The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1407

00:00:00.000 hello and welcome to podcast of the lotus eaters it is episode 1407 and it is wednesday 29th of

00:00:07.180 april year of our lord 2026 i'm joined by harry hello and also special guest josh hello so uh

00:00:15.620 what are we going to be talking about we're going to be talking about why a hereditary peer is having

00:00:19.120 to explain to a tamil uh why he gets to be part of the country um we're going to be talking about

00:00:26.200 a man

00:00:27.480 who may or may not be Welsh 0.61

00:00:30.520 Ambiguously Welsh 1.00

00:00:31.660 I'd say he's dark enough to be Welsh 0.96

00:00:34.300 he's slightly lighter than Josh 0.93

00:00:35.960 but

00:00:36.400 heritage is questionable

00:00:39.580 I get a lot of sunshine these days

00:00:41.840 when I'm rattling my tin can outside

00:00:43.900 This is true, you can see him on the streets of Swindon

00:00:46.460 it's quite the spectacle

00:00:47.340 And you're going to be giving us something uplifting?

00:00:50.780 No, I'm going to be talking about 1.00

00:00:52.340 the worst horrors migrants have committed 1.00

00:00:54.260 in Europe in the past couple of weeks 1.00

00:00:56.560 Oh, a fun one.

00:00:57.040 Right, well, that'd be a nice note to end on.

00:00:59.120 You're welcome.

00:00:59.700 Leave everybody in a cheery state of mind.

00:01:01.820 At least it's a sunny day.

00:01:03.000 They've got that going for them.

00:01:05.460 So I wanted to start with something that has been going around on social media

00:01:09.520 that instantly revolted me the moment that I saw it.

00:01:14.380 It is a Channel 4 mini-documentary where basically a hereditary lord

00:01:21.020 is being asked to justify why he has a place in the country

00:01:25.580 and any sort of role in the government of that country.

00:01:30.220 You'll see what I mean.

00:01:31.380 Let's just watch some of it,

00:01:33.160 and you'll get a gist and see where I'm coming from on this.

00:01:39.220 This is the most modern room in the house.

00:01:42.620 This is the most modern room?

00:01:43.260 Yes, this is built in the 1840s, 1850s.

00:01:47.820 This is Powderham Castle, home of the Earl of Devon.

00:01:51.020 His ancestors were beheaded and exiled by the Tudors.

00:01:53.800 But it's a different type of defenestration taking place now under the Labour government.

00:01:58.760 The Earl is set to lose his seat in the House of Lords.

00:02:01.880 You know, this has been the seat of the Earl of Devon,

00:02:03.340 who happens to play a role in Parliament that the Earl of Devon has done

00:02:06.840 since the title was created in 1142.

00:02:09.120 In a lot of other cultures, you know, you seek to preserve that heritage.

00:02:14.280 The end of this parliamentary session marks the final chapter of the hereditary peers,

00:02:18.320 members of the lords who inherited their titles through their families what will i be right so

00:02:24.720 first of all um let's talk a little bit about the earl of devon shall we so the woods yeah yes

00:02:30.600 indeed uh in fact let's have a look at it um there we go so there's here's the earl of devon

00:02:35.680 uh and here he is in powderingham castle powdering castle powdering castle there we go

00:02:42.180 in devon now this is a you know obviously uh as you have guessed devon so his family have been

00:02:50.620 sort of a regional power broker over this kind of whole region and weirdly um the isle of white i'm

00:02:56.140 not sure how that fitted in but whatever he was a sort of you know local magnet in this area

00:03:00.220 and and this is a this is a title that actually goes back pre-1066 so it would have been originally

00:03:06.880 the the alderman of devon which is a sort of old you know back when you know for example king

00:03:11.680 alfred was on the throne that would be a thing and the saxon title yeah saxon title exactly right

00:03:16.420 and um well the subjugating your ancestors then yes that's right although they didn't you might

00:03:24.080 have been a foot down that way footman or man at arms or something you could have been helping

00:03:28.620 with the subjugation that's true although i don't have much anglo-saxon ancestry so probably yes

00:03:34.660 we've seen your dna probably would have been yes oppressed yes so originally the title

00:03:39.380 no originally the title was under the red of ears um yeah let's look at a few knocks on josh why not

00:03:47.840 so originally this ancient blood rivalries don't worry about it i'll win in the end harry don't you

00:03:53.900 worry well i mean if the celts are going by the way that the welsh are right now then

00:03:58.540 look compared to me you're both foreign so so stop stop your pitting contest right um yeah so so it

00:04:05.080 would have been originally under the red of ears who who made the unforgivable sin of running out 0.81

00:04:09.720 of male uh children so it passed by marriage to uh to the courtneys which of course has a whiff

00:04:16.240 of the french about it so they would they would have been the 1066 lot um and and basically this

00:04:21.120 family has been um sort of in residence in this area they are they are the very definition of a

00:04:26.740 somewhere the strongest definition of a somewhere you get a line going back um you know um at least

00:04:34.840 a thousand and a half years if not longer certainly for the paternal line and a thousand

00:04:39.560 years for the paternal so um yeah that that's who the Earl of Devon is and I'll come I'll come back

00:04:44.680 to his interlocutor in a moment but yes let's just go back to this because he he starts off here uh

00:04:51.060 the interlocutor uh asking him to explain himself chapter of the hereditary peers members of the

00:04:56.380 lords who inherited their titles through their families what will I be missing once you're gone

00:05:01.400 from the House of Lords.

00:05:02.360 You know, I think...

00:05:03.320 What will I be missing?

00:05:05.680 I just wanted to comment on that.

00:05:07.120 You're missing that continuity of the House.

00:05:09.200 I think you're missing certain members of the House

00:05:11.840 that are not there for political purposes.

00:05:13.800 They're there, yes, by birthright,

00:05:15.580 but they're there by a sense of duty

00:05:17.640 and a sense of service.

00:05:19.780 I think hereditaries also bring

00:05:21.560 a multi-generational view of what we're doing.

00:05:25.060 Because you've said that argument before in terms of...

00:05:27.400 And he's absolutely right.

00:05:28.660 yeah well the whole purpose of the house of lords is to be a bulwark against the short-termism of

00:05:35.440 the commons and at the minute yes we're suffering a horrendous case of short-termism in successive

00:05:41.860 governments and so actually were the lords more empowered actually i think that the con

00:05:46.240 with hereditary peers i think it would actually correct a lot of the wrongs because as he's

00:05:51.420 rightfully saying if you've got a continuity that spans basically a thousand years the best part of

00:05:57.060 it then you've got a long view of your country and history also if you look back a thousand years

00:06:02.640 and that's in your mind you're also inclined to look forward a thousand years exactly and it's

00:06:08.140 the perfect antidote to the the perennial problem of modern politics is that people need to be

00:06:13.780 grounded of a place we've got these sort of globalist types in yes the commons and by by

00:06:21.400 the very nature of them being set in one place, in one house,

00:06:26.420 having one title that is passed down.

00:06:29.360 Yes.

00:06:30.120 They're the complete opposite of that.

00:06:31.720 I did see some people push back on social media against this

00:06:35.320 and saying, well, I've got ancestors that go back a thousand years.

00:06:38.140 I mean, yes, in the very loose literal sense

00:06:39.680 that presumably your father had a father and he had a father

00:06:42.240 and added for an item.

00:06:43.460 That would make sense.

00:06:44.520 Yes.

00:06:44.740 No one just climbs out of the air.

00:06:46.940 Well, this is true, but can anyone on this panel

00:06:50.820 name what who their ancestor in the in the crusades was because i bloody well can't being a commoner

00:06:56.520 no i do want to look into it but not off the top of my head yes exactly the difference between

00:07:01.720 having a vague understanding that you may have had a an ancestor who was alive a thousand years

00:07:07.680 ago is not the same thing as being able to say who it was uh point to the bloody picture on the wall

00:07:13.260 and and have this clear continuity in your mind that as you say traverses back a thousand years

00:07:18.640 well an interesting thing about population bottlenecks due to like mass famine and disease

00:07:23.260 and such like the black plague go back far enough maybe you share an ancestor with this chap here

00:07:28.420 it's entirely possible i don't well yeah that's that that's the thing he's part he's part of the

00:07:33.740 direct line that has uh made an effort to keep track of this whereas your family just um just

00:07:39.000 stopped bothering at some point presumably stop oh well no it's just the it's the only line you

00:07:45.040 You know, the titled lines were the only ones that were recorded

00:07:48.540 because obviously in the past most people weren't literate.

00:07:51.460 But he can claim to have had ancestors at least 1,000 years back in time

00:07:58.000 that have affected the course of British history more significantly

00:08:03.540 than the vast majority of households and families.

00:08:06.680 But I think your core point is a good one,

00:08:08.160 which is they are outside the short-termism and the media cycle

00:08:11.860 which politics operates on.

00:08:13.540 Had any of our ancestors gone into politics,

00:08:16.200 they probably would have been busy trying to pay the mortgage

00:08:18.220 or, you know, make a living or feed themselves.

00:08:20.320 Some of mine did in Scotland,

00:08:22.160 because my surname is a derivative of Fairholme,

00:08:24.980 which was a Scottish noble family.

00:08:26.640 Right. Yeah, very good.

00:08:28.900 Well, they're the nice half of the family, and we like them.

00:08:32.500 What's wrong with his Devon side of the family?

00:08:35.280 Well, commoners. That's my whole point.

00:08:37.600 We owned a nice farm. It was lovely.

00:08:39.960 Well, maybe upper-class commoners, but commoners all the same.

00:08:43.100 I'm not digging you.

00:08:45.000 I'm from commoner stock myself. 0.99

00:08:46.980 The point is that if you live in a bloody castle,

00:08:49.880 you're not driven by short-termism and political cycles

00:08:52.780 and media headlines and trying to make a career for yourself.

00:08:57.400 I mean, theoretically, like potentially and more likely,

00:09:01.720 but I don't know, this guy's a barrister as well,

00:09:05.320 so I'm interested to see what he's actually done legally,

00:09:08.300 which kind of causes that he's supported.

00:09:09.940 Because it's said on his Wikipedia page that he's a barrister.

00:09:13.100 And I'm just thinking like, I don't know, has he stuck up for the human rights of refugees or anything like that?

00:09:18.900 Because what we're talking about is theoretical and abstract, whereas the Lords are not just an abstract concept.

00:09:25.120 They're real people, to which my question becomes, what have they done?

00:09:30.640 Before I just go immediately supporting them.

00:09:32.980 As an institution and an abstract part of British history, I can completely support it.

00:09:39.500 I do have a comment on that, but I'll let the interlocutor run a bit

00:09:43.860 before coming back on that particular...

00:09:45.040 You know, your lineage can go back hundreds of years,

00:09:47.640 back towards the Crusades.

00:09:48.700 I never really understood if you could explain,

00:09:50.060 if your family was involved in the Crusades,

00:09:52.300 how that is relevant today.

00:09:53.780 A country that forgets its history forgets its responsibilities.

00:09:57.440 And the point around the Crusades, 0.76

00:09:58.980 the point about our relationship with the Middle East,

00:10:02.760 it was illustrated today on a piece I heard on the news

00:10:05.280 where there was a journalist who was there in Iran in the 1950s,

00:10:09.240 when the first oil men were getting off the aeroplanes

00:10:11.500 to capture the oil of Iran for Britain.

00:10:14.100 It's like, if you forget about this history,

00:10:15.820 you begin to think that other people are responsible,

00:10:17.420 that it's not our responsibility.

00:10:18.560 Well, it is our responsibility.

00:10:20.120 And having members in one chamber of your parliament

00:10:23.320 who have that collective memory that goes back centuries

00:10:26.300 allows you as a government, as a parliament,

00:10:30.080 to retain that memory and to use it.

00:10:32.100 So he's very much going for the responsibility line.

