The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1413

00:00:00.000 good afternoon and welcome to the podcast of lotus eaters episode 1413 i'm your host harry

00:00:05.740 joined today by carl hello and it's only the two of us today because everybody else is either out

00:00:11.180 at great yarmouth having fun or just not here so that's so it's just us two dream team you're

00:00:18.880 welcome and today we're going to be talking about why women vote green i'm going to be giving a very

00:00:25.280 personal story of what happens to your local town if it gets enriched in what might be one of the

00:00:31.280 stranger cases that we have encountered and then we're going to finish off by looking at the attacks

00:00:36.720 on restore now if you're waiting for updates on great yarmouth and what's happening with the local

00:00:41.120 council elections well it's election day today so i'm sure you're all out there listening on your

00:00:46.640 phones as you're waiting in the voting waiting in line for the voting booths and the results will

00:00:52.320 be in hopefully sometime tomorrow so we'll have more updates as and when they arrive today we're

00:00:58.260 just going to be focusing on these stories here yeah it's too early to get any information although

00:01:02.880 i have heard through the grapevine that the energy is incredible oh i bet uh yeah i've been seeing

00:01:08.540 seeing all the photos and videos coming out of great yarmouth and everybody looks to be in really

00:01:12.140 good spirits and i've seen i've heard josh talking about how positive a response he's been getting

00:01:17.240 from speaking to people so it's awesome to hear yeah it's brilliant anyway so i thought we'd talk

00:01:22.660 about the definition of insanity it's a common definition that people always roll out as well

00:01:27.080 it's doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results and this is what i

00:01:31.820 i see when i see people like this saying uh in response to kirstama saying today you choose

00:01:37.440 progress over the politics of anger and dave's like i did i voted for the green party it's like

00:01:42.440 Yeah, but the thing is, there's something in this, as in, you're offering more of the same.

00:01:48.180 It is just the same that has been on display and has been the only thing that the Labour Party and, frankly, the Conservative Party have offered for decades now.

00:01:57.840 And so it's brought us to the point where the country's falling apart.

00:02:03.980 Nobody's happy with the current status quo.

00:02:06.260 And the Green Party vote is just like, yeah, OK, well, I'm just going to do more of that then, please.

00:02:11.220 i would just like to do more of that in a sort of distilled manner so instead of all the um uh

00:02:17.960 like concessions that the labor party makes to reality in the well yeah with the starmer regime

00:02:25.040 yeah but they do they're a party of government so they have to be like well we can't do that

00:02:29.460 even though we'd love to we have to do this thing because we have to well the greens are like yeah

00:02:33.680 but what if we just did the crazy thing that you promised and we'll just get to and so this is this

00:02:39.880 is how i view the green party as an extension of the labor project because they're just pushing at

00:02:44.500 the same door and the greens like well we're just going to push it open even further it's like okay

00:02:48.020 great but that's just going to bring more of what we already have and as you tell us you know you're

00:02:55.200 actually not very happy with what we already have here's a fantastic article on the daily mail an

00:03:00.880 opinion article from a lady called rosie beverage who tells us why women like her are voting for the

00:03:07.500 greens and it's genuinely amazing to be fair this this should be a useful and interesting insight

00:03:15.100 especially having been accepted and written for the daily mail as well not the sort of art not

00:03:19.520 the sort of publication you'd expect to prove something like this absolutely i'm hoping it'll

00:03:24.520 give some credence to the discussion that i had with pete mcormack uh a few weeks ago where i was

00:03:29.900 trying to defend people as not being insane i hope that this isn't completely insane well it's not

00:03:36.680 insane uh it's why would you choose the greens if you want the things that you're asking for

00:03:42.480 so she begins by explaining she has she has this uh back and forth with her dad right her dad as

00:03:48.780 she tells us is um a middle-aged city businessman who says quote polanski would feel like a disaster

00:03:56.400 well it's not that he would feel like a disaster her dad says he'll crash the economy taxes will

00:04:01.600 soar businesses will fold not to mention he's a total fraud yeah i don't believe he increased the 0.89

00:04:06.340 size of anyone's breasts using hypnosis oh come on that was a great line that's a banger come on 0.97

00:04:13.460 he turned out not even to be licensed i can't believe i can't believe breast enhancement

00:04:19.480 hypnotherapy wasn't legally licensed by the state the strongest argument for zach polanski and it

00:04:25.460 wasn't even true total fraud i mean maybe this is why he wants to get into state in the first place

00:04:29.660 it's revenge finally get that license but uh but she says well many young women are crunched 0.99

00:04:35.560 across the country disagree they why wouldn't they want radical change they argue when their

00:04:41.020 lives look so restricted and lacking in opportunity compared to those of their parents what reason do

00:04:46.260 they have to protect the status quo now that's an interesting response isn't it because the the dad

00:04:51.020 is giving not feelings actually but facts he's saying no these are predictable and inevitable

00:04:57.360 consequences of the policies that the greens are pursuing so i don't want those because it'll be

00:05:03.100 bad for me it'll be bad for you after the entire country and she's like yeah well i just feel

00:05:07.620 like i don't agree it's like okay but it will be the case this is actually reflective of the

00:05:14.420 points that i was putting forward which is that the status quo is very clearly established to

00:05:20.060 protect a certain kind of person uh who is not typically found within the younger generations

00:05:27.120 and so they're looking for something or anything to break them out of this status quo that they

00:05:32.340 see as hobbling their future or just preventing them from having a future in the first place and

00:05:37.740 the consequences don't really matter so much to them whereas in their mind well 30 years down the

00:05:43.420 line i'm not going to be able to have a life either way i might as well take this system that's made

00:05:48.620 that down with me now they'll be doing it for um presumably left-wing reasons but even from a

00:05:55.840 right-wing perspective there is an argument for this and the interesting thing as well is that

00:06:00.380 it's an awfully kind of reactionary position to take which is it gets more reactionary actually

00:06:07.400 oh i'm sure it does well go ahead but the thing that these young ladies have got to remember is 1.00

00:06:12.600 the status quo is a feminist system it is a system that actively privileges women over men 1.00

00:06:20.240 and we know this because more women than men go to university women now out earn young women out 0.86

00:06:25.860 earn young men to the tune of two and a half thousand nearly every year right so it's not

00:06:30.160 even a small gender pay gap and so this is like okay well this system was designed to make you 0.51

00:06:37.740 uh a corporate stooge to turn you to a girl boss and you are the ones actually benefiting from this

00:06:43.720 of all of the people in the country who are like the system isn't working for me 0.99

00:06:48.660 the last people actually should be women generally because the system was designed for women to get

00:06:55.700 ahead and they are well this will all be a function of um yes university education and

00:07:01.420 salaried jobs like that as well but looking at the figures that were that were there a lot of

00:07:05.400 it's a result of wage compression as well constantly raising the minimum wage and using

00:07:10.420 taxes and other and other methods to reduce the take-home pay of people who have higher paid

00:07:16.660 salary jobs and nine percent higher than men's at 24 300 um i mean i think that the most recent

00:07:24.320 increase in minimum wage now means that like minimum wage if you're working a 40 hour job

00:07:29.160 will actually earn you slightly more or around that every year so all like even the advantages

00:07:35.960 the equalitarian egalitarian method like that we organize society by the theory that we organize

00:07:43.220 society by is going to eliminate all of those benefits as well as everything's just crushed

00:07:47.960 into a gray sludge middle yeah the the system is designed for you to earn somewhere between 30 and

00:07:53.980 50 000 pounds a year and you're never going to get out and through through taxes and benefits

00:07:58.820 even it all out to about 36 37 000 something like that anyway so who would you who would want to

00:08:05.660 protect the status quo well honestly actually you are the ones benefiting from the status quo more

00:08:10.940 than your young male compatriots right you're you're the people around you but anyway a bit

00:08:17.160 later on the article um i'm just going to pull something out from the bottom of the article they

00:08:20.460 He's saying, women, it seems, are aware of economic inequality in a way that men are not.

00:08:25.940 In 2024, 40% of women aged 18 to 30 ranked cost of living as their top concern,

00:08:31.300 while only 29% of men said the same.

00:08:34.160 That's not economic inequality.

00:08:36.460 The economic inequality goes the other way.

00:08:40.480 This is just you not being aware, not being confident that in the future

00:08:46.480 you can have as much spending money as you do at the moment.

00:08:48.580 Which, I mean, don't get me wrong, fair concern.

00:08:50.460 but it's not a question of economic inequality anyway i mean the funny thing is that the status 0.92

00:08:55.740 quo being set up in a in such a way makes women miserable as well yeah yeah well because because

00:09:01.400 you're talking if you talk about relationships obviously there are all of these different

00:09:04.760 statistics talking about how women and men are drifting further apart from one another politically

00:09:09.160 even includes that statistic that you brought in there which is really a function of testosterone

00:09:13.440 testosterone studies have shown that higher a man's testosterone if you inject him he's more

00:09:18.700 willing to accept like um what he sees as being fair inequality like justified inequality so 0.64

00:09:24.360 that's just male female difference right then but they want the status quo is put them in a position 0.76

00:09:29.720 where they can kind of have the world have the high-powered girl boss job but they also want 0.99

00:09:37.620 all of the benefits that comes with going out with a chad yeah as well they want the high-powered 1.00

00:09:42.960 chad who despite them on average earning more than men still out earns them is six foot plus

00:09:49.560 uh has all of these attractive hobbies but doesn't engage in the hobbies too much to take time away

00:09:55.520 from you there are all of these little landmines that they set for men who are approaching them

00:09:59.600 and then when nobody hits these um when nobody hits these markers they say well you know men just

00:10:06.920 are terrible these days and then the men are left in the lurch as well and that's not to say that

00:10:11.440 you know everything's peachy peachy for women but this is kind of a little bit of a situation 0.98

00:10:16.100 that's been set as a trap for them you you are right um and obviously if women become 0.86

00:10:22.440 the dominant earners in society then they can't marry up right that's that's the issue um but

00:10:28.780 these concerns are more systemic right so they say here uh recent new gov polling has put the

00:10:34.180 greens uh voting intention among women aged 18 to 24 at 44 percent versus 30 percent of men at the

00:10:40.080 same age it's like can you even be imagine being a man and voting for the greens anyway well i mean

00:10:44.900 are you are you thirsting after a green voting woman i mean well maybe you are so why are young

00:10:50.700 women turning hard left like this is it all the cult of zach uh she says i spoke to a number of

00:10:55.300 female contemporaries from different parts of the uk but all middle class and well educated

00:10:58.240 yep that checks out and it boils down to two things one is a sense of being horribly let down

00:11:04.880 by current and previous politicians despite doing everything by the book and call us naive the other

00:11:09.760 is a design to build a society where women are safe from rampant misogyny and people look after

00:11:15.320 each other rather than constantly sometimes viciously competing amongst themselves open 0.96

00:11:19.780 borders won't help with either of those open open borders will make both of those a hundred times

00:11:25.020 a thousand times worse come on yes um but also isn't that interesting so we did everything the

00:11:31.840 system told us to do we got educated we got jobs young women in their 20s have spent their lives

00:11:37.720 doing everything right we worked hard got good grades went to university and then after four

00:11:41.500 years of strikes and three covered lockdowns we spat out into rapidly shrimp a rapidly shrinking

00:11:45.680 jobs market with debts of more than 40 000 pounds and yet you're still in favor of immigration

00:11:50.100 this is literally competition for your job that you were importing and so you can see that these 0.98

