The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1406

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1,406.

00:00:04.740 I'm your host, Harry, joined today by Stelios.

00:00:07.060 Hello, everyone.

00:00:07.820 And Josh.

00:00:08.780 Hello there.

00:00:09.520 Do not worry, Stelios is not leaving.

00:00:12.320 That is not what was being hinted at.

00:00:15.640 But other than that, important announcement, I wanted to let everybody know.

00:00:19.720 I was about to say it.

00:00:21.240 Oh, well, I cut you off there, Stelios.

00:00:23.780 So, beat you to the punch.

00:00:25.020 You'll have to be a bit faster next time.

00:00:26.800 Other 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.

00:00:36.000 We're going to be talking about why Scotland will never have its freedom, presented, I believe, by a true Scotsman himself.

00:00:42.760 I'm no true Scotsman. I'm half Scottish.

00:00:45.620 There you go. And you're going to be talking to us about the scandal that destroyed a prominent Democrat.

00:00:51.060 Yeah.

00:00:51.980 All right. And with that, let's get straight into the news then.

00:00:55.780 So, 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.

00:01:13.680 The Conservatives. Reform has announced an even browner section of candidates that they're 1.00

00:01:20.560 announcing today, presumably. And finally, Labour have decided to release an exciting new campaign

00:01:28.200 video, uncensored, uncut, uncensored, for your viewing pleasure. Let's take a look at it, shall we?

00:01:35.200 The funding of the NHS is a total failure. 1.00

00:01:44.200 The French do it much better with less funding. 1.00

00:01:47.200 There's a lesson there. 1.00

00:01:49.200 If you can afford it, you pay.

00:01:52.200 If you can't, you don't.

00:01:54.200 It works incredibly well.

00:01:56.200 I do not want it funded through general taxation.

00:02:00.200 It doesn't work.

00:02:01.200 It's not working.

00:02:03.200 I think we're going to have to move to an insurance-based system of healthcare.

00:02:09.760 It's highly likely that the COVID vaccines have been a factor, a significant factor,

00:02:16.000 in the cancer of members of the royal family.

00:02:20.080 Depression isn't real. It drives me mad when I see

00:02:24.880 outfits full of black people, full of Asian people, full of people that, you know, 1.00

00:02:29.440 basically are anything other than white. 0.73

00:02:31.280 Maybe I was wrong about that. 1.00

00:02:32.700 London has become a third world shithole. 0.99

00:02:35.980 FACT! 1.00

00:02:37.780 People from other religions should eat bacon for a month 0.99

00:02:41.200 to prove their Christian sincerity and credentials. 1.00

00:02:47.060 I'm a racist and I'm proud of it.

00:02:52.420 No, this is not Labour coming out with an entire new manifesto.

00:02:56.880 this is them instead quoting uh supposed quotes from reform uk politicians now it's an interesting 0.55

00:03:05.660 scare ad what do you chaps think of it so far i think it's going to help the labor party because

00:03:10.800 it's going to fool people into thinking that this is their new platform and she does drop the act

00:03:15.780 by the end of it and say i don't believe anything that i just said but no this is just some random 1.00

00:03:21.980 london actress i could tell it was some sort of amateur actress the poor lady got roped into this

00:03:27.140 i imagine she's probably i don't know if she got roped into it she comes across very sincere at 0.88

00:03:32.260 the end of it let's just let's just take a look where she uh it's a little bit creepy where she

00:03:36.560 drops the act i don't believe any of what i've just said but you should know that there are

00:03:42.400 people who do every word you've just heard was spoken by reform uk politicians senior figures

00:03:49.180 advisors, candidates, councillors, MPs. There's only one way to stop reform. Vote Labour on

00:03:57.200 Thursday the 7th of May. So it's a good old-fashioned scare advert. There's only one way

00:04:02.780 to stop reform who are definitely just as based and definitely just as right-wing as we explained

00:04:09.480 and showed in that video, right? What this is going to unintentionally do is make people think

00:04:13.440 reform is actually the party they want to vote for, right? They're like, wow, actually, you know,

00:04:17.460 I agree with some of these things. Reformers are sounding pretty good. It's not going to work in

00:04:22.760 the same way, because unless you're a Labour Party activist, these things don't bother you

00:04:26.360 that much. Maybe you disagree with some of it. You know, I don't actually think, you know,

00:04:30.940 Boyle's getting cancer is necessary. I mean, she says things like, and this kind of betrays a

00:04:36.900 little bit of it, where she said, we should be joining America in fighting this war against Iran,

00:04:41.920 which is not something that i would agree with and is one of the major things from the from these

00:04:48.260 quotes from reform mps that i would massively disagree with and this is something that i've

00:04:52.880 mentioned before about some of these populist parties being more interested in foreign policy

00:04:57.560 interests than domestic interests hence why a lot of the council members that they've announced

00:05:02.400 have been not english but um but a lot of it seems quite sensible to the point where a lot

00:05:08.700 of people have uh have actually memed this they've fallen in love they've seen this as actually the

00:05:14.560 greatest pub date that you've ever been on your life um where you've a neurotic right-wing woman

00:05:20.260 well you know in quotation marks no there are people like this where you go to the pub and

00:05:25.080 they just immediately begin going through uh going through the spiel uh but and and there 0.99

00:05:29.780 are points here they're memeing her london has become a third world asshole i mean that's 0.98

00:05:34.940 genuinely true is that true pov you're on the best date of your life quote i'm racist and i'm proud 0.87

00:05:42.200 of it so this hasn't gone exactly how labor would intend at least through twitter which obviously

00:05:48.140 has a biased sample size and that is i will also mention the too hot for television version of the 0.97

00:05:55.400 advert because they will release a censored and cooked version of this where uh she won't go into

00:06:02.920 quite as much detail on her terrifying and extremist views but the version we saw there

00:06:09.780 was uploaded to YouTube. Advert was deemed too offensive for broadcast with a toned down version

00:06:15.400 expected to air this evening. Also the final message doesn't really make sense either because

00:06:20.300 there are alternatives to the Labour Party and that's the Greens and the Lib Dems and so that's

00:06:25.320 where a lot of people are going already so the idea that the only way to keep reform out is Labour

00:06:30.900 actually no i think the greens and and the lib dens are doing quite well in many areas

00:06:34.980 there's already there's also the other question if they tone it down what is the end message going

00:06:40.680 to be same thing who is yeah but who is going to find it uh interesting yeah no one is going to be

00:06:46.820 alarmed by tone down version of this i wasn't alarmed by the original yeah but even the general

00:06:52.780 public some seem to have been aroused by it apparently yeah it's never change comments

00:06:58.300 featured in the ad includes some women should never have left the kitchen i'm racist and i'm

00:07:02.020 proud of it london has become a third world s-hole and mp sarah potchen's remarks about feeling mad 0.86

00:07:07.220 when she sees adverts full of black people and full of asian people there's also other quotes 0.99

00:07:12.800 here claims by asim mal malotra malotra thank you malhotra it's like malhotra thank you

00:07:21.820 her claim that vaccines for covid were a significant factor in the cancers of members

00:07:26.460 of the royal family yeah that's probably not true and then she goes on again say like i don't believe

00:07:31.480 in any of what i've just said um is this going to do anything other than just create a load of

00:07:36.840 meme-worthy clips for people to share no no it's just trying to create again the false dichotomy

00:07:43.960 that reform of the super based right-wing party that you definitely want to vote for if you're

00:07:49.060 a true patriot and laborer of the party who stand against that as the entrenched establishment when

00:07:54.200 And 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.

00:08:04.780 So 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.

00:08:16.920 Approval rates for the government are never positive.

00:08:20.000 Everybody always hates the government.

00:08:21.360 And that's really the one thing that this country can almost always be united in.

00:08:25.840 The only time that there has ever been a positive approval rating for the government

00:08:29.620 was right at the beginning of Boris when he enabled, when he did the COVID lockdowns.

00:08:36.120 I think in hindsight, people wouldn't have approved, knowing what happened.

00:08:40.500 In hindsight, at the time when Starmer got in, there was uncertainty

00:08:46.200 and then it immediately spiked back up to everybody hated him

00:08:49.160 because he basically clamped down on riots and protests 0.93

00:08:55.340 against a bunch of white children being stabbed to death by a foreigner.

00:09:00.560 But what this just seems to me is that it portrays the Labour Party 0.78

00:09:04.520 as being very out of touch,

00:09:05.980 because it's not reading the temperature of the country.

00:09:09.380 Like, releasing this sort of thing is only really effective

00:09:11.440 if people are relatively happy and don't want that much change,

00:09:15.580 and then they're scaring people into, like,

00:09:17.460 oh look at reform they're scary they're radical whereas actually people do want radical solutions

00:09:21.980 even if they're not of the right they're going towards the greens in the leftward direction and

00:09:28.060 so scaring people about people being radical when the country's in a bad state is not actually that

00:09:33.220 effective in the first place and especially with the adverse economic conditions when people see

00:09:39.820 a government completely being very bad when it handles the economy and they just see members of

00:09:47.440 that government engage in campaigns of the sort they generally tend to become very anti that

00:09:54.840 government i mean everybody in this country by the looks of it is always anti whichever government

00:10:00.700 is in no matter what who's in power although of course we do have to remember that this was 14

00:10:05.060 years of straight conservative tory governance it's also worth pointing out the public isn't

00:10:11.120 just by default against governance full stop because they did give starmer a chance there

00:10:16.020 where it drops down um and then as he comes in and people get a measure of him it goes back up

00:10:23.120 to being wholly negative again yeah it does fluctuate but it always tends to fluctuate on

00:10:28.000 just how much most of the country hates you at any one time which you know given the state of

00:10:32.900 england and britain in general for a long time makes makes a lot of sense it also i would imagine

00:10:38.060 won't actually move the needle because despite all of the controversy despite all of the complaints

00:10:43.200 about them they do still seem when compared across all demographics in the country to be set to have

00:10:49.280 quite the sweep of the council elections coming up you can see here's the council projector based

00:10:54.440 on polling data showing that Labour is probably going to have an absolute wipeout losing 1046

00:11:00.840 seats in this council election whereas the reform party will gain a massive 1336 sorry they will

00:11:10.420 get that in total and be up 1268 which is quite a change of fortune basically just not the the

00:11:17.780 two parties that have been ruling right because the lib dems basically get by by being white noise

00:11:22.920 and having no substance and just being a clown party for people who have no problems yeah what

00:11:27.720 what is ed davies current council campaign has he decided to do something down down a water slide

00:11:35.260 Perhaps he's done some parachuting.

