The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1457

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon and welcome to the podcast Lotus Eaters episode 1457 and you've got a rare dream

00:00:06.440 team pairing today that's right I'm your host Harry joined today by special guest Connor. Hello

00:00:10.460 everyone. Thank you very much for coming back in looking forward to this one where we're going to

00:00:13.920 talk about Nigel Farage's resignation gambit the mad lad moment the Farage farce as I'm sure it

00:00:20.920 will be remembered as. We're going to go through all of the emotions in that segment. And you know

00:00:25.540 that's going to be Connor's segment because he managed to snap up the one thing anybody's

00:00:28.800 actually interested in today and as such i've been left with rather meager pickings and i'm

00:00:32.460 going to be talking about the charlie kirk trial hearings with tyler robinson his uh his assassin

00:00:39.000 alleged and uh also i'm going to finish off talking about just another segment talking about

00:00:44.060 the ai bubble and the current predictions from places like the bank of england the bank of

00:00:49.720 america and other financial indicators the whole thing is massively overvalued and asking will that

00:00:54.840 lead to some kind of crash and how bad will a crash be uh with that is there anything else that

00:00:59.700 we need to announce today samson we can we can tease the fact that one of our old series should

00:01:06.020 be coming back next week yes hopefully if the editors have been honest with me and are getting

00:01:11.320 their jobs done as we hope that they are um then a new well an old series will be renewing and

00:01:17.240 coming back next week hopefully so keep an eye out for that if you are subscribed to the website

00:01:21.160 hopefully you'll be a bit of a crowd pleaser. So with that, take us through the Farage farce,

00:01:26.580 please. So Nigel Farage has put his opening gambit on the table to try to fend off what he

00:01:32.460 is describing as an establishment stitch-up concerning his finances. And you actually

00:01:38.500 covered a couple of days ago the following article from The Times, and he's got his own

00:01:42.600 issues with The Times, as do I, but we'll get onto that later, concerning the in-kind contributions

00:01:47.600 that have been alleged to be given to Farage by posh George Cottrell,

00:01:51.840 who was convicted of fraud after being caught in a US money laundering sting,

00:01:56.380 I think it was with the IRS,

00:01:58.040 when he said, I might be able to launder some money for some drug dealers in 2016.

00:02:01.780 Yeah, they managed to plea it down to wire fraud and he only spent eight months,

00:02:05.240 but originally the charges were looking at 20 years.

00:02:07.460 Yes, and so he spent his time in an Arizona prison,

00:02:09.860 came out and was re-embraced by Farage as essentially the prodigal son,

00:02:13.880 and then, according to this article,

00:02:15.580 has provided lots of income contributions to Farage in the form of free housing in Buckinghamshire,

00:02:20.540 staffing costs for a social media team, travel expenses, and private security.

00:02:24.020 And then there's the undeclared £5 million donation that Farage received from Thailand-based

00:02:31.280 Tether crypto billionaire called Christopher Harbourn, also former donor to Boris Johnson,

00:02:36.220 that's also being investigated by the Parliamentary Standards Commission. Both of these have now been

00:02:40.220 referred by a Liberal Democrat MP and the Parliamentary Standards Commission is heavily

00:02:44.420 staffed by Labour MPs, a couple of Tories, a couple of Liberal Democrats, and then some sort of lay

00:02:49.620 people. So it's not exactly stacked in Farage's favour. And what was conspicuous, and Richard

00:02:54.240 Tice has now made this allegation, is that the National Crime Agency referred the £5 million

00:03:02.020 donation, or it was referred to the National Crime Agency, as a sort of suspicious transaction in

00:03:08.500 Farage's bank account. But then The Guardian reported on the Harbourn donation, I think it was

00:03:12.340 late last year. No, it was April. It was April, yeah.

00:03:16.160 Yes. And so people were going, well, hang on a minute. How did they get a hold of the information

00:03:20.460 from the National Crime Agency that they've got a suspicious donation of £5 million? Did the

00:03:25.700 National Crime Agency break the law by leaking the transactions to The Guardian? And so this is

00:03:29.000 what Tice is alleging, especially because now National Crime Agency have also been probing

00:03:33.840 a £1 million donation to Britain Means Businesses,

00:03:37.480 a business, which is Tice's think tank,

00:03:39.300 from George Cottrell's mother, Fiona,

00:03:41.940 of which £500,000 was given by Tice to reform

00:03:45.280 and then declared to the Electoral Commission.

00:03:47.100 So half of that was not declared and disclosed,

00:03:50.280 and only the National Crime Agency would have known about it,

00:03:52.620 and so how come The Guardian got wind of it and reported on it?

00:03:55.840 Are government agencies leaking to the press

00:03:57.580 about Farage and Tice's business dealings?

00:04:00.280 What limitations are there that mean that Tice would want to

00:04:03.560 only declare half of it? Is it just trying to keep some of that money secret for his own reasons?

00:04:08.140 Is it worrying that people might consider that this would be influencing his decisions in the

00:04:13.920 future? Are there legal limitations with what you can do with it once it's been declared?

00:04:17.840 I can't really speculate on that. The only speculation that has been put forward about

00:04:22.740 whether or not these donations were influencing reforms, policy and priorities were that one of

00:04:27.640 their first papers was a crypto regulation paper. And apparently Farage was talking to Andrew Bailey,

00:04:32.440 the governor of the Bank of England, trying to dissuade him from a central bank digital currency

00:04:35.420 and instead to allow less regulated crypto markets to flourish, for stable coins to attract

00:04:41.680 investment. And this could be related to Tether, given both Cottrell and Carbone have money

00:04:47.420 invested in it. So this is the insinuation, especially because that paper, I don't believe

00:04:50.680 it's still on the reform website. I think it was taken off around the time the donation was

00:04:54.980 reported. Nevertheless, Tice is alleging the National Crime Agency have been leaking to the

00:05:00.120 press. And so this is building the narrative that this is just a coordinated establishment

00:05:04.120 stitch up. Which it might be. I don't discount that. Genuinely, I think two things can be true

00:05:10.920 at once. Nigel Farage can be insufficiently courageous on certain issues that we are very

00:05:16.800 concerned about, like demographic change, mass migration, the influence of Islam and other

00:05:21.640 religions over our politics. And much like the establishment had a hissy fit when Boris Johnson

00:05:27.440 took office, despite him conducting the Boris wave, they still think he is not in line with

00:05:31.620 their establishment goals enough, and so would like to remove even the littlest bit of grit

00:05:36.260 from the gears of the machine, and so they will coordinate an attempt to get rid of him.

00:05:39.940 The same thing happened with Trump, right?

00:05:40.900 It might even just be that they actually do believe their own propaganda, that he's the

00:05:44.800 second coming of Hitler.

00:05:45.880 Yeah, well, Trump decided to launch the Iran war following Israel into the conflict, and 0.59

00:05:52.420 that would be seen as an establishment move. Nevertheless, they still put him through the

00:05:56.400 ringer of raiding Mar-a-Lago with the FBI and rifling through Melania's underwear drawer.

00:06:00.860 There were multiple assassination attempts, and within less than 24 hours after he was shot in

00:06:05.580 the ear in Butler, Pennsylvania, you still have the media calling him Hitler, trying to put a

00:06:08.640 target on his back again. So you're right. There is a lot of propaganda around this. Same thing

00:06:12.660 goes for Farage, and they might well buy into it, and they might well want to just get rid of him

00:06:15.800 to ensure that the agenda goes on uninterrupted, that they don't get half of what they want. They

00:06:20.400 continue to get all of it, with the only options on the ballot paper being Kemi Baden-Ok.

