The Lotus Eaters are joined by Stelios and Josh to discuss why Scotland will never have its freedom, the scandal that destroyed a prominent Democrat, and Labour's new scare ad campaign. Plus, a look at why you should vote Labour on May 7th.
00:00:25.020You'll have to be a bit faster next time.
00:00:26.800Other than that important news, we're also going to be talking about Labour's new advert campaign to try and win over voters before the council elections on the 7th of May.
00:00:36.000We're going to be talking about why Scotland will never have its freedom, presented, I believe, by a true Scotsman himself.
00:00:42.760I'm no true Scotsman. I'm half Scottish.
00:00:45.620There you go. And you're going to be talking to us about the scandal that destroyed a prominent Democrat.
00:00:51.980All right. And with that, let's get straight into the news then.
00:00:55.780So, as just mentioned, the council elections are coming up. 7th of May, everybody's excited. Everybody is preparing their campaign measures. It's starting to go into the overdrive. The Green Party have sent out a new wave of representatives to a whole host of exotic gay bathhouses around the country.
00:01:13.680The Conservatives. Reform has announced an even browner section of candidates that they're1.00
00:01:20.560announcing today, presumably. And finally, Labour have decided to release an exciting new campaign
00:01:28.200video, uncensored, uncut, uncensored, for your viewing pleasure. Let's take a look at it, shall we?
00:01:35.200The funding of the NHS is a total failure.1.00
00:01:44.200The French do it much better with less funding.1.00
00:02:52.420No, this is not Labour coming out with an entire new manifesto.
00:02:56.880this is them instead quoting uh supposed quotes from reform uk politicians now it's an interesting0.55
00:03:05.660scare ad what do you chaps think of it so far i think it's going to help the labor party because
00:03:10.800it's going to fool people into thinking that this is their new platform and she does drop the act
00:03:15.780by the end of it and say i don't believe anything that i just said but no this is just some random1.00
00:03:21.980london actress i could tell it was some sort of amateur actress the poor lady got roped into this
00:03:27.140i imagine she's probably i don't know if she got roped into it she comes across very sincere at0.88
00:03:32.260the end of it let's just let's just take a look where she uh it's a little bit creepy where she
00:03:36.560drops the act i don't believe any of what i've just said but you should know that there are
00:03:42.400people who do every word you've just heard was spoken by reform uk politicians senior figures
00:03:49.180advisors, candidates, councillors, MPs. There's only one way to stop reform. Vote Labour on
00:03:57.200Thursday the 7th of May. So it's a good old-fashioned scare advert. There's only one way
00:04:02.780to stop reform who are definitely just as based and definitely just as right-wing as we explained
00:04:09.480and showed in that video, right? What this is going to unintentionally do is make people think
00:04:13.440reform is actually the party they want to vote for, right? They're like, wow, actually, you know,
00:04:17.460I agree with some of these things. Reformers are sounding pretty good. It's not going to work in
00:04:22.760the same way, because unless you're a Labour Party activist, these things don't bother you
00:04:26.360that much. Maybe you disagree with some of it. You know, I don't actually think, you know,
00:04:30.940Boyle's getting cancer is necessary. I mean, she says things like, and this kind of betrays a
00:04:36.900little bit of it, where she said, we should be joining America in fighting this war against Iran,
00:04:41.920which is not something that i would agree with and is one of the major things from the from these
00:04:48.260quotes from reform mps that i would massively disagree with and this is something that i've
00:04:52.880mentioned before about some of these populist parties being more interested in foreign policy
00:04:57.560interests than domestic interests hence why a lot of the council members that they've announced
00:05:02.400have been not english but um but a lot of it seems quite sensible to the point where a lot
00:05:08.700of people have uh have actually memed this they've fallen in love they've seen this as actually the
00:05:14.560greatest pub date that you've ever been on your life um where you've a neurotic right-wing woman
00:05:20.260well you know in quotation marks no there are people like this where you go to the pub and
00:05:25.080they just immediately begin going through uh going through the spiel uh but and and there0.99
00:05:29.780are points here they're memeing her london has become a third world asshole i mean that's0.98
00:05:34.940genuinely true is that true pov you're on the best date of your life quote i'm racist and i'm proud0.87
00:05:42.200of it so this hasn't gone exactly how labor would intend at least through twitter which obviously
00:05:48.140has a biased sample size and that is i will also mention the too hot for television version of the0.97
