderful, unproblematic culture.

00:28:35.540 Speaking of which...

00:28:38.540 Live from London, excited!

00:28:42.540 Sorry, what am I looking at?

00:28:45.540 god look at so much i know like this like we're going to embrace the wonderful unproblematic

00:28:51.460 culture it's like oh god i just i just don't i don't know why this exists why are you doing

00:28:58.700 this segment yeah i know but it's like why are you guys pretending to be like americans it's so

00:29:07.100 embarrassing i mean there's the question of you know the the the problem there's a problem

00:29:11.280 inherent with parodying Keir Starmer which is that he's such himself a personal charisma vacuum

00:29:16.960 yeah he sucks the charisma of anything that he's doing so like if you've got an extended

00:29:21.360 skit with Keir Starmer it's like okay now I have to listen to the guy putting on the Keir Starmer

00:29:26.100 voice it's like oh god you know anyway he's done something like release the sausages or like a

00:29:30.500 quick yeah yeah yeah yeah sure I guess release the sausages was actually funny yeah like from

00:29:35.740 a comedic standpoint but it's so terrible this entire thing it is and uh even tom harwood was

00:29:42.220 like why are they calling it gen z because they will play this clip in fact as well we were worried

00:29:47.740 you'd lose your nerve so we've taken steps to help you gain unfounded confidence mr prime minister

00:29:53.080 meet your gen z advisor at luke whoopee what's up stomsie what the hell is that it's what aging

00:30:02.480 millennials think is funny so i don't think anyone wow there's there's loads of this there's loads

00:30:10.060 of this here's his uh a guy talking about b in fact i'm going to skip this he's talking about

00:30:14.060 bts using a bunch of like weird zoomer lingo and the joke is oh it's a bts oh yeah exactly right

00:30:21.660 who is this actually for yeah exactly who ended audience exactly uh then you've got uh this one

00:30:27.660 this this this premise is that the uh every time you go to you know you load up a web page on your

00:30:33.580 phone you go to press it but because the css hadn't loaded properly and it moves slightly

00:30:37.320 you press something else well there's a team behind that function or something and they're

00:30:43.420 there to just ruin your internet browsing experience slightly it's like okay that's

00:30:47.620 that's brilliant that's absolutely who are the writers on this yeah that's a terrible idea for

00:30:53.180 Yeah. And then you've got them being like, ha, ha, ha.

00:30:56.560 Isn't it funny that Dubai's under fire and influencers are getting bombed?

00:31:00.420 And it's like...

00:31:00.880 Can we see that?

00:31:03.120 We can see it if you like.

00:31:06.500 As Iranian strikes continue to hit Dubai,

00:31:09.800 the cost of chartering a private jet has risen so high

00:31:12.860 that many influencers have been struggling to flee.

00:31:15.900 I must stress, though, it's not all good news.

00:31:23.180 If any influencers are killed, and again,

00:31:26.100 we can only hope they are,

00:31:28.440 at least they'll be easy to identify by their dental records.

00:31:34.340 We...

00:31:35.580 I don't understand why we've tried to import this humour.

00:31:42.000 The Brits have a very specific humour.

00:31:44.660 And it's not American millennial humour.

00:31:46.640 No. Why are we important...

00:31:48.260 What is this?

00:31:49.860 What's he trying to do with a facial expression?

00:31:51.580 I have no idea.

00:31:53.180 I assume John Stewart did something similar.

00:31:56.420 I think it's like a nod and a wink to the camera.

00:31:58.600 This is a witty one line.

00:31:59.960 You're supposed to nod.

00:32:01.380 It's like, hey, hey, hey.

00:32:03.140 It's too thick to get it.

00:32:04.300 It's not.

00:32:05.140 Well, you're not an American millennial, right?

00:32:07.340 Left wing millennial.

00:32:08.520 So these are not for you because obviously.

00:32:13.640 But anyway, they also had a band called Wet Leg playing.

00:32:17.840 Who?

00:32:18.300 Yeah, I know.

00:32:18.900 Yeah, right.

00:32:19.300 Who?

00:32:20.100 Who?

00:32:20.800 From the Isle of White.

00:32:22.540 Yeah.

00:32:22.720 who's this band called wet leg i mean what a horrible name for anything right like wet leg

00:32:27.920 sounds like a dog that's sort of been disabled slightly a little bit but i i so i didn't know

00:32:32.580 who they were so i looked up the wikipedia page and i was like okay i'll look up their their chart

00:32:36.640 hits peak chart positions they played a song called catch these fists which peaked at 99 in

00:32:44.080 the uk chart oh wow they so why they managed to get someone that good then they're really

00:32:48.520 prestigious but you'll notice they they did fairly well in america going to like number two

00:32:52.740 so they've imported a british band who have done all right in america to play on the uk is this

00:32:59.920 is this one of those things where yankification they've made it quote unquote for the uk audiences

00:33:06.340 but actually it's uk snl for american audiences kind of it looks that way that's so strange why

00:33:13.260 would you go to that go to those lengths because snl is completely dead in stateside now everyone

00:33:19.420 hates it so have they just gone right we'll make it a british version under the guise that it's

00:33:25.220 actually for brits but actually it's for americans because that seems to be what they've done it kind

00:33:30.220 of that it is i mean they played this song called catch these fists which is embarrassing and then

00:33:35.460 mange tout which didn't even chart mostly so it's just like okay that's mange too oh well whoever i

00:33:41.940 don't know i don't care right sweet pointy type thing but who's who is this for oh yeah no yeah

00:33:48.460 like americans it's got to be for americans right it's it's for americans so it's like okay why are

00:33:54.040 we why are we not actually um like why are we not thinking in these terms my fellow left-wingers

00:34:01.640 online who want the de-yankification of britain oh you only want it when it happens on the right

00:34:07.720 Anyway, so the media covered it,

00:34:09.560 and pretty damning responses from The Independent,

00:34:14.500 which is the outlet that you think would be most sympathetic to it.

00:34:19.160 So the show divides viewers, which is a very kind way of saying,

00:34:24.940 quote, not funny at all.

00:34:30.760 Some viewers said it was fantastic.

00:34:33.400 All 12 of them.

00:34:34.120 All 12 of these people had Ukraine flags in their bios.

00:34:38.620 And others were like, not funny at all.

00:34:41.080 While many viewers acknowledged they hadn't loved every sketch.

00:34:44.240 This is very generous.

00:34:45.680 And overall, it was quite hit or miss.

00:34:47.620 They praised the new and refreshing material the show brought to UK Strings.

00:34:51.440 Hang on a second.

00:34:52.620 New and refreshing.

00:34:53.760 This is a rehash of an ancient American Saturday program.

00:34:58.980 This is...

00:34:59.480 Stop being funny after Norm MacDonald left or something?

00:35:02.040 Oh, yes.

00:35:02.460 Which was in the 90s?

00:35:03.900 Yes, but I love they call it, it's new and refreshing.

00:35:07.740 It's like, how is it new and refreshing?

00:35:09.520 Is it literally a rehash of a failed American show?

00:35:12.560 Like, this is the least new and refreshing thing you can imagine.

00:35:16.720 Literally doing anything else.

00:35:18.700 And the idea of sort of trying to recreate Mary Poppins.

00:35:22.560 Yeah, exactly.

00:35:23.540 Is it the 1920s?

00:35:25.600 I don't understand what happened there.

00:35:28.500 But also, do you think that young people in Britain in 2026 know who Mary Poppins is?

00:35:32.860 Again, if you were going down the street,

00:35:34.360 you see some kids walking along with their face mask or whatever.

00:35:37.840 You're like, who's Mary Poppins?

00:35:39.280 They're like, what, blood or whatever?

00:35:40.460 I don't know what I'm going to say.

00:35:41.500 But they're not going to know.

00:35:44.220 Americans would know.

00:35:46.040 Exactly.

00:35:46.880 It is absolutely for Americans because they would know.

00:35:50.320 They'd know who Tina Fey is.

00:35:51.680 They'll know who Mary Poppins is.

00:35:54.980 It's absolutely for Americans.

00:35:56.720 That's exactly right.

00:35:57.940 So they're like, oh, the quaint little British version,

00:35:59.960 I'll watch that.

00:36:00.980 Yeah.