00:06:25.540 Well, that's the thing as well, is that, yeah,

00:06:27.840 he might be not establishment enough for them

00:06:31.300 that they just want to get it straight back to,

00:06:33.220 all right, the Tories, yeah, they slipped up for 14 years.

00:06:36.780 They kept pratfalling.

00:06:38.220 There was banana peel after rake after banana peel.

00:06:40.960 But still, they're stable.

00:06:43.060 We know what we're getting with the Tories.

00:06:45.720 With Farage, you never know.

00:06:47.420 There might be unvetted people who would end up on backbench positions

00:06:50.640 that could cause huge issues for anyone and everyone

00:06:53.820 when we're trying to put legislation through.

00:06:56.140 So we want to avoid anything to do with that.

00:06:58.360 Let's get rid of them.

00:06:59.640 And also it is, of course, telling that

00:07:01.660 as if everybody else in parliament

00:07:04.120 doesn't have some kind of skeletons in the cupboard

00:07:06.180 in the same way that this do.

00:07:07.160 So where is the media ferrari about all of them? 0.89

00:07:10.780 The most ridiculous one was Angela Rayner 0.60

00:07:13.580 was filling in for James O'Brien, 0.95

00:07:15.420 like nightmare blunt rotation, on LBC, right?

00:07:18.400 She was doing it hungover off the evening game.

00:07:20.320 No, she wasn't trying to suggest

00:07:21.560 that this is some kind of, like, unacceptable financial fraud.

00:07:25.140 Oh, yeah.

00:07:25.720 Yeah, after she had to resign as Deputy Prime Minister 0.99

00:07:27.960 and step out of the Cabinet for not paying a council tax

00:07:30.020 on the home that she hadn't declared.

00:07:32.160 So she did basically the same thing.

00:07:34.160 Nevertheless, you know, it's not about hypocrisy,

00:07:36.080 it's about hierarchy.

00:07:36.980 But I want to get onto that point about people within reform

00:07:39.320 not necessarily being on board with the establishment's line.

00:07:41.860 Because, of course, reform has faced allegations,

00:07:44.560 not unsubstantiated, that it's basically a Tory recycling bin.

00:07:47.920 And so, with the suggestion that Farad might face a by-election,

00:07:51.560 as he was telling donors because of this Christopher Harbour investigation. Because

00:07:55.820 after the Parliamentary Standards Committee concludes its investigation, they could suspend

00:08:01.240 Farage from the Commons and force a by-election that he might be eligible to run in, but they

00:08:04.780 could also bar him from doing that. It's possible. He was worried he could be excluded. And so there

00:08:10.180 were vultures circling reform saying, well, couldn't we complete the transformation into

00:08:16.240 the rehabilitation of the Tories, breathe new life into the Conservatives? Dominic Cummings,

00:08:21.200 by the way, and Farage references this in the speech that we're getting to in a moment.

00:08:24.960 Earlier this year, it was right at the turn of the year, went on the Quite Right podcast with

00:08:29.100 his old friend Michael Gove on The Spectator. And Cummings actually prophesied that Whitehall

00:08:33.160 might even break the law to prevent reform from winning power. For example, the National Crime

00:08:36.820 Agency possibly leaking to The Guardian. He said they'll leak medical records, they'll leak tax

00:08:40.900 records, they'll bug his phone and leak that, they'll do anything that they need to. And so

00:08:44.920 it's not unfair for Farage to say, even if I see the parliamentary standards, committees,

00:08:50.160 investigation through to the conclusion, and I trust in my legal advice that he says he was

00:08:54.360 given about the donations and not declaring it before he became an MP, then it's possible that

00:09:00.500 he might just go, well, they're in it to do me in anyway. So even if I crossed all my T's and

00:09:05.500 dotted my I's, the outcome would be the same. The process is the punishment. So I might as well just

00:09:09.640 take them on and accuse them of it being a stitch up, because even if I did the right thing,

00:09:14.400 they'd still want my political head. And some of the signs that they did want this, first of all,

00:09:19.420 is that Trump has come out and said that they're basically running the same playbook

00:09:22.040 against me as before. Farage was just in the US this week for the 250 anniversary celebrations

00:09:27.520 in America. He was also chatting to Vice President Vance. So I think it's safe to confirm that

00:09:32.680 despite some hype on Capitol Hill about Restore Britain among some Trump staffers, from some of

00:09:38.280 my contacts, I have heard that they think it's now just reform. And it seems that the administration

00:09:43.520 themselves are allying with Nigel and rallying him around him at this time.

00:09:46.940 well Farage has found himself at the center of a classic under well ironically enough he's coming

00:09:55.060 across like an underdog to people in America who are just seeing a successful guy with successful

00:10:01.700 friends doing the sorts of things that they kind of all expect to happen whereas the evil media

00:10:06.760 are the ones who are all attacking him and trying to undermine him pull the ground out from under

00:10:10.980 him yes and Sky News actually make this impression that Farage is broadcasting around the world

00:10:16.540 even more convincing because when he flew back from Washington DC and landed at the airport in

00:10:23.580 the early hours of the morning bleary eyed from his red eye flight he was ambushed by a Sky News

00:10:28.380 journalist and and the Sky News journalist said the following and Farrell's got quite cross with

00:10:32.660 him was it a mistake not to declare the gifts from George Cottrell sir you tell your bosses

00:10:37.360 you harass my family anymore I'll take you serious consequences that's what your organization has

00:10:43.500 done this morning. Go away. 0.94

00:10:44.920 A mistake not to declare the gift, sir.

00:10:47.600 You do not hear me.

00:10:49.380 You have broken all the rules,

00:10:51.280 Leveson and everything else. Cut.

00:10:53.980 So Sky News went on air

00:10:55.200 and then denied that they'd done this.

00:10:57.440 So Farage decided to post the security

00:10:59.120 footage outside the home where the journalist

00:11:00.640 turned up as part of a pool to try and

00:11:03.060 knock on his door and talk to his daughter.

00:11:05.060 Now people were saying, well, it's kind of normal to doorstep

00:11:06.960 politicians, but hang on, you knew that he was

00:11:08.860 landing at the airport because he was in

00:11:10.960 America, he was posting photos of it, so you knew he wasn't home

00:11:13.060 And even if this was an address registered under his name, even if there were photos of him standing outside the address before, you knew he wasn't there.

00:11:19.300 So why were you going to the house? And it's because they wanted to speak to his daughter.

00:11:22.540 They wanted to use his family against him.

00:11:24.340 So he has every right to be pretty furious with the scummy tactics of Sky News, to be honest.

00:11:28.540 And just a couple of stories here. I mean, it's not just Sky News that have been lying about him.

00:11:32.300 I mean, Sky News lied about me during the entire last election cycle, during the whole Liz Truss interview saga.

00:11:36.720 but the reason Sky News got this house on their radar was because in the Times piece featuring

00:11:42.280 the finances about Cottrell they posted a picture of the house. So I mean Farrell's got some

00:11:48.420 significant security concerns I mean he has constant private security had concrete and

00:11:52.020 milkshakes lobbed at him during the last general election they know it's a threat to his life so

00:11:54.800 why are they posting pictures of his house where his family live? And quick story the Times actually

00:12:01.580 went to the house of a friend of mine, knocked on their door, and tried to request a comment,

00:12:07.540 and then they went to their neighbour's house, and it's all on Ring Doorbell footage, and I've

00:12:10.100 seen it, asking for basically dishing dirt on a friend of mine, their business dealings,

00:12:14.720 their whereabouts, and they were also asking questions about me, trying to dig up their

00:12:18.840 affiliation with me and sort of use it against them to get me to be disavowed. So these people

00:12:23.840 are absolute scumbags. And that was The Times doing that one. That was The Times doing that, 1.00

00:12:27.140 I mean, they all do. Again, it's typical scummy journo tactics. I mean, I didn't actually study

00:12:33.580 journalism per se in my university course, but the journalism was a heavy part of it.