00:11:37.100 I would imagine skydiving onto a bouncy castle

00:11:40.140 dressed as Barney the Purple Dinosaur might have done it.

00:11:42.820 I mean, no party leader's had as much fun as Ed Davey.

00:11:45.400 You've got to give that to him.

00:11:46.480 That's probably what's keeping them so high here.

00:11:48.480 They're actually going to be gaining seats,

00:11:50.160 according to these projections,

00:11:51.880 which would be mainly because, you know, like...

00:11:54.080 They like how he's dancing in those TikTok videos.

00:11:57.080 Yeah, I would assume so.

00:11:59.380 When you're going to that many children's parties,

00:12:01.060 you're going to win over some parents.

00:12:02.160 I think the Lib Dems are just the party

00:12:03.660 of the out-of-touch middle class living in nice areas that are untouched by any of the problems

00:12:08.560 of the world yeah but the green party it seems the two major gainers coming from here is going

00:12:14.220 to be reform and according to these projections as well the greens which given how radical some

00:12:19.120 of their policies are is a pretty impressive jump from 184 seats to 601 seats according to

00:12:26.780 these projections and you can tell exactly where that's coming from obviously you can't group

00:12:31.060 together the different factors in this but if you go into the you go of it polling information and

00:12:37.000 go by age 18 to 24 overwhelmingly the 18 to 24 year old demographic is going to be voting green

00:12:44.340 according to this polling data of course i think part of the reason that the youth is going for

00:12:50.480 the greens is that anyone who's under 50 is not being looked after by the government it's sort

00:12:56.780 of dictatorship by the pensioners and so people think that the greens have the solution because 0.85

00:13:01.600 they're talking in terms of well these people have all the wealth and we're going to take it

00:13:05.360 from the rich people and give it to you but actually uh it's not going to end up like that

00:13:10.140 as you can see from 65 plus where the war seems to be between the tories and reform over who can

00:13:15.420 invent a octuple lock pension who can be first to get to that you know it's basically as you get

00:13:22.960 older it's more and more likely that that people are going to be voting for reform it's uh under

00:13:28.880 50s favor the greens which is kind of crazy really that that's been the case because normally they

00:13:34.300 were the fringe weirdo party that you know were popular in student unions and not anywhere else

00:13:39.600 if you drop between if you drop between just greens and reform on 25 to 49 you can see it's

00:13:45.980 pretty much neck and neck. But if you go by all, it's still overall going to be reformed. But

00:13:53.600 Green are making huge gains through this whole thing. Yeah, they are making huge gains, but I

00:13:59.300 don't know if they will sustain them. They will sustain some of it, but it seems to me that

00:14:04.760 lately, every time Polanski is interviewed, he is very aggressive and he looks like he's

00:14:11.800 completely out of control. He's out of his depth a little bit. I don't think he actually has

00:14:15.900 the knowledge like he he makes lots of mistakes and also the green party's policies if if they

00:14:21.360 come to into contact with the real world i think they're benefiting at the minute from people not

00:14:25.700 really knowing yeah what they believe and they're seen as an alternative to labor so disaffected

00:14:30.720 labor voters are going to the greens which you know you can see they're a protest basically yeah

00:14:35.900 he's a clown yeah but uh when people realize oh they want to ban landlords and reduce the top

00:14:40.600 speed limit to 55 miles an hour and a whole host of other crazy things people are going to be like 0.96

00:14:45.920 well i don't want that to happen so maybe i'm not going to vote for them and people just don't know

00:14:50.100 that yet because yeah and also they could be saying that we are supporting greens for now to

00:14:55.020 send a message to labor and then before the next general election switch to labor and it could also

00:15:00.160 be just a pro-palestine thing as well because obviously well that's that's one of the things

00:15:04.740 is that people are speculating as to why it is that people are going to be switching over from

00:15:08.900 Labour and the Conservatives over to parties like Reform and the Green Party. And this information

00:15:13.560 in this tweet here is taking information for why people are switching from Labour to Reform or the

00:15:19.420 Greens. And you can find that most of the people who care about immigration under Labour are moving

00:15:25.240 to Reform because they've got harder line anti-immigration rhetoric, whereas of course the

00:15:30.420 Green Party are completely the opposite of that. And most people are not going over from Labour to

00:15:38.380 the Greens because they want open borders, like the Greens are saying that they'll give. But

00:15:43.020 there's more interesting information as well. It seems that the reason a lot of people are moving

00:15:47.060 from Labour to the Green Party is because of the threat of Labour removing indefinite leave

00:15:53.060 to remain or making it way more difficult under Shabana Mahmood. Whereas according to Max Tempers

00:15:58.720 here, he's got information saying that he'd been speaking to a Labour friend and found out that

00:16:02.900 there had been basically Boris waivers going around on behalf of the Greens handing out leaflets to

00:16:09.600 all of the Labour Party voters in local areas who are going to be affected by changes to indefinite

00:16:15.020 leave to remain. It's fear-mongering about that and that's why people are going over to the Greens

00:16:19.920 because they're completely open borders and these people don't want to be locked out of getting

00:16:24.320 getting their benefits. Well the Labour Party is losing a lot of its minority vote. They imported

00:16:29.540 them as their sort of pet voters in this weird dehumanizing relationship for everyone involved

00:16:33.840 but of course they expected them to remain loyal and all the greens have done is just be more

00:16:38.920 more labor party than labor and they've all moved over because they promise free things

00:16:44.180 and infinite immigration but don't you understand disenfranchised labor voter if you go over to

00:16:51.020 reform they're racist they're not they're not it's it's kind of a joke it feels like

00:17:01.400 everybody knows that they're not a racist party i mean come on if they were truly a racist party

00:17:08.500 they wouldn't have more minority candidates than you know even very left-wing parties 10 15 years

00:17:17.040 ago right you look at the front bench of the Labour Party it's all basically white people 0.51

00:17:22.100 white middle class people and David Lammy it's an entmoot of middle-aged women yeah

00:17:26.100 and meanwhile while all of that's going on Starmer is facing attacks over Mandelson still 0.82

00:17:33.160 and a potential inquiry being put forward by the Tories over whether he should have been allowed

00:17:38.520 to appoint Mandelson in the first place and security clearance defects in the assessment

00:17:44.080 of mandelson when he was being put as ambassador to washington he did an interview with everybody's

00:17:50.560 favorite kathy newman remember her i certainly do and the most important thing from it really

00:17:55.560 basically is that he says i'm not going anywhere and why is he not going anywhere well because his

00:18:01.820 wife says he shouldn't go anywhere what a charming devoted doting husband he is he's cracking the

00:18:08.240 whip and saying to all of his MPs that no matter their views on the matter with Mandelson, they

00:18:14.480 should not support this because it'll be handing over council elections and potentially the

00:18:19.520 government to reform. And honestly, with a lot of this stuff, you know, when the Mandelson stuff

00:18:25.860 dropped in January, even though it had actually been revealed around September last year with

00:18:32.880 Trump's birth well with the Epstein birthday card but it really started to pick up to speed around

00:18:37.960 November and then hit really hard in January I might have been like okay maybe this is actually

00:18:42.800 going to be something that takes Starmer down I don't think so I think Starmer's going to be here

00:18:48.080 till 2029 I don't see any reason unless it's such a wipe out with the council elections

00:18:54.560 and I don't think they would do this unless it's such a wipe out with the council elections that

00:19:00.100 his entire cabinet turns against him there's a lot of frankly he's kind of with morgan mcsweeney

00:19:05.720 and the others associated with mcsweeney and mandelson he's kind of removed from his immediate

00:19:11.900 uh immediate associates people who would have the power and desire to try and backstab him in the

00:19:18.180 first place but there is a lot of unruliness in the labor party at the minute and there are people

00:19:22.460 within his own party that are mps calling for him to resign and things like that right and so this

00:19:28.820 is something that you can only keep a lid on for so long. And then you get some ambitious people

00:19:33.900 in the party that think they can be the prime minister, uh, stirring people up and there could

00:19:38.900 be some problems. Although I agree, Harry, that, um, he's going to cling onto power as long as he

00:19:43.940 possibly can. I agree with both of you. And I think he is going to cling to power for as long

00:19:48.720 as he can, because for several reasons, the most, then the most prominent is that I don't think

00:19:55.320 anyone wants to suffer the next loss and be responsible for the next electoral loss because

00:20:01.600 i do think they're going to lose badly and most probably they will want to say let's make uh start

00:20:09.300 let's uh not uh appear to be responsible for the next basically be a full guy if they take over

00:20:14.940 from starma wouldn't they essentially yeah and so it's his essentially uselessness and

00:20:20.740 ineffectiveness that protects him. Well, it seems that a lot of the senior members like Gordon

00:20:26.720 Brown and other figures like that have all just rallied around Starmer and said that this is a

00:20:33.080 political stunt by the conservatives. We're all going to rally around you and we're not going to

00:20:38.340 throw you into the road like that, throw you in front of the bus. And so, you know, a lot of people

00:20:44.420 have said, well, we're not going to do this right before an election. And Starmer seems to be for

00:20:50.240 the Labour government right now and for what they want to do and want to achieve seems to be a steady

00:20:54.940 hand for a lot of them and the only thing that would be really working against him would be that

00:20:58.900 kind of Machiavellian politicking because there wouldn't be any major change in policy or anything

00:21:03.720 like that so I don't think Starmer's going to go anywhere and I think a lot of this story

00:21:08.280 like when he's criticising it is political theatre I think it's as often is the case political

00:21:14.680 theatre on both ends to convince you that something is happening a major change is coming

00:21:20.640 the foundations of British politics will never be the same once this is done and sadly that applies

00:21:26.540 to the council elections as well because from the experience that we already have if there is a

00:21:31.880 major reform landslide into these councils there's not going to be much change in the way that these

00:21:37.520 local constituencies are governed anyway because the experience that we have with a few of these

00:21:41.980 reform-led councils have shown that they don't actually pursue any different policies locally

00:21:46.260 than Labour or Tory councils or even some of the greener councils as well. I forget the exact case

00:21:52.320 but there was one going around where they'd been found to be doing the same kind of handouts to

00:21:58.160 foreigners and illegal immigrants that most of the other councils do. So as ever with most news

00:22:05.340 is a lot of bluster over not much happening much ado about nothing at all my friends as is often

00:22:14.320 the case indeed apologies to stamp it down like that but at least if we keep up to date with what

00:22:19.760 the Lib Dems are doing we might all get a smile that's true they're a ray of sunshine in this

00:22:25.500 gloomy world thank you Ed Davies you're our only hope no not at all well I'm not going to cheer

00:22:32.020 anyone up either. So quite often we get asked by Scots to cover Scottish politics and I thought

00:22:38.480 I'd bring it upon myself to depress all of Scotland about their future and how there's

00:22:43.700 going to be no freedom in Scotland because no matter what happens south of the border

00:22:47.360 it seems like the SNP, the Scottish National Party, an insane socialist party,

00:22:53.900 National Socialist Party, although not that kind apparently, is going to be pretty likely to get

00:23:02.480 a majority. And as you can see here, this is some YouGov polling from very recently,

00:23:08.420 from this month, showing the SNP here getting a majority of seats in the Scottish Parliament.

