The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1390

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of The Lotus Eaters, episode 1390 for Monday, the 6th of April

00:00:07.540 2026. I'm your host, Luke Cook, joined today by Carl and Josh. And today we're going to be talking

00:00:14.180 all about just how mental the Green Party really are. We're then going to be discussing how victims

00:00:20.720 of diversity don't get murals, actually. And then we're going to be talking about how the King is

00:00:27.440 very much complicit in all of the injustices that are just strewn across our land. So a lot to talk

00:00:36.220 about. Before we do, though, a few announcements. After 40 episodes of Chronicles, I'm glad to

00:00:41.960 finally bring you one looking at a piece by C.S. Lewis, where I was lucky enough to have Nick

00:00:47.180 Dixon on, and we talked all about Out of the Silent Planet. And this was such a wonderful

00:00:52.180 conversation and it was wonderful to look at how c.s lewis is able to like weave his own theology

00:00:59.400 and his faith into the sci-fi genre to to ask questions about scientific productionism faustian

00:01:06.220 nature and all of these wonderful things it's a great conversation and i do recommend that you

00:01:12.000 give it a listen also of course you'll be aware by now we have a live event this saturday and it's

00:01:19.120 going to be on the 11th of april yep come down if you haven't got your ticket yet they are selling

00:01:23.560 uh we're going to have some wonderful conversations there'll be a podcast with some segments prepared

00:01:28.820 we'll have a star wars prequel debate won't we carl that i'm gonna win well we'll see we'll see

00:01:35.220 coming off the back of the um but definitive prequel defense that harry and aa and i did you

00:01:41.640 know well it's fine it's fine all right have it out and a live lads hour as well and a good chance

00:01:48.040 to get in a lot of banter and a lot of drinking so be there with all that said let's talk about

00:01:53.660 the greens yeah so um this uh interesting poll came out uh recently uh that showed well the

00:02:01.660 question would you who'd rather have the green in power the green party or reform the green party

00:02:06.920 on 57 percent reform or 43 percent and this is just remarkable now this is from lord ashcroft

00:02:12.380 polls now lord ashcroft is the worst pollster in britain uh by by the ratings uh he gets a d minus

00:02:20.820 in uh in various analyses um but it's still interesting because the greens have been on

00:02:26.880 uh the rise recently they haven't they are doing quite well but i find this just fascinating so

00:02:31.720 out of all voters yeah about 57 percent like greens 43 percent reform uh labor voters 81

00:02:38.240 green's 19 reform conservative voters 28 greens on the quarter of conservative voters like yeah

00:02:45.840 i'd rather the green parties and i'm like then you should be in the lib dems right that's the

00:02:50.500 lib dem vote what i find really interesting is that four percent of reform supporters are like

00:02:55.380 yeah i think i prefer the greens who the hell are they i want to i really want to talk to them

00:03:00.280 as seven percent of the greens are like yeah i think i'd prefer farage i think those are the

00:03:03.880 most interesting yeah they are it's like do you understand how politics works like how how is this

00:03:10.420 even possible why are you voting for reform if you want the greens there's so such polar opposites

00:03:17.060 anyway so what i thought we would do is just explore um what the greens actually want right

00:03:22.600 their stated policies and what's on the website and in the manifestos and things like this

00:03:27.320 um because uh i think people don't understand just how bonkers the greens are right now i think the

00:03:33.580 Zach Polanski, kind of like Nigel Farage actually, has been running his campaign on Vibes.

00:03:38.780 It's like, yeah, I'm from the left wing and I'm not part of the establishment.

00:03:42.220 And Nigel Farage can't really argue that he's from the right wing or that he's not part

00:03:46.360 of the establishment, but I think that's why they're tagging the polls.

00:03:48.780 So there we go.

00:03:50.440 But this has been quite a maverick campaign.

00:03:52.660 I get the feeling that a lot of people who are like, yeah, yeah, I think I might just

00:03:55.780 vote for the Greens because I don't want something, you know, led by Nigel Farage, but I also

00:04:00.080 don't want the mainstream.

00:04:01.380 I don't want the establishment.

00:04:02.180 but i think they also don't know what the greens actually stand for because i think a lot of people

00:04:07.360 are thinking well i mean it's about the environment isn't it i would imagine it depends on the

00:04:11.840 conscious of whichever party member from the greens it is well it's quite interesting so

00:04:18.060 we'll get into it so um they've got fairly bog standard things here creating a fairer greener

00:04:24.140 economy in which they plan to nationalize all energy uh and uh create a carbon tax to drive

00:04:30.920 fossil fuels out of the economy and raise money to invest in a green transition they want to bring

00:04:35.540 railways water companies and the big five retail energy companies into public ownership now i'm

00:04:39.840 actually not terribly against railways water companies and the retail energy companies and

00:04:43.640 public ownership actually that's not a bad idea especially the railways frankly um but of course

00:04:49.200 we already pay the highest energy costs in the world i think this is just going to make it worse

00:04:54.780 so there's also a weird contradiction there in that they're going to bring the companies into

00:05:00.240 uh public ownership but also they're going to to tax them for for carbon yeah they're going to tax

00:05:08.480 themselves like these these two policies don't mesh together particularly well yeah why why not

00:05:13.320 just impose on them since you'll be the ones in charge of the companies now rather than in trying

00:05:19.680 to incentivize them into it but uh but anyway they're also going to produce their one percent

00:05:24.200 wealth tax on assets above 10 million and two percent on assets of one billion or more uh and

00:05:29.780 they're going to remove the upper earnings limit that restricts the amount of national insurance

00:05:32.840 paid by high earners so this is all fairly uh on the box stuff that zach palanski has been talking

00:05:36.720 about everyone is aware of this and honestly these aren't the worst sounding policies right

00:05:41.620 now the energy stuff yes your energy tax your energy costs are going to go through the roof

00:05:45.900 but they're already through the roof so i mean like you know how's that i think the greens

00:05:52.000 policies though are probably the most devastating thing that could happen to

00:05:56.940 britain's economy possible yes they were other than like a random act of god yeah or a you know

00:06:03.960 random act of donald trump but the the thing is like this everyone's like yeah the economy's

00:06:09.180 terrible and the green's like well we can just mess around with it some more then it's like well

00:06:13.260 i mean it's not getting any better anytime soon so i don't i think that there's a kind of

00:06:17.240 you know these sort of younger voters who are like well i'm never going to buy a house anyway

00:06:21.700 you know who cares there's no light at the end of the tunnel let's just take a leap of faith

00:06:26.020 off this cliff and see if we land in water or something right uh and so i even i am like looking

00:06:32.600 at this going well who cares right but these like i said these are the things they tend to lead with

00:06:38.540 and like i said some of them are not that bad bringing railways water companies under public

00:06:42.020 control yeah great i don't want foreign governments owning our railways yeah that that's really

00:06:46.100 something that should have been a very nationalistic position to be honest with you it's

00:06:50.940 certainly something that the right have just given away you know in the name of free market economics

00:06:55.380 which the conservatives just given away to foreign countries and i don't understand it

00:06:59.740 uh but yeah so you know renationalized but for xenophobic reasons not for absolutely

00:07:04.600 they're using um i agree with that but then and i'm not even against the wealth tax or anything

00:07:10.520 like that um i you know i think there is a a conversation to be had i would argue that we're

00:07:16.440 already past the point of return where the government's getting diminishing returns on

00:07:19.940 we probably are uh we probably are but the but that's you know at the at the end of the day

00:07:25.980 we're taxed on everything all the time forever even when you die what's a wealth tax going to

00:07:32.900 change you know it's like the taxes are unbelievable if we're going to get rid of

00:07:36.060 if we're going to lower taxes then that we would need massive structural change we're not going to

00:07:39.360 get there are going to be green staffers writing all this down just like yeah this is great quite

00:07:43.180 quite possibly but then so on the facebook you can see why like someone who doesn't know much

00:07:48.200 and just hears these talking points.

00:07:49.760 It's like, yeah, okay, fair enough.

00:07:51.920 But then it gets slightly more crazy, right? 0.76

00:07:55.540 As in completely bonkers.

00:07:57.520 So the first thing is just a complete amnesty

00:07:59.400 to all illegals in the country, right?

00:08:01.820 So they want to, and this is on the website,

00:08:03.920 immigration is not criminal offence

00:08:05.600 under any circumstances.

00:08:07.140 So Britain just doesn't have borders anymore.

00:08:08.920 Yeah, I would say they're borrowing

00:08:10.000 from the Spanish in this respect.

00:08:11.680 Yes, they very much are.

00:08:13.420 The Spain's socialist government, by the way,

00:08:15.220 wants to give amnesty, what is it,

00:08:16.620 half a million legals, something like that?

00:08:18.580 We've got way more than that.

00:08:20.040 Yeah, we've got way more than that.

00:08:21.320 And also, it's even unpopular if you look at opinion polling on the left.

00:08:26.380 No one actually wants this.

00:08:28.260 Do you want to have no borders to your country?

00:08:30.320 It's like, no, not really.

00:08:32.380 But anyway, migrants would be allowed to stay in Britain 1.00

00:08:33.980 even if they'd failed asylum claims

00:08:35.640 and immigration detention would just be abolished.

00:08:38.280 New arrivals would also be allowed to use the NHS on day one

00:08:40.980 and would be paid a wage without being required to work.

00:08:44.120 anyone with a visa other than a tourist visa would also be allowed to work under the plans

00:08:49.260 so complete open borders and this matches up quite nicely with their migration policy

00:08:53.080 which is just mental right they're like oh we're going to implement a fair and humane system of

00:08:57.660 managed migration because the problem with migration is just how it's been managed it's

00:09:01.580 not the numbers or anything but look at this trust how it's been managed is some people have

00:09:06.000 actually not been allowed in but treat all migrants as if they're citizens the entire world

00:09:12.040 is just a prospective citizen.

00:09:14.260 Do you want to create,

00:09:15.480 just putting a beacon on the country

00:09:17.380 and say, look, if you can get here,

00:09:18.820 you get benefits.

00:09:19.900 Bear in mind the fact that

00:09:20.700 all of the economic incentives

00:09:22.560 are already reasoned

00:09:23.960 that they're stacking up at Calais as we speak.

00:09:26.360 Exactly.

00:09:27.000 Before any of this even gets implemented

00:09:28.800 for the rest of the world.

00:09:29.900 If you think it's bad now,

00:09:31.340 imagine what it would be like

00:09:32.740 when this beacon goes out across TikTok

00:09:34.860 for all the migrant networks

00:09:36.480 and they're just like,

00:09:37.020 yeah, by the way,

00:09:37.500 the Brits are just giving away free money.

00:09:39.360 All you have to do is just get there, right?

00:09:40.700 then how are they making it don't know yeah next thing well no the greens remember they're going

00:09:46.000 to implement the fair and humane system of management they're going to bring them in

00:09:49.240 they're going to bus them in right and then give all residents the right to vote as in

00:09:55.200 not citizens residents right you get here apparently you're fully enfranchised well

00:10:00.980 this is just a license to be in power for the rest of your days because you're using

00:10:05.260 the power of the state

00:10:06.740 to give tax money to people you import.

00:10:10.160 Yeah, but the people you import, 0.84

00:10:11.360 we've already learned,

00:10:12.480 start voting for themselves.

00:10:13.780 That's true.

00:10:14.420 We've already learned that they do.

00:10:15.840 They can't import Muslims anymore 1.00

00:10:17.220 because they keep on going independent.

00:10:19.080 That's why we have the Gaza MPs.

00:10:20.980 So this is the Green Party

00:10:22.200 essentially causing the country

00:10:24.440 to commit suicide.

00:10:25.940 And itself. 0.84

00:10:26.900 And itself.

00:10:28.120 And so, I mean, don't get me wrong,

00:10:29.440 I'm not for dismantling the Home Office,

00:10:30.960 but for, like I said, xenophobic reasons.

00:10:34.420 But dismantle the home office.

00:10:36.040 Yeah, I guess we won't need passports anymore

00:10:37.700 because we will literally just be an open borders country.

00:10:41.340 I think if the Greens do win,

00:10:42.860 you've sort of got an obligation

00:10:43.940 to become your very own welfare queen

00:10:46.300 all across the country.