00:11:56.940 these young women are like oh yeah these these things have been a problem it's like okay but

00:12:01.220 this is the system that was set up by new labor continued by the conservatives and now you're

00:12:06.340 like you know what i want to vote for green so we're gonna do it even more it's like but that's

00:12:11.860 not good right that's that's not gonna get you to the point that you're at and also if i mean if

00:12:18.400 that's what the greens are what's what's all this about then you know if that's what you think

00:12:22.000 like thank you for muting that yeah what what is what is all this is this

00:12:30.140 the same party i mean what am i looking at what what is this well as patrick christus says good

00:12:37.940 luck to everyone sending the pakistani elections which are taking place across britain today

00:12:41.540 like why is he on a bicycle just embrace the tradition have him in some like carry thing

00:12:49.880 where he's sat on a throne throwing out leaflets to people like come on yeah i know it's it's just

00:12:56.460 what am I, what am I looking at? Anyway, so yeah, tell me more about the Green Party,

00:13:02.020 which apparently includes both of these constituencies. She says, I came out of a

00:13:07.140 Russell Group University with the first in my degree and it took me two years of searching

00:13:09.920 to land a job. I'm still living at home age 25 because rent in London would come to well over

00:13:14.560 half my monthly salary. Yeah, okay. And how can either of these problems be fixed with the open

00:13:20.240 borders policy that the Green Party have? Now, this is what the Green Party, don't know why

00:13:25.180 that's overlaying there this is what the green party currently have on their website right the

00:13:29.480 greens mps will push for an end to the hostile environment and end to the minimum income

00:13:33.080 requirement for spouses holding work visas safe routes to sanctuary um rege um replace the home

00:13:39.020 office with the department of migration uh separating this function from the criminal

00:13:44.500 justice system yeah attend to immigration uh an end to immigration detention for all migrants

00:13:50.300 unless they are in danger to public safety abolition of the no recourse to public funds

00:13:54.200 condition that exacerbates social economic and racial inequalities uh those seeking asylum and

00:13:59.860 protection will be permitted to work when their application is being decided so that's currently

00:14:04.660 what they've got on their website just infinite gibbs yeah just we'll have literally a deposit 0.98

00:14:09.600 this is bringing people into the country this woman's complaining about the cost of housing 0.76

00:14:13.740 in london it's like do you know how much housing in london goes to social housing for immigrants 0.94

00:14:19.200 and even if it wasn't social housing you bring in millions of people well they have to live

00:14:24.360 somewhere the demand for housing is going to go up and especially with the oh um the labor attacks

00:14:30.000 on um renting rights and sorry landlord rights uh it's reducing the amount of housing as well

00:14:36.280 so like this is a shrinking system that is filling up with new people who make demands but what's

00:14:43.100 interesting about this is i had to get to the way back machine for this because after nigel 0.69

00:14:47.140 for hours was like right i'm going to put refugees in your areas they decided they were going to

00:14:50.640 delete their refugee and asylum policy off their website strange it's no longer there well i mean

00:14:55.960 i think it's because the first principle would be uh they want to work towards a world where

00:15:00.300 no one has to leave the home blah blah blah and they want basically uh to establish um where is

00:15:08.280 it they've got they've got a thing in here somewhere it's quite long but uh they they say

00:15:13.920 that you know we want to establish a world without borders we want a system of open borders we don't

00:15:19.260 think that actually anyone should have any resistance to being able to travel so oh okay

00:15:25.680 well that's interesting so you can go back to this you're like right okay so you just want more of the

00:15:31.140 same and you're complaining about what you've got from getting this thing and so what's the plan

00:15:38.900 I mean, food prices have risen by 40%, so it's 2020.

00:15:42.200 Okay, but how is voting green going to help that?

00:15:44.500 What are they going to do?

00:15:45.200 Increase the amount of oil production?

00:15:47.120 They'll reduce the cost that it takes to make food?

00:15:51.040 No.

00:15:51.540 I mean, I would assume that they would have to, 0.98

00:15:53.040 for all of the people who'd be entering the country,

00:15:54.880 if they wanted to keep up with housing demand,

00:15:56.940 they would have to pave over all of the agricultural countryside

00:15:59.400 so that they would be able to house them all in the first place.

00:16:01.860 So that's not going to help domestic food either.

00:16:03.820 Yeah, but she's not wrong.

00:16:05.160 I can't afford to save up for anything, let alone a mortgage.

00:16:07.100 well yeah but you're voting for the policies that have put you in this position you're voting for

00:16:13.180 all of the same things that made it this way and then as we carry on past these gargantuan photos

00:16:21.040 well the other funny thing right is as well like the greens will put all of this forward as a

00:16:25.380 critique of neoliberalism and complain about neoliberal economic policies which have put the

00:16:30.740 country where it is right now we're protecting businesses instead of people we want to work for

00:16:35.880 the many, not the few, et cetera, et cetera. The problem with that is, though, when you actually

00:16:40.680 start to dig into it, mass labor migration of the kind that we experience all across the West right

00:16:46.720 now is one of the hallmarks of the neoliberal project to allow for a massive, massive increase

00:16:55.060 in low-wage labor. I've been looking into this, and it really is quite interesting how in the 80s

00:17:01.240 you have big neoliberal politicians like margaret thatcher who smashed the unions and you can say

00:17:07.220 that the unions were causing trouble and they were corrupt which they were which they were

00:17:11.640 but they basically make it very very difficult for people to earn a good wage doing labor

00:17:17.920 intensive jobs and then they go nobody's working these jobs anymore and then come the 90s they're

00:17:23.760 like well nobody wants to work these low-paying dangerous hard jobs anymore gonna have to import 1.00

00:17:29.440 foreigners in to do it it's interesting how those two things line up right next to one another in 0.93

00:17:34.660 the timeline and the green party are just like we love infinite immigrants it's like okay but do you 0.89

00:17:41.420 think maybe there's a porky capitalist pulling your strings above this because he also loves

00:17:47.440 infinite immigrants yeah and the fact that you guys are married on this this policy point makes 0.97

00:17:52.600 me think that you're a bit retarded frankly and even the governments that these countries are 0.97

00:17:57.560 from these states that they're coming from love it as well because because they they go well we've 0.99

00:18:03.260 got no work here anyway and if we if we actually kept all of you here we might actually have to

00:18:08.040 do something or maybe reform the government or something so you can go off there as well as a

00:18:14.100 nice little safety release valve yeah like the whole thing works to promote corruption on a

00:18:20.100 global scale it's insane and zach polanski for whatever reason has just gone sounds good to me

00:18:25.960 it's so weird isn't it and so i i'm just looking at like these i mean i can only suggest that

00:18:31.820 they're brainwashed because you you would look at this system and be like right okay i'm against

00:18:36.040 this you know why i don't know why these countries are desperate to offload their doctors and

00:18:40.400 engineers onto us but for some reason they are i don't know why our politicians are interested

00:18:45.320 in increasing the the wealth inequality between the business owners and the workers through

00:18:51.680 minimizing and compressing worker wages, and I don't know why they're bringing all of these

00:18:55.940 people here, so I can't get a good job, I can't save up to buy a house, the cost of living has

00:19:01.360 gone through the roof. Why would you support this system and be like, yeah, okay, I'm going to vote

00:19:06.700 for the full extremity of this system in the Green Party? That's just wild, isn't it? It's

00:19:13.020 just absolutely mad. Anyway, she carries on, and this I think is quite interesting. Among many of

00:19:17.440 my friends is an anxious air of exhaustion fueled by being overworked broke single directionless

00:19:22.860 and at the risk of sounding like a jane austen character prospectless right okay so what you're 0.93

00:19:27.600 saying is this feminist neoliberal system is not serving you but it's made you broke single 1.00

00:19:35.220 overworked and directionless so what would be the alternative like some sort of well frankly 1.00

00:19:41.600 right-wing patriarchal system that didn't expect women to be treated like male laborers and you 0.99

00:19:48.920 know here's your education hit get into the workforce and then we're going to bring in 0.58

00:19:51.580 millions of other people to compete with you no wonder you feel like you're on your own and you're 1.00

00:19:55.960 over like you're you're in this insane competitive environment actually maybe that's not where women

00:20:01.260 ought to be actually that's maybe not where you i mean you're literally telling us this is not where

00:20:07.060 you want to be and so we go back to the well who made it this way who made you like this and

00:20:14.120 remember the new new statesman story about a third of women just actually hating men people

00:20:19.040 like oh why is this happening it's because they've been propagandized by feminist uh education system 0.97

00:20:23.740 for a decade if not more it's just been raw feminism non-stop which is why you are a girl 1.00

00:20:30.560 boss in a corporation that you don't care about doing a job you hate feeling like you're as you 1.00

00:20:36.480 say in a bleak landscape like you have been propagandized by feminism to be this thing

00:20:41.700 it's the only ruling system and principle that we have in the system like there's no sort of like 0.86

00:20:47.180 right-wing counter that we could have pointed to at any point in the education system that would

00:20:52.620 have been like yeah well actually the british empire was great and maybe you should get married

00:20:56.140 young and you know be a housewife or anything there's nothing like that but that's kind of

00:20:59.860 what you're asking for here so look at the system look at what's been done to you well it's it's

00:21:05.840 interesting that it's the same kind of position that the former colonies find themselves in well

00:21:11.620 we decolonize we leave and yet they are still absolutely desperate for foreign aid and all of

00:21:16.940 the benefits that came with being administered by a very wealthy western power they just want to have

00:21:24.200 this kind of fake veneer of independence overlaid over the top of it they want all of the benefits

00:21:29.620 of living within a patriarchal society where they get cradle-to-birth benefits and welfare

00:21:36.480 and they want people to look after them and care about their feelings and they want enough freedom

00:21:41.840 that they can feel like that you know i'm independent but they also want pure independence

00:21:47.420 and they want this kind of veneer of like i'm a pure girl boss i can make it on my own when really

00:21:52.900 nobody like like joker quote we'll we do live in a society everybody requires some form of

00:21:59.800 cooperation you can't make it on your own and the form of cooperation that society chooses

00:22:05.400 is going to have a massive effect on these outcomes and the sort of the sort of state

00:22:10.680 governance that we've had for years at this point is what's ruined these people yeah and what what

00:22:15.660 does she even mean by prospectless like you've got the job you've got you're in the court you've got

00:22:21.460 the education you're in the corporate environment you're on the ladder work your way up that's what

00:22:26.200 your prospect when she says it sounds sounding like jane austin does she mean like i can't find

00:22:30.980 a man yes that's the point isn't it because she's like well i'm overworked broke single

00:22:35.640 directionless i'm prospectless it's like yeah but you're you're not if you if you're a man

00:22:40.480 you'd be thinking well my prospects are actually quite good because i'm in the i'm in the environment

00:22:44.940 i've got the education i'm just going to work my way up and once i get once i get to a certain

00:22:49.900 level of status i'll have some money a woman will want to marry me and i'll be able to start a

00:22:54.700 family but she's on the wrong path for that because of course no man has ever been like well

00:22:59.180 when you're earning 60k a year then i'll marry you you know like that's like no man is interested

00:23:04.540 in that right so there's two qualifiers for a man are you cute are you nice it's literally there it

00:23:10.860 is literally that's all we want be friendly and not hideously and attractive it's really not that

00:23:16.240 difficult um so she's she's sat there following the life course of a man which is of course set

00:23:22.260 for her by the feminist education system wondering why she's prospectless and it's like well