00:05:55.400advert because they will release a censored and cooked version of this where uh she won't go into
00:06:02.920quite as much detail on her terrifying and extremist views but the version we saw there
00:06:09.780was uploaded to YouTube. Advert was deemed too offensive for broadcast with a toned down version
00:06:15.400expected to air this evening. Also the final message doesn't really make sense either because
00:06:20.300there are alternatives to the Labour Party and that's the Greens and the Lib Dems and so that's
00:06:25.320where a lot of people are going already so the idea that the only way to keep reform out is Labour
00:06:30.900actually no i think the greens and and the lib dens are doing quite well in many areas
00:06:34.980there's already there's also the other question if they tone it down what is the end message going
00:06:40.680to be same thing who is yeah but who is going to find it uh interesting yeah no one is going to be
00:06:46.820alarmed by tone down version of this i wasn't alarmed by the original yeah but even the general
00:06:52.780public some seem to have been aroused by it apparently yeah it's never change comments
00:06:58.300featured in the ad includes some women should never have left the kitchen i'm racist and i'm
00:07:02.020proud of it london has become a third world s-hole and mp sarah potchen's remarks about feeling mad0.86
00:07:07.220when she sees adverts full of black people and full of asian people there's also other quotes0.99
00:07:12.800here claims by asim mal malotra malotra thank you malhotra it's like malhotra thank you
00:07:21.820her claim that vaccines for covid were a significant factor in the cancers of members
00:07:26.460of the royal family yeah that's probably not true and then she goes on again say like i don't believe
00:07:31.480in any of what i've just said um is this going to do anything other than just create a load of
00:07:36.840meme-worthy clips for people to share no no it's just trying to create again the false dichotomy
00:07:43.960that reform of the super based right-wing party that you definitely want to vote for if you're
00:07:49.060a true patriot and laborer of the party who stand against that as the entrenched establishment when
00:07:54.200And as we've covered many, many times, reform are the party who have most of the people who brought the Boris wave over and are now fielding Boris wave candidates for your local council elections.
00:08:04.780So it's just carrying on that false dichotomy, trying to drag approval rates up when, in fact, approval rates, I mean, you can go across an entire lifetime here of this going back to February of 2011.
00:08:16.920Approval rates for the government are never positive.
00:08:20.000Everybody always hates the government.
00:08:21.360And that's really the one thing that this country can almost always be united in.
00:08:25.840The only time that there has ever been a positive approval rating for the government
00:08:29.620was right at the beginning of Boris when he enabled, when he did the COVID lockdowns.
00:08:36.120I think in hindsight, people wouldn't have approved, knowing what happened.
00:08:40.500In hindsight, at the time when Starmer got in, there was uncertainty
00:08:46.200and then it immediately spiked back up to everybody hated him
00:08:49.160because he basically clamped down on riots and protests0.93
00:08:55.340against a bunch of white children being stabbed to death by a foreigner.
00:09:00.560But what this just seems to me is that it portrays the Labour Party0.78
00:25:02.160Just make them dark green or something.
00:25:04.120But anyway, I suppose it's because of Plaid Cymru.0.96
00:25:06.560I just assume YouGov's playing silly boogers.
00:25:08.780Enough about complaining about YouGov's colour schemes.
00:25:11.540yeah the SNP generally speaking aren't going to change much nationally not nationally you know
00:25:19.360in the entirety of the UK it's going to have an effect obviously in Scotland but in terms of
00:25:25.880Westminster's parliament they're going to hold roughly the same sort of position that they would
00:25:30.180ordinarily all things you know carrying on as they are but you know things can change
00:25:36.920and one thing that i found very interesting here is the breakdown of people's opinions on various
00:25:45.460issues so um labor voters in scotland prioritize the economy health and even immigration there
00:25:53.240which i thought was quite interesting and this is back in december so that's before they started
00:25:57.700burning down their own vape shops that's true yes um and then you look at the smp economy health
00:26:03.400And then Brexit, like, hang on a minute, how long ago was that again? That was 2016 we left, we voted to leave, wasn't it? So why, it's sort of this relic of a bygone age where apparently Brexit is the source of all your woes and evils because of reasons.
00:26:21.140But then you look at Conservative voters in Scotland, immigration 59%, economy 51% health.
00:26:28.800And so you can see that all parties except the SNP are concerned about immigration, even Labour, which doesn't even happen in England.0.51
00:26:37.840And of course, Scotland's had some pretty nasty immigration as well.