00:10:37.540 I'll carry on, but I just thought I'd have to.

00:10:39.140 And hysterical memory. Also, this is a completely futile exercise, frankly, because you can't reconstruct traditions to an outsider. 0.99

00:10:49.600 Clearly, this is an outsider. You can't justify them by first principle basis.

00:10:54.960 It has to come from, this is what we do. This is the history and tradition of my people.

00:11:00.700 You have no say in this, because ultimately, he's never going to have any connection to it.

00:11:04.800 He's never going to have any care or concern for it.

00:11:06.700 So he can ultimately always resort back to the line of, well, why should that affect me? Why should I care?

00:11:11.960 Well, yes, as he says, I mean, I've got a history degree. So, I mean, OK, fine.

00:11:15.820 But your history degree would have taught you that this man's ancestors are evil, whereas he will have a completely different perspective of it.

00:11:21.700 And that on its head and say, well, actually, you know, the problems with the Middle East are historical.

00:11:26.200 And part of that problem is an aristocracy who made mistakes.

00:11:28.880 We've moved towards a situation where we don't want aristocrats making mistakes and messing up the world.

00:11:33.140 We want democratically elected politicians to make those decisions.

00:11:35.880 if you so i mean yes i mean he stops himself from saying we want democratically elected

00:11:41.980 politicians and making those mistakes the core problem of british history is not that

00:11:46.800 the lord devon's ancestors made mistakes the core problem is that the lord devon's ancestors did not

00:11:53.260 make enough of what kieran moodley thinks are mistakes if if his ancestors had made more of

00:12:00.400 what kieran moodley considers to be mistakes we wouldn't be in this place in the you know in the

00:12:05.060 first instance um so yes i continue to be irritated by this man immensely uh let's play a little bit

00:12:10.580 more assuming i can make the mouse work does anybody know how if you think it's better to

00:12:17.440 have no memory um and you think it's better to govern with no thought to history then i agree

00:12:22.800 with you but i personally feel that you need to learn from history and you really need um and if

00:12:27.300 you have the ability to to encapsulate within your parliamentary system a little bit of history

00:12:31.440 i'm not saying it needs to dominate and i certainly obviously wholly agree with you that

00:12:34.620 aristocrats should not dominate, should not take a leading role.

00:12:36.500 I mean, I have a history degree, other politicians have history degrees, we study history.

00:12:40.320 I mean, I understand your point, but getting rid of the hereditaries doesn't mean we forget

00:12:43.000 our history, does it?

00:12:43.660 It doesn't entirely.

00:12:45.200 All right.

00:12:45.800 So let's do a little bit on the interlocutor now.

00:12:49.060 As I mentioned, it's Kieran Moodley.

00:12:53.240 This is the chap.

00:12:54.480 Now, he doesn't have a Wikipedia page with family history and a family crest and all

00:12:59.340 the rest of it.

00:12:59.880 But we can sensibly guess from the surname

00:13:03.920 that he's from the Dravidian people, probably a Tamil,

00:13:10.440 because that is a sort of South Indian,

00:13:12.440 Northern Sri Lankan, very common name.

00:13:16.060 So here we go.

00:13:17.080 Kiran Moodley from about this region,

00:13:22.060 Northern Sri Lanka, Southern India,

00:13:24.740 who is who is making a british lord explain his role in the country well you know that there's a

00:13:36.480 i mean when you're talking about history surely he's getting a little bit of a kick out of it

00:13:41.500 given given what he would assume to have been the subjugation of his people a hundred years ago

00:13:46.860 by those types well yes is this just a little form of ethnic vengeance on his part like forcing this

00:13:53.980 man uh of infinitely higher station than him to uh to explain himself and the other man to be fair 0.81

00:14:00.640 i mean the lord is not doing a great job he comes across a bit desperate and pathetic he should be

00:14:06.740 he should be sat there relaxed as he likes going like i don't i shouldn't have to justify myself

00:14:11.640 i mean in an ideal and then be like of course i agree that the aristocrat shouldn't have all the

00:14:16.660 power why not you cook i mean ideally he would have cleaved him in half um with a sword from

00:14:23.460 the back of his horse or at the very least at the very least he should have just leaned back in his

00:14:28.440 chair slightly and rung a bell and then a butler would step forward and you don't know where he's

00:14:34.100 come from he's as if he's always been there he just steps forward and he's there and he would

00:14:37.640 have said to the butler this man is off of my estate in the next 90 seconds or release the

00:14:42.300 hounds that that should have been i you're correct we need to begin punishing insolence again yes

00:14:48.060 yes so i mean we kind of moved from you know the the the famous logan hall meme of you know allow

00:14:55.960 me to explain your country's identity to you uh and how it includes me we kind of move beyond that

00:15:01.960 at this point we've now moved to you have to explain your country uh how your country includes

00:15:07.940 you to me seems a little bit backwards doesn't it and i've got to point out your spelling is

00:15:15.060 as spectacular as ever thank you um now actually as a tamil uh mr moodley um does have interesting

00:15:24.260 history so about the same time as the crusades uh i don't know how many of you uh are familiar

00:15:29.680 with this but the battle of copham um would have been uh would have been going on and the the whole

00:15:35.660 cholian wars um under you know chaps with outstanding mustaches like this uh and not to 0.94

00:15:43.240 mention a bit of Indian bling, as they are wont to do. 1.00

00:15:48.960 Now, the Cholian conflicts, that's serious history, that is. 1.00

00:15:53.860 I mean, you could make the argument that they are logistically

00:15:56.300 as complexed as the Crusades.

00:15:59.100 You know, they're at scale.

00:16:00.880 There was a lot of involved, a lot of man movement.

00:16:03.140 There was even some blue water battles as a part of this.

00:16:06.660 I mean, that is a rich and viable history.

00:16:09.180 and I don't think that I as an Englishman am entitled to go to either northern Sri Lanka or

00:16:16.640 southern India and start lecturing them on their history and why their country should include me

00:16:24.020 and why I should get a say on how their politics work if it wasn't for Britain they wouldn't know

00:16:28.840 much of their history because wasn't it wasn't it um that a British aristocrat um actually

00:16:35.660 deciphered sanskrit i might be misremembering this but there's some grain of truth here but

00:16:41.160 basically it unlocks the key to reading lots about indian history which they wouldn't have had were

00:16:46.620 the british not there so this is not exactly good point parallel and in fact we've probably done

00:16:52.820 more for them than they have for us in that respect well i mean pad out your case josh i mean

00:16:59.120 what what have the indians done for us i mean if you were to list the top i don't know five things

00:17:03.340 what would you say? Sports spices perhaps? Well there's that 45 trillion we nicked off the

00:17:10.720 mizzins there. Yeah the the value of probably our entire economy several times over that somehow 0.94

00:17:16.280 what I don't know what happened did we drop a lot of the treasure in the ocean on the way over

00:17:20.360 it's difficult to say but um yes yeah they've got they've got some good incense sticks um you know

00:17:27.540 that their influence on some of the late 60s music with the sitar was kind of interesting

00:17:32.800 It's sort of dropping off a little bit.

00:17:36.500 So would you say that's of equal value to rediscovering their history for them,

00:17:41.520 giving them infrastructure systems of governance?

00:17:43.640 First railway in Asia, massively raising their living standards,

00:17:47.620 teaching them modern agriculture,

00:17:49.500 actually stabilising the region to stop internal conflict.

00:17:53.880 Sure, there were atrocities committed by us,

00:17:56.280 but also it wasn't like it was all sunshine and rainbows.

00:17:59.620 But they were committing atrocities against each other en masse for centuries.

00:18:05.180 And I also find it amusing that a country that's so basically overpopulated and people say, oh, there was a family.

00:18:12.060 That's because of the modern agriculture we gave them.

00:18:13.840 Well, in part, but also.

00:18:15.220 So maybe the atrocity was giving them modern agriculture.

00:18:18.680 There's a case for it, I suppose.

00:18:21.060 Yeah, I'll play a bit more.

00:18:22.040 At all. But it also, by having them present within the parliamentary system, means you are necessarily respecting and being somewhat deferential to the history that brought us to where we are today.

00:18:32.120 But is this also not just part of our history? I mean, one of the things about our continuity and our constitution is that it evolves, it's unwritten, and it moves. And this is just part of that evolution.

00:18:38.880 Yeah, yeah. And I'm personally really pleased to have been able to be here at the end of the role of the Roger Piers. I'm not going to fight it.

00:18:47.280 The Earl may not have fought to stay on, but plenty of others did.

00:18:51.440 I mean, that was his first mistake, wasn't it?

00:18:53.320 I mean, come on.

00:18:54.060 I'm not going to fight it.

00:18:55.320 Then what is the point of you?

00:18:57.300 We look back and we look to the future

00:18:59.520 and we carry on the traditions of this country.

00:19:01.700 Something comes along that completely upends

00:19:03.700 the traditions of this country and insults its history.

00:19:07.040 Well, I'm not going to fight it.

00:19:08.520 Okay, well, maybe it is good that you're going in that case 0.99

00:19:10.700 because you are completely useless. 0.99

00:19:12.800 Well, exactly right. 0.99

00:19:14.240 I mean, not just him, but, you know, his forebearers as well,

00:19:17.960 the previous Lord Devons and all of the rest of the lords.

00:19:20.460 I mean, there's a long history of this.

00:19:21.620 I mean, it all started with bloody Lloyd George

00:19:23.380 and the 1911 Parliament Act.

00:19:25.960 Yeah, I was going to say that there's not a lot he can do

00:19:30.020 with his power at the minute because of liberal reforms.

00:19:34.240 Yeah, because his predecessors didn't fight the 1911 Parliament Act.

00:19:37.120 But then by the time that we get to this point,

00:19:39.600 we have a man who is so cooked and mewling

00:19:43.760 that he's not even going to kick up a fuss about it. 0.99

00:19:46.080 He's just going to do one interview with an above-his-station Tamil

00:19:49.600 and just go like oh i won't fight it though i'll give you a quick first principles explanation of 0.59

00:19:54.860 why i should be allowed to live in this country as as someone who descends from lords going back

00:20:00.260 and then i'll just shrug my shoulders and go oh well that's just the times i suppose i i would

00:20:05.760 say i put out an interview request to him so i'm i'm certainly not going to agree with the cucked

00:20:10.000 bit um but uh but he i i do feel there is value in him trying to be a bit more assertive on this

00:20:15.840 one but but certainly his his ancestors should have been more assertive they should have quashed

00:20:19.280 that 1911 Parliament.

00:20:21.180 In fact, when they got that,

00:20:22.420 they should have immediately proposed their own bill

00:20:24.160 to abolish the House of Commons.

00:20:25.680 I mean, there was also the fact that Tony Blair

00:20:27.600 got rid of a fair number of hereditary peers.

00:20:30.160 There have been a number of battles lost,

00:20:32.220 perhaps before he's able to...

00:20:34.340 1911 Parliament Act, the 1949 Parliament Act under Attlee.

00:20:38.140 There was the Life Peer Rejected 1958 under Harold Macmillan.

00:20:41.460 Was it 1998 where Blair...

00:20:44.140 99 House of Lords Act, yep.

00:20:45.760 99 was it, okay.

00:20:47.300 And then the latest bit of vandalism.

00:20:49.200 He's just finishing it off.

00:20:50.560 And every single time, these men just, what, rolled over

00:20:53.760 and just let it happen.

00:20:55.220 Yes, I mean...

00:20:56.100 Just going to continually let you strip us of our powers 0.50

00:20:58.260 because ultimately what we want is a fancy cigar smoking.

00:21:01.420 Well, kind of what I'm driving at here is the Lords,

00:21:05.600 which at one time it would have been inconceivable

00:21:08.140 that the Lords would not have played a role

00:21:10.020 in the government of the British.