00:23:26.500 because of all of the things that the system has done to you up until this point you're like well 0.77

00:23:32.060 i guess i'm gonna oh look thank god zach polanski's here because he's gonna make hope normal again

00:23:37.120 by doing exactly the same that we've done until this point such a nonsense platitude yeah hope

00:23:43.320 normal again what does that even mean there is no hope she's like sat there like despairing

00:23:48.020 basically saying oh this is terrible and zach polanski's i'm like well i can lie to you about

00:23:54.720 hope and she's like that's good that's good enough and even for her it doesn't feel like hope because

00:23:59.340 she's saying at the top of the article well why would i want to maintain the status quo yeah so

00:24:03.880 it's not hope there is a part of her that's like no this is to this is to screw over the status

00:24:08.540 quo who cares about the consequences they're doing this to me yeah you know and i'm like yeah

00:24:13.600 actually i agree i'm sympathetic to all of this but like the greens are not the answer to the

00:24:18.880 question no obviously uh she says you know women in particular look around and see their quality

00:24:23.060 of life shrinking the failing nhs weighs heavily the the pressure of financial insecurity and a

00:24:27.840 brief brush with serious illness has left me hyper aware of the importance of accessible

00:24:31.520 affordable health care um so yeah okay that's true as i also hear one of the people that she

00:24:37.700 spoke to says we have a healthcare system that's crumbling and women seem to be feeling the effects

00:24:41.400 more than men i know i want children but i'm terrified of having them okay so now you're in

00:24:46.040 a position where you don't even have like a man to reassure you and say look no no it's fine we're

00:24:51.280 going to be fine instead you're on your own you're in this you know brightly lit corporate environment

00:24:56.820 and you're just like okay but this isn't actually where i want to be like what's the plan do you

00:25:02.760 have a plan and the answer is no you don't have a plan and she's like right great i'm going to vote

00:25:09.020 for zach polanski um so what there's a really really interesting bit down here as well

00:25:15.120 where they she says um all of the women i spoke to um i can't remember where i just i just caught

00:25:24.540 a bit where she said i don't actually want the greens in charge of the country oh really um oh

00:25:29.520 yeah i don't agree with anna says i don't actually want them in charge of the country but i do want

00:25:34.340 to see the area i live in become greener and more sustainable better recycling would be great i can

00:25:39.380 hear my dad's voice at the back of my brain saying he thinks it's a wasted vote yeah i mean 0.99

00:25:44.540 so so there's the kind of there's there's a there's a shit test yeah there is the the shit 0.98

00:25:50.580 test aspect of it but there's also the spitefulness yeah part of it which is you know i want a better 0.98

00:25:56.480 a better neighborhood i want uh people to be friendlier for it to be more green less mess

00:26:03.160 therefore because the system that we're in now doesn't do that i'm going to vote for the people 0.97

00:26:08.540 who are going to destroy the country yeah i mean look at this look at this line here as for reform

00:26:14.600 they want to scrap the equality act on day one why on earth would a well-educated ambitious

00:26:18.420 young woman vote for that because you're currently floundering under the reign of the equality act

00:26:23.860 you're currently sat there going oh i feel overworked i feel despairing i'm prospectless

00:26:28.720 why am i doing this well why are you doing this why wouldn't you want some kind of radical change

00:26:34.280 um but yeah there's this one bit in here that where um is it there i think it's here um

00:26:40.620 where she says um of all the women i spoke to it's not on i can't find it here but uh anyway

00:26:47.320 she says uh for all the young women i spoke to immigration was not a concern nor are they fearful

00:26:51.580 of trans rights the political gender divide is not a culture war it's an economic one it's like

00:26:56.040 no the culture war is so ingrained you can't even imagine voting for the opposite side like you

00:27:02.560 can't imagine why why would i vote to scrap the equality act the thing that's made me this

00:27:06.440 miserable i don't know why would you um but the thing is you're not concerned about immigration

00:27:11.620 you're not concerned about are you mad like as you were saying earlier the immigration this

00:27:17.500 when i get to it here's the uh the increase in recorded sexual offenses by police

00:27:23.180 horrifying it's just insane like sorry what what's happened in this period of time to make

00:27:30.520 sexual offenses go through the roof it's like no i'm not worried about any of this it's like okay

00:27:36.220 i'm gonna vote for zach polanski because i like the pattern i like the he makes me feel

00:27:41.700 that there may be some hope it's the beautiful it's the beautiful trusting warm smile

00:27:45.320 it is um but the point that i'm making with all of this is the these young women are just voting

00:27:55.220 for exactly the thing that got them into this position because all zach polanski is offering

00:28:00.600 is a more distilled version of what you have had to this point and you're going to get the

00:28:06.020 same problems you're going to find yourself still prospectless it's just i think the the chances

00:28:11.620 of this going up are dramatically higher under this so anyway we'll leave it there but just

00:28:18.580 i just you get what you vote for frankly yeah got one rumble rant here from sigil stone 1.00

00:28:25.780 why are women turning far left the same reason welfare recipients vote for more welfare and

00:28:30.360 immigrants vote for more immigration honestly i think it's just because they're not thinking

00:28:34.140 about these things like she she frames her father's rational concerns as feelings and 0.55

00:28:40.280 she frames her feelings as well i don't know i mean i don't really want the greens in charge

00:28:44.940 then why do it well she doesn't see any alternative clearly uh but the thing is at the very least i

00:28:51.620 mean we've seen from the turnout uh from what we've been seeing from coming from great yarmouth 0.88

00:28:55.660 that actually there are quite a few sensible women out there who who are uh starting to 0.93

00:29:01.000 recognize or at least already recognize the problems and have a better idea of who can solve

00:29:05.620 them all right so uh moving on i'm doing a follow-up to a daily video that i did last week

00:29:13.660 which was a very interesting little case study in one of the more bizarre examples of local

00:29:19.520 enrichment and this local enrichment was actually in my hometown of crew in leafy cheshire some call

00:29:26.900 it the swindon of the north um which is sadly very true if anything there's there's less in

00:29:32.520 crew these days that that just means that the town center has gone to hell but the area around

00:29:37.240 is still quite nice well i mean it's cheshire so yeah cheshire's nice in the same way that

00:29:41.960 wiltshire is nice there's still plenty of lovely stuff outside of the town center 0.82

00:29:45.420 but one of the more bizarre things to happen was a strange quasi-islamic cult setup shop

00:29:53.700 in an old listed grade two listed building building that used to be used as an orphanage

00:29:59.000 back in the 1950s for children whose fathers died in railway accidents

00:30:04.400 because Crewe was a railway town, right?

00:30:06.780 And so they set up there a few years ago,

00:30:08.900 and it's one of those bizarre things where you go home one day

00:30:11.940 and you speak around and they go,

00:30:13.100 oh, have you seen that the old orphanage has been taken over?

00:30:15.160 Oh, okay, what's going on there?

00:30:16.840 Oh, there's a cult there.

00:30:19.300 Is there really?

00:30:20.580 Okay, all right.

00:30:22.180 What do they believe in?

00:30:23.840 Oh, nobody knows, but they've got armed guards at the gates now,

00:30:27.000 and nobody's allowed in or out

00:30:29.340 and they're a bit weird and isolated from everywhere.

00:30:32.440 And what happened last week was that, as I explained in this...

00:30:35.700 Just how is this possible?

00:30:38.020 Well, we'll get on to that, won't we?

00:30:40.080 Because it was raided.

00:30:42.360 It was raided by the police.

00:30:45.180 They turned out, allegedly,

00:30:48.300 to be doing exactly the sort of thing

00:30:50.460 that you expect cults to be doing,

00:30:52.280 that being that there was human trafficking offences alleged,

00:30:55.720 there were modern slavery offenses alleged sexual assault charges alleged against them

00:31:02.520 10 people have been charged and we'll see what ends up happening with them they've now finished

00:31:08.640 their investigation the local police force has it was a huge operation 500 police officers were all

00:31:15.680 brought together from the surrounding area as well because crew doesn't have that many police

00:31:20.240 officers and they were all brought out to conduct a full raid supposedly according to friends that

00:31:25.400 i know who were in the area when it happened the cult leader whose name i believe is hashem

00:31:31.480 a classic british name yeah pictured here on the thumbnail in his signature beanie because yes they

00:31:38.540 do have a particular style of dress for this cult which is the tim pool black beanie they all have

00:31:44.940 to wear black beanies for some reason he was surely not affiliated i would hope not tim

00:31:49.860 maybe just clear some things up for us we've got some questions um he was spotted jumping over the

00:31:57.020 fence at the back of the building making a run for it now the cult's beliefs are quite interesting

00:32:02.140 i went over it in this but i'll go i'll just reiterate them now for people who are hearing

00:32:05.920 of this for the first time they are called the amedi religion of light and peace he claims

00:32:11.660 hashem claims to be the madi who in islamic theology is the i think there's 12 madis and

00:32:18.320 the final one is the one who arrives as the final prophet before judgment day he claimed to be the

00:32:24.480 final one and that judgment day was coming and that to get into heaven you would have to join 0.67

00:32:29.200 him and follow his teachings islamic countries who've previously had the cult in them like egypt 0.71

00:32:35.620 have kicked them out yeah they say it's because we care about human rights and feminism and women's 1.00

00:32:42.540 ability to have liberty whereas in friality it's because they are a bunch of weird heretics 0.55

00:32:48.380 there was a mardi cult in sudan in the 19th century the british that we um fought wasn't

00:32:55.740 there it was like a huge uprising um i don't know the exact details of it myself so i couldn't

00:33:00.880 comment i remember briefly reading about it and thinking wow that's bonkers i mean how they've

00:33:04.740 fallen how they've fallen um also one of the interesting twists of this is that the leader

00:33:10.500 of them hashem uh used to be in the mid-2000s a documentary filmmaker would you like to know

00:33:17.700 what his documentaries were on yeah or stink cults what were the odds i know what a shock

00:33:25.240 it's like he was developing a skill set yeah i just learned how to run a cult i know and there's

00:33:30.260 all of this weird information actually i'm the mardi huh what a shock you know sell your house 0.61

00:33:36.920 and worldly possessions to make money for me please because that's one of the conditions that

00:33:41.720 was supposedly part of this you had to sell your house people who'd been uh interviewed by a

00:33:46.720 particular journalist who i'll mention in a get to in a moment um who were ex-members and they

00:33:52.220 explained how it actually worked and to join it and he'd written a number of books that you can

00:33:56.560 read and you can find all of this information independently where the point is you need to

00:34:00.560 sell all of your worldly possessions and use the funds as part of the cult to help to fund things

00:34:05.560 like the grade two listed building that they were using as a compound in my hometown which cost a

00:34:13.700 few million pounds i think it was two million pounds that had been listed on prior to them

00:34:17.480 buying it turns out that they had about 4.7 million dollars in assets in america they'd

00:34:23.920 previously been kicked out of sweden they say for no good reason the swedish authorities if i

00:34:29.380 remember correctly said it was because they were handing out fake passports to people

00:34:33.000 um and one of their members previously went to a trip in india with the right hand man of this

00:34:40.840 leader and never came back which i believe the german authorities are still looking into

00:34:47.040 which is very interesting but for some further updates on what's happened since this raid

00:34:51.880 well uh they've charged and named 25 people arrested for public order offenses following

00:34:57.000 three warrants this is all from the local news website crew nub news why we're getting so many

00:35:01.560 pop-ups yes and you can read these names and it's interesting how the nationality is listed versus

