The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1425

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon, folks. Welcome to the Podcast Alert Seasons for Monday, the 25th of May,

00:00:04.120 2026. I'm joined by Harry and Andrew Bridgen, former MP for, what was it, Leicester, North?

00:00:10.660 Northwest Leicestershire. Northwest Leicestershire, sorry.

00:00:12.740 Highest economic growth in the country, happiest place to live in the Midlands.

00:00:16.640 It's not Leicester East either, is it? You know, thank God.

00:00:19.020 Not Keith Vaz. I do feel sorry for Leicester East.

00:00:22.200 Yeah, I do too.

00:00:22.800 It took me nine years to get Keith Vaz out of Parliament.

00:00:25.180 Yeah, yeah. But anyway, so today we've got exciting stuff to talk about.

00:00:29.300 We've got the reform meltdown over Restore standing against them in Makerfield.

00:00:35.840 Andrew has been there personally canvassing for Restore,

00:00:38.820 so he's going to tell us a bit about that.

00:00:40.620 Then we're going to talk about the St. George's Day celebrations.

00:00:44.280 It is the anniversary of our Lord and Saviour, George Floyd, and his passing.

00:00:49.720 And then we've got a fun bit to talk about.

00:00:51.740 There are a remarkable number of African kings living in Britain on social housing,

00:00:56.260 which i just thought was just just funny and uh something just amusing to talk about anyway right

00:01:03.500 let's uh let's get into it so look at this poll wow this servation poll came out the other day

00:01:10.940 in fact it's just yesterday uh the times have released a new poll for the makerfield by

00:01:15.720 election by servation says nigel farage robert kenyon is the only candidate who can stop andy

00:01:20.740 Burnham. It's a two-horse race. Nobody comes close. Okay, well, this is a poll in which you're losing

00:01:27.540 to the Labour Party, but okay, great. That's a good start, I suppose, from your perspective.

00:01:33.580 So why is this causing such a meltdown? Well, the answer is quite obvious, isn't it? They feel

00:01:40.400 entitled to the percentage of votes that Restore Britain have. Now, there are some questions about

00:01:46.920 this poll of course uh as in huh it was only 369 people that's not a very good poll it's not a very

00:01:57.600 comprehensive poll and the room for error would be large very large and also uh make a field like

00:02:04.620 anywhere else in britain uh has areas and the areas are the richer areas voting labor and the

00:02:11.580 poor era is voting, well, the right in some way.

00:02:15.220 And so you could...

00:02:16.040 Can you imagine that 50 years ago if you'd said

00:02:17.860 that's how it's going to turn around?

00:02:19.100 Politics will turn around full circle in the UK

00:02:21.640 to the point where this is where your votes are going to be.

00:02:24.400 It is very much a bizarre thing,

00:02:26.920 but Labour are actually the party of the rich these days,

00:02:29.840 which is very peculiar.

00:02:32.160 But as you can see, like, this is a very, very small sample.

00:02:35.480 And with the sample so small,

00:02:37.680 you really shouldn't be pinning any hopes on it.

00:02:39.960 but it's caused something of a meltdown in the reform camp and i find this meltdown very very

00:02:45.840 entertaining because uh nobody's buying it vote restore get burnham well i mean if the restore

00:02:54.000 people didn't turn out we would still get burnham wouldn't we you're not actually winning in this

00:02:59.060 poll so you assuming that all of those restore voters would just be natural reform voters is

00:03:06.100 rather ironic because you kind of would have assumed the same sort of thing in Gorton and

00:03:10.400 Denton, wouldn't you? There'd be a large nativist constituency there that would turn out, but you

00:03:14.840 didn't turn them out. And what we saw from Great Yarmouth was actually a lot of people who didn't

00:03:19.320 turn out for previous elections were prepared to turn out for Restore now. So if for some reason

00:03:24.400 you're not turning these people out and they don't turn out for you, then you can lay claim to them

00:03:29.460 all you want, but as this poll shows, you are still going to lose to Andy Burnham. So why the meltdown?

00:03:35.480 Well, they think, for some reason, that these voters are theirs and that they've been stolen.

00:03:41.540 The simple fact...

00:03:42.280 Sort of feudalism, really.

00:03:43.900 It is, isn't it?

00:03:45.280 And you know what?

00:03:46.060 Just a quick tangent.

00:03:47.360 I've noticed this kind of weird socialist attitude in the conservatives and reform.

00:03:53.140 Jacob Rees-Mogg said the same thing on a podcast the other day.

00:03:55.300 He said, no, there are Tory voters, there are Labour voters, there are reform voters, and there are these voters.

00:04:00.140 It's like, no, you know, you don't own these constituencies.

00:04:03.240 It's like being given respect and not having earned it.

00:04:06.760 You have to earn those votes.

00:04:08.340 Yes, and somehow, you know, Jacob Rees-Mogg is no longer an MP.

00:04:13.080 How did this happen?

00:04:14.420 But anyway, so you get posts like this,

00:04:16.960 the simple facts of the only way to stop Burnham is to vote reform.

00:04:19.800 The Tories in Restore don't have a cat's hell's chance of winning.

00:04:22.620 It's like, okay, well, maybe, maybe that's true,

00:04:25.140 but the attitude of sort of we've got to stop Andy Burnham at all costs.

00:04:29.460 Why?

00:04:29.920 Well, I actually met two on the doorsteps on Saturday.

00:04:32.880 I met two former conservative voters

00:04:35.700 who said they were actually considering voting Labour

00:04:38.900 to keep Farage out.

00:04:41.840 That's how they thought.

00:04:43.480 That's desperate, yeah.

00:04:43.980 Yeah, and I think we've got them to come to restore,

00:04:46.880 but, I mean, they said,

00:04:48.160 I just desperately don't want Farage in.

00:04:49.820 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:04:50.620 And there are a lot of people like that.

00:04:52.620 Because remember, Nigel Farage, everyone knows who he is,

00:04:54.640 but two-thirds of people actually hate him,

00:04:56.880 and only about a third of people actually like him.

00:04:58.760 So there's a lot of baggage there.

00:05:01.480 But the argument here, though, is weird.

00:05:04.800 Andy Burnham is not any better or worse than Keir Starmer.

00:05:08.780 Andy Burnham can't be any different.

00:05:10.180 I mean, the King's speech is that that die is cast

00:05:13.180 for the next two years almost.

00:05:15.360 And Burnham told us precisely, 1.00

00:05:16.560 I'm not going to mess around with the immigration 1.00

00:05:17.760 that Shabana Mahmoud's doing. 0.99

00:05:19.120 I'm not going to mess around. 0.87

00:05:19.980 All he said, he's going to effectively bring in

00:05:21.660 another wealth tax through property.

00:05:23.800 And so this is not any different to Labour generally.

00:05:27.200 All they're doing is changing the human shield.

00:05:30.100 Exactly.

00:05:30.500 And Andy Burnham, I mean, you know, being a fairly stock Labour politician of economically illiterate, generally doesn't know why he's doing the things he's doing, but doesn't seem like a personally evil man, right?

00:05:44.460 He seems like quite a nice guy.

00:05:46.060 He's very popular in Manchester.

00:05:47.980 He is.

00:05:48.560 As far as I can tell from being mayor of that city for a few years now.

00:05:52.500 And he doesn't seem evil, whereas Keir Starmer does seem evil.

00:05:55.560 He does seem to actually hate us and want to give us the full force of the law.

00:06:00.020 Well, Andy Burnham isn't out here threatening us every day.

00:06:02.800 As he told us before last Saturday.

00:06:05.760 Exactly.

00:06:06.460 And so it's just one of those things where it's like,

00:06:08.140 oh, we have to stop Andy Burnham at all costs.

00:06:10.380 Why?

00:06:11.060 I'm not that bothered about Andy Burnham.

00:06:12.320 Well, it's just a media trick to make you think that,

00:06:16.900 like every single election ever,

00:06:18.540 that this is the most important election that anybody's ever done ever.

00:06:22.000 Nobody used to think that quite so much 15 years ago about by-elections.

00:06:27.180 Yes.

00:06:27.380 general elections were the ones that people really turned out for and were important but now

00:06:32.420 in the media age 24 7 news cycles social media amplifying everything as well everything has to

00:06:39.020 be so what's the hook what's what's the cell for this one this is a storyline we're engaged in a

00:06:44.940 storyline right now and the hook on the left and the right is andy burnham comes in ousts keir

00:06:52.340 starmer and implements a new regime of ultra socialism on the country i think i think the

00:06:58.800 whole idea of it is completely absurd it's not going to happen people are treating it as though

00:07:03.400 even if andy burnham does get into this particular seat that he will then immediately just been be

00:07:09.620 crowned king of labor whereas kiss instead of just the king of the north instead of just the king of

00:07:15.460 the north or even just be given a minor cabinet position or something because everybody's treating

00:07:21.140 it as though Keir Starmer is some sort of flower drifting along in the wind who is unable to control

00:07:28.360 the events around him and has no contingency plans for if Andy Burnham were to get in and

00:07:32.800 will just happily step aside and let him take premiership where I think as well as him being

00:07:38.160 evil if we've learned one thing about Keir Starmer over the past few years is that he is quite an

00:07:42.980 adept political survivor he is something of a Machiavellian operator that's so I don't think

00:07:47.780 it's a foregone conclusion at all no that you that burnham would usurp him and i've seen people

00:07:53.100 like what's his name um on lbc the one who was james o'brien no not james o'brien the other one

00:07:59.440 lewis goodall oh yeah i heard him talking about how oh if even if andy burnham loses it'll be a

00:08:04.880 knock against keir starmer or something it's like no that how they're treating it as if it's just a

00:08:10.140 foregone conclusion burnham wins it's over for starmer burnham loses it's over for starmer okay

00:08:16.500 well if it's just over for Starmer we can all just hold our hands up and say this is of no

00:08:21.300 let's see that the mechanism of that then it is much harder in the Labour Party to get rid of to

00:08:26.620 defenestrate leaders than it is in the in the Conservative Party and this is what Keir Starmer

00:08:31.160 said it's like no leadership challenge has been triggered therefore I'm just going to carry on

00:08:35.120 yeah I've been told for months for over a year now that it's over for Keir Starmer and it's not

00:08:40.540 it doesn't have to be and the the Conservatives are far too worried about the future of their

00:08:45.780 own party Keir Starmer doesn't seem to care at all about the future of his own party but moreover

00:08:50.020 it's not even clear that Andy Burnham will defeat Keir Starmer in a Labour leadership challenge

00:08:53.800 because there was a poll that came out the other day that put them both on 40 percent

00:08:56.900 with Labour members and so you know no guarantee at all but I thought in the latest local elections

00:09:05.120 the slogan was vote reform get Keir Starmer out well that's the point isn't it aren't we aren't

00:09:10.380 we supposed to be getting Keir Starmer out but now we don't want Keir Starmer out because we don't

00:09:13.740 want burnham in because burnham is somehow worse nonsense it's all nonsense right so anyway uh

00:09:19.160 you've got uh how do you how do you pronounce this name annunciata thank you i remember i remember

00:09:24.200 she stood in for the conservatives in 2010 she did down south uh annunciata reese mogg and cameron

00:09:31.840 tried to persuade her to stand on the ballot paper as nancy mogg well i mean i could she refused yeah

00:09:37.840 i couldn't pronounce it but anyway we get jacob reese mogg sister giving us the general gist right

00:09:42.520 the right needs to unite to defeat the dangers of the left country before party britain before ego

00:09:47.720 as a tory i've said i think the tory should not have stood in makerfield the same goes for a store

00:09:52.080 this is not any old election it's a very specific one where the national interest should trump other

00:09:56.160 considerations i thought we were trying to get starma out i thought that was the point so actually

00:10:01.540 reform standing in makerfield isn't that actually the thing that's preventing keir starma from

00:10:06.920 getting out so we have been told right up until this moment when actually as you say this is the

00:10:12.180 most important election of all time when it's actually not but um this is not really very

00:10:16.380 persuasive well jacobry smog actually retweeted that and i saw he did i commented on it and he

00:10:22.340 said that uh vote restore get burnham um well i think annunciata is a member of reform isn't she

00:10:30.580 she is yeah and as far as i know jacobry smog is still is still a member of of the conservative

00:10:36.600 party didn't she encouraging someone to vote for any other party than the party you belong to

00:10:41.980 is uh immediate dismissal from the party yeah isn't she a former MEP for reform as well yes

00:10:47.320 so it's very very strange but no as a Tory it's like oh there's a very permeable barrier here I

00:10:52.960 think it was the Brexit party wasn't it oh sorry it was the Brexit party wasn't yeah but there's

00:10:56.460 a very permeable barrier there between reform uh the Brexit party and the conservatives well most