00:10:48.100 It's just like an act of protest

00:10:49.740 to make it untenable for them to do all this.

00:10:51.980 But it just gets madder.

00:10:53.420 Abolish the no recourse to public funds condition, right?

00:10:55.640 So they're just going to get any amount of benefits,

00:10:57.820 any amount of money that we can give them.

00:10:59.420 Abolish the 10-year root settlement.

00:11:01.280 Stop profiteering from application fees.

00:11:03.020 stop putting people in prison because of their immigration status accept our responsibility for

00:11:07.300 the climate emergency and support the people forced to move because they think that oh it's

00:11:12.260 just too hot in africa now and the the people in africa just can't live there right and so they 1.00

00:11:17.360 give us their principles and the first one is the green party wants to see a world without borders

00:11:21.000 oh okay well i mean i'm glad i'm going out and say it i'm glad they're just coming out and saying

00:11:26.260 yeah this is migration.greenparty.org.uk slash migration dash policy slash right this is their

00:11:32.860 website i'm not like like this isn't like a right-wing parody of the greens this is their

00:11:37.760 own website right so anyway so that's that's mad and i mean just utterly destructive completely

00:11:44.340 ruinous i mean what's the point of nationalizing something when you abolish the nation itself

00:11:48.440 right but anyway so moving on to uh defending human rights and democracy uh this is basically

00:11:54.500 sort of full republicanization but let's begin with the woke stuff right so obviously they're

00:11:59.580 going to campaign to end violence against women and girls whatever that's supposed to mean while

00:12:03.500 having bringing in unlimited borders i've always found that people who are violent towards women

00:12:09.320 listen to government campaigns and diagram is a circle yeah they're very receptive to that kind

00:12:17.280 of thing aren't they you know fingers wagged at them right so they they're gonna yeah like you

00:12:22.200 said open borders to all sorts of cultures they would probably describe in the abstract as

00:12:26.900 misogynistic and wonder why violence against women and girls are skyrocketing uh but they want to um

00:12:32.720 scrap various sort of acts that erode the right to protest and free expression which came in of

00:12:37.860 the tories and honestly i'm in favor of those uh getting scrapped campaign for the right for

00:12:42.220 self-identification for trans and non-binary people brilliant scrap the prevent program

00:12:47.040 prevent for anyone who doesn't know is the anti-terror program well given that they spend

00:12:54.240 more time watching right wingers and yeah i'm coming around to this well no they don't they

00:12:59.360 still spend more time monitoring the muslim community by a factor of like three to one

00:13:03.940 so you know it's like right okay we're not going to worry about the terrorism but we are going to

00:13:09.360 tackle hate crime misogyny islamophobia and anti-semitism oh thank god thank god that's 1.00

00:13:14.720 going to restore trust and confidence in the police so that's great and then uh blown to bits

00:13:19.580 then but you you at least won't be offended when it happens it's it's kind of mad the country they

00:13:25.320 expect to create out of all of this complete open borders uh they'll obviously all the white people 0.96

00:13:31.580 won't be allowed to be misogynistic or commit hate crimes or anything like that and occasionally

00:13:35.280 there'll be an explosion in the background right so it's just like right in their defense to be

00:13:39.960 fair it sort of makes terrorism redundant if you do nothing and it just becomes more islamic like 1.00

00:13:47.240 They don't need terrorism.

00:13:48.640 The methods are rendered obsolete when the government does more

00:13:51.900 for their cause than anyone else.

00:13:53.580 You think so, but there's loads of terrorism in the Muslim world. 1.00

00:13:56.280 That's true as well.

00:13:57.180 And there's way more terrorism in the Muslim world than there is in ours. 1.00

00:14:00.140 So, you know, just becoming Islamic doesn't solve that problem. 0.93

00:14:04.840 Anyway, they're also going to fully republicanize the country.

00:14:08.680 They're going to replace first-past-the-post with proportional representation.

00:14:12.620 So you will find it far easier to get Gaza MPs all across the country.

00:14:17.240 They're going to replace the House of Lords with an elected second chamber

00:14:19.840 and, of course, votes for 16-year-olds and residence-based voting rights.

00:14:23.800 So, literally, this is going to be mad.

00:14:26.740 I'm always very cautious of any party that campaigns for proportional representation

00:14:31.160 because if you win by a majority, then the reason to implement it just withers away.

00:14:36.880 Yeah, which is why we don't have it.

00:14:38.080 But to be honest with you, I'm finding myself against proportional representation anyway.

00:14:41.500 Yeah, me too.

00:14:42.340 No, you've got to win the arguments.

00:14:44.780 You know, you've got to actually win people over

00:14:46.320 to get the vote, I think.

00:14:47.900 Anyway, so then we've got, like,

00:14:50.180 their plans for Israel and Palestine,

00:14:52.240 which is just wishful thinking.

00:14:54.400 We're going to...

00:14:54.960 Why don't they make them both implement open borders? 0.97

00:14:57.480 Well, great question.

00:14:59.140 Open borders for Palestine and Israel. 0.84

00:15:03.860 I'm a Green Party voter.

00:15:06.120 But this is just fancy politics.

00:15:08.320 An immediate bilateral ceasefire,

00:15:10.240 end arms sales to Israel,

00:15:11.480 but release the hostages taken on 7th of October.

00:15:14.180 And an urgent effort to end the illegal application of Palestine, 0.94

00:15:17.680 like, yeah, they're not going to listen to any of this nonsense, right?

00:15:20.340 Sorry, how can it be an illegal occupation

00:15:22.660 if you believe in no borders, though?

00:15:25.200 Yeah, exactly. Well, great question.

00:15:26.860 Well, borders only exist if it's politically expedient.

00:15:29.560 Yeah.

00:15:30.480 So, anyway, that mental, right? That's just mental.

00:15:33.060 They're going to increase international aid,

00:15:34.800 we'll get to in a minute,

00:15:36.500 by just 1% of our gross national income by 2023.

00:15:40.900 We're just going to give away just 1% of everything we make,

00:15:42.900 Just give 1% to the third world, which will then move to our country. 1.00

00:15:47.720 Actually, it's more than that.

00:15:49.060 Because, as I say, increased climate finance for the global south to 1.5%.

00:15:53.260 So 1% is just going to be general international aid.

00:15:56.360 But to the global south, a 1.5% extra with an additional contribution because of climate?

00:16:03.500 So the Bangladeshis that have built in floodplains in the Pakistanis, 0.96

00:16:08.200 where it floods every year without fail, and a third of the country goes underwater and what have you,

00:16:12.900 We're just going to give them free money because of their poor decisions.

00:16:16.660 Yeah, because climate change.

00:16:18.500 Anyway, then we've got nuclear weapons and NATO.

00:16:20.840 So they're going to push for the UK to sign a UN treaty

00:16:23.000 on the prohibition of nuclear weapons,

00:16:24.360 and then they're going to immediately begin the process

00:16:26.420 of dismantling our nuclear weapons.

00:16:30.080 It's full Jeremy Corbyn on this.

00:16:31.840 It's amazing that people say reform are the people funded by the Russians. 0.89

00:16:37.040 Yeah, they're right.

00:16:39.200 They're the ones that want to disarm our nuclear arsenal. 0.81

00:16:42.120 that's just mad it's like imagine right you're you're in a standoff and you're like you know i'm

00:16:47.200 just going to put my gun away in fact i'm going to take the bullets out of my gun and throw my

00:16:50.320 gun away and the guy's like oh great now right the standoff are you going to put your gun down

00:16:54.440 mr putin yet yeah exactly yeah bang you know uh anyway so he's going to abolish around nukes which

00:17:00.160 is just mental and then it goes on to the nato bit which i think is genuinely funny because on

00:17:04.760 the website it says the green party recognizes that nato has an important role in ensuring

00:17:08.100 the ability of its member states to respond to threats to their security yeah it would be helpful

00:17:11.600 if we had nukes to do that wouldn't it um but they would work within nato to achieve a greater

00:17:17.160 focus on global peace building and a commitment of no first use of nuclear weapons again literally

00:17:22.720 telling rossians yeah we're not going to nuke you first but but the fear of us nuking them is

00:17:27.220 surely one of those things that keeps whatever right whatever right but the thing is that's

00:17:31.920 what they say on their website now when zach polanski is actually asked by about this you can

00:17:36.840 actually see the sort of farragism in him because actually he seems to be uh going on policies and

00:17:44.260 vibes right like instead of policies he's going on vibes and this is a very interesting sort of

00:17:49.980 ad hoc uh description of what his plan for nato is two and step three so let me outline that for

00:17:55.800 you step one which is what has been trying to happen and clearly is not working is to work

00:18:00.200 with the united states but we have a dangerous unpredictable man who considers vladimir putin

00:18:05.000 his friend, but brings Zelensky into the White House and shames him and disgraces him in front

00:18:09.680 of the world. So whilst a few years ago we voted to reform NATO from within, what I'm saying is

00:18:14.820 it's time to look at step two. Step two is to work with our European neighbours to build greater

00:18:19.860 alliances alongside security and defence alongside those countries, plus Brazil and Mexico and

00:18:25.660 countries in the global south, to look at how we stop American imperialism and also conversations

00:18:30.220 about china and indeed russia too and in our own country step three is to look at our own

00:18:35.320 economic sovereignty okay so his plan seems to be uh noto can't be reformed from within

00:18:43.280 so create a new block with brazil and mexico i don't understand my closest allies yeah i don't

00:18:51.560 understand why they were randomly thrown in there to be honest because they're socialists

00:18:56.380 that's okay socialists that's true yeah what he's what he's doing is just pinpointing those

00:19:01.020 people who agree with him ideologically right and i want to build a block with them it's like okay

00:19:05.940 well that's that's that's also dangerous sounding it imagine this from the american perspective

00:19:12.040 you're trying to unite europe mexico and brazil in a separate block to the united states yeah

00:19:17.840 can't say venezuelan anymore can you no but but it's if it were looking like europe were looking

00:19:25.260 to invade the u.s that is exactly what you would do i guess it sounds preposterous mamdani would 0.95

00:19:32.880 be there to welcome the launch party i guess he would be anyway so that's that's like all quite

00:19:38.440 bonkers just by the way you know like completely mad pie in the sky student politics but then it

00:19:44.380 gets worse for example he wants to impose a 55 mile an hour limit on our motorized

00:19:50.340 is that what america has why would anyone who drives vote for the green party this will just

00:19:56.120 on that alone universally unpopular like 99 of motorists are going to say that's insane what

00:20:02.020 you're talking about yes uh and it's i mean apparently i'll quote war on motorists uh that's

00:20:07.780 in quotes and things i don't know if he said that not that it was enough to obviously supplant uh

00:20:12.660 sadiq khan in london but the whole war on uh motorists and you guys in london was one of the

00:20:18.260 few issues that actually took a big chunk out of his voting so if you do that nationwide oh yeah

00:20:25.340 also 20 mile an hour speed limits imposed in all built-up areas in sort of welsh style because the

00:20:32.120 welsh senate has uh made it so that you can't drive through towns and cities anymore so just

00:20:38.460 imagine how popular it's going to be right uh there will also be taxes on driving that would

00:20:43.000 be increased incrementally while parking spaces will be steadily reduced in a bid to drive

00:20:48.040 people off the roads uh what interesting use of words there as well drive people off the roads

00:20:55.220 to be fair that's the daily mails uh usage but still like thanks that's that's what i want is

00:21:02.620 fewer parking spaces actually and i i also want increased road taxes and i also want to be limited

00:21:08.540 to driving at 55 miles an hour and 20 miles an hour in towns yes that's that's precisely what i

00:21:13.300 want i'm pretty sure every boomer in the country is going to become a jihadi because i don't know

00:21:18.660 a single anyone who drives a car i don't know a single boomer man that sticks to 70 on the motorway

00:21:23.800 well the thing people forget that um the motorway speed limit was set like in the 50s or something

00:21:30.700 right when technology cars braking technology you know all these sorts of things were far less

00:21:35.880 developed than they are now you didn't have abs brakes and all that sort of stuff back then and

00:21:40.420 And so, actually, the Germans haven't got a problem with it on their autobahns,

00:21:43.320 and they don't have a speed limit at all.