00:35:06.840 the names themselves so first of all you've got mamadaga abdullaya 35 of timbrell avenue

00:35:13.800 nationality azerbaijan raima battle of webhouse crew that's the name of the building nationality

00:35:20.040 british ah typical if you say so uh laura delone nationality belgium maybe with a name sounds

00:35:27.120 a name like that yeah um tani a hashem 27 of webhouse crew nationality british obviously

00:35:35.120 uh mariam marfog nationality moroccan uh and you've got lots of these other kind of

00:35:41.760 british you've got a german here known as idin owner typical german typical german uh gustavio

00:35:49.360 ruiz quinteros nationality american quite possibly uh ahmad el house nationality french

00:35:58.280 yep so it's interesting clearly this quasi islamic definitely islamic cult appealed to a

00:36:07.020 very particular kind of person who is already predisposed because it's part of their religion

00:36:11.080 and they just go along with it i did mention in the um in the in the daily video that you know

00:36:15.940 it's i do feel bad for people get roped into cults because typically these are either people

00:36:22.040 who are already not well or they've been through really difficult lives they're isolated they're

00:36:26.620 vulnerable they're in need of hope and something to fill a gap in their lives and so they can get

00:36:31.560 dragged into it and clearly with the charges that are coming to this cult you can find that i mean

00:36:38.580 they would have been exploited even more allegedly when they joined because of the human slavery the

00:36:44.900 modern slavery and the sexual assault so they're taken advantage of they're brought in and then

00:36:49.660 they continue a cycle of abuses it's horrible but also again let's not pretend that this doesn't 0.86

00:36:55.420 have a religious and racial aspect to it because clearly it was this was a foreign cult that was 0.69

00:37:01.540 just allowed to come into my hometown and set up shop and nobody could do or say anything about it

00:37:08.440 because my local council engages in down with racism stop racism protests and a friend of mine

00:37:16.680 who i will not name spoke last year to a member of the council in an interview capacity for a

00:37:23.140 project that he was working on afterwards he came to me and told me that the council member that he

00:37:28.300 had spoken to uh had one first of all checked oh you're not right wing are you before they started

00:37:33.960 we don't want to speak to we don't want to speak to right-wingers and then followed it up with how

00:37:39.320 one of the reasons they don't want to is because one of the council's biggest goals is to support

00:37:44.700 the local pakistani communities and raise them up well i mean so that's great because really if

00:37:50.920 if there's actual local councils for harry yeah exactly local local affairs no bringing in 0.75

00:37:56.700 foreigners to enact weird little cults in your neighborhood and you know people around this area 0.86

00:38:02.300 were really nervous about them being here no kidding i mean this seems i mean if these these 1.00

00:38:06.780 are the people who are like orchestrating the cults like how many people were in it in total

00:38:11.280 like 25 people seems to be a lot i think on in webhouse the where the compound that they were on

00:38:17.720 um it was about 100 people uh in the local area outside of the compound i think it went to 200

00:38:24.080 250 people globally supposedly they have around 7 000 people associated with them because

00:38:32.280 obviously they also have places in people in egypt and across the middle east and then in america and

00:38:37.340 other parts of continental europe as well so they are actually and they had a lot of money behind

00:38:41.500 them as well so they've managed to grift their way into quite a position of prominence as far as

00:38:46.840 weird islamic cults go and uh since the since the investigation has concluded well people

00:38:53.260 the the police made sure to let you know that this is just about these particular offenses

00:38:59.000 we're not investigating the religion or shutting the religion down so the people who the rest of

00:39:03.660 the people who weren't arrested sex slavery mate why are we doing something about that uh well

00:39:08.280 because that would be racist and so the compound has been released for the members to move back in

00:39:13.740 and since then every single day there have been protests outside of it because the locals as you

00:39:18.900 can see here made up entirely of englishmen yeah are not happy at the fact that now their

00:39:25.440 suspicions have been confirmed that there is a weird sex cult living next door to them

00:39:30.480 right opposite the local queen's park where children go every single day not really up for

00:39:36.040 it mate yeah i don't really want that and the thing is you've got to ask how was all of this

00:39:41.240 allowed to happen because it was allowed to happen how many years have been operating for

00:39:48.120 three or four right okay so that's quite a significant period of time three or four and

00:39:51.440 they have had the support of the local council as as well and people have been looking into them for

00:39:56.640 a while there are a number of articles on this website the guru by b schofield who is a journalist

00:40:01.760 who's been quoted by other larger platforms like the daily mail and also vice magazine because

00:40:07.100 midway through last year her work was being highlighted by a lot of these people as showing

00:40:11.940 what was going on with this strange cult um she had been researching them for a while publishing

00:40:18.080 articles and showing that yeah this weird cult that you think that they're doing certain things

00:40:22.760 that all cults tend to do are doing exactly what you think they are and there's a number of stuff

00:40:27.120 where she's talking about the weird doomsday just look at this line england's doomsday cult it's not

00:40:32.000 i don't think it is no it just happens to be here i don't think it belongs to us so one of the

00:40:36.860 members alia described the group as the divine just state which is their eden or paradise on

00:40:42.420 earth told followers that real patriotism means being ready to give their lives for god and for

00:40:47.720 one another. Sort of people you want living

00:40:49.780 next door to you, right?

00:40:50.900 Let me tell you what real

00:40:53.880 patriotism is.

00:40:55.380 The group Quasi-Islamic Apocalyptic

00:40:57.580 Movement headquartered in a former orphanage

00:40:59.920 in Crewe, previous investigations

00:41:01.800 documented allegations of sexual abuse,

00:41:04.600 poison tests of faith,

00:41:06.360 where supposedly this leader, Hashem, 0.75

00:41:08.320 would present members

00:41:09.460 with a cup of what he said was poison

00:41:11.900 and you had to drink it to prove your

00:41:13.920 faith to him.

00:41:15.600 I assume it wasn't poison.

00:41:16.840 I would hope so. Blood oaths, plans for private communes with their own police and guns,

00:41:21.980 Jonestown-style loyalty drills. I've seen those. People in the local houses right next door

00:41:27.860 could occasionally see over the fences into the back garden of the compound, and they would see

00:41:32.700 them doing, like, weird drills in the background for discipline, I would assume, and it says

00:41:38.040 loyalty. Very strange. And an ideology that divides humanity into godlike Adamites and

00:41:44.140 expendable cainites god i hope i get to be an adamite i would hope so uh bridges one of the

00:41:50.380 members or former members explained that hashem is building a one world religion with himself at

00:41:56.420 the head to join she says you must pledge allegiance to him not to god not to allah to him

00:42:01.900 as the god-appointed messenger of our time those who refuse are cast as non-believers

00:42:08.160 very interesting how this guy just happened to have you know researched loads of uh loads of

00:42:13.840 cults in the mid-2000s in the lead up to realizing that he was the one true mardi

00:42:17.940 a former member and this schofield woman some of her work has been criticized for relying too much

00:42:23.920 on ex-members who people say oh they're going to have a bone to pick and they're going to want to

00:42:28.380 paint them in the worst light possible they're also going to be the people who know most about

00:42:31.800 it yes how else how is he supposed to get information about this weird insular cult

00:42:36.800 that showed up, right? Supposedly, um, one of the former members, Ibrahim, uh, admitted to her that

00:42:44.240 he had been hired to attack or kill Yaseer, another member of the cult, saying that if you slap Yaseer,

00:42:51.200 we'll pay you 50,000 dirhams, he was told by his friend Omar, I don't know which currency it is,

00:42:56.740 but this Omar was supposedly one of this Hashem man's right-hand men. He was recruited by an

00:43:02.440 armadi religion member if you break his legs we'll pay you 150 000 dirhams if you kill him 0.90

00:43:08.660 we'll pay you 300 000 dirhams which is roughly about 82 000 us dollars uh supposedly when he 0.94

00:43:16.340 left the uh sorry sorry it's the emirati currency which i didn't know oh okay uh they do have people

00:43:22.820 stationed all around the gulf as well yeah well unsurprisingly yeah that 150 000 dirhams is nearly

00:43:29.300 30 grand which is a fair amount of money but yeah you're going to jail bro and uh it says here

00:43:35.820 elsewhere in this article when yasir lived with the ahmadi religion group he claims that sajid

00:43:40.220 another member was selling heroin hash and other drugs again your next door neighbors brought to

00:43:45.880 you by a local council he said abdullah hashem the leader was involved sajid would ask me to

00:43:52.280 send money to pakistan what a surprise local council approves it turned out that it was his

00:43:58.160 main drug supplier when i refused abdullah would contact me and order that i do it it's worth

00:44:03.280 saying as well of course all of this is alleged from ex-members we'll see what comes out as the

00:44:08.760 truth once the people who have been charged have been fully investigated and it goes to court or

00:44:15.380 see if they settle out of court other reports that this b schofield woman has done has just been

00:44:20.760 a full investigation through these people into what it's like living in the court where a lot 0.96

00:44:25.580 of the information comes from with the sexual abuse allegations penalties of a hundred thousand

00:44:31.660 dollars to members for disloyalty and disobedience immigration fraud what a surprise cash smuggling

00:44:38.920 constant surveillance and rooms where hashem carries out most private rituals which are

00:44:43.940 supposedly like cooking rituals which what what a shock yeah what a shock and again how does all of

00:44:53.020 this happen when all of this information seems to be obvious out in the open, there are multiple

00:44:58.400 reports from people talking about this, there are ex-members all over the place who are willing to

00:45:02.600 talk to you about this, would it shock you if I said that they tried to infiltrate the local town

00:45:07.080 council? No, no, I would not be surprised. How is this sort of thing allowed to happen? Well, it's

00:45:14.420 because, you know, we've got DEI policies. We're open and inviting. We are inclusive to everybody.

00:45:22.380 So this guy, who was part of the local planning commission for the local council, which gave him inside access to when the local council will be doing inspections on the compound, tipped them off, make sure the place looks normal and there's no weird stuff going on when they get there, has been photographed here and in other photographs as part of the cult and is a known member of the organisation.