00:12:38.960 And the sorts of things that we were told about what good journalism is, how to conduct good

00:12:44.260 journalism, for instance, being shown the old 2014 James O'Brien, Nigel Farage interview on LBC,

00:12:52.060 where O'Brien doesn't let him finish a single sentence and just attacks him the whole time

00:12:56.080 with disingenuous questions that was an example of how to conduct a good interview um some kind

00:13:02.040 of old i think it might have even been sky news hit piece against a ukip counselor where they

00:13:06.880 befriended her and followed her around for ages and basically tricked her into feeling comfortable

00:13:11.140 around them until she said something that they could misconstrue as being racist at which point 0.99

00:13:16.520 they went and said cut we've got everything that we want let's go into and drag this woman's name

00:13:22.220 through the mud, who we've hung around with for a month or two and convinced we were her friends. 0.99

00:13:26.680 That was good journalism that we were being taught about. So it's no surprise that these

00:13:31.040 scumbags will go out and try and pursue these tactics. Reminder, Sky News has hired Kathy 0.99

00:13:35.920 Newman, a she of, so that's what you're saying? Jordan Peterson, fame. So they know they're going 0.80

00:13:40.220 to ask these disingenuous questions to try to catch you in a trap and ruin your career,

00:13:43.360 and they reward you handsomely for it. And Sky News denied this on air, and then Farage

00:13:47.920 produced the receipts of the footage. And then Sky News turned around and said,

00:13:50.980 For clarification, Sky News was not at the property at 7.41am. We were there as shown in

00:13:56.940 the footage at 10am. Sky News was outside a property where Mr Farage was registered to vote

00:14:01.580 at the last election. We didn't interact with Farage's daughter. No, what you did was you came

00:14:06.020 to the door asking about her father's finances because he is a politician and she is not.

00:14:12.280 And then you didn't broadcast the footage yourselves and lied about going because his

00:14:17.460 daughter didn't say anything sufficiently incriminating or embarrassing against her

00:14:20.780 father. So you thought, oh, well, we won't plaster your home over the six o'clock news because we

00:14:26.500 can't use it against your dad. And then you hounded him at the airport and you decided to ask him

00:14:31.680 about it after he just had a red eye flight and didn't have any sleep. So you're using his family

00:14:36.520 against him and then gaslighting him on national television saying you're not. Parasite beneath 0.97

00:14:40.960 contempt. Absolutely unacceptable. And credit to Jenrick. He actually went on Sky News and actually

00:14:47.060 took them to task over this we'll play a little bit of the clip we identified ourselves the

00:14:52.780 occupant chose not to engage so that is the statement that I'm able to give you why did you

00:14:58.420 knock on the door of Nigel Farage's daughter's house we what possible public interest was served

00:15:03.320 by that as I say I take you to the I take you to do you have children I take you to the statement

00:15:08.220 I take you to the statement would you like would you don't don't hide behind the statement you're

00:15:12.500 I'm not hiding behind any statement.

00:15:14.820 Would you like people doorstepping your son or daughter?

00:15:18.460 It is a standard media practice.

00:15:19.840 I wouldn't.

00:15:20.440 To doorstep people's kids now, isn't it?

00:15:22.120 To doorstep...

00:15:22.880 I can tell you for a fact it's happened to me.

00:15:26.420 Did you enjoy that experience?

00:15:27.080 My children have been doorstepped.

00:15:28.600 Did you enjoy that?

00:15:29.900 I didn't enjoy it, but I don't protest about it.

00:15:33.860 I think it's perfectly legitimate for journalists to make inquiries.

00:15:37.420 Adam, so here we are.

00:15:38.920 You're saying that it's perfectly legitimate for Sky News to hound the daughter of Nigel Farage.

00:15:44.700 Oh, my God.

00:15:45.180 Hang on, hang on.

00:15:46.020 Wait a minute.

00:15:46.600 What planet are you on?

00:15:46.980 We're not talking about hounding, and we're not talking...

00:15:50.140 Mafia investigates Mafia, finds Mafia did nothing wrong.

00:15:53.740 Exactly.

00:15:54.340 I mean, good God.

00:15:55.120 Adam used to be the political editor of Sky News.

00:15:56.840 He used to berate his colleagues when he thought the cameras weren't off,

00:15:58.900 and now he's saying, well, it's a perfectly legitimate tactic.

00:16:00.740 And so the reason I'm reiterating this is because it is endearing sympathy for Farage in the public,

00:16:05.720 whether or not you think he is sufficiently strong on certain issues.

00:16:09.100 And after some rather poor interviews that I saw with Robert Jenrick on Monday

00:16:12.680 when it was just talking about the finances,

00:16:15.280 it's allowed Jenrick to pivot onto a much stronger footing here.

00:16:19.260 Yeah, including, as well, we have to say this,

00:16:21.920 Jenrick, whose career as a Tory minister casts a dark cloud

00:16:25.120 over his present political career.

00:16:26.880 If even Robert Jenrick looks good from all of this,

00:16:29.780 the media has really put a foot wrong.

00:16:31.860 And they are still circling over reform.

00:16:33.780 the Labour Party press office

00:16:35.620 when you said about

00:16:36.180 mafia tactics

00:16:36.880 they responded

00:16:37.960 Nigel Farage has a choice

00:16:39.700 if he could just prove

00:16:40.560 once and for all

00:16:41.080 he's done nothing wrong

00:16:41.860 he wouldn't have this

00:16:42.540 media attention

00:16:43.020 perhaps he can't do that

00:16:44.060 that's what the

00:16:44.540 parliamentary standards

00:16:45.500 is for

00:16:46.420 I mean even though

00:16:47.140 as you've mentioned

00:16:47.700 it's already loaded

00:16:48.420 against him

00:16:49.060 but the point is

00:16:50.220 that we already have

00:16:51.080 official channels

00:16:51.800 in which this can be done

00:16:52.820 this is just harassment

00:16:53.760 for the sake of

00:16:54.580 harassment frankly

00:16:56.360 for the sake of headlines

00:16:57.420 yeah and it looks

00:16:58.040 conspicuous then

00:16:58.700 when a bunch of 1.00

00:16:59.200 conservative surrogates

00:17:00.120 like Fraser Nelson

00:17:01.300 in the Times

00:17:02.420 or Sebastian Payne, Michael Gove clone, in the times.

00:17:06.100 The spiritual form of a Tory boy.

00:17:07.380 Yeah, it's like actually platonic, but in the worst possible sense. 0.98

00:17:11.020 He is my sleep paralysis demon.

00:17:12.600 They're salivating about the prospect of a reform without Farage.

00:17:16.480 And actually, Nelson says, well, despite Farage's popularity,

00:17:20.880 his departure would not be an extinction level event for reform.

00:17:23.340 It might even be a chance for renewal.

00:17:25.260 A contest would pose a directional dilemma.

00:17:26.940 Does reform continue to keep its recent theme of racial politics,

00:17:30.620 saying the white man is discriminated against, and talking about the banning of Muslim burqas

00:17:34.660 and Sikh kurpans, or should it tilt the centre to stand the best chance of governing? Weirdly

00:17:40.060 enough, he's calling for the expulsion of Zia Yusuf, because he sees him no longer as like

00:17:43.940 David Cameron in Diversity Body Armour, as actually sort of on reform's right, because he's been

00:17:47.760 talking about immigration restrictions, and is said to replace him with a Tory wet. And Sebastian

00:17:52.500 Paine says the same. He's actually got some leaks from inside reform. He says, another faction within

00:17:57.420 Reform, not Zia Yusuf, argues for a less reverberative, more reasoned approach. These

00:18:04.460 folks are the former Conservatives whose Yusuf openly loathes. They argue privately that the

00:18:08.680 use of racial politics was necessary to see off Rupert Lowe's Restore, but the party ultimately

00:18:12.620 needs to appeal to the centre to have any chance of winning. You'll find ex-Tory MPs Robert Jenrick,

00:18:17.540 Danny Kruger, and Layla Cunningham on this side too. So basically all the worst people in Reform.

