The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1426

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1426.

00:00:05.960 I'm your host Harry, joined today by Stelios and Luca.

00:00:10.380 Hello there.

00:00:11.220 And today we're going to be talking about how Restore are over the target

00:00:19.580 because there are a load of hit pieces against them right now

00:00:22.900 from all sorts of publications and it should be very fun.

00:00:25.780 We'll also talk about Merkel receiving the Order of Merit.

00:00:30.000 a more deserving candidate I can't think of, frankly. And I'm going to be doing something

00:00:34.320 a little bit different in talking about how the left lies to you by examining some of the works

00:00:39.140 that they actually produce, examining the world as it exists now, and we can compare, contrast,

00:00:44.820 and analyse it against our understandings of the world. So I hope you'll stick around for that. It

00:00:49.520 should be an interesting discussion, kind of a mini book club. With that, anything else that

00:00:53.760 we'd like to say before we begin? Yes, the latest episode of Chronicles is out, ladies and gentlemen,

00:00:59.500 and this time I'm delighted to be talking all about

00:01:02.020 The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

00:01:05.360 It's one of my absolute favourite poems

00:01:07.320 and Alistair, a good editor, has managed to help infuse

00:01:11.640 this particular episode with Essence of Iron Maiden

00:01:14.700 throughout it all as well.

00:01:16.560 Anyway, it's one of my absolute favourites.

00:01:19.140 Coleridge has so much to say, you know, about divinity

00:01:22.840 and about respect for nature,

00:01:25.560 but he coats it all in this wonderful Gothic manner

00:01:29.060 And really, it's actually quite a reactionary text

00:01:32.180 when you look at the reductionism of the Enlightenment

00:01:36.080 and the sort of the material philosophy that it all led to.

00:01:39.440 So this is the first part of the analysis.

00:01:41.620 I'm actually going to record the second after the podcast today.

00:01:44.840 So get a head start and go enjoy it.

00:01:47.320 Fantastic. Have you considered more Iron Maiden-based chronicles?

00:01:51.120 Yes.

00:01:51.960 Because they have a lot of material to work with.

00:01:54.420 We've got some lovecraft we could.

00:01:55.860 Most of their songs are basically, like, historical epics, but...

00:01:59.640 The Wicker Man also is a good...

00:02:01.680 Yes, yes, definitely, yeah, yeah, there's plenty of potential in there.

00:02:05.420 And they are a British institution.

00:02:07.240 They are, they are indeed.

00:02:08.860 All right, then, so let's talk about the first segment, shall we?

00:02:12.800 Because it seems, ladies and gentlemen, thankfully, that we are over the target.

00:02:16.960 How do we know that Restore Britain is over the target?

00:02:19.880 Well, because everyone is coming after us.

00:02:22.500 And I have to say as well, it's not just that they're all everyone now.

00:02:27.620 As Rupert says here in this post,

00:02:30.620 hippies just gone up against Restore Britain in the Times,

00:02:33.700 follows GB News, Hope Not Hate, The Telegraph, Guardian,

00:02:36.680 and many others in the last few days.

00:02:39.020 We're going for the full house.

00:02:40.200 The establishment despises Restore Britain.

00:02:42.880 And I think what needs to be said about this as well, of course,

00:02:45.580 that these hit pieces, these attack pieces have just come out

00:02:50.460 after months and months of radio silence, right?

00:02:54.480 They weren't talking about it at all.

00:02:56.780 No write-ups, no real...

00:02:58.240 Beyond, like, the odd murmuring,

00:03:00.280 just to sort of say,

00:03:01.140 oh, yeah, this is something that's happening in the background.

00:03:03.980 But now that Restore Britain has fully committed itself

00:03:07.460 to the by-election in Makerfield,

00:03:11.520 well, all of a sudden, this seems to have spoiled

00:03:13.660 a lot of the establishment's hopes of Christmas.

00:03:16.640 And, you know, they're pretty salty about it.

00:03:19.180 Well, they've forced themselves into the conversation.

00:03:21.360 So now that they are going to be a force during Maker Field,

00:03:25.500 the establishment has to reckon with them and has to address them.

00:03:28.840 And the route that they have chosen is attacks.

00:03:32.220 Yes.

00:03:33.120 But obviously these attacks are entirely in our benefit

00:03:36.200 because all these attacks ever end up doing

00:03:38.980 is basically giving free advertising for us.

00:03:41.900 Basically just saying, hey, have you heard about this new party

00:03:44.640 and all the cool based things they want to do?

00:03:47.120 and some person who's reading the Telegraph just gets to go.

00:03:50.940 No, I hadn't actually, but thank you for letting me on.

00:03:53.520 Carl pointed out yesterday that they were brought up on Sky News recently

00:03:58.200 in a discussion between Trevor Phillips and Robert Jenrick.

00:04:02.160 And Trevor Phillips just gestured towards a screen

00:04:04.400 which had all of their deportation policies outlined on them.

00:04:08.420 And there was no real criticism of them within the clip that I saw.

00:04:12.860 It really felt like just an advertisement for them

00:04:15.140 because I'm sure a lot of right-minded people would look at that and go, well, looks good to me.

00:04:20.500 Well, absolutely. I mean, honestly, from that list that Trevor Phillips showed on Skype,

00:04:25.760 what was on there that could really be deemed extremist or controversial in any way? It's like,

00:04:31.040 oh, people who don't speak English. It's like, well, this is England. Furthermore, it's like

00:04:37.460 people who are on social welfare. It's like, well, if the entire argument, even for those who are,

00:04:42.420 you know, just constantly saying about the benefits of economic migration. If you want to

00:04:46.800 show those benefits, then doesn't it make sense to not have the migrants over who are just being 1.00

00:04:52.660 a total drain on the economy? And on and on, we talk about... 1.00

00:04:55.760 The benefits are the benefits that we're giving them.

00:04:59.020 Well, yes.

00:04:59.540 I think we've completely misunderstood what kind of benefits they were talking about in the first

00:05:03.420 place. We thought the benefits were coming to us and it was actually just them the whole time.

00:05:07.900 Yeah, absolutely. But as you can see here, just to begin then by

00:05:11.400 outline because this is what they're all sort of like drawing upon and you can tell that the

00:05:15.920 telegraph here are getting very uppity about the fact that it says the first poll uh poll of the

00:05:20.660 by-election published by servation uh last weekend showed labor on 43 percent while reform was on 40

00:05:27.880 percent and restore britain are on seven percent now this particular poll only drew from fewer

00:05:34.820 than 400. It was 369. There you go, exactly, in the constituency. So it's not exactly a strong

00:05:42.540 poll. And as Rupert points out here, according to journalist Charlie Simpson, is reporting that

00:05:49.460 reform's own figures put Restore Britain on 18% in Makerfield, with reform on 32% and Labour just

00:05:56.980 ahead, from nothing to 18%. So we've made that progress in basically a week, and it will go

00:06:02.780 higher. And what's more as well, if reform really are polling at 32%, then that is not a large gap

00:06:10.580 at all. That is something that can easily be surpassed in the time that we have available to

00:06:15.840 us. And though not normally someone who has very sensible takes, as Dan Hogg just points out here,

00:06:23.800 just to add to the chaos, I've now been told by multiple sources from different parties that

00:06:27.820 Canvas returns for Makerfield show a store significantly outperforming 7%.

00:06:33.260 So this is not just Rupert and people who are friends and allies of our movement.

00:06:38.000 This is also people who, by any stretch, would not usually, you know, want to be honest about how strong, you know, our side of the movement is.

00:06:47.580 And also just one thing to say is that even if it were 7%, it would still be a good thing from nothing to 7% in just no time.

00:06:56.780 Yes.

00:06:57.080 it would still be a good thing it shows you that there is a genuine natural appetite out there

00:07:02.360 and indeed these are obviously voters as well and this is something that we'll get on as we go

00:07:06.520 through these articles but it's the fact that they they always say oh well you're splitting the vote

00:07:10.760 it's like well it's not because even if it is as you say stelios just seven percent and we have

00:07:15.540 every reason to actually believe it's more than that but even if it is seven percent those are

00:07:20.560 7% of people who have seen Reform UK on the political landscape for a few years now and

00:07:28.180 they're not voting for reform, right? Once you actually give them another option, they have

00:07:33.900 decided to not go down the containment route and they've actually decided to pin their colours to

00:07:39.820 something that they think is actually worthy of their support, worthy of their trust. It isn't

00:07:44.580 going to just stab them in the back. So all of the knives started to come out. And it's perhaps 0.99

00:07:50.960 not a surprise at all that a lot of this came from GB News, who put out a very extensive

00:07:56.760 article, basically lambasting Rupert for being irresponsible. And of course, it just has to be

00:08:04.940 said that Nigel Farage does have a fair bit of control and a great deal of influence at GB News.

00:08:13.240 i mean he hosts a show there i even mean rupert lowe will do to patriotism what the left did to

00:08:19.800 liberalism if he doesn't stop what you mean like skin suit it or do you mean like they'll 0.56

00:08:24.100 rupert lowe is going to make patriotism so gay he's going to make it gay he's going to make it 0.68

00:08:31.540 brown and he's going to parade it through your streets is that what is that what the threat is 0.97

00:08:37.400 or are they just saying he's he's skin suiting he's going to ruin it basically he's going to

00:08:42.020 spoiler what they saw as their form their seat i don't see reform as a as a patriotic party sorry

00:08:49.160 no but two things i can add here is that first of all the same rhetoric that reform is now using

00:08:55.220 against restore is the rhetoric that the conservative that the tories used against reform

00:08:59.700 and from a purely practical and pragmatic perspective

00:09:05.200 one of the best things for a potential reform UK government

00:09:11.540 would be strong restore presence in the UK parliament

00:09:15.020 in the next parliament arrangement.

00:09:18.180 Why?

00:09:18.740 Because if you have,

00:09:21.120 if they actually mean what they're saying,

00:09:23.640 or at least part of it,

00:09:26.140 and they are in the parliament,

00:09:29.340 they will have to make some, in a sense, concessions

00:09:32.240 or they will have to appear to be diplomatic.

00:09:36.260 So it will be far better for them

00:09:38.840 if they mean what they're saying

00:09:40.680 and they become the next government

00:09:43.000 to have a strong restore presence in the next parliament

00:09:46.600 because they will be able to tell to the left

00:09:49.580 and the other parties there that,

00:09:51.880 well, sorry, it's not only you that I have to show,

00:09:55.560 put up an act that I'm going to reconcile with.