00:45:46.460 he um he was tasked by the leader with going into the going into the local council so that

00:45:54.180 they would be able to have all of this information ahead of time another former member independently

00:45:59.360 confirmed these claims the sect has an infiltrator this man zafir zafar fakir inside the crew town

00:46:06.820 council he has privileged access to sensitive information he describes it as a clear case of

00:46:12.540 institutional corruption so you literally allow a bunch of foreigners to come in and one of them 0.92

00:46:17.640 happens to be a part of this weird doomsday cult yeah and what does the local community have to say

00:46:22.780 about this well we know what the local community has to say about this they're not happy with it

00:46:26.780 at all but the people in charge of the local community what do they have to say about this

00:46:30.760 well this news publication itself crew nub news did a did an interview with him last year uh where

00:46:37.600 they just gave him a bunch of softball questions and accepted all of his answers at face value

00:46:42.960 yeah why have you been banned slash faced legal action and persecution in multiple countries in

00:46:49.460 particular germany and sweden answer we've faced persecution in many countries across the middle

00:46:54.780 east and north africa as well as certain countries within asia our doors are open to members of the

00:47:00.220 lgbtq community and we do not spread hate we do not condemn people of other faces we teach

00:47:07.060 tolerance we teach love local journalist says sounds good to me amazing look this is genuinely

00:47:15.340 a woke islamic cult yeah like they're using the the they know that oh well these are the buzzwords 0.97

00:47:22.060 right these are the the shibboleths you say these and you get a pass you get to go in you the doors 0.84

00:47:28.200 open for you if you just say we are for inclusivity diversity and lgbt and they say okay well there's 0.98

00:47:33.860 nothing wrong with this islamic cult then and he asks again why is there the need for such high 0.66

00:47:38.780 scale security at your headquarters including the handcuffs and walking guard dogs because 0.99

00:47:44.080 everybody could see it they've got a private security that they've paid for always around

00:47:48.500 the area why is that his answer oh because it's legal and we are a persecuted minority

00:47:55.220 so we feel it's a necessary protective measure oh well yeah we're so oppressed we desperately need

00:48:00.960 them what is happening with the whole homeschooled children inside how many do you have and do they

00:48:06.540 call you dad and god because that was another one of the allegations to which he just responds nah

00:48:12.080 nah and the local government the local journalist goes all right all checks out to me no further

00:48:19.420 questions no further questions sir good luck are you accepting members right now i mean what a

00:48:26.280 softball interview by these people and as a result of the obvious corruption and obvious abuse of

00:48:33.800 systems and exploitation that's been going on uh now some of the councillors who seem to be much

00:48:38.920 more sensible than others are calling for the uh for the mayor and other colleagues involved in

00:48:43.580 this to resign over it because councillor alan gage of williston rope spoke exclusively to the

00:48:49.920 to nub news criticizing the mayor of crew and crew west councillors for straying from their

00:48:54.100 core responsibilities becoming involved in what he described in public disarming engagement so the

00:49:00.920 whole thing was basically we've got these people here people don't like them here so now our job

00:49:06.140 as mayor and town councillors is to stop people from being angry that they're here this is this

00:49:11.620 is the national politic writ small that's that's all it is it's perception management all the way

00:49:18.020 up from the national government when it comes to stuff like southport to local government with your

00:49:22.700 local council and mayors when some weird freaks move into your neighborhood and you get enriched

00:49:28.520 by a bunch of freaks living next door to you abusing and exploiting people allegedly you're

00:49:34.840 not allowed to be angry about it and you need to get a local lesson on how to be tolerant and

00:49:39.660 inclusive and the local elected representative claim that crew councillors who took part in a

00:49:44.440 say no to racism counter protest on february the 28th have deleted facebook posts posts after

00:49:51.240 religious group members were arrested on the 29th of april because they're all starting to get a

00:49:55.260 little bit hot under the collar and realizing oh we've been protecting these guys for a little bit

00:49:59.600 we've been protecting these guys and now it turns out that they're exactly what you thought they

00:50:04.260 were harry they're so inclusive this is true they're so tolerant and it's and it's just sad

00:50:09.060 here because he talks that this this counselor says that this facility web house the old orphanage

00:50:13.520 was one of the first items of planning i ever dealt with on the southern planning committee

00:50:17.060 when I became a councillor in 2019.

00:50:19.260 It was supposed to be a retirement home for the Eldrie

00:50:21.420 with an on-site GP facility.

00:50:23.840 The grounds and location adjacent to Queen's Park

00:50:25.980 were ideal for residents able to get out and about.

00:50:28.300 Sounds lovely.

00:50:29.440 The current usage of this building gives no discernible benefit

00:50:32.260 to the people of Crewe whatsoever. 1.00

00:50:33.940 Well, it helps to raise up the local Pakistani

00:50:37.060 and foreign communities, doesn't it?

00:50:38.800 And that's a reward in and of itself.

00:50:41.220 And he concludes by saying that, in my opinion,

00:50:43.160 it saddens me every time I see or read about it.

00:50:46.860 So, yeah, if you're involved in something like this, and specifically the people in my hometown's local council who were involved in it, who defended it, who engaged in counter-protests to local constituents and local people who were concerned about what was going on there, who turned out to allegedly be right, you should all hang your heads in shame, and you should all quit.

00:51:11.460 You should resign over this controversy. And if these people are found to be guilty, you should probably also face further consequences for having enabled and defended it in the first place. And this is one of the more bizarre cases. But this is what happens when local governments and national governments take it in mind to enrich your local area. There is no end to the absurdities that will emerge.

00:51:35.560 and it's ridiculous and disgusting to me 0.96

00:51:37.680 that this happened in my hometown 0.95

00:51:39.300 in a building that I used to walk past

00:51:41.680 almost every single day.

00:51:44.900 Yeah.

00:51:46.160 I got a rumble rant from that.

00:51:48.020 Lads, it's official, says Sigilstone.

00:51:50.260 I'm starting a cult for fun and profit.

00:51:52.760 Oh, thank God, because most cults are like,

00:51:54.480 oh, it's the end of the world

00:51:56.100 and everything's going to go horribly wrong.

00:51:58.400 It's like, oh, can't we just have a nice cult for once?

00:52:01.080 Yeah, I mean, this one sounds nice.

00:52:03.040 Starting at $4.99 a month,

00:52:04.560 i think what you're actually starting here is a patreon mate but let's carry on you can have

00:52:09.400 salvation and help fund jesus's holy gaming pc and the blessed runescape subscription honestly

00:52:15.320 that's the kind of cult i'd want to join yeah yours would be more like war like warhammer 40k

00:52:20.960 kind of stuff but you know yeah but more like signing up to lotus eaters for five pound a month

00:52:25.120 anyway worship the holy uh the holy benjamin so restore are doing fairly well the local elections

00:52:35.340 are currently going on uh today is election day but you're probably watching this after the election

00:52:40.360 day so i don't have any results for you uh but it looks like things are going quite well uh here's

00:52:45.540 just the uh latest voting intention from yougov restore britain still being unprompted at four

00:52:50.640 percent so organically people are clicking other and i know i want rupert low uh obviously they're

00:52:56.320 higher when they are prompted but that's just the nature of the beast but anyway not bad right not

00:53:00.720 bad at all and this has been persistent so for the past month or so restore britain have persistently

00:53:06.660 come in above the snp there and uh this has begun to make people notice especially as uh young bob

00:53:15.300 here wandering around in great yarmouth how did everyone see there's a lot of people on the ground

00:53:22.140 in great yarmouth to canvas for rupert lowe and great yarmouth first which is a subsidiary party

00:53:26.820 of restore britain uh today so yeah this sort of thing doesn't go unnoticed they try to ignore it

00:53:34.320 for as long as they can and then as it goes they begin you know they've tried laughing at you now

00:53:39.960 beginning to fight you uh this is really great there are some brilliant articles coming out

00:53:46.420 about this at the moment so i thought we'd just read some the week tells us well is this new far

00:53:51.680 right party a threat to farage maybe it is uh this is what they say it plans to reverse mass

00:53:58.140 immigration by deporting on illegal immigrants and introducing a red list of countries that face

00:54:02.160 far stricter security checks limited visa categories and higher barrier to entry restore

00:54:06.680 would not use tents restore would use tents not hotels to house so-called asylum seekers quote

00:54:11.240 unquote before abolishing the asylum system altogether it would end benefits for those

00:54:17.160 on indefinite leave to remain deport rape rape gang collaborators and foreign criminals

00:54:21.620 and end election campaigning in foreign languages this all sounds perfectly sensible it sounds

00:54:26.440 great doesn't it what's not to like exactly what's not to like on taxes and benefits it

00:54:32.240 promises to reward the nation's grafters by scrapping IR35 for freelancers abolishing

00:54:36.540 inheritance tax and establishing the lowest corporation tax in Europe and getting able

00:54:40.520 bodied Britons on benefits back to work good because at the moment a quarter of people in

00:54:46.260 this country are claiming disability did we just have a massive war or something do you see when

00:54:52.040 you're walking around people missing limbs on you know crutches no it's obviously being taken

00:54:56.660 advantage of so fantastic it proposes a britain first energy security strategy that sounds great

00:55:03.560 which means repealing net zero goals requiring developers to fund local infrastructure before

00:55:08.440 building houses ending hose pipe bans for good and automating the london tube brilliant why is this

00:55:14.600 bad like this new far-right party sounds like it's got some good ideas restore wants to scrap

00:55:20.340 foreign aid rearm britain by spending more on defense and end diversity and inclusivity

00:55:24.340 inclusivity programs within the armed forces i'm not really getting anything like a negative from

00:55:30.920 this i mean this is the kind of advert i would have paid to have published well yeah well i want

00:55:36.860 you to tell everyone exactly what we're going to do one of the criticisms of uh restore is that

00:55:41.240 some of their some of their advertising of their policies has been a little bit diffuse you have

00:55:45.940 to go to lots of different random social media posts to be able to collect all of it this is

00:55:50.740 actually brilliant because it puts it all just down in one place in a nice big list and i listen

00:55:56.140 to it all in a row and go hold up this is great actually yeah this is exactly what i want it would

00:56:01.820 defund the rotten bbc strengthen the teaching of christian heritage uh within the national

00:56:06.620 curriculum history modules ban the burka restrict halal and kosher slaughter and repeal the online

00:56:11.320 safety act great i mean the only thing i disagree with is uh defunding the bbc mainly because the

00:56:19.440 institution itself the infrastructure just fill it with your own guys and it would be it would be

00:56:24.280 great maybe there is um a much longer conversation to be had because the bbc spends a lot of money

00:56:31.040 on nonsense um and so well it needs reform i agree the like i i personally am not 100 on

00:56:37.920 scrap the bbc although again a bit of a side tangent but the the point is uh there's a lot

00:56:43.560 of good stuff there uh perhaps most controversially restore would hold a binding referendum on

00:56:48.300 restoring the death penalty well they've got my vote yeah like jesus christ and the way that the

00:56:54.180 british public already thinks of the death penalty as in 55 of them want it back when you just ask

00:56:59.260 them flat out in any poll 50 55 percent like yeah and they feel like do you want the death penalty

00:57:03.740 for terrorists it goes up to 60 like we're gonna win this referendum the the british public have

00:57:10.000 a very simple stance on things which is hang nonces hang terrorists fund the nhs that's

00:57:17.360 literally from the nhs i mean because you always get those things where it's like oh we had the

00:57:20.740 dominic cummings line we had to constantly you know hand out all these suspended sentences to

00:57:25.300 these to these nonces and it's like no no no no if we've got all of this limited capacity for a

00:57:31.420 prison space i've got an even simpler solution i know there are so many people who we can have a

00:57:37.240 really permanent solution to uh anyway so that's that's this article it's like okay that's a great

00:57:42.200 list of all of the things that Restore Britain want to do, and I love them. These are exactly

00:57:47.580 the sort of things that I would do if I were the one in charge. And so here's one from

00:57:51.700 the iNews in the iPaper, where the battleground is being held now in Great Yarmouth. This

00:57:59.140 is, again, it makes them sound absolutely brilliant. A 350-strong crowd, driven from

00:58:04.560 all over the UK, to hear this unlikely radical about his new movement, Restore Britain, talking

00:58:08.400 about Rupert Lowe. In a double-breasted blue blazer, blue chinos, and a pair of reading

00:58:14.100 glasses around his neck, Lowe gives every appearance of the off-duty Gloucestershire

00:58:18.040 farmer that he is. Great. So he's not like some grifter then. He's like, no, no, I've got a farmer,

00:58:24.580 I'm a farmer, and I'm really concerned about things, so I've come out to do this. But his

00:58:28.680 far-right policy offering is far from mainstream. In this deprived corner of east of England,

00:58:34.260 his supporters in shorts and baseball caps are a willing audience rather than fading into obscurity

00:58:39.280 like other casualties of farage's purges lowe boasts 753 000 followers on x 83 000 on tiktok

00:58:46.180 1.2 million on facebook farage has similar numbers respectively where once lowe's views

00:58:52.640 would be consigned to a small and ignorable corner of the internet his growing influence

00:58:56.760 is a challenge to mainstream politics in a fracturing political landscape where small

00:59:00.120 percentages can make big differences in electoral outcomes the question is whether low can take any

00:59:05.080 significant vote share away from reform it's like yeah it is for now but this is a great start now

00:59:10.900 the uh plan in great yarmouth of course is just to win it all the last poll that was done was in

00:59:17.440 december and great yarmouth first were on 44 percent i'll do it i'll do it yeah exactly and

00:59:23.500 the mood on the ground is very very high the the very very optimistic apparently i mean we've got

00:59:30.340 loads of our friends who have gone down there to help campaign for i mean like 350 people going

00:59:35.020 down for a local campaign this is this isn't if this was the national elections that'd still be

00:59:41.160 a massive number well this is the test case isn't it it is this is this is the initial test case can

00:59:47.120 this work and so yeah like i'm saying if this was a national election that would still be a massive

00:59:52.140 number of activists to go to one area for a national campaign, but this is for the local

00:59:57.260 elections, where you get a turnout of about 30% normally, so to get 350 people down there,

01:00:02.280 something genuinely is happening here. So there's a lot of poo-pooing of this, but a Tory MP said,

01:00:09.000 told the iPaper, that they've been seeing evidence of loads of appeal when campaigning during the

01:00:13.600 local elections in another part of the east of England. In some places, maybe, they could reach

01:00:17.660 8% if they stood here, said the MP, maybe 10% even in some places, there's a lot of

01:00:21.940 dissatisfaction.