00:11:01.800 of the ex-ministers are now in in reform aren't they yes they are yeah which is what makes this

00:11:05.960 all the more ironic from councillor keir here where he's like well that's clear restore a

00:11:12.220 clearly a a controlled opposition for the conservative party they're doing the conservative

00:11:16.640 party's bidding if you vote for restore you get the tories in some way shape or form it's like

00:11:21.760 well hang on a second have you not looked at your own party mate you've got the architect of the

00:11:27.080 online harms bill you've got the home secretary who oversaw the boris wave you've got the 0.91

00:11:32.000 immigration ministry smuggled in 30 000 afghans and then put in the super injunction to make sure

00:11:36.480 the media couldn't even report on it and you've got the iraqi immigrant who tried to impose and

00:11:41.560 they were coming in through manchester airport tonight they were and the which i exposed and

00:11:46.940 the iraqi immigrant who wanted to coerce us into taking uh the vaccines so it's just one of those 0.78

00:11:53.300 things or something sorry what are we even arguing here like you've got nothing to throw 0.75

00:11:58.960 when um nigel farage took on nadeem zahawi yeah i mean nigel's many things but he's not 0.64

00:12:06.740 politically stupid anyone would know that zahawi is 90 toxic yes to most of the electorate can 0.84

00:12:14.640 and increasingly so well that shows to me i mean nigel would have known that that nigel's not 0.99

00:12:21.280 running reform he's been told by someone you're taking in zahawi quite possibly i mean that may

00:12:27.280 well bring in an awful lot of donations from big pharma and i mean when when they did the press

00:12:34.080 conference that was exactly nigel's reason well he can raise a lot of money so well i'm sure he

00:12:38.100 can raise a lot of money nigel but is that wise you buy your seats nowadays then i mean and your

00:12:43.240 own seats and why are you so worried about it when you're leading in the polls like if you're

00:12:46.920 leading in all of these polls why are you so worried about actually being able to raise this

00:12:53.120 money to campaign unless of course it's not about campaigning that is the issue for the money

00:12:57.040 anyway so this none of this has been persuasive right this has been thrown all weekend at us

00:13:02.660 and frankly uh it's really scraping the bottom of the barrel now i mean you get um uh this uh

00:13:10.060 lalia cunningham uh complaining that actually people are just being mean on social media

00:13:14.860 so restore supporters uh making horrible ai images of her being in a dead in a wheelbarrow

00:13:21.720 pushed by Rupert Lowe.

00:13:22.920 It's like, really?

00:13:23.900 Where did that meme come from?

00:13:25.680 Oh, that meme came from when Nigel Farage backstabbed Rupert Lowe

00:13:29.380 and he was forced to give over his guns to the police

00:13:31.700 because they alleged he was going to try and kill...

00:13:33.500 Which excuse are we on now?

00:13:35.640 There's a growing list of...

00:13:38.560 It's a movable feast, the excuse for getting rid of Rupert Lowe.

00:13:41.940 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:13:42.540 There have been three different excuses given...

00:13:45.520 Of the truth.

00:13:46.220 Of the truth.

00:13:46.800 But I think the real one is Rupert Lowe was just to the right of Nigel Farage

00:13:50.200 and so he had to go.

00:13:50.920 I think that's the real one.

00:13:52.560 It was going to hold him to policies.

00:13:54.240 Yes, yeah.

00:13:55.040 He actually wanted to do these things.

00:13:57.240 So we've got, oh, we're making horrible memes about them on social media.

00:14:00.960 I mean, guilty as charged, I imagine,

00:14:02.840 but I don't care that you're upset about that.

00:14:05.340 Then we've got, oh, we're racists.

00:14:07.440 Thank you, Lewis Perry.

00:14:09.100 Nigel Farage is a bit on the side, calling everyone a racist.

00:14:12.760 This is a top restored Britain activist, Steve Laws.

00:14:15.160 it amazes me that people will tell you that uh the policy of removing illegal migrants and

00:14:23.300 foreign criminals from the country that's an extreme view but but it's not an extreme i think

00:14:28.860 an extreme view is giving those criminals four-star hotels meals and pushing for the front

00:14:35.240 of all public services that is an extremely extreme view i mean bringing millions of people

00:14:40.720 here against our will is an incredibly extreme thing to do there's just no question of it and

00:14:47.180 so anyway but according to lois perry we're a bunch of racists which is a label we haven't heard

00:14:51.920 before that's new well on lois that's very oh suddenly that's persuaded i like the russian

00:14:56.060 policy for if you break into russia illegally they give you two years hard labor then deport

00:15:00.820 you i mean that i mean you can imagine there's not many people breaking in i'm not i'm not really

00:15:08.880 a fan of Russia, but I don't mind

00:15:10.880 the sound of that. Anyway, there's a lot 0.86

00:15:12.860 of cope and meltdown over this.

00:15:15.120 Alex Phillips has had yet another meltdown

00:15:17.000 on Talk TV, and I think it's just worth watching.

00:15:19.320 So you can see the strain

00:15:20.740 that these people feel that they're under.

00:15:22.260 It's constant messing about

00:15:24.440 parlor games instead of making policy

00:15:26.740 and doing what's right for the country.

00:15:29.080 And this venal,

00:15:30.960 vainglorious, vile

00:15:33.180 game playing that goes on and on

00:15:34.980 and on every single time because there's

00:15:36.800 a load of people running around feeling

00:15:38.660 full of self-importance, ha, ha, ha, I've got a cunning plan.

00:15:41.280 Oh, look at all the WhatsApp messages.

00:15:42.840 Oh, which faction are you in?

00:15:43.960 Oh, I'm in this faction, but I'm more than that faction.

00:15:45.900 All of this nonsense running around

00:15:48.320 and thinking they're in like a dramatisation of the West Wing.

00:15:51.800 Well, Rome burns.

00:15:53.360 And I'm fed up with it.

00:15:55.140 I'm fed up with a lot of them.

00:15:56.600 I'm angry as anything this morning

00:15:58.920 because all of these people who are doing it for their egos

00:16:02.940 and their sense of self-importance

00:16:04.620 and their five minutes of fame or they're feeling powerful.

00:16:07.740 Ha-ha, my little plot worked.

00:16:09.640 All of those people who sit there getting a kick. 0.99

00:16:13.620 She's still going.

00:16:14.920 I know. 1.00

00:16:15.880 Manipulating, gaslighting.

00:16:18.540 Yeah, all of those people are the reason why this country

00:16:21.600 is heading down a sinkhole at a rate of knots.

00:16:25.060 So stress, I think, is what we can take from that.

00:16:29.040 I think they're quite stressed out about this.

00:16:30.620 She used a triplet of words beginning with V,

00:16:33.220 so you could say she was flicking the Vs at the restore voters.

00:16:36.100 No, no, there's some good rhetoric there, but...

00:16:39.920 Was it?

00:16:40.520 No, not really.

00:16:41.340 But I'm trying to be charitable.

00:16:43.560 But the point that I think we can take from this

00:16:45.640 is that there's a huge amount of stress in the reform camp at the moment.

00:16:48.820 They're not happy.

00:16:49.940 They think she does protest too much.

00:16:52.120 They're all sawing out quite frantically.

00:16:54.300 They are.

00:16:55.800 And this is just a problem of their own making.

00:16:59.260 I must admit, at the meeting point,

00:17:01.820 which was a big pub up in Makerfield,

00:17:06.100 there was a couple of gentlemen came in and they came to me

00:17:11.200 and I said, are you with Restore?

00:17:13.580 And they looked very sheepish and they were actually,

00:17:16.540 she said, no, we're with you, Andrew, with you all the way, ultimately,

00:17:20.740 but not at the moment.

00:17:22.500 I said, well, what does that mean?

00:17:23.400 They said, oh, we're actually in reform.

00:17:25.040 They'd come to spy.

00:17:25.880 They looked glum because, I mean, it's just hundreds and hundreds.

00:17:29.200 Weirdly, Nick Lowell's had tweeted out,

00:17:31.360 not seeing many reform canvases on the ground, but lots of Restore.

00:17:35.600 See any.

00:17:36.160 And, yeah, so just saying,

00:17:38.120 and I actually asked one of our canvassers on the ground,

00:17:40.660 what do you think of that poll?

00:17:41.880 He was like, if they'd put it at 14%, I might have believed it,

00:17:44.600 but there's no way it's only 7%.

00:17:45.840 There are people on the ground whose doors you'll knock on

00:17:50.100 who have not heard of Restore.

00:17:51.600 Yeah.

00:17:53.320 That's whatever percentage now, that's only going to grow.

00:17:56.240 If we keep the momentum going and the number of volunteers going up there,

00:18:00.620 I mean, we're on the way.

00:18:01.960 Yeah. So this all kind of accumulated with Elon Musk retweeting Rupert Lowe yesterday saying,

00:18:08.700 restore Britain. Just Britain's under assault by the establishment, which it clearly is.

00:18:14.060 They want us gone. They hate us. They're going to throw everything at us. And Elon Musk is like,

00:18:18.800 yep, I'm going to retweet that. 165,000 likes later, 29 million views later.

00:18:25.560 this is a pretty big problem for the Reform Party.

00:18:28.580 As in, they've lost the high-energy activists on the ground,

00:18:33.720 but they've also lost the air war, and they've lost Elon Musk,

00:18:37.380 the most followed person in human history on social media,

00:18:41.060 is backing Rupert Lowe.

00:18:42.160 So you can feel why the pressure in the Farage bunker would be growing.

00:18:46.000 But they've done it all to themselves.

00:18:47.180 I mean, they had it all.

00:18:48.520 They had it all, didn't they?

00:18:49.580 They did.

00:18:49.900 They had Rupert.

00:18:50.840 They did.

00:18:51.640 They had Elon Musk.

00:18:52.980 They had the activists.

00:18:53.880 They had the activists, they had the momentum.

00:18:57.440 But for some reason...

00:18:58.800 Slipped between their fingers.

00:19:00.540 Exactly.

00:19:00.960 For some reason, Farage was like,

00:19:02.320 no, I refuse to be criticised in public.

00:19:04.560 I refuse to have someone a day early in a step to my right.

00:19:08.300 Rupert Lowe's gone,

00:19:09.060 and I assume I never have to worry about these people again.

00:19:12.020 And it's like, well, sorry.

00:19:13.520 We weren't just going to roll over and die

00:19:15.980 and be like, oh, I guess we'll never do anything in politics then.

00:19:18.420 Actually, no.

00:19:19.280 We can, and we have vast support,

00:19:21.940 if moral, if not anything else.

00:19:24.600 And so Elon Musk,

00:19:25.560 Nigel Farage has responded to Elon Musk

00:19:27.580 and Musk risks splitting the right.

00:19:29.640 He's like, listen, man,

00:19:30.760 you aren't like the king of the right.

00:19:32.260 You haven't been crowned.

00:19:33.240 You don't own all of this.

00:19:34.900 We are just as free to politically organize.

00:19:37.000 Farage didn't mind splitting the right.

00:19:39.760 There's no way.

00:19:41.240 That's what he was brought in for.

00:19:42.780 There's no way that, you know,

00:19:44.440 they had to think of a way

00:19:45.200 that Keir Starmer could get a massive majority

00:19:47.880 put through some appalling policies

00:19:50.360 with 32% of the vote.

00:19:54.780 Less of the vote than Jeremy Corbyn got.

00:19:57.520 Less votes than Jeremy Corbyn got.

00:19:59.420 Well, the only way was to bring a new horse into the race.

00:20:03.020 And quite honestly, the soap opera of politics in the UK

00:20:07.580 is so tired of the blue and the red team

00:20:10.820 that it was like bringing another cast member into EastEnders,

00:20:14.120 and it was Nigel Farage.

00:20:15.660 And this is the thing.

00:20:17.260 And he was paid £5 million to do it.

00:20:19.920 And you can tell by the way that The Telegraph and The Times write articles about Farage, that they've come to peace with him and accepted him.

00:20:27.200 They're like, yep, no, that's fine. I mean, that's what the survey was. It was from The Times.

00:20:32.300 He's coming to the club, hasn't he?

00:20:33.840 Exactly. He's coming to the club. And so Farage writes this in The Telegraph. Well, they're splitting the vote.

00:20:38.940 Elon Musk has decided he will try to split the right of British politics as best he can.

00:20:42.680 Well, the thing is, your position of complaint originally was that the vote is being split and we're going to lose the burden.

00:20:47.900 I can see that two years out from the next general election, which we might only be, might be less than two years out from the next general election, he wants those headlines that Keir Starmer had two years out from the last general election, it's going to be a Labour landslide, he just wants that transferring to reform landslide.

00:21:04.760 But that's not happening.

00:21:05.520 That's not going to happen.