00:36:01.340 I won't watch my version

00:36:02.200 but I'll watch the Brit

00:36:02.940 yeah it's absolutely

00:36:03.560 this is for America

00:36:04.260 yeah and so

00:36:05.000 I found this article

00:36:06.060 from GQ

00:36:06.640 I mean just looking

00:36:07.540 at the cast here

00:36:08.760 stay to that

00:36:09.560 I just

00:36:11.520 I feel like I'm

00:36:12.800 at the world's worst

00:36:13.720 party in 2003

00:36:15.140 and I'm being

00:36:16.620 I'm going to be trapped

00:36:18.040 with these kind of

00:36:19.060 goons

00:36:19.660 and I'm going to have

00:36:20.540 to explain to them

00:36:21.500 why I need to go

00:36:22.640 and get another drink

00:36:23.460 this looks like a shot

00:36:24.380 reverse shot

00:36:25.020 of something you'd see

00:36:25.820 in peep show

00:36:26.440 like they walk into a party

00:36:27.700 and they're like

00:36:27.940 oh my god

00:36:28.480 yeah yeah yeah

00:36:29.140 yes

00:36:29.920 it's like that isn't it

00:36:30.940 yes uh and so anyway we found found this uh gq article uh in advance of it right so this this

00:36:38.060 this show was years in the making and employs 350 people and it's so oh my god it's a great

00:36:46.580 load of effort to make something that bad so many too many cooks in the kitchen i assume is the issue

00:36:52.260 here right and remember this was written before this was premiered right so they say there has

00:36:59.720 been plenty of negative speculation about his chances in the wrong hands it could be a cringy

00:37:04.600 disaster an all-timer of a comedy culture clash but if it works yeah big if there it'll represent

00:37:11.400 the best opportunity for british comedy in a generation it's not 2014 it's not 2014 this

00:37:16.100 isn't going to work so they have uh they they start they they um this took place in the west

00:37:22.220 london uh sorry london's television center right now they this is described as quote a

00:37:27.880 vibe-less office room as in it is just pale walls desks and comedy writers right uh that's the best

00:37:38.460 environment for comedy right there's a 20 strong team of writers in this quote vibe-less office

00:37:43.520 in the london television 20 people made something that bad and not once someone went well guys

00:37:50.180 this isn't gonna land but that's the point isn't it the these are people for whom this is comedy

00:37:57.460 right so anyway i was uh enjoying this but the thing i couldn't help but notice and when you

00:38:04.600 look about look at the um the thing right like for example i'll skip ahead about it on this so

00:38:10.340 you can just see the sort of scale of the sets and stuff right so they've got quite a lot of sets so

00:38:15.580 you've got to think okay a fair amount of money has been put into this yeah actually and if you've

00:38:20.380 got 350 people working on that that's millions and millions and millions and millions of pounds

00:38:27.260 that you're putting into this.

00:38:29.180 Who, do we know the production company that made it?

00:38:31.700 No, but it's made by Sky themselves.

00:38:34.040 Oh, right, okay.

00:38:34.940 So they basically bought a license.

00:38:36.580 It's all in-house, right.

00:38:38.840 Representatives from Sky have declined to reveal

00:38:41.160 exactly how big the budget is.

00:38:43.100 I bet they are.

00:38:44.700 Yeah, exactly.

00:38:45.540 But they'll tank the stock price, right?

00:38:47.660 Right.

00:38:48.800 The producer says, even I don't know it,

00:38:51.600 I think if I knew it, I'd be panicking.

00:38:53.340 that's what you want that is brilliant so that's comedy gold he should have said that exactly right

00:39:01.240 he should have put that in the show it's not that the show isn't funny it's only funny

00:39:05.020 in the second or third order readings of it right but that's that's mad imagine me like yeah i don't

00:39:11.720 know what the budget is it's bound to be millions and everyone expects it to be bad you know and

00:39:17.420 it's just like right okay so uh i suppose the proof of the pudding is in eating uh now obviously

00:39:24.800 sky is a private company yeah it's not the bbc so they can't just make these kind of one thing

00:39:32.220 that i found really interesting as well like this seems to be in the sort of 2018 2017 we are going

00:39:39.060 to burn money for social justice yeah of entertainment right now that's something sky

00:39:45.340 haven't really done that much because they like i said they're a private company and they need to

00:39:49.400 make money they're not the bbc they can't just burn taxpayer money and know that they're gonna

00:39:53.040 have a job tomorrow right and so for sky this is about audience share what share of the potential

00:39:59.900 audience can you get how many people are tuning in well it turns out that it was uh 226 000 viewers

00:40:08.860 yeah that's not great we get more than that on a segment on this channel

00:40:13.580 a good segment on this channel uh it's not great at all three point we don't have 350 people

00:40:19.640 yeah yeah yeah yeah this doesn't cost millions and we don't have 350 people working for us

00:40:25.920 don't have 20 writers uh so that is a 3.2 percent of sky's audience share at that time period

00:40:33.200 what what time did it actually um 10 p.m on saturday night 10 p.m okay yeah 3.2 percent

00:40:41.100 according to uh overnight figures so what what has gone so catastrophically wrong here right

00:40:47.220 because i mean look at this set this set is an expensive set very american yeah very american

00:40:52.440 but is that the american set or is that the british set that's the british set that's the

00:40:55.780 british set yeah that would have cost hundreds of thousands yes right this this is a really

00:41:01.800 expensive mistake this guy is making so what is happening well what they're trying to do

00:41:07.860 is not only import a foreign paradigm

00:41:11.920 and framework for British TV.

00:41:14.100 I mean, the thing I think a lot of Americans

00:41:16.400 fail to understand is actually

00:41:17.540 Brits kind of like things to look a bit crap, right?

00:41:21.800 Look at Red Dwarf.

00:41:23.020 Yeah, oh yeah.

00:41:23.680 The joke of it is that it's, you know,

00:41:25.880 there's always a bit of a sort of nod and a wink.

00:41:27.720 Yeah, it's kind of crap,

00:41:28.580 but that's not what this is about.

00:41:30.080 Crichton with his ridiculous foam face.

00:41:33.180 Yeah, exactly.

00:41:34.640 Actually, the production values are not as important

00:41:37.060 as they are in america um but also what it's trying to do is recover an era of television

00:41:42.080 that has just passed right this was this was the sort of thing that would have done very well in

00:41:47.100 the 1990s yes right this is the sort of thing that would have done very well in previous eras

00:41:52.800 this is not something that does well now because frankly no one is watching tv yeah that's true

00:41:58.260 and the humor is in no way outside of the circumscribed morality of the establishment

00:42:06.000 this is progressive modern liberal humor which is why you have tina fey there doing

00:42:12.580 why you have david lammy being clever which is why you have david lammy being clever etc etc

00:42:17.540 and so you can't do anything transgressive or boundary pushing with your comedy which is what

00:42:23.460 comedy is best for i mean if they really wanted to make something funny they'd have the black guy

00:42:27.760 in a wig and a dress playing diane abbott with like two left shoes on but you would that would

00:42:33.040 be funny that would be funny yeah that would land with british that would be funny that would be

00:42:37.960 actually hilarious but no you've got him playing a jumped up intelligent version of lammy which

00:42:42.780 no one believes my suspension of disbelief cannot stretch that far i'm sorry like it just doesn't

00:42:47.700 work and no it's the uh the the the theme of the keir starmer segment was oh keir starmer's too

00:42:53.140 weak to say no to trump it's like okay but he did he did exactly he had actually done that

00:42:58.580 Yeah, exactly.

00:42:59.100 But he actually did do this, and David Lammy's smart, which, okay, ridiculous.

00:43:03.440 So they're staying well within the morality of the establishment.

00:43:05.900 They can't do anything transgressive.

00:43:07.180 They can't do anything particularly edgy.

00:43:08.700 They can't do anything particularly interesting.

00:43:10.680 And so the question was, well, who was this even appealing to?

00:43:12.900 And I found this article here where they, oh, strong launch for SNL UK audience,

00:43:19.060 which 226,000 people.

00:43:21.180 That's really not strong.

00:43:22.240 That's really not strong.

00:43:23.660 I mean, the first episode of a thing, after all the advertising,

00:43:26.040 always gets a big bump anyway.