01:00:23.460 Well, I mean, that's the, if their enemies are like, yeah, I'm worried about them getting

01:00:26.600 like, you know, 8-10% of the vote, and that's where they're not even campaigning, because

01:00:32.620 they're only campaigning in Great Yarmouth, because of course the party's two months old.

01:00:36.840 Locally, Lowe's very popular in Great Yarmouth, he's given his MP salary to charities, a

01:00:41.420 move that has gone down badly in Westminster, but more importantly, perhaps his constituents

01:00:46.260 say that he has given them a voice as in he is actually vocalizing the problems with the country

01:00:52.920 he has a manifesto to fix it and so they're not happy about great yarmouth exclusive the england

01:01:02.220 flag war town where pensioners are radicalized by the far right and facebook what else is facebook

01:01:07.380 for yeah i know why else would you use facebook radicalizing the boomers get in this is hilarious

01:01:12.780 right because they begin with this uh iranian kurdish barber right i'm just going to read this

01:01:19.440 is genuinely funny driving in from great yarmouth a series of dark blue signs line the grass verge

01:01:25.200 by the tesco superstore promoting a new political party great yarmouth first on one side of the road

01:01:30.100 is the gate public house as decked with england flags as the home end at wembley on the other

01:01:34.560 is case the barbers where bahes abbas and sirwan slihan are hard at work with their clippers

01:01:42.260 executing perfect fades from the pavement the iranian-owned barbers appears to be surrounded

01:01:46.600 but inside 29 year old bahes is smiling take a look at our gowns he says we've had them for years

01:01:52.560 not long before the flags bahes's clients are robed in union jack hairdressing gowns

01:01:58.540 where he says why not i'm born in kurdish iran but i'm british now i love england i love britain

01:02:05.520 i love that they've managed to find like the one barbers that isn't involved in drugs they're

01:02:10.540 actually cutting hair of course it's fades but we can't expect you know i'm not gonna judge but

01:02:16.540 the point is like the the barbers are like yeah britain's great that's why i came here no i'm not

01:02:20.440 doing drugs i'm actually cutting hair and this is where it gets really good right he pulls out his

01:02:25.620 mobile phone this is flagman he says showing us an instagram account of flagman uk a figure who

01:02:31.120 conceals his identity but is believed to come from nearby low stuff flagman uh has claimed the case

01:02:37.240 the flags on facebook flag man puts the flags up and then a few days or weeks later another man in

01:02:41.860 a balaclava also english takes them all down flag man puts them up again they come and take them

01:02:47.420 down again this has happened three or four times sometimes union jacks sometimes england flags when

01:02:52.900 the man came to take them down the first time i said to him you're english this is your flag you're

01:02:56.800 crazy yeah he's got a point yeah anyway so they go through talking about um how uh the old people

01:03:08.280 in great yarmouth have been radicalized and then they begin talking about ripper lowe's party and

01:03:11.340 they've got this absolute killer line all right that honestly i would put in my twitter bio right

01:03:16.980 quote lowe's party makes nagel farage look like zach polanski that's a great line like i would

01:03:24.640 be proud of that i mean it's it's true i've pointed out the similarities of the two of them

01:03:29.120 before yeah absolutely um and especially in the sort of like uh globalist view of what is an

01:03:36.720 english person or a british person for farage it's well living in wales for five or ten years

01:03:41.060 and having children there then the children are just automatically welsh so these are just welsh

01:03:46.100 choir boys right okay exactly exactly polanski believes the same thing but also that actually

01:03:51.160 no it doesn't need to be five years just get there and you're welsh now yeah exactly the

01:03:56.140 question is just the amount of time and it's like right okay so they do actually agree on this

01:04:00.060 they are still a globalist party and so obviously people like well i'm not for that anyway they

01:04:06.160 carry on uh the the campaigning seems to be going well in yarmouth last week many people told us how

01:04:13.660 impressed they've been by the leaflets on local issues doctor surgeries traffic calming measures

01:04:17.720 and inevitably potholes.

01:04:19.880 Eating 99 flakes in the sunshine were Maggie and Steve.

01:04:22.840 Steve, 66, a retired submariner,

01:04:25.380 submariner I think that's how she pronounced,

01:04:27.200 said that they were still deciding on who to vote for

01:04:29.540 in the local elections,

01:04:30.600 but we're both very interested in this new party,

01:04:32.320 Great Yarmouth First.

01:04:33.880 We've seen the posters and signs around today,

01:04:36.320 and we've said that when we get home,

01:04:37.540 we'll look them up and see what they're all about.

01:04:39.180 We like the sound of them.

01:04:41.100 Because what they didn't,

01:04:42.040 well, they're saying,

01:04:42.460 look, we're going to actually fix this place.

01:04:44.080 We have an MP with a track record

01:04:45.500 of actually doing what he says he's going to do,

01:04:47.720 he donates his salary every month to a local charity and he's actually got things done and

01:04:53.240 people like hmm a party that actually does things and doesn't i don't know nurture woke cults

01:05:00.920 crew or something like that like weird the people who do the things that i vote for them to do in

01:05:05.900 the first place that's that's just how degraded degraded the system has become now it's like a guy

01:05:11.640 starts a party called i like this town and says things about how he likes the town and will do

01:05:17.640 good things for the town and does good things about them and you're like i've not seen this

01:05:21.440 in years this seems like far right oh the financial times the sort of neoliberal heart

01:05:28.760 of the media in this country the ones that boris let the boris wave in for remember yeah just so

01:05:34.280 the rest of the financial times just so they would write nice things about him and and so they are 0.97

01:05:39.460 like the far right party trying to outflank niger farage well that seems to be easy to do

01:05:44.120 they say restore is seeking to outdo farage in anti-immigrant rhetoric in doing so is it is

01:05:50.640 embracing a form of hardline nativism which has rarely been seen in british politics since the

01:05:54.540 de facto disappearance of the british national party so yeah but gotta throw them in there

01:05:58.840 sprinkle some of that in there sorry can we go back to the um doctor surgeries traffic calming

01:06:04.860 measures and potholes please because that's actually what's being promised here fixing the

01:06:09.340 country making the country better and yes getting rid of a bunch of people i mean we it was revealed

01:06:14.760 today that the home office through uh the the center for migration uh control uh studies or

01:06:21.420 whatever it's called uh had put in a bunch of freedom of information requests and eventually

01:06:25.240 they got one back and the home office i guess there are 1.5 million foreigners living here on

01:06:29.800 benefits 1.5 million people we are paying to live here rather than them living in their own countries

01:06:36.260 about 1.5 million more than i'd want yeah it's weird isn't it like it's almost exactly what to

01:06:42.740 what like it's really coincidental how that venn diagram overlaps and rupert low has obviously

01:06:48.420 come out and just said well look we're gonna get rid of illegals we're gonna get rid of criminal

01:06:52.620 aliens then we're gonna get rid of um benefits scrounging foreigners because why would we want 0.99

01:06:58.480 any of these people here and that's millions of people who we know that this can be sending home 1.00

01:07:02.660 I mean, there's estimated 1 to 2 million illegals.

01:07:06.220 There's definitely more than 1 to 2 million.

01:07:07.340 I mean, the FT, they support these kinds of mass immigration policies

01:07:11.620 for the idea where they say,

01:07:13.520 oh, it's about bringing in people who are going to work the jobs

01:07:16.220 that people don't want to do.

01:07:17.460 It's going to boost GDP, blah-de-blah-de-blah.

01:07:20.020 And that figure alone, 1.5 million people on benefits

01:07:22.760 who shouldn't be here in the first place.

01:07:24.080 How much is that costing the state?

01:07:25.540 How much is that costing us in tax every year?

01:07:27.800 And then we have reports going back to almost 10 years ago now.

01:07:31.260 the dutch and uh was it dutch or danish yeah it wasn't dutch and the danish yeah yeah from the

01:07:36.240 economist where it's like no if you're getting like the only ones who ever really contribute 0.63

01:07:40.680 to the nation's finances are other european immigrants if you're getting in foreigners

01:07:44.960 from the third world they never once contribute anything so that argument just like fell apart 1.00

01:07:51.480 very easily and very very quickly so like what is the financial time doing it for really it's

01:07:57.000 probably just doing it now for the bs moral argument of like oh it'd be mean not to i mean

01:08:03.180 go about to disintegrate your nation because otherwise it's people have hurt feelings go

01:08:07.320 back to the woman who's like yeah i'm gonna vote zach polanski because i want more of the same

01:08:10.380 what do you think 1.5 million people just being here on benefits does to your rent

01:08:15.140 like that's that's they all live in places paid for by the government they get you know social

01:08:20.640 housing benefits and this goes to a landlord rather than you paying him rent and so like this

01:08:27.820 is increasing your rent love why are these people here and you'd be like well i'm not a racist

01:08:32.120 obviously anyway they carry on the finance times carry on low labeled as britain's most extreme 0.54

01:08:38.200 mp by campaign group hope not hate again another banger like absolute banger like britain i i'd

01:08:45.540 hope not hate representing reform yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly but financial times like what does

01:08:52.160 hope not hate think about them well i don't care but i would put that in my uh twitter bio britain's

01:08:57.740 most extreme mp uh said that he aims to create a national party that stands hundreds of candidates

01:09:02.680 in the next general election he is unabashed about his nativist views a highly unusual stance

01:09:07.540 for a sitting parliamentarian in britain it's just that line yeah exactly can you imagine

01:09:12.600 he is unabashed about his nativist views a highly unusual stance for a sitting parliamentarian

01:09:17.200 yes we are not being represented by our own mps and suddenly when an mp comes along goes yeah

01:09:21.920 actually i'd like to do good for my constituency they're like oh my god well this is like the bmp 1.00

01:09:27.600 or something it's like sorry but we've had enough we've had enough of all this countless foreign 0.99