00:21:06.440 No, the polls have dipped too significantly for it to be a reform landslide, possibly because you decided to, well, frankly, attack everyone to your right, as you've been doing constantly.

00:21:16.260 I mean, Dan Hodges is by far from being a friend to the Restore Party, but he, I think, has made a prediction, and many of his predictions are very poor, but I think this one is actually one that's going to age quite well.

00:21:28.540 This is what will now happen. Reform will launch a frenzied attack on Restore to try and squeeze the Restore vote, and the effect will be to dramatically increase the salience of Restore and have the complete opposite effect.

00:21:37.460 well yeah i mean that seems to be why this is happening rupert lobe posted yeah well we're

00:21:41.960 under assault by the establishment and now elon musk has highlighted that above everyone's heads

00:21:47.400 like what what does the times or the telegraph need to do to get 29 million views on something

00:21:52.160 they publish well there's no way no way they're anywhere near that and yet here we go so now the

00:21:58.400 the salience of restore has been raised phenomenally because they got scared the

00:22:04.500 strisland effect it very much and he points out well like trevor phillips in fact this is this is

00:22:10.500 um quite brilliant maybe yeah i've got the clip let's watch this clip because this is quite

00:22:14.360 brilliant this wouldn't have been possible if they weren't attacking us as proposed by uh your

00:22:19.180 former colleagues at in restore here's what they want um let me show you what they're saying they're

00:22:25.020 saying that if a legally resident foreign national and by the way legally residents quite important

00:22:30.020 here uh foreign national they if they can't do any of these things speak english they live in

00:22:36.600 social housing out they go sorry look at this look just look at this frame restore britain 1.00

00:22:43.920 we're going to get rid of all these people sky news sunday morning broadcast the nation

00:22:48.740 dan hodges was right about this dan hodges is not right about a lot of things but he was absolutely

00:22:53.180 right that you attacking us you know these outrageous things like you know throwing someone

00:22:58.000 out of the country because they refuse to work want to be kept on on the taxpayer dime absolutely

00:23:03.120 they're not british it makes no sense whatsoever and this is just such a good advert commits a 0.96

00:23:08.880 crime absolutely actively hates our way of life and wishes to do us harm yep outrageous crazy

00:23:16.040 that's such an extreme position i know what reasonable person could ever come to a conclusion

00:23:20.620 that those are good policies exactly so reform have stepped on a massive rake here and now they

00:23:25.620 They have got our brilliant platform

00:23:28.700 broadcast to the British public on Sky News on Sunday morning.

00:23:32.640 It's just so good.

00:23:33.960 One of the other things was Trevor Phillips saying there,

00:23:36.680 your former colleagues in Restore,

00:23:40.540 and he's saying that to Robert Jenrick,

00:23:42.280 but actually by the time...

00:23:43.520 They weren't his, yeah.

00:23:44.280 Yeah, by the time that Rupert Lowe was already kicked out of reform,

00:23:47.900 Nigel Farage was still producing attack ads against Robert Jenrick.

00:23:51.640 Don't trust him or his party. Good point.

00:23:53.360 Jenrick was the Immigration Minister.

00:23:56.040 He was.

00:23:56.760 He was responsible in the last Parliament that,

00:24:01.100 despite there being seven constituencies in the great county of Leicestershire,

00:24:04.520 and North West Leicestershire only being one of them,

00:24:06.800 one of those constituencies ended up with 51% of all the migrants

00:24:10.180 in hotels in Leicestershire in their constituency. 0.99

00:24:13.060 Can you guess whose constituency that was?

00:24:15.160 Yours.

00:24:15.660 Of course.

00:24:16.160 A conservative constituency.

00:24:17.840 Well, I was independent.

00:24:19.120 They'd thrown me out then.

00:24:20.840 Of course, yeah.

00:24:21.320 So I played the double bluff on them and said my constituents were absolutely, you know,

00:24:26.400 I stood up in the chamber and said, you know, one constituent has got 51% in Leicestershire

00:24:31.680 and my constituents thank you for that enrichment.

00:24:35.000 And I got them out all shut down.

00:24:37.220 We went from 51% to none in six months.

00:24:40.560 But Jenrick had told me in the tea room, I said, you know, what's your immigration policy? 1.00

00:24:44.280 And he said, Andrew, it's to put them all in northwest Leicestershire.

00:24:47.740 He actually said that to me three days before he resigned.

00:24:50.280 honestly absolutely snakes the lot of them anyway so there's a huge amount of now just

00:24:56.720 yes that they're posting now i i say this is that the reform are posting this uh make field

00:25:04.140 canvassing results they want more which i will not reveal why wouldn't you reveal it reform 53

00:25:08.460 restore 3 oh yeah yeah that's that's that's very persuasive ecuadorian bot this is an ecuadorian

00:25:16.080 bot account like lots and there are lots of these reform ecuadorian bots uh going around which is

00:25:25.380 really really weird why would you need to do this if you didn't feel that the narrative was slipping

00:25:30.360 away from you why would you have all these foreign bots producing the same sort of rhetoric over and

00:25:35.780 over and over if you didn't feel the winds were not in your sails and actually like you said it 0.91

00:25:40.380 was slipping through your fingers and that's because we it didn't slip he dropped it well

00:25:45.860 yeah yeah absolutely humbled it and that's because we have our own data right so this is the data that

00:25:51.220 restore britain canvases have generated from actually canvassing in makerfield the rupert

00:25:56.540 lowe released about an hour before they released their so their survey so for a sample of a thousand

00:26:04.060 people uh they found that 24.6 percent were for restore 32 31.2 percent were definitely against

00:26:10.500 with 24 undecided and 20 considering which suggests that actually it's all to play for

00:26:16.760 and there's a lot more going on the absolute key is very similar to the great yarmouth uh local

00:26:22.840 elections i agree where we saw the probably the highest turnout in the country yep 49 non-voters

00:26:29.900 at the last general election in makerfield i think there's only restore can appeal to that

00:26:35.420 cohort of voters and if you can get 20 of those out to vote you win exactly and if uh if we can

00:26:42.420 just get trevor phillips and all this all this stuff about you know you're taking somebody else's

00:26:46.320 votes the belief in politics the mainstream policy is so low now in this country you could win a

00:26:52.460 general election by not have to take a vote of any other party just by getting the people who've

00:26:56.600 already given up on politics to come back and cast a ballot and that was exactly what we saw in great

00:27:02.380 yarmouth yes if you'd halved all of the restore votes in great yarmouth each one of those

00:27:07.020 councillors was still of one they they'd done so well but it was more than double the uh opposition

00:27:13.080 so basically um and it was about the hard work that was done on the ground exactly and what's

00:27:19.580 the difference between there and and and makefield apart from the fact we're coming from further

00:27:23.820 behind this has got to raise awareness of the party yep but but i mean we've we've got the

00:27:28.640 enthusiasm the enthusiasm gap between us and everyone else is palpable you can see do you

00:27:33.180 think seeing all those restore canvas as an activist on the ground is that going to encourage

00:27:37.960 more reform or conservative or labor to turn out i don't think so well apparently it hasn't been

00:27:43.620 but anyway we'll we'll leave it there for now the point being um go cry about it we don't care that

00:27:48.660 you insult us we don't care that you think that we're splitting the vote we're not really that

00:27:52.580 bothered if andy burnham wins he's not any worse than keir starmer he's basically the same as you

00:27:56.640 pointed out um we're we're coming to contest it because we're a political party we want to win

00:28:01.440 and that's how that works so but what i will tell you is as they swap leaders and it's taken less

00:28:07.600 than two years for keir starmer to be the most hated prime minister in history yeah it won't

00:28:12.420 take long for as a front for his policies it's not about him it's about the policies

00:28:16.680 whoever comes in next it'll be 12 months yeah and the one after that will be six months they're

00:28:21.660 Locked on rails, they're going to end up becoming...

00:28:23.820 I mean, Burnham has already conceded.

00:28:25.240 I'm not essentially not going to change anything economically

00:28:27.300 or immigration-wise or anything else. 0.75

00:28:28.920 He knows he's just going to be more...

00:28:29.780 Well, he can't. That's above his pay grade.

00:28:31.820 Of course it is.

00:28:32.980 So anyway, we'll leave that there.

00:28:35.800 Hiroshi Sachinban says,

00:28:37.920 I implore everyone to help canvas makerfield to restore.

00:28:41.820 Then each election after, this is just the start, thank you.

00:28:44.800 Yeah, no, I agree.

00:28:45.600 I really think that this is the start,

00:28:47.900 and all we have to do is actually put in the legwork,

00:28:49.820 and we can see that we've already got evidence that that works

00:28:53.700 and I think this could be a big surprise for everyone come the election.

00:28:59.240 I mean, I don't know and I hate making predictions,

00:29:01.520 but you just don't know, do you?

00:29:03.060 It'll be very hard for the media to ignore, restore after this.

00:29:06.260 Yeah, yeah, yeah. No matter what happens.

00:29:08.300 Yes.

00:29:09.060 I mean, they can't already.

00:29:11.580 They're advertising their policies.

00:29:12.700 Yeah, they're already, exactly.

00:29:15.460 Trevor Phillips is looking at it going like,

00:29:17.480 oh, isn't this all terrible?

00:29:18.620 while nudging and winking towards the camera.

00:29:21.280 Yeah, I think Trevor Phillips is a bit more base

00:29:22.820 than he lets on, to be honest, because of his job.

00:29:25.240 But anyway, let's...

00:29:25.860 Well, the uncontrolled migration and the biggest threat to it,

00:29:28.380 it's not you, me, or anyone in this room. 1.00

00:29:31.160 It's the last round of legal migrants 0.99

00:29:33.860 because they're all competing for the same 1.00

00:29:35.280 scant housing, resources, and jobs.

00:29:37.960 That's the biggest threat.

00:29:39.820 Anyway, let's carry on.

00:29:41.480 What it means is you can get your car clean for a pound less.

00:29:44.240 Oh, brilliant.

00:29:45.600 Everything else is three pounds more expensive, though.

00:29:47.980 Yeah.

00:29:48.620 Yeah.

00:29:49.800 Anyway, away from the realm of the petty and material and the political

00:29:55.940 and onto the rather more spiritual matters now, my friends,

00:30:00.160 because it is the sixth anniversary of the passing of our Lord and Saviour himself, St. George.

00:30:05.500 So I hope that you're all having a very solemn and very serious St. George's Day.

00:30:10.340 I can tell you that in Minneapolis, where he ascended,

00:30:13.780 that is definitely what is going on right now,

00:30:16.260 as they have a George Floyd Day of Remembrance.

00:30:21.760 That's a big event where the organisers are saying

00:30:24.720 the gathering will be the last one held at George Floyd Square.

00:30:30.220 Oh, yeah, they renamed it.

00:30:30.800 That's what they renamed it to, yes, in its current form

00:30:33.000 before the city begins reconstruction in the area next month.

00:30:36.120 I assume there will be a temple constructed there.

00:30:39.180 The family of Emmett Till, one of the Old Testament prophets,

00:30:43.520 will also be in attendance to show their support

00:30:46.360 and there will be $50,000 in scholarships awarded.

00:30:50.260 Hopefully none of that money was obtained through illicit means,

00:30:53.960 which would be shocking given the characters that we're talking about.

00:30:58.320 I know, I know.

00:30:59.440 Perish the thought.

00:31:01.280 So, yeah, it's the sixth year anniversary of what happened to George Floyd

00:31:05.200 when he overdosed whilst in the presence of a bunch of police officers

00:31:08.620 who were then put on show trials the year after

00:31:12.380 and given some pretty inordinate sentences from what I can tell.

00:31:17.040 And I wanted to give a little retrospective of it,

00:31:19.700 see what's changed, see what hasn't changed,

00:31:22.100 and also just discuss the overall perception of the event

00:31:26.220 now that we're moving past it, because it was six years ago.

00:31:29.340 And I think all of us remember how huge of an event it was at the time.

00:31:34.100 Really, it was one of the first and probably the biggest of these

00:31:38.660 huge social media crises where it was done. It was a story that was entirely conveyed through

00:31:46.040 social media to begin with. It was a video that was posted on Facebook and Instagram that took

00:31:51.140 off from there and then was picked up by the mainstream media and went on to snowball from

00:31:55.560 there. But it still, it feels quite long ago now. We were all there at the time, but there've been

00:32:01.240 so much happened since then. You had, you know, the 6th of January in 2021. You had the entirety

00:32:09.060 of Joe Biden's presidency. Since then, you've got Trump too. Multiple strikes on Iran, and now the

00:32:14.840 Iran war, the Ukraine war has erupted since then. So I don't want to lose track of how huge an event

00:32:21.460 this was, and how it did have major implications for America and the rest of the world, because

00:32:27.660 again snowballed completely out of control this is so preposterous right the the my mom's retired

00:32:33.260 now but she at the time she was working at a mental health home in cornwall and they in 2020

00:32:40.420 they got an email about george floyd from head office saying you know usual woke social justice

00:32:47.720 nonsense and my mom's just like what is this like i don't know anything about this i bet and i mean

00:32:53.580 And here's our current Prime Minister, along with the former Deputy Prime Minister,

00:32:58.720 kneeling over the event that happened thousands of miles and an entire ocean away at the time.