00:21:12.460 Over the space of 100 years, it's just all been stripped away,

00:21:16.000 chunk by chunk by chunk.

00:21:17.200 I mean, to be fair, Harold Macmillan was a Conservative,

00:21:19.700 but it's a long series of Liberals and Labour, yes,

00:21:24.820 slicing away at this.

00:21:27.140 What do we think is going to happen to the...

00:21:29.180 If this can happen to the Lords in the space of 100 years,

00:21:31.860 what's going to happen to the rest of us in the next 100 years?

00:21:34.340 It's going to be the same thing.

00:21:35.400 It's going to be a slice at a time

00:21:36.740 until we're basically just removed from the political system.

00:21:39.180 Nothing's sacred in this country anymore, is it?

00:21:41.580 I mean, you look at our history, our proud history,

00:21:43.820 and you look at who actually has done significant acts,

00:21:48.600 who's acted heroically on the battlefield,

00:21:51.000 who has done things that have tangibly improved the lives

00:21:54.780 of the people in this country.

00:21:56.460 And it's very disproportionately men with titles.

00:22:00.760 It might not make people comfortable,

00:22:03.220 but it wasn't the common politician and it still is not.

00:22:07.980 Well, I think the best system of governance we ever had

00:22:10.680 was led by, you know, not just hereditary laws,

00:22:15.520 but men of good breeding as a whole.

00:22:17.160 Because, I mean, even under the Victorian era,

00:22:19.000 the people in the commons would have been quite often

00:22:21.520 second and third sons of nobility.

00:22:23.100 Even in our lifetimes, the quality of the people in the commons

00:22:26.620 has drastically decreased.

00:22:28.960 And they're basically just placeholders for corporate interests now, aren't they?

00:22:32.960 And I acknowledge, I mean, your point,

00:22:34.900 that he hasn't articulated his argument in a forceful way,

00:22:38.680 in an assertive way.

00:22:40.680 And maybe he could have made the arguments better and more convincing.

00:22:44.220 But nevertheless, if the decision of government was these two,

00:22:48.040 between, you know, these two men,

00:22:50.020 when one of them was presented with the issue of the rape gangs

00:22:53.620 back in whenever it was,

00:22:54.940 would his instinct have been to, you know,

00:22:57.380 brush it under the carpet or get the constabulary involved?

00:23:00.220 Whereas obviously the Labour politicians at the time,

00:23:02.440 which I'm sure Mr. Moodley identifies more with,

00:23:05.880 were perfectly happy to do so.

00:23:08.100 I mean, there's a long series of things that...

00:23:09.740 So was he presented with that information

00:23:11.820 and tried to do something about it?

00:23:13.240 I don't know.

00:23:14.360 I don't know if it's full vote.

00:23:15.340 It hasn't really gone on much in Devon, to be honest.

00:23:18.540 My point is that men like that

00:23:21.320 would not have taken the series of decisions

00:23:23.140 that have led us downhill as comprehensively

00:23:25.560 as we have been over the last 50 years.

00:23:28.160 Well, did the Queen ever speak up about it?

00:23:30.120 No.

00:23:30.860 Has Prince Charles, sorry, King Charles?

00:23:33.420 No.

00:23:33.820 Don't know if said anything about it

00:23:35.040 or has he just thrown balls?

00:23:36.380 Well, I mean, that's actually how

00:23:37.540 the 1911 Parliament Act came to be.

00:23:39.740 because David Lloyd George went off to the king and said,

00:23:42.600 well, look, can I just create hundreds of new liberal peers then?

00:23:45.800 And the king went along with it.

00:23:46.960 So, yes, the monarch has not been strong on defending... 0.95

00:23:51.980 The House of Windsor has been completely useless. 0.91

00:23:54.320 Yes. 0.96

00:23:55.320 Yes, they don't have a line that goes back quite this far, do they?

00:23:59.500 There was one bit of this Channel 4 thing that I did agree with,

00:24:05.580 although you did have to turn on subtitles for it, and that was this.

00:24:09.740 yeah you got there well done um that that's me done next all right then we've got quite a few

00:24:21.380 rumble rants for that one so uh here you go um yeah look there they are down there

00:24:27.640 uh that's a random name for one dollar one dollar um presumably not a not a hereditary lord um he

00:24:36.340 He does send lots of them in.

00:24:37.620 That is true.

00:24:38.300 I will give him that.

00:24:39.700 Treats us like cheap strippers, doesn't he? 0.88

00:24:41.700 Yes.

00:24:42.700 And again, when we met him in person,

00:24:45.260 he was remarkably ethnic. 1.00

00:24:48.080 So he is just basically trying to nickel and dime us 1.00

00:24:50.420 in that kind of...

00:24:51.700 Did he come to the live event then?

00:24:53.060 Yeah.

00:24:53.600 Oh, I like him then.

00:24:54.520 All right.

00:24:55.260 Thank you for it, though.

00:24:56.340 We're in the teasing.

00:24:57.960 I'm not.

00:24:59.600 Wasn't the Lords directly participating

00:25:02.020 in abolishing his own position?

00:25:04.300 Yeah.

00:25:04.500 Yeah, they quite often do that. 0.99

00:25:08.240 He also says, Abelard, crush this man's testicles, Samson, if he was a lord. 0.99

00:25:14.540 I'd expect that. 0.99

00:25:15.500 Yes, why not?

00:25:16.720 I mean, it's one way of dealing with press.

00:25:21.180 Uchigador says, punishing insolence would get rid of half of social media really fast.

00:25:27.580 Yes, I think that's the key thing we need to take away from this.

00:25:30.400 Stiglestone says

00:25:32.140 the British Empire didn't subjugate India

00:25:34.360 it uplifted India

00:25:35.460 and that was a tremendous error. Yes

00:25:37.920 your point about giving them agriculture

00:25:39.800 probably should have done that

00:25:41.740 agriculture in the first place was

00:25:44.320 just a disaster all round 0.99

00:25:45.800 and Ochigdor has a Fed post there 0.74

00:25:48.320 and the answer to that is

00:25:49.960 no because he was a Catholic

00:25:51.920 he was doing it for Catholic

00:25:54.360 bit of a Guy Fawkes reference there 1.00

00:25:55.720 I knew that was going to be the answer 0.99

00:25:57.260 and it's a fair answer

00:25:58.720 can we get my segment up please samson but thank you very much um the super chatters as ever thank

00:26:05.580 you all right so i have a very important question for my friends on the panel here today and also

00:26:13.240 for everybody home uh this chap here yes he look welsh to you that's tom jones isn't it uh guys

00:26:22.340 aren't quite blue enough,

00:26:24.680 but that is the question

00:26:27.140 that has erupted on social media

00:26:30.720 for the past two days or so now.

00:26:33.660 He looks like a... 1.00

00:26:34.500 Oh, shit, he is. 1.00

00:26:36.040 Sorry, I was going to say 1.00

00:26:37.040 he looks like a reform councillor, but...

00:26:38.840 No, he's for Plaid Cymru.

00:26:40.580 Ah.

00:26:41.260 The Welsh Nationalist Party, 1.00

00:26:43.720 as ever, being fronted by true Welshmen. 1.00

00:26:46.960 It's a shame that Ruda Cabana 1.00

00:26:48.360 went and murdered all of those children, 1.00

00:26:50.380 or else he might have had a role 0.76

00:26:51.740 for Plaid Cymru in this new council.

00:26:54.060 Well, Plaid Cymru would have been fighting quite hard for him, wouldn't they?

00:26:56.960 Reputation's not tarnished enough for Plaid Cymru, to be fair.

00:26:59.900 Well, that's true.

00:27:02.000 But, so, yeah, Plaid Cymru are the Welsh Nationalist Party

00:27:05.700 who ever so love Welsh people, 0.99

00:27:08.120 which is why they are all for the replacement of them. 0.98

00:27:11.080 They put out this tweet saying,

00:27:12.560 Vote Plaid Cymru to stop reform UK on the 7th of May 0.84

00:27:16.420 with this chappy here who goes by the name of Bashy. 1.00

00:27:19.660 My name is Bashy, and I'm a community organiser from Butetown in Cardiff, 0.90

00:27:23.100 and there's something really important I need to tell you today.

00:27:25.580 The Senate elections on May the 7th is the most important election we've ever had in... 1.00

00:27:30.860 He's got one of those weird false ethnic accents, doesn't he? 0.87

00:27:34.140 Because there's a little bit of Welsh in there, but there's also pure foreign in there. 0.61

00:27:40.140 And, you know, he's clearly not Welsh. He's Sudanese, if you're wondering.

00:27:46.060 That's where he's from. That's where he was born.

00:27:48.140 So even if you wanted to make the reform-cooked civic argument of,

00:27:52.480 oh, it depends on where you're born, he's still not Welsh, actually. 0.62

00:27:55.480 He's just Sudanese with a Welsh passport given to him.

00:27:59.380 Aaron Banks, who is a member of the Reform Party

00:28:02.360 and was up for election for a mayoral position last year,

00:28:07.860 quote-tweeted it with a cheeky little remark, asking, Welsh lad?

00:28:12.380 I mean, that's...

00:28:13.460 It's a relevant question.

00:28:14.820 Given reforms councillors...

00:28:17.940 He's a millionaire and he's also a donor to the party as well as being part of the party.

00:28:25.100 So while you, Dan, or Beau, would have probably been immediately relieved from your position

00:28:29.920 for asking such a question, he just gets to have fun with it.

00:28:33.920 And to be fair, he has been having a little bit of fun with it

00:28:37.240 by just saying that everybody has been getting very angry at him 0.99

00:28:40.220 because the second that he made this, you get retards like the Blade of the Sun saying... 1.00

00:28:46.480 The most insufferable people. 0.96

00:28:47.940 on the entire platform yeah it's like aaron banks was reformed candidate for mayor of bristol

00:28:53.060 that wasn't going to go well if we're honest trying to get a reform into mayor as mayor of

00:28:58.340 bristol what was aaron banks making the point of in the other one well he was just asking welsh

00:29:03.220 lad because they're the welsh no no no the next one the next one i was just saying that you've

00:29:06.820 got no sense of humor i thought wales was only for the welsh you've said it often enough well

00:29:10.660 that i mean that is the whole point of blood come right that wales should well you would

00:29:14.660 Well, it's the same as any sort of Celtic nationalist, and this is going to hurt my sort of ancestors here a little bit being entirely Celtic, but most British Celtic nationalists just hate the English and are more than happy to invite anyone else in.