00:26:41.480Maybe the SNP voters are actually immigration through the back door from Brexit.0.82
00:26:46.500Maybe they're like, we miss our polls.
00:26:47.920yeah they just want european immigration back i'm sure that's it but you look at all scots here
00:26:54.340and the economy is still number one which makes sense it's scotland um they've always had economic
00:26:59.920struggles health as well you know again it's where they they you know filmed train spotting right the
00:27:06.240needle down yes and the fried mars bar um but no your health is is genuinely a serious problem in
00:27:13.800Scotland. My Scottish grandparents did not cook healthy food whatsoever. Were they the types that
00:27:19.940Scotched everything? Yes, they were. Kind of based. It is, yeah. But immigration and asylum there is1.00
00:27:26.640interesting. It's the third issue, which generally speaking is not as common in Scotland as it is
00:27:32.780in, say, England. And so I see this becoming more and more of a problem, and especially in the run
00:27:38.620up to 2029, there are going to become more and more incidents of, like you said, the vape shop
00:27:43.320burning down and burning down part of um glasgow train station wasn't it it was right next door
00:27:48.640yeah yeah um and so people are going to have more and more examples and i might expect to see that
00:27:54.760immigration and asylum creep up a little bit and maybe eat into some support for the smp who are
00:28:00.340just in similar to the greens in uh you know england and wales and the like just avoid immigration
00:28:07.120altogether. Although that being said, even amongst the SNP, 26% say it's a problem.
00:28:14.620And so then you have this. So this lady is Mary McAllen, who's Scotland's cabinet secretary for
00:28:23.540housing. And for someone who's involved in housing, she says something very interesting.
00:28:30.320Migration is good for our economy, necessary for our economy, for our hospitality sector,
00:28:35.580health and social care and our businesses. That was really reflected in the opinion there.
00:28:39.480But I think the other thing that was really reflected is that difficulties have been inflamed,
00:28:44.600they have been exploited, and they have been exploited by the party sitting next to Chaz,
00:28:49.980I think, created an atmosphere of fear. So it's just not addressing any of the problems. And of
00:28:58.920course, one of the things that's quite important in Scotland at the minute is even the SNP,
00:29:05.380the Scottish government in May of 2024 declared a national housing emergency and their housing
00:29:12.960minister is saying yeah let's just bring more people in well where are they going to live
00:29:18.140you're not building any more houses really and certainly not able to keep up with demand
00:29:22.320and apparently according to the 2022 census around a tenth of the population was born outside the
00:29:30.920united kingdom um and edinburgh and glasgow around a fifth minority ethnic and so it's already
00:29:38.080started to be you know 20 percent uh a tent for the population born outside the uk yeah and yeah
00:29:45.14020 percent in in the major cities hell last time i went to edinburgh would have been what like
00:29:50.880just over 10 years ago i think and i don't remember it being like that although i imagine0.99
00:29:55.560they were still there but as ever in get in little ghettos so it might not have been as noticeable
00:30:00.000but it starts to get really noticeable when it's a fifth of the population and and for that woman
00:30:04.880i would assume yeah i suppose migration can be great for business it's great for housing
00:30:10.680construction businesses um who lots of politicians like to uh accept donations from uh or invest with
00:30:18.160and it's great for uh businesses to get cheap labor so she is right there yeah it's not great
00:30:24.040for scottish people of course no um if if you want to have you know affordable housing the thing that
00:30:29.580you want to do is not grow the population and not build houses. It's pretty common sense, actually.