00:33:04.660 I lost count of the number of times on mainstream media

00:33:08.240 that asked me if I was willing to take the knee.

00:33:10.520 You didn't take the knee?

00:33:11.380 No, I didn't take the knee.

00:33:12.080 My goodness.

00:33:12.740 What a shock.

00:33:13.500 That is to propose... 1.00

00:33:14.360 I had no idea, Carl, I had no idea that you'd invited a heretic into the office today, my goodness. 1.00

00:33:19.520 Well, that's to propose or take aim, isn't it? 1.00

00:33:21.400 You take the knee.

00:33:22.020 Yeah, yeah.

00:33:23.520 Or to show general submission and feel. 0.83

00:33:25.960 And of course it was Black Lives Matter, or BLM, 0.69

00:33:29.260 which actually stood for Buy Large Mansions. 0.95

00:33:31.660 Oh, I've got that in here, don't you worry, my friend.

00:33:33.880 As Hercules here points out, he hasn't said a word about Henry Noack, has he?

00:33:38.040 No, he never says a word about any of these people.

00:33:40.260 When it was the deaths of young girls in Southport,

00:33:45.640 after he immediately became Prime Minister, it was, it doesn't matter.

00:33:49.440 but of course when it's some random guy some former criminal or it's these thousands of

00:33:54.860 bad things happen to people yeah yeah yeah having an overdose it was the most important thing in

00:33:59.760 the world the rosney also suspected of passing uh forged currency as well well that was why

00:34:05.020 the police were called in the first place a counterfeit 20 bill given at a convenience store

00:34:09.300 to buy a banana it led to of course it was you know it was rolled it was so huge over here we

00:34:16.140 You had the protests, the riots you had in Bristol.

00:34:18.160 In the lockdowns?

00:34:19.760 Yes. 0.96

00:34:20.120 They were allowed to have the Black Lives Matter rights in the lockdowns.

00:34:23.260 That's not a problem.

00:34:24.360 But you patriots can't go and have the protests.

00:34:26.680 The virus knew.

00:34:27.260 Yeah, it was very progressive.

00:34:29.140 Very progressive.

00:34:30.260 And it's just interesting to look back and see what's changed and what hasn't,

00:34:33.880 because as George Floyd's family himself have said,

00:34:37.300 that after the riots in their family member's name destroyed billions of damage,

00:34:43.580 led to billions of dollars of damage,

00:34:46.140 um led to a lot of people uh dozens of people killed um a lot of them most of them to afro-american

00:34:53.540 businesses yeah yes yeah they were writing in their own communities it created kyle rittenhouse

00:34:59.680 it spurred on a lot of the already progressing but speed sped up now uh trying to disenfranchisement

00:35:06.200 of western european culture and history again you had people like was it william closton in

00:35:11.320 bristol his statue thrown oh no um white privilege i was no it's um a different name

00:35:17.160 william closton's the the sdp leader colston colston samuel samuel colston samuel colston

00:35:23.500 you can see the surnames are a little bit similar so i got them all mixed up but his statue was

00:35:27.880 thrown into the into the um into the better port because of the fact that he had historic ties to

00:35:34.020 slave trading ignore everything that he did for bristol or the fact that it was just globally

00:35:39.100 normal at the time just like george washington then basically yes essentially so they're

00:35:45.680 complaining that things haven't changed and frankly there is an argument for that because

00:35:49.920 last year on the fifth anniversary there was this pew poll done of people within america

00:35:56.160 and it sort of like addressed their attitudes in prior to in in the times before floyd i think we

00:36:04.720 should start referring to these time easy uh no bf before floyd and after floyd uh bf and af and

00:36:11.860 finding that actually the spike in enthusiasm for racial justice and new social justice initiatives

00:36:19.860 off of the back of floyd's death was kind of a trend i know shocking right this huge social media

00:36:25.760 event where everybody went out of their way do you remember everybody posting the black squares on

00:36:30.280 instagram and on social black square on instagram you did well he didn't take the knee how was he

00:36:34.580 going to post it like i mean come on i don't think anyone i never saw a black square on instagram

00:36:39.000 very american that i saw plenty of people that i knew doing it i never did it myself but you know

00:36:44.900 like the attitudes kind of just like shifted straight back to normal after two and a half

00:36:51.040 two and three quarter years had passed and that seems to be the same for all of these comparative

00:36:55.780 things obviously how much of that's to do with body cams though well that's the interesting thing

00:37:00.140 isn't it they've expanded the use of body cams and in fact a body cam was present during floyd's

00:37:06.340 arrest and subsequent death which the footage was i've got it here you can actually watch the full

00:37:13.180 body cam footage which paints a very very different picture of the death of george floyd and i think

00:37:19.280 all of this is going into why people flipped back over and also again as huge as it was news cycles

00:37:25.960 just coming fat thick and fast people don't have the attention span for most things these days

00:37:31.700 and uh people complain about that all the time here's saint floyd himself in one of the many

00:37:36.820 murals that were painted of him and he didn't he threaten a uh with a gun a woman with a shotgun

00:37:43.920 a black lady who was pregnant yeah but it was only because he was breaking into a house and

00:37:48.900 she was in the way like yes you're seeming to understand the the intricacies of what happens

00:37:57.960 when you really need drug money yeah yeah uh but you know all there are some articles talking about

00:38:05.140 this complaining about the lack of change and the lack of um and the lack of initiative that

00:38:10.600 was truly taken that it was all basically a load of symbolic well it was just a load of virtue

00:38:16.560 signaling that all of these massive corporations did it's also a massive once it once again a lie

00:38:22.360 was halfway around the world before the truth had got its boots on yes and people had made their

00:38:26.720 minds up hadn't they i mean it sped up some dei programs but i would argue that those programs

00:38:31.300 were going into effect anyway it was a giant money harvesting operation for blm though like you say

00:38:36.060 by large mansions was not a joke like they did uh patrice colors who was the leader at the time 0.71

00:38:41.900 who then retired the year after for mental health reasons, I assume, 1.00

00:38:48.120 has $3 million worth of property investments in her portfolio.

00:38:52.840 There's quite a tidy sum for social activism 0.98

00:38:55.280 and she managed to change the world while she was at it.

00:38:58.140 So, you know, sometimes just doing good deeds really does pay off.

00:39:02.000 Never let a crisis go to waste.

00:39:03.700 No, certainly.

00:39:04.620 But they point out in this one,

00:39:05.860 the response to Floyd's murder led corporations and organisations

00:39:08.620 to pledge more than $200 billion

00:39:12.760 toward racial equity, diversity initiatives

00:39:17.820 and investments in historically disinvested communities of colours.

00:39:22.440 Schools made a promise to overhaul curricula

00:39:24.940 and remove school resource officers

00:39:27.100 and philanthropy made funding commitments

00:39:29.140 of $16.5 billion in 2020 for racial equity grants.

00:39:35.240 Yet these public statements and promises

00:39:37.660 did not endure how much damage did it cost to repair how much damage was done during the riots

00:39:43.760 and what did it cost to repair all of that well if in the very communities that uh that wanted 0.92

00:39:49.080 the support well if we were to tally up say like um black on black violence black on black property

00:39:56.560 violence black on white violence stolen bicycles and all of the like and talk about reparations i

00:40:04.480 I think a true figure would not be very well reflective

00:40:08.180 for the disenfranchised communities of the American ghettos. 0.55

00:40:14.440 The woman who filmed it, sorry, I should say the girl

00:40:17.420 because she was 17 years old at the time,

00:40:19.560 was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for journalism.

00:40:22.640 Well, I mean, that's fair enough.

00:40:23.980 I mean, to be fair, I suppose she did kind of like kickstart the whole thing.

00:40:29.500 I can kind of understand why they would do that, to be honest.

00:40:33.120 But it's not actually for journalism, it's for racial justice.

00:40:35.920 Sure, sure.

00:40:36.480 That's what it's actually for.

00:40:37.240 In any other context, maybe it'd make sense.

00:40:38.900 Again, there's Keir Starmer kneeling.

00:40:40.960 Here's all of the murals, obviously.

00:40:43.760 Belfast.

00:40:44.440 Yeah.

00:40:45.040 There was one in Afghanistan in Kabul, remember?

00:40:48.320 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:40:49.080 They put one up in Kabul.

00:40:50.920 The Taliban then immediately painted over when they got back in charge.

00:40:54.220 But for some reason, the poor and disenfranchised people of Afghanistan...

00:40:59.600 The black population of Afghanistan.

00:41:00.900 We're desperately in need of a lesson in racial harmony and justice over there. 1.00

00:41:06.520 It's ridiculous. 0.54

00:41:08.080 There is the famous one, which I assume is being included on the thumbnail,

00:41:11.920 but we can show you here, of St. Floyd himself.

00:41:15.860 Literally Jesus.

00:41:17.020 At a Catholic university. 0.63

00:41:19.100 I mean, that's definitely horrific.

00:41:20.540 It got taken down because they weren't very happy about it.

00:41:23.200 But if you try and do a mural in America to Irina Zarutska or any other violence,

00:41:28.360 like victim of black-on-white crime,

00:41:30.760 Yeah, that gets taken over and told by city officials that that doesn't reflect our values,

00:41:35.820 which raises the question of what those values were.

00:41:38.900 Here's a nice reminder.

00:41:40.020 The administration itself, under Biden, went out of its way to memorialise him

00:41:45.040 and talk about him and say what an important situation this was,

00:41:48.320 while, of course, doing a classic Biden gaffe, this time by Nancy Pelosi,

00:41:52.960 when she thanked George Floyd for sacrificing himself.

00:41:56.880 Probably allowing her to invest in reconstruction firms.

00:41:59.540 Oh, certainly. 0.86

00:42:00.760 and make a very hefty profit.

00:42:03.880 I think one of the lasting things that we should all remember from this

00:42:07.040 is that a lot of people made a lot of money out of it.

00:42:11.480 There were attempts to change the way that policing was done in America

00:42:14.880 to make it, in a kind of Ibram X. Kendi way, more racially equitable.

00:42:19.180 One of the things of this, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act,

00:42:22.260 which thankfully never made it through the Senate,

00:42:24.120 the first provision of it was to grant power to the Justice Department's

00:42:28.200 civil rights division to issue subpoenas to police departments as part of pattern or practice

00:42:33.620 investigations into whether there has been a pattern and practice of bias or misconduct

00:42:38.720 by the department which basically means that if your arrest number shows that you are

00:42:43.420 disproportionately arresting people of color non-white people whether that be reflective

00:42:48.060 of their actual rates of crime the justice department could just subpoena you yes institutionally 0.92

00:42:54.280 racist yes but again the the body cams man i mean like that was such a saving grace they said

00:43:01.180 you know federal federal police vehicles equipped with dashboard cameras police officers body worn

00:43:06.060 cameras you're welcome backfire you're welcome total backfire that was already going on but you

00:43:11.040 know this would have expanded it probably not a bad idea to expand it in the first oh no i if i

00:43:15.480 were a police officer i would want a body cam there was about one to two billion dollars worth

00:43:20.100 of property damage across 20 states in the u.s we saw the kenosha riots minneapolis itself

00:43:26.180 everything that was going on that's not even counting however much damage was done in protests

00:43:30.760 and other such things in foreign countries that this affected again even more than the la riots

00:43:36.200 in the 90s as well yeah and the la riots were twice as much almost and then one of the big

00:43:42.940 promises that business made for it was this sorry there was an adjusted thing that i hadn't missed

00:43:47.100 i'd misread that so in 2020 does actually the la riots probably about the same so one to two

00:43:52.520 billion for the george floyd 1.4 billion for the la riots but still that's massive that's that's

00:43:56.840 like la is huge and also there's a lot of very high value property already within la this was

00:44:02.940 now spread across 20 states so it completely spilled out of minneapolis where it started and

00:44:07.960 again spilled into the rest of the world why did the people of kabul need to lay fealty to george

00:44:14.480 floyd were they when when the americans were running kabul were they taking them to racial

00:44:19.220 equity seminars where all the former our government our government thought rory stewart's wife you

00:44:24.740 know she'd get paid to teach the taliban about offensive modern art yes yeah urinals and things

00:44:30.860 callum went to to afghanistan and he found feminist propaganda in the bin like so like the best 0.80

00:44:37.340 moments in his documentary from the afghan perspective like right this is their religion