00:29:31.300 look at the S&P, look at Sinn Féin in Ireland, look at, you know, Plaid Cymru in Wales. They're

00:29:39.240 all more than happy to have, you know, Rapey McStabface from any third world country. But 0.98

00:29:46.580 when it comes to the English, they're like, no, no, no, they're the worst. And they've got this

00:29:50.380 sort of weird culture. They know what ethnicity is when it comes to the English. And that's always, 0.99

00:29:55.720 yes for our american viewers it is the strange contradiction of celtic nationalist parties

00:30:01.360 because it's not just the countries themselves like scotland and wales it's even parts of say

00:30:06.260 for instance the south the south southwest as far southwest as you can go in cornwall where there is

00:30:13.000 the phenomenon of the cornish nationalists who are very proud of their heritage they're very proud

00:30:18.400 of the fact that they are distinct from the anglo-saxons not quite as distinct as they would

00:30:22.940 like to make out but they are they are distinct uh but they are more than willing to bring abdul in

00:30:29.860 and say he's just as cornish as the rest just for our american viewers that is a weird thing that i

00:30:34.660 always forget is is that the welsh hate the english and the scottish hate the english and

00:30:38.360 the even some cornish hate the english and the english don't think about them at all ever well

00:30:44.580 yeah that is the thing that they're separatists they want to separate they have their own devolved

00:30:50.140 parliaments and with that they want to replace themselves it's also worth mentioning whenever i

00:30:55.640 go to cornwall and say i'm from devon they treat you very well and they like me really it's like

00:31:00.360 i'm not from london don't worry that oh okay he's he's one of us every welsh person i've met has

00:31:05.160 been very nice um even though obviously i sound english and every scotsman i've met uh has been

00:31:11.020 very nice um so i think there's just this small bastion of resentful peace like it's a these

00:31:18.400 countries are very divided between you know being very pro your own country but still being

00:31:23.980 favorable to the English like my Scottish granddad when I asked him why did you move

00:31:29.080 to England he said well England is like Scotland except England is better in every way except

00:31:36.300 maybe the nature which is actually a very fair and reasonable point and he had a very thick

00:31:42.760 Scottish accent in an unbroken chain of Scottish ancestry and he was an engineer so that's why he

00:31:47.360 move down here. Yeah it's worth saying with the Celtic parties it's a weird phenomenon it's nowhere

00:31:52.100 near all of them but there is a strange holdout of these people and because they are so contradictory

00:31:57.700 in being able to say for instance like this chap here who is part of the Plaid Cymru party

00:32:03.340 apparently you can't be black and Welsh but you can't be English and Welsh and they know it

00:32:09.340 they know it but they don't apply that standard when it's anyone other than the English. Part of

00:32:15.500 me wonders if they do this purposefully just to annoy the english it's not doing a very good job

00:32:20.900 because i'm just like this is just a little bit sad it's kind of cutting off your nose to spite

00:32:24.820 your face isn't it very much shoot yourself in the foot replace yourselves for the sake of annoying

00:32:30.040 the english at which point the english are there like you're dangling yourself off the edge of a 0.92

00:32:34.740 cliff and the englishman is holding out a hand saying please don't kill yourself and they're 0.94

00:32:38.800 going i would never accept help from an englishman and then they let go and die gleefully laughing

00:32:44.060 the whole way down. Also, these people aren't very good at upholding their principles, because

00:32:48.720 whenever I've been in Wales, everyone's just very nice to you. There's no one saying, oh,

00:32:53.260 you're English, get out of here. Everyone's just very polite, probably more polite than most English

00:32:57.600 people to me when I've been there, which is saying something. It's because you're a lot darker than 1.00

00:33:01.860 the rest of us. I think the second coming of Tom Jones, all hail. No. So it's a weird thing that

00:33:09.260 they're sort of secretly seething, but actually when you talk to them, they're perfectly fine.

00:33:13.820 and civil. I've never had an unpleasant interaction with a Welshman, but social media would convince

00:33:19.200 you that they're all a bunch of frothing anti-English weirdos. When you see the Scottish 0.92

00:33:23.920 in particular, it's even worse than that. They talk about the English like, I don't know. 0.91

00:33:29.540 I'm trying to think of like the most murderous ethnic resentment possible. That's the sort of 0.99

00:33:35.420 language that they use. And then when you actually talk to them, they're fine. But ultimately what

00:33:40.020 this is is the age-old question of how Americanized has Britain become yet have we completely lost

00:33:47.440 track of heritage and ethnic identity in the way that a lot of Americans have or do we still

00:33:55.520 recognize that English is a specific people Welsh are a specific people Scottish are a specific

00:34:01.900 people that you can get along with just fine and there's no kind of moral content in saying

00:34:08.260 you're not English, you're not Welsh, you're not Scottish?

00:34:11.960 Or do we have to accept anyone and everyone is

00:34:14.740 who's just been here for a little bit

00:34:16.040 and says that they're English or Scottish or Welsh?

00:34:18.780 I'm of the opinion that no Rishi Sunak is not English,

00:34:22.880 no Humza Yusuf is not Scottish,

00:34:25.520 and no, this man, let me remind myself of his full name,

00:34:30.200 El-Bashir Idris is not Welsh,

00:34:33.820 if only because his surname is not Jones. 1.00

00:34:37.440 That's true. 0.99

00:34:38.740 You can always tell a Welshman.

00:34:40.200 He does have a name that's easier to pronounce than the leader of the Conservative Party, though,

00:34:43.720 so he's got that going for him.

00:34:44.880 So what I wanted to point out here is that if they do not recognise

00:34:48.980 the basically ethnic ancestral component to the existence of their nationalist movements

00:34:54.120 as being the core thing, they have to be ethno-nationalist,

00:34:58.560 otherwise they can't be nationalist at all, right?

00:35:00.980 Otherwise, there's such cultural overlap between Wales, Scotland and England,

00:35:05.120 you know there's there's as much overlap with those free nations as there is sort of variation

00:35:11.540 uh within england i always thought it was utterly inherent that plaid comrade was ethno-nationalist

00:35:17.200 i mean how could it how could it not be well apparently not it's just everybody everybody

00:35:22.220 is welsh except for the english we know that they're not welsh but then comes the question

00:35:26.620 well how do you know that the english are not welsh if just being in wales for a little bit

00:35:32.300 and asking and saying i'm welsh means that you're welsh no matter your heritage if you english no

00:35:37.820 matter if you even no matter if you even actually you know like are very well connected and have a

00:35:44.600 deep respect for your homeland and heritage where you come from you're still welsh as long as you

00:35:49.520 kind of say that you can i can i pose a challenge on that all right i can understand why somebody

00:35:54.080 from algeria or somalia might go to wales and claim to be welsh but what self-respecting englishman

00:36:00.060 is ever going to go to Wales and claim to be Welsh?

00:36:04.500 Answer in the comments below, folks,

00:36:06.300 because I can't think of a reason right now.

00:36:08.060 You get people like this,

00:36:09.280 Johnny Valleyboy, 0.99

00:36:10.940 my timeline is filled with Englishmen

00:36:12.740 telling me what a Welshman looks and sounds like.

00:36:16.320 So imagine the little dwarves from Lord of the Rings.

00:36:23.100 That with a slightly thicker Welsh accent 0.99

00:36:25.240 is how I imagine the Welsh.

00:36:27.660 Especially with that comment of

00:36:29.200 you can't tell the men and women apart from one another

00:36:31.240 because of the beards. 0.99

00:36:32.560 Often the case.

00:36:34.180 Carl, of course, asking, 0.97

00:36:35.500 is it mandatory to be a retard if you're a Welsh nationalist? 0.96

00:36:39.700 Because all of the ones that are represented on Twitter seem to be. 0.95

00:36:43.220 How does Johnny know if they're English

00:36:44.520 if you can't identify groups of people by common traits?

00:36:47.200 To which he responds,

00:36:48.420 well, they've got English flags in their bios,

00:36:50.880 English flags in their cover photos,

00:36:52.660 English flags in their profile names,

00:36:54.600 English towns and cities they're located in,

00:36:56.320 and the frequent use of the word English patriot.

00:36:58.640 which bears the question sorry begs the question um so if any of those people who are ethnically

00:37:07.140 english and come from a long line of englishmen then instead decided to move to cardiff right and

00:37:12.640 replace all of those english flags with welsh flags and say i'm a welsh patriot is he now welsh

00:37:20.260 so hang on so johnny valley boy is now making the argument that ethnicity is determined by

00:37:26.240 your choice of emoji yes apparently so yeah or at least your choice of how you identify it's it's

00:37:33.300 the old transsexual theory of ethnicity okay you can just trans your ethnicity at any point as long

00:37:41.800 as you say so to which of course carl said so is this man a welshman with this picture of a famous

00:37:48.420 child murderer axel rudakabana uh i mean he was born in wales so he actually by a civic perspective

00:37:54.980 has more of a claim to being Welsh than el-Bashir here

00:37:59.300 because he was born in Sudan.

00:38:03.140 Yes, so that is a distinction that holds up

00:38:06.380 if you apply the civic nationalist frame.

00:38:08.160 Yeah, that makes sense.

00:38:09.100 So that is an interesting question there.

00:38:11.640 Morgoth went and pointed out that actually what this means

00:38:14.780 is that we're nothing.

00:38:15.840 Don't you understand that we're nothing at all?

00:38:17.880 We've never been anything because you're actually just really

00:38:20.900 cancelling out your entire history and heritage.

00:38:24.980 when you say that every the only thing that you're holding on to your heritage is essentially a

00:38:28.740 childish resentment of the english when in fact and they some of these celtic nationalist types

00:38:34.580 hate when you point this out the welsh the scottish and even whisper it folks the irish

00:38:41.300 were all heavily involved in the british empire as kind of this whole team effort where we all

00:38:46.580 went about the irish don't like to admit it but plenty of them signed up the duke of wellington

00:38:51.300 in irish he certainly was and also if if the only thing that determines what we are is uk government

00:38:57.980 data what what if there's an error a computer error and and in the government data i'm recorded

00:39:05.240 as mongolian does that mean i'm mongolian now yes have you considered applying for benefits

00:39:09.940 it's a good couldn't i yes have you considered assembling a horse archer army perhaps throat

00:39:16.100 singing well i'm i'm starting to consider it certainly yes well there you go so to the um

00:39:22.100 to the bureaucrat who ends up messing up your ethnicity data on some spreadsheets somewhere

00:39:26.240 thank you very much i'm looking forward to dan's new debut as the uh office throat singer any

00:39:31.060 problem is uh historically they didn't believe in washing it's going to be a little bit of a

00:39:35.580 problem i imagine at least for us uh that's all right i didn't realize dan washed anyway

00:39:40.960 um but then you know another question arises why do you need a devolved parliament if anybody can

00:39:48.140 be english because surely the sorry welsh surely the english parliament can just say well now we're

00:39:53.180 a welsh parliament and you've got no argument against it or to save money relocate the welsh

00:39:59.180 parliament to algeria where it will cost less and just get algerians who identify as welsh and put

00:40:06.520 welsh emojis in their twitter handles then they could run the welsh parliament it wouldn't even

00:40:10.840 need to be in wales it's just this it's the simplest solution to a very complex problem

00:40:15.600 so uh you know and this and and this kind of it's it's the it just makes no sense it's it's the most

00:40:21.900 difficult road to take if you're trying to argue logically or principally then it's the most

00:40:27.720 difficult position that you could imagine because then you end up with the plied cymru party 0.54

00:40:33.340 releasing leaflets in completely foreign languages not welsh not welsh a different foreign language

00:40:40.740 one that's even actually is arabic more or less decipherable than native welsh i mean

00:40:47.080 i've always thought that welsh scrabble was a lot easier because when you get lots and lots

00:40:51.880 of consonants you think how on earth am i going to get a high scoring word well in welsh all those

00:40:56.960 l's and y's are very useful that's a cheat code for all of you folks out there but what is the

00:41:03.600 point of welsh nationalism or a welsh nationalist party if this is what it descends into if it

00:41:09.440 descends into everyone can be welsh except the english is that legitimately one of the that's

00:41:16.120 an actual one i've seen people floating around yes oh oh wait no of course they did add a little

00:41:22.520 extra one down here i was gonna say by the looks of it i don't think that was in the original one

00:41:26.980 but they do promote this kind of all-inclusive diverse messaging which again makes no sense

00:41:35.720 because what is the point of a nationalist party or position

00:41:39.580 which is inherently exclusionary

00:41:42.600 if it's also going to be inclusive and diverse?

00:41:46.900 That's a good conflict there, actually.

00:41:48.660 Yes, I think you nailed it there.

00:41:50.040 These things don't fit together. 0.94

00:41:51.580 I'd also like to point out, as long as you're not a hypocrite about it, 0.57

00:41:54.060 I have no problem with you being patriotic about being Welsh.

00:41:56.900 Yeah, there's no issue.

00:41:58.080 There's no point of shame.

00:41:59.600 You've got a proud history.