00:43:27.360 look at like the rings of power premieres would get the most views because this is going to go

00:43:32.540 like way down yeah um as they say it's a good figure for sky it's 3.2 percent of all viewers

00:43:40.220 at the time it that sounds awful like sorry i'm sorry but the thing is they've got a really

00:43:48.300 interesting point uh down here right the u.s version of saturday night live is actually a

00:43:53.760 good benchmark as in oh well how well does that do in britain as in how popular is that and then

00:43:58.580 maybe actually if there's an audience there you make something to to expand or fill that audience

00:44:03.720 no as you can see it gets 4.3 million viewers in america which is not nothing despite going out

00:44:08.780 11 30 p.m but only around 5 000 viewers on sky comedy here why would you see that and go we need

00:44:16.360 a british version you know what the british public want saturday night live even though they've got

00:44:21.060 it and they don't watch it and they this is absolutely for americans then it has to be right

00:44:26.100 like who whose idea was this that is mad it would make sense if what millions of pounds that is

00:44:37.760 insane that is actually insane and who did you get you got tina fey and wet leg like

00:44:43.380 5 000 viewers for the american one and someone some einstein at sky was like you know what we're

00:44:49.880 gonna do yeah grit version yeah 200 000 viewers unless there's a massive tax break or something

00:44:56.020 but i just don't understand that is actually insane and and the thing is right even uh you

00:45:01.740 know the guardian's like well it could have been a lot worse oh no they're like oh it didn't fail

00:45:10.360 it's like you want to bet you sure about that yeah you sure it didn't fail i mean look at this

00:45:15.460 impressions of kissed armor sketches about dodgy kins skincare products and some god-awful

00:45:20.300 performances aside all that aside the inaugural episode's ambition was refreshing to see oh my

00:45:27.800 god that is this is the mother of all participation awards it could not be any more damned with faint

00:45:34.960 praise exactly it is so brutal and that's the guardian being like look this is for us right

00:45:39.920 we're the target audience for this yes we know we're the target audience for this they don't

00:45:43.860 like it and yeah exactly it could have been a lot worse the thing is the thing about these reviews

00:45:48.760 because i um on my own channel i sometimes review i look at like first reviews because i find it

00:45:54.360 really interesting to see like who's shilling and you know whether whether it's an honest gauge

00:45:59.740 and you can always tell like there's people that have uh media access and they're like right

00:46:05.560 i know i need to toe the line here so i need i need to say as much as i can but i also need to

00:46:12.260 be as honest as i can without losing all my credibility on both sides of this aisle right

00:46:17.320 that's what that is yes i mean mad literally in the in the article the only quote i pulled out of

00:46:22.740 it was it could have been a lot lot worse and it could have been a lot better and someone in the

00:46:28.620 soup chatted in it's like britain had far funnier snl style shows uh for 45 years ago not the nine

00:46:34.580 o'clock news there was uh there was another one as well where ricky gervais got his big break

00:46:38.840 i remember being a teenager and watching it and basically ricky gervais come out for like

00:46:42.420 five minutes and just have like a politically incorrect rant which was funny yeah and that

00:46:46.740 was where he got like his big liftoff on it i can't remember what it was called and he had

00:46:50.540 what was the one with the guy with the glasses the toothbrush don't forget your toothbrush

00:46:55.300 i don't know i'm pretty sure it's don't forget your toothbrush we've had i mean and that's

00:47:00.600 another weird thing as well it's like why are we importing american comedy we export

00:47:05.140 Yeah, they normally...

00:47:06.520 But that's what I mean.

00:47:07.100 I think that's why I firmly believe this is actually for Americans.

00:47:11.060 It could well be.

00:47:11.500 Because they're going to export it.

00:47:13.160 It's not made...

00:47:14.520 The thing is, it's not being broadcast on American TV yet.

00:47:17.080 Yet, yet.

00:47:18.040 Yet, yet.

00:47:18.680 Yet.

00:47:19.000 There must be a deal.

00:47:20.200 There must be a deal somewhere along the line.

00:47:21.960 But because it's contemporary politics, it doesn't age.

00:47:24.140 No, true.

00:47:24.840 Yeah, that's true.

00:47:25.680 So it's not like, you know, old episodes of Mr. Bean.

00:47:27.940 Why did they make this then?

00:47:29.740 The John Oliver class?

00:47:31.020 I don't know.

00:47:32.160 I honestly have no idea.

00:47:34.400 So anyway, do you want to know who did like it, though?

00:47:37.580 Oh, go on, then.

00:47:38.180 Oh, God, who?

00:47:39.080 And honestly, right, I hate to give academic agent props on this.

00:47:42.540 Well, he liked it?

00:47:43.280 No, no, no, no, no.

00:47:44.180 He didn't like it.

00:47:45.600 But the woke left are more honest than the centre-right.

00:47:50.420 The centre-right are worse than the woke left.

00:47:52.300 Right.

00:47:53.280 He's, I think, probably right,

00:47:54.860 because the Telegraph gave it four out of five stars.

00:47:59.140 What's wrong with him?

00:48:01.460 Well, yeah, exactly.

00:48:02.940 What?

00:48:04.100 predictions that a transatlantic snl would crash and burn proved wide of the mark was it who who

00:48:11.760 wrote that article this is a chap called uh ed power but like mate the guardian has said no

00:48:18.580 you don't need to you don't need to do this like he says funny in places and never actively harmful

00:48:25.100 to your emotional well-being oh this is such a low standard right it went about as well as could

00:48:29.260 have been hoped harmful to your not harmful not well-being not actively harmful to your emotional

00:48:38.280 well-being i want comedy to be so close to the edge that's what makes it to be car i just want

00:48:43.540 it to be funny good comedian yeah exactly what's what's the um what's the guy who does the scottish

00:48:48.660 accent he's a really mainstream guy always does these scottish accents about legal tender

00:48:53.220 uh i don't know michael mcintyre he was funny and he wasn't like he was brilliant he was really

00:48:59.800 funny he wasn't edgy he was just entertaining right uh so comedy doesn't have to be i mean

00:49:04.320 don't worry i like edgy comedy as well but like it doesn't have to be super edgy it just has to

00:49:08.540 be funny mcintyre yeah you don't like him i i know it's funny guys anyway the the point is

00:49:14.780 it carries on against all reasonable expectations this homegrown saturday night live was more

00:49:20.140 more than capable of raising real laughs on its own if he'd go in with such low expectations i i

00:49:25.320 i assume he went in expecting i'm not there's no other explanation yeah but anyway for some reason

00:49:31.480 the telegraph was like brilliant love it four out of five stars didn't crash and burn

00:49:37.780 anyway so one one funny thing did come out of this which was the uh the the segment about

00:49:45.740 keir starmer wasn't exactly flattering to keir starmer although honestly it could have been worse

00:49:50.280 like genuinely could have been worse uh but donald trump tweeted out on his truth social

00:49:55.920 so just like i guess i guess they can't just be friends even if they don't get involved in each

00:50:03.820 other's i guess we're done with diplomacy i guess we're done with diplomacy uh yeah so anyway um

00:50:09.020 the the only thing i feel a bit bad about is genuinely how obviously set up to fail this has

00:50:14.820 been i think the numbers are just going to crater right um and there are lots of like young people

00:50:20.220 who are part of the system reliant on the system don't understand that they should think outside

00:50:24.840 of the system and think the system is there to help them and they have been essentially set up

00:50:29.060 to fail on this right so they're going to get probably like one season of this and sky can be

00:50:33.620 like look this is this is way too much money there's far too little return uh bad luck you

00:50:39.060 know and so there are a bunch of people essentially being told that they're funny acting in a way that

00:50:43.580 the critics are just like this this isn't funny at all and so the you know the sort of reinforced

00:50:48.020 self-reinforcing delusion oh yeah that's so funny man that's so funny the 20 writers and that have

00:50:53.160 all agreed that this is funny and they get out and it just bombs and it's just like oh that is

00:50:57.460 that is rough uh anyway so uh yeah so um enjoy that uh uh de-ancification means no more hind

00:51:08.280 beans be careful what you wish for i don't actually eat beans i don't mind them i i make

00:51:13.120 my own baked beans i had them on a full english at the weekend i mean you know i'm not saying i

00:51:18.460 don't like them i just i never choose them you know yeah although saying that beans on toast

00:51:23.240 does sound quite good actually uh or jack potato yeah yeah okay yeah the funniest thing about snl

00:51:32.220 all spelt out uk is the lord ceter's reviewing it making it a weekly segment also watching snl

00:51:38.880 uk makes american libtards feel smart and superior which is why it was produced yeah but the thing is

00:51:42.720 there's something so degraded about britain at the moment that the sort of the sort of people

00:51:47.600 the uk are producing sound intellectually inferior to the americans and the accents are weaker and

00:51:55.560 like you know it's like modern london english i hate the slang that has become popular on the

00:52:00.780 slang the way the way the accent like you know pinches words is bad that it drops t's the americans

00:52:08.520 don't drop their t's they actually pronounce their words correctly and so it's the the accent now

00:52:14.320 makes them sound like inferior and more stupid than americans which if you think back like 30

00:52:19.440 years you never thought that'd be possible with a british accent but here we are um isn't there

00:52:24.240 a rerun of only fools and horses or keeping up appearances on instead yes uh wet leg would be