00:23:16.240 And even if Reform, Labour, the Greens, the Lib Dems and the Conservatives sided against them,

00:23:21.100 unless there are SNP members of their parliament siding against them they can basically do what

00:23:29.540 they want and this is very concerning because they're absolutely insane and I wanted to draw

00:23:36.280 people's attention to just how insane they are and also to people from outside of the British

00:23:43.000 Isles I think Scottish politics gets overlooked a little bit for Westminster politics which is

00:23:49.360 something the SNP says that's sort of true, actually. That's the only, you know, charitable

00:23:55.060 interpretation I'll give them. But as you can see, they're actually going to be going up slightly

00:24:00.080 from 2021, which given their poor performance in Scotland in governance, is a little bit

00:24:06.120 disappointing, to be honest. And even reform seem to be doing reasonably well in the polling,

00:24:11.520 being the main opposition party, but not by much. And the way this plays out nationally is that

00:24:19.040 because of the size of Scotland and the smaller population

00:24:23.520 relative to the rest of the UK,

00:24:25.760 they're only going to get about 3% of the vote

00:24:29.700 in the entirety of the UK.

00:24:33.000 Of course, you've got other...

00:24:34.700 They've coloured Restore Purple.

00:24:37.340 I know. It's the monarchist party now.

00:24:39.880 What an insult.

00:24:41.820 Although, to be fair, all the different shades of blue is...

00:24:44.820 It's a little bit confusing, isn't it?

00:24:46.240 I think it makes sense.

00:24:48.360 Nobody's going to vote for your party. 0.98

00:24:50.060 A royal colour is not a bad colour.

00:24:52.000 No, it's a nice colour. It's a fancy colour.

00:24:53.860 No, there's just lots of blue parties.

00:24:57.080 Although I don't know why there's a teal colour for the greens there.

00:25:00.420 That's just needlessly confusing.

00:25:02.160 Just make them dark green or something.

00:25:04.120 But anyway, I suppose it's because of Plaid Cymru. 0.96

00:25:06.560 I just assume YouGov's playing silly boogers.

00:25:08.780 Enough about complaining about YouGov's colour schemes.

00:25:11.540 yeah the SNP generally speaking aren't going to change much nationally not nationally you know

00:25:19.360 in the entirety of the UK it's going to have an effect obviously in Scotland but in terms of

00:25:25.880 Westminster's parliament they're going to hold roughly the same sort of position that they would

00:25:30.180 ordinarily all things you know carrying on as they are but you know things can change

00:25:36.920 and one thing that i found very interesting here is the breakdown of people's opinions on various

00:25:45.460 issues so um labor voters in scotland prioritize the economy health and even immigration there

00:25:53.240 which i thought was quite interesting and this is back in december so that's before they started

00:25:57.700 burning down their own vape shops that's true yes um and then you look at the smp economy health

00:26:03.400 And 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.

00:26:21.140 But then you look at Conservative voters in Scotland, immigration 59%, economy 51% health.

00:26:28.800 And 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

00:26:37.840 And of course, Scotland's had some pretty nasty immigration as well.

00:26:41.480 Maybe the SNP voters are actually immigration through the back door from Brexit. 0.82

00:26:46.500 Maybe they're like, we miss our polls.

00:26:47.920 yeah they just want european immigration back i'm sure that's it but you look at all scots here

00:26:54.340 and the economy is still number one which makes sense it's scotland um they've always had economic

00:26:59.920 struggles health as well you know again it's where they they you know filmed train spotting right the

00:27:06.240 needle down yes and the fried mars bar um but no your health is is genuinely a serious problem in

00:27:13.800 Scotland. My Scottish grandparents did not cook healthy food whatsoever. Were they the types that

00:27:19.940 Scotched everything? Yes, they were. Kind of based. It is, yeah. But immigration and asylum there is 1.00

00:27:26.640 interesting. It's the third issue, which generally speaking is not as common in Scotland as it is

00:27:32.780 in, say, England. And so I see this becoming more and more of a problem, and especially in the run

00:27:38.620 up to 2029, there are going to become more and more incidents of, like you said, the vape shop

00:27:43.320 burning down and burning down part of um glasgow train station wasn't it it was right next door

00:27:48.640 yeah yeah um and so people are going to have more and more examples and i might expect to see that

00:27:54.760 immigration and asylum creep up a little bit and maybe eat into some support for the smp who are

00:28:00.340 just in similar to the greens in uh you know england and wales and the like just avoid immigration

00:28:07.120 altogether. Although that being said, even amongst the SNP, 26% say it's a problem.

00:28:14.620 And so then you have this. So this lady is Mary McAllen, who's Scotland's cabinet secretary for

00:28:23.540 housing. And for someone who's involved in housing, she says something very interesting.

00:28:30.320 Migration is good for our economy, necessary for our economy, for our hospitality sector,

00:28:35.580 health and social care and our businesses. That was really reflected in the opinion there.

00:28:39.480 But I think the other thing that was really reflected is that difficulties have been inflamed,

00:28:44.600 they have been exploited, and they have been exploited by the party sitting next to Chaz,

00:28:49.980 I think, created an atmosphere of fear. So it's just not addressing any of the problems. And of

00:28:58.920 course, one of the things that's quite important in Scotland at the minute is even the SNP,

00:29:05.380 the Scottish government in May of 2024 declared a national housing emergency and their housing

00:29:12.960 minister is saying yeah let's just bring more people in well where are they going to live

00:29:18.140 you're not building any more houses really and certainly not able to keep up with demand

00:29:22.320 and apparently according to the 2022 census around a tenth of the population was born outside the

00:29:30.920 united kingdom um and edinburgh and glasgow around a fifth minority ethnic and so it's already

00:29:38.080 started to be you know 20 percent uh a tent for the population born outside the uk yeah and yeah

00:29:45.140 20 percent in in the major cities hell last time i went to edinburgh would have been what like

00:29:50.880 just over 10 years ago i think and i don't remember it being like that although i imagine 0.99

00:29:55.560 they were still there but as ever in get in little ghettos so it might not have been as noticeable

00:30:00.000 but it starts to get really noticeable when it's a fifth of the population and and for that woman

00:30:04.880 i would assume yeah i suppose migration can be great for business it's great for housing

00:30:10.680 construction businesses um who lots of politicians like to uh accept donations from uh or invest with

00:30:18.160 and it's great for uh businesses to get cheap labor so she is right there yeah it's not great

00:30:24.040 for scottish people of course no um if if you want to have you know affordable housing the thing that

00:30:29.580 you want to do is not grow the population and not build houses. It's pretty common sense, actually.

00:30:37.540 And then you have even the BBC talking about how crazy this is, and it introduces all sorts of

00:30:46.080 conflicting opinions. It's interesting, actually, that the BBC pulled this up. So too few migrants

00:30:52.800 are coming to Scotland, says SNP. And the only way you can really read this is to say, like,

00:30:58.160 are they crazy so when they the graph showed that they care about migration and asylum was the

00:31:05.560 concern not enough people come over here maybe yeah it's just too vague is it that jokey it's 0.51

00:31:12.280 like a scottish version of the meme where it's like the union jack scarf covering up the mouth

00:31:17.900 of the irishman or in this case the scotsman has finally been liberated and what does he have to

00:31:22.960 say send more africans apparently so so even the daily record which is a lefty rag basically

00:31:32.020 is writing articles this is from february they're the ones who put bow on the cover aren't they

00:31:36.100 they are yes smp government urgently needs to get a grip of the housing crisis and you know

00:31:42.560 they're pretty favorable to them as far as i'm aware and these are the same ones that tried to

00:31:47.340 drag Count Dankula through the mud and called him the Nazi pug thug for making a joke. 0.52

00:31:56.020 It does kind of roll off the tongue. 0.91

00:31:57.120 It does. For making a joke about making his cute dog do a horrible thing. That was the point of

00:32:02.440 the joke. And then they basically dragged him through the mud. They wrote about 10 articles

00:32:06.900 about him when I was researching this. So yeah, they're not a good newspaper, but even they're

00:32:11.900 saying, listen, this is undeniable now. And it's to the point here where a new homeless family

00:32:17.440 every 15 minutes in Scotland, which is not a big country in terms of population, really,

00:32:24.920 you know, it's not like England, where it's many, many, many millions. It's a relatively small

00:32:30.840 populous country. And the fact that there's a homeless family every 15 minutes is, you know,

00:32:36.480 a massive failure on the SNP. And that's exactly what this article is arguing. And it's actually

00:32:43.000 quite surprising that you see a lot of the media against them. But people vote for them because

00:32:47.040 they hate England so much, that they're willing to overlook the fact that the SNP make their lives

00:32:51.960 worse in every tangible way. And many people are happy to point it out, like here, they're saying

00:32:57.520 in Glasgow alone, 64% of the 9,337 homeless people in temporary accommodation came to the UK as

00:33:04.720 asylum seekers. So this is a policy choice, right? And yeah, he's rightfully criticizing the SNP for

00:33:12.000 this, because they're the ones in government, aren't they? And then there's another article

00:33:17.980 here, the SNP's 10k deposit scheme may worsen housing, the housing crisis, because that what

00:33:24.000 they're doing is they're offering 10k to young people to basically buy their votes, so they can

00:33:30.320 get on the housing ladder, but this is not, it sounds appealing at first, but then of course

00:33:35.180 you'll realise that demand's going to go up even more, and it's going to push house prices up even

00:33:40.300 more, and the market's just going to absorb that extra 10k and ask for even more again, right,

00:33:45.540 because there's already a shortage. So all it's going to do is make things worse.