00:18:22.700 And they are enthusiastic about the prospect of getting Farage out of the way,

00:18:25.980 sidelining Zia Yusuf. And now there are people within reform going to The Observer, enemy

00:18:31.380 publication, subsidiary of The Guardian, saying, well, we need to sack Zia Yusuf. He's become a 0.97

00:18:35.220 bit of a problem. And the only person that's standing in the way of that is Farage. So you've

00:18:39.080 even got people in reform, as Jacob Rees-Mogg has also said on his YouTube channel, that have been

00:18:42.860 leaking to the press, to surrogates, to Tory enthusiasts saying, well, if we just get rid of 0.88

00:18:47.420 Nigel and then we get rid of Zia, we've basically got a vehicle to force the Tory reform merger and 0.98

00:18:51.980 breathe new life into the Conservatives. And you get the Uniparty back on track. 1.00

00:18:55.820 And so Faraj delivered the following speech. Despite all of these pressures mounting up,

00:19:02.220 he gave a speech where people were speculating he would resign. And he said, I'm going to give

00:19:06.040 a statement about his future. And during the speech, I'll summarize it. He defended his income

00:19:10.040 on the grounds that he has zero MP expenses. This is not going to be covered by the taxpayer. It is

00:19:15.040 covered by outside donations. But he's saying, at least I'm saving the taxpayer some money.

00:19:19.320 He also said that he's got significant security costs and that 70% of his security funding was

00:19:23.520 withdrawn a day after Charlie Kirk's death, so he's got to foot that bill, and he's claiming

00:19:27.280 that Christopher Harbourn's donation actually allows him to cover that security cost between

00:19:31.420 now and the next general election, of course, when he would receive taxpayer-funded security,

00:19:35.080 and if he became Prime Minister, he would have that for life. He then complained that donation

00:19:38.720 rules were being practically changed by the government to prevent reform from attracting

00:19:42.100 talent from overseas. Now, it is true that if you attract Indian and Iranian billionaires as your

00:19:46.900 donors, that might have a chilling effect on immigration and foreign policy that we should

00:19:50.860 all be very concerned about, especially if they decide to form the next government. But again,

00:19:54.980 it is conspicuous they're only doing that for reform because they've got no problem for

00:19:58.420 attracting lots of funding for Labour or Conservative friends for Israel, India and

00:20:01.840 Pakistan, for example. I've not been looking into this as much. Who are the Indian and Iranian

00:20:05.480 donors giving to reform? And are they likely to be pushing for greater immigration allowances

00:20:10.940 into the country? Well, one Indian donor funded his trip to the World Economic Forum where he went

00:20:15.440 and spoke, I think it was the Bloomberg event, and said, we've turned our backs on India,

00:20:19.620 we've turned our backs on the Commonwealth regarding migration.

00:20:22.320 Yeah.

00:20:22.840 And also, when you've got Iranian donors, 0.97

00:20:25.540 they're of course- 0.93

00:20:25.900 Even though we demonstrably,

00:20:27.880 we like factually have not,

00:20:30.280 given that the Commonwealth was the Boris wave.

00:20:32.980 Six million immigrants in six years,

00:20:35.000 over a million Indians.

00:20:35.920 Thank you, Priti Patel.

00:20:36.680 And also, of course,

00:20:37.520 they brought Ndim Zahawi on board

00:20:38.660 because of his business connections

00:20:39.720 to the Emiratis in the Middle East. 0.99

00:20:42.100 And they were going to make him

00:20:42.940 foreign affairs spokesperson,

00:20:43.940 but then they realised it would cause a mass exodus

00:20:45.540 of their own membership.

00:20:46.440 But the reason they've got him in

00:20:47.380 is to continue attracting talent and money from the region.

00:20:50.780 So that does affect your foreign and immigration policy, unfortunately.

00:20:55.120 Nevertheless, he then said, he referenced Dominic Cummings' previous statements,

00:21:00.320 and he said perhaps he was right.

00:21:01.540 Whitehall might break the law to stop reform from winning an election.

00:21:03.980 And then he made the following announcement.

00:21:06.720 It was about 18 minutes into the broadcast.

00:21:11.320 The street.

00:21:12.320 Britain is broken and the public know it.

00:21:15.140 And we need change.

00:21:17.380 Now, the issue with my daughter was the final straw.

00:21:20.340 Enough is enough.

00:21:21.940 And I thought over the weekend, what shall I do?

00:21:24.480 I could go out and try and make some real big money.

00:21:27.880 I could go to the USA, where I've got plenty of offers.

00:21:33.060 And then I thought, why should I be judged?

00:21:37.740 Today or in history in the future by Sky News and their ilk?

00:21:42.720 Why should they be the people that decide my fate

00:21:45.760 when, as I repeat, I've done nothing wrong.

00:21:50.760 I've thought about it hard and I've decided today,

00:21:54.020 today I will resign as a Member of Parliament for Clacton-on-Sea,

00:21:59.860 thereby forcing a by-election,

00:22:02.800 which should happen, I hope, in short order.

00:22:06.060 No, I've decided that the people of Clacton

00:22:08.180 should be the judges of my actions.

00:22:11.640 This will be a people versus the establishment by-election.

00:22:17.020 It's a chance to stick two fingers up to the entire establishment,

00:22:21.440 to frankly tell them where to go.

00:22:24.780 And that is why I will be putting my name forward to stand in this by-election.

00:22:30.960 I will fight to win.

00:22:32.320 I will fight to continue the political revolution that reform has started.

00:22:37.960 And I would say this to you, the voters of Clacton.

00:22:40.500 if I win you win because if I lose they win and we will never with the two old parties

00:22:48.600 get the type of fundamental change that we need to fix broken Britain

00:22:53.820 you got to respect the move I mean I have to give it to him at the time I mean we were talking

00:23:00.140 after this was announced and I was saying we were both saying you know this was a ballsy move

00:23:03.760 yeah came across strong came across very confident allowed him to take control of the narrative

00:23:08.860 and frankly recently Farage had been moving back up in people's like in estimations because he'd

00:23:15.900 been quite strong on certain things I'll be honest his response to the Henry Novak situation saying

00:23:21.640 that you know like what was it cold rage yeah we should respond with cold rage we should respond

00:23:26.960 with cold rage there's a two-tier system that prejudices against white men in particular all

00:23:32.620 of that was very strong frankly a lot stronger than anything that I heard from Restore coming

00:23:36.560 from this i didn't really hear anything um they put a lengthy post about um reforming policing

00:23:42.060 policies all of which i think are just sensible things but again um no no video content no strong

00:23:47.940 message no address to the nation yeah faraj came across as quite statesmanly in that and so he had

00:23:53.640 been making some good moves and when this was announced it came across like oh this is a very

00:24:00.180 strong move this total this is a this is a 3d chess move where he's actually getting around them

00:24:05.060 allowing himself to control the narrative.

00:24:07.380 Well, pretty much all chess is 3D.

00:24:09.680 4D chess. Apologies.

00:24:11.200 Sorry, dimensions work different up north.

00:24:13.160 I will say, he hasn't aura farmed this hard

00:24:16.100 basically since the 2024 election.