00:09:59.100 I also have these people there

00:10:00.560 and they're demanding stuff so it will move the discussion further to the right but that um those

00:10:08.480 words that you were just using there about the act that's kind of why we're all for restore britain

00:10:14.340 because we're tired of the act we're tired of the theatrics and the circus show of it all

00:10:19.780 we want the real deal you know as we constantly say on here we want the real beef we want the

00:10:25.320 prop not the vegan substitute and ultimately as they say here about the fact that um uh so the

00:10:31.600 accused by saying rupert lowe is forever saying that he's a patriot uh who loves britain and is

00:10:38.280 desperate to save the nation from labor well if all that's true he needs to uh back the hell out

00:10:44.460 of makerfield by-election right now otherwise his visceral hatred of nigel farage is going to usher 0.93

00:10:50.860 Andy Burnham into Downing Street. It's like, great. So being a patriot is not about putting 0.87

00:10:57.440 forward policies, about making sure that millions must leave. It's not about making sure that we

00:11:03.160 have something that can restore cheap energy to Britain or restoring our pubs or any of those

00:11:08.960 sorts of things, you know, that Restore have actually created papers outlining their strategy

00:11:14.340 for doing no real patriotism is standing down and backing out of the political process and being

00:11:22.900 able to pitch your ideas to the public on the doorstep because we already have this containment

00:11:28.940 vow this establishment uh packed party that was the peter hitchens rhetoric during the previous

00:11:35.500 general elections yes i love the kind of like protection racket lingo that they're using as

00:11:41.540 stay the hell out of maker field if you know what's good for you like rupert and all of his

00:11:47.400 canvases are going to show up and there's going to be a bunch of burly portly italians and so i

00:11:52.480 know italians are not quite brown enough for what reform tend to be uh going for but they're close 0.80

00:11:57.820 enough a load of italian guys you come into my neighborhood harry yeah you come into my

00:12:03.120 I quite like it, to be honest. 1.00

00:12:10.460 This is like a good old bit of old-fashioned bollocks.

00:12:15.040 Well, they're making us an offer, and we are going to refuse,

00:12:19.300 I think is the way that this is going to go.

00:12:21.480 But it says,

00:12:23.020 Burnham is a man who wants to drag us back into the EU and the euro.

00:12:29.660 He also wants to slam us with even higher taxes,

00:12:32.560 punish business more, give more money to the Skyvers, and he wants to fling open our borders 0.99

00:12:38.100 to all comers. It's like, look, OK, even if Andy Burnham wanted to take us back into the EU,

00:12:45.080 which, yeah, sure, he obviously actually does and has just since, you know, sort of like diluted his

00:12:51.780 rhetoric on that point. But the fact is, if they were to do that, it would, I mean, they're already

00:12:57.800 facing an existential wipeout at the next election. It doesn't matter whether or not

00:13:03.360 Keir Starmer or Andy Burnham is prime minister come 2029. It's still going to be the last Labour

00:13:10.060 government. Everything else, all of this scare tactics is just tinkering about the edges.

00:13:16.320 And whilst they're doing that, sorry, Stelius, just to finish, it's a point that whilst they're

00:13:20.220 all doing that, they're saying, yeah, and we want you to be scared of this thing. And in order to

00:13:25.080 be scared of that thing. What you need to do is go to this party that we have chosen for you,

00:13:32.400 the party that we constantly give the puff pieces to, that The Telegraph and GB News

00:13:36.800 and The Spectator and all these ones. No, you need to choose our choice, the one that we have

00:13:42.860 already decided is best for you. No, no, no. The reason we're in this mess is because we have had

00:13:48.800 what you have thought was best for us for years now and it's brought us to ruin so no thank you

00:13:55.820 we're going to try something different how about that i wanted to add to this is that i do appreciate

00:14:02.880 that and sometimes in politics you have to be mindful of who may end up leading the country

00:14:10.880 if you split a vote but the same thing applies for reform and second in this case i don't think

00:14:18.500 Burnham is that worse than Starmer. It's not like Starmer is a sensible center-left politician

00:14:26.020 and Andy Burnham is going to be a non-sensible leftist. Starmer is a non-sensible leftist.

00:14:32.580 But even if Burnham comes in, he's still up against the permanent state and Whitehall and

00:14:38.160 all of the things that the civil service want to keep in place and the permanent secretary and all

00:14:42.840 these sorts of things so i just don't see how anything radically groundbreaking could be done

00:14:48.940 even within their own party which is naturally you know amicable with those institutions of power

00:14:55.800 but there's just one more thing i'd like to well i think i think one of the big worries to represent

00:14:59.800 the other side for a moment more more the reform side uh one of the more understandable worries

00:15:04.760 is that burnham is much softer than keir starmer and shabana mahoud on immigration and has said

00:15:11.780 that he would want to remove the changes that were made to indefinite leave to remain under

00:15:17.120 Shabana Mahmood, which are one of the reasons why the Boris wave aren't all immediately becoming

00:15:21.260 citizens right now. Yes. No, I appreciate that. But they're going to become citizens eventually

00:15:26.980 if we don't get a restore Britain government anyway. And so why don't we just leapfrog

00:15:32.820 the containment party and just get straight to the one that we actually trust to do it,

00:15:37.980 not the one that has been dragged incrementally to the right on every issue, only because this new

00:15:45.000 party to the right of it has basically pressured them into doing so. And the other thing as well

00:15:50.560 is that when you look at this GB News article, they go into, they just can't help, the writer

00:15:55.960 can't help but just like throw in the slander and the hearsay of reform propaganda by talking about

00:16:02.000 the fact that an independent king's council concluded that there was credible evidence that

00:16:06.880 Lowe and his staff mistreated two female team members in the way that seems to amount to

00:16:14.560 harassment. And also about the fact that it just says he was also alleged to have made threats of

00:16:21.160 physical violence against the party chairman Zia Yusuf. It's like, well, that's interesting,

00:16:26.220 because as the BBC article points out here, literally, Malcolm McAfee, head of the CPS,

00:16:34.300 said that it made a decision not to press charges, quote, following a thorough and detailed review of

00:16:40.160 the evidence, having considered a number of witness statements, we have concluded that this

00:16:44.940 is insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction. Now, I will just say that

00:16:52.080 this is specifically from what I understand over the case, the allegations about to do with Rupert

00:16:58.220 Zia Yusuf. But the other point as well is that we know from Farage's own mouth why all of this

00:17:05.220 actually happened. It wasn't about bullying in the workplace. It wasn't about Zia Yusuf. It was

00:17:10.180 because Rupert Lowe thought the actual justice and what was actually good for the British people

00:17:16.440 was to deport the Pakistani family members who knew that the rape gangs were happening

00:17:25.060 and therefore chose to stay silent about it. 0.99

00:17:29.980 That's why it actually happened.

00:17:32.420 I believe Farage's terms were that's morally beyond the pale.

00:17:36.280 Right.

00:17:37.060 It's morally beyond the pale to deport people

00:17:39.740 who were complicit by association with the rape gangs.

00:17:43.960 And as well, when Rupert managed to make a rare appearance on GB News,

00:17:49.600 this moment where Rupert explained all of this himself

00:17:52.780 was actually cut from the interview.

00:17:55.060 wouldn't you know where he actually said yeah Farage did this this and this it's like well okay

00:17:59.560 if Rupert's case is so um you know porous and doesn't hold any weight then why would you cut

00:18:07.360 this part of it why not simply refute it and why not after hit piece after hit piece give not if

00:18:13.560 not Rupert but someone from Restore Britain the right of reply and the obvious answer is because

00:18:19.700 they know that they're lying and they know that they're just taking the least charitable

00:18:24.460 interpretation to destroy their political enemies. And so then we get on to the one from the Times,

00:18:30.940 Melanie Phillips, where she goes on to talk about the fact about, oh, these poll numbers being really

00:18:36.560 scary and how we're going to have to, everyone's just going to have to hold their nose and go for

00:18:41.420 reform. There's nothing else to do because, you know, Burnham is just the scariest human being

00:18:48.340 in British politics right now, I assume. And for the sake of time, I'll just skip on a little bit,

00:18:55.860 but she goes on to say that Farage's insurgency was based on standing against mainstream politics

00:19:01.220 on behalf of millions who felt that the political establishment had betrayed them. His greatest

00:19:06.340 calling card was his authenticity. This lost its shine when he started to adapt his policies over

00:19:12.820 welfare, transgender, or the mass deportation of illegal immigrants, apparently in response to the

00:19:18.480 way that the political winds were blowing. It also hasn't helped that the party's top brass

00:19:23.780 increasingly features ex-Tories, which is why parts of reform's target constituency are gravitating

00:19:30.960 towards Lowe, whose eye-watering hard line seems to have snatched from Farage the mantle of

00:19:37.820 authentic insurgency. It's like, but it is. That's exactly what happens. It's not seems to be this,

00:19:44.840 seems to be that. It is obvious which is the authentic one and which is the fake. There is

00:19:51.200 no way on earth, there is nothing that anyone could say to me that is going to persuade me to

00:19:57.340 vote for the party that contains Nadim Doris, Nadim Zahawi, Zee Yusuf. I mean, particularly

00:20:03.200 in the case of Robert Jenrick not winning you ever Robert Jenrick I mean these people I mean look at

00:20:07.880 his track record but but like never mind jumping over to another party like what are you even doing

00:20:15.300 still in politics I don't want to see your face ever again like on my tv do you understand after

00:20:22.740 the ruin that you brought to this country right Wayne Broadhurst should be alive right now as far

00:20:29.720 as I know. Jenrick has never addressed this. There are stories that come out all the time

00:20:34.000 about Afghan refugees that are part of his group that he's smuggled in, that just go about

00:20:39.380 endangering British citizens. And it's just crickets. It's like, I'm sorry, you have nothing 1.00

00:20:45.620 of value to contribute to this. And I'm certainly be damned not voting for a party that has you in

00:20:51.260 it. And so then we get to Spiked as well. Now, Spiked are, of course, not the most

00:20:59.180 counter-cultural magazine. Spike, correct me if I'm wrong, wasn't their original title

00:21:05.080 Living Marxism? I don't know about that. Did you not know that? No. That they were a Marxist

00:21:12.120 magazine? Well, that doesn't surprise me. As far as I can tell, they just kind of changed their

00:21:16.640 name. Yeah. So Brendan O'Neill wrote this piece, and you can just tell how angry he is. I mean,

00:21:22.440 look at this, just to begin with. Rupert Lowe clearly hankers after a place in the history

00:21:27.020 books the leader of restore britain seems to fancy himself as a modern day crusader i mean why not

00:21:33.020 sorry why not yeah was that why is that a bad thing is that a bad thing like every notable like

00:21:39.080 historical having you have ambition yeah every notable historical figure had a previous historical

00:21:46.060 figure that they also really liked and idolized and wanted to emulate in some way how dare you

00:21:51.060 Like, how many notable people have idolized Alexander the Great over the millennia? 1.00

00:21:56.700 I mean, come on, what a stupid thing to argue. 0.97

00:22:00.840 But all of this, honestly, this entire article is just dripping with ad hominem attacks. 1.00

00:22:07.020 And you can just feel the genuine venom from it.