00:33:51.320 And the S&P solution to this housing crisis is to just get more bureaucrats, just throw

00:33:57.960 bureaucrats into the fire and apparently have we tried that yet uh apparently not um i mean

00:34:04.100 specifically no oh right say no more um but yes um this would be um this was when was it in january

00:34:14.420 of this year they announced that 132nd quango to address the housing emergency so 132 bureaucrats

00:34:22.560 to find out that hey maybe increasing the population increases demand for housing which

00:34:28.020 is pushing the shortage of housing this is like the monkeys at the beginning of 2001 figuring out

00:34:33.520 stick hurt people me hit you with stick it's like too many people not enough houses

00:34:39.860 and then they start beating each other with sticks i assume i would imagine so but um it's led to a 0.61

00:34:48.180 situation where more than a quarter of Scots trust no parties whatsoever to fix the housing crisis

00:34:53.440 and two-thirds said they agreed Scotland was facing a housing emergency. Well I kind of agree 0.84

00:35:00.520 you know like it would require a complete upending of the incentives and the whole direction of the

00:35:09.260 modern political establishment which is bring in cheap labor for businesses, endless migration,

00:35:15.020 um replace your population you would need you would need somebody incredibly radical to come

00:35:21.920 in to reverse doing that again even with uh even with reform it's just the case of like

00:35:26.800 are they going to fix the problem no it's just going to mean that the people moving in next door

00:35:31.940 are going to have a passport on them when they move in fantastic that's going to make all the

00:35:37.060 difference isn't it yeah yeah and a passport and a little union jack flag that they wave every so

00:35:42.920 and you go, well, thank God.

00:35:45.440 Speaking of flags, there's also the fact that they're very pro-trans,

00:35:50.680 so they'll be waving lots of trans flags before they're waving the union flags.

00:35:54.940 And yeah, they're basically the party of gender ideologues.

00:36:00.240 This is a genuine line amongst the S&P,

00:36:03.320 that LGBT people are being scapegoated by other parties in a culture war

00:36:07.940 to deflect from Brexit.

00:36:09.600 you know that that's their argument is that no you know maybe the fact that there's irreparable

00:36:17.600 harm being done to children and we're putting uh strange men in women's changing rooms that

00:36:23.280 that's not the issue it's because uh the brexit is a mistake and therefore we need to distract

00:36:29.740 from it by scapegoating people which um i don't think is is ever an argument outside of pretty

00:36:36.220 much any part of the uk this is also right after that whole bbc article series investigating how

00:36:42.840 like asylum seekers were literally well asylum seekers were literally being like prepped by a

00:36:50.300 falsely licensed or unlicensed asylum advisors to just just pretend to be gay literally just pretend 0.91

00:36:57.480 to be gay and they're part part of that whole scheme as well was we will take you to a gay club 0.99

00:37:02.180 and take photos of you with gay clubs. 1.00

00:37:03.980 I will hire a man to pretend to be your boyfriend. 1.00

00:37:07.000 Fraud from every direction.

00:37:10.060 And they're just sort of like, 1.00

00:37:11.280 we need more foreigners. 0.99

00:37:13.980 We love our transsexuals. 1.00

00:37:17.160 So what are they going to do? 1.00

00:37:18.020 If they actually got their independence from us, 0.99

00:37:20.700 they would open up whole new schemes of asylum 1.00

00:37:23.960 to make it even easier for these people 0.56

00:37:26.820 to get into the country.

00:37:27.960 I mean, they would probably still commit fraud,

00:37:29.880 but they wouldn't need to

00:37:30.900 because the SNP would be like...

00:37:32.860 Giving them free money, basically.

00:37:34.060 Yeah, like, please come in.

00:37:34.920 That was Hamza Youssef's plan.

00:37:37.180 I don't think he got to implement it,

00:37:38.960 but weren't they also going to be like,

00:37:40.620 we'll give free houses and free money officially

00:37:43.420 to every migrant who comes into this country? 1.00

00:37:46.140 And I said, go for it, 1.00

00:37:47.640 because they'll all move from England to Scotland instead.

00:37:50.400 Well, at the minute,

00:37:51.520 we pay a disproportionate amount of money to Scotland,

00:37:54.320 so it's our taxes funding their...

00:37:56.040 This will be our reparations. 1.00

00:37:58.420 You can take all of our foreigners. 0.87

00:38:00.900 So I was very surprised by this story.

00:38:03.300 This is from only four days ago.

00:38:06.140 Ex-S&P advisor embezzled 5K from charity

00:38:09.280 to spend on Uber rides and Amazon parcels.

00:38:12.060 And what was this charity?

00:38:14.160 It was HIV Scotland.

00:38:16.060 Yes.

00:38:16.940 And can you guess what this guy looked like?

00:38:20.040 Go on.

00:38:20.560 An AIDS patient?

00:38:22.340 I don't know about that. 1.00

00:38:24.520 He's awfully round for it.

00:38:26.440 There he is.

00:38:27.520 This is him.

00:38:29.800 That's the guy. 0.58

00:38:30.560 like a horror movie smp is officially the aids party vote for snp if you have aids

00:38:38.300 yeah well he's defunding the charities so removing support for people with it

00:38:43.880 oh i guess not actually yeah um but yes this this is the kind of guy that that works or whatever

00:38:51.000 they are um for the smp this is slightly horrifying that this is the picture that they

00:38:56.100 went with as well to be fair it wasn't wasn't there the cross-dressing tory from a few years 0.60

00:38:59.720 back as well, so that every party is infested with it. Public school and its consequences has 0.99

00:39:05.580 been a disaster for the Tory party's reputation. And another thing that you can certainly say is

00:39:12.120 a problem for the entirety of the UK is that the SNP is working with Plaid Cymru and Sinn Féin,

00:39:17.500 so basically all the separatist parties, to basically make the United Kingdom just England,

00:39:23.960 because of course Plaid Cymru want Wales to be separate, Sinn Féin obviously don't want

00:39:29.700 Northern Ireland to be part of the United Kingdom. And so they're all scheming together to destroy

00:39:36.480 basically England, although actually England gives, or mostly actually just London and the

00:39:44.040 surrounding areas, subsidise a lot of the other areas of the UK. And so they would just be leaving

00:39:51.440 and getting much less money from the state. And also the thing is that with an independent Scotland,

00:39:58.560 one of the problems that no one ever addresses is that the main sticking point is being able to keep

00:40:04.220 the great british pound and uh obviously westminster is going to say well if we give you

00:40:09.180 the pound you'll have a currency that you know we control so what's going on there and so they

00:40:16.140 would have to have their own currency and they don't want that because it's a massive risk but

00:40:19.720 if they do then it will just um push all the stock and prices of companies in scotland right down

00:40:28.180 because of the uncertainty. And that means that a bunch of English people can buy it up at a cheap

00:40:32.660 price. And so actually what it would result in would be more English control over Scotland than

00:40:39.040 had they remained part of the union. I would assume the goal would be leave the union,

00:40:45.160 immediately rejoin the EU. Would they be interested in getting on the euro? Maybe.

00:40:50.980 That might be what the plan would be. It would be a little bit more sensible. At least it's a

00:40:56.360 currency that exists and isn't just created out of thin air but of course the euro then

00:41:00.920 binds you to lots of countries that um are not as fiscally responsible um as some of the others

00:41:07.700 yeah i mean we we always have banter over this stuff and we we joke about scots and welsh and

00:41:13.800 even the irish as well but i mean just like ripping up the united kingdom there are plenty

00:41:19.040 of scottish people and plenty of welsh people who wouldn't want that i certainly don't want it no i

00:41:23.840 don't think any of us want it because there is a like that was the point of the union in the first 1.00

00:41:27.640 place is recognizing that we all have a shared heritage and a shared destiny on these islands 0.92

00:41:32.560 so for my family is scottish half of them are english throwing away that history throwing away

00:41:38.040 that shared connection for the sake of what is essentially political grandstanding and and a

00:41:43.700 kind of weird chauvinism would be pathetic and ruinous as well i very much agree um and they've

00:41:49.920 announced that they would bring forward a referendum another one a second one on day one

00:41:54.740 of a new government and it's got to the point where this was launched a few days ago now and

00:42:00.260 in the first 12 days it was accessed 35,000 times and it's basically just how to stop the SMP and

00:42:07.560 how to vote tactically to do so and it tells you who's polling the best in your local area

00:42:12.060 so you can vote against them so it's basically just either you're for the SMP or against them

00:42:18.640 it seems in Scottish politics and people are more than happy to vote tactically just to keep them

00:42:24.040 out especially people who are pro-union and yeah this came from here and it's still worth mentioning

00:42:32.540 that even if they did have this second referendum where they're at the minute it's still net

00:42:37.940 unfavorability for leaving in fact it's saying should Scotland be an independent country and

00:42:44.980 the percentage of people who say no is 53% to 47%. So it's not really moved very much since the

00:42:51.900 actual independence referendum in the first place. And in fact, you can see that it stayed

00:42:58.400 relatively static with no leading for most of the time there, except, you know, a slight drop

00:43:04.560 at the start of the lockdowns. And that's it, really. And so I don't really understand the

00:43:11.720 point of the SNP. They're all about independence. But were they to get the referendum, people would

00:43:17.780 say no, according to this at least. And if they did actually win the referendum, their situation

00:43:25.220 would probably be markedly worse for most Scots. Like, yeah, you've cut your nose off to spite the

00:43:30.820 English, but you've just got to live with the consequences there. So I don't really understand 0.87

00:43:36.000 how any rational person wants to vote for them, no matter what your politics are, because the

00:43:41.100 economy is going to get tangibly worse and you know it's unlikely to win in the first place so

00:43:47.820 would they does it seem like they even have a plan for it no um and in fact many of the things that

00:43:53.660 they do serious about it you would already have a well thought out plan drawn up for contingencies

00:43:58.800 no i think that they're just sort of a gimmick party like a lot of the things they promised

00:44:03.940 at the last election they didn't do or sometimes even did the opposite um and so they don't have

00:44:09.420 a good track record of keeping their word on things anyway and i think that if you are scottish

