00:04:59.540I think we've completely misunderstood what kind of benefits they were talking about in the first
00:05:03.420place. We thought the benefits were coming to us and it was actually just them the whole time.
00:05:07.900Yeah, absolutely. But as you can see here, just to begin then by
00:05:11.400outline because this is what they're all sort of like drawing upon and you can tell that the
00:05:15.920telegraph here are getting very uppity about the fact that it says the first poll uh poll of the
00:05:20.660by-election published by servation uh last weekend showed labor on 43 percent while reform was on 40
00:05:27.880percent and restore britain are on seven percent now this particular poll only drew from fewer
00:05:34.820than 400. It was 369. There you go, exactly, in the constituency. So it's not exactly a strong
00:05:42.540poll. And as Rupert points out here, according to journalist Charlie Simpson, is reporting that
00:05:49.460reform's own figures put Restore Britain on 18% in Makerfield, with reform on 32% and Labour just
00:05:56.980ahead, from nothing to 18%. So we've made that progress in basically a week, and it will go
00:06:02.780higher. And what's more as well, if reform really are polling at 32%, then that is not a large gap
00:06:10.580at all. That is something that can easily be surpassed in the time that we have available to
00:06:15.840us. And though not normally someone who has very sensible takes, as Dan Hogg just points out here,
00:06:23.800just to add to the chaos, I've now been told by multiple sources from different parties that
00:06:27.820Canvas returns for Makerfield show a store significantly outperforming 7%.
00:06:33.260So this is not just Rupert and people who are friends and allies of our movement.
00:06:38.000This 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.
00:06:47.580And 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.
00:22:20.200He looks set to be remembered as a man who put his own colossal vanity ahead of the working class thirst for change.
00:22:27.260It's like, Brendan, why don't you think that the working class will be attracted to the policies that Restore Britain are offering?
00:22:35.880You've already seen yourself that, you know, people from all backgrounds were very much rallying behind these promises in Great Yarmouth.
00:22:43.500and it seems now from the polling figures that we're getting out as well from a working class
00:22:47.980place like Wigan that there is also a mass amount of appeal there. Well have you considered Luca
00:22:54.280that you are of course a member of the elite petit bourgeois and that Brendan O'Neill of Spike
00:23:00.560Online magazine truly knows the whims, desires and needs of the working class Brit? I knew it in my
00:23:09.020heart. I just didn't have the honesty to say it. I know, I know. Terrible shame. Such a shame.
00:23:14.780And so, yeah, again, we point to this 43% reform. Sorry, 43% of Labour and reform at 40%. So again,
00:23:24.480even by this poll that they're all going by, Labour is still winning anyway. And let's not
00:23:30.100forget that even before Restore Britain threw themselves into the political process wholeheartedly,
00:23:36.700Reform without Restore's presence still lost the by-election in Gorton and Denton, right?
00:23:44.140They didn't need us to mess that one up for them.
00:23:46.340They did it all of their own free will.
00:23:48.600And so I don't really see a lot here other than just winging, to be honest with you.
00:23:55.820I will happily say that Robert Kenyon, who's representing reform, is a much, much better candidate than Matthew, I hate you, Goodwin ever was.
00:24:09.220And 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.
00:34:04.140Make a 180 degrees turn from what you did right there.
00:34:08.340Just based on that alone, if I was ever offered that order of merit,
00:34:12.820I would feel like I had failed as a human being.
00:34:15.900If they want to award you for those sorts of things,
00:34:18.580It'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.
00:34:32.720Right. 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.
00:34:41.380Because 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
00:34:50.620But 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.
00:35:00.700Right. 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.
00:35:28.140So to the extent that Angela Merkel has been one of the main engines of multiculturalist
00:35:34.020experiments in Europe, she has definitely not contributed to European integration.
00:35:38.420She has actually contributed to European disintegration.
00:35:41.720And we are going to talk about the promotion and defense of the values in a bit.
00:36:24.840farmers are revolting, industries are fleeing Germany, energy prices exploded,0.57
00:36:30.420violent crime surge across major cities, and now the same establishment responsible for much of
00:36:35.540this disaster is standing there, applauding itself like Sam decaying, royal court rewarding failure.