00:24:17.920 And ever since, he looks like he's been

00:24:19.460 in a straitjacket of compromises

00:24:21.420 for which we've done a fair degree of necessary bullying,

00:24:23.900 I think, especially after that disastrous

00:24:25.280 Stephen Edgington interview.

00:24:26.520 But I will say, it looks like

00:24:28.720 courage is being squeezed from him

00:24:31.680 like blood out of a stone.

00:24:32.980 And I think he's starting to realise that 0.80

00:24:34.800 But if he does actually want to be Prime Minister, and he does want reform to win the next government, then he's got to recover from the credibility and courage deficit that has resulted from self-inflicted wounds, such as Tory defectors, denouncing deportations, cosying up to Islam, that have inhibited his ability to win an election, or have cast doubt over his ability to be a statesman in the public eye. And so I think this move is the most sensible thing. 0.61

00:24:57.800 And again, I'll give credit where it's due. I'd never signed up to be like a party political

00:25:03.000 activist for a restore or anything. I don't want to just be a shill for one side or another. 0.98

00:25:08.160 So I am going to be fair and be complimentary where I see that it's fitting.

00:25:13.420 Yeah. And I think you can sense this as well. I'm just going to play this muted. You can sense this

00:25:17.920 in the different aesthetics of his promotional video posted this morning for his by-election

00:25:23.100 in Clacton. There's no fireworks. There's no cheesy Butlins stuff. He's going back to the

00:25:28.260 sort of country gent aesthetic. It's not MAGA coded. Exactly. And the thing is, he can be

00:25:32.420 friends with MAGA all he wants. I think the British public have an instinctual distrust

00:25:37.800 of those aesthetics. And frankly, of MAGA in general, ever since the beginning of the year,

00:25:43.460 even more so than it already did after the whole Greenland debacle. Yeah. Instead, he looks like

00:25:47.740 just the country squire who could have retired, but has actually given up his quiet time and his

00:25:53.680 fortune to go into politics, whether or not he has actually benefited from his proximity to

00:25:58.880 politics with those donations. And for those complaining the by-elections is a waste of time

00:26:02.080 and money, he's actually going to pay for the by-election himself. So, okay, credit. The current

00:26:06.740 polling, if it had a sort of regular general election composition... Well, if all of these

00:26:12.120 people had been standing... Yeah, I'm about to mention that. He'd be winning by a landslide.

00:26:17.740 And Restore would conspicuously come in third, which is quite interesting.

00:26:20.340 But there you go.

00:26:21.580 However, the other parties responded.

00:26:22.920 And this has put a bit of a dampener on the genius of his tactical play.

00:26:29.060 So Stephen Swinsord is the political editor of the Times,

00:26:31.540 and I'm sure he was rubbing his hands with glee,

00:26:33.780 counting off all of the parties that didn't want to stand.

00:26:36.080 Andy Burnham responded, the presumptive next Labour Prime Minister,

00:26:38.560 and said that he thinks the by-election is a gimmick

00:26:42.140 designed to distract from allegations about his finances.

00:26:45.740 And so they're not running.

00:26:46.620 That's amazing coming from Burnham.

00:26:47.740 Yeah, so, like, your whole thing was that you just ran a political coup

00:26:52.040 on your own party leader with a big gimmick by-election.

00:26:56.380 Yeah.

00:26:57.100 You ran purely on Oasis and elbow vibes,

00:27:00.460 and now you're saying, this is un-serious.

00:27:02.220 Oasis, Stone Roses, remember the Hacienda, I remember Hacienda.

00:27:06.620 Sorry, folks who need subtitles for that particular section.

00:27:09.300 Anyway, so Labour aren't running.

00:27:10.820 Neither are the Conservatives.

00:27:11.840 Kimmy Bainock says the Tories will not stand a candidate in this fake by-election.

00:27:15.280 She accuses Farage of running away from scrutiny

00:27:16.940 and having a hissy fit.

00:27:18.280 This is, of course, the...

00:27:19.500 Careful you don't close the segment.

00:27:20.940 Yeah, this is the line that they've workshopped,

00:27:24.500 clearly, in some group chat somewhere.

00:27:26.300 She says,

00:27:26.660 The best thing for him to have done

00:27:27.680 would have been to call a press conference

00:27:28.800 and explain what he did with the money,

00:27:30.320 apologise if needs be,

00:27:31.460 and that would have been the end of it.

00:27:32.320 Instead, he's been running away from scrutiny,

00:27:34.000 and she did a statement on this,

00:27:37.680 hissy fit resignation,

00:27:38.920 made a video on it,

00:27:39.900 calling it a fake by-election.

00:27:41.780 Clearly, they've cooked this talking point up,

00:27:43.580 and what you're seeing is narrative convergence

00:27:45.720 by all of the rival parties to say,

00:27:47.740 no thanks, we're taking our ball and going home.

00:27:50.520 It is rich when they're talking about accountability,

00:27:52.880 like speaking to the public and owning up,

00:27:55.060 when, as I saw you pointed out the other day,

00:27:57.800 Kemi Baden-Ock's been coming out and saying,

00:27:59.200 oh yeah, the Tories made mistakes on immigration,

00:28:01.320 but we've fixed all of the internal problems that led to that.

00:28:04.100 When you pointed out that, what, back in 2018, was it,

00:28:06.700 she was calling for no caps on immigration from Nigeria?

00:28:10.140 It was on student and study visas,

00:28:11.860 of which Nigeria was an explicit beneficiary.

00:28:14.160 Also, Priti Patel, the former Home Secretary who conducted the Boris wave unrepentantly

00:28:19.020 and called Indian migrants living bridges, is her shadowing Foreign Secretary.

00:28:22.240 And Boris Johnson spoke at the opening of the new Conservative Party headquarters.

00:28:25.720 And there are all these rumours swirling around that Boris Johnson's going to make a return for 2029. 0.96

00:28:29.380 He absolutely wants to, and is in constant personal contact with Kemi.

00:28:33.760 So, same people.

00:28:35.100 Where's all of the accountability for all that?

00:28:36.980 Boris Johnson is not only continually making excuses

00:28:40.300 for the Tories post-Boris wave record on immigration,

00:28:44.160 he's proud of it

00:28:45.380 he is unrepentant

00:28:47.940 he would do it again

00:28:49.500 so you give him the chance

00:28:51.140 you can't give him the opportunity 0.78

00:28:52.040 professional fool Ed Davey 0.96

00:28:54.580 has decided to play the part of 1.00

00:28:56.000 bullied schoolboy here

00:28:56.940 saying Nigel Farrell spent his whole life

00:28:58.380 dodging responsibility for his actions

00:28:59.600 this new stunt is his latest attempt

00:29:01.560 to escape consequences for his biggest grift

00:29:03.360 we won't let him

00:29:04.160 and actually before I came in

00:29:06.000 I didn't pull the link up

00:29:06.880 but it should be at the top

00:29:07.720 he's written to the Chancellor Rachel Reeves

00:29:11.900 to say that Farrell should not be

00:29:13.900 allowed to resign until the investigation into the finances concludes so actually you could see

00:29:19.920 again a weaponization of parliamentary procedure to try and head off this by-election at the pass

00:29:23.540 which was trying to head off the investigation into his finances and the second by-election

00:29:27.780 at the pass because of course what Farage is banking on is by-election fatigue he's hoping

00:29:31.500 that everyone turns into Brenda from Bristol and goes oh what another one so by the time he has a

00:29:35.620 public mandate ahead of the investigation concluding in September if the investigation tries to run

00:29:41.320 another by-election, having suspended him from the Commons. Parliament will worry about political

00:29:45.560 legitimacy crisis on their hands, they won't bother, and he'll just remain in there anyway,