01:09:33.680 men from cultures and religions which treat people women like shit are now roaming our streets 0.99

01:09:37.500 whether they arrived legally or illegally he said on x last week in a characteristic post 0.99

01:09:42.060 i can see why people like him lois linked the scandal of the increased number of rapes

01:09:49.660 uh explicitly to the importation of foreign men from specific cultures

01:09:53.620 well also the the data and facts do that oh yeah that's true it's not like he made this

01:10:01.540 up out of thin air i mean we've gone through a number of the court transcripts which was a

01:10:05.260 pretty horrifying thing so the data is out there and it's easily accessible at this point there's

01:10:10.520 no reason to deny it there's no excuse for denying it and if you do deny it there is a

01:10:15.200 hole in you where a soul should have been but what's interesting is the ft don't even try and

01:10:20.900 deny it they just say well look at what he's done it's not politically correct is it no but it is

01:10:25.460 factually what is it is the point and sputter style of argument can you believe it can you

01:10:30.900 believe he's saying it that's literally no counter argument he he explicitly linked the

01:10:36.380 importation of foreign men uh to the the current rape wave that's going on and praised tommy

01:10:41.120 robinson the controversial fire activist who has endorsed lo earlier this year so again it's the

01:10:45.520 pointing and spluttering like can you believe it's like yeah yeah this is all correct uh restore

01:10:52.500 proposes uh pushing armed forces to recruit from the native majority rather than fishing for 0.93

01:10:57.680 minorities which makes perfect sense what do we want to be ruled by a foreign mercenary army

01:11:04.600 like i mean they don't just to be clear like they don't join the army because why would they

01:11:10.420 uh but weird isn't it just really really weird but um i love this at the bottom they've got a

01:11:16.280 quote from sunder katwala you know who he is right he's a squirrel he's the gray squirrel

01:11:21.920 the director of think tank

01:11:25.860 British Future

01:11:26.800 ah yes

01:11:27.740 Sunder Catwiler

01:11:28.520 talking about British Future

01:11:29.980 wants the significance

01:11:31.360 of Restore Goethe

01:11:32.100 who's beyond political tactics

01:11:33.680 and its potential impact

01:11:34.600 on reform

01:11:35.260 he wrote in

01:11:36.620 The New World in March

01:11:37.880 the real threat

01:11:39.040 of this new political racism

01:11:40.800 is to the social norms

01:11:42.600 of our society

01:11:43.360 this is what must be resisted

01:11:45.240 and in a way

01:11:45.900 he's kind of right

01:11:46.840 it's like 1.00

01:11:47.460 well if the British are like 1.00

01:11:48.540 I could just vote 1.00

01:11:49.940 for a party

01:11:50.560 that's like

01:11:51.920 entirely nativist which we're for the british people and we're just going to get on the ground 1.00

01:11:56.420 and fix things for the british people we're going to get rid of the millions of immigrants i mean 1.00

01:12:01.360 sunday's like rape the rape crisis not my problem the crisis of housing caused by millions of 1.00

01:12:07.740 foreigners being paid by the british taxpayers be here not my problem my problem is people fixing 0.77

01:12:12.740 these things and it's like well sorry uh we're just we're going to do that it turns out that

01:12:18.660 actually we don't have to have politicians who don't represent us we could have a politician

01:12:23.200 that does represent us and so you can see like the fear it's like well this this is a threat to the

01:12:28.620 social norms of our society it's like have you considered that the social norms are demented

01:12:32.760 if we're in this position have you considered that actually this would be good for britain 1.00

01:12:39.440 even if it would be bad for i guess the foreigners who have come here to exploit us 1.00

01:12:43.840 so all i'm saying is uh aim high vote low because it seems that everything is going quite well on 1.00

01:12:53.180 the ground it seems that everything's going quite well in the air as it were and they are actually

01:12:58.980 getting worried like all of these articles and i mean there are more but i didn't want to go

01:13:04.540 through every single one all of these articles are basically saying the same things like look

01:13:08.800 this is what they believe and they are standing by it they don't care if they're being called names

01:13:13.020 and we're going to call them far right

01:13:15.300 but I don't think that's actually going to matter to people

01:13:17.560 we're a bit worried about how things

01:13:19.620 are going and there's definitely

01:13:21.540 a future in this

01:13:22.320 if the test

01:13:25.820 case works, when people

01:13:27.460 get the option, they will go for the option

01:13:29.580 they won't, as Dan has said, they won't go

01:13:31.540 for the soy option, they'll go for the real thing

01:13:33.720 and the point being

01:13:37.340 why would you want the other option?

01:13:39.180 why would you want

01:13:40.040 something on the half measure

01:13:42.880 exactly you know why would you want the almond milk you could have whole milk yeah or raw milk

01:13:48.900 or raw milk yeah why do you want almond i like the taste i know it sounds weird but i just happen to

01:13:54.560 like almond milk um i i do i do kind of man has a steak with a with a cup of almond milk i don't

01:14:02.960 drink almond milk with the steak let's have it my tea um all right no no with the steak i've

01:14:08.200 but I've perfected this cream mushroom sauce,

01:14:10.560 and it's amazing.

01:14:11.920 So, anyway.

01:14:12.940 I can't wait to hear more controversial takes

01:14:15.540 about your steak in the comments below.

01:14:18.160 My steaks are delicious.

01:14:19.460 You posting that one picture of a steak

01:14:22.120 that was such a firestorm.

01:14:25.300 I know.

01:14:26.180 My mentions were just insane.

01:14:27.440 I was just like, I don't care.

01:14:30.180 We've got a few.

01:14:31.100 Yeah, yeah, we've got some rumble rants, yeah.

01:14:33.400 Bowtime.

01:14:33.960 In February, the Manchester branch of Stand Up to Racism

01:14:36.520 stood with the cult against the locals strangely stand up to racism have now scrubbed their social

01:14:40.860 media posts from they but the cult haven't amazing that's that's great and again a local

01:14:47.880 branch like that everybody knows what goes on in these cults the only reason they've deleted it

01:14:53.240 all now is because it looks bad they were basically already in support of all of these things that 0.97

01:14:58.920 were going on because that's what these people are they are demented hateful creatures sigil stone 0.95

01:15:04.720 in my gamer cult, we worship 0.98

01:15:06.720 St. Gaben, the holy water

01:15:08.640 is Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper

01:15:10.840 is reserved for the most loyal,

01:15:12.680 sex is banned, and liking Fortnite

01:15:14.840 gets you the Kool-Aid.

01:15:17.080 I hope with that Mountain Dew you'll be doing

01:15:18.960 the Movie Bob special

01:15:21.020 of marinating chicken in it. 0.92

01:15:23.440 Habsification,

01:15:24.700 great yarn. Sorry, just before we go on,

01:15:26.740 honestly, I am

01:15:28.840 thinking, like, how do we build a

01:15:30.840 golden throne for Gaben?

01:15:32.780 Seriously, Gabe Newell.

01:15:33.680 because like he he seems to be the like the one pillar keeping pc gaming upright at this point

01:15:40.220 and i'm genuinely quite worried about it because i don't play on consoles or anything so it's like

01:15:46.460 okay he is a gargantuan old fat man just take advantage of steam while you still can yeah i

01:15:51.940 know like he you are right he is the one consumer friendly business executive and business owner

01:15:59.660 in all of gaming at this point and he prevent provides a platform for loads of indies and yet 0.63

01:16:05.560 indie games can vary in quality but god damn he's given them an option he's given them an opportunity

01:16:10.940 to do it he doesn't censor and oh yeah you know the game there are all sorts of games that you 0.78

01:16:16.000 can find sure sure and you know whatever you know i'm you know horses for courses but like he's not

01:16:22.120 like politically censoring people either and it as i understand it steam is not um floated on the

01:16:27.880 market so you can't get outside investments for it and stuff like this so he they have complete

01:16:32.160 control yeah there's no outside influence right there's no outside influence that might want to

01:16:36.260 take sex with hitler off of young harry's steam library it's on there i've never even heard of

01:16:43.320 that he's got every achievement i'd never heard of it before i saw it there as well 0.98

01:16:50.040 but the fact that you could get a ridiculous game like that on steam you know what it's funny

01:16:55.580 um but that but that's the point right and it's it's basically it seems to be him

01:16:59.980 that's the the single blockage for the entire industry going completely down the toilet yeah

01:17:04.820 and so and sony's implementing the new drm features like i was talking about last week

01:17:08.940 where it's like oh if you've bought a game off of our store but you've not logged on for a little

01:17:13.040 bit we're just going to prevent you from accessing it yeah basically turning all of the games into

01:17:17.040 rentals and things like this and it's like okay but at the moment it's brilliant everything's

01:17:22.040 great steam works like a dream and when he dies it could be that that all changes samson how old

01:17:29.220 is gabe newell how long he's in his 60s i think is he in his 60s let me just quickly uh look it up

01:17:33.800 so yeah i'm i mean george rr martin is showing that 63 george rr martin's almost 80 and he's

01:17:44.260 still fat so you know you can last he's still alive you can last that that way it's okay

01:17:54.060 and to be fair gabe's also got his unfinished project we've still not got half-life 3 so this

01:18:01.020 this is gaming's george rr martin situation but but gabe newell is um genuinely someone we need

01:18:08.020 to preserve and keep alive so we're going to need a golden throne and sacrifice a thousand

01:18:12.100 whatever's a day no we're just gonna need to future armor you know like preserve his

01:18:15.400 living head in a jar there you go or he can be like mr house and fall out new videos yeah yeah

01:18:20.960 yeah we can ai him you know because i'm honestly i'm genuinely worried about it um uh mandine says

01:18:26.240 carl you're looking extra dapper today please post that creamy mushroom sauce recipe on your ex

01:18:29.920 um it's literally just the first one on the google results uh live modified um sigil stone says i

01:18:37.840 feel like choosing violence today when gaben dies he's replaced by todd howard no like did you see

01:18:42.860 can you imagine steam on the todd's no it's so funny a discovered todd howard the other day

01:18:51.160 and he's he already knew todd howard it's that he was willing and thinking about putting on him on

01:18:57.240 his gaming mount yeah i know he didn't really know who todd howard was though clearly i don't think

01:19:01.740 he'd played a todd howard game since skyrim yeah at least he's not a bethesda guy and i i was

01:19:07.980 watching his replies people was like what are you doing he's just like i was not prepared for the

01:19:11.920 response the depth of feeling to todd howard it's like yeah look man it's a lot a lot of broken

01:19:16.840 hearts okay then by the end of the day he was like i no longer think todd howard is deserving

01:19:22.180 it's just like yeah you you stepped on a landmine there bro although his initial idea of gaming's

01:19:29.100 mount rushmore that's that's a good idea it's yeah but i mean it'd be quite controversial

01:19:34.180 um i mean i i think there were nowhere near enough for japanese game developers obviously

01:19:39.360 you put the super mario guys on there and miyazaki from from soft you know he he floated those two

01:19:45.420 but i think some of the classic resident evil guys like uh shinji makami and um hideki kamiya

01:19:52.320 they've made some amazing games between them yeah i wouldn't i wouldn't put many of the sort of

01:19:56.940 modern game developers on there at all it'd be old game developers i'm trying to trying to think

01:20:01.020 which modern get like id software guys right they're you know like john carmack and things

01:20:06.100 like that yeah they definitely deserve it i i think he's still is he still part of id software

01:20:10.620 i don't know i'd have to check yeah i think uh like miyazaki is the only like really notable

01:20:15.980 modern game developer outside of the indie scene just another super check i mean uh at shea pearl

01:20:22.760 which i assume is an x and so go follow them yesterday i attended the first restore britain

01:20:27.320 barnet and camden branch meeting there were like 60 people there incredible yeah it's the energy

01:20:32.220 has just been off the charts um so go and get involved obviously folks all right let's go

01:20:38.400 through some of the uh some of the videos peter per words of wisdom never give in to the temptation

01:20:46.440 of despair for only despair is our enemy's weapon they know that for despair is their only weapon

01:20:56.660 against us now they're we are broken shattered before us they must immoralize us only that

01:21:05.900 is their only weapon that's an insightful cat that cat knows what it's all i mean it's completely

01:21:12.400 true if the situation was hopeless their propaganda would be unnecessary true i wasn't actually

01:21:18.020 listening i was just looking at the cat let's move on going across the atlantic ocean to england

01:21:25.300 where i came from you came from england huh i did dear it's a wonderful country do you know about

01:21:30.340 england i just know that it's an island it's an island dear and a glorious one because they have

01:21:35.180 a queen and they have a royal family oh just like a poker game it's a full house a couple of the

01:21:41.040 Cards aren't living at home anymore.