00:21:44.720 So it's, okay, what are we doing here?

00:21:47.200 I'd feel a lot safer if everyone else had a speed limit and I didn't.

00:21:50.920 That'd be the ideal situation.

00:21:52.800 But the point is, this is, again, one of Polanski's sort of farragisms,

00:21:57.380 because the deputy leader had no idea about any of this.

00:22:00.560 This just came out of the blue.

00:22:02.260 Just like with the NATO thing, where it's just like,

00:22:04.020 so did you just make that up on the fly?

00:22:06.280 Like, what are we talking about here?

00:22:08.120 Anyway, then we've got the legalization of all drugs,

00:22:10.860 which is as cut and dried as it seems.

00:22:13.900 Like, literally, all drugs decriminalized.

00:22:15.980 It's going to get rid of the pain of a green government, though, 0.57

00:22:18.640 if they start harrowing.

00:22:20.100 I imagine...

00:22:20.760 A bit Brave New World, just...

00:22:22.240 It's a very Brave New World, isn't it?

00:22:24.020 And that's the thing.

00:22:25.280 Because all this is going to do

00:22:26.860 is create the sort of California, Portland-style drug culture

00:22:30.060 where, oh, people who have got addictive personalities

00:22:32.080 will start taking drugs,

00:22:33.240 and the state will be forced to give them their drugs,

00:22:34.880 otherwise their human rights will be denied,

00:22:36.500 or something like this.

00:22:37.520 Human rights are heroin.

00:22:39.060 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:22:40.320 Scotland, all of a sudden, is green.

00:22:42.900 But then combine that with a bunch of foreign dependents

00:22:46.340 who have come in and just voted themselves more money and more drugs.

00:22:49.780 And you say, okay, so the streets are going to be filled

00:22:51.800 with foreign drug addicts just everywhere.

00:22:54.640 There's going to be no limit to any of this. 1.00

00:22:56.900 It's like, you are mental, mate. 0.99

00:22:59.260 And the thing is, we're not even finished being mental. 0.59

00:23:01.040 So, of course, he's against nuclear power, right?

00:23:03.540 We'll skip him talking about it,

00:23:05.420 but basically he's against nuclear power.

00:23:06.760 on the basis that it's impractical and it's like uh no it's not uh but he also wants to stop all

00:23:11.840 oil and gas so okay great let's just stop all oil and gas don't worry about that renewable energy

00:23:19.360 doubtless will power the tractors that make the food i don't know you know uh this is just nonsense

00:23:25.760 but then his own party started to be like well are we really that green because actually a lot

00:23:33.560 of people who vote for the green or ask can we get the the background light on this so i can see

00:23:38.440 the things please samson um then they're not for it right so it's down here somewhere sorry no it's

00:23:48.800 bloody not it was some reason i'll read the text so um the proportion of green considerers saying

00:23:57.180 the party stance on climate change is the thing that attracts most of the party has fallen from

00:24:01.300 49% to 22% over the last year. So less than a quarter of people supporting the Green Party

00:24:07.900 are like, yeah, it's because of the climate. Policies and values not related to the environment

00:24:12.100 are the main reason to vote Green for 38% of those considering the party. And people aren't

00:24:17.920 so concerned about it being a wasted vote. And even 40% of the Greens are like, yeah,

00:24:22.220 we should start drilling in the North Sea. So obviously, most people are in favour of

00:24:27.400 drilling in the north sea but even amongst the green party like a third of them like yeah yeah

00:24:32.300 why not uh there and like this you would think would be like completely out of bounds for green

00:24:40.240 party supporters but this is just not what the green party is about anymore i mean even if you

00:24:44.780 do want eco things the the strongest argument to to get to getting affordable green technology is

00:24:51.960 make energy as cheap as possible by drilling as much as possible therefore lowering the cost of

00:24:56.460 energy and therefore lowering research and development in the green sector yeah i mean

00:25:02.320 the this um there's a new statesman piece uh ends with the following uh paragraph which is just

00:25:08.280 amusing uh they are no longer just an environmental party with a tightly defined ideological

00:25:13.600 ideologically consistent base with a larger share of the electorate behind them their voters are

00:25:17.880 more diverse more economically driven and less singular and focus the appeal is less all things

00:25:22.880 green and a broader left-leaning protest-oriented politics labor adjacent but distinct so they're

00:25:28.780 just they're just a lefty party now well i think it's just because the bottom has fallen out of

00:25:33.200 labor on the left and so all of those people have migrated to the greens yeah but like like zach

00:25:39.560 polanski has demonstrated himself to be just a vibes-based leader who like for us just makes up

00:25:45.040 policy on the fly and then everyone's like oh right are we doing that are we um it really seems

00:25:50.340 that the outer the sort of inner core of the party the internals of the party just do not reflect

00:25:55.700 its own membership because the greens got something like 220 230 000 members right and yet they had

00:26:01.420 uh a vote about the nationalization of energy companies in their at their um conference in

00:26:08.580 their spring conference and oh sorry they've got 215 000 members but only about 700 of them voted

00:26:16.700 and the thing is 478 members voted against the nationalization of energy so they're not going

00:26:27.480 to nationalize energy all the oil companies in trade did their work and now and only 192 people

00:26:33.840 opposed it right so they were they were in favor of nationalizing so it's like okay but i thought

00:26:39.040 they had 200 000 members well why the hell aren't the members actually getting involved in the policy

00:26:44.340 of the company of the of the party and i think it's literally just sort of the social media

00:26:49.500 vibes based like you know halo around the top of it but actually if you look in the party it's still

00:26:55.420 going to be basically a kind of boomer crusties who made it up prior who are actually getting

00:27:02.020 involved i mean to have only 478 members voting in one way and 192 in another is mad it's amazing

00:27:09.500 that this sort of resolution is coming out of a party

00:27:11.860 that said it just was going to ban outright

00:27:14.600 the existence of landlords.

00:27:16.940 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:27:18.420 It's like the concept of it is going to be banned.

00:27:21.740 You can't do that anymore.

00:27:23.040 So rent is gone.

00:27:24.780 And the next, yeah, that's true.

00:27:26.740 I forgot to include that.

00:27:28.060 But the whole like, oh yeah,

00:27:29.480 we're going to essentially ban private energy companies.

00:27:33.320 It was a flagship campaign promise from Zach Polanski

00:27:36.800 and his own party's like, yeah, we're going to do that.

00:27:39.440 Okay, but literally less than 1,000 people in the party

00:27:42.860 who turned up to bother to vote.

00:27:44.960 I mean, those people have probably had more influence over policy

00:27:49.060 than they'll ever have for the rest of their lives in that vote.

00:27:52.200 But it probably won't matter,

00:27:53.280 because Zach Palanski will probably just vibes-based overrule it.

00:27:56.060 That's true.

00:27:56.640 So who cares?

00:27:57.480 So the point I'm making here is the Green Party is a very strange beast, right?

00:28:02.980 Not only does it want insane things,

00:28:05.240 it actually doesn't seem to be connected

00:28:07.400 from top to bottom

00:28:08.540 with its own internal party democracy

00:28:10.320 and seems to have fans on social media.

00:28:13.100 Like the 200,000 seem to just be

00:28:15.320 Zach Polanski's fan club, right?

00:28:17.420 In the same way that literally reforms 200,000

00:28:19.980 appear to be Farage's fan club, right?

00:28:22.640 They have wild policies,

00:28:26.380 like genuinely mental things.

00:28:28.140 And I forgot to even include,

00:28:30.360 like the list was getting so long

00:28:31.320 as I was probably everything mental.

00:28:33.040 I forgot about the banning landlords thing.

00:28:35.240 so you can't even rent somewhere anymore you know uh and it's just the wild open borders and all

00:28:40.360 this you think how are these people leading in the polls so they're genuinely uh there was a

00:28:45.920 lord ashcroft poll that came out i'll probably do a thing with dan tomorrow on it where they were

00:28:49.280 genuinely at 21 and it's just i think people just want something different right and of course well

00:28:56.220 i mean they are different they're insane but they they are genuinely different and so anyway i just

00:29:02.720 thought people should be more aware of what they actually are thinking of when they say oh yeah i

00:29:07.640 might vote for the greens because anyone who knows anything about the greens be like oh i'm dealing

00:29:12.680 with someone who's who's either insane or not paying any attention at all and then the hope of

00:29:17.140 dividing uh the far left vote and the next general election between your party and the greens seems

00:29:22.800 to have disappeared given that your party just yeah yeah dead on arrival yeah but to be honest

00:29:28.160 with you i'm i'm fine with that you know um i want to see i want to see a world without borders

00:29:33.640 says genghis khan um green parties are a car policies are a carbon copy of the attack on

00:29:39.500 sovereignty that we see from similar parties all across the west but only the west this is not a

00:29:43.120 coincidence that's correct uh the vibes based international communist order sounds a lot

00:29:47.900 gayer than the rules-based international liberal order i mean on the plus on the in the defense of

00:29:52.760 the rules-based international liberal order at least they'd planned it out they said thought

00:29:57.320 about it you know yeah low bar i i know but like zach polanski just coming off with like oh yeah

00:30:03.260 i'm just gonna create a nato with brazil and mexico it's like why his idea of being a party

00:30:08.340 leader is like being a a medieval king at the height of absolutism it's just you click your

00:30:14.740 fingers it doesn't matter that it contradicts yeah and yeah so anyway let's we'll leave that there i

00:30:20.380 Yes. Okay. Oh, I've got the wrong segment up. That's a bad start, isn't it? There we go.

00:30:30.340 Oh no, that was me. You had it right, Samson. So I'm going to be talking today about how

00:30:36.920 white people in America can't have murals if they're murdered in seemingly a racially motivated

00:30:43.400 murder and of course i'm talking about the murder of the ukrainian refugee irina zarutska and the

00:30:52.340 effort to memorialize her tragic death um to try and make something positive of something that was

00:30:59.240 unequivocally a tragedy um but something i don't know tragedy makes it sound like you know it's an

00:31:05.680 act of god or something right this was a murder well it was a needless murder i think a needless

00:31:10.120 murder is a tragedy not not not only was it a murder but of all the because you know the state

00:31:15.520 of the world we live in now it's like there's a murder just every day every every week there's

00:31:19.500 just a brutal story and still this one i i remember every detail of it i remember her name i remember

00:31:26.520 the event i remember like all of it because it was just so bad image of the video it was

00:31:31.380 yeah sorry i'm not not trying to but like i was saying a tragedy it's a bit worse than a bloody

00:31:35.660 tragedy well the tragedy is when someone dies of cancer you know this this was our words escape us

00:31:42.380 describing it then but um do you know what's not going to be a tragedy lotus eaters live um 0.98

00:31:47.140 good segue thank you um it's on the 11th of april this coming saturday and it will be a lot of fun

00:31:53.140 seven o'clock till 10 o'clock you get to meet us have a laugh meet each other um if you don't go 0.77

00:31:58.940 you're a loser that's my selling pitch there you go um but yes as luca was alluding to i'm sure 0.94

00:32:05.720 you're all familiar with this this is after the fact because i'm not going to show you the video 0.99

00:32:09.620 of actually happening of course i don't want to remind everyone of that but um you see all of the

00:32:14.740 people just stood still and not really sure what's going on and and um i actually saw a video um

00:32:22.380 recently a longer cut of this from the cctv footage and people do actually get up and help

00:32:28.420 her once they realize what has happened and that guy stands around goes i got that white girl i got 0.99

00:32:33.540 that white girl it's like oh well done she wasn't expecting an attack yeah we'll get half your weight 1.00

00:32:37.720 sorry but yeah the i think one of these people actually does go over and help her but they they

00:32:44.700 just presume it it wasn't very much because when you actually watch the video it's difficult to

00:32:49.180 see that he stabbed her um but neither way it's a horrible thing to have happen especially while

00:32:55.380 she's there crying and afraid and probably in pain no one there to comfort you is pretty bleak

00:33:02.200 um i thought this was interesting this is someone in the australian senate saying every single one

00:33:09.080 of them should be in prison but not doing anything so um although i i get the sort of

00:33:15.540 impression he's on the right of australian politics i suspect so yeah um but as you're

00:33:20.580 alluding to Carl um the the guy who did it um just admits it look at that she called me the

00:33:27.380 n-word no she didn't no she didn't it was a schizophrenic hallucination or something like 0.96

00:33:32.540 that or he's just lying and he did it because he's hang him just hang him I mean yeah step 0.90

00:33:37.620 penalty for people who do this sort of thing but yeah he seems unapologetic and the guy who 0.93

00:33:42.240 actually is just like you got blood on you you're bleeding out or something and he's like no I

00:33:46.020 stabbed this girl just as if as if it's something you just admit in passing so uh yeah the guy is

00:33:53.360 an animal um and it's also worth mentioning that were you to look at say a parallel say

00:34:02.260 the death of george floyd the self-inflicted death of george floyd 5 436 results in the new

00:34:09.280 york times you look uh for irena zarutska yeah nine results and to be honest with you if if my

00:34:16.220 memory recalls it took quite a lot of chimping out online to even get to nine you know it took a lot

00:34:22.200 there was total silence on it they were not interested in covering this but in a fair and

00:34:27.040 even-handed society i know this is a little bit of a passé observation but the irena situation

00:34:33.320 would be one that is deserving of more sympathy

00:34:36.500 than, you know, a convicted felon

00:34:39.660 who was a fentanyl addict

00:34:40.820 who robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint.