00:44:41.080 is it you know this is like they've got the george floyd murals they've got as you said

00:44:44.460 and they've got the like the like the western sort of omni cause you know of like everything

00:44:50.100 progressive that the if you're afghanistan you're like what am i deep what am i looking they're 0.84

00:44:54.800 completely bonkers exactly they must think we're mad and they've got money to do so to be honest 0.65

00:44:59.860 yeah exactly they must think we're mental but again imagine the dei firms made a lot of money

00:45:08.420 from that box ticked yeah imagine as you've mentioned the reconstruction firms and companies

00:45:14.700 that made bank from reconstructing everything that was damaged or bank or banking in on insurance

00:45:22.700 claims and such like that a lot of people made a lot of money through all of this corporate america

00:45:28.220 decided that they want to expand their slave class because there was this very impressive article

00:45:34.160 from Bloomberg back in 2023 which talked about corporate America promising to hire a lot more

00:45:39.620 people of colour following Black Lives Matter. They say it actually did but if you actually went

00:45:44.220 into the figures, I don't know if the figures will come up clearly when I scroll, you will be able to

00:45:50.440 see that what actually happened was executives and management stayed the same and they just 0.78

00:45:57.400 replaced all of the working class and starter positions with non-white people which i would

00:46:04.660 argue there we go yeah i would argue less senior roles so and that's that i would argue was probably

00:46:12.300 a program they were already planning on implementing because they just wanted to disenfranchise white

00:46:18.380 people for the sake of cheap labor but this just gave them a really nice cover to do so and they

00:46:23.560 wanted to expand dei practices anyway and they go well well now we absolutely have to yeah just

00:46:29.200 absolutely have to don't we yeah look at that yeah you can you can see here that the actual

00:46:35.060 place where it hit were the executives and the managers still you know they didn't get replaced

00:46:41.480 but the workers did and um it also affected the police as well where in this study they

00:46:48.980 use historical monthly data to compare the pre and post floyd i think that's before and after floyd

00:46:54.920 bc bf and af come on post floyd yeah come on trends and turnover in 14 large u.s police agencies

00:47:02.140 nearly 80 percent of agencies experience increasing resignations retirements or both

00:47:07.280 and there was a new turnover crisis and this would have been under biden uh but it would

00:47:12.920 have definitely been because of the fact that people would just go like well if i'm just trying

00:47:16.460 to do my job and somebody's going to film me and i'm not only going to get my career ruined i might

00:47:21.620 be liable to go to prison just because somebody like filmed the wrong moment also if you go viral

00:47:27.000 and now you're just a figure of hate you know in in the like left-wing ecosphere yeah and police

00:47:33.480 forces across the country began to just completely uh ban things like choke holds and uh required

00:47:40.260 officers to intervene against what they consider to be excessive force which is a very subjective

00:47:45.360 thing on the ground but everybody's just going to be on eggshells we see what was the one we saw

00:47:49.800 the other day where they kicked the guy in the head and they were all complaining it's like no

00:47:52.860 but he just stabbed someone what about what about breaking uh women police women's noses yeah

00:47:59.980 manchester about that yeah like and and that guy got kicked in the head and everyone's like oh no

00:48:04.580 it's like no no no this guy was literally in the middle of beating the hell out of people

00:48:08.340 like sorry anyway and this is of course despite the fact that when you actually finally got it

00:48:14.120 released everybody was able to see that hold up this guy was clearly not in his right mind from

00:48:19.340 before the police six million views yeah a lot of and all of the comments are saying huh why didn't

00:48:24.040 i see this video yeah so for anyone we we covered this when it came out at the time so for anyone

00:48:28.720 who missed it basically george floyd uh was in he sat with his drug dealer in the car and he pled

00:48:35.500 the fifth in the trial he pled the fifth in trial and you can see there are pills in his mouth as

00:48:40.920 he's being dragged out of the car and he is saying as he is sat in the car i can't breathe

00:48:45.440 because what he's trying to do is essentially get out of being arrested by also he was already

00:48:51.460 overdosing and the the what seems to have happened definitely overdosing he was by he was buying

00:48:56.640 fentanyl which his drug dealer had very kindly laced with methamphetamine and it was in a little

00:49:03.180 baggie when the police showed up he put it in his mouth and when it was very clear that they were

00:49:08.020 going to arrest him he swallowed it yeah and you can see him tweaking when he's buying the banana

00:49:12.800 with the 20 yeah because he's already clearly hot he's already on something and so he's all he's

00:49:17.900 already basically in the beginning of an overdose by the time they get there he already had an

00:49:22.160 enlarged heart and enlarged arteries which were restricted i believe it was something like 90

00:49:26.580 of his arteries were already set to burst and by the time that he was put into a stressful situation

00:49:33.800 of being arrested while overdosing he just couldn't take it but he wasn't actually dead on

00:49:39.300 the scene they'd called up an ambulance to come and collect him but the crowd that had formed

00:49:44.560 around the incident because everybody was convinced that he was being choked to death

00:49:49.140 blocked the ambulance's path they had to park a block away by the time they got him to the

00:49:54.400 ambulance he was already passed out and he died I believe either on the way to the hospital or in

00:50:00.060 the hospital. And we actually got the coroner's report as well, which stated there were no life

00:50:05.180 threatening injuries identified and identified that in his system, he had 11 nanograms per

00:50:11.540 milliliter. I don't know the exact. Yeah, he basically had 11 nanograms of fentanyl in his

00:50:17.500 system. And typical studies show that anything above seven nanograms is lethal for most people.

00:50:24.740 You can also see that he had 19 nanograms of methamphetamine

00:50:28.380 in his system as well.

00:50:29.820 Now, the way that they tried to twist this or sell this

00:50:34.200 in Derek Chauvin's trial

00:50:35.800 was that he was just so used to fentanyl.

00:50:40.360 He was such an absolute war horse

00:50:43.220 of taking fentanyl every single day

00:50:46.460 that he had built up an incredible tolerance to it.

00:50:49.980 He was the Mithridates of fentanyl taking.

00:50:52.100 You could have given him 10 times that amount of fentanyl

00:50:55.860 and he would have been fit as a spring chicken.

00:50:59.380 So it had to have been murder from Derek Chauvin,

00:51:02.580 which was a complete show trial.

00:51:04.580 Obviously, one of the jurors later turned out

00:51:06.780 to have been a member of Black Lives Matter

00:51:08.720 and an activist himself anyway.

00:51:10.420 The court that it was taking place in had been hounded

00:51:14.720 and everybody involved was quite afraid for their lives

00:51:19.640 and their careers.

00:51:20.540 and everybody knew that if Derek Chauvin got anything other than a guilty verdict

00:51:25.040 that there were going to be more eruptions of riots over the summer

00:51:29.400 because it was coming up to spring and summer when the trial took place,

00:51:33.780 which feels like a deliberate thing, right?

00:51:35.800 So it was clearly railroaded.

00:51:37.780 It was a complete miscarriage of justice.

00:51:39.840 It's kind of impossible to imagine that you could find a jury

00:51:42.460 that didn't know about the case and wasn't biased and prejudiced on it.

00:51:45.740 Exactly.

00:51:46.760 And BLM made a killing out of it.

00:51:48.320 they had a purchase of a six million dollar california mansion where they say that the

00:51:55.720 reason they were doing it was going to be a creator house yeah for black liberation for

00:52:00.660 black liberation as mentioned patrice colors she retired in 2021 after um doing so much to change 0.77

00:52:08.420 the world her net worth is currently estimated between two and five million dollars and of course

00:52:13.640 she has a very tidy $3 million property portfolio.

00:52:17.580 So, again, it's nice to know that changing the world

00:52:20.300 and making positive change really does pay off

00:52:23.420 for those of pure heart.

00:52:25.020 There was a Black Lives Matter activist,

00:52:26.720 I think it was Wales,

00:52:28.220 who had taken something like £50,000

00:52:31.240 and just spaffed it up the wall.

00:52:35.520 As you do.

00:52:35.940 And she got in trouble for it, but was let off.

00:52:38.080 Of course.

00:52:38.760 Of course.

00:52:39.520 Well, they're still in trouble.

00:52:40.220 Because they're good people.

00:52:41.280 Because they're good people.

00:52:41.800 Whoever took over the organisation is still caught in trouble

00:52:44.560 because as of, let me double-check, October of last year,

00:52:47.860 the Justice Department was still investigating fraud allegations

00:52:50.800 in Black Lives Matter, and this is still going back to 2020

00:52:53.940 because they received $90 million in donations.

00:52:57.760 That would not have just been from single donations from individuals.

00:53:00.720 That would have been also huge donations from billionaires

00:53:03.360 and millionaires themselves.

00:53:04.700 And a lot of it seems to have vanished.

00:53:08.800 Disappeared into the ether.

00:53:09.820 Money never vanishes, it only moves to somebody else's account.

00:53:13.900 Yeah, well, that's what the Justice Department is currently investigating,

00:53:17.720 so we'll see if that actually turns anything up.

00:53:20.400 But, of course, the real consequences outside of everything

00:53:23.920 that I've already spoken about was what happened to the police officers

00:53:26.880 who were there trying to respond to what should have been

00:53:29.460 a very simple call-out.

00:53:30.960 There is Derek Chauvin, but the other people involved as well

00:53:33.500 included men like this.

00:53:35.560 I'm not going to try and pronounce his name.

00:53:37.600 He was a...

00:53:39.200 Let's go with that.

00:53:40.060 Average white supremacist?

00:53:41.300 Yeah, former police officer who held back bystanders

00:53:44.440 as the other officers were dealing with George Floyd,

00:53:46.740 and he was sentenced to four years and nine months in state prison

00:53:50.520 for just being there.

00:53:52.920 Doing what he was doubtless trained to do.

00:53:55.060 For just being there.

00:53:56.180 The other ones who were there were given other sentences as well.

00:53:59.540 So you had people like Thomas Lane,

00:54:01.560 sentenced to two and a half years for being there.

00:54:04.580 Alexander Kung, again, average white supremacist name,

00:54:07.900 sentenced to three years in federal prison. Derek Chauvin himself got 22.5 years

00:54:17.880 for murder and a 21-year federal sentence for violating George Floyd's civil rights. His

00:54:25.220 projected release date is currently 2037, and since he has been in prison, he was stabbed 22

00:54:30.700 times in 2023. He is still alive, but as a result of the incidents, he had to be moved to a different

00:54:37.320 low security federal prison because this man who decided to follow standard procedure in

00:54:44.300 dealing with a guy who is clearly overdosing just got filmed at the wrong time and has now

00:54:50.320 had his life ruined his wife divorced him everything fell out from under him and now

00:54:55.320 he's been stabbed and he's going to spend the next 11 years in prison political prisoner yeah

00:55:01.960 he is a political genuinely so that's everything that went on there but what is the current public

00:55:06.760 perception of it well i think that the mainstream media still wants it to be a big thing but

00:55:11.260 frankly there are a lot of younger people now who may not have been as aware at the time because

00:55:17.640 they were you know teenagers who are going to remember it more for stuff like this

00:55:21.820 my friend that is kiss yeah i assume where george floyd now is mainly remembered on social media as

00:55:34.120 a guy who gets up to wacky hijinks in AI videos with Charlie Kirk and Jeffrey Epstein. Occasionally

00:55:40.540 Chauvin will show up there, but that just goes to show how far we've come from it. But at the same

00:55:45.940 time, you know, there are still effects. A lot of the culture has still been affected massively

00:55:51.700 by the BLM riots, what happened to Floyd and everything off the back of it. Although the DEI

00:55:58.240 has been pulled back massively because it was implemented. Everybody went, oh boy,

00:56:03.320 that was a mistake that didn't work and have started to pull it back so just a reminder of

00:56:08.200 how ridiculous this whole thing was the consequences that it's still having today

00:56:12.100 and the interesting fact that like so much else in today's culture it's become just another

00:56:18.180 platform for ai slop videos interesting it's the way of the future yep anyway let's uh let's move

00:56:25.220 on so we're gonna come back to britain now because uh like like we were talking about earlier um for

00:56:31.740 some reason we are just battery farming foreigners in britain uh as migration watch here point out

00:56:37.400 london social housing is essentially a way for britain's government to subsidize the mass

00:56:41.180 migration of foreigners who aren't productive enough to support themselves i mean and this is

00:56:44.920 genuine quite mad 16 000 social homes in westminster occupied by foreign born lead tenants

00:56:53.020 i mean the fact like there are 26 811 social housing tenants in westminster you would think 0.98

00:57:00.060 is quite mad so if anyone doesn't know that's the very heart of the british government that's

00:57:03.860 the receipt of it so why would you have social housing there of all places anyway gdp i guess

00:57:09.880 i don't know there's a number of homeless and drug hostels right based right around parliament