00:52:29.000 more at home performing on the bbc the main lyric in their debut single was i went to school and got

00:52:34.280 too big it seemed like uh resentful degenerate modernity which wasn't my sort of thing anyway

00:52:40.760 let's uh let's carry on and talk about how things are going to get worse okay speaking of comedy

00:52:45.180 let's talk about british energy policy ah well that is yes darkly amusing that that is that is

00:52:51.720 quite quite amusing and all the wrong way uh but but before that i should mention that uh there is

00:52:59.760 going to be a live event on the 11th of april here in swindon at the mecca starting seven o'clock so

00:53:05.980 please do come here and join us it's going to be good um tickets are going quickly actually which

00:53:11.320 is nice now it's going to be the biggest event we've ever done as well yep i'll be by the bar

00:53:17.480 drinking some beers i think there is also a bar there so good news there is a bar um so britain

00:53:24.840 proudly a year ago announced the end of all coal-fired plants and they were the last producing

00:53:32.940 one was shut down and this is a tradition that dates back to the Romans the Guardian informs us

00:53:39.700 of Britain extracting coal and using it for electricity now mind you these plants weren't

00:53:46.720 mothballed or anything no no that would have been too good instead what was done is this

00:53:54.440 turn the audio off on this just yeah and you see here uh edf the company responsible for

00:54:04.940 blowing up this particular one oh they they blew them up did they so they dismantled everything

00:54:10.320 within them as opposed to just mothballing them and having them ready and available

00:54:13.880 and then you see in a few seconds a pretty big explosion all right okay yeah we'll never need

00:54:22.440 this again yeah that's the message ed milliband's green energy is going to solve all our problems

00:54:28.080 well exactly i mean even i i slightly off topic but not quite even just leaving one up

00:54:34.540 yeah a mega structure it is one of those things it's history yeah it's fascinating why everyone

00:54:39.860 just constantly wants to destroy everything yes which is why it must be destroyed that's never

00:54:45.640 that's the point isn't it because the this isn't being destroyed because it didn't work

00:54:49.360 This isn't being destroyed because it wasn't a proud part of our history.

00:54:52.300 Exactly.

00:54:52.820 It's being destroyed because this is a symbol of the destruction of the planet

00:54:56.040 and climate change and all this sort of stuff.

00:54:57.780 It's being, exactly, ideologically done.

00:55:00.280 These things are morally evil.

00:55:02.780 That's why this is being done.

00:55:04.560 Yes.

00:55:05.540 And you see a few of these plants getting blown up.

00:55:09.160 Here is another one being wrecked completely.

00:55:14.880 And with the energy crisis now going on in the Middle East,

00:55:18.260 this does seem like a bit of a bad idea it's like germany decommissioning its nuclear power plants

00:55:23.000 yeah then laughing at trump thinking what we'll be fine being dependent on russian energy and then

00:55:28.440 russia invading ukraine exactly honestly it's so stupid and you know you have to remember that in

00:55:33.560 britain it takes decades and decades and decades to build anything yes absolutely just a simple road

00:55:39.700 and just for anyone who's wondering it's not because we can't physically build things

00:55:43.600 it's because there are layers upon layers upon layers upon layers upon layers and more layers

00:55:48.280 of rules regulations investigations environmental checks that we have to do before anything before

00:55:55.000 the first spade even hits the dirt exactly like it costs they were trying to build they abandoned

00:56:00.040 this didn't they the road under stonehenge yeah i think that costs 180 million right yeah nothing

00:56:06.260 was built this was all on consultancies this is all on you know making sure that regulations were

00:56:11.220 met and eventually it was just scrapped i was spending nearly 200 million without a spade put

00:56:14.800 in the ground yes like this is stupid pathetic we are doing this to ourselves yes um and at a

00:56:21.640 time like this when you have this sort of total collapse in the energy market because of the war

00:56:26.200 in the middle east and because the war in ukraine it's worth remembering that um you know coal used

00:56:34.980 to provide 65 percent of all electricity in britain and we've got billions of tons of it

00:56:41.600 and there are that's the annoying thing no no no let me correct you here okay uh 3910 million

00:56:51.100 tons oh okay although total reserves could be as big as 187 billion oh okay so yeah tons so yeah

00:56:59.460 you're wrong so so so it's not have millions of tons we have billions of tons just to correct you

00:57:03.780 there and as i understand this coal is not just a single thing as well there's a scale of coal

00:57:09.460 there are various layers and we happen to have the best coal in the world there british coal is

00:57:14.980 actually there are mixed reviews on the quality because the sulfur content and how much ash

00:57:19.560 but it seems that there is more than enough for excellent quality coal for power generation

00:57:26.600 right and for pretty much every single industrial use around steel and carbon industries and so on

00:57:33.280 and so forth like britain is sitting on a sea of coal it is ridiculously abundant i looked this up

00:57:40.500 the other day we've got loads of iron too there's loads of iron wow and i would only work if we got

00:57:45.560 you know smelting plants well exactly if we if we didn't you know de-industrialize ourselves

00:57:50.500 we'd be able to do things yep so uh not just not only are there these massive amounts of coal there

00:58:00.440 there are lignite resources needed for all kinds of things with with with metallurgy and steel

00:58:10.100 production and so on and so forth and the problem is literally government policy yes that has decided

00:58:18.780 that absolutely not there shouldn't be any coal produced in britain there shouldn't be any coal

00:58:25.240 burn in britain even though the problem with the dirt of coal has been solved through various

00:58:30.820 processes like washing the coal before burning it capturing the carbon are you suggesting to me

00:58:36.740 that technology has advanced since 1840 i know it's shocking remarkable but it seems to be true

00:58:43.740 has anyone told ed milliband this he does not want to he doesn't care yeah he does not want to hear

00:58:50.140 it and britain was a net exporter of energy for many many decades and then in 2004 because of

00:58:58.680 tony blair britain decided to be a net importer of energy and it's importing more and more and more

00:59:06.640 energy it's a fascinating thing about britain is that all the lefties are like no no we can't

00:59:11.940 have nuclear power no no not loud sorry where do you think a bulk of our electricity comes from

00:59:16.560 from france where's their electricity come from oh yeah nuclear power yeah so you're okay importing

00:59:22.500 it but it's it's also within it like how much coal does china burn every year oh it's mad they

00:59:28.720 build a new coal plant every week there is a completed coal plant every week in china and

00:59:36.600 if you look at chinese energy consumption it is ridiculous and they're exceeding the united states

00:59:42.620 in terms of how much energy they consume.

00:59:44.220 But this is the entire problem

00:59:45.860 with the mainstream libtard consensus,

00:59:48.600 which is just out of sight, out of mind.

00:59:50.680 Exactly.

00:59:51.220 It's literally, no, no, we'll just let the Chinese do it.

00:59:53.100 And then we've saved the planet.

00:59:54.640 It's like, no, we're just not really a factor

00:59:56.800 in what is happening anymore.

00:59:58.220 Exactly.

00:59:58.440 That's all this is.

00:59:59.540 Energy nationalism is going to be the primary concern

01:00:02.120 for the next decade.

01:00:03.140 Exactly.

01:00:04.260 How could it be any other way?

01:00:05.840 And we've got the potential.

01:00:07.520 We've got the North Sioux oil.

01:00:08.780 We've got all the coal.

01:00:09.980 It's fracking, this guy.

01:00:10.700 It's fracking.

01:00:11.320 and you know

01:00:12.580 given their credit

01:00:13.240 yeah we could probably

01:00:14.200 have wind farms

01:00:14.920 off the coast

01:00:15.480 or something

01:00:15.900 there's probably

01:00:16.280 North Sea wind farms

01:00:17.280 work worthy

01:00:18.440 you know who knows

01:00:19.540 but the point is

01:00:20.300 it's not like we don't

01:00:20.840 have options

01:00:21.440 and we're sat here

01:00:22.160 paying the highest

01:00:22.760 energy costs

01:00:23.520 in the world

01:00:24.520 Rolls Royce makes

01:00:25.540 mini

01:00:26.340 nuclear power plants

01:00:28.000 reactors power plants

01:00:29.180 which are just sold off

01:00:30.780 to other places

01:00:31.360 instead of

01:00:31.860 yeah I know

01:00:33.420 this energy crisis

01:00:35.060 is completely

01:00:36.080 completely

01:00:37.020 completely solvable

01:00:38.120 in fact if you were

01:00:39.080 looking at this

01:00:39.660 just in a history book

01:00:41.420 you'd be like, you know,

01:00:42.000 they're listing all of the potential energy sources

01:00:44.140 Britain has.

01:00:44.940 And they'd be like, yes.