00:42:01.360 Just admit that it's ancestral

00:42:03.920 and, you know, an Eritrean or what have you can't just come along

00:42:08.560 and all of a sudden lay claim to many thousands of years of history. 0.85

00:42:13.480 And they've chosen a particularly difficult hill to die on here

00:42:16.560 because when you actually look into this guy's background,

00:42:19.700 not only is his Instagram completely full of posts about Sudan,

00:42:25.940 because he is from Sudan and cares most of all about Sudan,

00:42:30.980 you can see even his hashtags.

00:42:32.100 new leadership for Wales directly underneath keep eyes on Sudan

00:42:36.100 constantly posting as recently as the 15th of April his most recent pinned post about Sudan

00:42:45.280 three years of war in Sudan and I don't think there's anything wrong with him saying I care

00:42:52.100 about my homeland I care about I care about I care about the things that happen there and the

00:42:57.360 horrible things that happen there that might affect my family who still are there that's

00:43:01.480 perfectly normal and reasonable the only thing i take slight issue with is is he's right to be

00:43:06.880 concerned about sudan and his family in sudan but why isn't he there yeah yeah why i was going to

00:43:11.820 say that exact same thing that if he cares so much so much about sudan why doesn't he make sudan

00:43:17.400 better and why did he join a welsh nationalist party this is one of the things that annoys me

00:43:22.500 about immigration more generally is that well if these people are such an asset why have they

00:43:26.460 abandoned their own home country if it's so bad i don't think there's any conditions in which i

00:43:31.060 would abandon England. And so why are we bringing over people, even if they are an asset to the

00:43:36.840 country, whose attitude is essentially mercenary? Yes, and it's not just his Instagram that's full

00:43:43.160 of this stuff. This account, Clyde Cymru exposed, also did a thread just playing clips of him.

00:43:49.660 at Sudafest.

00:44:19.660 for every sudanese person here and sudanese allies sudan lives within them too hardly hardly sharing

00:44:28.720 those sentiments and feelings for the welshness inside him right where was because there is not

00:44:34.000 held was that held in sudan um it doesn't look like it because he's speaking in english

00:44:38.860 oh that's a good point yes which i imagine probably not too popular with uh

00:44:43.320 welsh nationalists as well speaking the enemy's language yes true but it's just like he says it

00:44:48.700 himself he's he holds Sudan within him admirable for somebody who clearly has a lot of care for

00:44:55.760 his heritage and as shown by the fact that he uh is from Butetown and says that I'm Sudanese but

00:45:02.600 the Caribbean and Yemenis and Somalis are my brothers this is our fortress that nobody can

00:45:06.620 touch so he cares about those people as well and goes on to network television shows like Nigeria

00:45:12.680 at info fm where he's introduced as a distinguished sudanese voice where he can speak about the

00:45:18.920 troubles that's going on in sudan right now and raise awareness and be an activist for them

00:45:23.860 would he do the same for wales if tomorrow he decided to move to germany well and also his

00:45:29.500 point about these places being their fortress i mean the whole point of a fortress is that you

00:45:33.380 keep out people who are not supposed to be in the fortress yes that's a good point his homeland is

00:45:39.680 a fortress the place that he has gone to should not be a fortress in fact it should be the opposite

00:45:44.360 but all i'm all i'm hearing is that it doesn't sound like he even considers himself welsh i mean

00:45:52.840 if you asked him straight to his face right now he would probably say that he is but that's mainly

00:45:56.960 for political purposes in the same way that nobody doubted that rishi sunak is indian until it was

00:46:02.620 pointed out to him at which point he was like no i'm english because they just want to they want

00:46:08.480 a skin suit and they want to hide but the problem is with people like that is given that they look

00:46:17.260 so different you can't but also why were there celebrations all across india when he became 0.99

00:46:22.680 prime minister and why was he celebrating diwali a foreign do the indians celebrate every time we

00:46:28.940 get a new prime minister they're more than happy to drop the mask when the question is oh would

00:46:33.140 you fight for this country and then all of a sudden like no no i'm from such and such it's

00:46:37.520 the same with the lot but at least with with other groups they they look a bit more like us

00:46:42.920 and they can get away with it by just like adopting an accent and saying oh i'm english don't worry

00:46:47.720 about me i've been here for however so long again with these guys it's a lot less easy especially

00:46:53.940 when they're so attached to it so the obvious answer is the simplest one which is the correct

00:47:00.660 one which is that if you are welsh you are descended from the historic britonic celtic

00:47:06.540 peoples who were pushed into the valleys during the anglo-saxon invasions in the uh sixth and

00:47:14.600 seventh centuries or you're in the fifth centuries as well or you were already there and you have

00:47:19.960 developed a distinct welsh culture which comes with a language and a history you do not have to

00:47:25.420 do mental acrobatics to explain how this man is suddenly welsh you don't have to hate him for not

00:47:30.900 being welsh you don't have to dislike him for not being welsh you can even find his attachment to

00:47:35.100 his homeland and the people of there admirable but let's not keep lying to ourselves and can we

00:47:40.500 please stop with the hysterics whenever this question comes up for the love of god and i'll

00:47:46.480 get on to the rumble rants here okay uh johnny logo says in response to that's a random name

00:47:54.460 being uh treating us like strippers not strippers but distinguished gentlemen i'll take that thank

00:48:00.500 you yes yes better marketing otric door says didn't mean to fed post thanks but thank didn't

00:48:05.820 mean to fed post but thanks for answering was curious of thoughts to be fair if if the rumble

00:48:10.320 rent donation was large enough i might consider stripping well you know that dan has a price it's

00:48:16.520 just figuring out what that price is now 25 well mine mine is higher than yours no no i'm answering

00:48:24.420 for you no josh is starting bids josh wants to see 25 dollars uh 30 but i'm gonna get the storage

00:48:33.180 i can't do the voice yeah it's really annoying actually uh that's a random name has sent four

00:48:37.760 in so that's four separate dollars thank you very much i am not stripping for any of those i'm

00:48:42.680 afraid no no you're gonna have to you're gonna have to spend up thanks i'm bulgarian harry i'm

00:48:48.380 practically black we've got a very diverse audience in today folks hence why my favorite

00:48:53.800 word starts with uh n i also spend the last of my savings meeting your i'm almost out of monopoly

00:49:01.260 money otherwise known as canadian dollars you come all the way from canada well that's very

00:49:05.520 admirable yes he's multiple he's multiply uh multiply ethnic he's both bulgarian and also

00:49:12.560 french canadian but if he's canadian he must be a bit indian then uh he looked it uh the only two

00:49:19.680 gingers i met harry and sophie live were quite based despite being orangutan people i also saw

00:49:24.740 them praying towards mecca when they thought that nobody was watching that's a random name again of

00:49:29.800 course people were nice to you josh they thought you were going to rob them if they hurt your is

00:49:33.360 at damn right don't you forget it everybody can be welsh says the poster with words written in welsh

00:49:40.600 that only real Welsh people can read the jokes right themselves. 0.98

00:49:44.780 And finally, a drunk changeling, the answer to this nonsense is to say 0.96

00:49:47.680 everyone can be Iroquois. 0.98

00:49:51.260 Certainly the original settlers may have thought so.

00:49:53.980 You can have a casino then.

00:49:56.400 Get to the reservation, lads.

00:49:58.320 Okay, I've noticed in recent times that migration has been getting much worse,

00:50:05.740 not necessarily in terms of raw numbers, although that's certainly true as well,

00:50:09.280 but just in how the migrants themselves have been behaving in Europe and I wanted to put this

00:50:14.100 segment together just to show you what's been happening in Europe over just the past couple of 0.55

00:50:18.140 weeks and how horrifying it is and I want you to send this to people who don't really follow

00:50:23.880 politics or maybe are a little bit left-wing to just show them the naked reality of the horrors

00:50:29.300 that are being invited in and they are being invited in because as I covered recently the

00:50:34.900 Scottish National Party was saying too few migrants are coming to Scotland, even though

00:50:40.000 many of their major cities are already getting taken over. The Spanish recently planned to give

00:50:46.300 approval to half a million, although it's going to be closer to a million in reality, undocumented

00:50:50.760 migrants. And that's just to name a few countries that are just actively going out of their way

00:50:55.460 to invite in people from outside of Europe. And this comes with lots of problems.

00:51:00.960 not least to say that some of the ways in which these people get into the country and get

00:51:06.960 citizenship is rather dubious the BBC exposed that legal advisors were telling migrants to

00:51:12.160 pose as gay to get asylum in Britain and it's also been going on in Italy as well where Italian

00:51:19.840 lawyers are accused of profiting from asylum appeals by using claims of homosexuality to 0.60

00:51:25.080 block deportation so it works both ways apparently um so that they can also get avoid deportation 0.98

00:51:31.300 it just goes to show the ridiculousness of making it a human right whether you like it up the bum 0.98

00:51:37.520 or not oh i was assuming it's because so many young girls are being raped they thought they 1.00

00:51:42.700 need to get in homosexual immigrants so that some young boys get raped as well because otherwise 0.99

00:51:47.200 you've got a gender imbalance there is already plenty of that don't worry but i see josh as a 0.99

00:51:52.100 horrible harbinger of what's to come this is not the only remix link in this segment and i know

00:51:59.800 what remix are good at reporting out yes what i actually have for you is some of the latest

00:52:05.380 horrors that have been going on thanks to men like these in european countries that were once great

00:52:11.000 countries worthy of respect and were safe certainly safer than they are today so the first one i

00:52:16.620 wanted to look at. I'm going to have to keep on clicking over these. Illegal Moroccan knifeman

00:52:22.120 arrested after attacking three victims in one night in Almeria after leaving teenage girl in

00:52:27.560 the hospital. And what actually happened, I'm going to read the story. The violence began shortly

00:52:32.980 after 9.40pm, where the suspect allegedly approached two couples at Knife Point as they

00:52:38.660 left a restaurant, forcing them to flee and triggering an initial police response. Moments

00:52:43.380 later the most serious assault unfolded when a 17 year old student walking home was allegedly

00:52:48.500 chased grabbed and thrown to the ground after the suspect demanded her phone he's accused of pulling

00:52:53.800 her hair repeatedly kicking her and stabbing her in the fire during the struggle her screams alerted

00:52:59.020 nearby residents whose intervention forced the attacker to flee a third victim was then targeted

00:53:04.120 shortly afterwards near a gym police say the suspect kicked a woman off her motorcycle at

00:53:09.320 the traffic lights and attempted to intimidate her with the knife before she escaped into a nearby

00:53:14.320 building. So this is just the actions of one man in one evening. And I imagine that the lives of

00:53:23.040 all the people that he attacked have been permanently changed. Some of them will have

00:53:27.180 the injuries for life, particularly the people who were stabbed. But you notice they were just

00:53:32.180 walking out of a restaurant walking home um you know on a motorbike these are perfectly normal

00:53:40.160 things that you think that you should be able to do normally you're minding your own business 0.97

00:53:44.860 and then a lunatic an illegal from morocco just comes along and starts stabbing you trying to 0.81

00:53:50.700 steal your stuff which wouldn't have happened had the government not decided that it was appropriate 0.78

00:53:55.580 to bring him in exactly it's a policy choice and it's a policy choice that should be reversed

00:54:01.220 This person should never be in Europe. In fact, for what he's done here, I would even question

00:54:06.760 whether he should be able to walk away ever again. So here's another example. This is another one in

00:54:14.400 Spain. A 45-year-old Moroccan migrant recently arrived in a town of Riofrio. I don't know how

00:54:22.520 to pronounce that. I'm sorry. In the streets in the early morning this time, armed with an axe

00:54:28.080 and just started attacking people at random.

00:54:30.200 One man and two women were hospitalized

00:54:31.900 because he attacked them with an axe.

00:54:33.540 One of the women airlifted by helicopter

00:54:35.480 was in serious condition.

00:54:37.540 So whether it's morning or night,

00:54:39.540 no matter what you're doing,

00:54:40.980 they're just going to randomly attack you.