00:36:42.720Right, so let us just remember of some of the key moments of Merkel's career.
00:36:48.720here. In 2015, she gave in to the pressure by the then very bad Greek government. That
00:37:00.980was the Syriza government. That was an appalling government. No one has been more critical of
00:37:06.640them than I have. So they have been appalling. They were appalling, and they definitely
00:37:13.640contributed to this. They opened the gates of Greece. We had an influx of 1 million in Greece1.00
00:37:22.280in a year, which is the equivalent of 10% of your country's population being added into your
00:37:30.960country in one year. Meanwhile, not only was this bad from a sensible perspective, but they also
00:37:41.280tanked the economy and contributed to it closing even more and be less and less and less competitive,
00:37:49.100which meant that they increased the number of people who are not able to find a job and are
00:37:54.780being sabotaged from working. And the Greeks were, we were sabotaged in that respect, first and0.79
00:38:01.360foremost in Greece. So it was essentially a powder keg. And Merkel wasn't listening to the concerns0.98
00:38:10.600of the previous Greek governments talking to her about the borders of Greece being also
00:38:17.480the borders of Europe. She just didn't listen to them. And then she caved in to pressure
00:38:25.100by the, you know, remember the government in which Varoufakis was there. Now that said,
00:38:31.420it's very important to say because it's not reducible to just Greece. The Greek borders
00:38:36.540weren't the only borders of the EU. So the colossal destruction brought upon the EU by
00:38:47.240Merkel's policies doesn't just reduce to Merkel caving in, giving in to the pressure
00:38:52.420by that government. But also it's more than that. It's making Germany incredibly reliant
00:39:00.340on Russian gas. By implication, with troubles in Crimea and then the invasion in Ukraine
00:39:09.800and Nord Stream 2, that led into a massive energy crisis in Germany. She also precipitated
00:39:17.020through the dismantling of the nuclear power plants. That was another case of Germany giving0.71
00:39:25.820into green pressure about the environment. Which is ironic, given the green credentials
00:39:33.680of nuclear power in the first place. Absolutely. So when I look at this,
00:39:38.480it seems to me that this is not a legacy to be proud of. And one further thing to say is that
00:39:44.660we can talk about crime. We do talk about crime, and I will talk about crime in the segment.
00:39:50.020But 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.
00:40:08.900Because you can say, well, sometimes, you know, people are going to try to make a mountain out of a molehill.
00:40:15.200They're trying to take specific incidents and try to present them as being the only thing,
00:40:22.540like we talk about slop accounts, because of slop accounts as doing.
00:40:26.140They seem more representative than they are.
00:40:30.520We have statistics coming from the federal government and the federal police of Germany
00:40:35.820indicating that crime is rising and people from the MENA countries being overrepresented in it.0.55
00:40:44.060So 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,
00:41:10.140that maybe the way we are promoting or we are allowing a multicultural experiment to take place
00:41:16.660within our borders is actually not working and it's actually harming us. Another- Well, just0.78
00:41:22.340consider that Angela Merkel is one of the big reasons for this huge push of North African and
00:41:28.220sub-Saharan African immigration, let alone the Middle East, into European borders and through
00:41:33.840the Shenzhen zones, they are able to just shift around as much as they want without much stop on0.54
00:41:38.520them. So yesterday I spoke with Martin Selner, which should be out relatively soon and reviewing
00:41:45.300his book, Remigration. And some of the figures that he gave in there were absolutely startling.
00:41:51.180And you have to consider that Angela Merkel is one of the reasons that we have to consider this
00:41:54.900as even a possibility now, which is that by 2050, upper estimates on the migration into Europe,
00:42:02.700because of people like Merkel and her policies, her laxness with just letting these people in0.99
00:42:07.640saying oh we can do it because otherwise i feel bad that idiots put their children into boats and1.00
00:42:13.380go across the mediterranean and don't know how to sail and drown uh that's our fault surely um0.99
00:42:18.840the upper limit upper estimates are something like by 2050 200 million north and sub-saharan0.72
00:42:26.400africans immigrating into the into europe i hope this i certainly hope and at that point and then
00:42:33.500surveys have been done amongst Africans, I think mainly sub-Saharans, asking them how many of you
00:42:40.100would actually be willing to move to Europe and other Western countries if you got the opportunity?