00:22:10.000 And he seems to point towards the fact that, well, as it says here,

00:22:13.920 and what's more, that this bit part role in the Chronicles of Our Times

00:22:18.180 will be an entirely inglorious one.

00:22:20.200 He looks set to be remembered as a man who put his own colossal vanity ahead of the working class thirst for change.

00:22:27.260 It's like, Brendan, why don't you think that the working class will be attracted to the policies that Restore Britain are offering?

00:22:35.880 You've already seen yourself that, you know, people from all backgrounds were very much rallying behind these promises in Great Yarmouth.

00:22:43.500 and it seems now from the polling figures that we're getting out as well from a working class

00:22:47.980 place like Wigan that there is also a mass amount of appeal there. Well have you considered Luca

00:22:54.280 that you are of course a member of the elite petit bourgeois and that Brendan O'Neill of Spike

00:23:00.560 Online magazine truly knows the whims, desires and needs of the working class Brit? I knew it in my

00:23:09.020 heart. I just didn't have the honesty to say it. I know, I know. Terrible shame. Such a shame.

00:23:14.780 And so, yeah, again, we point to this 43% reform. Sorry, 43% of Labour and reform at 40%. So again,

00:23:24.480 even by this poll that they're all going by, Labour is still winning anyway. And let's not

00:23:30.100 forget that even before Restore Britain threw themselves into the political process wholeheartedly,

00:23:36.700 Reform without Restore's presence still lost the by-election in Gorton and Denton, right?

00:23:44.140 They didn't need us to mess that one up for them.

00:23:46.340 They did it all of their own free will.

00:23:48.600 And so I don't really see a lot here other than just winging, to be honest with you.

00:23:55.820 I will happily say that Robert Kenyon, who's representing reform, is a much, much better candidate than Matthew, I hate you, Goodwin ever was.

00:24:09.220 And it helps that the best, the worst scandal that Robert Kenyon has been involved in is that somebody unearthed an old Facebook comment of him where he made a lewd remark about Carol Vorderman, which given that he's a plumber.

00:24:22.700 Yeah.

00:24:22.880 well yeah have you met a plumber have you ever had to have you ever had to hire a plumber i mean

00:24:28.080 come on get over it uh so so you know uh fair play to kenyon himself he doesn't seem like a bad guy

00:24:33.920 no he doesn't and you know to be clear i've actually no interest whatsoever in trying to

00:24:39.720 just take like petty swipes at kenyon as well because i totally agree with you well the

00:24:44.000 interesting thing is that he's not in the party that i want to vote for makerfield has an uh has

00:24:49.180 an option between a local lad plumber, a local lass,

00:24:54.720 or Andy Burnham, local Labour careerist,

00:25:02.740 who's decided that he's going to try and make a run for Prime Minister

00:25:05.960 off of the back of this.

00:25:07.420 So for the people of Makerfield, just on a personal level,

00:25:10.380 if you consider who is actually going to take your needs

00:25:13.860 as constituents, as locals, to heart,

00:25:16.680 rather than just chasing his own career off of the back of it actually Andy Burnham is the one

00:25:21.880 that you should be giving the side eye because he is doing this purely for cynical purposes where

00:25:27.240 you can say that Restore and Reform are also doing it cynically Reform are doing it purely so that

00:25:31.980 they're able to keep Burnham out Restore are doing it so that they can try and prove themselves

00:25:35.920 outside of great Yarmouth but still either of them is going to be a much better option

00:25:41.060 than anything Andy Burnham is going to do he's just doing it to chase a position in the cabinet

00:25:46.100 at worst, if not prime ministership.

00:25:49.580 But this is a particularly interesting part here.

00:25:52.800 It says, restore is the enemy of populism.

00:25:56.120 It's a cult of personality pretending to be a party.

00:25:59.800 Lowe, who's MP for Great Yarmouth, famously flounced out of Reform UK

00:26:05.220 and said it had become the cult of Nigel.

00:26:08.760 So, Flounced Out is doing a lot of,

00:26:14.220 I mean, it's not the most honest imagery there.

00:26:16.620 Like, he decided personally to do it

00:26:18.800 because of the fact that he initiated it.

00:26:21.800 Like, he did it on purpose, by choice.

00:26:24.620 Look at the next sentence.

00:26:25.880 That's rich from a man whose online army

00:26:28.180 of tongue-loeling acolytes would make Kim Jong-un wince.

00:26:33.520 Sorry, I struggled to take this.

00:26:34.920 This is all just pot calling the kettle black.

00:26:37.100 Yeah.

00:26:37.280 Yeah. Sorry, like Nigel has a big online following, Rupert has a big online following. I mean,

00:26:43.100 this isn't making any kind of point. And obviously, to begin with, in all of this,

00:26:48.040 I suspect that Nigel's was, of course, much stronger. But Rupert has slowly built up that

00:26:53.860 communication and, you know, online with people. And let's not forget as well, his presence on

00:26:58.860 Facebook is even larger than it is on X as well. So all of this is... I do kind of like the part

00:27:05.920 at the bottom of this paragraph though where it says uh uh some a lot of the online people uh are

00:27:12.540 the kinds who jizz when elon musk retweets them that is kind of true okay that is that is true

00:27:17.980 that's not a bad line i'll give you that one brendan you got you got it there um but in terms

00:27:22.920 of this entire it's like well it's a virtual fan base it's like but it's not because we're seeing

00:27:29.620 it now transform before our very eyes as people go out canvassing on the door as people do the

00:27:35.500 leafleting as we win over people in in makerfield yeah i mean what he says there restore is almost

00:27:42.740 entirely a digital phenomenon first of all that's that that's not true as we saw in great yarmouth

00:27:49.480 yeah um there is definitely the case that when you write on x there's a global audience that

00:27:54.920 is following you and yeah i mean in some respects you cannot easily see what it works online

00:28:02.880 working offline as well you can't make this inference at least automatically yes but this

00:28:11.740 doesn't mean that restore is an entirely digital phenomenon i mean why are they writing this article

00:28:18.200 what's why are they writing this article if it if it were if if it were working class voters hate 0.94

00:28:24.480 this crap they want a politics that works for them not the vainglorious meme making and treason 0.99

00:28:28.800 hunting of time rich assholes on the internet actually the working class would love for there 1.00

00:28:34.880 to be a load of trials against people that they consider to be treasonous bastards um like the 0.99

00:28:41.160 working class there's one thing you know about them brendan is that they are very loyal to one 0.93

00:28:46.660 another and they take a high premium on loyalty so if you have been disloyal if you are a traitor

00:28:53.140 they don't want nice things happening to you let's just say that for the purposes of time

00:28:59.760 because i have run over i'll just conclude by um going over to morgoth's point where he just says

00:29:04.680 regardless of the hyperbolic shiftling and seething it isn't really about restore although

00:29:10.200 but that the mechanisms for containing and redirecting popular sentiment are breaking

00:29:15.420 down and malfunctioning and that is exactly what what is going on here for for years now even those

00:29:21.520 who originally disliked Farage within the establishment have had more than enough time

00:29:27.060 to come to terms in the same way that in America they just sort of came to terms with the fact

00:29:33.260 that they were going to get Trump again. And that's exactly what you're seeing here. They

00:29:37.580 weren't anticipating this unknown quantity to just sort of spring forth with all of this vitality

00:29:45.480 and this energy, and the ground campaigns of activists raring to go. And so it's obviously

00:29:51.700 startled them to no end. And just to conclude with Dan Hodges making another point, which is that

00:29:57.120 reforms increasingly frenzied attacked and restored represent the biggest example of the

00:30:01.360 Streisand effect in British political history. In years to come, PPE students will be reading

00:30:06.100 textbooks all about this. And I think that that's a possibility. So keep the articles coming, boys,

00:30:14.200 because you really are laying out a great case for us

00:30:18.060 and why we are vital moving forward.

00:30:22.160 All right, got a couple of rumble rants there

00:30:24.400 if you want to go through them.

00:30:25.140 Yep.

00:30:26.240 So, Glee777 for $10, thank you, says...

00:30:30.080 This is my segment, not Stelios's.

00:30:31.720 Get the other one up.

00:30:32.920 Says, in a way, I'm seeing parallels with 2019

00:30:36.580 when Nigel did a deal with Boris to keep out Corbyn

00:30:39.680 and Boris, under a majority government,

00:30:41.780 gave us the largest wave of immigration in British history. Yeah, absolutely. $2, Gimli

00:30:47.900 Agoin says, the numbers at Restore pulling in remind me of the early days of the AFD in Germany,

00:30:54.380 and that really gives me hope for the future of the United Kingdom. Let's hope that we can

00:30:58.780 work together to save our countries. Yeah, and I absolutely hope for the best in Germany as well.

00:31:04.000 Yeah, and also just off the back of that first Rumble rant, I just want to make it clear as well.

00:31:07.980 if reform and nigel get in in 2029 with the cabinet that he would have and the figures 0.92

00:31:15.720 that make it up i honestly would expect another massive wave of legal migration

00:31:21.760 say what you want of keir starmer say what you want of the figures that came through the other

00:31:28.480 week of the total net migration numbers being what was 171 000 the fact of the matter is

00:31:35.320 that the highest numbers in terms of the gross migration that we had was like almost one and a

00:31:41.220 half million just a few years ago. The gross migration numbers coming back into the country

00:31:45.880 this year were, well last year, were 800,000, which is still not great. That's awful. Net migration is

00:31:53.460 still way too high, but that is almost dropped by half. I would expect, given that he's so friendly

00:31:59.580 to business and given the people that he works with and his commitment to fighting illegal 1.00

00:32:04.220 immigration, which to me at this point just sounds like a dog whistle, frankly, I would expect that

00:32:11.120 he would be so friendly to business, so friendly to the idea of legal migration and a kind of

00:32:16.380 cultural nationalism, a civic nationalism, that we would get another Boris wave. We would get a

00:32:21.660 Farage wave. I would not be shocked if that was the case. And all of that other stuff, especially

00:32:26.100 coming from people like Melanie Phillips and Brendan O'Neill for Living Marxism, it all just

00:32:31.220 seems like a kind of form of Hasbara to me, frankly. Yeah. And Habsification makes a point

00:32:37.080 that I cannot read, but I appreciate. I think you can say that the actual working class have

00:32:41.520 their own form of Izzat. Absolutely true. Honour, loyalty, respect. These are big things with 1.00

00:32:47.040 working class people. Yeah. Well, fair enough. All right. Over to you, Stilius. We're going to 0.97

00:32:51.220 talk about the previous chancellor of Germany. Actually, before that, before Olaf Scholz,

00:32:56.960 Angela Merkel she was rewarded by the EU with the order of merit you know what this award is about

00:33:04.160 well I imagine it's um it's don't read from there I mean I was reading from there so I know I'm

00:33:10.380 sorry I'm sorry Stelios I jumped ahead I'm sorry is it an award given to people who allow

00:33:16.420 millions of foreigners into Europe because that's kind of what most people remember Merkel

00:33:21.720 It certainly qualifies you for it. Luca?