00:29:49.180 despite any financial misconduct they may or may not find. And so Davy was posting incessantly

00:29:54.500 about this, saying the government must block Farage's resignation. If a by-election does go

00:29:58.400 ahead, all parties should stand aside. We cannot give oxygen to his vanity project. The Greens

00:30:02.900 seemed that they would temporarily actually stand in the by-election. Mothian Ali, with his low 0.91

00:30:07.500 impulse control, went on Times Radio and actually said, Farage is a grifter and will fight him in 0.68

00:30:11.300 Clacton. And then it turns out that that wasn't actually the case. Pretty much every party has

00:30:16.800 now stood down. The only person that may be running, as Max Tempers prophetically put together

00:30:23.140 here with everyone playing with their dolls, is Count Bimface. Count Bimface might be the only 0.97

00:30:28.700 candidate willing to run against Nigel Farage in Clacton. And so this embarrassing quirk of 1.00

00:30:35.660 British politics where meme candidates, you know, rich Oxford grads who run as anti-political

00:30:40.920 candidates um stand alongside politicians at the at the vote counts he might actually become

00:30:46.400 the avatar for tactical voting to try and get rid of farage so the entire thing will just look like

00:30:50.820 a farce he is the face of the the face of the establishment is now count bin face yeah i mean 0.84

00:30:57.520 he actually an unfunny joke that was dated 10 years ago yeah he actually posted this nigel 0.65

00:31:03.080 farage says he wants the people versus the establishment so be it leave him to me so you're 0.70

00:31:07.740 this yeah so faro's gonna run on like pro pro pro fly tipping or something i guess nobody wins

00:31:14.680 from this right nobody wins from this the only person who could win interestingly enough if he

00:31:20.400 spins it right is farage because farage could turn this into the see all of the establishment is

00:31:27.480 working and it appears so in lockstep against me because really if they are willing to go so far

00:31:36.220 and above with all of this and broadcast

00:31:38.240 this, it is kind of giving Farage main

00:31:40.180 character energy. Yes, absolutely.

00:31:42.180 It's giving him main character energy that

00:31:43.940 everybody is against him. Like this is

00:31:45.920 like he's the main character in a video

00:31:48.100 game going to face the boss and the boss

00:31:50.080 thinks he's above him so he throws out his underling

00:31:52.260 and it's Count Binface. Yeah, he's 0.99

00:31:54.460 attacking Binface as a jobber and he can 1.00

00:31:55.980 pivot, as I think he already is because

00:31:58.140 you see what Richard Tice was saying yesterday, he can

00:32:00.160 pivot to say, well they're so afraid of me

00:32:01.880 but they don't even want to face me in fair combat.

00:32:04.260 The establishment have stood down, all together,

00:32:05.800 All these parties are in it together, and I'm the only one man they're afraid of,

00:32:09.880 and they're still going to try and weaponise parliamentary procedure against me,

00:32:12.380 even if I win a mandate from my constituents.

00:32:14.360 They just want to get rid of me because they don't want me speaking for you.

00:32:16.840 And that is quite a persuasive narrative.

00:32:18.220 I know there's a bit of dissent in the office as to whether or not that was a sensible idea,

00:32:21.420 but I still think not only does Farage win this, but he comes out with that narrative intact.

00:32:25.440 I think he comes out stronger.

00:32:26.400 If he spins it right, otherwise, like I say, this would be a no-win situation 0.96

00:32:30.560 because Farage ends up looking like a clown for running against the clown, 0.98

00:32:33.760 and the establishment looks like a clown 0.99

00:32:35.800 because they're literally running the clown on their behalf. 0.99

00:32:38.520 And then also, the system looks clownish 0.93

00:32:41.260 because how does this have anything to do

00:32:43.500 with any kind of representational democracy?

00:32:45.760 Quite.

00:32:46.440 I'm just going to finish on one party we haven't mentioned,

00:32:48.700 and that would be Restore Britain,

00:32:50.020 which many in the office actively support, of course.

00:32:52.780 Karl is a branch organiser.

00:32:54.600 Rupert Lowe posted,

00:32:55.420 Farage has proven one thing today and one thing only.

00:32:57.780 Everything that he does is about one person, Nigel Farage.

00:33:00.000 The people of Clacton do not need a media circus

00:33:01.680 descending on their town over a busy tourist season

00:33:03.640 because their MP has made a series of bad decisions.

00:33:05.840 He should have declared that £5 million.

00:33:07.880 Now he's going to weaponise a by-election to distract from that.

00:33:10.240 It's going to cost the taxpayer a fortune.

00:33:11.820 Farage is paying for it.

00:33:13.340 Will Farage fund it out of his own pocket?

00:33:14.960 Yes, because he bloody well should.

00:33:16.540 This is making a mockery of our entire democratic process.

00:33:19.020 He makes a bad decision after bad decision.

00:33:20.780 A by-election will not deflect from that fact.

00:33:22.800 I will be making an announcement later today

00:33:24.520 on Restore Britain's plans for the Clacton by-election.

00:33:26.480 He was one of the first politicians to come out and say,

00:33:29.440 I will be making an announcement.

00:33:31.140 This was before everyone had stood down.

00:33:33.640 And I had been pretty public about saying 1.00

00:33:36.660 it would be a stupid and disastrous idea 1.00

00:33:39.780 to run in this by-election 1.00

00:33:40.720 because you have no prospect of winning.

00:33:42.920 The candidate you put up will look either spiteful

00:33:45.220 if it is an ex-Yukipa

00:33:46.420 or if it's a prominent member of Restore Britain. 0.52

00:33:48.860 You're basically going to poison

00:33:49.580 their political career forever.

00:33:50.700 I saw a lot of people suggesting

00:33:52.200 that Charlie Downs should stand

00:33:53.740 and I immediately thought, no.

00:33:56.320 I'm not my friends to the wolves like that.

00:33:58.560 And you will fulfill all of the Daily Mail's

00:34:00.880 accusations about you

00:34:01.700 that you are purely motivated by spite

00:34:03.420 and vengeance against Farage personally.

00:34:05.420 And that, unfortunately, is what that post read like, I think,

00:34:07.860 just mentioning, oh, Farage has let his constituents down.

00:34:10.580 He's, you don't want to look like you're siding with the establishment

00:34:13.480 even if Farage has made some poor financial choices.

00:34:17.180 And so...

00:34:17.740 And again, I mean, with stuff like he should have declared

00:34:19.680 that £5 million, he knows it, we all know it,

00:34:22.400 perhaps there's some fairness to that,

00:34:23.960 but at the moment, we have to wait for the parliamentary standards

00:34:28.740 and their decision.

00:34:30.580 Most people won't care about whether or not Farage

00:34:33.080 has or hasn't disclosed a £5 million donation

00:34:35.140 he got from some Thailand-based crypto billionaire 1.00

00:34:37.040 when the country's getting raped to death by immigrants 1.00

00:34:38.600 and they think he might solve it. 1.00

00:34:40.500 So people won't care.

00:34:41.820 The thing is, I'd not actually heard

00:34:43.980 any normal person outside of the typical political sphere

00:34:48.600 mention anything to do with this.

00:34:50.900 It was the media pushing this whole story,

00:34:53.820 parliamentary standards pushing the investigation.

00:34:56.920 Anybody I spoke to outside of the political series,

00:35:00.340 do you know what they said?

00:35:01.700 Well, there's an investigation.

00:35:03.080 Yeah. 70% of people, according to YouGov this morning, have not been paying attention to this.

00:35:07.540 And that's a complete inverse of the Henry Novak situation, where Farage looked credible.

00:35:10.240 I can even see people in our chat who are saying they've not been paying any attention to this.