01:00:45.620 And then they went into the 2026 energy crisis.

01:00:48.200 You'd be like, how?

01:00:49.080 Exactly.

01:00:49.520 How is it possible that they were in an energy crisis?

01:00:52.200 Because of the lunatics of government.

01:00:54.440 That's all it is.

01:00:55.460 That's all it is.

01:00:56.460 The history books will look back at these politicians

01:00:58.820 with just a deep sense of evil.

01:01:03.280 They'll look at it and be very, very, well, unkind.

01:01:06.580 Just true.

01:01:08.500 So not only is there abundant coal in Britain,

01:01:11.580 rather famously, there is a place called the North Sea.

01:01:15.460 Yeah, which...

01:01:16.400 Never heard of it.

01:01:17.440 ...is already, is being drilled out anyway.

01:01:20.880 And it's being drilled massively by the Norwegians.

01:01:23.980 Yeah.

01:01:24.320 And the capacity there in reserves

01:01:26.340 is 2.9 billion barrels of oil equivalent.

01:01:30.820 I guess we'll let the Norwegians have it.

01:01:32.820 Exactly.

01:01:33.080 They can profit, don't worry about it.

01:01:34.340 Yeah.

01:01:34.760 Why would we want to profit from that?

01:01:36.280 and there is so much more that could be produced from that.

01:01:40.900 There are loads of gas fields as well, aren't there?

01:01:42.780 Loads of gas fields.

01:01:44.040 Because wasn't it Denmark or Germany that are tapping those?

01:01:47.080 And for some reason we're just like, no, we're not allowed it,

01:01:48.860 but it's in our fucking water.

01:01:50.580 Exactly.

01:01:51.600 And you could literally do horizontal drilling.

01:01:55.160 You could literally do horizontal drilling,

01:01:57.240 meaning that from Norwegian waters they could take British gas.

01:02:01.480 Which they probably are.

01:02:02.660 And if you just look at what's been happening here, Britain used to be a pretty serious oil producer.

01:02:11.980 What year was that, 2000?

01:02:13.200 The peak was in 2000.

01:02:14.840 Yeah, and then the Blairite government comes in, kills it.

01:02:17.400 And then Blair murders it.

01:02:19.340 But look, the Conservatives do nothing.

01:02:21.080 Honestly, they do nothing to fix this.

01:02:23.140 Absolutely nothing.

01:02:24.520 Conservatives.

01:02:25.540 Absolutely nothing.

01:02:28.620 Nothing to fix this.

01:02:29.860 And just I wanted to mention the taxes on the North Sea oil, because from 2002 to 2005, the total tax or the marginal tax was 40 percent.

01:02:41.180 Then in 2006, they raised it to 50 percent.

01:02:45.980 In 2011, to 62 percent, brought it down in 2015 briefly when prices were a bit too high, again to 40.

01:02:53.860 And then in 2022, they took it up to 65 percent tax.

01:02:59.860 and now the tax rate is 78 percent

01:03:05.220 which is i hate the government so much and if you have that tax it would pretty much solve all

01:03:12.840 the problems yeah because they would be drilling like mad well i mean if there's one thing you

01:03:18.460 don't really want to tax surely it's energy because that's the source of everything else

01:03:23.020 you do that is a profitable endeavor like if you're going to tax anything don't tax them

01:03:26.900 from oil and gas you get plastics you get chemicals you get fertilizer all of this stuff

01:03:33.160 goes into building automotives it goes into steel it goes into every single aspect of

01:03:37.680 manufacturing it goes into medicine production food production what do you think the tract has

01:03:41.620 run on like well well now that you mention it this is a beautiful country for cattle yes and

01:03:51.740 We've got very good livestock as well.

01:03:54.780 Very good livestock, very good terrain.

01:03:57.480 The problem has been how expensive fertilizer is,

01:04:00.960 how over-regulated the industry is,

01:04:03.940 and the result has been a 10-year decline

01:04:06.660 in the size of the cattle population.

01:04:10.540 Well, that's also whilst they've been...

01:04:12.260 So, I mean, there's so many knock-on effects

01:04:14.500 of everything that they've been doing.

01:04:15.920 So they've also incentivized farmers,

01:04:19.160 they literally pay them,

01:04:20.340 don't use your land

01:04:21.900 we'll use it for

01:04:23.020 like a solar farm

01:04:23.800 in Wales

01:04:24.420 this is the law

01:04:25.360 in Wales

01:04:26.440 I think it's a quarter of it

01:04:27.820 if anyone's ever wondered

01:04:28.920 in the UK

01:04:29.520 why we have so many floods

01:04:31.340 the agricultural land

01:04:33.200 in the UK

01:04:34.000 used to actually

01:04:34.980 control runoff

01:04:36.560 and now

01:04:37.660 we don't do that

01:04:38.840 so we

01:04:39.340 flooded everything

01:04:40.360 which has a knock on effect

01:04:41.660 of destruction of the roads

01:04:43.080 flooding in the drains

01:04:44.420 exactly

01:04:44.820 it's absolutely

01:04:45.180 it's madness

01:04:46.180 also massive

01:04:47.100 profit

01:04:47.940 impact on the farmers themselves

01:04:50.080 because in the summer after heavy rains

01:04:52.360 you'll go through this countryside on the trail

01:04:54.260 you see just these vast sheets of water on the fields

01:04:56.620 it means the field can't be used

01:04:57.940 and it's like sorry what are we doing this to ourselves for

01:05:00.760 it is national suicide

01:05:02.840 and it's leading to

01:05:04.820 a reduction in the size of the flocks

01:05:07.100 of both sheep

01:05:08.900 and cattle

01:05:09.720 because sheep is also

01:05:13.260 falling and dairy production

01:05:15.040 is falling

01:05:15.680 well it's a good thing I don't like lamb, beef and cheese

01:05:19.300 an island should be self-sufficient also particularly this one yeah well yeah and it was

01:05:27.460 because all of this is available and if you look at the input costs one of the highest input costs

01:05:33.540 is soybeans because that's needed to feed the cattle a high protein diet but you could grow

01:05:40.260 beans and peas in britain which do grow in abundance and replace that source of protein

01:05:45.620 and make this completely independent.

01:05:49.000 And Britain used to produce fertilizer,

01:05:51.360 but it was reliant on natural gas.

01:05:54.220 It stopped producing natural gas.

01:05:56.220 Then there was an energy crisis after Ukraine,

01:05:58.100 and so fertilizer production collapsed.

01:06:00.740 And this was just in 2022.

01:06:02.800 It is remarkable.

01:06:03.360 So these are all solvable problems.

01:06:05.700 But it's not just that.

01:06:06.720 If you think, like, if you're playing Civilization, right,

01:06:09.640 you'd be like, okay, Britain's had a golden start.

01:06:12.600 You are naturally defensible.

01:06:14.000 You've got a lush, temperate climate that doesn't get too hot, doesn't get too cold.

01:06:19.400 It's perfect for raising livestock.

01:06:21.580 It's perfect for agriculture.

01:06:22.880 We've got some of the best agricultural land in the world.

01:06:26.000 It's ridiculous.

01:06:26.800 The quality of the soil here is...

01:06:28.560 Tried and tested for literally centuries.

01:06:31.320 I'm from a village.

01:06:32.400 Millennia.

01:06:33.240 Literally millennia since the dawn of agriculture.

01:06:35.760 Exactly.

01:06:36.740 I'm from a village in Lebanon in the mountains.

01:06:38.560 my ancestors had to break up the mountains to transform them into terraces remove the rocks

01:06:46.320 put good quality soil there and then slowly every few years leave the fields fallow because the soil

01:06:53.660 isn't that good and we have just and they managed to do it but here it's the best quality soil in

01:07:00.920 the world, but energy is made so expensive because of ridiculous carbon taxes. And because

01:07:09.100 every single megawatt hour is consumed, the cost of it is raised by 35% by Rachel Reeves.