00:30:37.540And then you have even the BBC talking about how crazy this is, and it introduces all sorts of
00:30:46.080conflicting opinions. It's interesting, actually, that the BBC pulled this up. So too few migrants
00:30:52.800are coming to Scotland, says SNP. And the only way you can really read this is to say, like,
00:30:58.160are they crazy so when they the graph showed that they care about migration and asylum was the
00:31:05.560concern not enough people come over here maybe yeah it's just too vague is it that jokey it's0.51
00:31:12.280like a scottish version of the meme where it's like the union jack scarf covering up the mouth
00:31:17.900of the irishman or in this case the scotsman has finally been liberated and what does he have to
00:31:22.960say send more africans apparently so so even the daily record which is a lefty rag basically
00:31:32.020is writing articles this is from february they're the ones who put bow on the cover aren't they
00:31:36.100they are yes smp government urgently needs to get a grip of the housing crisis and you know
00:31:42.560they're pretty favorable to them as far as i'm aware and these are the same ones that tried to
00:31:47.340drag Count Dankula through the mud and called him the Nazi pug thug for making a joke.0.52
00:31:56.020It does kind of roll off the tongue.0.91
00:31:57.120It does. For making a joke about making his cute dog do a horrible thing. That was the point of
00:32:02.440the joke. And then they basically dragged him through the mud. They wrote about 10 articles
00:32:06.900about him when I was researching this. So yeah, they're not a good newspaper, but even they're
00:32:11.900saying, listen, this is undeniable now. And it's to the point here where a new homeless family
00:32:17.440every 15 minutes in Scotland, which is not a big country in terms of population, really,
00:32:24.920you know, it's not like England, where it's many, many, many millions. It's a relatively small
00:32:30.840populous country. And the fact that there's a homeless family every 15 minutes is, you know,
00:32:36.480a massive failure on the SNP. And that's exactly what this article is arguing. And it's actually
00:32:43.000quite surprising that you see a lot of the media against them. But people vote for them because
00:32:47.040they hate England so much, that they're willing to overlook the fact that the SNP make their lives
00:32:51.960worse in every tangible way. And many people are happy to point it out, like here, they're saying
00:32:57.520in Glasgow alone, 64% of the 9,337 homeless people in temporary accommodation came to the UK as
00:33:04.720asylum seekers. So this is a policy choice, right? And yeah, he's rightfully criticizing the SNP for
00:33:12.000this, because they're the ones in government, aren't they? And then there's another article
00:33:17.980here, the SNP's 10k deposit scheme may worsen housing, the housing crisis, because that what
00:33:24.000they're doing is they're offering 10k to young people to basically buy their votes, so they can
00:33:30.320get on the housing ladder, but this is not, it sounds appealing at first, but then of course
00:33:35.180you'll realise that demand's going to go up even more, and it's going to push house prices up even
00:33:40.300more, and the market's just going to absorb that extra 10k and ask for even more again, right,
00:33:45.540because there's already a shortage. So all it's going to do is make things worse.
00:33:51.320And the S&P solution to this housing crisis is to just get more bureaucrats, just throw
00:33:57.960bureaucrats into the fire and apparently have we tried that yet uh apparently not um i mean
00:34:04.100specifically no oh right say no more um but yes um this would be um this was when was it in january
00:34:14.420of this year they announced that 132nd quango to address the housing emergency so 132 bureaucrats
00:34:22.560to find out that hey maybe increasing the population increases demand for housing which
00:34:28.020is pushing the shortage of housing this is like the monkeys at the beginning of 2001 figuring out
00:34:33.520stick hurt people me hit you with stick it's like too many people not enough houses
00:34:39.860and then they start beating each other with sticks i assume i would imagine so but um it's led to a0.61
00:34:48.180situation where more than a quarter of Scots trust no parties whatsoever to fix the housing crisis
00:34:53.440and two-thirds said they agreed Scotland was facing a housing emergency. Well I kind of agree0.84
00:35:00.520you know like it would require a complete upending of the incentives and the whole direction of the
00:35:09.260modern political establishment which is bring in cheap labor for businesses, endless migration,
00:35:15.020um replace your population you would need you would need somebody incredibly radical to come
00:35:21.920in to reverse doing that again even with uh even with reform it's just the case of like
00:35:26.800are they going to fix the problem no it's just going to mean that the people moving in next door
00:35:31.940are going to have a passport on them when they move in fantastic that's going to make all the
00:35:37.060difference isn't it yeah yeah and a passport and a little union jack flag that they wave every so
00:39:29.700Northern Ireland to be part of the United Kingdom. And so they're all scheming together to destroy
00:39:36.480basically England, although actually England gives, or mostly actually just London and the
00:39:44.040surrounding areas, subsidise a lot of the other areas of the UK. And so they would just be leaving
00:39:51.440and getting much less money from the state. And also the thing is that with an independent Scotland,
00:39:58.560one of the problems that no one ever addresses is that the main sticking point is being able to keep
00:40:04.220the great british pound and uh obviously westminster is going to say well if we give you
00:40:09.180the pound you'll have a currency that you know we control so what's going on there and so they
00:40:16.140would have to have their own currency and they don't want that because it's a massive risk but
00:40:19.720if they do then it will just um push all the stock and prices of companies in scotland right down
00:40:28.180because of the uncertainty. And that means that a bunch of English people can buy it up at a cheap
00:40:32.660price. And so actually what it would result in would be more English control over Scotland than
00:40:39.040had they remained part of the union. I would assume the goal would be leave the union,
00:40:45.160immediately rejoin the EU. Would they be interested in getting on the euro? Maybe.