00:34:43.620 Oh, too bad, you know.

00:34:45.340 This is a woman who left a country at war

00:34:48.400 and found that it was actually more dangerous

00:34:51.960 seeking asylum in America

00:34:53.880 because of the state of their cities.

00:34:57.300 But also, I mean, I just don't believe

00:34:58.960 that George Floyd was murdered, so...

00:35:00.360 No.

00:35:00.760 Nor do I.

00:35:01.300 And all the police were, like, thrown under the bus.

00:35:04.000 Yeah, completely.

00:35:04.640 They're political prisoners.

00:35:05.560 Chauvin's trial was just political.

00:35:08.080 We also covered this on Lotus Eaters.

00:35:10.120 We talked about how the jury was sympathetic to Black Lives Matter

00:35:13.220 and some of them had been photographed with shirts and the like.

00:35:17.700 However, because of the efforts being made to make this a big deal 0.95

00:35:24.860 about this massive waste of life taken at the hands of a career black criminal, 0.99

00:35:31.300 people like Elon Musk pledged to give lots of money 0.94

00:35:34.780 to paint murals honoring her.

00:35:39.340 I think he did it specifically in North Carolina

00:35:41.600 where it happened.

00:35:43.000 But they've gone up all over the country

00:35:45.300 and there have been lots of other people as well

00:35:49.940 funding these murals. 1.00

00:35:51.660 Oh, shut up. 1.00

00:35:52.640 Sorry, shut up, Gardner. 1.00

00:35:54.180 Are they weaponizing her memory? 0.99

00:35:56.080 Or who would they have learned that from? 0.99

00:35:58.020 Just shut your mouth. 1.00

00:35:59.620 Yeah, the frustrating hypocrisy of the left here is really shameless. 0.99

00:36:04.880 Like, when I was researching this, it really was driven home to me 0.56

00:36:09.380 just how the American left is completely unforgivable for what it's done.

00:36:14.700 Like, there's no common ground here.

00:36:16.580 There's no bridges to be built.

00:36:19.020 They're just enemies of normal people.

00:36:21.200 Yeah, they played the exact same thing, didn't they,

00:36:23.640 when white South African refugees were coming over as well?

00:36:27.660 Mm-hmm.

00:36:28.920 Yeah.

00:36:29.620 And, of course, yeah, MAGA is funding murals of a slain Ukrainian refugee.

00:36:33.860 Are they weaponizing her memory?

00:36:35.940 As if to say, you know, you can't memorialize someone 0.99

00:36:38.720 who's been brutally murdered by a Korea black criminal. 0.96

00:36:42.860 But also, there's obviously a racial aspect to it. 0.99

00:36:45.300 He targeted her because she was white. 0.98

00:36:47.780 That's why they're against this.

00:36:50.180 What this reveals is a deep anti-white animus

00:36:54.020 that runs through some of the black community in America 0.82

00:36:56.620 to the point where it's just random murders that will occur because of this.

00:37:00.800 Well, this seems to speak of some sort of phenomenon 0.99

00:37:03.000 where they sort of know that black people are much more violent 1.00

00:37:06.360 and towards white people. 0.97

00:37:07.980 Because whenever I've pointed out online, which is often,

00:37:11.060 they never say I'm wrong, they just say I'm racist.

00:37:15.060 I've never once said those statistics are wrong or things like that.

00:37:18.840 Well, they can't criticise the statistics

00:37:20.840 because they come from the government.

00:37:23.200 And they treat government statistics as if they're holy.

00:37:26.220 and received on stone tablets by God himself.

00:37:30.700 To be fair, that's how I treat the 2021 census map.

00:37:34.340 Yeah, and we know that that's inaccurate.

00:37:36.020 It's inaccurate now, yeah.

00:37:37.780 It's got a lot worse.

00:37:38.700 It was probably worse than that at the time.

00:37:41.300 So that takes us to this.

00:37:44.780 So one mural in Rhode Island was basically cancelled

00:37:49.860 by the mayor of Rhode Island, Brett Smiley,

00:37:53.120 who branded it divisive and called for its removal and I'm reading directly from a quote here

00:38:00.680 the murder of the individual depicted in this mural not even naming her was a devastating

00:38:05.720 tragedy but the misguided isolating intent of those funding murals like this across the country

00:38:11.320 is divisive and does not represent providence which is where in Rhode Island this is and

00:38:18.580 apparently part of the reason is that it was started by um ceo ewan mccabe um but also received

00:38:27.300 support from elon musk and andrew tate therefore is they're treating it like it's sort of warlord

00:38:32.260 blood money um whereas actually you know if if people you disagree with are funding murals to

00:38:40.380 murdered women that's probably a pretty good use of their money you should be cheering it on what 1.00

00:38:45.900 What he thinks he's doing here is protecting the black community. 0.98

00:38:48.840 Yeah, exactly. 0.99

00:38:50.280 They can't be reminded that they murder white people all the time. 0.99

00:38:54.820 They have to be mollycoddled, don't they? 0.99

00:38:57.220 Well, you know, back to the intersectional totem pole,

00:39:00.480 we finally found just refugees beneath minorities. 0.99

00:39:04.480 Yeah.

00:39:04.780 Yeah, an actual refugee, a genuine one, 1.00

00:39:07.280 and a young woman is apparently less important 1.00

00:39:10.260 than our precious black criminals. 1.00

00:39:11.880 and uh it gets worse um because another democrat um came out and said this 0.99

00:39:19.680 ultimately we want to make sure that every community member that calls providence home

00:39:24.500 feels safe and we can both agree that this mural behind us does not reflect providence's values

00:39:31.280 nor does it reflect the creativity that we want to see in our city i mean i agree with him i actually

00:39:38.420 you don't value when this happens like you don't care it doesn't matter to you at all and this is

00:39:45.740 actually kind of part of the plan isn't it values the dystopia that led to this being able to happen 0.97

00:39:51.240 in the first place yeah providence's values is black murderers actually uh we side with them 1.00

00:39:56.440 over innocent white women yeah that's basically what they're saying isn't it yeah and openly and 0.95

00:40:03.640 and you know if you're to show this to someone outside of america that they would be shocked

00:40:07.920 that they're just openly saying yeah we are outside of america and we're shocked oh that's

00:40:11.820 true yeah sorry what that's a mental statement and uh let's also not forget the fact that all

00:40:20.580 of this sort of thing was going on um this is in providence rhode island as well great big black

00:40:27.660 lives matter written on the street um they're memorializing that they've just basically picked

00:40:32.760 a side in the race war is what they've done they've said we're choosing black people white

00:40:36.880 people don't matter and um thankfully the artist um seems to have a bit of backbone and um he's

00:40:47.000 been campaigning to to push back against this as you can understand um and he was complaining about

00:40:53.820 it on twitter which got a lot of attention um but what i found he said about it was quite

00:41:01.800 interesting he says as the artist i'm sad to hear the mayor is calling for my art to be removed

00:41:06.100 Before I finish speaking, he's referring to it as like a First Amendment right to make this.

00:41:11.620 The art is anti-political agenda. I wanted to humanize Irina. The blue shapes symbolize 0.77

00:41:17.240 individual points of view. They're almost strangling her, and yet she shines through.

00:41:21.440 I hope that this is what people will take away and put aside all of the political vitriol.

00:41:28.700 Irina Zoritska was a human being with a mother and a father who are still with us and still

00:41:33.280 grieving. So it's quite a humanizing view and it's an admirable view, certainly much better than

00:41:38.720 those two Democrats we looked at. And you can see what he was going for here. Doesn't line with our

00:41:44.340 values, I'm afraid. Apparently not. But then he, once he publicized the fact that he was the artist,

00:41:52.040 he started getting very frustrating messages through to his account, basically telling him

00:42:00.000 to end his own life. I have to use that euphemism because YouTube is ridiculous. But he seemingly 0.98

00:42:07.860 got lots of this. He posted lots of screenshots of various things, which I'm not going to read

00:42:12.040 for the sake of your sensitive ears. He did start a petition to try and save it.

00:42:18.960 And I don't think it's really going to work because the mayor has said...

00:42:23.440 They won't be petitioned on this point.

00:42:24.700 No. However, he did go back and decide to paint as much of it as possible before it was officially

00:42:34.220 shut down, which I respect because you could get in trouble for that. And then something even

00:42:43.640 better, a restaurant, I believe it's a Lebanese restaurant called Opa, said, actually, we want

00:42:51.620 this mural um can you paint it on the side of our restaurant which is quite nice yeah that's

00:42:57.300 and then the owner of the restaurant said that um i you know i was deeply moved by the tragedy of it

00:43:03.960 and i think it'd be good to commemorate her and so this this lebanese migrant actually cares more

00:43:10.980 about the well-being of her than you know actual americans he's probably just a normal person i

00:43:16.980 would imagine so yeah he's probably just being like oh well that's tragic yeah funny enough

00:43:21.220 Normal people don't like women randomly being murdered.

00:43:24.360 Why is the mayor standing with the murderer?

00:43:27.860 I mean, it's about as naked as it could possibly be in America at the minute

00:43:31.380 that the Democrats would sooner stand with murderers

00:43:34.600 who murder innocent young girls 0.95

00:43:36.400 than actually have any proper principles and stand up for...

00:43:40.380 Literally because of their races. 0.97

00:43:42.540 It's literally because of the race.

00:43:44.240 And this goes right to the top, obviously.

00:43:46.840 We saw when Zorutska's parents were there when, what was it,

00:43:50.100 Trump was giving a speech, like the State of the Union address,

00:43:52.860 whichever it might have been, and none of the Democrats stood for them.

00:43:56.680 It was just horrible to see.

00:43:59.300 You know, no matter the faults of British Parliament,

00:44:02.200 you wouldn't get that here.

00:44:03.900 And I think that it speaks of just how far gone they are.

00:44:07.100 Which is a Ukrainian refugee. 1.00

00:44:07.980 Isn't that part of the Democrat, like, you know...

00:44:10.020 You've sent millions to them.

00:44:11.480 Yeah.

00:44:12.000 Well, they don't care about them anymore.

00:44:13.760 That was several news cycles ago now.

00:44:15.740 um but we've seen lots and lots of vandalism of these murals because of course

00:44:23.380 the they're seen as inherently political now because um one side of the aisle doesn't care

00:44:29.880 about dead white women apparently to be honest it was inherently political all the way through this

00:44:35.800 political that he's on the streets it's political that she's you know well politics created the

00:44:41.680 situation in the first place didn't it um but it's quite a low that they're vandalizing these

00:44:48.780 sorts of things um it's there's something really um really upsetting about all of it as well

00:44:54.880 because you know for for the ordinary person or a talented artist they're able to to make these

00:45:00.080 wonderful um you know murals in memory of her but that's all they can do the larger stuff as you say

00:45:06.700 carl the political stuff of why was he there why do we allow all this to happen that is not going

00:45:11.020 to be addressed, that the larger things that actually prevent the next arena have not been

00:45:16.240 amended, have not been fixed. And so it's just mural walls, but there's nothing else that anyone

00:45:21.800 can do. Yeah. I mean, if there was true justice, the guy would already be dead, wouldn't he?