01:07:17.860 And they decided to tax clean power after they had gotten done with taxing carbon because it

01:07:27.640 reduce their actual tax base because less industry means less taxes. They couldn't figure out a way

01:07:33.360 to solve that problem, so they started taxing green energy. And if you changed that, energy

01:07:39.500 prices could drop by 50%. You just couldn't have a more fortuitous beginning and mess it up in such

01:07:45.460 a just comprehensive way. Disasterous mess. Disasterous mess. And so because energy is so

01:07:53.940 expensive like heating the animals in winter that's expensive making fertilizer that's expensive

01:08:00.120 but it's all downstream from having abundant oil and gas we should be living in the garden of eden

01:08:06.140 exactly literally it's not it's not just oil and gas um primarily of course but this country we

01:08:13.500 used to all have uh wood burning stoves for instance yep and they are i've got one i had

01:08:19.800 uninstalled the stringent process you have to go through oh yeah get a very specific wood burning

01:08:25.920 stove it's a certain grade yeah they're big they can't band this is the thing right that was the

01:08:31.340 problem you see but actually if you look at the carbon emissions versus the emissions are basically

01:08:36.060 nothing it's it's really clean energy wood burning stoves are really clean energy and and we've got

01:08:43.200 wood but no no you're not allowed that like just it's as if the government is so intent on

01:08:48.880 demoralizing its citizens you know a heat pump have a heat pump britain like uh geologically

01:08:55.340 or geographically i can't remember it's it's literally determined as a temperate rainforest

01:09:00.180 as in we are literally a rainforest on this island burning wood sounds like a great idea

01:09:05.320 it's brilliant i love it i think it's great how do you think the british navy was built it was

01:09:10.980 wood that came out of britain yeah there are massive incredible forests here it's it's gone

01:09:17.200 on for ages like the yacht the the longbow like that we literally strip mine britain for you and

01:09:22.820 it took centuries for you to actually come back we had to import you from other places because

01:09:26.760 we made so many bloody longbows but anyway sorry anyway um so not only is the government busy

01:09:33.060 making energy insanely expensive yeah and not only is it screwing farmers so hard that they can no

01:09:39.360 longer grow cattle and sheep and have them in abundance but they're also just randomly messing

01:09:48.160 with the farmers every few years yeah they did that a lot like their inheritance taxes and whatnot

01:09:52.740 and so the inheritance tax was insanely destructive yeah yeah it's really tragic that the the lives

01:10:00.940 lost because of that genuinely the lives lost people and this and this is this is conscious

01:10:06.940 It's so sad.

01:10:07.620 You can't see the attack on farmers separate from the attack on the lords

01:10:11.320 because what they're trying to go after is the people

01:10:14.900 with historic memory and deep attachment to place.

01:10:18.260 That's what they're going after.

01:10:20.240 And so what did the government do?

01:10:21.760 They announced this new sustainable farming incentive scheme

01:10:25.560 to pay farmers and to help them sort of maintain their land

01:10:29.920 and things like that.

01:10:31.160 When you just stop taxing them, just leave them to it.

01:10:33.840 Their payments are rewilded.

01:10:35.340 They decided to not include small farmers.

01:10:39.660 Oh, great.

01:10:40.960 So if you've got a small farm and you're sustainable on your own

01:10:46.680 and you can sort of take some meat to the local abattoir and things like that,

01:10:51.060 they've done everything that they can to make sure that this is impossible.

01:10:56.140 And they've removed small farmers and made sure that they no longer get supported by the state.

01:11:03.280 and then they decided that big farmers shouldn't be supported either so they cap the amount of

01:11:10.720 money that they would give them in a year to 100 000 pounds and put the uh inheritance uh tax on

01:11:17.080 for more than isn't it the value of the land of two million pounds or greater i mean that's actually

01:11:21.300 not a very big farm and and and it's the value of the farm so it could include farm equipment

01:11:26.100 which is insanely expensive.

01:11:29.820 And so they decided that they are going to force farmers

01:11:33.560 to constantly downsize.

01:11:35.160 And then when they downsize enough,

01:11:37.020 they stop supporting them.

01:11:38.460 So they're literally trying to destroy farming.

01:11:41.160 I feel like I'm in the Soviet Union.

01:11:42.240 That's exactly where you are.

01:11:42.920 Genuinely.

01:11:43.440 Yes, that's exactly where you are.

01:11:45.760 And so they do these things and they decide,

01:11:47.960 no, no, no, we want to destroy small farmers.

01:11:51.080 And then they change the rules again

01:11:53.640 after years of saying,

01:11:55.080 you want to have uh very species rich grasslands and you want to wild your farmland instead of

01:12:02.660 using it to produce yeah that's what i want and wild and meat what uh love a meadow as much as

01:12:08.980 the next guy but i'd rather be food sustainable i'd rather have my dinner yeah clown show the

01:12:15.380 meadow can be good if you're farming cattle yeah you know yeah but then if you reserved some land

01:12:23.220 And to allow it to be farmed for cattle, they decided that, no, no, no, we're not going to support that anymore.

01:12:28.040 Even though for years, that's exactly what they encouraged the farmers to do.

01:12:32.820 So they keep pulling off these schemes where they give the farmers a bunch of ideas and then they pull the rug from under them.

01:12:39.520 It's like whenever, do you remember when everyone said, you must buy a diesel car, they're really eco-friendly.

01:12:44.340 And then they're like, no, we're going to tax you to oblivion now, they're actually not eco-friendly.

01:12:47.880 It's like, what?

01:12:48.620 And they did the same with electric cars.

01:12:50.520 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:12:51.260 They did the same with electric cars.

01:12:53.140 We won't tax you.

01:12:53.800 No, we're going to tax you now pay per mile.

01:12:55.600 Yeah, it's because the fuel duty,

01:12:58.140 they weren't getting there however many,

01:12:59.460 two hands per mile or whatever.

01:13:00.480 Big brain attitude from the government.

01:13:01.940 They didn't realise that that would actually result

01:13:03.900 in a reduction of tax.

01:13:05.240 Idiots.

01:13:05.960 And so you're seeing this crisis in the Middle East,

01:13:09.280 which is making energy insanely expensive,

01:13:11.600 which is making fertiliser insanely expensive.

01:13:14.660 We could be completely self-sufficient.

01:13:16.740 And you could be...

01:13:17.920 No, no.

01:13:18.880 You could be exporting energy, food,

01:13:23.060 And fertilize.

01:13:23.940 Look at my low, narrow sights.

01:13:25.780 We could just be okay.

01:13:27.160 No, no, no.

01:13:27.520 You could be a superpower in this.

01:13:29.100 Exactly.

01:13:29.680 Oh, God.

01:13:30.200 Exactly.

01:13:30.900 You could use the coal for domestic electricity

01:13:33.600 and export the oil and gas

01:13:35.680 and use the gas to make fertilizer here

01:13:39.040 and build refineries here

01:13:40.880 and be completely self-sufficient.

01:13:44.660 But Ed Miliband says no.

01:13:47.300 And so do the conservatives.

01:13:49.580 And so do the conservatives.

01:13:50.940 ace right-wing conservatives obviously not they're not right-wing we don't we don't know that

01:13:58.140 so they keep when we win i swear to god and and the farmers you know this is from the some kind

01:14:06.040 of farmers union website and they explained that look guys you told us to do this yeah we

01:14:11.240 subscribed fully to building a nature-friendly farming ecosystem and we're going to do it and

01:14:18.220 You wanted us to take care of the birds, we took care of the birds.

01:14:21.220 You wanted us to take care of the species, we took care of the species.

01:14:23.280 We did everything you wanted, and then you just, whoop, put the rug from under us.

01:14:27.640 They entered into that exchange in perfectly good faith and just got completely screwed over.

01:14:31.820 They should tell you about everything, about entering into a good faith agreement with the government.

01:14:36.640 Exactly.

01:14:37.200 Just don't.

01:14:37.940 Just don't do it.

01:14:38.580 Exactly.

01:14:39.080 Don't do it.

01:14:39.760 And then one year, they just stopped payments for the farmers.

01:14:42.400 Oh, well, good luck.

01:14:43.920 They promised them that, yeah, we're going to pay you, we're going to pay you.

01:14:45.860 They're like, no, we're on a budget.

01:14:47.000 we're not going to pay you anymore and now with more budget cups cuts coming they are probably

01:14:52.940 going to cut the farming budget you know in the next you know who's definitely getting their money

01:14:57.820 the the somali single mothers who we've brought into here live in a social house in london

01:15:02.900 she's getting her payment and of course you know an extra 50 million 40 million here and there to

01:15:10.540 Protect mosques, remember?

01:15:11.840 That's scary.

01:15:12.580 And some dogs.

01:15:13.280 Yes, yes, yes, yes.

01:15:14.260 But sod the actual native farmers

01:15:16.540 and the ability to have food.

01:15:18.860 Don't worry about that.

01:15:19.620 Literally billions spent on migrant hotels.

01:15:22.400 Yeah.

01:15:23.300 A billion a year.

01:15:24.240 Exactly.

01:15:25.040 These priorities are so upside down.

01:15:27.720 It's a deep, deep evil.

01:15:30.380 This is obviously on purpose.

01:15:32.020 Yeah.

01:15:32.380 Yes.