00:33:24.880 Well, all I've got in my head is just, you know, the image of Obama giving himself the medal.

00:33:30.140 It's just like, that's really what's going on here in the EU.

00:33:32.780 It's just some old patting one another on the back saying, haven't we done a good job destroying Europe?

00:33:37.280 Well done, everybody.

00:33:38.360 An exercise in self-congratulation.

00:33:40.820 Right, so let us see what the European Order of Merit is.

00:33:43.740 It honours the achievements of individuals who have made a significant contribution to European integration

00:33:49.900 or to the promotion and defense of the values enshrined in the treatise.

00:33:54.780 And it aims to inspire future generations,

00:33:58.200 highlighting civic courage and commitment to European ideals.

00:34:03.080 We can do it.

00:34:04.140 Make a 180 degrees turn from what you did right there.

00:34:08.340 Just based on that alone, if I was ever offered that order of merit,

00:34:12.820 I would feel like I had failed as a human being.

00:34:15.900 If they want to award you for those sorts of things,

00:34:18.580 It's like, no, no, I'm not interested in European integration. I'm certainly not interested in your, you know, human rights, European ideals and everything, because I know what you mean by them. And they basically mean the annihilation of Europe. So no, thank you.

00:34:32.720 Right. So there is an interesting discussion to be had about the ideals and whether the ideals are being worn as a skin suit by the very people you mentioned before.

00:34:41.380 Because I think that to a very large extent, not a hundred percent, but to some extent, a significant one, I think that these things are important. 0.73

00:34:50.620 But what I want to do with this segment is to actually show you how this is lying to us, how they fail to stand up to their own professed ideals.

00:35:00.700 Right. So first of all, I'll just mention the first one. It talks about significant contribution to European integration. Right. So this is absolutely gaslighting because integrationism and multiculturalism are the exact opposite. Multiculturalism tells you do not integrate. It's a bad thing to promote integration. Practice your culture.

00:35:28.140 So to the extent that Angela Merkel has been one of the main engines of multiculturalist

00:35:34.020 experiments in Europe, she has definitely not contributed to European integration.

00:35:38.420 She has actually contributed to European disintegration.

00:35:41.720 And we are going to talk about the promotion and defense of the values in a bit.

00:35:45.860 But let's see what happened here.

00:35:47.660 This isn't working.

00:35:49.400 Let me see.

00:35:51.180 Put it back in.

00:35:52.760 Put it back in.

00:35:54.200 Do you feel it now?

00:35:56.140 No.

00:35:56.440 Oh.

00:35:56.720 story of my life

00:35:59.080 Merkel awarded the European

00:36:00.800 Order of Merit it says here

00:36:03.000 the European Union openly

00:36:05.120 parades its parasitic intent

00:36:06.920 by honoring the woman who betrayed an 0.96

00:36:08.920 entire continent they just handed

00:36:11.140 Angela Merkel the European Order

00:36:12.960 of Merit their highest honor

00:36:14.560 as if she somehow

00:36:16.860 saved Europe instead of helping 0.53

00:36:18.660 dismantling it piece by piece

00:36:20.840 you honestly cannot make this up anymore

00:36:23.200 entire economies are collapsing

00:36:24.840 farmers are revolting, industries are fleeing Germany, energy prices exploded, 0.57

00:36:30.420 violent crime surge across major cities, and now the same establishment responsible for much of

00:36:35.540 this disaster is standing there, applauding itself like Sam decaying, royal court rewarding failure.

00:36:42.720 Right, so let us just remember of some of the key moments of Merkel's career.

00:36:48.720 here. In 2015, she gave in to the pressure by the then very bad Greek government. That

00:37:00.980 was the Syriza government. That was an appalling government. No one has been more critical of

00:37:06.640 them than I have. So they have been appalling. They were appalling, and they definitely

00:37:13.640 contributed to this. They opened the gates of Greece. We had an influx of 1 million in Greece 1.00

00:37:22.280 in a year, which is the equivalent of 10% of your country's population being added into your

00:37:30.960 country in one year. Meanwhile, not only was this bad from a sensible perspective, but they also

00:37:41.280 tanked the economy and contributed to it closing even more and be less and less and less competitive,

00:37:49.100 which meant that they increased the number of people who are not able to find a job and are

00:37:54.780 being sabotaged from working. And the Greeks were, we were sabotaged in that respect, first and 0.79

00:38:01.360 foremost in Greece. So it was essentially a powder keg. And Merkel wasn't listening to the concerns 0.98

00:38:10.600 of the previous Greek governments talking to her about the borders of Greece being also

00:38:17.480 the borders of Europe. She just didn't listen to them. And then she caved in to pressure

00:38:25.100 by the, you know, remember the government in which Varoufakis was there. Now that said,

00:38:31.420 it's very important to say because it's not reducible to just Greece. The Greek borders

00:38:36.540 weren't the only borders of the EU. So the colossal destruction brought upon the EU by

00:38:47.240 Merkel's policies doesn't just reduce to Merkel caving in, giving in to the pressure

00:38:52.420 by that government. But also it's more than that. It's making Germany incredibly reliant

00:39:00.340 on Russian gas. By implication, with troubles in Crimea and then the invasion in Ukraine

00:39:09.800 and Nord Stream 2, that led into a massive energy crisis in Germany. She also precipitated

00:39:17.020 through the dismantling of the nuclear power plants. That was another case of Germany giving 0.71

00:39:25.820 into green pressure about the environment. Which is ironic, given the green credentials

00:39:33.680 of nuclear power in the first place. Absolutely. So when I look at this,

00:39:38.480 it seems to me that this is not a legacy to be proud of. And one further thing to say is that

00:39:44.660 we can talk about crime. We do talk about crime, and I will talk about crime in the segment.

00:39:50.020 But one of the most, I'd say, appalling things that her legacy involves is how she has sort of normalized a kind of completely apathetic response to crime.

00:40:08.900 Because you can say, well, sometimes, you know, people are going to try to make a mountain out of a molehill.

00:40:15.200 They're trying to take specific incidents and try to present them as being the only thing,

00:40:22.540 like we talk about slop accounts, because of slop accounts as doing.

00:40:26.140 They seem more representative than they are.

00:40:27.840 Actually, yes.

00:40:28.840 But we have statistics.

00:40:30.520 We have statistics coming from the federal government and the federal police of Germany

00:40:35.820 indicating that crime is rising and people from the MENA countries being overrepresented in it. 0.55

00:40:44.060 So it's the federal establishment of Germany that says this. And also there is the completely apathetic reaction to crime. Well, it's just another day. And it gives a sense that there is almost no number of victims that will make any European government stop and think, well, maybe the way we're going about it,

00:41:10.140 that maybe the way we are promoting or we are allowing a multicultural experiment to take place

00:41:16.660 within our borders is actually not working and it's actually harming us. Another- Well, just 0.78

00:41:22.340 consider that Angela Merkel is one of the big reasons for this huge push of North African and

00:41:28.220 sub-Saharan African immigration, let alone the Middle East, into European borders and through

00:41:33.840 the Shenzhen zones, they are able to just shift around as much as they want without much stop on 0.54

00:41:38.520 them. So yesterday I spoke with Martin Selner, which should be out relatively soon and reviewing

00:41:45.300 his book, Remigration. And some of the figures that he gave in there were absolutely startling.

00:41:51.180 And you have to consider that Angela Merkel is one of the reasons that we have to consider this

00:41:54.900 as even a possibility now, which is that by 2050, upper estimates on the migration into Europe,

00:42:02.700 because of people like Merkel and her policies, her laxness with just letting these people in 0.99

00:42:07.640 saying oh we can do it because otherwise i feel bad that idiots put their children into boats and 1.00

00:42:13.380 go across the mediterranean and don't know how to sail and drown uh that's our fault surely um 0.99

00:42:18.840 the upper limit upper estimates are something like by 2050 200 million north and sub-saharan 0.72

00:42:26.400 africans immigrating into the into europe i hope this i certainly hope and at that point and then

00:42:33.500 surveys have been done amongst Africans, I think mainly sub-Saharans, asking them how many of you

00:42:40.100 would actually be willing to move to Europe and other Western countries if you got the opportunity?

00:42:44.700 And about 70 to 80 percent of them all said, yes, I would be willing. At which point you just ask

00:42:50.320 yourself, what does Europe look like when 70 percent of Africa just empties itself out into 0.99

00:42:56.140 Europe? What does Africa look like in that situation? What a ridiculous situation we've 0.55

00:43:01.580 put ourselves in? Will we even have to think that this could happen in the future? And this is 0.55

00:43:06.440 taking us to the next place, to the next topic, which has to do with a disintegration of identity

00:43:11.740 and the demos. Because it says here in Euronews, it will render a broader European judgment about

00:43:19.460 an era and about the kind of leadership the European Union believes it needs in an age of

00:43:24.480 instability this is infuriating because she has contributed into instability but she has she did

00:43:32.080 put up the act that well no i'm the i'm the factor i'm gonna be the factotum who is gonna deal with

00:43:39.500 a cry with crisis so when her party technically center-right conservatives as well yeah and it

00:43:46.880 says here the european parliament says the award honors individuals who made significant contribution

00:43:52.080 to European integration and the defense of democracy and European values. Now, let us unpack

00:43:57.660 this briefly. We talked about integration. She's actually contributed to disintegration. Why?

00:44:04.960 Because there's nothing that contributes to European integration in multiculturalism.

00:44:10.920 If you want European integration, and again, that's also a problematic ideal, if you ask me,

00:44:17.000 because it tries to say, well, there's a European identity that you need to foster,

00:44:20.980 which is going to be stronger, and you want people to place it stronger and above their

00:44:28.760 other identities, such as French, German, Greek, you know, English. That's the European ideal of

00:44:38.640 European integration. It has to do with fostering a European identity first and foremost. But one

00:44:44.780 thing here is that you cannot have any identity, even if it's a civic identity of the sort,

00:44:50.940 without it being exclusive. You cannot have any identity that is all-inclusive because identity

00:44:56.980 involves distinction and exclusion. When you say that you have someone, we are not talking about

00:45:04.140 human. And you can argue that even that identity is understood in distinction with other things.

00:45:10.820 So you can't have an all-inclusive identity, and you can't promote simultaneously inclusion and European integration within multiculturalism. It just can't happen. And when it comes to democracy and values, so two things. You cannot have a democracy without the demos.