00:44:14.900 the obvious thing to do is do what you can to keep them out yeah i mean it sounds like they just keep

00:44:19.880 ginning up um controversy around this particular subject it's probably why brexit is always in

00:44:27.320 their mind as well because brexit was a sore spot between england and scotland um so they want to

00:44:33.080 keep these subjects always in the air so they can bring them back to keep people voting on their

00:44:38.240 side just going to be going door to door just like remember the highland clearances just like

00:44:42.080 come on we're a little bit past that braveheart have you ever watched braveheart and they just

00:44:47.000 start like like an ipad in your face with mel gibson on the screen and it just inspires patriotic 0.99

00:44:52.940 feeling in these presumably foreigners but you'll be tangibly worse off if that happens could you 0.97

00:44:59.240 imagine they come up to the door of abdul and just like throw braveheart in his face how does 1.00

00:45:03.940 this make you feel don't you love your country it isn't going to work because yeah the foreigners

00:45:11.040 as well they don't you know they don't have as much hatred of the english as the smp funnily

00:45:15.780 enough probably not actually pay their benefits so you know i was gonna say they're gonna be like

00:45:19.960 london pays my benefits though bro i don't think they're gonna be economically uh insightful enough

00:45:25.800 to know that but but yes um the situation in scotland is pretty grim but um a lot can change

00:45:31.940 and I hope it does because the SNP are kind of a horrifying party to govern and I don't wish that

00:45:38.500 on anyone in Scotland. All right, got two rumble rants from that. Scotland being completely

00:45:43.840 bankrupt all the time from Logan Pine. That's just, seems to be a general observation. It's a

00:45:48.280 statement. And Fortien Barber asks, has Stelios announced his big news? He's not leaving, right?

00:45:55.040 Do you want to say for anybody who missed it at the beginning? Yeah, so basically I'm not leaving.

00:45:59.280 you can check my ex description to see new stuff but i'm not leaving i'm here for a purpose

00:46:07.180 and thank you to the friends who are supporting me along the way the others i don't mind the

00:46:13.900 the 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

00:46:21.480 yeah yeah so the sds the sds yeah the stelios derangement syndrome ah all right well stelios

00:46:31.940 it's a phase tell us about eric swalwell

00:46:35.340 are you sure you want me to tell you about it well that's what we're scheduled to do right now

00:46:43.000 so yeah but this is a very cringy segment that's i expect nothing less from you

00:46:47.760 Right. 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.

00:47:11.900 They're still alleged.

00:47:12.540 They're still alleged. That's why there are allegations.

00:47:17.620 Yes, that's true.

00:47:18.620 And to speed up a bit, he resigned from Congress.

00:47:26.100 So let me give you some context about who Eric Swalwell is, in case you don't know.

00:47:31.980 So this is the portrait of him back in 2016.

00:47:36.860 He was a member of the Democrat Party, a deputy district attorney in Alameda County from 2006 to 2012.

00:47:47.460 He served as a U.S. representative for California for seven terms from 2013 to 2016.

00:47:55.800 So he's a long-term Democrat in California and he's alleged to have sexual misconduct.

00:47:59.860 misconduct i i'm not a betting man's delios but uh i think i might know what's the likely outcome

00:48:06.920 but do carry on these are all allegations josh right so and he ran for the party's nomination

00:48:14.940 for in 2020 and he lost to joe biden but he's one of the he's occupying the uh upper echelons of

00:48:24.920 power in the Democrat Party because, yeah, he didn't get too much support there. But to even be

00:48:31.140 among the presidential candidates, presidential nominees within the Democrat Party, it suggests

00:48:37.660 that you are very high profile within that party. Right. So there have been several controversies

00:48:45.180 surrounding his name because he was one of the main people against Donald Trump in the trials.

00:48:52.560 So he was basically management of the impeachment of Donald Trump.

00:48:56.720 So he was sort of witch finder general for Trump, right?

00:49:01.820 Yes.

00:49:02.140 On his witch hunt.

00:49:03.320 Yes.

00:49:03.620 He was also member of the House Intelligence Committee, which also suggests that he is high profile.

00:49:11.120 He isn't just the average Democrat.

00:49:13.340 Quite a senior committee, isn't it?

00:49:14.940 Yes.

00:49:15.660 And he was also involved in another scandal in the past.

00:49:19.940 The FBI said that there is no evidence that he was complicit in it

00:49:25.440 You know, are you aware of the Fang Fang Affair?

00:49:28.840 The Fang Fang Affair?

00:49:30.760 Yes

00:49:30.860 Does this have something to do with China?

00:49:33.820 Was he honeypotted by a Chinese spy?

00:49:36.960 I don't know

00:49:37.300 How long did he assume that a Chinese man in a wig was a woman?

00:49:41.320 We are talking about

00:49:42.420 This has happened before

00:49:43.040 We are talking about the Chinese person

00:49:45.420 I knew it was China

00:49:46.340 Called Christine Fang

00:49:47.780 that's very chinese sounding name but you know this this tends to happen to be a mr christopher

00:49:53.980 fang did she or karen fang did she get her fangs into him

00:49:58.300 why we keep you on right so what happened was that she was in california um state university

00:50:08.460 And she helped fund him raise fans for his campaigns.

00:50:15.440 But the previous FBI consensus or verdict was that the FBI at some point notified him of her suspicious behavior.

00:50:27.340 And 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.

00:50:39.240 And Ms. Fang Fang went back to China and has never set foot on the U.S. again.

00:50:44.500 But now that Kash Patel is in the FBI, he is pushing against him yet again.

00:50:55.140 And 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.

00:51:07.400 but also that this was a politically motivated attack because it's Trump waging war lawfare

00:51:16.300 against the people who went after him before. So here we have Lindy Lee here. She is a political

00:51:24.180 strategist and she's basically talking about the Democrats. She's saying that they have a very

00:51:30.920 hypocritical relationship to allegations of sexual misconduct when it comes to trump and 0.83

00:51:38.040 republicans they instantly believe them when it comes to democrats they look the other way

00:51:43.320 well i mean that's the same that's the same with both parties i mean cash patel waging this in the

00:51:48.100 first place it's like how long did it take for you to even release just the documents that we

00:51:54.160 have from the epstein files so and i i mean i i just see a lot of this as cynical and we are gonna

00:52:00.220 to talk about the Republicans as well, because I wasn't going to say it's only the Democrats

00:52:05.060 who are doing it. We are going to talk about Tony Gonzalez in a bit. Right. So, and she

00:52:10.980 says here that it's actually, she's voicing the concern of many people. It's just when

00:52:16.880 there are allegations for sexual misconduct against you for years, how can you not know?

00:52:23.680 Or how can you pretend that all this is nothing? At least confront these people.

00:52:30.220 Right? You could say this about both parties and yes, that's the case. And there's always

00:52:36.720 the element of when you try to, of fake news about this, because when you try to, when

00:52:44.600 you're competing for us, for the top positions, there will be people trying to smear you.

00:52:50.080 But there is a question as to whether people just get completely desensitized when it comes

00:52:55.660 to allegations of sexual misconduct for members of their party and become completely hawks

00:53:03.160 when it comes to allegations about the others, which seems to be the case.

00:53:07.420 It's juicy headlines. 1.00

00:53:09.140 Well, I think the halls of power in many countries are filled with dirty perverts. 1.00

00:53:14.620 I mean, we only need to see... 1.00

00:53:16.940 Yeah, the perv-maxing.

00:53:18.280 But also, I mean, there's the other bit, though, because there are several layers of

00:53:24.180 not saying not speaking about it or not prosecuting that person or not confronting them because he 1.00

00:53:30.560 could say that it's one thing to look the other way and say ah this is just uh you know stupid 0.99

00:53:36.460 smearing but you keep your distances from that person and quite another to basically make him 0.89

00:53:44.620 compete for the for the presidential position i i do there is there is a question of whether

00:53:50.660 the democrats within the democrat party there where uh we're trying to look the other way

00:53:57.200 really hard and i'm sure the democrats would accuse the republicans of doing the exact same

00:54:01.440 thing with trump and all of the allegations against him yeah over the years including those

00:54:05.440 that were included in some of the documents that have been released from last year uh sorry earlier

00:54:10.260 this year but so what what are the exact allegations against this guy other than right

00:54:14.680 Other than this fang, quote-unquote.

00:54:18.040 No, no, that was an old conspiracy.

00:54:20.840 Now let's get to the...

00:54:22.180 Can I just quickly interject?

00:54:23.220 I was just going to say that I am interested in when these sorts of things come out,

00:54:29.660 because quite often I know that people sit on the knowledge of people

00:54:34.440 having these sorts of questionable relationships, however true,

00:54:39.780 but people sit on this and use it as leverage in politics.

00:54:43.240 There have been provable cases of this happening.

00:54:46.860 And so I do wonder what internal machinations within the Democratic Party have led to the release of this.

00:54:53.060 Because 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.

00:55:04.300 Yeah, that's the case.

00:55:05.220 And because we frequently hear the rhetoric according to which leftists always stand by their own.

00:55:10.700 But it seems to me to be the case that he is too much of a liability.

00:55:16.600 And let me tell you exactly what happened here.

00:55:20.180 So the controversy erupted in early April, 2026.

00:55:24.100 Several women came forward with serious allegations of sexual misconduct and assault.

00:55:30.180 Sexual, you understand, abuse.

00:55:32.200 We're on YouTube.

00:55:33.440 We don't want to, you know, anger the anger.

00:55:37.240 You understand.

00:55:38.540 it's you know the worst thing it can it can be it doesn't like the r words not not that one the

00:55:44.140 other one yes and then you just switch from chimpanzee to something else with three letters

00:55:49.540 and you tie the you add it to the r i know what you're you're trying to say but yeah i'm very so

00:55:56.940 it's allegations for sexual assault and abuse a former staffer and a second woman called lana

00:56:04.440 Drews accused Swalwell of sexual assault. Drews alleged that the incident occurred in 0.99

00:56:10.160 2018 in West Hollywood, leading to a criminal investigation by the LA County Sheriff's

00:56:15.400 Department. Other women alleged that Swalwell sent unsolicited explicit messages and nude 1.00

00:56:22.320 photographs. No intimate pictures and stuff. That's serious. 1.00

00:56:26.920 You don't understand how someone who's that much in the halls of power thinks that-

00:56:32.560 that's a good idea yeah it's not yeah what are you thinking if if if this is true of course

00:56:38.000 if if it's true i i just assume that they let that whole like oh i'm in the halls of power i

00:56:43.440 gave a presidential debate goes to their head a little bit and they're like i'm i'm too powerful

00:56:49.100 to touch now yeah i'm leading the intelligence committee the one the one that he sent that

00:56:53.820 woman allegedly yeah and yet didn't respond and also why aren't you responding and also there

00:57:01.300 well, there are allegations of congressional misconduct. The House Ethics Committee launched

00:57:06.500 an investigation into whether he engaged in sexual misconduct with an employee under his

00:57:12.100 supervision. So he does have the reputation of a sort of, you know, forceful player.