00:45:29.220 Absolutely. But there are other murals that have survived, thankfully. This is not a point to,

00:45:36.660 I'm not telling you exactly where they are, but there's one in Las Vegas that is still okay. It

00:45:41.240 hasn't been taken down by Democrats. I'm not going to play the video because I'm a little bit short

00:45:45.800 of time, but it's not been vandalized either. Here's another one in Dallas here. Not even sure

00:45:52.960 it necessarily looks like her, but then, you know, they're doing a good job. And then here's another

00:45:58.400 one in Brooklyn, although apparently left-wingers are furious about this one. In fact, this was the

00:46:05.600 the picture, which we saw in The Guardian, wasn't it, that they were complaining about.

00:46:10.660 So it seems like the era of Floyd, where there were murals everywhere, Black Lives Matter

00:46:16.340 everywhere, obviously the left doesn't afford the right the same opportunities to commemorate

00:46:24.040 people that they believe deserve commemorating, and the fact that they commemorated

00:46:29.180 a drug addicted armed criminal uh but they won't let you venerate an innocent girl who

00:46:37.040 was murdered on her way home from work says a lot about who they really are

00:46:41.200 okay uh sigil stone says the mayor wouldn't have complained if it were a mural of mural of leo

00:46:52.120 frank i don't know don't worry don't worry it's deep law okay i recognize the name so i'm sure

00:46:58.260 i probably do know who that is yeah don't worry i'll explain to you afterwards okay um one tall

00:47:05.400 order turned in right at the end of the nasa segment friday realized i sent a super chat

00:47:10.060 about something that was discussed in the segment whoops that's my bad don't worry about it it's

00:47:16.140 okay um sigil stone 17 okay i know what you're trying to say and i did notice that but i can't

00:47:25.520 say it um and then i've got one from your segment here carl actually uh so with the greens getting

00:47:31.900 rid of national borders does that mean northern ireland goes back to ireland no yeah that's a

00:47:36.200 can no it means ireland comes back to wars oh dear um look it's me yes um all right then ladies

00:47:46.840 ladies and gentlemen we need to talk about his majesty the king because he seems to be rather

00:47:52.720 of failing in his duties to the people of this land, to his oldest, noblest subjects. Because

00:47:59.360 before there were colonies and empire and commonwealths, there was simply us, the people

00:48:06.300 of this island, right? Before we went seafaring around the world. And, you know, think about the

00:48:12.820 generations and generations of Englishmen, Welshmen, Scotsmen, all the rest who have died on 0.99

00:48:18.620 the battlefield in the name of the king, just over the centuries. And I've traced my family history

00:48:24.520 and I've found several people over the years that have died for the crown. Right, absolutely. And so

00:48:30.620 I would just like to start by saying that, in a way, it's kind of remarkable when you look at the

00:48:36.260 history of the 20th century and you just look at how Europe just became a graveyard of monarchies,

00:48:42.420 how many we actually lost in there from the Russian monarchy to the Austrian to the German

00:48:47.940 to the Italian, to the Greek, and on and on it goes. And yet somehow, ours just managed to

00:48:54.040 survive. I mean, it helps when you're on the winning side of both of the world wars, I grant

00:48:58.240 you. However, that does mean that our monarchy has managed to survive into the absolute contemporary

00:49:05.840 moment and become an extension of the power of the progressive state and of the multicultural

00:49:13.260 project. And I think that a lot of this comes down to the fact that the monarchy, like some

00:49:20.680 of the other parts in our institutions, it's a hang-up of imperial command, you know,

00:49:25.720 foreign dominance. And, you know, the multiculturalism speaks to, oh, look at all 0.97

00:49:30.560 these people from the Commonwealth and bring them in and they get to have their...

00:49:33.920 Which empire was diverse.

00:49:35.000 Right. And we just get to play that entire game. But the other thing as well is that the queen

00:49:42.340 herself, was always praised by the establishment for being quote-unquote neutral. But the fact of

00:49:50.200 the matter is that actually silence isn't neutrality. Silence is just complicity. It's

00:49:57.700 just allowing this thing to happen. And I would suggest that the demographic threat that has been

00:50:06.300 unleashed on us, it makes what the Queen allowed to happen one of the worst things that any

00:50:12.000 monikers actually ever allowed to happen well you you could describe her as elizabeth the absent

00:50:17.620 right right when you hear descriptions of kings you know the great and things like that um and

00:50:24.460 you know the lion heart absolutely these are the sort of monikers you want to be labeled as you

00:50:28.960 don't want to be labeled as just not doing anything no you don't want to be absent and

00:50:32.880 you certainly don't want to be absent from the live event ladies and gentlemen which is taking

00:50:37.440 place this Saturday. So if you haven't got your tickets, do go onto the website and get them now.

00:50:42.500 There will be wonderful events. We'll have some great discussions about Star Wars or Lads Hour.

00:50:47.800 Drinks, beer, fun, all around. Buy yourselves a ticket. So I actually wanted to go back to this

00:50:54.660 segment that you were on the other week, Josh, just going back to the House of Lords, because

00:51:00.180 one of the things that we came to with all of that was that, look, at the end of the day, in the name

00:51:04.680 of liberalism and democracy, we can abolish the hereditary peerages of the House of Lords.

00:51:11.040 And even were we to seek to change that or reverse it or, you know, restore the hereditary

00:51:16.820 peers to the House of Lords after, like, say, restore comes to power, it doesn't really

00:51:21.780 matter.

00:51:22.640 And the reason it doesn't really matter is because the elites, the lords who had that

00:51:27.680 privilege, they no longer even believe in their own right and privilege, right?

00:51:33.280 They've accepted the sort of Whig history view,

00:51:37.100 and they don't even believe in their own entitlement to it now.

00:51:40.280 I've not heard one being in the media making the argument

00:51:43.220 why they were a good thing.

00:51:44.760 Right.

00:51:45.200 No, no, look, we carry the institutional memory

00:51:47.860 of the centuries with us,

00:51:49.840 and we are long-term stewards of the country

00:51:53.240 thinking of its best interest long into the future.

00:51:55.720 Absolutely.

00:51:56.060 We actually have a role.

00:51:56.880 Not one of them has made that argument,

00:51:58.120 so I guess they don't do that.

00:51:59.320 Yes, and by dint of their own blood,

00:52:01.560 They actually don't have to be like every other student politician, you know, like in the country.

00:52:08.880 Your own heritage invites you to believe in something more enduring, more sacred, something healthier to the constitution of England.

00:52:19.100 And yet they won't do that.

00:52:21.200 Well, I think a part of it is that success in this day and age and part of our culture is to be a sort of everywhere man, a man of nowhere, and not be rooted to time and place.

00:52:32.320 To be like an international businessman is the higher status thing.

00:52:36.080 Absolutely.

00:52:36.800 And I think that this cultural view has basically eroded this bond between the aristocrats and their land and the people.

00:52:45.780 And they don't see themselves as obligated to anyone anymore, other than themselves.

00:52:49.700 Yes. And as the fountain from which all of this stems from the king, you know, it is his majesty's government, his majesty's opposition, all of this.

00:52:59.120 His majesty's court.

00:53:00.180 Exactly. It is vital to everything that allows Britain to function.

00:53:07.240 And the problem is as well that whereas the queen was able to get away with quote unquote neutrality because she was she came to the throne when she was about 20.

00:53:18.020 And so she'd never had the chance to have a personal opinion, really,

00:53:22.880 whereas Charles had about 60 years' worth of personal opinions,

00:53:27.680 and so we already knew exactly what he was.

00:53:30.400 They were terrible opinions.

00:53:31.820 Yeah, and they were all wrong.

00:53:33.160 Oh, God.

00:53:34.060 If he wasn't talking about architecture, he was generally incorrect.

00:53:38.380 He was quite good on preserving the countryside as well.

00:53:42.460 But was he, though, if he's just going to allow it to be flooded with foreigners? 0.99

00:53:46.340 I mean, yeah, that's a fair point.

00:53:48.540 He talks a good game on that.

00:53:50.680 It's like there's a speech that you can find of him

00:53:52.900 talking about perennialism as well,

00:53:54.480 which again itself, it sounds good,

00:53:57.180 but he's clearly not living by any of these ideals.

00:54:00.940 And so this really, really rubbed people up the water.

00:54:04.500 This got a lot of backlash when it came out

00:54:07.080 and he said that he wasn't going to be giving

00:54:08.860 an Easter message this year.

00:54:10.860 For any foreigners, by the way,

00:54:11.800 he's the head of the Church of England.

00:54:13.220 Right.

00:54:13.560 He's literally the defender of the faith.

00:54:15.240 it wasn't changed to faiths he wanted to but it wasn't changed so we are we are a protestant

00:54:20.680 christian country by dint of the fact that our head of state is literally the head of the church

00:54:25.240 and he's like yeah i just don't feel like an easter message and you can see nate underneath

00:54:29.300 convert to islam well this is a room that's been going around since the 90s that king charles

00:54:33.280 prince charles at the time had converted to islam and he loves islam it's insufferable oh it's iftar 1.00

00:54:39.320 or whatever it is i'm going to go out and make food packages for them it's like but no easter

00:54:44.320 message for the christians it's just mental no it absolutely is it's um exactly the point i was

00:54:49.640 going to make and if you but also it comes down to the fact as well that uh so giving an eastern

00:54:55.620 message isn't actually a part of royal protocol uh the queen only did it once in the 70 years that 1.00

00:55:01.340 she was around but the reason why all of a sudden it's like okay but charles you're not living in

00:55:06.860 1952 yes right we're living in a time where the encroachment of every single minoritarian plea 0.99

00:55:13.560 group and like, oh, give me this, give me that, want something from you. And Charles's position

00:55:19.680 as the head of the Church of England and defender of the faith means that by necessity, by divine

00:55:26.180 oath, he has to actually say, this faith matters more to me and I am required to do more to defend

00:55:33.560 it than Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, all of the others that have come to society. But that

00:55:40.820 can't be allowed to happen because multiculturalism demands that all of these be threat 1.00

00:55:46.280 sort of with a casual yeah he doesn't he doesn't believe it no that's the thing he believes he's

00:55:51.840 a universal king yes so okay you're not the king of us then yeah uh and so yeah i won't play the

00:55:58.380 video but yeah last year uh he hosted the iftar in windsor palace um that's actually not acceptable

00:56:06.440 I don't know what else to say about it.

00:56:08.920 Your Majesty, that's just not acceptable.

00:56:11.900 And also as well, whilst if the king himself isn't going to speak

00:56:16.820 about the Christian faith and the importance of Easter,

00:56:20.320 despite the coronation oath requiring him to do so,

00:56:23.860 then it just allows other people to force their voices in and use it to...

00:56:29.700 Sadiq Khan is, actually.

00:56:32.080 But no, thank you to our Christian pieces.

00:56:33.700 You're just a small blob amongst all of these other blobs,

00:56:36.940 and you're all the same, and Sadiq Khan is the authority over them all.

00:56:41.160 It's like, no, no, no, I hate this.

00:56:43.300 Yeah, I hate it too.

00:56:45.840 And this is not to mention, and this is only to speak about Easter,

00:56:49.540 this is not to mention the fact that currently the Crime and Policing Bill,

00:56:53.680 which is the one that Antonia, I forget her surname, it's very foreign,

00:56:58.460 from Wales put through with Stella Creasy,

00:57:03.040 all about the recent monstrous developments on abortion.

00:57:07.720 It's like, okay, but Charles, you're the head of the Church of England

00:57:10.320 and defender of the faith.

00:57:12.240 And a Muslim.

00:57:12.880 And you're going to have to give royal assent to this.

00:57:15.940 As a Muslim, Charles, do you agree with abortion?

00:57:19.340 I'm pretty sure you don't.

00:57:21.300 And that too.

00:57:22.460 So come on, bro.

00:57:23.260 Yeah.

00:57:23.740 Yeah. But it just makes this entire point that what is the point of the monarchy today?