00:45:27.860 And when you are promoting multiculturalism, you are disintegrating the demos. So this is precisely what is happening. And if this disastrous mix of relatively relaxed border policies, border policies that aren't designed to promote the interests of the native population of each country, both in cases of legal and illegal migration, coupled with excessive willfarism, 0.82

00:45:57.040 which means that people who don't find a job

00:45:59.680 from these countries stay because of the benefits

00:46:02.520 instead of leaving by themselves.

00:46:04.920 You are actually destroying the demos.

00:46:08.100 You're destroying any kind of identity 0.99

00:46:10.640 and you are creating a future of sectarian conflict 0.98

00:46:16.220 where democracy isn't going to have a good future

00:46:21.020 and the values of democracy

00:46:23.020 aren't going to be able to be asserted.

00:46:27.040 Because in this case, and this is what is actually really bad about her legacy and the side that is trying to weaponize her identity, rhetorically speaking, the unelected bureaucrats of Brussels who are promoting globalism.

00:46:48.740 It is that the only way to supervise a multiculturalist experiment that is designed to fail is by an incredibly strong and oppressive government, which means by losing all your freedoms, all the freedoms that we look at the history of European civilization and say, well, yeah, I mean, there were bads like in every civilization.

00:47:17.060 But there was also tremendous impetus for actual progress.

00:47:22.260 And we do live now, in a sense, on the shoulders of giants, civilizationally speaking, and

00:47:29.200 we do enjoy a kind of life that we wouldn't be able to enjoy without them.

00:47:34.060 All this is going to be destroyed by this omnipowerful state, because that's the only 1.00

00:47:41.360 way in which you can supervise such a multicultural experiment. 0.96

00:47:44.960 But again, that's not fail safe because if the demographics change by the disintegration of the demos that is being promoted, at some point, the major demographic, which isn't going to be European, will swallow that state and wage warfare on every other identity.

00:48:02.400 Yes. And also as well, I mean, what happens if, because, you know, it gets a little bit sensationalist when it's like, oh, you know, Islam has conquered Britain or whatever. It's like as if that would be somehow worse than just sort of like, you know, North Africans conquering Britain or, you know, like Indians or Indian Hindus or, you know, whatever it is. 0.62

00:48:24.680 I don't want England to fall to any of them, as a matter of fact, but because of the open borders, you know, thing that, yeah, as you say, she's a large part of, this means that, OK, but it's sorry. 0.98

00:48:35.540 That's all right. 0.99

00:48:36.020 If the demographic situation becomes so overwhelming that, say, hypothetically, the Muslims win out in France and the Hindus win out in Britain and so on and so forth, you know, and it goes and it's not actually just one. 0.67

00:48:53.020 then all of that thing of just like peace on the continent is just all gone gone to not because 0.75

00:49:00.140 no and we don't we don't want the cashmere um conflict no character as the entire no obviously

00:49:06.740 no and here merkel would have an answer to what you just said it's uh well the worst case scenario

00:49:14.640 for britain would be if a party like the afd um won so that's what she said she was implying there

00:49:22.480 The worst case scenario to Germany was reverse the things I've done.

00:49:28.420 Yes. So here is this clip from 2015. This is just about a minute. And I want us to play this 0.51

00:49:34.420 because it is a really weird moment because she says something that is sensible and realistic.

00:49:42.760 And I would say I wouldn't consider malevolent as the left is trying to say that every person

00:49:48.920 who speaks this way is malevolent it's tragic we know any person who is an adult knows that you

00:49:56.460 can't have everyone happy and sometimes if you cave in to what to if you give in to the pressure

00:50:01.940 from pressure from one person you will make another person really unhappy so this is a very

00:50:07.280 weird clip i want us to watch it

00:50:09.360 She said that she, she's saying that she has the dream to study in a university general, and you know, there are thousands and thousands of Palestinians in Lebanon, and we can't say you can come over here. 0.96

00:50:39.360 If we say that to Africa, we can cope with that. 0.91

00:50:45.060 And then she goes and she hugs her.

00:50:52.720 And then the reporter tells her that, well, you shouldn't be…

00:50:57.120 Well, you just made her feel sad, so you should throw away your entire civilization.

00:51:01.200 And she's like, that's a great argument, I've got no response. 1.00

00:51:06.160 It's just pathetic. 0.99

00:51:09.240 That was it. 0.97

00:51:10.240 Well, don't you understand that the Germans did some very bad things about 80 years ago. 1.00

00:51:14.520 So you should just throw away their civilization and the rest of Europe with it. 1.00

00:51:18.920 Because whether or not they did bad things 80 years ago, they're still in a preeminent

00:51:22.880 position of dominance in the European continent and within the European Parliament.

00:51:27.140 So their word goes.

00:51:29.420 I think at this moment, they're really the balance of power moves towards France within

00:51:36.680 the...

00:51:37.680 15 it was right so and one thing to say is that we i was trying to think of how to talk about her

00:51:46.960 legacy and how we should speak about her legacy and the kind of image we get from germany when

00:51:54.280 we think of what merkel's legacy has brought to it and i came up with essentially i had so much

00:52:03.560 material that I didn't know what to include. Yeah. Christmas markets with protective barriers,

00:52:09.840 you know, all the several terrorist incidents, the way the establishment reacted. And I want to say

00:52:16.040 a few things. We did a segment here about the Mannheim incident that was about two years ago,

00:52:24.080 one year and 10 months in Hwetch. Something really bad happened there. There was an

00:52:33.400 Afghan who stabbed a police officer who was trying to detain another German there. So

00:52:40.180 initially people started saying, well, this shows multiculturalism. It is the policeman who is

00:52:49.700 keeping the native down and the Afghan is stabbing the policeman in the back.

00:52:54.900 That wasn't exactly what happened. If you check the entire clip, there were multiple people

00:52:59.520 fighting. And that German was fighting another German. The police officer tried to break the

00:53:06.620 fight. And when he broke the fight, the Afghan went in and he stabbed the police officer. And 0.98

00:53:12.500 sadly, Rouvenel died there, the police officer. So this was one of the incidents where we can say

00:53:20.500 that it is representative of the bad aspects of her legacy. It's that a complete chaos

00:53:29.100 a germany fighting germany the police trying to detain the germans and then the afghan taking 1.00

00:53:38.940 yeah the the piss out of them by stabbing the policemen i think that this is in a sense

00:53:44.360 representative of of uh her and we have also data that shows that 0.89

00:53:54.160 migrants from the MENET countries 0.83

00:53:57.680 are overrepresented in crime. 1.00

00:54:00.520 And these are statistics

00:54:03.160 that the very federal police of Germany

00:54:07.620 has released.

00:54:12.820 And two things here,

00:54:14.220 which shows again how the establishment is reacting

00:54:16.960 in the Merkelite paradigm.

00:54:20.080 the afd politician who mentioned this got fined i think with 6 000 euros because they said that

00:54:29.040 she was stoking fear and division and hatred which suggests that all this is multiculturalism

00:54:36.500 and steroids you're only allowed in the miracleite paradigm to talk about migration and the crimes

00:54:44.340 of multiculturalism only in the context of saying that all of this is reducible to economic factors 0.76

00:54:52.820 and the only possible morale of the story you can extract is, therefore we need to tax Germans 0.52

00:54:58.980 and other Europeans more in their countries in order to give more and more and more welfare

00:55:04.660 to new migrants, especially from the MENA countries. So that in a few generations time, 0.53

00:55:12.420 when the birth rates keep plummeting and there's just no Europeans left, these will be the new 1.00

00:55:17.380 Europeans. Right, so her legacy is not a legacy to be proud of, and this is definitely not future 1.00

00:55:25.620 European leadership. And yes, so this isn't promoting the ideals that the merit is supposed

00:55:32.900 to promote. This actually is accelerating the destruction of Europe. All right, got some

00:55:40.340 rumble rants let me scroll down for you so that you can read some of them from here

00:55:47.860 germany is what you get when you let your past rule over you germany still that's what happened

00:55:53.540 80 years ago to dictate how the government operates today 80 years is 80 years and 86 and

00:56:00.420 i mean it's just there the you cut you we cut we shouldn't constantly go back to what happened in

00:56:05.860 in the 30s and the 40s. I mean, you speak to Germans, though, German patriots, and they will

00:56:11.360 tell you that basically that kind of politics of guilt, that attitude, is all pervasive throughout

00:56:17.620 the entire country, Germany and Austria. And famously depicted by Merkel herself when she tore

00:56:23.100 away the Germany flag at that public event. There's a very obvious answer to this. If people want to

00:56:29.060 prevent this, if people want to prevent the extreme right from rising, they shouldn't

00:56:36.840 contribute to the very conditions that give a rhetorical ground for that.

00:56:42.980 So what you're saying is stop recreating Weimar conditions.

00:56:47.060 Yeah, stop recreating destruction and social disintegration. 0.86

00:56:54.800 I'm not a fan of Germany in the 30s and 40s. 0.81

00:56:58.500 Yeah, I'm not a fan of saying this, but I'm talking here from a from a political scientist perspective.

00:57:06.100 If you don't want Weimar to stop recreating conditions of Weimar number two.

00:57:12.860 That's a random name. All of the conservative parties in all Western nation have always been controlled to position,

00:57:19.480 which is why I'm not angry that Carney won in Canada, because Polyever is just another Boris. 0.99

00:57:24.560 Connors Magmug 0.97

00:57:26.820 For anyone outside Brussels

00:57:28.860 Merkel is an architect of Eurodeath

00:57:30.980 For everyone in Brussels

00:57:32.360 Their scent deserves her medal

00:57:35.520 There's nothing about her 0.98

00:57:37.220 Contributing to stability

00:57:39.000 Nothing

00:57:39.780 That's a random name

00:57:42.540 When we win our descendants

00:57:44.240 Will look at this madness

00:57:45.640 The way we look at lobotomies 1.00

00:57:47.440 They won't believe we were ever ruled by such clowns 0.99

00:57:50.980 Hopefully 0.99

00:57:52.020 Fortien Barber

00:57:55.040 Hello, my friend.

00:57:56.340 Brothers Stelios and Luca and Harry,

00:57:58.660 the EU is an absolutely strange place

00:58:01.320 and maybe we'd better be suited not existing.

00:58:04.680 Hopefully you all had a wonderful weekend.

00:58:06.940 I'm currently hotter than the sun.

00:58:08.780 That's a good thing to hear.

00:58:10.440 I will say this about the EU.

00:58:14.080 I think wherever there's great power,

00:58:16.260 there's great problem.

00:58:18.540 And there are many problems with it.

00:58:21.640 I do understand that there is an issue, though, with divide and conquer. Without the EU, it's much easier for other geopolitical rivals to play divide and conquer with the Europeans.