00:57:18.620 And many of his employees, former employees, I suppose, came out against him as well,

00:57:25.200 which is normally a good red flag because i know when uh johnny depp was in court i know this is a

00:57:31.860 bit of a left turn but lots of his ex-wives and people who he dated and people in his life came

00:57:37.760 out and said no actually he was a complete gentleman so it doesn't have to be the case

00:57:42.540 the ex-wife comes out with that and yeah and so it's not inevitable that people throw you under

00:57:48.360 the bus and maybe he'd just you know been associated with lots of very decent people

00:57:53.320 however um i think that um when there's a lot of smoke there might have to be a little bit of fire

00:58:01.480 there right so swalwell denies the allegations but he acknowledges he has made some bad decisions

00:58:09.080 and he and has resigned as well and has resigned yes now if i were innocent and i were in such a

00:58:19.140 position i wouldn't resign no of course i would know that you know at some point people will try

00:58:25.080 to smear me so i'd say game on just prove one thing that does happen is the senior people

00:58:32.840 um within the party could say jump before you're pushed to save us the reputational damage

00:58:38.020 otherwise we'll make it worse for you that does happen although i don't think it's necessarily

00:58:42.980 the case here well yeah but even if that is the case he isn't just the average uh you know

00:58:48.900 representative who says that, well, if we don't say good things about you, you aren't getting in

00:58:53.340 Congress. He's one of the very high profile Democrats. So I would, again, in his position,

00:59:01.800 expect them to say this because I would want to go for president and they want to go for

00:59:06.720 the presidency. So yeah, of course they would say this. Of course they'd say, well, you're harming

00:59:13.320 the party whereas i'd say no i'm not i'm innocent i'm going for president you resign the entire

00:59:20.120 democratic party should resign yes so they're saying um swore was resignation from congress

00:59:25.940 punctuated a surprisingly swift fall from grace for the talented and ambitious politician the

00:59:31.600 seven-term congressman served on the judiciary and intelligence committees and was a consistently

00:59:37.820 vociferous critic of donald trump the extent of political fallout that will ensue from the scandal

00:59:43.060 remains to be seen. What is clear is that Swarwell's withdrawal has already altered the California

00:59:48.460 governor's race. And they're saying that this has prompted renewed attention to sexual misconduct

00:59:56.200 and repeated abuses of power by privileged and influential people. And it has sort of revived

01:00:03.060 the Me Too era discussions about the roles and responsibilities of people around Swarwell,

01:00:08.840 specifically his friends and colleagues and you do have lots of women in the democrat party saying

01:00:16.520 that this is completely unacceptable there's a culture of of you know what sexual abuse of 0.54

01:00:22.280 women and patriarchy well it's also externalizing out of the democratic party by saying that this

01:00:27.240 is just something that men do um it's sort of all their shtick to begin with and it is interesting

01:00:32.980 actually that it all seems to be located in california as well yes um i think we had another

01:00:39.400 video there that was yes i just don't see the link there it was a video a clip of jesse waters

01:00:46.240 it was a four minute clip um jesse waters this one samson yes yes it's okay people people who

01:00:53.480 want to watch oh he's got it some of the allegations okay it's okay just leave it but

01:00:59.260 we do have it on on our website if you want to watch we've got a hint of the people yes uh no

01:01:05.060 no wait i don't want us to show it because it's a it's graphic oh all right okay and yeah but if

01:01:10.620 you want to it's i mean it's on fox it's so there's a limit to how graphic it is but if you

01:01:16.440 want to hear more about the allegations if you want to hear more about the allegations click on

01:01:21.860 the link on our website under the descriptions where we have the link and check out what um

01:01:27.560 is there. Right. And one of the issues here is that one of Swalwell's friends, Senator Ruben

01:01:33.760 Gallego from Arizona, a Democrat, of course, acknowledged in a press conference on Tuesday

01:01:38.900 that he had logged her rumors that Swalwell was flirty with women, but had allowed his

01:01:44.380 longtime friendship with a California Democrat to cloud his judgment and never said or did

01:01:49.720 anything about it. And he regretted not having confronted Swalwell about the rumors. So it's

01:01:55.780 uh, it's surprising that they say it out loud. It's just like flirty though. Like, is that the

01:02:02.040 actual rumors that he was hearing? Cause like being a little bit flirtatious with women is 1.00

01:02:06.680 hugely different on a whole different level to the sort of allegations that we're getting here.

01:02:12.160 So like that, that, that sounds like some euphemizing right there. Yeah. He's trying

01:02:16.840 to minimize what happened because he's afraid of his own reputation and of the, how this reflects

01:02:23.200 on his character, ethically speaking.

01:02:25.900 Right, and they say Gallegos, yeah, he regretted.

01:02:27.940 And AOC said that Congress was at a resetting point

01:02:33.020 after the back-to-back resignations.

01:02:35.340 And she says, I don't think our work is done.

01:02:37.420 I think that a lot of the underlying structures

01:02:39.740 that silence victims of sexual harassment and abuse

01:02:43.180 still exist.

01:02:44.480 And they are talking about bringing more and more

01:02:47.080 and more bias training and training about microaggression

01:02:51.160 and training about sexual misconduct for them.

01:02:56.460 I don't think that's true.

01:02:57.640 We've heard it nonstop for the past 10 years,

01:03:00.240 and obviously there's some actual legitimate stuff

01:03:02.380 that's great to get out in the open,

01:03:04.520 but I don't think, at least publicly,

01:03:08.040 there's an appetite to silence people, perhaps behind the scenes,

01:03:10.820 but obviously we can't see that.

01:03:13.260 Also, it's important to acknowledge the fact that structurally,

01:03:16.580 in the system that america and other western liberal democracies have right now uh you're

01:03:23.180 basically guaranteeing that you're going to get a massive over-representation of the kinds of people

01:03:27.680 who will behave this way trying to get into your system and try and get into power because it

01:03:32.140 overwhelmingly uh selects for psychopaths and deviants and people with major narcissistic

01:03:39.880 tendencies who presumably aren't going to take no for an answer it'll probably be considered like

01:03:44.880 that quality in itself is a good thing for the kind of political situations that you find yourself

01:03:50.720 in, but then they apply it to other parts of their life too. That's just who this system selects for.

01:03:56.040 It doesn't select for virtue. It doesn't select for nobility. It selects for ruthlessness and

01:04:00.980 narcissism. Right. So they say here that the political fallout from the allegations has

01:04:07.340 been swift. All 21 democratic members of Congress who endorsed his bid for governor have withdrawn

01:04:14.800 their backing and state party leaders put pressure on him to exit the crowded race but and bear in

01:04:20.960 mind that if he won the governorship of california down the line he would be even more prestigious

01:04:27.200 and was there a threat to newsom though for governorship of california although i suppose

01:04:33.880 um there is term limits on that isn't there i think aren't there two term limits so i don't

01:04:39.240 think he would be for newsom i think also newsom has presidential ambitions i know he's not

01:04:44.680 said so but i think lots of people positioning around him that suggests that maybe he's going

01:04:50.840 to move from the governorship of california to the presidency yes or at least try so what the

01:04:57.180 democrats are trying to do now is they're trying to say that where we're both both parties are

01:05:04.680 responsible for this and they are talking about representative tory gonzalez a texas republican

01:05:13.060 who also is um in the midst of a scandal he is also resigning from congress and um what happens

01:05:22.840 here he announced that he's going to resign he admitted that he's having an affair with former

01:05:28.420 staffer just keep it in your pants for goodness sake keep it in your pants but the thing is

01:05:33.520 there's a question because yeah of course there is a level of hypocrisy there if you if that's

01:05:39.280 only it because you would say well it's a texas republican he's trying to be conservative he's

01:05:44.560 trying to appeal to family values and he has a family affair if that were only the allegations 0.99

01:05:50.840 if these were the allegations alone you'd say well yeah he is a hypocrite but this is definitely 0.93

01:05:56.640 not as severe as swole walls i i'm really annoyed at what he said there like there's a reason for 0.95

01:06:04.140 everything and god has a plan for us all i don't think god planned for you to cheat on your

01:06:08.820 presumably wife i mean do you know god's plan josh josh god god didn't plan for his wife to be

01:06:15.120 annoying either that you imagine that's his can you imagine he's like praying to himself like

01:06:21.280 he's like oh god i'm facing temptation and in his mind what he's hearing is hit that you know how

01:06:27.680 people flagellate when they do he's gonna have this woman he's having an affair flag you know

01:06:34.080 lashing him maybe that's what he's into yeah yes but there are several more allegations against him

01:06:41.080 again they are allegations let me just say what they are yeah roughly speaking they have to do

01:06:47.820 with um similar stuffer yeah harassment explicit texts sexy pictures uh making sexual inquiries

01:06:57.040 um some women alleged that he went too far

01:07:01.300 yeah and also he solicited news from other stuff again with pictures and i don't just

01:07:12.460 it's just so demented yeah i think normal yeah people who do this in either party because this

01:07:19.960 isn't a segment saying only democrats do it obviously there are republicans who do it again

01:07:25.460 people should marginalize them yeah they should completely but again the whole system selects for

01:07:31.660 this kind of person and even if you go in as an idealist with the best of intentions and you're

01:07:37.120 not that kind of person to begin with you're going to be surrounded by this absolutely and also let's

01:07:42.180 not forget as well there will be essentially agents and saboteurs surrounding you as well

01:07:48.620 who are going to want to push you into this kind of behavior because either they want to sabotage

01:07:52.900 you from the beginning or they want material on you absolutely and let's remember that the people

01:07:57.360 who now speak against them aren't themselves saints and i'm talking about you know the top