00:57:16.160 it's just what i mean of all the places to have them why there i mean well i i guess

00:57:21.980 mp should be exposed to some of that yeah well i mean it did make me uh you know there is quite a

00:57:28.680 cluster yeah i mean rehabilitation centers and homeless shelters for people with various social

00:57:36.800 problems yeah the other place down there is obviously the house of commons that's a place for

00:57:41.440 people with various social problems and 60 of those are literal immigrants um so i was thinking

00:57:48.140 about this okay well this is very very strange because i mean in london itself uh 46 of all

00:57:54.220 social housing goes to people who are literally born outside of the uk because london has the

00:57:59.260 largest number of immigrants per capita in any place in the britain and it's just crazy how like

00:58:05.260 for the entire city we're just just half of the people we're keeping alive on state benefits are 0.92

00:58:12.080 just born overseas like what's the point of this but they'll say okay well who are these people

00:58:16.500 and actually they're kind of weird because like this is obviously not going to be representative

00:58:22.200 of all of them but we have a surprising number of African kings on social housing in Britain

00:58:28.380 now I would have thought one would have been too many but actually there's something of a pattern

00:58:32.420 going on right now I'm not like I said I'm not saying they're all African kings but we do have

00:58:36.600 some right I mean we've got Sierra Leone's first lady who is in she has a social house in London

00:58:42.540 her name's fatima bio right she came from sierra leone uh when she was a girl lived in social

00:58:51.980 housing and ended up marrying um what's his name uh julius bio who is now the president of sierra

00:59:00.000 leone and she currently lives in the presidential palace of sierra leone but she also has a council

00:59:06.700 house uh council flat in south walk where she keeps her children so she lives in the sierra leone

00:59:13.200 you mean you mean southwark don't you i don't i'm not from london it's pronounced southwark

00:59:17.440 even i know that i'm sure it is but i'm i think you need to get out of swindon more often i i get

00:59:22.980 out of swindon a lot i just looking good i just don't go to london makefield is looking good um

00:59:27.380 but isn't that interesting in southwark she's got a council flat there that she keeps her children

00:59:32.760 in rather than having them live in the presidential palace in sierra leone a country run by her 0.99

00:59:38.560 partner which is which she doesn't think is fit for her children somehow somehow have you

00:59:44.080 considered that that's a sad indictment london is far more uh diverse dare i say than sierra leone

00:59:51.160 probably so she's trying to enrich them you know i didn't look up the demographics of sierra leone

00:59:56.660 i bet they're pretty monochromatic there that's probably true but isn't that just remarkable like

01:00:03.840 yeah you know you've got to live in a council flat in london while i live in a presidential

01:00:07.940 palace with my husband in as the ruler of a foreign country but that is remarkable is it

01:00:14.780 is that is it's almost the hypocrisy of diane abbott to oppose private schools but sent her 0.93

01:00:20.180 own children to them because nothing's black mothers will do anything for their children 0.92

01:00:25.480 apparently they will this is just standard delegation as far as i'm concerned yeah but 1.00

01:00:29.880 i've got better things to be doing than dealing with you off to london okay mom can't like the

01:00:34.540 the the the nannies look after me in the presidential palace though like they've got 0.73

01:00:38.980 palm trees behind qualify for a council flat well that's the so they qualified got the color swap 0.94

01:00:45.080 out presumably that's that's all you need no no no she qualified when she was young right because 0.98

01:00:50.240 She came over when she was a girl. 0.94

01:00:52.720 And they've just kept the council house ever since. 1.00

01:00:55.660 But surely there should be a thing. 0.96

01:00:58.260 It's like, okay, now you're a multimillionaire first lady. 1.00

01:01:02.540 Leave the ladder for someone else to climb up. 1.00

01:01:04.520 Exactly, yeah.

01:01:05.180 Should you not relinquish the council flat when you've become successful?

01:01:09.740 London trying to sell this is like a council success story?

01:01:13.700 Kind of, yeah, actually.

01:01:15.100 They kind of are.

01:01:15.960 A rags to riches story.

01:01:17.700 It literally is.

01:01:19.080 And don't get me wrong.

01:01:19.640 I'm glad she's married the president of Sierra Leone.

01:01:23.320 But I think someone else could...

01:01:25.080 Can we have the flat back?

01:01:26.060 Yeah, exactly.

01:01:26.860 You can afford your own flat in London at this point.

01:01:30.100 But she's, of course, not the only person.

01:01:32.220 And at least she began in the rags, right? 0.96

01:01:34.180 She didn't begin as a ruler of an African nation. 0.75

01:01:38.400 What's weird, though, is you've got Haile Selassie's grandson

01:01:41.580 is in social housing in London, in the Isle of Dogs.

01:01:46.320 I'm pronouncing that right, right?

01:01:47.480 um zira yakub selassie is the new headatory emperor of ethiopia this was in 1997 so it's

01:01:56.400 a while back now but uh but he lives in a tatty two-story house surrounded by council estates

01:02:01.380 he had gone to eton oxford and sandhurst but had not worked in britain since completing his

01:02:06.180 education according to family sources his income is modest he appears to depend on supporters of

01:02:10.640 the imperial family but since but his succession to the ethiopian throne depends on him being able

01:02:15.760 to preside over his father's burial that u.s immigration authorities were refusing a visa to

01:02:20.380 go so i guess he's not actually the emperor of ethiopia anymore um but he was but he would have

01:02:26.440 been in 1997 but instead he was living in britain in a council house so a long tradition of um

01:02:32.460 housing this here here is the council revealed preference there yeah it's just very weird isn't 0.89

01:02:38.640 it like this it doesn't look like a bad place to me no i'm sure it's fine if you're a normal person

01:02:45.160 in prison but like you're the real emperor of Ethiopia what are you doing here but it's not

01:02:50.640 just Ethiopia there are many nations in Africa um what about uh I thought it was a country

01:02:55.280 well okay country see it's the oldest uh Christian country I meant Africa uh oh well uh yes but

01:03:03.720 anyway Rwanda the new king of Rwanda is uh currently here well this was again in 2017

01:03:10.040 But this is Emmanuel Bushai-Ija,

01:03:14.220 who's the nephew of the late king Kilgeli,

01:03:18.260 named as King Yui VI by Kilgeli's chief courtier.

01:03:23.560 The Rwandan family was exiled in 1961.

01:03:27.340 When he was a baby, he was schooled in Uganda.

01:03:29.760 He ended up working for Pepsi,

01:03:31.400 moved back to Rwanda in 1994 before relocating to the UK in 2000.

01:03:35.600 And so he lived in... 1.00

01:03:37.020 Qualifying for a council house. 0.99

01:03:38.320 He lived in a council house near Old Trafford. 1.00

01:03:41.740 It's like, oh, okay, great. 1.00

01:03:43.900 Why do we have African emperors in a council house? 1.00

01:03:47.300 Surely he could afford his own house. 1.00

01:03:49.580 Well, I mean, apparently not.

01:03:51.760 I guess when the Republican Revolution took place in Rwanda, 0.75

01:03:57.100 they probably just appropriated his wealth.

01:03:59.660 So, you know, probably not.

01:04:01.260 But, yeah, so then he lived in a terraced house in Irwell Valley.

01:04:08.820 So isn't that interesting?

01:04:09.940 Just like we, for some reason,

01:04:11.740 are just keeping all of these African kings and queens happy here. 0.82

01:04:17.700 Maybe they're old friends of the establishment.

01:04:19.840 Maybe they did favours.

01:04:21.700 You know, I don't know. 1.00

01:04:22.740 But you'd think they'd give them somewhere better than a council house. 1.00

01:04:25.580 Well, he seems happy enough. 1.00

01:04:27.680 One in the Isle of Dogs opposite the Cutty Stark

01:04:29.980 looked quite desirable.

01:04:31.520 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:04:32.280 Old Trafford's not such a bad place, Carl.

01:04:35.120 Perhaps he'll come up to McAfee and do a bit for him.

01:04:37.640 He might like the football.

01:04:39.240 Bakerfield.

01:04:40.540 Anyway, the next one is this.

01:04:42.700 Honestly, though, I'm considering,

01:04:44.900 if there was some 4D chess being played here,

01:04:47.720 if we were still a real country,

01:04:49.380 we'd just be keeping these guys in our pocket

01:04:51.480 so that we'd have men on the inside when we recolonize.

01:04:54.760 Now, that would be a smart play, right?

01:04:57.100 We've got literally like a Pavlavi situation.

01:05:00.740 We know who we're going to put in when we finally retake the empire, 0.96

01:05:05.140 but you know that's not going to happen.

01:05:06.700 no this is just this is just weird no instead of instead of keeping these as useful agents

01:05:12.100 of the empire no they're just dependents why is this bloke's beard ginger great question

01:05:17.120 great question is this something to do with like just like muhammad was ginger so i'm gonna dye my

01:05:21.960 beard ginger i don't know if his beard is dyed ginger or not but what this is is uh i think he's

01:05:27.620 died it it might be it might not i don't know abdul khadir mumin who is an islamic state leader

01:05:34.120 in somalia uh obviously he lived here in a council house obviously and with his wife

01:05:41.480 like wolfie smith and the people's popular front isn't it uh you know yeah revolution starts here

01:05:48.520 yeah but he he married a somalian woman in britain so she was british somalian uh and he

01:05:55.740 has three children uh and then he decided i'm going to go to somalia to lead the islamic state

01:06:01.260 revolution there and abandoned my children so she uh muna abdul uh as a boy and two girls and she's

01:06:09.460 just like he doesn't contact us we've not heard from him like and apparently uh he re-emerged in

01:06:14.380 somalia in 2016 in a video where he was burning his british passport and dedicating his life to

01:06:18.440 jihad which brilliant i'm so glad that we're keeping these people in our country she lives

01:06:24.880 in a two-bedroom council flat in slough now so amazing why were these people here why are any 0.95

01:06:31.420 of these people here what are we doing like this is bizarre like this is the next one hamas fugitive 0.99

01:06:37.020 living in a council house in london so why are we doing this mohammed kasim salwala a hamas 0.90

01:06:43.820 terrorist who ran operations in the west bank is enjoying life in a british state-funded home in 0.99

01:06:48.260 the london borough of barnet why only 10 minute drive from the nearest synagogue perhaps they're

01:06:55.700 hoping for some kind of conversion well what's yeah i don't know what's going on there but barnet

01:06:59.640 houses one fifth of all british jews this is a jewish area of london and somehow they're hoping

01:07:08.500 for an assimilation success story with this one boys thing is is this kind of like oh yeah i was

01:07:15.180 you know i was hamas out in palestine and i was attacking the israelis all the time

01:07:18.940 and i had to flee and i fled to london where'd i go jews the jewish but the jewish borough it's

01:07:24.960 like there's an irony there it's like a comedy it's a big practical joke or yeah therapy but

01:07:29.900 it just he he recently purchased his council property under the right to buy scheme so it's

01:07:36.600 been renting for a long time since 2003 he qualifies for right to buy so he got 112 000

01:07:44.580 discount on his council house so he could bargain but isn't that people should own their own homes 0.75

01:07:51.160 yeah hamas terrorists should own their own bloody homes like what are we doing why are these people 0.88

01:07:56.680 here i think we're just looking at a multiculturalism success story carl i don't know what 0.98

01:08:01.360 there is to complain about and ironically that's what they think this is as far as they're concerned

01:08:06.660 this is what the right to buy scheme is for to allow this guy to buy his council property

01:08:10.940 but it's just mad isn't it like going back to uh um trevor phillips what britain what

01:08:17.140 restore britain wants to do uh we want to get rid of people who hate us i don't think this guy's a

01:08:23.160 net tax contributor yeah yeah weirdly i just where did the 112 000 pounds well it was a discount

01:08:28.740 discount well where did the money come from to buy the flat i i like to think that he's become

01:08:33.700 a well-loved member of the local jewish community and that they just like all all gave him some of

01:08:40.760 the money they all pulled it together so that they we really like you abdul so you know come on in

01:08:45.920 we welcome and they pull little practical jokes on one another like they got him a pager for

01:08:50.360 christmas and he was laughing it up and he goes in he hands them a parachute and they're all like

01:08:56.040 yucking it up it's great time but literally like why why were we just paying for this guy called

01:09:02.080 abdul kadir mumin to live in our country why were we paying for this guy to live in our country why 0.66

01:09:07.000 are we paying for any of these things like this all on social you think of a country you could go

01:09:11.680 to no where they'd sort of take you in give you a four-star hotel no i can't allow me to live in

01:09:18.600 social housing pocket money and move you to the front of their public services q maybe canada

01:09:24.420 i can't think of anywhere no and it's ridiculous right and so it's it's just preposterous and yet

01:09:30.840 we keep doing it it's this really weird pathological need to help people no matter how ridiculous they

01:09:37.700 are and no matter how much they hate us or hate everyone else or whoever you know dispossessed

01:09:42.880 kings or whatever but there is one uh there's a a chap who's a north service uh not a housing

01:09:49.680 service officer in north london uh called sorry what was his name um oh uh oh this is the chap

01:09:57.540 This is the Haile Selassie guy.