00:58:36.180 But also with a very guilt-ridden EU, this is just handling it on the plate. You could say it makes it easier for them.

00:58:43.120 yeah all right so moving on I thought I'd do something a little bit different today which is

00:58:49.660 to do kind of a mini book club and examine two books that I have read recently because there's

00:58:55.460 been some discussion over the past few weeks over whether there could or should be some kind of

00:59:02.520 left-wing right-wing alliance against the establishment and I have been one who has

00:59:08.680 been an advocate for exiting the echo chamber from time to time and trying to examine with

00:59:14.840 and truly grapple with what those on the other side are reading and what they are writing and

00:59:21.120 I've done this before with my trio of episodes my little trilogy on the works of James O'Brien

00:59:28.120 which started with and ironically we just got a copy of his book How They Broke Britain

00:59:34.000 and I thought you know what I'll give it a read because it'll be interesting to hear a leftist

00:59:39.240 perspective on this and see if there is anything that we can actually learn from this because

00:59:44.040 sometimes on the right we can be a little insular we can be a little bit in the echo chamber and we

00:59:50.520 can miss out on some of the interesting pieces of analysis that the left does bring towards

00:59:55.200 criticisms of the economic system that we live under and broader structural analysis as well

01:00:02.620 I did not find any of that through the works of James O'Brien. How They Broke Britain was a pure

01:00:08.960 polemic that didn't really give me any real details of why he was angry about the things

01:00:13.960 he was writing about. He was just very certain that he was very angry about them. And with the

01:00:19.040 series of books, How to Be Right and How Not to Be Wrong, I found myself, frankly, just reading

01:00:24.400 this man's therapy diaries. I was reading the inner thoughts of this man going through some

01:00:29.040 horrible personal turmoil coming out of the other end of alcoholism and all sorts of other problems

01:00:34.420 and i mainly was just getting a deep dive into his mind which was very unwelcome frankly but i am

01:00:41.180 a true trooper so i put i put on a grim dour solemn face and i soldiered through did it affect you

01:00:49.960 personally speaking how did you feel greatly i've not i've not had a full night's sleep since

01:00:54.520 frankly i can tell yeah i mean if you wonder why i've been so tired withdrawn and solemn for the

01:01:01.860 past when was this one it was like last july or something uh two days before my own birthday what

01:01:07.460 a gift i gave to myself eh yeah if you've been wondering why for the past year i've just been

01:01:11.720 so different it was really examining the mind of james o'brien but i hoped that there would be

01:01:16.720 some kind of works out there um from the left that would be instructive on their thought processes

01:01:25.380 and maybe some stuff that we can learn from and for that i went to what are people reading that's

01:01:31.740 available in waterstones what are the big publishers going through and i picked up two

01:01:37.560 that interested me uh being the book of george monbois i think that's how you pronounce his name

01:01:44.560 and Peter Hutchinson, The Invisible Doctrine, The Secret History of Neoliberalism. And I also

01:01:51.060 picked up this one, which just caught my eye, called Quince-Lobodian's Hayek's Bastards,

01:01:56.040 The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right. Now, one obviously is a structural analysis of the

01:02:01.820 system that we live under right now. The other is a leftist analysis of some of our own circles

01:02:08.260 and some of the ideas and thinkers and the money that they were taking and where that came from

01:02:13.660 that influences the thought that you do hear on this podcast sometimes and so I thought it would

01:02:18.340 be interesting now I know what you're saying there is a definite problem with what's going on right

01:02:24.160 here and the books that I chose to analyze to begin with that being that I'm not actually

01:02:29.060 leaving the establishment for any of this what these books are essentially are various different

01:02:35.340 teams within the establishment speaking to the establishment which in itself can also be

01:02:41.280 constructive because you get to hear what they're saying to themselves and you can get an idea for

01:02:46.760 what narratives they're promulgating and how they are lying to readers who are just going into

01:02:51.880 waterstones for instance and thinking to themselves i want to be better informed

01:02:57.360 right so first of all i completely agree with you that it's important thing to read what the others

01:03:03.680 right. That said, if you would ask me to suggest some leftist literature, I would definitely tell

01:03:11.780 you to go back in time, because it seems to me that in the last decades, they completely lost

01:03:17.220 it. There used to be a time, I think that ended in 60s, 70s, where the leftists prided themselves

01:03:24.980 as the rational ones, where they were the ones who had all the arguments, they knew economics,

01:03:34.140 They claimed their new economics.

01:03:35.920 They claimed their new sociology.

01:03:38.000 Afterwards, they took a completely subjective turn

01:03:40.380 and it was all like colonialism.

01:03:42.900 Well, there are still some interesting thinkers out there,

01:03:46.240 but they are kind of holdovers from the old left.

01:03:49.620 I understand, but I mean, if you have to make it to five, ten books,

01:03:53.500 you have to put Rousseau and Marx there.

01:03:56.380 Well, of course, but the people who are taking more

01:03:59.280 of that kind of old-fashioned approach,

01:04:01.280 like some of the structural marxists and their analysis can be very interesting

01:04:06.520 well listen i'm reading a book called super imperialism by michael hudson at the moment

01:04:16.380 which is a more straightforward and cutting through the bs kind of analysis of how the

01:04:21.420 american international financial system works than anything that i've read from anybody on

01:04:26.880 the right-wing side who tend to kind of indulge in ideological and theoretical abstractions over

01:04:34.540 how the system works in a concrete sense. So I appreciate that. Again, that is not what you are

01:04:39.280 getting with these kinds of books. And to highlight the point that I'm making, Peter Hutchison, the

01:04:44.580 co-author of The Invisible Doctrine, as it says on his... well, for one, they're both published by

01:04:50.340 Penguin. So you know that they're... Anti-establishment. Yeah, they're not exactly

01:04:55.820 pushing the boundaries that we're talking about here uh but peter hutchinson has uh is a critically

01:05:02.400 acclaimed filmmaker new york times best-selling author educator and activist who has directed

01:05:06.980 and produced a film called requiem for the american dream featuring noam chomsky so he

01:05:12.420 has worked directly with noam chomsky who is basically like the establishment's favorite

01:05:17.240 pet dissident epstein's best best pal and as as we learned a close associate of jeffrey epstein

01:05:24.780 before he died. He was the most

01:05:26.680 sentimonious of them, come on. Yeah, who

01:05:28.480 was also working alongside

01:05:30.240 someone who should have been his sworn

01:05:32.780 enemy, Steve Bannon,

01:05:35.080 to try to rehabilitate

01:05:37.100 the public image of

01:05:39.000 Jeffrey Epstein for the public.

01:05:40.740 So we can tell right there, this

01:05:42.760 guy is not seriously looking outside

01:05:44.860 of the system, he's not seriously giving an

01:05:46.600 outsider's perspective, and George Monbois

01:05:48.960 prides himself as a

01:05:50.720 critic of people on the

01:05:52.340 economic right, economic

01:05:54.440 conservatives free marketeers yet at the same time is a part of the establishment pushing the same

01:06:00.280 kind of progressive narratives that we hear right now so what we're seeing is somebody within what

01:06:04.800 they call neoliberalism somebody who exists within that milieu who is funded by people with their own

01:06:11.060 agenda but who is simply trying to um to point to the other side of the agenda and say this is bad

01:06:18.980 we're good you the us good dem bad and kind of reaffirming and reasserting the prejudices that

01:06:26.460 these people already that the readers of these books will already have going into it and you

01:06:31.060 know you can tell because it's getting good reviews from places like the um uh the guardian

01:06:37.540 and i went after i read this one of the things that kind of kicked this off i did my own little

01:06:42.240 mini review where i highlighted some of the problems that i'll kind of

01:06:45.900 go into a bit more here but go on my law is when you hear leftists using the word neoliberalism 0.92

01:06:53.800 it's shit not necessarily but in this case yes in this case a bit yes because there are some 0.72

01:07:01.940 interesting things that you can identify from reading a book like this which is very easy to 0.95

01:07:06.220 read it's very short it kind of gets straight to the point and doesn't waste any time but what you

01:07:11.320 find is, again, a really good lesson in how if you have anything more than basic knowledge of

01:07:17.160 the subjects that these people are talking about, they're lying to you. These are establishment

01:07:23.040 left-wingers lying through omission to you and kind of just reaffirming the prejudices of the

01:07:30.440 people they're expecting to read these books already. And they're implicitly open and honest

01:07:34.800 about it because they are saying that their their major goal is is to subordinate truth to

01:07:41.260 revolutionary change i don't know if that's necessarily the case with with these guys they

01:07:45.760 seem more just like kind of regime shields to me but even as i've discussed before you have people

01:07:50.240 like hassan paika who who laps as a revolutionary but all he actually does is serve to filter

01:07:57.340 potential revolutionary energy back in to the democratic party establishment in america similarly

01:08:06.100 with these guys they say the system's terrible everything's broken everything's bought and paid

01:08:12.120 for here are all of the problems and what is the solution well you need to believe in green energy

01:08:17.960 and support all of the establishment programs for like agenda 2030 you need to keep pushing

01:08:24.180 at all these open doors yeah so and the for mass immigration so so i point out in here it's trying

01:08:30.480 to sell a simple story that that they the other side the center right are bought and paid for

01:08:37.160 we the center left are honest underdogs but they are leaving a number of contradictions and glaring

01:08:43.880 emissions so one of the weird things about this kind of stuff is it always feels really outdated

01:08:49.520 right we all remember 20 years ago how talk of the tobacco lobby if you're old enough to remember

01:08:56.560 such things was huge everybody went on about the tobacco lobby how evil they were how they tried

01:09:03.860 to get their claws in everything they wanted you smoking they wanted you to know that there was

01:09:09.260 benefits to smoking they wanted all of these bad things they wanted your children smoking they

01:09:14.540 wanted you all dying of lung cancer they wanted to repress any studies about the effects of

01:09:19.700 secondhand smoke for instance but that's not really so much of a problem anymore right so it

01:09:26.100 feels really outdated when they're going like neoliberalism guys is this a dark system it

01:09:33.400 commodifies everything and then you go that's true that's that that's that's true yeah we know it

01:09:38.280 It turns everything into a fungible asset and allows politicians and people with power to be bought out by vast financial interests.

01:09:47.820 And you go, oh my God, like who? And they go, like cigarette companies.

01:09:56.040 You have a rascal.

01:09:59.380 Yeah, you take that one last drag and you go, people with money wanted me to buy their products?