00:57:29.960 If your voice has nothing to it, if you are just literally kind of your own auto pen for the entirety of the establishment and everything, every sinister thing that it signs off on, then why have the institution?

00:57:45.460 I would rather have a monarchy that had some sense of moral voice.

00:57:50.520 Because then at least if it's having a voice,

00:57:52.500 there is a discourse between king and subjects, right?

00:57:56.140 There is actually a dialogue going on there.

00:57:59.100 Whereas if there is just absolute silence from the very top,

00:58:03.040 then that just constantly leaves you feeling...

00:58:06.640 It's also, sorry, yeah, you're right.

00:58:08.400 It's also kind of insultable because at the end of the day,

00:58:10.800 the king was always like a permanent representative.

00:58:12.700 like you know he was the person that the average person was supposed to petition

00:58:16.600 you know you don't necessarily you know you've got all these sort of elites in the middle but

00:58:22.020 the king was always at least something above them that you could petition i mean this is

00:58:24.840 this is a long-standing uh sort of uh tradition and theme in english folklore right this is like

00:58:32.160 robin hood just needs to get the king to understand exactly and okay well that's gone now 0.98

00:58:36.840 so great we get the worst of managerialism and a falsehood that reigns over the country now

00:58:43.380 the problem is that if the government is like a football team then the king is basically a mascot

00:58:50.780 um whereas ideally he should be the manager yeah yeah and the this dynamic basically makes the

00:58:57.860 position redundant yeah so what charles is unwittingly doing by doing nothing is just

00:59:03.900 making himself seem insignificant in the constitution of britain when actually he needs

00:59:09.840 to be doing things to validate his own existence in this day and age but he'd probably be like

00:59:14.980 great so i can turn us into a caliphate then maybe not him specifically i mean yeah

00:59:20.280 william good news here's your inheritance the caliphate god yeah absolutely um but also the

00:59:28.980 fact that as i was saying because he um because he has had 60 years worth of opinions as well

00:59:35.280 it means that even that distance it can't be like well i don't know the king's mind no we we all

00:59:41.120 know exactly what charles thinks about all of these issues and that's another problem as well

00:59:46.320 it means that he is not only just sort of like silently signing through so many of these terrible

00:59:54.300 things, it means that he believes in them as well. And where does that leave us on the other side of

00:59:59.680 it, given that for this entire time, we've been saying, we didn't consent to mass immigration,

01:00:04.860 we didn't consent to all of the things that you've done to the country. And given that they're so in

01:00:11.420 favour of just doing things without consent, you would think these people were ardent monarchists,

01:00:17.720 right? It's like, well, you didn't vote for it. But it's kind of this halfway house where

01:00:22.280 they always pander to like public support vox populi you know um get getting the votes are

01:00:29.320 sacred democracy yeah and on the other hand we just have this guy at the top who is a part of

01:00:34.200 this family and just signs off on it all you know willy-nilly cough cough the stewart line still

01:00:39.940 exists just throwing it out there yeah yeah well you know they were hardly any good

01:00:44.320 well they might be all right now it was turbulent but um i but i did so there was this

01:00:51.940 um open letter to the king because it's got so bad you can tell this was from uh just last month

01:00:57.920 by um bishop uh kieran h jewer who is a missionary bishop and is currently at the

01:01:04.320 diocese in providence and i thought we'd read through some of this because it is very well

01:01:09.360 worded and just stop me if you feel like you have something you want to come in with

01:01:12.760 Before we begin, apparently way back in, like you say, 1971, he did support the kind of,

01:01:23.060 he opposed the wider liberalization of the culture that was at the time associated with

01:01:28.940 anti-abortion activism.

01:01:30.980 So, and when you tie that to the sort of perennialism that he has spoken about, it makes it sound

01:01:36.440 like, yeah, he is a bit more socially conservative, actually, but it's an unpopular thing to do.

01:01:42.120 It's unfashionable.

01:01:43.160 And so he's just decided, well, I'll just convert to Islam and be a green candidate.

01:01:48.240 I mean, no, no, before I read, there's an interesting point there as well, because the

01:01:52.340 last time that a monarch decided not to give royal assent to a bill that had been put before

01:01:57.980 them was all the way back in 1708 during the reign of Queen Anne.

01:02:02.260 And that was on the advice of her ministers.

01:02:04.060 And actually, it ended up sinking the entire bill.

01:02:08.280 Now, there is a question.

01:02:10.040 And I've seen people online saying, well, he could just do that now because technically he could.

01:02:14.760 I mean, it's unthinkable in the modern constitutional settlement, but actually he could do it.

01:02:19.840 And the Crime and Policing Bill, with that particular power that it has on abortion, would be a remarkable test to do it.

01:02:26.500 Because as we pulled up when we were doing that segment at the time, only 1% of the public was in favour of that.

01:02:33.320 And so if the king were willing to shoot down something that 99% of the public are against.

01:02:38.600 You couldn't have a better opportunity.

01:02:40.040 Exactly. But he won't do it.

01:02:42.340 That's how, in the constitutional setup that we have,

01:02:46.880 that would be our system working optimally,

01:02:50.080 is that when Parliament does something against the interests of the British people,

01:02:54.500 the king is a check on their power.

01:02:56.460 Literally meant to be our permanent representative.

01:02:58.980 Exactly, yes.

01:03:00.540 And you couldn't ask 99% against.

01:03:03.880 Exactly.

01:03:04.420 Come on.

01:03:04.840 It's an open goal.

01:03:05.880 Yeah, exactly. It really is.

01:03:07.260 so he goes on to say

01:03:09.020 your majesty

01:03:10.620 I write to you neither as a politician

01:03:12.720 nor as a commentator but as one of your

01:03:15.080 loyal subjects who as bishop of Christ

01:03:17.200 church cannot remain silent

01:03:18.920 whilst the Christian foundations of this

01:03:21.180 kingdom are steadily dismantled

01:03:22.820 sir there are moments in the life of a nation

01:03:25.360 when silence becomes

01:03:27.080 a form of betrayal if I refuse

01:03:29.220 to speak to your majesty now this would

01:03:31.120 be such a moment for more than

01:03:33.200 a thousand years the crown of this

01:03:35.100 realm has stood in solemn

01:03:36.780 covenant with the Christian faith. The laws of this land were shaped by it. The liberties of

01:03:42.200 our people were nurtured by it. The conscience of our civilization was formed by it. From the

01:03:47.840 abbeys of medieval England to the parish churches of our villages, from the preachings of the

01:03:52.680 reformers to the missionary zeal that carried the gospel to the ends of the earth, the Christian

01:03:57.620 faith has not merely influenced Britain, it has defined her. Yet today that inheritance is being

01:04:04.240 quietly but deliberately eroded. Across the institutions of this nation, there is a growing

01:04:09.740 hostility towards the faith that built them. Christian belief is mocked in the public square.

01:04:14.460 Christian morality is dismissed as intolerance. Christian institutions are pressured to surrender

01:04:19.720 doctrine in order to conform to the ideology of the age. Within the very church that bears the

01:04:25.200 name of England, voices have arisen that appear more eager to mirror the spirit of the age than

01:04:31.680 to proclaim the eternal truth of the gospel.

01:04:34.740 And meanwhile, beyond the walls of our churches,

01:04:38.520 powerful political movements openly speak

01:04:40.920 of removing Christianity from its historic place

01:04:44.040 within the life of this nation.

01:04:45.940 And he goes on to talk about the fact that

01:04:48.000 basically what's happening is the state is preparing itself

01:04:51.540 to become a post-Christian one. 0.65

01:04:54.180 That's, of course, where all of this is leading to.

01:04:57.540 And it's in this context that he writes to His Majesty

01:05:00.720 for the British crown does not stand apart from this crisis.

01:05:05.160 It cannot simply stand aside and let it happen.

01:05:08.980 It has the highest moral obligation.

01:05:12.340 The king has the highest moral obligation,

01:05:14.140 more than any man in England, to do something about this.

01:05:18.700 And yet, and it goes on to say,

01:05:21.560 the sovereign of this realm bears a title that is not merely historic,

01:05:25.100 but sacred in its origin and meaning, defender of the faith.

01:05:29.100 Those words are not decorative, they are a charge. They speak of a monarch whose duty is not merely

01:05:34.820 to preside over the ceremonies of the church, but to stand as a guardian of the Christian

01:05:41.000 inheritance of the nation. Yet many among your subjects now ask with increasing anxiety,

01:05:47.240 who will defend that inheritance today? They see a nation drifting from its foundations and they

01:05:52.760 ask whether the crown will remain silent whilst the inheritance is dismantled. Your Majesty,

01:05:57.620 May I be so bold as to observe that your coronation oath was not a poetic formality.

01:06:03.460 It was a solemn vow made before Almighty God to maintain and preserve the Protestant reformed religion established by law.

01:06:11.300 Those words bind the conscience of the sovereign.

01:06:14.300 They remind the crown that its authority is not merely constitutional, but moral.

01:06:18.840 The monarch is not merely a symbol of national continuity, but a custodian of the spiritual inheritance that shaped this realm.

01:06:27.620 And he goes, the tradition of prophetic witness has never disappeared, nor should it.

01:06:35.860 For when rulers forget the foundations upon which their authority rests, the church must speak, not with hostility, but with holy clarity.

01:06:44.500 And so I write to say this, Your Majesty, the Christian character of this nation is under profound and accelerating assault. 0.99

01:06:54.300 And this is all very, very true.

01:06:56.480 I think he makes a point very well, please feel free to read the rest of it in your own time.

01:07:02.260 But what really my point and the reason I wanted to read that so extensively is what king could refuse this?

01:07:11.560 What does it say about a king to read that and continue on the current course?

01:07:18.180 He doesn't believe.

01:07:19.060 No.

01:07:19.400 He's a liberal.

01:07:20.400 He doesn't believe in the legitimacy of his own position.

01:07:23.280 Right.

01:07:23.760 That's the problem that they have.

01:07:25.560 So, I mean, you know, at the end of the day,

01:07:26.900 when the Republicans finally dethrone you, Charles,

01:07:30.320 you know, or your descendants.

01:07:35.020 And the thing is, as well, there are so many things to read

01:07:37.420 into this particular, if we go to this Ipsos poll,

01:07:39.880 this is back in 2022.

01:07:41.140 It was the last time that Ipsos ran the poll

01:07:43.980 when Her Late Majesty was still alive.

01:07:46.740 And we can see here that she had an 86% approval rating

01:07:50.060 throughout the kingdom.

01:07:51.580 And you'll see there that Prince Charles back then

01:07:54.020 had 65 percent so still generally popular right people two-thirds majority you know and that's

01:08:00.700 not considering all of the particular things in charles's history that i as azuma do not give a

01:08:07.520 damn about such as diana and all the rest of it right i mean he did also get embroiled in a few

01:08:12.880 political scandals like there was the the scandal known as the black spider memos nicknamed from his 0.99

01:08:19.540 bad handwriting which

01:08:21.640 me and him have in common

01:08:23.220 but he was caught writing

01:08:25.820 to ministers basically trying to advise

01:08:27.960 them how they should do things

01:08:29.260 which suggests that he's got the impulse

01:08:32.040 Is that terrible?

01:08:32.860 No it's not but it was a big deal at the time

01:08:36.160 but it suggests that he has an

01:08:37.960 impulse to get involved at the very least

01:08:40.140 or at least he did at one point

01:08:41.720 But then when

01:08:43.940 we compare that to a more recent poll

01:08:46.000 and we see how he's

01:08:47.840 declined since. We can see that he's now on 48% after being king for only a few years. And we can

01:08:54.440 see as well that even William's popularity, though still high, has gone down by 20 points from what

01:08:59.960 it was previously too. And it comes down to that. Charles is sinking the monarchy. Right. I mean,

01:09:05.440 to be honest with you, I really want to question the 5% of people who have a favourable view of

01:09:12.720 Andrew. I mean, I really want to hear their case.

01:09:16.620 Or not the overlap with the 5% of Greens who, you know,

01:09:19.880 reform who want Greens in charges.

01:09:21.980 Yeah.

01:09:22.640 Maybe they think Andrew's a bit of a player.

01:09:24.780 I don't know. I hesitate to guess.

01:09:27.980 But the larger point, of course, is that as well,

01:09:30.460 this speaks to so many, there are so many reasons

01:09:33.180 that could have caused this.