01:15:33.180 And the farmers are begging,

01:15:34.980 saying give us some clarity

01:15:36.120 on what the policy is

01:15:37.100 and what you want us to do.

01:15:38.100 Yeah, yeah.

01:15:38.740 Like, give us a package of things that we have to do.

01:15:41.860 Tell us this is what's required from us

01:15:43.500 and tell us how much you'll pay.

01:15:45.340 And the government's answer is,

01:15:47.040 no, we just want to be able to pull the rug from under you

01:15:49.420 whenever we want to.

01:15:51.080 It's like abuse.

01:15:52.560 It is abuse.

01:15:52.940 It's like being in a gaslighting, abusive relationship.

01:15:55.560 Exactly, exactly, exactly.

01:15:57.980 Maybe if you hand the farmlands over to Somalians,

01:16:00.680 then it might work.

01:16:02.000 Because Somalia is famous for its farming product,

01:16:04.360 not like there's a famine there every other year.

01:16:06.280 well you know rhodesia is a great example isn't it i guess there you go so the the like they keep

01:16:13.620 doing this to farmers they keep doing this to energy and it's all completely deliberate

01:16:18.440 and it is all extremely fixable stop subsidizing wind energy uh which would result in 25 percent

01:16:27.040 reduction of our bills exactly and that annoys me so much when you when you see on on x or

01:16:32.940 and all the government's like oh we're going to really try hard to fix your energy bills

01:16:37.060 well you're not though we're doing everything possible maybe not though absolutely it's 25

01:16:41.060 percent like that you can just remove for anyone who doesn't know right british electricity and

01:16:45.480 energy prices are 25 higher than whatever all of the other costs are because what they call the

01:16:51.160 green energy levy and that's just literally we're taking extra money off of you to pump it into like

01:16:57.440 wind farms or solar panels or something it's just subsidizing that dale vance guy or whatever

01:17:02.420 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Turning him to a multimillionaire.

01:17:05.120 Because he only paid a few, like he paid tens of thousands of pounds and got millions in return on the back of it.

01:17:12.020 And because the Gulf crisis, if this continues, you could see a mass exodus of funds as well as massive rises in interest rates.

01:17:20.920 And this could kick off a major banking crisis.

01:17:24.080 and british long-term debts historic high interest rates historic highs this is going to cascade to

01:17:34.160 britain so all of this is going to have to be done cutting taxes on energy figuring out a way

01:17:41.740 to increase food production this is going to have to be done at some point it's really not difficult

01:17:46.240 just stop taxing the farmers to oblivion and allow them to grow food and sell it exactly

01:17:51.460 stop taxing any of the energy into we need food so we'd buy it like allow us to mine coal allow

01:17:56.800 us to drill oil allow us to actually be what we are mad and which is an energy superpower and a

01:18:02.020 food superpower we can do it we'll be all right let us be that's all that's required but what

01:18:10.300 keeps striking me is how solvable all of this stuff is that's why you know it's evil and that

01:18:15.240 is how you know it's evil it takes ridiculously deliberate government policy to make a country

01:18:20.860 this rich in food and energy actually feel poor yeah and if you have cheap energy and cheap food

01:18:28.840 by definition everything else becomes cheap and my god isn't the food so goddamn expensive

01:18:33.980 oh gee it's insane well obviously but like everything's mad meat prices are insane yeah

01:18:39.780 yeah it's ridiculous 10 pound for a steak it's just like oh my god exactly it's it's completely

01:18:45.460 ridiculous but it is completely deliberate policy yeah and there is no other way around it and so

01:18:50.840 you know uh this can get much much worse or you can just fix this and it's just not difficult

01:18:57.520 fix everything easily button exactly i just want to press it

01:19:01.320 anyway this this last section on britain's resources is the most frustrating one i've heard

01:19:07.120 i knew most of it already but hearing out loud just makes it worse yeah i know it's insufferable

01:19:11.760 isn't it it's insufferable um meanwhile trump used emergency powers to reopen california

01:19:16.860 off shore drilling yeah because trump isn't an insane environmentalist that's what it comes down

01:19:21.360 to yep it's literally what it comes down to um it's going to be hard to convince future generations

01:19:26.760 that english working class has had it rough in the mines and therefore weren't privileged if

01:19:30.340 there aren't any coal-fired power plants or mines left um i think something that could work is the

01:19:34.500 national power grid that uses nothing but nuclear power so if you can float the idea to low yeah i

01:19:38.720 mean i'm actually totally up for it to be honest nuclear is the future yeah it's and it's been

01:19:44.100 known to be the future for but in the meantime you just need this massive amount of gas to flow

01:19:48.900 and the uses of oil and gas in every single other industry make it worthwhile regardless of energy

01:19:55.360 policy yeah yeah and it's yeah exactly we you know we want all the other like ancillary things

01:20:00.700 that oil and gas produces obviously yeah but we can have free electricity yes for life yes but

01:20:06.900 we're importing it at cost from france yeah brilliant and the the the most annoying thing

01:20:13.660 about this is that like the french when they set up their power plants and it was in the 70s or

01:20:17.740 whatever right the the zeitgeist of the time was oh yeah nuclear energy is the way of the future

01:20:22.640 because it's really clean really cheap and unbelievably productive and the french have

01:20:28.000 had this sort of like brain worm in their heads for decades now for like 50 60 years while everyone

01:20:33.240 else has had these stupid ideas and the french have just been kind of really conservative on it

01:20:37.340 yes and look now they're the energy exporter they're the ones with all the green energy

01:20:40.780 they're the ones who are doing really well and it's just like we knew it as well you know anyway

01:20:46.120 let's let's go to the video comments you can't do this

01:20:53.380 you wouldn't listen no because you know i'm saying

01:21:05.260 I forgive you.

01:21:16.340 The fleet who waits your signal.

01:21:18.880 Rejoice.

01:21:21.380 Doctor Who's a great example of what I mean about British TV production values.

01:21:25.560 They're shit.

01:21:26.380 It's fine.

01:21:27.600 Michael says, deploy the Navy.

01:21:29.660 That's it.

01:21:31.020 Glad I'm not in England.

01:21:31.960 because I would have included

01:21:33.360 what the Navy should have been doing

01:21:34.560 to the invading small boats.

01:21:37.140 That's a random name,

01:21:37.960 says this segment is further evidence

01:21:39.140 that adult life in the first world

01:21:40.200 is just playground politics.

01:21:41.700 Female teachers brucely enforce tolerance

01:21:43.360 by obligating all the kids to be friends

01:21:44.920 because freedom of association beliefs is evil

01:21:47.000 unless you share these neurotic hags beliefs.

01:21:50.020 Yeah, it's mad, isn't it?

01:21:51.840 Imperium Welder says,

01:21:52.960 this is literally like the old South Park episode,

01:21:54.980 The Death Camp of Tolerance.

01:21:56.460 It is actually, isn't it?

01:21:58.700 I didn't even know there was an episode

01:22:00.160 called The Death Camp of Tolerance.

01:22:01.320 Yeah, no, and it's exactly that.

01:22:03.480 If you're not tolerant, you lose everything.

01:22:06.340 Oh, okay.

01:22:07.700 Is there a GoFundMe for this chap?

01:22:09.300 I feel like we should give him a hand.

01:22:10.460 I've no idea.

01:22:12.620 Omar says,

01:22:13.480 This is why I find it more and more plausible

01:22:15.380 that they decriminalize the abortion until birth

01:22:17.200 to cover for rape gangs.

01:22:18.580 They'll jail you for asking the Navy to police the channel.

01:22:21.480 They'll jail you for questioning

01:22:22.660 while asking so many children and young teens

01:22:25.080 need late-term abortions

01:22:26.460 or praying for their lost souls in your own head.

01:22:28.840 And there's so many other just...

01:22:31.320 wild trivialities

01:22:33.220 that have become...

01:22:35.140 On the topic of like

01:22:37.140 the praying, it's like

01:22:38.920 mass Eid prayers?

01:22:41.480 Yeah. That's absolutely fine.

01:22:43.240 Praying near an abortion clinic in your head?

01:22:46.220 That's a crime. You're being arrested?

01:22:47.800 Yeah, but Stella Creasy... That's mental.

01:22:49.680 Stella Creasy coming out and being like,

01:22:50.960 you can't abort until the point of birth. Handmaid's Tale.

01:22:53.620 I'm going to visit the local mosque,

01:22:55.060 so I'm going to put on my wimple or whatever.

01:22:56.840 It's like, just... Anyway.

01:22:59.680 Insufferable. Insufferable.