01:10:07.320 no never again will i be controlled by the tobacco lobby and then they go here i've got something

01:10:15.080 better for you take a puff on this and then they pass you the ganj and then you go

01:10:20.100 that's an honest and you get an honest drag dealer who does this and you go thanks bro

01:10:26.620 i feel so much better now because honestly it's ridiculous the way that they go on about this

01:10:31.340 boogeyman of something like the tobacco lobby while at the same time on the last on like the

01:10:37.560 third or second to last page of the book they tell you that we should be supporting things like

01:10:42.840 marijuana legalization as if there isn't an enormous lobby of vested financial interests

01:10:49.880 who are pushing for that who would be really really invested in monopolizing marijuana production

01:10:57.080 and selling it off to people i mean give me a break come on come on they don't mention anything

01:11:04.940 to do with vapes they don't mention anything which is a far more pressing and modern problem

01:11:10.500 with so many people who vape and get high streets full of vape shops from far less official

01:11:16.240 planet of the vapes so if it feels like it's just trying to sorry it feels like it's trying to take

01:11:23.560 that uh like everybody knows that there's something wrong today yeah everybody knows that

01:11:28.660 there are huge corporate interests who want to ruin your life but they want to just say no it's

01:11:34.760 these old weird outdated bugbears of ours while at the same time again they don't bring up vapes

01:11:40.840 they try and make it seem like marijuana legalization is not just kind of supporting

01:11:46.680 another arm of whatever you might call the smoking industry they don't bring up anything like the

01:11:52.360 military-industrial complex. They say that they're critiquing neoliberalism and that there's no

01:11:57.560 mention of foreign policy, wars in Iraq or anything like that. There's no discussion of the dollar

01:12:04.240 system. It is just basically reaffirming your own prejudices back at you by saying that they're

01:12:10.700 destroying your communities, they're destroying more traditional ways of life, but we are going

01:12:15.960 to immediately disavow and dismiss any idea of a more traditional, rooted, ethno-cultural community

01:12:24.480 like was the case before neoliberalism. There's no understanding, or if there is, they leave it

01:12:31.260 out, that their own position, George Monbois is particularly bad for this, that the idea of there

01:12:36.960 is no such thing as English was itself pushed by vested financial interests to try to disintegrate

01:12:45.420 community making it easier for them to bring in foreign labor which depresses wages and hurts

01:12:51.660 unionization attempts there are all of these different factors that just not there don't get 1.00

01:12:58.340 a mention they don't care about them they don't care about it they're either useless idiots or 0.99

01:13:04.220 they know what they're doing yeah so when it comes to the disintegration of traditional ways of life 0.99

01:13:10.420 i mean that's what they want to do as well yeah they're the ones who are painting the past as

01:13:15.800 uniquely evil but when thatcher said there's no such thing as society like what is the actual

01:13:22.180 ideological difference between that and what they want to do by just bringing in people from

01:13:26.580 anywhere and everywhere just nomadism but but apart from this it's also when it comes to

01:13:32.160 to the writings on economics and they say there are powerful lobbies they want to destroy you and

01:13:38.440 stuff. What their leftists are doing is that they're painting the entire capitalist system as

01:13:44.580 such, the entire system of economic liberties as such. And they're saying, instead of saying,

01:13:51.240 well, this and that lobby with names, they're going like capital. It's like the entire system,

01:13:59.800 all of it wants to destroy your life. And what's your alternative? I mean, historically speaking,

01:14:06.040 leftist alternatives have been disastrous, have been incredibly more catastrophic than

01:14:13.660 Western society. Well, based just on what you've told me, Harry, it sounds like the solution is

01:14:18.920 just get so high that you have no idea just about society falling apart around you.

01:14:25.360 Well, the other thing as well is one of the solutions that they're suggesting is pushing

01:14:29.540 green issues, right? Pushing for the green lobby's interest. Again, they don't mention that the green

01:14:34.840 lobby is itself a powerful lobby. It may be not as powerful in terms of sheer financial might as

01:14:40.500 the organised fossil fuel industry, but it's not like it's any less politically motivated.

01:14:45.600 And ideologically captured so many of the European elites.

01:14:48.820 Yes, that's true as well. But as I point out in my initial review here, they criticise somebody

01:14:54.860 like Bill Gates for his excessive carbon emissions flying to and fro from conferences.

01:14:59.760 but while completely leaving out that bill gates himself is a huge pusher of the green lobby as a

01:15:07.020 huge financier of the green lobby they say that we shouldn't be eating meat well guess what bill

01:15:13.320 gates is trying to produce all of the meat alternatives but they leave that out because

01:15:19.140 these people these kind of establishment regime shills don't want you to have a clear picture of

01:15:26.020 what's going on they don't want you to have a full understanding of the world which is why they leave

01:15:31.820 all this out unsurprising then again that peter hutcheson one of the co-authors was a collaborator

01:15:39.860 with noam chomsky the regime's favorite pet dissident who will give you half maybe two

01:15:46.560 thirds of the story but will leave out the most important part of it and that's where we'll go on

01:15:52.300 no i just wanted to say that it's you know the only leftist literature that i think has some

01:15:58.060 value has to do with specific descriptions of working conditions that can be a good i think

01:16:05.060 that that can be some place where they are they are good uh but also i mean some cases if you go

01:16:10.620 back to say the 19th century you find people like thomas carlisle who is definitely not a left winger

01:16:16.060 kind of presaging some of the critiques yeah no i'm not making the case that they're the first

01:16:20.720 ones who have made oh no no I know but uh but that's why I'll just move on to the second book

01:16:25.460 I looked at which was Hayek's Bastards by Quinn Slobodian which again caught my eye because it

01:16:31.200 was addressing from a left-wing perspective some of the subjects that we address on here particularly

01:16:36.400 when it comes to population differences shall we say and this is the one that I was most disappointed

01:16:42.540 with with the first one I expected it to be kind of like half cocked I expected it to not go into

01:16:50.060 the full details. But I thought with here, okay, with this we can trace some of the finances of who

01:16:56.540 was funding this, which it does, which leads to some interesting conclusions, but I can also get

01:17:01.980 an idea for what the left is currently saying outside of the Twitter echo chamber, for what

01:17:09.380 the left is saying about these ideas, whether they're coming to terms with them or whether

01:17:14.180 they have compelling counter arguments against them you know but the problem is again we are

01:17:20.680 talking about somebody who has clearly done the work but has not actually put the work into

01:17:27.040 articulating any of this so i found one review of it from the observer which is i believe the

01:17:32.820 guardians sunday paper uh talking about this book and it was very very positive but again

01:17:38.560 it kind of engaged in the argumentation that you find within this book, which is it will lay out

01:17:45.560 all of the reading that the author Slobodian has done and fair play to him for it. He's clearly

01:17:50.540 read the works of Hayek, he's read the works of Rothbard and a number of other thinkers,

01:17:55.100 including people like Charles Murray and Richard Lynn. He even makes multiple references to people

01:18:00.500 like Jared Taylor in this. But he is content to simply go, these people say this isn't that

01:18:07.900 terrible and you're just supposed to go i don't know i guess it is okay well i mean naomi klein

01:18:15.980 it's the naomi klein style of argumentation uh because they say they want to make money

01:18:22.020 the most compelling argument that it makes and i do think that there is some truth to this is that

01:18:27.500 there is a through line between some of the a lot of these people starting out as economic free

01:18:33.920 market is and where they get to when they end up looking into things like race and iq statistics

01:18:41.100 in what they are actually doing is they are transferring an economic mindset into the realm

01:18:46.340 of human politics and cultural and social relations and what you find is that they have

01:18:51.320 as a result a very instrumentalist view of human beings which can lead to things like we see today

01:18:57.020 with iq fetishism which just means that you're ascribing moral quality to people off of the back

01:19:03.780 of biological functions and such. That's where the book is the strongest, but that's the only

01:19:14.160 thing I can really say in its favour, because outside of that he is content to just say they

01:19:19.520 believe this isn't that terrible without engaging with the arguments or providing any kind of

01:19:24.160 factual rebuttal to it. Yes, it's very interesting that shock of all shocks, Charles Murray and

01:19:30.900 Richard Herrnstein were financed by people when writing the bell curve but that doesn't actually

01:19:37.340 say anything about the factualness of their findings in the bell curve and he's more than

01:19:43.840 happy to just point to things like people who disagreed like Stephen Jay Gould and say there

01:19:49.580 you go argument refuted I've done my job now he even points to a book by Stephen Jay Gould which

01:19:56.620 was reprinted in response to the bell curve called the mismeasure of man as a rebuttal he just says

01:20:03.160 oh this is a really great rebuttal but that completely ignores that Stephen Jay Gould was

01:20:08.200 just as much of an ideological and politically motivated actor as Murray and Herrnstein was

01:20:13.680 and that in fact it came out afterwards that he had fraudulently and intentionally fabricated

01:20:20.460 science in that book to concoct evidence against what he saw as late 19th and early 20th century

01:20:26.580 scientific racism so he's like actually just quoting the words of a liar

01:20:32.960 to try to discredit people like charles murray and here's some of the kind of like level of

01:20:39.280 argumentation that you get in this book and this is from when he's talking about somebody like

01:20:43.780 peter brimlow who was the runner of of vdare before it got shut down talking about his

01:20:50.240 looking into affirmative action and saying that it's basically a form of state socialism

01:20:57.580 by trying to force people to adhere to these quotas. He says, Brimlow's portrait was far-fetched

01:21:03.840 in many ways. Most glaring was that it was not any supposed turn to racial harmonization,

01:21:09.600 but the tax cuts for top earners praised by Brimlow for decades that had produced gross

01:21:15.280 economic inequality and the emergence of a hyper-wealthy class. In 1995, the median wealth

01:21:21.740 of an African-American household was 17% of a white household. If this was mutant socialism 0.57

01:21:28.200 in full swing, it was laughably ineffective. That Brimlow's depiction was fantasy was obvious,

01:21:34.540 but as ideology, it was internally consistent. So what we have there is a bunch of opinions

01:21:41.540 with one data point, one data point, which says nothing about the factualness of Peter Brimlow's

01:21:49.100 arguments, right? Because yeah, in 1995, you might be right in the statistic that you're presenting,

01:21:55.000 but it says nothing about how that changed over time, how it progressed past 1995, whether it

01:22:00.500 was better or worse. There are so many comparative action, like comparative details that are just

01:22:05.960 completely left out, and the reader, who is supposed to be retarded I assume, just reads that 0.98

01:22:11.760 and goes, yep, sounds about right to me. Did you know that in the 90s blacks in America were poorer 0.96

01:22:17.280 than whites? Affirmative action doesn't exist. Sorry, did my brain fall out for a moment there?