00:42:44.700And about 70 to 80 percent of them all said, yes, I would be willing. At which point you just ask
00:42:50.320yourself, what does Europe look like when 70 percent of Africa just empties itself out into0.99
00:42:56.140Europe? What does Africa look like in that situation? What a ridiculous situation we've0.55
00:43:01.580put ourselves in? Will we even have to think that this could happen in the future? And this is0.55
00:43:06.440taking us to the next place, to the next topic, which has to do with a disintegration of identity
00:43:11.740and the demos. Because it says here in Euronews, it will render a broader European judgment about
00:43:19.460an era and about the kind of leadership the European Union believes it needs in an age of
00:43:24.480instability this is infuriating because she has contributed into instability but she has she did
00:43:32.080put up the act that well no i'm the i'm the factor i'm gonna be the factotum who is gonna deal with
00:43:39.500a cry with crisis so when her party technically center-right conservatives as well yeah and it
00:43:46.880says here the european parliament says the award honors individuals who made significant contribution
00:43:52.080to European integration and the defense of democracy and European values. Now, let us unpack
00:43:57.660this briefly. We talked about integration. She's actually contributed to disintegration. Why?
00:44:04.960Because there's nothing that contributes to European integration in multiculturalism.
00:44:10.920If you want European integration, and again, that's also a problematic ideal, if you ask me,
00:44:17.000because it tries to say, well, there's a European identity that you need to foster,
00:44:20.980which is going to be stronger, and you want people to place it stronger and above their
00:44:28.760other identities, such as French, German, Greek, you know, English. That's the European ideal of
00:44:38.640European integration. It has to do with fostering a European identity first and foremost. But one
00:44:44.780thing here is that you cannot have any identity, even if it's a civic identity of the sort,
00:44:50.940without it being exclusive. You cannot have any identity that is all-inclusive because identity
00:44:56.980involves distinction and exclusion. When you say that you have someone, we are not talking about
00:45:04.140human. And you can argue that even that identity is understood in distinction with other things.
00:45:10.820So 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.
00:45:27.860And 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
00:45:57.040which means that people who don't find a job
00:45:59.680from these countries stay because of the benefits
00:46:23.020aren't going to be able to be asserted.
00:46:27.040Because 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.
00:46:48.740It 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.
00:47:17.060But there was also tremendous impetus for actual progress.
00:47:22.260And we do live now, in a sense, on the shoulders of giants, civilizationally speaking, and
00:47:29.200we do enjoy a kind of life that we wouldn't be able to enjoy without them.
00:47:34.060All this is going to be destroyed by this omnipowerful state, because that's the only1.00
00:47:41.360way in which you can supervise such a multicultural experiment.0.96
00:47:44.960But 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.
00:48:02.400Yes. 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
00:48:24.680I 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
00:48:36.020If 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
00:48:53.020then all of that thing of just like peace on the continent is just all gone gone to not because0.75
00:49:00.140no and we don't we don't want the cashmere um conflict no character as the entire no obviously
00:49:06.740no and here merkel would have an answer to what you just said it's uh well the worst case scenario
00:49:14.640for britain would be if a party like the afd um won so that's what she said she was implying there
00:49:22.480The worst case scenario to Germany was reverse the things I've done.
00:49:28.420Yes. So here is this clip from 2015. This is just about a minute. And I want us to play this0.51
00:49:34.420because it is a really weird moment because she says something that is sensible and realistic.
00:49:42.760And I would say I wouldn't consider malevolent as the left is trying to say that every person
00:49:48.920who speaks this way is malevolent it's tragic we know any person who is an adult knows that you
00:49:56.460can't have everyone happy and sometimes if you cave in to what to if you give in to the pressure
00:50:01.940from pressure from one person you will make another person really unhappy so this is a very
00:50:09.360She 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
00:50:39.360If we say that to Africa, we can cope with that.0.91
00:58:21.640I 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.
00:58:36.180But also with a very guilt-ridden EU, this is just handling it on the plate. You could say it makes it easier for them.