00:54:42.840 Why do they even do this?

00:54:44.420 What compels a man to walk around with an axe

00:54:49.020 and just start swinging?

00:54:50.460 I don't know.

00:54:52.020 And again, you're just picking examples from the past week.

00:54:55.100 Yeah, past couple of weeks, yes.

00:54:56.200 there's more than enough here as well here's one from France Algerian man accused of I can't say

00:55:04.640 that word on YouTube sexually assaulting and torturing 74 year old French woman with a stick

00:55:09.240 inside a home outside of Paris apparently he carried out the sexual assault and then followed 0.54

00:55:15.320 by further beating her humiliating her and prolonging the abuse just to torture her basically

00:55:21.400 And the suspect was a 25-year-old Algerian man.

00:55:25.500 So there you go.

00:55:27.140 The fact that this man is allowed to still breathe

00:55:29.240 and that within the French justice system,

00:55:31.580 there is no contingency to stop him from breathing

00:55:34.920 is a complete failure.

00:55:36.840 I wholeheartedly agree.

00:55:38.520 The thing that's getting me with this

00:55:39.520 is you've just gone through several instances

00:55:41.440 and I'm following the news and social media every day.

00:55:45.220 I haven't even heard about any of these.

00:55:46.840 There's too much to follow now.

00:55:49.340 It's so much that it passes you by.

00:55:51.940 No one person can possibly.

00:55:53.580 Any one of these, had they occurred anywhere in Europe 30 years ago,

00:55:58.360 would have been top of the news agenda.

00:56:00.580 Not just domestically, but in all of Europe, right?

00:56:04.120 If it was 30, I definitely would have heard about this.

00:56:06.920 And you've given me three that I have not even heard of.

00:56:10.360 So this one, this actually stretches back over the past five or six months.

00:56:15.740 I think it goes to about December of last year.

00:56:18.380 um 14 terrifying cases of migrants sexually assaulting elderly women in france so yes

00:56:23.920 they're not just targeting uh young girls such as the the so-called grooming gangs for the sake of

00:56:30.200 youtube um but also the elderly as well which is something that i think has actually gone

00:56:35.560 underrepresented and i've read one of these cases already but there are actually 13 more and i'm

00:56:40.500 going to read every single one of these um so you know just how horrifying and frequent this is

00:56:45.560 just to hammer this point home. So a 93-year-old woman and a 95-year-old woman were sexually

00:56:52.900 assaulted in their hospital beds at a hospital by 44-year-old Samir B. The 93-year-old later died

00:57:00.480 of a cardiac arrest. A 92-year-old nursing home resident was sexually assaulted by an Algerian 0.59

00:57:06.800 nurse, Mohamed D. I think, yeah, he was sentenced to four years, just four years for that, by the

00:57:13.940 way for doing that to a 92 year old 78 and 68 year old hospital patients were sexually assaulted

00:57:22.340 by a 28 year old congolese migrant who said he was forced to do it because he had no girlfriend

00:57:29.700 this is the state of mind that uh these people have by the way they are not like you or me

00:57:35.040 they're not capable of existing in civilized society so just go back to the four years thing 0.90

00:57:39.460 I mean, there was a case recently where a British man raped a Sikh, 0.99

00:57:42.960 which is quite rare, but it happens.

00:57:45.020 And he was given a life in prison without the possibility of parole.

00:57:49.000 I imagine they would have attached a racial aspect to it,

00:57:51.920 which would have been considered an aggravating factor.

00:57:54.620 It bumps up the...

00:57:55.800 Yeah.

00:57:56.220 So these people are expected to do this. 0.99

00:57:59.640 Rape when white is a life in prison without parole, 1.00

00:58:02.660 but rape when you're not white gets four years. 1.00

00:58:06.500 Yep. 1.00

00:58:06.680 Yep.

00:58:07.040 Yeah. And also, just on that third one, where you said he was forced to do it because he had no girlfriend,

00:58:12.660 put yourself in the mind of one of the managerial types who will be looking at this and deciding what needs to be done off the back of it.

00:58:19.760 Their answer will not be, well, we shouldn't have these people in the country in the first place.

00:58:24.200 Their answer that they will decide upon themselves will be, well, we need to improve conditions to make sure that people like this have better access to women so they can get girlfriends. 0.98

00:58:33.480 which is entirely 0.98

00:58:35.580 antithetical to the correct response

00:58:37.500 that will be their response though

00:58:39.180 it maximises the damage they can do

00:58:42.000 anyway 1.00

00:58:42.820 83 year old Odette was sexually assaulted

00:58:45.700 during a daytime burglary

00:58:47.080 by an illegal Ghanaian migrant

00:58:49.700 and the perpetrator was sentenced

00:58:51.720 to 12 months

00:58:52.720 12 years, sorry, as a Freudian slip 0.97

00:58:55.100 in prison, a 75 year old woman

00:58:57.800 was sexually assaulted on New Year's

00:58:59.900 morning during a break-in by an African 0.97

00:59:01.700 migrant. An 80-year-old woman was sexually assaulted to death by an Afghan man in 2025.

00:59:09.660 He was charged with sexual assault resulting in death without intent to cause it. 1.00

00:59:16.020 Interesting that they're, you know, giving him mercy.

00:59:19.160 It was only an accident, thank goodness.

00:59:21.520 102-year-old nursing home resident was subjected to attempted sexual assault by a 39-year-old

00:59:28.480 from Guadalupe. She died less than a month later. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

00:59:35.060 Interesting, the variation here. In 2025, a 72-year-old woman was assaulted, sexually assaulted,

00:59:41.300 and robbed inside her own apartment in Paris. So even in your own home, if you're elderly,

00:59:46.500 you're not safe. An elderly building caretaker was sexually assaulted at knife point in Paris

00:59:52.000 by a 24-year-old migrant, Mohamed D. An elderly woman was sexually assaulted in her Paris apartment

00:59:58.420 by an illegal Algerian migrant who offered to help her with her groceries. So even offers of

01:00:05.280 kindness, which, you know, I've offered to help elderly people with all sorts of things. Now

01:00:11.160 they've got to second guess what your intentions are because of things like this. 67 year old

01:00:16.740 woman was subjected to attempted sexual assault by a 27 year old Tunisian migrant. And here's

01:00:24.160 another one. Another victim, 67, suffered an attempted sexual assault in the French town of

01:00:28.840 Toulouse by an intoxicated Sudanese asylum seeker. And then the final one, a 21-year-old

01:00:37.120 illegal migrant, unknown nationality, was arrested following the sexual assault of a 51-year-old

01:00:41.900 woman as she returned to her home. So that's all horrible. But I need to clarify something here. 0.89

01:00:52.320 you said at the beginning that people watching this might want to send this as a chronicle to

01:00:57.420 their friends who may be more centrist or left-wing who don't believe that this kind of stuff happens

01:01:02.020 what would you say what would your response be to let's head it off right now the obvious

01:01:09.000 question that they're going to say well why does it why does this uh matter more why is this any

01:01:15.340 different from when natives commit these same crimes so there are two different avenues you

01:01:20.740 can go to answer this the first one of which is that we have the data is pretty well settled that

01:01:26.240 natives uh do so at far far lower rates per capita so as a percentage of their population

01:01:32.620 far fewer are basically going to be uh sexual deviants of this nature to make it safe for

01:01:38.660 youtube and the secondary thing is people who are have ancestry in the country and um you know 0.70

01:01:45.540 of the country are a problem to deal with. But people who are imported, that is a policy choice 0.99

01:01:52.260 to bring those people here. That is a failure of the government to rightfully protect their 1.00

01:01:56.880 citizenry, which arguably, if the government does anything, protecting its own citizens

01:02:01.020 should be the main thing, the number one thing that they should be doing. And so this is a policy

01:02:05.960 failure which could have been avoided. Whereas if someone's born in the country and they have 0.92

01:02:11.720 ancestry in the country for many hundreds of years or thousands of years, then if they have

01:02:17.920 bad intentions, then there's not a lot you can do about it until you find that out, right? And so

01:02:25.020 one is preventable, one is a bit more difficult to prevent. And it's not to say that the native 1.00

01:02:31.200 doing the same thing is somehow morally less culpable, but we're looking at it from the 1.00

01:02:37.840 perspective of governance right that this is a choice that should have been avoided and we have

01:02:43.940 the data that is resoundingly against this sort of thing happening in the first place. Well the

01:02:49.020 other left-wing response would be well yeah but they're all men and so men are the problem.

01:02:55.800 Yes but also as we saw in the grooming gangs in many northern towns and across all of Britain 0.94

01:03:01.580 the women not only facilitate it but also cover it up as well as the fact that there are crimes

01:03:07.820 done by women from other countries that I haven't included here, but they have a different nature of 1.00

01:03:15.420 crime. Sure, it's less likely to be sexual crime, but there are still other things. You know, you 0.52

01:03:20.160 can use the example of women in Britain going to join ISIS, for example, or the Eastern European

01:03:27.780 pickpocket gangs and the like. And there are lots of other things that women are more represented

01:03:33.580 in, but are overrepresented relative to the native population. So I'm not done yet though,

01:03:41.240 I'm sorry to say. I've still got some more horrifying things. 85 year old man doused in

01:03:47.520 gasoline, beaten and shoved in the trunk of a car during a home invasion. This is France again. 0.97

01:03:53.660 Yeah, so it's not just women, it's also men as well. There's also this one as well. It's not

01:03:59.440 just people, it's animals. A 19-year-old Afghan was accused of a series of sexual assaults on

01:04:06.600 goats and sheep near Marseille in France. He was caught on CCTV. So a very unusual thing to do for

01:04:16.580 a European, to be honest. Maybe he was Welsh. Here's an example in France of a man with Down 0.90

01:04:28.820 syndrome being robbed by a migrant and notice in particular um the fact that people just are

01:04:35.020 standing around and allowing it to happen as well the antipathy and and people just don't want to

01:04:40.940 get involved because he could pull a knife and kill them and people know that right and so they

01:04:45.220 just don't know it doesn't you're probably going to be in trouble for stepping in yeah yep the

01:04:50.280 incentives at play are completely upside down because it'd be very difficult if I saw that

01:04:55.540 not to not to immediately intervene i would look at them all just standing there but then i'd

01:05:01.100 probably be arrested immediately after um here's a pretty horrifying one 85 year old soup kitchen

01:05:08.200 volunteer viciously beaten by nigerian man he fed every day now calls for remigration and rightfully 0.98

01:05:14.760 so i think so yes um antonio teresi was viciously viciously beaten to the point he lost his spleen 0.97

01:05:22.740 has been and has been left unable to walk and this was uh done by a man who he regularly fed

01:05:29.260 he was a homeless nigerian for some reason initially and he fed him so what reason he

01:05:35.460 had to viciously beat him i do not know so this this one impulse control this one i did see so

01:05:43.520 so far we're up to seven things i didn't see for the one that i did see so that's now making me

01:05:48.500 think i see a constant stream of this stuff well way more than that and the one that was just a

01:05:52.720 list as well well yeah i mean if you take all of that it was more but at least seven that i've for

01:05:58.080 everyone that i did see so that means now on every time i look at the list of these horrors that come

01:06:01.800 up in my feed i've got to think well it's at least seven times that exactly and then there's things 0.89

01:06:07.220 like this um this is another nigerian i believe uh caught cooking a cat in a public park next to

01:06:13.040 a children's playground this was in italy again um so yes europeans known for their affection for

01:06:19.620 animals um outside of europe um you know obviously with exceptions to the former anglo countries uh

01:06:26.040 but you go to say uh even the middle east treats cats well maybe not dogs um but many parts of the

01:06:33.520 world this is considered barbaric um not to this guy though apparently um haiti though that's