01:21:42.400 That anymore, dear, thanks to mobile phones.

01:21:44.420 No, no.

01:21:45.740 Do you know what language they speak in England?

01:21:48.460 Pakistani. 0.99

01:21:49.780 That's right, Kovacs. 0.92

01:21:50.800 In many stores, they do.

01:21:55.400 Well.

01:21:55.880 It sounds like it's just handling it.

01:22:00.120 I mean, yeah.

01:22:01.200 True.

01:22:01.520 Let's move.

01:22:02.100 Let's move to the next one.

01:22:04.840 Good morning, gentlemen.

01:22:06.620 Now, as Stelio says, more Euromaxing.

01:22:11.040 Here I am at Malmaison, the home of Napoleon.

01:22:23.980 Looks like a beautiful day.

01:22:25.460 Yeah.

01:22:25.800 Have a better one.

01:22:27.660 Very nice.

01:22:28.240 Have you considered putting a cult in it?

01:22:32.180 The local council will protect you.

01:22:34.220 Final video, I think.

01:22:36.040 Well, there it is.

01:22:36.960 Gentlemen, the Chateau Gilead.

01:22:39.260 where Richard the Lionhearted set up his kingdom for a time.

01:22:47.000 Yes, I did make the climb all the way to the top.

01:22:51.300 And a brief note to Brother Stelios.

01:22:53.200 Yes, I did indeed visit Notre Dame de Paris.

01:22:58.280 I also visited Notre Dame de la Rouen.

01:23:02.740 Turns out that Notre Dame is a very common name

01:23:05.880 for many of the Catholic churches throughout France.

01:23:09.260 yeah schwartz tulip has just asked when's your star wars debate uh dropping on the website i

01:23:14.720 don't know i don't know yeah i'm not i'm not in control of that we're not in charge of that

01:23:18.700 whole part that's the editors yeah yeah yeah justin says i do hate that pay framing the

01:23:23.740 entire narrative about women being paid less was creative accounting at best or completely made up

01:23:28.200 yeah and now it's completely invert inverted and they still try to oh well women are feeling the

01:23:33.220 inequality because they're more worried about money it's like well maybe they're just spending

01:23:36.440 more pete says i've been saying it for years women can't be equal and independent of men 0.99

01:23:41.220 and remain hypergamous uh well obviously true um but then they're like i don't have any prospects 0.98

01:23:46.780 okay get back in your jane austen knoll what they kind of want to live in is it's a weird kind of 1.00

01:23:51.520 like matrix for women where they can act out all of the like independent fantasies and such and 1.00

01:23:58.380 they can have you know like an extramarital affair with a man bull thing on the side but they also 1.00

01:24:04.140 they also still want like an actual patriarchy looking after them it's like barclay on the

01:24:08.700 holodeck holodeck or something right yeah uh kevin says get it right harry he's not on a bicycle

01:24:13.780 it's a tricycle which if he fails to get elected he'll fit a bench uh seat on the back and the hood

01:24:19.280 and get tucked up tuck tuck job around the streets good point yeah yeah yeah uh sophie says i just

01:24:25.920 watched the devil web wears prada too the message of the original was uh corporate life is horrible

01:24:31.020 actually it will eat you up and make you miserable get out the message of the new one is literally

01:24:35.560 know you live to work climbing corporate ladder is everything going on a pen going on pension is

01:24:40.560 worse than death you don't need family you have you have work for a fashion blog this explains

01:24:45.200 everything about modern life inspiring yeah well this is the thing i just don't understand what 0.75

01:24:49.360 like these young women actually think they are going to get out of life really um uh you know

01:24:55.380 powell harnessing the hamster wheel and ed milliband skull says uh they can vote oh no so yeah 0.94

01:25:00.500 unfortunately they can um hector says you're not even a licensed fake breast enhancer you won't

01:25:06.740 be getting my vote yeah so true i was on the fence but it was it was the deception that really yeah 0.65

01:25:12.680 really disappointed me yeah jimbo says i feel like the radioactive women have enticed normal women

01:25:18.140 into believing that continuing our civilization is merely a remnant of the patriarchy

01:25:21.780 and well yeah that's that's literally what they've been saying so where's all the future 0.92

01:25:26.160 workers and socialism come from evidently the exotic patriarchy with lesser women walking around

01:25:31.040 in black handmade costumes which they demand more of yeah and they're not allowed to criticize 0.96

01:25:34.900 either because that's racist yeah they always have the handmade costume at the ready yeah yeah

01:25:40.380 it's weird um let's go on to the next one uh breaking news bag end situation situated at the

01:25:47.640 end of bagshot row has been raided by hobbits who found a cult worshipping sharky the sackville

01:25:52.140 bagginses who have supported them have now been asked to resign from the council you know what 0.64

01:25:56.120 dirty belts right i'm actually the for my for my next island article i'm going to be talking about 0.99

01:26:00.600 the scouring of the shire so it's weird that you happen to bring it up and it's because i really

01:26:04.860 think it reflects so many of the problems that we have at the moment uh and there's uh there's a

01:26:10.800 solution to all of these things jimbo g you know it's the final word of god when the prophet gets

01:26:16.460 caught trying to escape over the fence of a compound inshallah truly it's like the prophet

01:26:23.320 mohammed yeah truly it was judgment day that day jimbo again there's a great netflix documentary 0.56

01:26:30.340 called wild wild country about the osha cult which moved the osha cult which moved to a small 0.65

01:26:36.180 town in oregon in the 1980s and gradually took over the residents were naturally labeled xenophobic

01:26:41.200 until the usual revelations came out this was on a much larger scale so crew have hopefully dodged

01:26:45.940 a bullet well again the local police are like no this is just about specific charges that came out

01:26:50.320 in march we're not actually doing anything about the cult themselves this isn't about their religion

01:26:54.960 which is why people are now protesting outside because all of this has all come out it has got

01:26:59.660 way more attention on it people are calling for the councilors to resign and the mayor to resign

01:27:04.300 for enabling all of it so if they don't and they try and weather the storm um i can only hope a

01:27:11.100 reckoning is coming to them but if they do manage to weather the storm uh yeah they're just going

01:27:16.080 to try and get more infiltrators into the local town council and organize the entire town around 0.94

01:27:21.140 them which is a horrifying thing to talk about arizona desert rat this wasn't a waco type

01:27:26.580 situation was it no the place did not burn down but also the government's on the side of the cult

01:27:32.080 yeah unlike with waco right because a bunch of people shot that right well then the place got

01:27:38.280 place got burned down um that's a random name the most ethnic man on earth i'm glad to see that

01:27:45.000 you've embraced it uh if lotus eaters is a cult does that mean that only gold members go to heaven

01:27:50.280 well do us poor bronzes get limbo i mean i didn't want to say it i mean limbo's a bit good really

01:27:57.480 for them silver gets better than hell which non-subscribers are getting uh zesty says

01:28:02.900 remember boris unleashed the highest level of immigration we've all experienced to impress the

01:28:06.200 financial times uh if that publisher is against you that can only be a good thing yeah i know

01:28:10.720 That's why, as Debbie Bell said,

01:28:13.120 the greatest compliments one can receive are the wailing curses of one's enemies.

01:28:16.240 Yeah, and the only person who's actually guessing those is Rupert Lowe.

01:28:18.880 I mean, like, Alistair Campbell being like,

01:28:20.320 he was the most right-wing man I'd ever met 20 years ago.

01:28:23.460 That's a great endorsement.

01:28:25.440 I couldn't ask for a better endorsement of a candidate than that.

01:28:29.360 Omar says,

01:28:30.120 Vibes-based politics is incredibly effective and virulent in spreading.

01:28:33.840 You do tend to look a bit of a div on the second someone questions

01:28:36.940 on how you arrived at your conclusions and can't show your work.

01:28:39.620 yeah there have been two great examples of the greens for this now that was the um

01:28:43.400 the deputy leader or whatever her name is it was like uh why where's all the hate come from and

01:28:48.380 she was like rising grocery prices oh yeah this was that guy on question time who was asking about

01:28:55.160 the attacks on synagogues and such wasn't he he's like who's attacking them and she's like uh

01:29:00.140 why why where does the hate come from it's like well the prices of things and then uh hannah the

01:29:06.160 plumber being like matt goodwin's the responsible for the manchester arena bombing which is just

01:29:10.780 mind-blowing that's um that's a take yeah it's a great take i'm pretty sure it's her ideology that

01:29:18.100 meant the guy went unsearched yeah yeah yeah that's the fault really i mean it was literally

01:29:23.600 uh that the um the guard was afraid to searching in case that would have been racist yeah that's

01:29:29.420 literally what happened at the manchester arena bombing uh isaac matt goodwin do this yeah i know

01:29:33.980 yeah matt how could you uh isaac says uh wow i can't wait to turn on the tv tomorrow and see

01:29:38.080 all the local election results from everywhere except great yarmouth yeah i mean like i've been

01:29:42.780 really reluctant to like hyper hype it up but it looks like they're gonna do really well um i hope

01:29:48.140 so yeah obviously i hope so um we will be covering it tomorrow so we'll find out um so you'll be

01:29:53.960 able to actually find out what happens there and doing whatever breakdown is available and possible

01:29:58.400 to do from all of our lads on the ground so we should have some good information for you because

01:30:03.460 we did specifically send some people bo is currently there with thomas and various others

01:30:07.520 um as a norfolk lad i wish our battle brothers and sisters a glorious victory to pave the way

01:30:11.840 for the rest of us yeah i know right like we're gonna have to put up a statue to the patriots

01:30:15.400 of great yarmouth when we win like because they're the ones who made this possible

01:30:18.820 alpha the beta says if you live in wales for 10 years you're welsh if you live in 0.85

01:30:23.580 nigel's house for 10 years you're nigel farage so all i need to do is squat 0.59

01:30:29.120 he doesn't even have to know yeah exactly there's some rumblings in the attic but nobody goes to 0.93

01:30:36.860 check and all of a sudden you come downstairs and you're like well where's where's my gb news

01:30:42.000 salary nigel yeah come on hand it over uh but i think we're out of time yeah on that we're out

01:30:49.700 of time so thank you very very much for tuning in we'll see you again tomorrow where hopefully

01:30:53.700 we will have some very good news for you till then take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - May 07, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1413

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