00:40:50.980That might be what the plan would be. It would be a little bit more sensible. At least it's a
00:40:56.360currency that exists and isn't just created out of thin air but of course the euro then
00:41:00.920binds you to lots of countries that um are not as fiscally responsible um as some of the others
00:41:07.700yeah i mean we we always have banter over this stuff and we we joke about scots and welsh and
00:41:13.800even the irish as well but i mean just like ripping up the united kingdom there are plenty
00:41:19.040of scottish people and plenty of welsh people who wouldn't want that i certainly don't want it no i
00:41:23.840don't think any of us want it because there is a like that was the point of the union in the first1.00
00:41:27.640place is recognizing that we all have a shared heritage and a shared destiny on these islands0.92
00:41:32.560so for my family is scottish half of them are english throwing away that history throwing away
00:41:38.040that shared connection for the sake of what is essentially political grandstanding and and a
00:41:43.700kind of weird chauvinism would be pathetic and ruinous as well i very much agree um and they've
00:41:49.920announced that they would bring forward a referendum another one a second one on day one
00:41:54.740of a new government and it's got to the point where this was launched a few days ago now and
00:42:00.260in the first 12 days it was accessed 35,000 times and it's basically just how to stop the SMP and
00:42:07.560how to vote tactically to do so and it tells you who's polling the best in your local area
00:42:12.060so you can vote against them so it's basically just either you're for the SMP or against them
00:42:18.640it seems in Scottish politics and people are more than happy to vote tactically just to keep them
00:42:24.040out especially people who are pro-union and yeah this came from here and it's still worth mentioning
00:42:32.540that even if they did have this second referendum where they're at the minute it's still net
00:42:37.940unfavorability for leaving in fact it's saying should Scotland be an independent country and
00:42:44.980the percentage of people who say no is 53% to 47%. So it's not really moved very much since the
00:42:51.900actual independence referendum in the first place. And in fact, you can see that it stayed
00:42:58.400relatively static with no leading for most of the time there, except, you know, a slight drop
00:43:04.560at the start of the lockdowns. And that's it, really. And so I don't really understand the
00:43:11.720point of the SNP. They're all about independence. But were they to get the referendum, people would
00:43:17.780say no, according to this at least. And if they did actually win the referendum, their situation
00:43:25.220would probably be markedly worse for most Scots. Like, yeah, you've cut your nose off to spite the
00:43:30.820English, but you've just got to live with the consequences there. So I don't really understand0.87
00:43:36.000how any rational person wants to vote for them, no matter what your politics are, because the
00:43:41.100economy is going to get tangibly worse and you know it's unlikely to win in the first place so
00:43:47.820would they does it seem like they even have a plan for it no um and in fact many of the things that
00:43:53.660they do serious about it you would already have a well thought out plan drawn up for contingencies
00:43:58.800no i think that they're just sort of a gimmick party like a lot of the things they promised
00:44:03.940at the last election they didn't do or sometimes even did the opposite um and so they don't have
00:44:09.420a good track record of keeping their word on things anyway and i think that if you are scottish
00:44:14.900the obvious thing to do is do what you can to keep them out yeah i mean it sounds like they just keep
00:44:19.880ginning up um controversy around this particular subject it's probably why brexit is always in
00:44:27.320their mind as well because brexit was a sore spot between england and scotland um so they want to
00:44:33.080keep these subjects always in the air so they can bring them back to keep people voting on their
00:44:38.240side just going to be going door to door just like remember the highland clearances just like
00:44:42.080come on we're a little bit past that braveheart have you ever watched braveheart and they just
00:44:47.000start like like an ipad in your face with mel gibson on the screen and it just inspires patriotic0.99
00:44:52.940feeling in these presumably foreigners but you'll be tangibly worse off if that happens could you0.97
00:44:59.240imagine they come up to the door of abdul and just like throw braveheart in his face how does1.00
00:45:03.940this make you feel don't you love your country it isn't going to work because yeah the foreigners
00:45:11.040as well they don't you know they don't have as much hatred of the english as the smp funnily
00:45:15.780enough probably not actually pay their benefits so you know i was gonna say they're gonna be like
00:45:19.960london pays my benefits though bro i don't think they're gonna be economically uh insightful enough
00:45:25.800to know that but but yes um the situation in scotland is pretty grim but um a lot can change
00:45:31.940and I hope it does because the SNP are kind of a horrifying party to govern and I don't wish that
00:45:38.500on anyone in Scotland. All right, got two rumble rants from that. Scotland being completely
00:45:43.840bankrupt all the time from Logan Pine. That's just, seems to be a general observation. It's a
00:45:48.280statement. And Fortien Barber asks, has Stelios announced his big news? He's not leaving, right?