01:23:01.320 um nick lawles hiding in his hate bunker says i've not cringed this hard since the american

01:23:07.080 version of the in-betweeners oh i i saw yeah no no there was a there was a failed american

01:23:12.280 attempt that i can tell that wouldn't work from what it is exactly yeah no obviously uh michael

01:23:20.020 says snl was funny back in the 70s and 80s pretty much shit after that then mike myers was a bit of

01:23:24.260 a bright spot uh jimbo says the bbc want you to pay for them want you to pay them for the privilege

01:23:29.520 of calling you a child murderer if you dissent.

01:23:31.600 Yeah, but this was Sky.

01:23:32.640 That's the thing.

01:23:33.140 This wasn't even funded by the taxpayer.

01:23:35.080 So this is millions of pounds

01:23:36.200 that Sky pissed down the drain.

01:23:38.440 Thank God we didn't...

01:23:39.280 No, I think this is a reference to the...

01:23:42.440 Oh, okay.

01:23:43.160 The freedom of information thing.

01:23:44.540 Oh, yeah.

01:23:45.940 That's a reference to the freedom of information thing.

01:23:48.020 SNL UK was made for Zach Polanski to guest host.

01:23:52.680 You know what, though?

01:23:53.580 Yeah.

01:23:53.980 Yeah, yeah.

01:23:54.400 He says, you know it's coming.

01:23:55.420 That's a great point, Jimbo.

01:23:56.500 Yep.

01:23:56.920 That is a great point.

01:23:57.780 That is very...

01:23:59.520 Like, utterly inevitable, actually.

01:24:03.060 I can't imagine him being funny, though.

01:24:05.400 No, obviously.

01:24:06.680 Not intentionally funny, talking about boob hypnosis, but yeah.

01:24:10.020 Henry says, they know SNL UK is doomed from the start.

01:24:12.520 It's on 10pm on a Saturday,

01:24:14.020 so once you take out the people on a night out,

01:24:16.120 as soon as the news is over on the BBC,

01:24:19.140 it's up against match of the day.

01:24:20.840 Yeah, like, this is the thing, why are they doing it?

01:24:23.860 Like, is this some sort of reparations

01:24:25.560 for the people involved, welfare?

01:24:27.540 that's why I still think

01:24:29.140 like it's for America

01:24:30.060 but it's

01:24:30.600 if there's no deal in place

01:24:31.900 it's not

01:24:32.260 I don't get it

01:24:33.300 but as far as I'm aware

01:24:34.160 it hasn't been broadcast

01:24:34.880 on America

01:24:35.380 and because it's

01:24:36.240 contemporary politics

01:24:37.060 yeah yeah

01:24:37.180 I didn't get it

01:24:39.280 I didn't get it

01:24:40.480 I can't imagine

01:24:42.600 Michael says

01:24:44.020 correction for us

01:24:44.680 SNL went downhill

01:24:45.520 after the original cast left

01:24:46.760 John Belushi

01:24:47.320 Lorraine Newman

01:24:48.020 Gilda Radner

01:24:49.140 Dan Aykroyd

01:24:50.000 Garrett Morris

01:24:51.540 Jane Curtin

01:24:52.640 and we won't mention

01:24:53.500 Cherry Chase who sucks

01:24:54.520 but again

01:24:55.940 big names there right

01:24:57.260 yes you know those names who are these guys there's no charisma in this nothing at all

01:25:01.820 uh and so it's not going anywhere george happ says snl uk is aggressively unfunny just like

01:25:07.920 the u.s version i guess the lefties do have a point about de-yankification well that's the

01:25:11.940 point it's like you know come on guys are we uh de-yankifying this michael says it's not just

01:25:18.820 poor tech it's terrible contracts wind farms are paid not to produce or if they overproduce but

01:25:23.720 the energy is wasted these payments can be in the billions oh yeah that's the um contract of

01:25:27.860 difference call contract for a difference i don't know about this okay so basically if a wind farm

01:25:33.420 produces uh less costly in a way that's less costly than everyone else they get paid yeah

01:25:40.160 if they produce but it's more expensive than everyone else they don't

01:25:46.240 no there's a sort of median price that they set right price that they decide on the government

01:25:51.680 and then they make sure that the wind farms get taken care of no matter what but they're probably

01:25:57.180 they equalize the profit it's a contract for a difference so it's intended to make sure that

01:26:02.120 everything is equal regardless of what the market says why wouldn't you want the cheapest oh my god

01:26:07.040 i hate this country the people running this country anyway anyway uh dion and he says imagine

01:26:12.940 blowing up your old power plants before integrating nuclear into the grid yes didn't need to be

01:26:17.640 agamemnon burning his ships to prevent the retreat from this sort of transition but politicians seem

01:26:22.320 incapable of actually planning more than three months ahead well i mean it's not that they seem

01:26:26.800 incapable it's literally their stated policy right for for anyone too young to remember in 2011 uh

01:26:35.180 there was in 2010 there was the coalition government between labor and the liberal democrats

01:26:40.600 liberal democrats and conservatives sorry yeah liberal democrats conservatives and same thing

01:26:45.080 yeah yeah exactly right it made no difference exactly may as well be the same yeah exactly

01:26:49.940 like the transition seamlessly from blair to coalition to conservatives yeah nothing changed

01:26:56.540 but nick clegg was that was asked about this like oh you can do put nuclear into place and he said

01:27:00.720 no it'll take 10 years so but in 2020 we really could have used that yeah you know i intended to

01:27:06.920 be still around but that's that's why restore britain um is is the most important party because

01:27:13.820 it's again it's thinking in terms of generations yes which everyone should let's leave this country

01:27:19.400 better but the point that i'm making we were born for us the point i'm making is this isn't them

01:27:24.440 being incapable of planning three months ahead this is them knowing oh yeah no that'll just

01:27:29.260 take a long time we won't actively because if they couldn't do it okay at least you're like

01:27:33.460 well he can't do that again it's because they lost the capacity but it's because they don't

01:27:37.660 care they don't care exactly they could have done they were asked if they were going to and they

01:27:41.980 said no that won't benefit us personally yep um it's the same i can't remember who it was but it's

01:27:48.100 the same as the um the uh pakistani grooming gangs where they were like well we knew about it but it

01:27:54.640 wasn't politically expedient yes yeah yeah we couldn't do anything political with it so we

01:27:59.800 didn't do anything it's like you what imagine not being able to do anything political with that

01:28:03.580 it's the same kind of principle with energy so we can't do anything political with it so we just

01:28:06.900 won't do it it's like so you just don't actually care about the country then no why are you in

01:28:10.580 charge yeah how has this happened like what why are you leading a country that you despise so

01:28:16.520 yeah i know it's it's infuriating i we're laughing because otherwise i'd be fucking

01:28:24.100 spitting swearing and slamming the desk and i i say oh isn't this ridiculous in the country i

01:28:30.640 can live in omar says we have a dozen fuel everything easily switches fiercely restricted

01:28:35.920 by layers of bureaucracy to ensure

01:28:37.940 we can only ask someone else to flip

01:28:40.040 theirs at our great expense.

01:28:42.920 Never a more

01:28:43.960 succinct description of

01:28:45.980 Britain's energy policy. That's exactly

01:28:48.140 what's happening.

01:28:49.420 I just

01:28:50.180 can't wait until this fucking election, man.

01:28:54.340 We're still going to have to win.

01:28:55.660 We just have to smash everything.

01:28:59.680 Henry says, British coal, especially Welsh coal,

01:29:01.840 is very good quality. It's so good that it becomes

01:29:04.140 a plot point in thomas the tank engine one of the trains was underpowered because they had too

01:29:08.380 small a firebox and needed special welsh coal to compensate for that i'm pretty sure every train

01:29:13.140 autist knows that welsh coal is the best coal well i don't know anything about coal so you know

01:29:17.940 um but um and this is not even going on about like so someone here um cost says well it's

01:29:24.360 alternative energy not clean energy and that's a great point because the production processes

01:29:27.940 for things like uh solar panels and wind turbines and things like that are not themselves clean

01:29:34.120 so there you know there's all and the disposal of them as well it's it's just one of those things

01:29:39.540 where we live in a world of lies man anyway uh so thank you for joining us folks uh in half an hour

01:29:45.560 for us we'll be live on notices with uh israel politic talking about what's actually happening

01:29:51.200 with the trump deal with iran i just can't can't bring myself to believe that he's going to endure

01:29:56.980 this monumental climb down but what are you going to do uh and of course um go and follow the link

01:30:02.240 in the description get your tickets to the live event because it's going to be brilliant so thanks

01:30:06.060 for joining us folks we'll see you in half an hour

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - March 23, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1380

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