01:22:26.980 That's not an argument, and it's certainly not a logical argument, and there are a number of

01:22:30.840 arguments like that. He even goes as far as to quote Lewontin's fallacy for anybody who's aware

01:22:35.980 the whole idea of like, oh, most genetic variation is within races rather than between races,

01:22:43.140 which is just a complete fallacy. It's a complete fallacy. There are a number of ways that it could

01:22:48.480 be broken down, but you should just go and read people like Edward Dutton who address it. But the

01:22:53.120 ultimate goal, the reason that it's so inconsistent that it has such a paucity of argument is because

01:23:00.100 the ultimate goal of a book like that is not to inform the reader ultimately, it's not to refute

01:23:06.220 these arguments and it's not to truly elaborate on the ideologies that had been funded by financial

01:23:12.680 interests on the left or right. It's simply to give a pop tour about them while implying and at

01:23:19.920 times explicitly stating that the only reason that people engaged in this kind of research

01:23:24.420 and came up with these kinds of ideas was to justify neoliberal inequality and that there is

01:23:31.760 no factual basis to any of this and there's no justification for any of it beyond that so it's

01:23:37.380 to discredit it by association to point the finger and wag without actually presenting anything

01:23:43.640 substantial on top of it so sadly in my journey into leftist thought leftist establishment thought

01:23:51.040 right now i have come back wanting and i will probably try and continue this on and see what i

01:23:57.240 can find in the future but right now the left right alliance is not looking great folks sadly

01:24:02.840 i i genuinely hope that i can find something more interesting is that uh the details have yet to be

01:24:09.600 provided okay because i've heard by some of them i thought that they were absolutely mad well

01:24:15.000 hopefully i can find something a bit more substantial from this in the in the future

01:24:18.940 but as i might mention tomorrow you know like even somebody who has been held up as an interesting

01:24:25.000 leftist for a long time on the on the anti-zionist left like norman finkelstein has now come out and

01:24:32.320 completely disavowed people like tucker carlson and candace owens for being anti-zionist but

01:24:38.020 doing it wrong yeah okay in the wrong way so even those who people have been saying oh you could

01:24:43.420 build some bridges with he collaborated with candace owens before have just come out and said

01:24:47.880 no i want nothing to do with you so that is one of the big difficulties there as well

01:24:52.340 it's trying to form an anti-establishment alliance but nobody actually wants to team

01:24:57.160 up and work with one another because you know what i mean okay i i'll tell you afterwards

01:25:01.600 oh of course of course so yeah uh the journey carries on my friends godspeed let's go on to

01:25:08.280 the video comments and then get through some uh written comments as well

01:25:11.920 have we got anything i'll read through the rumble rants while they're doing it logan pine when's

01:25:19.340 the next book club it's been a year of nothing but james um it's the it's the year of o'brien

01:25:24.520 what can i say every chronicles is a book club yeah there you go i think once i've finished

01:25:30.240 super imperialism i might sit down with rory and speak about that because rory's a fan of

01:25:34.920 michael hudson i think that might be an interesting conversation uh and again it would be an insight

01:25:39.760 into a work of um of left-wing analysis that actually is worthwhile and has something good

01:25:44.520 to say sigil stone we we are against neoliberal influences oh sir you can't follow foreign

01:25:50.480 influence campaigns from countries like israel racism racism racism yeah basically and that's 1.00

01:25:56.460 a random name daily reminder that bill gates wants you to be like him and literally eat shit 0.99

01:26:00.320 instead of meat um yes that is absolutely true i hate bill gates but bill gates loved the boys 0.98

01:26:07.880 finale, I assume, based on that

01:26:09.880 comment. Well, again, there's another perfect

01:26:12.020 example of the establishment

01:26:14.000 critiquing itself. Yeah.

01:26:15.520 They put Elon Musk in

01:26:17.880 to the final episode, but did

01:26:20.000 the Amazon-produced show

01:26:21.760 ever do anything to make fun of

01:26:23.900 Jeff Bezos? Shockingly not.

01:26:26.320 No! What a shock. What a shock.

01:26:28.280 Anyway.

01:26:37.880 That looks incredible.

01:27:03.840 That's awesome.

01:27:04.540 I want to be in one of those reenactments.

01:27:06.720 Imagine looking at this, and then you see these guys.

01:27:12.000 Listen, a baz, a bog baz has always been part of the scenery, okay? 0.99

01:27:16.680 This is England, dammit! 0.99

01:27:19.560 A modern Falstaff. 0.99

01:27:20.960 Have you got the next one, Samson?

01:27:24.040 The system hasn't crashed, has it? Okay, here we go.

01:27:26.720 Good afternoon, gentlemen. Here we are at historic Fort Ticonderoga, New York.

01:27:32.880 which sits on a beautiful Lake Champlain.

01:27:39.880 That looks wonderful.

01:27:45.880 That's beautiful.

01:27:46.880 Yeah, very nice.

01:27:48.880 I support Restore Britain and everything, but having Scott Benton involved is bad news.

01:27:54.880 He's a former Conservative MP who headed the parliamentary group on betting and gambling

01:27:59.880 and then accepted gifts from them,

01:28:02.160 tried to lobby for them and got caught,

01:28:04.640 then left his constituency with no representation

01:28:06.880 while he went on a tour of Europe, Tunisia and Qatar.

01:28:10.800 He went to pride parades,

01:28:13.060 voted for lockdowns,

01:28:14.940 higher taxes,

01:28:16.620 and he has very questionable tattoos.

01:28:18.920 We don't need people like him in response.

01:28:21.880 Yeah, I'm not going to defend it.

01:28:24.360 From what I have been told,

01:28:25.800 he's basically just doing legal advice,

01:28:27.840 But still, it's best to avoid any kind of anything that could lead to scrutiny like that.

01:28:37.460 All right.

01:28:38.520 Today, I'm going to let you guys have a nice break

01:28:40.980 and just let you guys see some of my cute cat, you know, line the mood.

01:28:47.480 Who knew?

01:28:48.200 Because what's cuter than a cat on a leash?

01:28:52.460 A very cute cat on a leash.

01:28:57.840 C'mon, say hi to your fans.

01:29:04.840 Do you think he knows?

01:29:05.840 Cat has no idea how loved it is.

01:29:07.840 Do you think he knows that thousands of people watch him?

01:29:10.840 I hope he does. I hope he knows how much we appreciate him.

01:29:15.840 And here's another view from inside Fort Ticonderoga.

01:29:27.840 these cannons are directed towards the other part of the fortress shouldn't they be directed

01:29:44.500 elsewhere you clearly don't understand fortress warfare still yes psychological which is strange

01:29:51.540 you are a huge fan of cannons you just point them at the servants quarters when they get a

01:29:57.060 little bit uppity okay and that looks like it was all of the video comments let's go through a couple

01:30:02.860 we can give it what like five minutes yeah i mean yep okay no reason to uh so from my segment uh 0.50

01:30:10.300 russian garbage human who's obviously been around maker field canvassing says my observations from

01:30:15.560 a few hundred houses of of those that answer restore 15 reform 30 labor 25 labor only exist 0.87

01:30:25.080 in the affluent areas of maker field nowhere else i'm on the ground pretty much every day

01:30:30.140 more updates will keep coming well we do appreciate appreciate you informing us russian thank you

01:30:35.060 uh we've got uh that's a random name who says rupert lowe was um accused of um harassing women

01:30:42.980 and foreigners it's like me and it's like and that's bad because well it's like well it's just

01:30:47.540 so obviously nonsense yeah so obviously nonsense uh george happ says a reform and the rest of the

01:30:53.520 establishment structure don't realize that we view them as enemies and their criticisms are

01:30:58.320 actually praised it's like well i mean they were intent on just funneling us into a dead end and

01:31:05.920 taking advantage of the desperation of just normal everyday people and saying here you are here's

01:31:11.780 reform we're gonna save you knowing full well that they were actually just going to funnel them

01:31:16.600 back in to establishment politics again and given that we've spent years and years trying to break

01:31:23.160 away from it now is not the time to fall for such bait uh and lancelot says reform we'll have uh

01:31:30.320 reform you're trying to turn the working class against me and restore you have done that to

01:31:35.280 yourself yeah we always appreciate a prequel reference here we do we love the prequels on

01:31:40.780 this podcast right so someone online is agreeing with millennial woes and he says that a lot of

01:31:46.780 leftist discourse is them pretending not to understand to make an actual conversation

01:31:51.100 impossible that's true lord inquisitor hector rex did merkel say integration has failed i think she

01:31:57.480 said in 2010 that multiculturalism failed they all said and continue to do it yeah the question is

01:32:03.460 why do they think that they failed and the and the their actions suggest that the answer they

01:32:08.280 gave was because we didn't give enough welfare um derek power says that merkel is childless

01:32:15.960 and Jordi Swordsman says

01:32:18.620 Foundations of Greek with Professor Panayiotou

01:32:21.060 Past, present and future

01:32:22.340 Tenses translate the following 1.00

01:32:24.200 Syriza will be awful 1.00

01:32:26.100 Syriza are awful, Syriza were awful 1.00

01:32:28.580 That's an understatement 1.00

01:32:30.340 I'll just tell you that the previous

01:32:32.700 Prime Minister of Greece

01:32:34.360 was adamant about

01:32:36.640 his role model

01:32:38.560 Who do you think it was?

01:32:41.200 Varoufakis?

01:32:42.080 Mao

01:32:42.700 Oh. 1.00

01:32:44.080 Okay, so, should we go to them damn uppity peasants? 0.99

01:32:48.080 Oh, wait, no, it was the other way around, wasn't it? 1.00

01:32:50.420 So, Michael Draybelbus, the left are lame and gay, 1.00

01:32:54.940 which is why modern Star Wars sucks. 1.00

01:32:57.240 Yeah, true. 0.96

01:32:58.440 Never have I heard such a blatant display of buffery.

01:33:02.300 This seems to segue easily into the next episode 1.00

01:33:04.540 of Harry's gay rights program,

01:33:07.020 basically a study of leftists.

01:33:08.860 I mean, that's all we're really doing,

01:33:10.540 kind of like an anthropologist that way.

01:33:12.300 Henry Ashman, it's funny how many of the regime things being pushed by the left seem to revolve

01:33:16.060 around making you weaker, softer, and more compliant, and more dependent on the state.

01:33:19.540 Eat only 50 grams of protein a day. Avoid meat and dairy. Don't eat natural products. Eat our

01:33:24.120 heavily processed fake meat, and eat these vitamin supplements instead. All true, but it's all to

01:33:30.580 make you a more pliable slave. Random name, Harry remembers the tobacco lobby because he longs for

01:33:36.280 the days of taking smoke breaks in between shifts at the mine as a child. Listen, it was a simpler

01:33:41.420 life it was a better life an hm butter knife permit registry says i ordered a renter clown

01:33:47.740 to james o'brien's house once he just put a key in the door and walked in and on that bombshell

01:33:55.200 folks that's all we've got time for today so thank you very much for joining us make sure to check

01:34:00.660 out the latest episode of chronicles on the rhyme of the ancient mariner and we'll see you again

01:34:06.020 tomorrow till then take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - May 26, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1426

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