01:09:58.760 Sorry, I thought this was a different show.

01:09:59.800 Wait, wait, this guy's considered a god-like deity by the Rastafarians?

01:10:03.580 Yeah, it's a bit of an issue, right?

01:10:05.860 A bit of an issue.

01:10:06.660 But at least he is actually working as a housing officer.

01:10:09.940 He's contributing.

01:10:10.780 He's got a job, right?

01:10:11.980 He's handing out social housing to other royal members.

01:10:16.280 Like Maundy money.

01:10:16.920 Which actually seems to be the case, yes.

01:10:18.540 That actually seems to be his job.

01:10:19.600 I think we've found the root of the problem.

01:10:21.800 This guy.

01:10:23.920 It's so...

01:10:24.620 Approved.

01:10:25.920 Approved.

01:10:26.320 but it's so funny it's like you know yeah yeah we were originally part of the orcs my empire which

01:10:30.860 became the ethiopian ethiopian empire it's one of the longest running empires in history and now

01:10:35.720 i am stamping approval rating uh approvals for social housing but no the the rastafarian thing

01:10:42.800 was actually a bit of an issue right so in jamaica they had a kind of um uh sort of cargo cult

01:10:49.720 to the ethiopian king i mean you see the ethiopian king he's not really like he's not a

01:10:55.980 subsaharan african like he's not i mean i mean this cuts quite a um quite a dignified figure

01:11:01.640 yeah this this is what like an african dictator should be like just like properly regaled

01:11:08.800 properly dressed yeah yeah but but he's not ethiopia was never taken into anybody's sort of

01:11:14.980 colony exactly one of the very few uh i think it's the only one actually maybe in the end um but the

01:11:21.900 But the point is, he was worshipped as a godlike deity by the Rastafaris

01:11:25.500 because these are sub-Saharan Africans who just see the word African

01:11:29.260 and think, okay, yeah, that's us.

01:11:31.680 But he was actually a devout Christian.

01:11:34.640 So when he visited Jamaica, he refused to get off the plane

01:11:37.600 because he was like, I'm not having them worship me as a god.

01:11:40.140 Jesus is God.

01:11:41.180 Oh, fair play. 0.96

01:11:42.800 It was blasphemy. 0.97

01:11:43.960 Exactly.

01:11:44.420 It was genuinely blasphemous.

01:11:47.100 Mr. Trump's done a bit of that recently.

01:11:49.060 Well, sure, sure.

01:11:50.460 But anyway, I just thought this was really weird

01:11:52.600 because this just keeps happening, that we have this.

01:11:55.700 And we probably shouldn't.

01:11:57.980 We probably shouldn't.

01:11:58.680 Are you saying no more kings?

01:12:01.720 Sorry, I've got a bit of a cough. 0.99

01:12:02.820 No, I'm saying no more social housing for people born outside of the UK. 0.96

01:12:06.160 I am absolutely sick of it, man. 1.00

01:12:09.000 I'm kind of willing to make an exception for random African kings. 1.00

01:12:14.040 I just think it's just funny. 1.00

01:12:17.680 We just keep them around. 1.00

01:12:18.880 Like a court would have an exotic foreign... 1.00

01:12:21.560 Like a collection. 1.00

01:12:22.520 Yeah, a collection of exotic foreigners at court

01:12:24.680 so that you're able to show them off to your friends.

01:12:27.020 I want a council estate full of random exotic royal families from Africa. 0.95

01:12:34.020 All right, I'll allow it. 1.00

01:12:36.200 None of the rest of them. 1.00

01:12:37.860 Social housing for African royalty and no one else. 1.00

01:12:40.780 There you go. 0.98

01:12:41.500 Do we have to keep the Hamas terrorist, though?

01:12:43.880 I mean, he seems like a very valued member of the local Jewish community.

01:12:47.820 You don't want to rip them apart, do you?

01:12:50.100 That's true.

01:12:50.660 He's enriching them, isn't he?

01:12:52.040 He certainly is.

01:12:54.620 Mandine says,

01:12:55.400 During the next Unite Britain,

01:12:56.760 Restore should organise a huge fundraiser

01:12:59.220 to benefit a cause related to the negative impacts

01:13:02.020 of mass immigration.

01:13:03.320 There's a good publicity.

01:13:04.540 Yeah, well, I do think having some sort of charitable cause

01:13:07.500 would be a good thing, actually.

01:13:09.100 You're at the United Kingdom rally.

01:13:10.980 So, you know, it'd be nice to have a charitable cause

01:13:13.100 to do it for, you know.

01:13:13.980 I mean, the left are great

01:13:16.920 at forming charitable causes to push their own agenda

01:13:20.440 and having huge patrons who will just throw money

01:13:24.860 at people promoting and pushing their agenda.

01:13:28.360 The right tends to have a problem with people who are rich

01:13:32.480 who tweet saying, two thumbs up to this,

01:13:36.480 and then don't actually put any money where their mouth is.

01:13:39.160 But the right doesn't have any NGOs at all.

01:13:41.800 And it's like, okay, but where can billionaires,

01:13:43.840 sort of as a tax relief, send a bunch of money on the right?

01:13:46.980 And the answer is nowhere.

01:13:48.000 And so we're like, well, why don't we have any infrastructure?

01:13:49.860 Why don't we have any permanent activist class?

01:13:52.560 It's like because we don't have any NGOs

01:13:53.940 and there's no opportunity for the billionaires to give us any money.

01:13:57.380 You know, we need to set some stuff up.

01:13:59.340 Let's go.

01:13:59.960 Let's go.

01:14:00.880 As we've seen in America, I mean, it was a circular thing.

01:14:05.960 The billionaires give money to the prescribed NGOs

01:14:09.420 and then their firms get contracts with the Biden government

01:14:13.360 and it just keeps going around.

01:14:15.260 and they also donate to the democrats as well so i mean that works but they also get their

01:14:20.820 agenda implemented as they get as that money is circulating through so um we need to find some

01:14:27.180 some way outside of just purely politicking through parliament and electoral politics

01:14:33.180 we need to find some way of getting our agenda through but there would be loads of really

01:14:38.400 worthy right-wing causes that we could set up ngos for i mean one of the uh things that that

01:14:43.320 would require state intervention effectively and then it wouldn't be a right-wing cause anymore

01:14:47.840 because what most of mine are i don't want state intervention i want to let people get on with

01:14:51.520 their lives and run their own affairs it doesn't have to be state intervention it could be um like

01:14:56.480 someone like elon musk donating to like the pendragon foundation to save a particular castle

01:15:01.000 or something like that so that you know no state intervention needs to be done the pendragon

01:15:05.300 that as far as i know i've spoken to them they're not involved with the government at all they're

01:15:10.680 just a private charitable organization doing something really cool and really valuable as

01:15:17.480 far as preserving british culture and taking it to taking it into the future i mean one particular

01:15:22.720 example in swindon is the mechanics institute which was purchased and was like the the person

01:15:27.720 who purchased it wanted to recoup mechanics institute for anyone who doesn't know it's

01:15:30.860 basically the the place where the nhs came from now whether you love the nhs or not it is a

01:15:36.060 venerable british institution and many people do genuinely love it and so actually honoring

01:15:40.520 the origins of it it's in the mechanics institute in swindon uh which was a private charitable trust

01:15:46.280 that was done by the railway workers in order to make sure that they could provide health care to

01:15:51.080 anyone of the railway workers who became sick very good idea the building is currently rotting just

01:15:57.280 over there and it's honestly heartbreaking i'm thinking of yeah there was a fire in there just

01:16:02.500 the other day yeah it's a nice building but you can see it's just dilapidated it's boarded up at

01:16:05.820 the moment and it's a gorgeous building and if we had like a right-wing charitables trust and a

01:16:11.300 friendly billionaire's oh yeah i'd like to preserve that piece of your history i mean you could turn

01:16:15.820 it into just a beautiful museum building or a library or something like that right and you

01:16:19.520 could do something genuinely beautiful with it and yet at the moment it's currently rotting

01:16:23.180 because the council won't give them permission to make it into a nightclub and so this is what a

01:16:28.360 right-wing uh ngo can actually do is get money from billionaires and say okay look we're going

01:16:33.660 to restore this building and have it as a library or whatever you know something public that whatever

01:16:38.200 you know that's that there is like an opening for like a right-wing cultural preservation

01:16:43.640 ecosystem that billionaires could then put their money into so it's a tax write-off so you'd have

01:16:48.480 to pay tax on it and that would actually do something good in the local community but we

01:16:51.540 don't think like that on the right which is a real shame because there is so much that actually needs

01:16:56.280 doing um anyway let's let's go through some comments because uh we've got a friend called

01:17:00.560 russian who's on the ground in makefield he says uh i'm sure andrew will attest that the telegraph

01:17:05.400 polling is way out regarding restore it's at least 15 from what we've seen of the doors that we've

01:17:09.900 answered boards are going out and being put up and we're gaining momentum what was your what was

01:17:13.980 your impression in fact we'll talk about this i'm going to interview andrew after the podcast

01:17:17.460 but uh give us a quick uh view from from what was a not even a party a few months ago i mean

01:17:24.320 it's unbelievable i was absolutely shocked at the number of volunteers that were yeah were there i've

01:17:30.520 I mean, I've been to a few by-elections in my time.

01:17:33.760 I'm sure you have, yeah.

01:17:34.420 I've never seen that many supporters for any political party,

01:17:38.440 let alone a fledgling political party

01:17:40.240 that's only just spreading its wings.

01:17:42.740 I saw Nick Lowell's, of all people,

01:17:44.800 tweeting that he didn't see many reformed canvases.

01:17:47.860 I didn't see any.

01:17:48.840 Which is really weird, isn't it?

01:17:50.380 Only the two spies that had come to our head for you

01:17:52.740 to see how many people were there.

01:17:54.280 But Nigel Fry said, I'm throwing the kitchen sink at this one.

01:17:56.800 I said, OK, but where are your activists then?

01:17:59.580 Why aren't they on the ground?

01:18:00.380 Why aren't they, you know, actually...

01:18:02.720 Perhaps we'll see an uptick when we get closer to the date.

01:18:05.180 Does Nigel know where the kitchen sink is?

01:18:07.200 Well, yeah, yeah.

01:18:08.480 In fact, Daniel says,

01:18:10.920 I was campaigning there Saturday and Sunday.

01:18:12.700 Every person who said they were voting reform

01:18:14.120 admitted they prefer Restore and Rupert,

01:18:16.600 but were just worried about splitting the vote,

01:18:17.800 and no one gave them a positive reason why they wanted reform.

01:18:20.220 While everyone said they were voting Restore,

01:18:22.000 were enthusiastic and positive.

01:18:23.200 There also might be, for the pollsters,

01:18:25.780 a few shy Restore voters.

01:18:28.540 Oh, I don't doubt.

01:18:29.880 I would suspect that given the stigma

01:18:33.620 that the mainstream media are putting around this,

01:18:36.040 that there'll be a number of people will be...

01:18:39.100 I think Dan Hodges has got a point on that, though.

01:18:41.520 It's like, look, the more you attack them,

01:18:43.020 the more salience you raise.

01:18:44.780 And if Rupert Lowe just holds his ground,

01:18:47.260 and he put out a thing today saying,

01:18:48.920 look, I don't care.

01:18:51.080 He's consistent on that.

01:18:52.520 Steve Laws can say whatever he wants.

01:18:54.740 Well, he's very consistent.

01:18:55.500 We're not going to back down.

01:18:56.480 We're just going to allow people to attack us

01:18:58.440 and we're going to keep doing the work.

01:19:00.980 That's always an appealing thing,

01:19:02.460 because not only are you the underdog,

01:19:04.020 but you show you've got a bit of a spine about you.

01:19:06.040 It's like, no, I genuinely believe what I'm doing here.

01:19:08.080 I'm not like Nigel Farage.

01:19:08.900 I'm not going to flip-flop.

01:19:09.620 But isn't that one of the stages of a policy shift?

01:19:12.280 You know, first of all, you're ridiculed, then you're attacked.

01:19:16.000 Well, they ignore you, then they ridicule you,

01:19:17.920 then they attack you, then you win, according to Mahatma Gandhi.

01:19:20.980 And, you know, the Indians currently have their independence,

01:19:23.800 so maybe he knows what he's talking about.