01:08:04.180 those who occupy the top echelons of power in both parties they aren't saints yeah so just because

01:08:09.620 they come and say well gonzalez allegedly had an affair we're taking distance from him and

01:08:16.080 and swole had an affair and we're taking distance well this guy didn't didn't isn't alleged to have

01:08:22.060 had an affair he definitely did because it says he admitted to it here yeah unless he just wants

01:08:26.500 to come like come off like a player and he's just like admitting to it even though he didn't yeah

01:08:31.080 well it was me i'm a top shagger what can i say go out in a blaze of glory like isis admitting

01:08:37.700 to terror attacks they couldn't have possibly had a hand in just to get the credit yeah that's a bit

01:08:42.900 of an uncharitable they call me speedy speedy gonzalez i'm in and out in five seconds what 0.85

01:08:48.180 or now maybe it's but his relationship is spicier now that people know 0.84

01:08:54.620 yeah yeah right okay yes um cranky texan is shutting that one down cranky texan says this 0.71

01:09:05.100 is an example of the information that is used to control someone being used to take them down

01:09:10.200 he was not the candidate the party wanted in california it looks like they're installing

01:09:15.000 porter yeah that's always the thing like that that's answering your question there josh where

01:09:20.120 you're asking like why is the information coming out now i'm wondering if there's any we have the

01:09:25.000 dirt files any position any positions that he's taken is it just that he's way too much of a

01:09:30.240 liability like he's not a wholesome psychopath like newsome with his incredibly wholesome looking 0.92

01:09:35.640 family or anything this guy's just a freak psychopath we can't have that anything else 0.54

01:09:41.780 nothing's popping out of me 0.92

01:09:44.880 except for all of those

01:09:46.500 that'll probably be what it was

01:09:49.120 a bit of a problem

01:09:50.540 this guy's just way too much of a liability already

01:09:53.260 oh oh oh

01:09:56.760 2017 he co-sponsored

01:09:59.160 the Israel Anti-Boycott Act

01:10:01.580 oh no so he was on side for that sort of stuff

01:10:03.680 as well so never mind

01:10:05.360 yeah it's probably just he was a massive liability

01:10:07.180 also criticised

01:10:08.480 Trump's trade war with China

01:10:11.780 yeah it just seems like a just like a typical bargain bin democrat to me to be honest

01:10:17.940 anyway let's get on with the video comments do we have any

01:10:24.100 samson you there he's there oh thank you don't know what i'd have done if he wasn't

01:10:31.220 oh we've got quite a few let's go through these lovely

01:10:33.540 are we getting them on screen

01:10:39.140 woke up this morning and my back was incredibly painful and i know i'm in my 30s now it's all

01:10:46.640 caught up with me that's what everyone wants to know you are old now i feel it i feel it in my

01:10:54.480 bones for our next lotus critter we have cole the son of ash he is our little dark mouse

01:11:02.940 some might say that he is the mouse that we deserve and not the mouse that we need

01:11:08.640 our dark mouse as it were but i still think he's adorable and friendly

01:11:13.980 i love him does he have a car and a you know a back copter does he have a motorbike with

01:11:21.860 lethal capabilities that he won't use but will still have lethal capabilities for some reason

01:11:26.580 only secretly god i watched a video recently that reminded me how bad the dark knight rises is

01:11:32.480 like Bane is set up as this huge

01:11:35.280 villain the whole way through, he's so intimidating

01:11:37.240 he breaks Batman's back

01:11:38.720 how does he go out? Like a bitch 1.00

01:11:40.920 he's just shot 1.00

01:11:42.420 halfway off screen by Catwoman

01:11:44.780 on Batman's motorbike

01:11:46.940 oh god

01:11:47.480 and then it turns out that Talia was the bad guy the whole time

01:11:51.020 and her death scene is just sort of like

01:11:52.760 I'm gonna nuke the city

01:11:54.100 also it's difficult to

01:11:56.860 find someone with that voice

01:11:58.720 intimidating

01:11:59.340 I'm not gonna do it

01:12:02.460 It is more comical than anything, but it's such a bad movie.

01:12:08.940 So you've been at the Motor Show all week?

01:12:10.460 Yes, in Birmingham, which is a fabulous city in every way.

01:12:13.900 You said to me in make-up,

01:12:18.380 he said it was the foulest place he'd ever been

01:12:20.040 and he'd never met so many people with so many different germs in all your life.

01:12:23.060 Now his viruses are flying around that place with knives and forks.

01:12:26.700 I tell you, Birmingham is like a rugby player's bath after they've let the water out. 0.98

01:12:31.380 Empty in the middle with a ring of scum round the outside. 0.99

01:12:39.060 Based Clarkson. 0.98

01:12:41.840 Quite a good analogy as well. 0.99

01:12:44.720 Actually no, Swindon, all the scum's in the centre rather than the outside. 0.81

01:12:48.080 I love the way that the moment he said that I like Birmingham, 0.98

01:12:51.320 everybody knew that it was a bit...

01:12:53.560 Nobody likes Birmingham.

01:12:55.740 Hello.

01:12:56.440 I've asked before about Lotus Eater's logo merch

01:12:58.720 because there isn't any on the store anymore.

01:13:01.380 I'd quite like a t-shirt or a hoodie

01:13:04.480 and definitely a mug

01:13:05.760 I've got to say Carl, please, please 0.97

01:13:08.600 can we have a large goth girlfriend mug

01:13:11.100 just to match my Highlander ones

01:13:14.380 oh, and by the way Luca

01:13:20.760 nice mug, it's really good

01:13:22.740 I do actually like Luca's mug

01:13:26.040 it's a good mug

01:13:26.980 it's like a trad version of the Sports Direct mug

01:13:30.700 isn't it like outside of britain people don't know what we're on about but the sports direct

01:13:35.260 mugs and uh are known for being big vats of tea basically true i see kittens on screen

01:13:41.120 oh they're so wholesome and lovely yeah it doesn't appear that there is any audio to that

01:13:50.500 so uh for all of you listening in though it was just some kittens being washed by their mom and

01:13:56.760 it was adorable this is lovely yeah i love pets yeah and we've got more well with all the cat

01:14:03.020 videos you guys have been getting i think it's time for a little payback here she is sakura the

01:14:09.640 star of our show she's getting ready casual stretch because she needs her walk her evening 0.94

01:14:18.580 It's inconstitutional. A little over half a mile. But without it, her night is just not the same.

01:14:30.580 That is a very calm and chill dog, actually.

01:14:33.160 Yes, I love her.

01:14:36.060 This cat as well, I can tell I'm going to love him.

01:14:38.500 Here, in his more quiet moments, Peter Purr, the famous banana cat, contemplates the more

01:14:46.860 thoughtful ideas of life as the Lib Dem leader, such as, how much tax should we take?

01:14:54.640 10% or 5%?

01:14:57.980 I do actually think, one, he would fit the aesthetic of the Lib Dems, and two, I would

01:15:02.700 probably vote for him over all of the parties, including Restore.

01:15:06.620 sorry Rupert would percent be spelt p-u-double-r I think so yeah that's why why we keep you around

01:15:15.020 all right let's read through some of the website comments that we have here also sorry from Ed

01:15:22.020 Milliband harnessing Enoch Powell's spinning grave also cut from the Labour advert I really

01:15:28.160 don't like Nigel Farage and I don't approve of what he's doing but no matter how much you dislike

01:15:33.160 the guy you can't deny someone with that level of swagger that level of cash that level of panache

01:15:39.380 that level of je ne sais quoi that level of savoir-faire that level of x-factor like what if 0.96

01:15:45.900 nigel josh what if nigel said to you like you're such a you're such a physical nasty beast right 0.74

01:15:53.320 you're the dude that i'm basically going to put you in charge of a platoon of boris waivers 0.96

01:15:57.940 right you'd be like whoa i'm nigel's top guy all right nigel nigel leaves me needs me

01:16:07.340 to lead the boris wave all right i'll do it for you nigel you gave it something well done that's

01:16:14.360 all right that's uh sam hyde i realized halfway through what i was reading so i thought i might

01:16:19.700 as well just like lean into it sorry to all of the americans for my terrible sam hyde impression

01:16:24.880 that i did there but all right sound the same to me so it's revenge for all of their terrible

01:16:30.040 impressions of us when all they refer to us as having a british accent so it could be glasgow

01:16:35.660 or a cockney which are entirely different by the way yes this is true uh kevin fox so not so much

01:16:42.400 this is what labor can do for you more we hate reform and a bricking it that they're about to

01:16:46.820 slap as senseless in the local elections uh pretty pretty much hopefully in a literal sense

01:16:52.220 but it like it still it still plays into that whole idea of just sort of like

01:16:56.280 like don't vote for them they're nazis and reform is like the least like there's about as far away

01:17:02.900 from being nazis as you could possibly ever be so it still creates that like false illusion in lots

01:17:08.980 of people's minds that this is what or at least in labor voters minds that this is what the parties

01:17:13.980 are and what they're fighting the guy who is actually in one of the star wars cantinas was

01:17:18.720 a candidate yeah he looked pretty cool though he was like a mr mayagi sort of character he looked

01:17:23.560 wise and yeah but he's indonesian is he he's indonesian yeah yeah he's not a proper he's not

01:17:29.340 a samurai he's not a samurai no he's just indonesian and nobody actually knows what goes

01:17:35.600 on in indonesia they're annexing papua new guinea so a real unhighlighted struggle i bring it up all

01:17:43.420 the time the hunter gatherers of western papua are suffering under their rule oh i didn't realize

01:17:48.660 that you're an advocate i i'm a strong advocate for the papuan people where does the dark from

01:17:53.620 your dark britain come from josh i'm actually a cannibal so uh it might tell you that explains a

01:18:00.220 lot henry ashman have labor a lot that not learned from amelia though instead of a purpled haired

01:18:05.720 emo girl purple haired emo girl they're branching out to the random pub going normies with a look

01:18:12.180 alike of dobby from peep show i got that as well that's certainly a choice yeah actually it wasn't

01:18:16.940 just a bit of a lookalike. She had that kind of vibe to her as well. George Happ. Seems Labour

01:18:23.280 are really good at creating based waifus. First Amelia and now this. If only women like this 1.00

01:18:27.760 existed, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in. They do exist. They're working class. There's 1.00