01:06:39.420 perfectly common as well as 90 year old haiti let alone cats i know yeah and uh even if we're

01:06:45.440 talking about places like Iceland, which as I pointed out here, sorry to quote myself, but

01:06:50.180 it's got a population of under 400,000. So there are many cities in Britain with a larger population

01:06:57.040 than the entirety of their country. There was a case of an intoxicated 14-year-old girl in the

01:07:04.640 car in Reykjavik, two of them, with three migrant men. And this is a signature, and they're Arab men 1.00

01:07:11.680 by the way, signature grooming gang move of getting the girls intoxicated so it makes their 0.98

01:07:16.700 job easier. I've been to Reykjavik as well. I've been to Iceland. It's a beautiful country

01:07:21.400 and it's so sleepy and quiet, as you'd expect with such a sparsely populated country. Reykjavik for

01:07:28.240 a capital city is like the sleepiest city I've ever been to. It's got like one high street

01:07:33.740 and everybody was super friendly and got along and was really nice to me. And to know that that's

01:07:39.580 happening there like why are they even there well you're actually the perfect person to have on the

01:07:44.680 panel harry because as you rightfully pointed out in one of your segments um this has been going on

01:07:49.560 as soon as their their feet have touched the soil of europe right there are cases that go all the

01:07:54.360 way back to the 1950s aren't there before that as well you had some cases of i think it was sri

01:07:59.580 lancans in the 1930s in in in england uh you go back to the 1910s immediately following the end

01:08:08.280 of the first world war and a lot of the foreign labor that had been brought over uh in liverpool

01:08:14.840 for instance to keep the docks running um had decided instead to set up little cafes that

01:08:20.820 acted as brothels where they recruited young girls um so some of the men coming back from

01:08:25.660 the war were having to confront the horror that um women and children that they'd left behind 0.94

01:08:30.640 had been recruited by a bunch of african foreigners uh as prostitutes of course back then the 1.00

01:08:37.340 government was very sensible so in response to such a thing as well as the the race riots that 1.00

01:08:42.540 brought that happened quite often uh across that summer uh the people were instead rounded up and

01:08:48.860 deported from the country immediately couldn't imagine that these days but that goes to show

01:08:54.380 that it's not like a critical mass where they they form a parallel culture and start to resent the 0.99

01:08:59.320 natives it's basically as soon as the people are on your soil they're rough and ready to go

01:09:04.660 basically doing whatever they see fit, which seems to be not constrained by much morality,

01:09:11.800 it seems. And there are things that can be done. There was a Dutch town recently in the past couple

01:09:17.920 of weeks that had protests. And the fact that it was a small, it was a lostrecht, if I'm pronouncing

01:09:25.580 that correctly, a town of around 8,000 people had a couple of, about 100 or so migrants planned to

01:09:31.780 be brought in and they protested saying this is a small town, what are you doing? And they reduced

01:09:37.020 it, which isn't ideal, but it shows at least in principle that this sort of thing of kicking up

01:09:42.480 a fuss, there are examples in Britain as well, where kicking up a fuss gets them taken out of

01:09:47.120 your town and is much safer because of it. And there's also this, you can just do things. So

01:09:54.500 So the left-wing government in Denmark, despite the EU laws preventing them, the European Convention on Human Rights, they're going to be deporting foreign criminals, or at least they're trying to.

01:10:09.900 So yeah, all of the excuses of, well, there's international laws or there's EU laws stopping you, well...

01:10:15.620 Well, they have just introduced new measures into the European Parliament to make it easier for countries to deport criminals.

01:10:21.440 and it's going to have to get a lot easier because there's so many in europe at the minute

01:10:25.660 but yes i wanted to draw attention to this because just going through what's happened in a short span

01:10:32.100 of time really in a couple of weeks in in your everyday life that goes by relatively quickly i

01:10:37.100 imagine and all of these horrors have gone on to people in europe like you or me um and i think

01:10:43.360 that actually looking at it from a human perspective that these were people whose lives

01:10:48.360 have forever been changed by these policy decisions that need not have happened. And perhaps

01:10:54.260 it would have been better to keep the people in your country safe. You know, it's not some sort

01:10:59.960 of racial thing. It's just purely these people from these specific countries cause these problems 1.00

01:11:06.680 at a disproportionate rate. Maybe we shouldn't let them in because it's bad for the people we live 1.00

01:11:12.100 around. It's not much more complicated than that. And I think that what we have now is a problem 0.94

01:11:17.780 where many of these people have to be sent home because they cause problems like the ones we've

01:11:22.960 seen here at inordinate rates. And I encourage everyone off the back of this segment to go away

01:11:28.660 and actually look up how disproportionately overrepresented many nationalities are,

01:11:33.320 like Afghans, for example, 32 times overrepresented in violent crimes and the like

01:11:38.740 relative to the British baseline. So that's obviously massively disproportionate and speaks

01:11:45.220 of a deep difference in how we conduct ourselves all right we've got a couple of rumble rants for

01:11:53.620 that one if you want to go through them i think the first one is this one okay that's random name 0.99

01:12:00.160 says in quebec we mostly get arab and blacks from the french colonies they get priority for all

01:12:05.300 government jobs and push all whites out until whole departments are full of them oh that sounds 0.99

01:12:09.680 very familiar and they say i work in quebec's nhs most of the ethnic workers wouldn't pass their

01:12:15.140 training but are allowed to pass for diversity quotas and many lie um i've been compiling lots

01:12:20.580 of links of just indian people in britain lying about their qualifications and getting exposed in

01:12:26.400 the most absurd ways like a a language therapist of indian descent who lied about her qualifications

01:12:33.000 about being a language therapist and actually was a receptionist in a hospital and could barely 0.99

01:12:37.320 speak english so could you imagine having to learn language therapist could you imagine having to 1.00

01:12:42.380 learn English from an Indian that can barely speak English I couldn't think of anything worse 1.00

01:12:46.800 get better scams I agree my uh Ramshar Colotta says my 72 year old mum was a very beautiful 1.00

01:12:53.340 young woman until recently she loved being old and invisible sexually now she lives in fear

01:12:58.880 of SA because they SA anything animals the elderly the children yes and I think that actually it was 0.58

01:13:05.180 quite important here to draw attention to the fact that it is anyone uh for them and then

01:13:11.420 and that's a random name, says,

01:13:12.400 in France, a young policeman our age got sent to jail

01:13:15.460 when he defended his grandma for an Algerian home invader.

01:13:19.300 They make examples of those of us who do what's right. 0.98

01:13:22.340 Resist and deport.

01:13:23.940 Yeah.

01:13:24.840 It looks like we've not got any video comments today.

01:13:27.780 Is that right, Samson?

01:13:31.960 If we do, we'll play them tomorrow.

01:13:33.760 So look forward to that, folks.

01:13:35.400 Which means I think we should go through the written comments.

01:13:37.620 Yes.

01:13:38.620 Don't often get to them as much as we should.

01:13:41.000 So this is good.

01:13:41.760 We've got a whole 15 minutes.

01:13:43.000 We're spoiling you after my talk.

01:13:44.440 Five minutes each.

01:13:46.020 Let's hope you've said something interesting, people.

01:13:50.660 Right.

01:13:51.380 Scrolling down, scrolling down.

01:13:54.180 Good Lord, you two do a lot of notes.

01:13:56.820 Right, here we are.

01:13:59.980 Omar Ward.

01:14:01.180 That's a good place to start. 1.00

01:14:03.100 Getting rid of hereditary peers feels similar to the British equivalent

01:14:06.500 of packing the Supreme Court.

01:14:08.060 whenever someone gets into power they have incentive to get their guys on display power

01:14:12.480 yes so this is a point that i didn't get to in the segment is this nonsense idea that you should

01:14:18.340 get rid of the lords and replace it with an elected chamber what's the point of having two

01:14:22.480 chambers if they're operating under the same incentives and the same pressures and they're

01:14:27.880 drawn from the same pool well there's literally no point having a second chamber there's no point

01:14:33.500 from the perspective of the british public but from the perspective of someone uh looking to

01:14:38.060 expand their power as in there's more patronage exactly you have the power to then appoint people

01:14:43.400 who can stay there for life and so the longer you hold on to power the easier it is to maintain it

01:14:48.220 and therefore the system self-perpetuates that's why they want to do it in fact the u.s made this

01:14:53.800 mistake as well because senators used to be used to be appointed by the state it was a it was a

01:14:59.380 function of the um how was it the the the state legislative i don't know they call them as

01:15:05.120 congresses as well but then they those guys appointed the senators and that's why it works

01:15:09.140 because they're representing the senate interest now they're just elected and operating under all

01:15:12.800 the same pressures as a bloody congressman so you know why are you doing that it's all for the sake

01:15:17.880 of democracy yes no matter whether it actually makes sense or not yes if you're up to me um and

01:15:25.600 we had a sensible king i would like the king to appoint people and they'd be appointed based on

01:15:30.940 either their service to the crown and the nation or their expertise in a specific field

01:15:36.920 you know the funny thing is pro-democracy i was about i was about to use an f slur then but i

01:15:43.940 probably shouldn't on the podcast um pro-democracy types loved sharing around that meme during

01:15:50.860 covid remember the one of the guy standing up on the airplane saying i think this pilot's lost his

01:15:56.160 mind who wants me to fly the plane instead and everybody's cheering him along that's literally

01:16:02.080 democracy yes that's literally democracy you have the guy who knows what he's doing but everybody

01:16:08.960 on the plane's like i think i can do better and they vote in him instead and also what series

01:16:14.380 events have come to pass that the the entire plane is willing to gamble on a random guy who

01:16:20.480 thinks he's up for it as opposed to i mean something bad has happened on that plane

01:16:24.460 uh an islamic hijacking perhaps yes something like that or maybe just a load of people have

01:16:30.060 pumped money into making people think that the plane for the the uh air pilot can't do it anymore 0.98

01:16:35.120 yes all right we fully engage with that comment um derek power master of chippies 0.76

01:16:42.100 be hungry eliminating the hereditary peers from the house of liors is is your version of the

01:16:47.560 17th Amendment of the US Constitution, allowing for direct elections of US...

01:16:51.940 Yes, yes.

01:16:52.280 That's exactly what you just said.

01:16:53.380 Yes.

01:16:53.720 Well done, Derek.

01:16:54.700 You are a smart man because you think what I think.

01:16:59.160 Maria Manzi does sound like a car, though, doesn't it? 1.00

01:17:02.800 I really do have fatigue with outsiders telling us how to live, as the old millions must go. 1.00

01:17:10.440 Yes. 1.00

01:17:11.120 Mirrodon, 2010, says, I felt almost physically sick hearing the outsider and the weakling 0.93

01:17:16.980 talk uh about and agree to the dissolution of my country its history and culture well that's a bit

01:17:22.080 harsh uh about you harry i don't know why why he's saying that i believe that he's talking about

01:17:28.080 the interviewer and the peer ah right she fits harry i mean yes okay which am i the outsider

01:17:34.760 and the weakling because i know i can bench more than both of you and yes i'm more english what

01:17:40.360 was your peak bench my peak bench at the moment uh at the beginning of last year was about

01:17:46.440 105 for a couple of reps

01:17:48.480 alright well when you get up to 140

01:17:50.640 let me know then

01:17:51.300 that's 5 more than me I will admit

01:17:53.340 that was my peak bench in my 20s

01:17:55.060 I don't know if I believe you

01:17:57.760 well I don't care

01:17:59.260 is there only one way to find out

01:18:01.400 I don't know if I believe you

01:18:02.560 there's only one way to find out

01:18:03.880 I'm not going to be 20 again am I

01:18:05.760 I never would have guessed

01:18:08.420 it must keep you up at night

01:18:09.740 I'll tell you what it was

01:18:10.840 my peak was actually 120

01:18:12.820 and then I went to a different gym

01:18:15.360 that used because because the bars that i was using the bar itself was 20 um and then you just

01:18:21.380 stack the 20 plates aside right i went to a different gym and it was actually an army gym

01:18:25.100 because i was visiting a relative who's in the army and they had a completely different bar 0.87

01:18:29.120 system and i put what i thought was 120 on and i didn't want to look like an idiot in front of

01:18:35.060 people and not finish it and then afterwards i found out that it was actually 140 which is weird

01:18:39.580 how that psychologically works but i did do a full set of 140 so that counts as peak all right sounds

01:18:44.820 legit to me it bloody was so anyway right anyway uh nick uh oh you've got time nick taylor says

01:18:51.000 great to see uh great so now the peerages will be given to progressive lunatics investment

01:18:57.520 bankers and human rights lawyers uh yes um and then there's a bit at the end of that we shouldn't

01:19:03.840 say probably not probably oh one more thing i can say now we're off youtube is i actually wanted

01:19:08.700 to call that segment abolish abolish democracy and i wanted to make it all about how we should

01:19:12.840 abolish democracy instead, and then

01:19:14.820 Carl told me that it's against YouTube

01:19:16.740 terms of service. YouTube doesn't like anti-democracy

01:19:19.240 posting. But it's

01:19:20.800 obviously the right position to get rid of democracy

01:19:22.980 and keep the lords. Anyway.