01:09:35.040 I mean, for the start, the neutrality that the Queen

01:09:37.820 was so heralded for and that it was just magnificent

01:09:41.480 how neutral she was.

01:09:42.740 Yeah, when you've got 70,

01:09:44.760 basically 50 years of your reign

01:09:47.460 in a homogenous society,

01:09:49.540 yeah, I imagine, you know,

01:09:50.800 just not being post-war as well.

01:09:52.980 So we're not really getting

01:09:53.800 into anything massive.

01:09:54.860 Right.

01:09:55.320 You know, so it's quite easy.

01:09:56.460 But I mean,

01:09:57.000 like the thing about Charles as well,

01:09:58.380 like he,

01:09:59.100 there are ways

01:10:01.380 that he could bring this back.

01:10:02.580 I mean, like his treatment of Andrew

01:10:04.340 was actually really good.

01:10:05.800 He was immediately on it.

01:10:07.340 It's like, no, out of the palace,

01:10:08.540 removing your title,

01:10:09.540 you're out of this.

01:10:10.080 Which the Queen would never do. 0.98

01:10:11.260 she would never have done it yeah and so he actually was decisive on that and it's like

01:10:15.760 this was the right thing to do okay great you know but look at it the whole thing is just down

01:10:20.320 well he's like the the keir starmer of monarchy isn't he yeah yeah but um i just wanted to add

01:10:25.720 um with elizabeth the the fact that she oversaw the decline of our empire from one of the most

01:10:31.980 powerful in the world at least on paper at the time in 1945 ish yeah um but you know we lost so

01:10:40.120 many different countries over the course of her reign and and some of it was already set in motion

01:10:45.000 before um she got into office because of course world war one and two but um at the same time

01:10:50.800 overseeing gradual decline is and then doing nothing about it is not something to celebrate

01:10:56.120 i don't think yeah well it's one thing to to be the monarch over a period of decolonization

01:11:02.140 it's another thing to be the monarch of decolonization and the colonization of britain

01:11:08.100 simultaneously. And that's really the result, I think, in part of what we're seeing here as well,

01:11:14.080 because although Charles has done, it's very strange in a way, because you see this in the

01:11:18.700 kind of same way that you do with reform whenever they have elections, right? They're always

01:11:22.440 giving lip service to those on the left, even though they always have always stronger progressive

01:11:27.960 voices to champion them. And this is what Charles has done constantly, pandered to the left when

01:11:32.960 his natural constituency the natural monarchists are obviously on the right of british politics

01:11:38.940 and the other thing is as well we've spent decades now importing millions and millions of people who

01:11:45.380 are not tied to the land so they don't see the monarchy reflected in their own history they've

01:11:49.820 no reason to feel any particular loyalty towards it well i think um one of the most pervasive things

01:11:57.000 that has affected a lot of hierarchy in Britain

01:12:00.800 is this notion of Tony Blair moving Labour to the centre ground

01:12:03.900 and winning a landslide election because of it.

01:12:06.840 And so everyone in the mainstream seems to think that,

01:12:09.980 well, if I pander to people who are normally my opponents,

01:12:13.920 that is how I maximise my own self-interest

01:12:17.460 when actually that's not the case.

01:12:19.100 Absolutely.

01:12:20.280 So, I mean, I agree with you.

01:12:23.980 There are ways he could pull it back.

01:12:25.800 But just looking at that, you think to yourself, well, it's got to be on William, right?

01:12:30.160 William is the most popular guy still in it.

01:12:33.680 And also as well, Kate is also very popular as well.

01:12:36.440 And so between them, they have the potential to change course.

01:12:40.660 But I don't think they will.

01:12:42.660 But we'll talk about this because it was doing the rounds where it was revealed that Prince William confirms that he has a quiet faith and is to give a new commitment to the church.

01:12:51.980 It's more than Charles can do.

01:12:53.580 Apparently so.

01:12:54.300 okay great at least the future head of the church of england i am a christian i thank god

01:13:00.880 the bare minimum your majesty yeah thank you yeah um but apparently there was always a bit

01:13:07.220 of a question mark over william's faith um really and yeah it goes on to where have we heard that

01:13:13.240 before yeah he's a product of modernity yeah everyone else uh put a source close to the

01:13:17.820 prince said this week is an opportunity to be very clear in people's minds when he walks into

01:13:22.800 Canterbury Cathedral or of where he stands. For him, it is a drawing of the line in the sand

01:13:28.780 of where he's at. And it's really important that the question over his commitment to the church

01:13:33.760 is cleared up. His feeling is, I might not be at church every day, but I believe in it.

01:13:38.560 I want to support it. And this is an important aspect of my role and the next role. And I will

01:13:43.920 take it very seriously in my own way. But it just speaks to like, oh, well, this is on the job

01:13:50.000 application, so I just kind of have to do this thing. There's no gusto, there's no vitality

01:13:55.040 behind it, there's no true conviction. And an aide to William told the Sunday Times,

01:14:02.900 the Prince of Wales' commitment to the Church of England is sometimes quieter than people expect,

01:14:07.740 and for that reason it is not always fully understood. Those who know him will recognise

01:14:12.120 that his connection to the Church and to the sense of duty that comes with it runs deep and is

01:14:17.760 grounded in something personal and sincere faith service and responsibility are themes that have

01:14:23.960 long shaped the role uh he will one day inherit and these are the things he approaches in his

01:14:29.440 own thoughtful way at least he's not praising islam well i mean at least he he has in the past 1.00

01:14:36.180 so i mean the some of the uh the engagement accounts have been going around and pulling

01:14:40.840 up old clips of william where he talks about islam being a religion of peace but to be honest this

01:14:45.820 has provided us with a solution which is uh i think in a shock turn events we should just make

01:14:51.380 john cleese the defender of the christian faith in england to be honest with you well he has been

01:14:57.240 on a personal crusade about this right isn't he but how have we got here how have i we got to the

01:15:02.760 guy who helped make monty python i trust more to steward christianity in britain than i do those

01:15:09.740 who swear sacred oaths to defend it.

01:15:12.040 And I would just end as well on the rolling part about Easter,

01:15:16.360 which is that I think that Nick really nails it here

01:15:18.560 when he says that the king won't give an Easter message,

01:15:21.800 the PM can't even say Christians,

01:15:23.900 the Conservatives offer something vague about renewal,

01:15:26.900 also Kemi's campaign slogan,

01:15:28.780 and Restore come out with some guff about Judeo-Christian culture.

01:15:32.400 Once again, only Rupert and Restore actually get it.

01:15:35.820 And I suppose that I will just conclude with the thoughts

01:15:39.020 that if His Majesty and, you know, succeeding monarchs

01:15:43.520 and Elizabeth, who we've just had,

01:15:45.220 are truly willing to just accept

01:15:47.620 whichever prime minister wins the next general election,

01:15:51.620 then hopefully, if we, you know,

01:15:54.040 God willing, get a restore government the next time round

01:15:57.180 and it's Rupert Lowe meeting the king,

01:16:00.600 then, well, maybe we'll see the royal family

01:16:03.500 start to take their obligations and oaths

01:16:05.620 a little more seriously. 0.99

01:16:07.880 I'd like to see Charlie give Charles a kick up the arse, yeah. 0.99

01:16:10.840 Yeah, yeah. 0.99

01:16:11.660 Charles, meet Charlie.

01:16:14.680 Yeah, I can't read that one, Corundum,

01:16:18.640 but thank you for the $5.

01:16:22.880 And Okador says, sorry, it's bouncing about a bit.

01:16:29.040 Okador says, did the Boris wave start before

01:16:31.980 or after the Queen died?

01:16:33.780 During, just before, actually.

01:16:35.420 Just before.

01:16:36.040 But the thing is, it wasn't evident that the Boris wave was happening

01:16:38.520 because everyone was locked down.

01:16:39.580 Yeah.

01:16:39.920 So it was one of those things that was kind of snuck under.

01:16:43.200 Yeah.

01:16:43.500 And then we emerged from our homes.

01:16:44.880 It's like, it's even more foreign. 0.99

01:16:46.700 Yeah.

01:16:47.000 Yeah.

01:16:48.580 Cranky Texan for $5, thank you, says,

01:16:50.480 The concepts of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are legal and rhetorical weapons.

01:16:56.840 There's no analogous concept that is allowed to exist for Christians.

01:16:59.960 Again, this is not a coincidence.

01:17:01.840 True.

01:17:02.920 And Sigil Stone for $2 says,

01:17:04.680 Don't forget, Cadbury is deathly scared of putting Easter on anything.

01:17:10.280 Well, they're American now anyway, so it doesn't matter. 1.00

01:17:13.340 But you'd think the Americans would be even more evangelical about it.

01:17:17.540 I know, but I'm just saying that the quality of their chocolate's gone.

01:17:20.140 It has. Haven't they changed to, like, palm oil or something?

01:17:22.540 Yes. It's gross.

01:17:24.080 Oh, no.

01:17:24.880 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:17:26.100 Dreadful. I'll have no part in it.

01:17:29.260 Disappointment.

01:17:29.980 Okay.

01:17:30.420 Video comments, Samson. Thank you.

01:17:32.540 Just like an opening scene in The Iron Lady,

01:17:35.380 People don't think anymore. They feel.

01:17:38.080 the British public are presented with a sewerage sluice of feelings by the mainstream media.

01:17:42.600 Despite what the story being put across is, whether news or drama,

01:17:46.200 the emotional angle is amped up to get you to ignore the underlying truths.

01:17:50.200 But, as red-letter media so skillfully observed,

01:17:53.360 Some so subtle you might not have even noticed, but your brain did.

01:17:57.540 It was going so well

01:18:00.960 until we brought up

01:18:01.780 red letter media

01:18:02.600 I'm sorry for your loss

01:18:04.520 Next one

01:18:06.880 Thank you

01:18:08.280 Just looking at it and thinking

01:18:16.020 doesn't this just need

01:18:17.020 more Somalians

01:18:17.860 It's just perfect

01:18:18.720 isn't it

01:18:19.220 I was just thinking

01:18:19.840 that's a flood risk

01:18:20.960 Don't think it is

01:18:23.480 If that canal floods

01:18:26.900 That house is going underwater.

01:18:29.340 I've probably been there for a long time.

01:18:39.860 I'll tell you what, that looks like a wonderful day out.

01:18:43.040 Also, very brave of you to cycle on a narrow path next to water

01:18:47.120 whilst recording at the same time.

01:18:49.560 I don't cycle.

01:18:51.200 I don't trust myself after 30 years on earth

01:18:53.560 of competently riding a bike.

01:18:55.280 You've never cycled.

01:18:56.360 I have cycled, I can cycle

01:18:58.360 You can ride a bike

01:18:59.160 I just choose not to

01:19:00.220 Okay, that's what they all say

01:19:02.940 Okay, next

01:19:04.900 Morale will improve with cats

01:19:09.200 You hear me? We will have improved morale with cats

01:19:14.600 We will continue to have improved morale with more banana cats

01:19:22.080 i'm amazed your cat is ignoring that banana costume because my experience of cats

01:19:28.260 is that to to put a cat into that costume or whilst they're in it it would become the most

01:19:34.480 feral animal imaginable i can only assume the cat is very used to the banana costume by this point

01:19:40.340 patient cat yes you know low theses i don't think i do enough palaces and stately homes

01:19:48.300 in my exploration of England.

01:19:50.980 I agree.

01:19:51.320 Right here is Charlotte Park,

01:19:53.500 owned by the Lucy family for 900 years.

01:19:57.000 Queen Elizabeth I stayed here for two days

01:19:59.600 and one of her progresses.

01:20:01.420 Legend has it that William Shakespeare

01:20:03.300 was caught illegally poaching on these lands.

01:20:09.920 Hello, sheep.

01:20:13.300 I agree.

01:20:14.120 You need to do more of those.

01:20:15.200 Yeah, definitely.

01:20:16.200 That looks wonderful.

01:20:16.960 I recognise it from BBC TV shows.

01:20:20.980 You know how you go to a stately home and you'll be like,

01:20:24.540 I've seen this on television before.

01:20:26.980 You ever get that? I've had it a few times recently.