01:19:25.480 But Daniel carries on and says,

01:19:29.620 Restore don't have to convince people that they want to vote from them.

01:19:34.240 They only have to convince people to stop voting tactically

01:19:36.800 and vote who you want to vote for.

01:19:39.440 So everyone who goes there needs to tell people they're not alone

01:19:42.680 and in thinking reform is better than Restore or vice versa.

01:19:46.960 I mean, if you're in Makefield, put out your signs.

01:19:49.660 One of the most powerful things is having,

01:19:51.680 we're voting for Restore Britain.

01:19:52.680 So if you can see them,

01:19:53.640 and I'm sure this was the effect in Great Yarmouth,

01:19:55.480 because i saw pictures of entire streets where it's just restore britain size you're like okay

01:19:59.520 that's a that's a bloody problem really oh yeah like they bloody i mean they won like 50 of the

01:20:06.200 vote across the entire world that makes sense so like you know when you've got entire streets

01:20:10.140 that just say yeah no we don't care um that shows everyone else's permission for other people to go

01:20:14.600 yeah no i think i will do that actually you know people are sort of hack animals you know where

01:20:18.940 they see we see everyone else doing it like oh i better do that too then you know or if you'd

01:20:22.680 already been thinking of it and see the first person put one out they go oh thank goodness i

01:20:26.200 can do it yeah but i mean i think the strongest argument here is um voting tactically is where we

01:20:31.380 is has got us to where we are now oh you can't um we are politically this country we're we're in

01:20:37.960 not only the last chance saloon but it's five minutes to closing time uh and it's no time now

01:20:43.560 for the least worst option yes that's a compromise and and all we ever did that's what gets us into a

01:20:49.400 mess exactly and we know because that's exactly what we did to get to this point i vote for boris

01:20:53.920 least worst option i voted for farage last time least worst option i'm sick of the least worst 0.98

01:20:58.460 option man i'm at this point no i'm just gonna vote for what i actually want and damn the 0.92

01:21:03.180 consequences you know and until we all just collectively decide we're gonna vote for what 0.97

01:21:07.800 we actually want we're gonna continue getting stabbed in the back it's just the way it keeps

01:21:11.960 going so gotta carry on uh zesty says the argument by reform uk vote restore get burnham places

01:21:18.900 reform not as the best party but it's simply not the worst which is exactly the point that you're

01:21:23.040 making the entire paradigm of vote for me i'm not as bad as the other guy is over britain if it is

01:21:28.220 to be saved needs a full commitment completely true completely true uh omar says reformers have

01:21:34.240 an air of if i don't keep holding my nose to vote reform for what reason have i been holding my nose

01:21:39.080 all this time guys i've been i have holding my nose fatigue and so do half of the voters who

01:21:44.220 abstain each year and that's exactly again in gorton and denton we saw this they didn't bring

01:21:49.400 out half the constituency and so matt goodwin lost by a massive margin that he would have won

01:21:54.660 easily if he'd managed to bring up those people who checked out of politics well don't you think

01:21:58.900 like that reform tried a sort of highly educated quite posh chap last election now they've gone

01:22:05.440 the other way gone for the plumber yeah and don't get me wrong their candidate seems like a really

01:22:09.600 nice chap you know i mean i like he's retweeting me and stuff i'm you know i'm sure i get on with 0.96

01:22:14.460 a lot but like it's the context you're in mate that's the problem what do you think not nigel's

01:22:18.540 going to give him a lot of leeway to express his views because he's got a great history of that 0.92

01:22:23.440 you know yeah that's the thing nigel does keep the grass moan pretty short around him doesn't 0.93

01:22:29.780 he really does it's absolutely insufferable isn't it uh alex phillips having a complete

01:22:34.720 Meltdown means her boyfriend Nigel hasn't pleased her recently. 0.60

01:22:38.020 And when are we going to admit that Nigel is the arch-traitor?

01:22:42.060 He said so himself.

01:22:42.900 Nobody has done more against the right than he has.

01:22:45.260 Yeah, he's bragged about that many times over the years, hasn't he?

01:22:48.160 You know, he's the one who's really crushed and contained the British right.

01:22:51.580 He advertises himself as the gatekeeper.

01:22:54.300 Yeah, literally, I'm the containment candidate, says Nigel Farage.

01:22:57.840 What if I don't want the containment candidate?

01:23:01.120 I still can't forgive him for conceding we'd lost the referendum

01:23:04.780 before the votes were counted.

01:23:06.680 When I already knew, when I saw the turnout in the East Midlands

01:23:09.880 and North West, I said we'd definitely won.

01:23:12.020 Well, doesn't Cummings now say that Farage was more of an impediment

01:23:18.360 to...

01:23:18.980 That's why he wouldn't let him anywhere near the Leave campaign.

01:23:22.700 That's why he had to have his own campaign.

01:23:24.260 He didn't want Farage near it because he knew he'd be poisoned.

01:23:28.320 Yes.

01:23:29.140 Interesting.

01:23:29.600 I mean, Cummings was right about that.

01:23:30.920 Yeah.

01:23:31.420 Also, just quickly,

01:23:32.860 Otrigdor said $5 for the Lotus Eater's preservation NGO.

01:23:37.420 Thank you very much.

01:23:38.360 I'm not saying it couldn't happen.

01:23:39.860 All I'm saying is we'd need someone

01:23:41.280 who'd want to put the money in to get it started up.

01:23:43.520 Yeah, yeah.

01:23:44.940 Pericles says,

01:23:45.760 I don't think Rebecca Shepard is the woman for the job. 0.79

01:23:47.680 She looked like she was cringing

01:23:48.560 when Rupert was outlining his migration stance.

01:23:50.860 Maybe, but I think Elias saw that clip going around too,

01:23:53.260 and I think more has been read into it than needs to be.

01:23:55.580 I mean, like, it's not like Rupert has been shy

01:23:58.040 about explaining what he wants to do with the migrants 0.99

01:23:59.920 and so if she's signed up to it, well,

01:24:02.100 maybe she doesn't like how blunt he is or something, but like...

01:24:04.500 I mean, if you've both

01:24:06.140 been around Makerfield, either have you had

01:24:08.080 the chance to speak to her? I haven't been to Makerfield

01:24:10.120 yet. Oh, have you not? I thought you had, sorry.

01:24:12.020 I'm going to go. Have you had the chance to speak to her?

01:24:14.140 No, no. Alright, well, I mean...

01:24:16.160 I just spoke to the 300 volunteers that

01:24:18.020 came on the morning shift on Saturday

01:24:19.600 and there was another 250 in the afternoon.

01:24:22.540 Oh, there you go. Well, anything like

01:24:23.980 that can be clarified

01:24:25.940 privately if it even needs clarified.

01:24:28.040 Yeah, I think it's just taken out, made more of a big deal out of by reform members, as if that matters.

01:24:37.180 But Michael says, England, we have St. George's Day to recognise a person of national significance, a warrior and a hero.

01:24:43.280 America, we have a St. George Floyd Day to celebrate the death of another violent criminal junkie.

01:24:48.640 We did have our England football team taking the knee, didn't we?

01:24:52.020 Yeah.

01:24:52.580 I mean, it's just unbelievable.

01:24:54.020 Southgate is embarrassing, man.

01:24:56.140 Absolutely embarrassing.

01:24:57.080 Why do we need to be affected by whatever's going on

01:24:59.700 with American police?

01:25:00.860 They're so out of touch with the football supporters themselves.

01:25:03.700 Oh, yeah, they hated it.

01:25:05.000 Based football supporters booing from the stands.

01:25:08.180 I love the finger wagging as well. 0.87

01:25:10.540 No, you're all racist from Gareth Southgate. 0.91

01:25:12.400 Oh, come on, man. 0.95

01:25:13.640 Come on.

01:25:14.720 That's not a name I've heard in a while.

01:25:16.360 The UK is, honestly, I think,

01:25:18.240 one of the least racist countries in the world.

01:25:21.180 Yeah.

01:25:21.940 Most tolerant country in the world.

01:25:23.500 Yeah, but this is being weaponised against us.

01:25:25.180 Absolutely.

01:25:25.580 In this way.

01:25:27.080 baron van warhawk says i don't feel bad that all the money blm received in donations mysteriously 0.98

01:25:32.840 disappeared if you were dumb enough to fall for such an obvious scam you got what you deserved 0.99

01:25:37.040 uh to great to quote the great thomas tusser a fool and his money are soon parted you know 1.00

01:25:43.080 he's got a point but how do they get together in the first place that's the question well yeah 0.93

01:25:47.040 i wouldn't be shocked if um i think they knew what it was yeah i wouldn't be shocked if a lot

01:25:53.020 of the millionaires who donated to it was probably just some kind of money laundering scheme

01:25:56.980 yeah and the thing for the corporations is a lot of it would have been tax write-offs right

01:26:02.140 any corporation can donate to a charity to have the tax write-off so for them it's like well who

01:26:06.840 cares where the money goes you know we don't care i mean reparations buy as many mansions as you want

01:26:11.320 yeah exactly i genuinely think that there was just a very canny class of grifters you've got to find

01:26:16.760 out who she bought the mansions from well it's all the money back yeah yeah but but the the thing

01:26:22.820 is it's like it's been a very narrow class of uh grifters of identity grifters who just like yeah

01:26:27.820 give us loads of money and as you said it's going to buy large mansions and just because we're worthy

01:26:32.880 people yeah you can trust us yeah we're the activists you know we don't care and so obviously

01:26:37.940 nothing's substantively changed in the black community but that's not what it was about you

01:26:42.500 know as for a few people well it changed quite a lot yes some people were liberated i don't know

01:26:47.980 what you're talking about.

01:26:50.620 Mathurian says,

01:26:51.300 I remember at the time of Floyd,

01:26:52.320 there was a great protest

01:26:53.500 planned in my hometown.

01:26:55.040 Police found a pallet of bricks

01:26:56.340 in the vicinity of the protest

01:26:57.500 with no particular ownership.

01:26:59.000 I saw it.

01:26:59.500 Now that's interesting.

01:27:00.580 Did you not see that?

01:27:01.640 It was really weird.

01:27:03.260 Literally,

01:27:03.780 it's in the middle of the street.

01:27:04.680 There's just an open pallet of bricks.

01:27:07.220 I was like,

01:27:07.500 that's weird.

01:27:08.660 Just left around.

01:27:09.480 Andy.

01:27:10.100 Yeah, weird.

01:27:10.800 You might need these later.

01:27:12.120 Yeah, yeah.

01:27:12.480 It saves you from

01:27:13.460 picking up the cobblestones

01:27:14.600 or digging them up.

01:27:16.560 It's a lot easier.

01:27:17.980 um jimbo says imagine telling george floyd how much money was made from his death and how much

01:27:22.580 fentanyl it could have bought um well that's the thing it's like it's such a huge amount of money

01:27:28.200 i mean it's literally billions that were raised and you just and like it's there's this massive

01:27:33.200 waterfall of money and then suddenly everything's dry afterwards it's weird you know it's just as

01:27:39.280 you say it's gone in someone's bank accounts um michael says emperor of ethiopia yeah he makes

01:27:44.600 more on benefits than he'd make as the emperor of ethiopia uh no apparently haile selassie had a

01:27:48.560 very opulent court uh so for anyone who doesn't know he uh he he was a he was the emperor he had

01:27:55.560 this traveling court so the emperor of ethiopia didn't have a capital but they had this sort of

01:27:59.840 nomadic traveling court that was uh the the very center of opulence probably just and he saw off

01:28:05.200 the italians and he did yeah um so uh no no no you definitely make more money as the emperor of

01:28:10.560 ethiopian than you would uh benefits in london although benefits in london are not insubstantial

01:28:15.440 so you know won't won't take that away from him uh kevin says so you can't pass your house and

01:28:20.980 mortgage to your kids but you can leave your social housing flat and keep it yeah exactly

01:28:25.520 once again it doesn't pay to work for a living so if the first lady of sierra leone can maintain

01:28:30.740 a council house in london come on what's the point man just what's the point uh jimbo says

01:28:37.600 can you imagine the shame of african royalty still being low status enough to go cap in hand to the 0.97

01:28:41.520 white working class it's wild isn't it because you'd think if you're like you know the the king

01:28:47.920 of rwanda or something you'd be like okay i'm not gonna beg surely this is beneath my dignity 0.70

01:28:53.080 but anyway i don't know what do i know um anyway right uh andrew where can people find more from

01:28:58.160 you uh i'm on x at a a bridging on x and andrew bridging on facebook and um yeah i guess we're

01:29:07.200 going to do an interview in a little while as well we are yeah we're going to talk about mayfield

01:29:10.080 and your experiences there and various other things so right on that note thanks for joining

01:29:14.340 us folks we will see you tomorrow have a great day and try not to melt

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - May 25, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1425

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