00:58:43.120yeah all right so moving on I thought I'd do something a little bit different today which is
00:58:49.660to do kind of a mini book club and examine two books that I have read recently because there's
00:58:55.460been some discussion over the past few weeks over whether there could or should be some kind of
00:59:02.520left-wing right-wing alliance against the establishment and I have been one who has
00:59:08.680been an advocate for exiting the echo chamber from time to time and trying to examine with
00:59:14.840and truly grapple with what those on the other side are reading and what they are writing and
00:59:21.120I've done this before with my trio of episodes my little trilogy on the works of James O'Brien
00:59:28.120which started with and ironically we just got a copy of his book How They Broke Britain
00:59:34.000and I thought you know what I'll give it a read because it'll be interesting to hear a leftist
00:59:39.240perspective on this and see if there is anything that we can actually learn from this because
00:59:44.040sometimes on the right we can be a little insular we can be a little bit in the echo chamber and we
00:59:50.520can miss out on some of the interesting pieces of analysis that the left does bring towards
00:59:55.200criticisms of the economic system that we live under and broader structural analysis as well
01:00:02.620I did not find any of that through the works of James O'Brien. How They Broke Britain was a pure
01:00:08.960polemic that didn't really give me any real details of why he was angry about the things
01:00:13.960he was writing about. He was just very certain that he was very angry about them. And with the
01:00:19.040series of books, How to Be Right and How Not to Be Wrong, I found myself, frankly, just reading
01:00:24.400this man's therapy diaries. I was reading the inner thoughts of this man going through some
01:00:29.040horrible personal turmoil coming out of the other end of alcoholism and all sorts of other problems
01:00:34.420and i mainly was just getting a deep dive into his mind which was very unwelcome frankly but i am
01:00:41.180a true trooper so i put i put on a grim dour solemn face and i soldiered through did it affect you
01:00:49.960personally speaking how did you feel greatly i've not i've not had a full night's sleep since
01:00:54.520frankly i can tell yeah i mean if you wonder why i've been so tired withdrawn and solemn for the
01:01:01.860past when was this one it was like last july or something uh two days before my own birthday what
01:01:07.460a gift i gave to myself eh yeah if you've been wondering why for the past year i've just been
01:01:11.720so different it was really examining the mind of james o'brien but i hoped that there would be
01:01:16.720some kind of works out there um from the left that would be instructive on their thought processes
01:01:25.380and maybe some stuff that we can learn from and for that i went to what are people reading that's
01:01:31.740available in waterstones what are the big publishers going through and i picked up two
01:01:37.560that interested me uh being the book of george monbois i think that's how you pronounce his name
01:01:44.560and Peter Hutchinson, The Invisible Doctrine, The Secret History of Neoliberalism. And I also
01:01:51.060picked up this one, which just caught my eye, called Quince-Lobodian's Hayek's Bastards,
01:01:56.040The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right. Now, one obviously is a structural analysis of the
01:02:01.820system that we live under right now. The other is a leftist analysis of some of our own circles
01:02:08.260and some of the ideas and thinkers and the money that they were taking and where that came from
01:02:13.660that influences the thought that you do hear on this podcast sometimes and so I thought it would
01:02:18.340be interesting now I know what you're saying there is a definite problem with what's going on right
01:02:24.160here and the books that I chose to analyze to begin with that being that I'm not actually
01:02:29.060leaving the establishment for any of this what these books are essentially are various different
01:02:35.340teams within the establishment speaking to the establishment which in itself can also be
01:02:41.280constructive because you get to hear what they're saying to themselves and you can get an idea for
01:02:46.760what narratives they're promulgating and how they are lying to readers who are just going into
01:02:51.880waterstones for instance and thinking to themselves i want to be better informed
01:02:57.360right so first of all i completely agree with you that it's important thing to read what the others
01:03:03.680right. That said, if you would ask me to suggest some leftist literature, I would definitely tell
01:03:11.780you to go back in time, because it seems to me that in the last decades, they completely lost
01:03:17.220it. There used to be a time, I think that ended in 60s, 70s, where the leftists prided themselves
01:03:24.980as the rational ones, where they were the ones who had all the arguments, they knew economics,