01:19:25.720 Those are you next.

01:19:26.560 Me next, yes. Michael Draybelbus. Every time

01:19:28.800 I hear someone say they are a community organiser, 0.99

01:19:31.260 I hear unemployed, useless 1.00

01:19:32.960 twat waffle. True. 1.00

01:19:35.200 Michael Draybelbus again. 0.99

01:19:36.800 This does explain why the English control the British 1.00

01:19:38.820 Isles, because the Irish are a bunch of drunks and the Welsh 1.00

01:19:40.880 and Scots are obviously effing retarded. 1.00

01:19:42.840 um there are plenty of good scots welsh even perhaps a couple of decent irishmen but it does 0.99

01:19:52.480 seem unfortunate that on mass the collective instincts of some of the um the celts at least

01:19:59.680 in their choice of governance seems to be to completely dissolve their countries so long as 0.90

01:20:06.200 they're owning the english while they do so bizarre but the funny thing is if they ruin

01:20:12.420 their own countries it just allows us to have more control over them which you know their entire

01:20:17.660 nationalist movement you could argue objectively speaking is only serving in england's interests if

01:20:23.680 that's the way we thought because we could just buy up at much cheaper rates want successful

01:20:28.780 companies and then turn them around because we're not running it to spite england are we are we sure

01:20:33.040 that there isn't some kind of like hand rubbing english conspiracy going on right now where there

01:20:38.500 are men whose names are something like chapels worth uh funding these parties behind the scenes

01:20:44.860 for that exact goal that would be entertaining sorry i don't want to interrupt you from doing

01:20:49.620 the next comment but people in the bloody comments i can see you right some of them are questioning

01:20:53.540 my claims right no seriously i promise you a hundred percent psychologically if you think

01:20:59.340 you can do something so my story about doing the one set of the 140 that is a hundred percent true

01:21:04.460 And look, I'll give you another example.

01:21:06.180 The guy that I used to go to the gym with, he used to do these pull-ups

01:21:09.380 and he was convinced that he could do 11.

01:21:12.140 And he would always say, oh, I can do 11.

01:21:13.360 Spot me to do 11, right?

01:21:15.460 And I did.

01:21:16.560 You need the spotting for pull-ups?

01:21:18.000 Well, a little bit.

01:21:18.860 You can give a slight up, Lee.

01:21:20.760 You can spot for pull-ups as well.

01:21:22.580 That's definitely cheap.

01:21:23.520 You don't really need to.

01:21:24.460 Anyway, the point is he said I can do 11, right?

01:21:26.940 And I held count for him and I deliberately kind of mumbled a bit

01:21:31.540 and miscounted and dropped two of them.

01:21:34.460 and he went up to 13, but I was claiming it was 11.

01:21:39.240 Right now, he got to what I said was 11, it was actually 13,

01:21:42.780 and then he's like, oh, I'm destroyed now.

01:21:45.700 And I was afterwards, he said, can you ever do more than 11?

01:21:48.000 He's like, no, 11's my peak.

01:21:49.320 He's like, well, yeah, you just did 13.

01:21:51.140 Because psychologically, I made him think that he was on 11.

01:21:54.100 Honestly, if you think that it's your thing...

01:21:56.240 There is some truth to what you're saying there,

01:21:58.220 that you can push yourself through if you think that you can.

01:22:00.940 Yes, if you genuinely believe you can do something,

01:22:02.700 you can do something.

01:22:03.420 so so stop you know that's about as inspirational as you're ever going to get on this podcast

01:22:08.940 that was that was a a wholesome and white pilling message to give to people so yeah

01:22:14.940 actually take that on board i'll give you another well i won't give you another anecdote but i do

01:22:19.420 have another anecdote like that i am to be fair actually i'm back on to 102.5 kilograms at the

01:22:25.920 moment I can do that for three and for Americans that's 226 pounds so if I went for 105 again I

01:22:34.860 could probably get one rep out of it I'm going to be going up soon because I've just finished

01:22:40.040 cutting and now I'm going to be bulking and now none of my suits are going to fit again it's

01:22:44.160 going to really annoy me for the past 20 years I've been on bulking well well the good thing

01:22:49.860 from where i'm sitting is that when i was doing 105 last year i weighed about 15 kg more whereas

01:22:57.440 now i'm a lot lighter so being able to do the same weight at a much lighter weight is like how we've

01:23:02.200 got all this time to do comments and we talked about working out well it's it's fun the chat

01:23:07.220 egged us on sorry yes derek power that yeah the whole black prince of wales thing is not what

01:23:13.020 current year people think it is that's true maria manzi says welsh and scottish nationalist parties

01:23:19.220 are not driven by nationalism rather they are just communists not even just that they're just 0.99

01:23:24.080 morons frankly george happ if everyone can be welsh then no one is that's how you destroy a 1.00

01:23:29.500 nation the hm butter knife permit registry says welsh scrabble is the easiest chinese is the 0.97

01:23:35.180 hardest since qx j and z are all worth one point that's good that's a good point there another 0.98

01:23:42.480 comment says the best way to dismantle the welsh ego is to ask them to point to wales on your map 0.97

01:23:47.500 before presenting them with a Union Jack. 0.98

01:23:51.680 Just to rug pull them, why not? 0.62

01:23:54.600 Ewan Baker, apparently you can't be an orc and be elvish.

01:23:59.000 Some are saying, is Aragorn being discriminatory with these policies?

01:24:03.700 Tune in to George RR Martin to find out.

01:24:05.520 What if the orc has an elf emoji?

01:24:08.460 Then he's an elf.

01:24:10.400 Clearly.

01:24:11.900 Michael says, the question of why aren't you as incensed 1.00

01:24:15.360 about white people doing this is stupid. 1.00

01:24:17.500 When a white person does it, their own community lines up 1.00

01:24:20.360 to see that person arrested and preferably strung up.

01:24:23.200 Yes, that's true. 1.00

01:24:24.500 Ethnic minority communities tend to defend their own wrongdoers 0.99

01:24:28.460 because they feel more strongly about their ethnic bonds 1.00

01:24:31.680 than they do about morality and justice,

01:24:33.700 which is probably why their own countries are the way they are.

01:24:37.180 But also, it's also on that same level,

01:24:39.380 because they're doing it to foreigners from their perspective. 0.99

01:24:42.180 So they care less.

01:24:43.340 We've had another rumble round.

01:24:44.420 Somebody said, I maxed out the shoulder press for the first time last week.

01:24:47.320 i'm 43 and it's the strongest i've ever been nice congratulations yeah that's great how how the hell

01:24:52.620 are you doing it at 43 because for me like the moment i got married and had kids that was the

01:24:57.660 gym done that was just it oh downhill from there fair play i mean i still make time to go you can

01:25:03.900 just adapt your workouts to be a bit more time um like time sensitive like i used to i used to go a

01:25:10.340 ridiculous amount of times per week and was over training now i go three times a week and just stick

01:25:14.340 to the big lifts it's good you just lift heavier and and less frequently don't you yeah and it also

01:25:20.280 means that it's really easy to track uh keep track of your progress and you always feel like you're

01:25:24.820 achieving something one thing that we did quite well was we'd always have a little book to write

01:25:28.940 down how we would you know how we were doing which i very rarely see people do in the gym

01:25:33.940 so they must be forgetting surely or they've got an app for it maybe and people saying sylvester

01:25:40.240 the grump who hasn't paid us any money but i'm going to read it anyway he says dan you can just

01:25:43.820 go we bloody what time i have no sodding time i'm here like four days a week i do i do three hours 0.91

01:25:51.440 of driving a day and then when i'm back home i've got the family stuff to sort out i've got my

01:25:55.320 investments to do i've then got to basically watch every sodding youtube video i can to stay up to

01:26:00.440 speed with what's going on and the arguments what bloody time do i have and he barely makes time to

01:26:04.760 wank him between us all as well no i get him i get i get in two or three of those a day obviously

01:26:08.500 because you can't do it while commuting can't cut out the essentials harry but but no

01:26:15.780 um lotus driver says you can't convince me that this is not the intended result of mass migration

01:26:23.020 if it's not the intended result it's um it's something they don't really care about happening

01:26:29.600 nick taylor says my friend john used to have a pet goat that would drink bourbon and coke

01:26:35.400 when we were drinking in his shed and get aggressive luckily uh no no people of that

01:26:41.600 persuasion um were around to take advantage of billy while inebriated poor billy i know you

01:26:48.320 shouldn't you shouldn't feed the goat bourbon at least give them quality whiskey like scotch or

01:26:52.600 irish the chat's bullying you now dan i'm sorry dr door dan aren't you the number cruncher crunch 0.93

01:26:59.380 that time the podcasts whilst working no no no i i bloody hate that you if you're going to the gym 0.89

01:27:05.080 and you take a phone there is something deeply wrong with you especially if you film yourself 0.64

01:27:09.640 with the phone no if you go to the gym you're working out you're not it's called out now

01:27:14.200 well i listen to music while i'm at the gym i've asked me to film you before but just for your

01:27:20.220 form to be in your defense yeah it can be useful to film to make sure that you like going to depth

01:27:24.840 on squats and make sure that you that's what that's why they have mirrors if you're doing

01:27:28.800 bench yeah but you can't get a good angle on yourself if you're if you're doing bench you

01:27:32.480 can barely ask your spotter then am i am i am i doing the right you can do that but it's also

01:27:36.960 good so that you've got your own visual ref just want to film yourself in the gym

01:27:40.040 okay shoot me but it also does help yeah well that's why is everybody beating up on me now

01:27:50.180 i'm so sorry to have started this god harry's bullying always cycles around

01:27:56.220 samson can we have extra time so i can argue with these people

01:27:58.640 all right dan's just watching the no i'm not having this you're being salt mined there

01:28:08.340 the more you lean into it the more they will they will push back this is how the internet works 0.96

01:28:15.020 but also carry on please i'm gonna ignore them then like sod you 0.99

01:28:18.180 also it's true harry wanted josh to film his ass that is what he asked me but i didn't do it 0.95

01:28:24.660 Are we done everything? 0.96

01:28:26.660 Are you sure?

01:28:28.980 I haven't got any time now, so...

01:28:30.720 It is half past.

01:28:31.960 All right, okay, we're going to go then.

01:28:33.780 Thank you for your comments, paid and...

01:28:36.960 Well, not so much the unpaid ones, because you were mean to me.

01:28:38.980 But we will all see you at a later date.

01:28:41.480 Goodbye.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - April 29, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1407

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