00:35:14.040 And I don't blame them. Then the announcement came from Rupert Lowe, saying,

00:35:17.380 Restore Britain will stand in the Clacton by-election, the second one held later this

00:35:21.300 year when the investigations into Farage's finances conclude, as we suspect they will.

00:35:24.720 Okay. At least sense prevailed there. But still, the messaging is that we can't wait for the

00:35:30.300 opportunity to stand against Farage. And you are starting to turn Restore into just the anti-reform

00:35:35.560 party, rather than what Charlie Harrison and Lewis want. I know this, they're my house Saturday,

00:35:41.320 they're wonderful gentlemen, which is a credible, policy-focused, anti-establishment alternative,

00:35:47.540 which was basically the promise of reform before Farage started softening, and before, as well,

00:35:52.260 Farage has tried to regain ground on the softening that he basically concedes that he did.

00:35:57.400 I think Restore has been effective in pushing him to take a more hardline stance on things.

00:36:01.720 I would imagine, as you are suggesting, and as I hear a lot of people talking about, 0.99

00:36:05.740 that a lot of that has been coming from Zia, who has been saying, 0.98

00:36:09.060 listen, we need to be more hardline so that Restore don't overtake us on this.

00:36:12.520 It's Zia, James, and Farahad himself, to be honest.

00:36:14.800 And so, weirdly, after converting into a political party,

00:36:18.600 Restore have achieved their goals as being a pressure campaign.

00:36:21.760 Now, that doesn't mean it was a mistake to turn into a political party.

00:36:23.580 It doesn't mean there isn't a role for Restore.

00:36:24.900 but it does mean that we should be content with those gains without necessarily saying oh you

00:36:30.440 need to pack up shop and just trust reform to do everything what you shouldn't do is then turn into

00:36:34.800 the anti-farage party once they have um acquiesced to all of your policy demands and this message

00:36:42.540 went very differently down on different platforms because on x people are saying this is sensible

00:36:47.420 this is the right thing to do i just want to finish on this um on facebook where rupert has

00:36:51.840 a massive audience. He put the same posts out, and if you scroll down to the comments,

00:36:58.120 all the top comments are saying, normally I agree, but I think Nigel here has played

00:37:02.740 the establishment for the fiddle that they are. This is democracy in action, let the people choose.

00:37:09.140 I said to my son, we heard Farage's speech, it wouldn't be too long for you to come out

00:37:12.620 with a statement slagging him off. What a genius move from Nigel. These are not just

00:37:16.820 reformed partisans. These are people that are saying, look, I follow you, Rupert,

00:37:20.460 I admire what you do. I follow Restore. But it looks like you're just a vehicle now for enacting

00:37:26.720 your personal vendetta, which has legitimate foundations because they tried to report into

00:37:30.020 the police on illegitimate grounds. You're trying to enact a vendetta against reform. And I'd just

00:37:34.440 like to say, if Nigel Farage has main character energy, if he has successfully seized the reins

00:37:39.620 of the narrative and is saying it's me via the establishment, even if the establishment is Count

00:37:43.000 Binface, it would be unwise for Restore Britain to play into that narrative and look like they

00:37:48.660 are just another arm of the establishment so will farage's gambit pay off we don't know the genius 0.99

00:37:53.200 has been dented but it's certainly going to be an entertaining few months it certainly will and

00:37:59.180 we've got plenty of rumble rants in from that one so thank you very much appreciate the gentleman

00:38:04.220 uh 141 paladin starts us off by saying you two would not be english knights you two would be

00:38:09.600 npc guards with bill hooks i think out of the pirate knight samurai dichotomy i'd probably be

00:38:15.920 a samurai and you'd be a pirate i've been a pirate before many many times in fact uh harrya harrya

00:38:22.660 nago uh speculates on which show it is that we are returning that has already been filmed actually

00:38:28.780 yes we're filming something else today yes also be very good for you obsessive i'm just gonna say

00:38:33.380 on the speculation no comment no comment you know it'll be a surprise for everyone that's a random

00:38:37.860 name i disagree with paladin harry is the entire character creation model with all of the haircuts

00:38:42.740 he's had however there is no height slider thank you very much harry if you forgot to kiss your

00:38:48.480 finger and point up after mentioning the inventor of course the random name thank you uh one tall

00:38:53.400 order question for the boys would you consider taking back a woman who had been talking with

00:38:57.320 another man during the relationship if she apologized apologized and owned up to it slash

00:39:02.080 cut off contact with them that requires a much longer answer but the short version is no yeah

00:39:07.280 Mate, if she's going to cheat once, 0.94

00:39:09.940 she'll do it again.

00:39:12.080 Hiro Sanichiban,

00:39:13.960 none of this needed to happen

00:39:15.200 if he didn't replace his party

00:39:16.220 with Hope Not Hate's choices, 1.00

00:39:17.340 bribers like Zia and Trader Tories. 0.99

00:39:19.120 And this is to do with a lot of the criticisms 1.00

00:39:20.840 that we've had with Reform and Nigel

00:39:22.680 for a very long while,

00:39:24.260 but that's not to take away

00:39:25.180 that there were positive steps made very recently

00:39:28.220 with some of the party messaging. 1.00

00:39:30.040 From Zia, weirdly enough. 0.74

00:39:31.200 Yeah. 0.97

00:39:32.060 Base Stape, genuine question.

00:39:33.280 I haven't been following this story.

00:39:34.300 Feels like a huge distraction.

00:39:35.540 Where did the money come from?

00:39:36.540 israel pakistan who is paying for raj uh well actually apparently it's christopher harbour

00:39:41.400 posh george posh george that's pretty much well confirmed weirdly enough posh george is by far

00:39:46.780 the least worst thing about reform he's actually politically on side so oh i'm sure i'm sure he is

00:39:51.240 but still i could see how come 2029 palling around with a guy who was trying to money

00:39:55.680 anyone who didn't prepare farage for the media s storm that was going to land on him by being

00:40:01.660 friends with george basically yeah that prepped him for failure that's the thing is one thing

00:40:05.720 being friends with him but it's another bringing him everywhere he goes with him being constantly

00:40:10.040 photographed chatting with him and going for dinners with him uh because yeah you're friends 0.94

00:40:15.160 with a criminal it feels really stupid that they hadn't uh been expecting this scottsy guy luca's

00:40:22.420 response to ed davy is scathing and well written i will have to look it up i've not read it yet

00:40:26.160 but i'm sure it is luca is a very eloquent young man uh toe in water connor have you sold out every

00:40:32.360 time you speak these days, I hear a reform apologist. You said it yourself, reform is the

00:40:37.160 beyond meat burger. Why pivot your language so hard? Okay, I'm happy to address this. First of

00:40:42.600 all, nothing for less than $7,000. Thank you very much. Secondly, no, I'm just trying to provide a

00:40:49.260 not dispassionate, but fair assessment of the rhetoric and personnel and policy on both sides.