00:45:55.040Do you want to say for anybody who missed it at the beginning? Yeah, so basically I'm not leaving.
00:45:59.280you can check my ex description to see new stuff but i'm not leaving i'm here for a purpose
00:46:07.180and thank you to the friends who are supporting me along the way the others i don't mind the
00:46:13.900the hate or something you'll get out of it you'll grow out of it it's just a phase it's just a phase
00:46:21.480yeah yeah so the sds the sds yeah the stelios derangement syndrome ah all right well stelios
00:46:31.940it's a phase tell us about eric swalwell
00:46:35.340are you sure you want me to tell you about it well that's what we're scheduled to do right now
00:46:43.000so yeah but this is a very cringy segment that's i expect nothing less from you
00:46:47.760Right. So Eric Swalwell is a prominent Democrat, or I should say was. There's a sexual scandal involving him that has destroyed his career. Now, let me be very clear. This is an ongoing investigation. The allegations involved in that scandal are not proven yet.
00:49:47.780that's very chinese sounding name but you know this this tends to happen to be a mr christopher
00:49:53.980fang did she or karen fang did she get her fangs into him
00:49:58.300why we keep you on right so what happened was that she was in california um state university
00:50:08.460And she helped fund him raise fans for his campaigns.
00:50:15.440But the previous FBI consensus or verdict was that the FBI at some point notified him of her suspicious behavior.
00:50:27.340And they say that when he learned about that thing, when he heard the warnings, he immediately cooperated with him and cut all ties with her.
00:50:39.240And Ms. Fang Fang went back to China and has never set foot on the U.S. again.
00:50:44.500But now that Kash Patel is in the FBI, he is pushing against him yet again.
00:50:55.140And this is why lots of the Democrats say on the one hand that, yeah, we will not allow sexual abusers to be part of our party.
00:51:07.400but also that this was a politically motivated attack because it's Trump waging war lawfare
00:51:16.300against the people who went after him before. So here we have Lindy Lee here. She is a political
00:51:24.180strategist and she's basically talking about the Democrats. She's saying that they have a very
00:51:30.920hypocritical relationship to allegations of sexual misconduct when it comes to trump and0.83
00:51:38.040republicans they instantly believe them when it comes to democrats they look the other way
00:51:43.320well i mean that's the same that's the same with both parties i mean cash patel waging this in the
00:51:48.100first place it's like how long did it take for you to even release just the documents that we
00:51:54.160have from the epstein files so and i i mean i i just see a lot of this as cynical and we are gonna
00:52:00.220to talk about the Republicans as well, because I wasn't going to say it's only the Democrats
00:52:05.060who are doing it. We are going to talk about Tony Gonzalez in a bit. Right. So, and she
00:52:10.980says here that it's actually, she's voicing the concern of many people. It's just when
00:52:16.880there are allegations for sexual misconduct against you for years, how can you not know?
00:52:23.680Or how can you pretend that all this is nothing? At least confront these people.
00:52:30.220Right? You could say this about both parties and yes, that's the case. And there's always
00:52:36.720the element of when you try to, of fake news about this, because when you try to, when
00:52:44.600you're competing for us, for the top positions, there will be people trying to smear you.
00:52:50.080But there is a question as to whether people just get completely desensitized when it comes
00:52:55.660to allegations of sexual misconduct for members of their party and become completely hawks
00:53:03.160when it comes to allegations about the others, which seems to be the case.
00:54:23.220I was just going to say that I am interested in when these sorts of things come out,
00:54:29.660because quite often I know that people sit on the knowledge of people
00:54:34.440having these sorts of questionable relationships, however true,
00:54:39.780but people sit on this and use it as leverage in politics.
00:54:43.240There have been provable cases of this happening.
00:54:46.860And so I do wonder what internal machinations within the Democratic Party have led to the release of this.
00:54:53.060Because it's very rare that they willingly release information about one of their own, particularly a senior person, doing something that is seen as unequivocally bad.