01:18:31.980 plenty of them. Anglo Poster. What in the GCSE drama is this? Yeah, it wasn't the best performance

01:18:42.100 i've ever seen but it really sent the message i appreciated the conviction you still better

01:18:47.120 acting than starmer acting annoyed when he's made a mistake i wonder if there was like a tiny little

01:18:51.980 part of her on the inside that that was like going yes i agree with all of this especially

01:18:57.480 when she just like screamed out depression isn't real i'm pretty sure many acting students have

01:19:04.120 had to say that to themselves when they wake up and unable to find work true true that's a bit of

01:19:10.040 a cold thing to say you know if you if you are trying to act you know good luck you'll need it

01:19:15.000 anyway i'll read some of my comments michael says i remember as a youth watching monty python as 1.00

01:19:20.680 uh they would absolutely lampoon the scots and here we see why how absolutely stupid do you have 0.98

01:19:26.600 to be to vote for a party who gave them the pm that complained about scotland being white 0.99

01:19:31.420 yes um yes humzy youssef my goodness and of course scotland everyone's very white you know 0.63

01:19:38.500 they're the whitest of white um what's the use of doing nowadays he's kind of a bit of a 0.80

01:19:43.520 lost memory at this point i just replay that um footage of him falling off of that scooter in my

01:19:50.480 mind over and over again and that's good enough for me it helps put you in a better mood

01:19:54.260 janvi says good afternoon stelios harry and josh hope everyone had a good weekend yes hello um

01:20:02.000 is uh the snp a socialist party yes they are um of course the ex-snp member was um embezzling

01:20:10.340 from charities not a surprise also who's the lesser of the two evils for you all

01:20:14.980 the labor party or the greens the labor party probably i mean some men oh yeah they're just

01:20:22.120 horrible yeah well i mean if you're gonna go with um like who who was less likely to collapse the

01:20:29.100 country labor but at the same time at the same time that does mean that they're carrying that

01:20:35.780 they're continuing a political establishment and system that i hate whereas the greens in

01:20:40.840 collapsing the country would kind of force a big change but there's no guarantee that that big

01:20:45.840 change would be good or bad there's also no guarantee it would happen but it would also be

01:20:49.940 funny yes it would be funny if all our lives got tangibly worse i think i think when it comes to

01:20:55.740 it's much funnier looking at them as the opposition where they're doing all their

01:21:01.060 silly stunts i think if they govern the country it's not going to be funny i mean they said into

01:21:07.940 the absurdity of modernity they did say they were going to actively persecute the right more

01:21:13.840 generally didn't they which i'm happy to meet them uh you know in a parallel direction and

01:21:20.140 persecute them in return but still also drop the speed limit from 70 to 55 miles per hour which

01:21:26.040 i don't think anyone wants that's enough to basically tank their entire campaign if everyone

01:21:31.300 just points at that and says they want you to drive slowly on the motorway everyone will hate

01:21:35.160 them kevin fox says did you see the letter doing the rounds on x supposedly from uh the dwp in

01:21:42.040 glasgow to a migrant living at a travel lodge confirming he had been granted housing benefits

01:21:47.120 to the tune of 928 quid a week i assume that's um that you get the entire floor yeah that's

01:21:55.160 ridiculous that's insane housing what well that's a month's rent quite comfortably i mean i also saw

01:22:02.640 something else um about a local council outbidding a local resident i saw that as well yeah which was 0.83

01:22:11.240 completely disgusting where somebody had gone through the surveillance they'd paid the solicitors

01:22:16.640 they'd got they were literally like about the day a day or two before moving into the house

01:22:21.600 and then the council just outbids them by 20 grand because in the long term it's less expensive for

01:22:26.340 them than housing people in hotels so not only does that mean that somebody is left without a

01:22:30.840 house it means that they're given a house and that's presumably in a normal neighborhood as

01:22:36.220 well it's awful you know i have my objections to putting people on welfare in amongst new builds

01:22:43.360 in the first place because you're mixing people around and I don't think people really want to do 0.97

01:22:47.060 that even amongst their own you want to be comfortable in your own community yeah exactly

01:22:51.120 you want to be amongst like-minded people and if the government put uses legislation or their

01:22:56.440 financial weight to disrupt things I don't think that's ever a good thing you want communities to

01:23:02.300 form organically right and this is one of the worries with the council elections is that

01:23:06.940 everybody's going to put up saying like obviously i'm sure in one way or another um reform-led

01:23:13.540 councils will be better in some ways but just the fact of the matter is that people respond to

01:23:19.020 incentives and the party each of the parties under this government and under many of the

01:23:25.220 other governments that we've had are all subject to the same incentives so you might go in thinking

01:23:30.340 we're going to run this council in a way that's going to save the local community but in the but

01:23:35.060 in the incentives when you're running with like not very much funds you have all of these things

01:23:41.120 put on you by the government you might still just go oh we'll just have to buy up this house with

01:23:45.500 this money instead of spending it on hotels well the central government in britain puts

01:23:49.660 local councils basically on the rails to enact their own sort of agenda there's not that much

01:23:56.320 flexibility in how you can govern locally which i think is a big problem because i actually think

01:24:00.420 the way you have a good competitive dynamic country is you give localities the ability to

01:24:06.540 try things out and figure out what works, right? It's one of the strengths of the United States

01:24:11.620 is that different states have different laws and eventually, you know, they figure out, okay, well,

01:24:16.980 this seems to work. And so maybe we can try that. Zesty King says, it's weird that all the Celtic

01:24:22.840 nations of Britain have exclusively left-wing nationalist parties. I've seen this personally

01:24:29.240 on my travels to each of them yeah it's weird also cornish nationalists as well are very left

01:24:34.920 wing which is uh we we've had a run-in with a few of those haven't we yeah on twitter i miss him 0.98

01:24:40.100 i know he was great where he's gone he was great fun i had some of the like most stupid arguments

01:24:45.460 ever formulated by man thrown at me by a cornish nationalist and he's just vanished and i miss him

01:24:50.740 i know also he was calling me a saxon and i don't have any saxon dna really a little bit just a

01:24:57.160 little bit three percent there you go enough more than you'd like though isn't it i know it keeps

01:25:01.880 you up at night it does it makes me efficient you see it's terrible go on stelios take us away

01:25:08.100 michael dribelbiss has several comments here funny how they were using the sex scandal to push

01:25:15.000 swallows well out of the california governor's race but got huge media pushback when they

01:25:22.400 weren't going to force him out of Congress. The difference is the Republicans want proof

01:25:27.600 and that the accused gather a day in court. Democrats want to immediately force the Republican

01:25:32.060 out. Then they want to accuse the Republicans of hypocrisy for using Democrat standards against

01:25:38.340 Democrats. And again, by Michael, he says, decades ago, they forced out a Republican congressman

01:25:44.680 over him asking out female members of his staff, Robert Packwood. But farts well, gets handy, 0.73

01:25:51.700 and dixie with a female staffer and they need the media attention to force him out you're having

01:25:56.840 fun with these aren't you you're just like michael always has he he still he still got it oh yeah

01:26:03.740 yeah uh george hap says what's happening to swalwell is an obvious political head job

01:26:08.900 where the usual false me too allegations i've leveled sympathy for him since he was supporting

01:26:15.260 those tactics when they were used against kavanaugh and trump yes no sympathy for thine

01:26:22.640 enemy i mean maybe there's some truth to the allegations but we don't know we're not part of

01:26:27.760 the halls of power but also i think i think we covered it on the podcast when i said towards

01:26:32.200 the end that remember that the people who make these accusations against others they're not

01:26:37.440 saints was it which which which of the grand american political establishments was it that 0.81

01:26:43.380 was uh the sight of two men filming themselves having gay sex in the other year remember when 0.99

01:26:49.640 that democrats on twitter what oh no no is this does this have to do with you're not white dudes 0.99

01:26:55.560 for harris it might have done you never know no i think it was like wasn't it like congress the 1.00

01:27:02.240 congressional hall or something like oh yeah yeah like two gay dudes filmed themselves having sex 0.92

01:27:08.240 in there a few years on top of a nuclear bomb or something there's also that guy in new york as 0.99

01:27:12.780 well who filmed himself having sex with some only fans person because to show how sex positive he

01:27:19.540 was oh god yeah you're right i completely forgot about that and then in spain wasn't there also

01:27:25.940 the um some leftist politicians or something were like involved in a scat scandal yes and there was

01:27:32.520 in germany stelios remembers it took him a moment are you talking about germany no the german one

01:27:40.320 is the guy yeah the german yeah the green the that was the german guy in the toilet yes the uh

01:27:47.740 it was the spanish leftist yeah that was the what happens when you find the german man in your 0.96

01:27:52.800 that was the segment german in the toilet i mean that's a partnership sent from hell apparently 0.69

01:27:58.360 I'll read one more comment.

01:28:00.840 Daniel Butcher says,

01:28:01.720 In the two and a half years I've been up near Edinburgh,

01:28:04.160 there has been thousands of homes built all the way along the A1,

01:28:07.100 destroying the lovely views you see when driving along that road.

01:28:09.740 I have to take to driving the back roads 1.00

01:28:12.120 just so I don't have to see how the Scots are destroying 1.00

01:28:15.080 their beautiful landscape with the disgusting modern boxes 1.00

01:28:17.600 that are used to store people.

01:28:19.800 I agree.

01:28:20.720 No, we shouldn't be building lots of houses.

01:28:23.220 We should be getting rid of lots of people.

01:28:25.500 On that positive note.

01:28:26.480 and and remember that all of that is a lot of it's being done basically just to keep the profits of

01:28:32.780 a lot of these construction companies in the green uh because a lot of these people are vested

01:28:37.520 interests i just see some western saying in the chat in the spanish one have a porn hub profile

01:28:45.380 as well i think maybe it did but what is funny was that i remember a video by sam where he was

01:28:50.900 he was saying Stelios what were you thinking with a segment something equivalent it's just

01:28:57.280 this segment scarred him not just him your your segment scar all of us and that's something that

01:29:04.100 we can all be united under and on that happy note thank you very much for joining us today

01:29:09.060 if you want to find out what Stelios's big news was check out his x account he's not leaving

01:29:14.420 stelios ain't going nowhere all right we stick with stelios okay hashtag stick it with stelios

01:29:22.680 it sounds like a like an orgy exactly we'll see you again tomorrow take care folks and have a great day

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - April 28, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1406

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