01:20:29.760 Have you ever been to Chatsworth up in Yorkshire?

01:20:32.540 That's where the Devonshire family used to own it.

01:20:34.960 Oh, it's just remarkable.

01:20:36.360 Every detail of it is just astonishing.

01:20:39.400 Anne Moss, Swindon Grievance Factory worker, says,

01:20:42.760 American President Jimmy Carter implemented a 55 mile an hour speed limit

01:20:46.460 to save energy he was one uh one-time president his party was sadly defeated in the polls and

01:20:50.900 since then the speed limit on freeways in america has gone up by uh by state to a minimum minimum

01:20:56.280 of 65 up to 80 miles an hour depending on the state uh yeah i remember when i was younger just

01:21:02.640 learning like you know i must have been like 16 17 or something learning it was 55 miles an hour

01:21:07.260 on like the long american highways going across the continent i'm like jesus that must have been

01:21:12.340 awful yeah it's mad to me that you have this massive long straight line yeah and you're just

01:21:18.200 like yeah you've got to go 55 miles an hour whereas britain's roads were all basically built

01:21:23.360 about 500 years ago and haven't been updated since and we can go faster than that doesn't

01:21:28.480 make any sense omar says i'm seeing parallels between vibe-based politics and ai coding

01:21:33.120 there's enough for walking shell to lure investors or voters but everything under the hood is

01:21:37.580 incoherent garbage and it's honestly a miracle that it functions at all describing all of

01:21:42.320 our society to be honest yeah but you i think that's that's a fair point like but this thing 0.80

01:21:48.340 like the look like i can't there's a part of me that kind of wants to see a green party government

01:21:53.700 at this point just because okay go on let's see what happens you know it's going to be atrocious

01:21:58.620 um but like we're going to be a failed state yeah exactly in 30 years i'm kind of in favor of

01:22:04.640 rubbing in people's faces right it's like no no this is what you vote for okay you you get what

01:22:09.400 you deserve and when everyone's like okay but this is abominable it's like well there we go you know

01:22:13.120 i voted for the first right party i could find you know because i'm not a retard 1.00

01:22:18.060 angel brain says i think one of the biggest problems of these idiots in charge is they 0.99

01:22:24.880 really have no concept of the difference between wages and wealth both around but the latter has 1.00

01:22:28.820 forward thinking and the format is dynamic and can't plan because it's totally at the mercy of

01:22:33.000 state decisions and the amount of taxes that they levy on you so this is why they want any concept

01:22:38.780 of wealth creation being removed because the state must control the forward direction it must

01:22:42.320 control your conceptions they have they have to remove the concept of wealth because it contains

01:22:46.440 the concept of work in the past leading to future results and they can't allow this uh they control

01:22:51.840 the changing day and they decide what each day brings yeah it's there's definitely something to

01:22:56.620 this um but it's i think that they also like the conception they have of billionaires is like elves

01:23:04.140 or something in lord of the rings you know they live on a remote island somewhere and they're

01:23:08.880 completely disconnected from reality and it's like yeah but a lot of the billionaires didn't

01:23:13.460 start as billionaires like look elon musk jeff bezos bill gates like none of them they're not

01:23:19.240 hereditary aristocracy they're people who built something that just loads of people really like

01:23:24.300 you know and you know like and another thing as well they've got this concept that's basically

01:23:28.760 all screws mcduck swimming around in a vat of gold it's like no that's that's literally tens

01:23:33.100 of thousands of jobs you're attacking by doing this you know but anyway well the entire economy

01:23:38.060 is structured so that people spend money so it wouldn't make any sense if you're rich to sit on

01:23:42.600 a big pile of gold well actually if it were actual gold it would make sense um but fiat currency it

01:23:49.100 wouldn't make any sense for them to have large quantities of that in their bank account because

01:23:52.760 it would just be their net worth declining every second yeah as it gets devalued so it's all

01:23:58.660 invested economic zone 17 says carla wealth tax is one set a year and every year will go up

01:24:03.420 and the threshold for paying it will come down it really is a destructive policy that's failed

01:24:06.960 in multiple countries yeah look i'm not an economist i'm not saying that you know that's

01:24:10.380 not the case but when when in the vibe based regime when you hear it you're like yeah maybe

01:24:15.900 you know because i'm not an economist you know so that's why i'll be putting back zach polanski

01:24:20.580 in the next election it would just be one percent continually destroying you know the highest

01:24:26.280 earning 1%.

01:24:27.940 It's like a salami slicing machine. 0.98

01:24:30.180 Yeah, and it will slowly work its way down

01:24:32.200 to the middle class, basically.

01:24:34.960 Yeah, it's terrible.

01:24:36.620 Terrible.

01:24:37.700 Arizona Desert Rat says,

01:24:39.240 the guy's mother, talking about the arena segment,

01:24:41.640 also called the police several times

01:24:43.180 and said he was dangerous and shouldn't be out in the streets. 0.99

01:24:45.300 Yes, but again, he's black. 0.98

01:24:49.120 So, what are you going to do? 0.99

01:24:52.160 Human rights to murder random people. 0.92

01:24:54.460 yeah but the thing is that's kind of what the democrats think it is it's a human right to 0.91

01:24:59.960 murder white people and the thing about arena like the thing the really terrible thing about is 0.96

01:25:03.340 like it's literally just the skin color this comes down to you know it's not like you can say oh 0.97

01:25:09.460 she's part of like the wasp aristocratic families who owned slaves you know 300 years ago or 1.00

01:25:14.580 something you can't connect her to any of that she's ukrainian yeah they've never had an empire

01:25:18.800 they've never done anything exactly there's no justification for it either way no of course i'm

01:25:23.660 not saying is i'm not saying it can be justified but there's no logic in it other than she has the

01:25:28.360 wrong color skin and this guy was looking for someone with the wrong color skin to murder 1.00

01:25:31.960 right that's all it comes down to you know he can't possibly have known something about her

01:25:36.580 he can't possibly have connected her to historic injustice or anything like this 1.00

01:25:41.320 there's no rationale other than just i hate white people i want to murder them well the number of 1.00

01:25:46.440 videos i've seen of black people just randomly attacking white people for no reason whatsoever 1.00

01:25:50.760 it's a wonder that people aren't terrified of them already yeah well it's obviously the 0.96

01:25:55.380 media molly coddling yeah michael says the tragedy of arena is that she came to the u.s 0.99

01:25:59.740 to escape a war and then she gets killed by some random scumbag thousands of miles from a war zone 0.99

01:26:03.800 uh well i mean he was fighting a war you know like you know in his mind there's a war on white 0.99

01:26:10.280 people going on and he's a foot soldier yeah um well you only need to see how massively the murder

01:26:16.580 rates skyrocketed post 2020 and black lives matter yeah yeah um henry says the murals are 0.99

01:26:23.260 showing why banksy is a regime approved shill this is what happens when you go after the

01:26:27.300 against the approved narratives yeah because it casts the black community in a negative light

01:26:31.200 and you know zesty says uh it is accordingly our wish and command that the english church

01:26:38.360 shall be free and the men in our kingdom shall have and keep all of these liberties rights and

01:26:42.500 concessions uh well and peaceably in their fullness and entirety for them and their heirs

01:26:46.540 and us and our heirs in our heirs in all things in all places forever magna carta 1215 yeah well

01:26:53.440 there's a reason why they're desperately trying to undermine every clause of the magna carta i think

01:26:57.980 only three still obtain at this point um and michael says england needs a new cromwell well

01:27:03.920 there is a reason he's um yeah been reappraised recently yeah there really is uh isn't um

01:27:12.080 Rupert Lowe wasn't his dog called Cromwell.

01:27:14.640 And Cromwell, I think, is one of his heroes as well.

01:27:18.120 Yeah, in the interview in The Last Islander,

01:27:19.940 he's like, yeah, Cromwell's one of my heroes.

01:27:22.200 Not a fan of Christmas, then, I take it.

01:27:24.300 Well, to be honest with you...

01:27:25.140 It's more about putting people in their place.

01:27:27.980 I know, I'm joking.

01:27:28.980 Just cleaning up the corruption.

01:27:31.460 There is something interesting, though,

01:27:33.340 in the historical figure of Cromwell, though.

01:27:36.100 The idea of just, like, for this one blip in English history,

01:27:40.220 there was just a Commonwealth there.

01:27:42.080 and actually you know though it was divisive it wasn't an absolute car crash and it goes to show

01:27:47.960 you as well that actually it england is not solely defined by just having a monarch right

01:27:55.680 you know like richard harris says in the film the king is not england england is all of its people

01:28:01.680 right is and whatever works best for them yeah michael says uh say what you want about elizabeth

01:28:07.620 but she did serve her country wartime and they've accepted the decline of empire but charles has

01:28:11.660 actively selling out his country yeah i always i always feel a bit bad um for the critiques of

01:28:16.380 elizabeth on this because essentially she would have been one young woman struggling against the 0.73

01:28:21.800 tide of modernity that was washing over the west right like you know like it would have been a a

01:28:29.760 huge undertaking to have opposed everything that was going on and i can understand why she didn't

01:28:35.700 and it would have required her to basically just rewrite royal protocol yeah so how to manage 0.99

01:28:41.420 british politics yeah it would have been it would have been absolutely mad and you know you've got

01:28:45.360 like you know the americans busy decolonizing our empire and stuff like that's like right you're

01:28:49.280 gonna go against that are you like this this is a you know it i think it's too much to ask

01:28:54.320 to be fair um and so i can understand why she didn't um that's a random name says i'm not sure

01:29:01.320 what luca means by being on the winning side of both world wars well i mean at least putatively

01:29:05.080 right yeah in name only yeah i just mean in the sense uh oh mr kaiser you lost that war you're

01:29:11.860 into you're illegitimate now go into exile like no we won both times so our institutions stayed

01:29:17.200 intact yeah but he says as far as i'm concerned all european nations everywhere lost both these

01:29:21.360 wars we self-destructed which allowed our enemies to rise in power i mean that's not wrong no it's

01:29:25.940 true that's true i had a time machine i would go back and and just say to was it gavrillo princip

01:29:32.060 just don't do it

01:29:33.020 alright

01:29:33.300 you don't know

01:29:34.600 what you're doing

01:29:35.560 well I mean

01:29:37.340 it was probably

01:29:38.600 inevitable

01:29:38.980 yeah if it wasn't him

01:29:40.180 it would have been

01:29:40.720 something

01:29:41.360 he's not the only

01:29:42.540 random

01:29:42.980 that was the anarchist

01:29:44.400 right

01:29:44.600 who murdered 0.99

01:29:45.000 the black 0.98

01:29:45.680 yeah the Serbian

01:29:46.920 nationalists

01:29:48.020 oh it was a

01:29:49.620 nationalist

01:29:49.980 was it right

01:29:50.480 I can't remember

01:29:51.240 kind of break away

01:29:52.260 from the Austro-Hungarian

01:29:53.320 empire I think

01:29:54.060 Archduke Franz Ferdinand

01:29:55.200 yeah

01:29:55.400 but there were so many

01:29:57.020 like random factions

01:29:58.420 who produced 0.77

01:29:59.460 like random murderers

01:30:00.680 it's just like

01:30:01.560 okay whatever

01:30:02.020 michael says the duchy of cornwall changes uh charges fortunes to live in moldy houses and

01:30:08.020 charlie knew uh that he doesn't embody the principles of just regal rule and he was

01:30:12.540 allowed to become this way by his parents and advisors it's almost like they want demoralization

01:30:16.920 with dissolution of the monarchy um i think it's more just they just don't believe you know i

01:30:21.740 genuinely think they just don't believe the spark is just gone from them and they're saddled with

01:30:27.120 this giant historic institution that they're like okay well we we've got to live within this

01:30:32.940 but we just can't find it in ourselves to bring forth any authentic emotion about it and so it's

01:30:40.440 just going through the motions and that can probably happen for hundreds of years as well

01:30:43.780 by the way you know it's entirely likely they'll just go through the motions for hundreds of years

01:30:47.440 until it's finally put out of its misery yeah so uh anyway well there we go that's all we've got

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01:30:56.400 seeing you at the next one at 1pm

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01:31:00.560 tickets

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - April 06, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1390

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