00:40:55.480 And it's clear that reform are learning their lessons, even if there is still a trust deficit,

00:40:58.800 it. And there are some personnel that you can just never trust. And actually, Restore is making

00:41:03.600 some, plenty of, unforced errors. And that's not the fault of my friends, Harris and Charlie and

00:41:08.080 Lewis, but Rupert and some of the other members of the team are just making blunders and they're

00:41:12.040 losing their pole position as a credible alternative to reform. And so you need to

00:41:17.120 deliver this carrot and stick approach. Otherwise, parties don't do what you want. And I don't think

00:41:21.740 we should be in the business of taking a side of any political party. I think we should be taking

00:41:24.700 our own side and forcing parties to do what we want because we're stuck in this country and we've

00:41:27.900 got to live with their messes and successes and that's that's exactly what i said as well like i

00:41:31.600 said during the segment i never signed up to be a party political uh partisan or some kind of

00:41:37.820 activist for any of the parties uh for one because i'm a terrible activist you don't want me being an

00:41:43.580 activist you don't want me being the face of your party have you heard the things that i've said

00:41:47.620 before i mean it was featured in in hope not hate reports the thing of are you trying to cozy up to

00:41:53.180 reform do you want a job from reform i'm banned from reform yeah do you want them in the party

00:41:57.560 do you think reform like they could barely make excuses for rob kenyon's crass jokes do you think

00:42:03.420 they could excuse the stuff that i've said mainly on podcast with harry yeah exactly it's very linked

00:42:08.960 together isn't it i mean just reading out john stewart's wikipedia page was enough to get me a

00:42:13.220 mention in the hope not hate report on connor anyway we should probably crack up with the

00:42:17.040 segments we're having too much fun yeah yeah uh random name said something that i can't read out

00:42:21.280 and he knows uh but he also says best i can do is one dollar connor i'm a cheap date oh there you go

00:42:26.320 lowball him always works negging works folks know this to be true all right so uh on to the uh much

00:42:33.500 less fun subjects i suppose which is that there are the hearings for the charlie kirk trial going

00:42:37.960 on right now these are preliminary hearings against tyler robinson have started on monday

00:42:44.400 no relation nothing i am not related to mr tyler robinson um and the judge is hearing from uh two

00:42:51.380 of four scheduled law enforcement witnesses it's just the ongoing hearing to see if it will go to

00:42:56.900 trial some are saying that it won't go to trial like some defense attorneys for instance that the

00:43:01.960 hill have been speaking to have been saying that it would be a really bad idea to go to trial

00:43:07.060 because it seems like it's an incredibly open and shut case well the family turned him in he confessed

00:43:11.980 you have all of the escort logs from third parties but also the correspondence between him

00:43:17.660 uh and his weird furry boyfriend like it seems unless you're candace owens open and shut well

00:43:23.680 that well that will be the thing it will be open and shut until owens takes the stand in his defense 0.98

00:43:28.560 and brings out her uh corkboard chart with all of her various theories she emerges from the trap

00:43:33.280 door dressed in maroon um yeah so the only reason that this wouldn't go to trial is if robinson 0.60

00:43:40.200 enters a guilty plea and then presumably negotiates down which some defense attorneys

00:43:45.260 are saying would be the smartest thing to do

00:43:47.140 because you would basically, like the guy in here says

00:43:49.480 what the best thing to do would be for his defence attorneys

00:43:53.000 to get on their knees, plead guilty 0.53

00:43:55.320 and then beg for the death penalty to be taken off of the table

00:43:58.300 because within Utah, the death penalty is an option

00:44:02.140 for the jurors to take.

00:44:03.860 It would require a unanimous 12-person agreement

00:44:08.120 and the vote for the death penalty

00:44:09.840 but that is not outside of the realms of possibility.

00:44:13.420 Bring it forth.

00:44:13.820 yes and i don't think it's anything less than this guy deserves if it is true that he killed

00:44:19.500 him which i mean yeah obviously he did he basically admitted it and there's just been

00:44:24.540 developments coming from the hearing some new new evidence coming forward not really much new

00:44:29.340 evidence at all frankly but enough that the media has been reporting on it um he's not entered the

00:44:36.100 guilt a plea yet we'll see if he does that by the end of the week uh but the standard um if it goes

00:44:42.600 to trial the standard for the prosecutors presenting evidence to show that it should go

00:44:46.980 to trial is obviously a lot lower than proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt so if he if he

00:44:52.040 says that he's innocent it's going to go to trial and we're going to get a big trial about this

00:44:56.100 question this is speculation on my part and i would love to know if anyone more informed would

00:45:00.580 tell me in the comments but um do you think it's possible the defense attorneys could be um hoping

00:45:04.800 that if it does go to trial that they could argue the jury pool is so polluted by public speculation

00:45:10.380 about the nature of the killing that it would be almost impossible to select an impartial jury and

00:45:15.200 therefore you couldn't actually try it. They've already been trying to do that to get some of the

00:45:18.940 evidence taken off the table during these hearings for in particular certain videos that TPUSA put

00:45:24.580 together themselves of various angles of the incident where they've highlighted certain

00:45:29.580 things and they put circles and they've been saying that one it pollutes the already public

00:45:34.400 already polluted public opinion of what's going on and we don't want this information want these

00:45:39.560 videos going out to the public because then it will bias the trial and two the videos have been

00:45:43.920 edited so they've been manipulated so you can't trust anything in them tp usa have basically just

00:45:48.440 said listen we just made it easier to see things yep which by the sounds of it is what has happened

00:45:53.620 and as such the judge basically decided listen you're gonna you're gonna see the videos because

00:45:59.580 the videos are all already out there all tp usa have done is collected them together put them

00:46:04.480 into various compilations where you can see things nice and easily and highlighted certain

00:46:09.900 elements of the video which are very important for the jury's deliberations. So they have been

00:46:15.160 trying to pull that game, but it's not really gone anywhere right now. Because frankly, with a trial

00:46:20.440 like this, if you're going to try and make that argument, then you're never going to get a trial

00:46:23.380 for this case. So the investigators testified that Robinson was present at the Utah Valley

00:46:29.880 university campus multiple times on the day of the shooting and we actually have the footage

00:46:34.360 of that uh i'll just play a little bit of this uh while i'm talking this is mr robinson returning

00:46:39.700 so this is the footage of tyler robinson at the university campus just walking around

00:46:45.320 during the day before the shooting took place and you can see him

00:46:49.080 limping with one very particular uh right leg looking very stiff presumably because and this

00:46:56.120 is what the um what the prosecutors are alleging and it's probably true he's probably just got a

00:47:01.720 half a barrel of a rifle yeah he's concealing the gun yeah he's clearly clearly concealing it

00:47:06.820 they said while the most sensitive footage has been withheld from public display i would assume

00:47:11.820 all of the multiple closer up angles of charlie charlie coates neck exploding for instance

00:47:16.580 graph reviewed at least some of the material directly reports from inside the courtroom

00:47:20.440 noted the judge visibly flinched while watching the footage that appeared to depict the fatal

00:47:25.440 shooting on the first day and there is footage of him doing so you um it's you know when that

00:47:32.820 footage first came out and there was initially the long range footage where it looked like he'd

00:47:37.380 been shot in the chest and everybody was speculating whether he was dead or not

00:47:40.660 that was one thing but then later on that same day when the footage came out and just going like

00:47:44.920 yeah that was pretty brutal then that's uh something that's still seared into my mind

00:47:49.720 so i think visibly flinching is um pretty understandable given the brutality of that

00:47:55.740 footage uh so you know we're pretty much all of us in this business you know none of none of us

00:48:00.220 as high profile as as charlie kirk and gunshots aren't exactly as great a threat in britain but

00:48:05.480 everyone sort of looked at that and thought that could be any of us so and yeah it was a good guy

00:48:10.320 so you know yeah uh people had their issues with charlie kirk but nobody deserves that happening

00:48:15.840 to him especially in front of their family and children i mean good god it was just one of the

00:48:19.640 worst things ever which we'll get on to uh by the end of this segment of the sort of people who are

00:48:23.860 still celebrating it because of course everybody remembers the left immediately cheering it on

00:48:28.480 baying for blood saying we need to do this to more people charlie kirk got what he deserved

00:48:33.080 uh some people some of which knew him personally had looked him in the eye and shook and shook his

00:48:39.580 hand and said let's have a debate are still to this day celebrating it making a mockery of it

00:48:47.180 and turning it into a big joke which people talk about being too online too on the internet if

00:48:53.860 you're dancing like a performing chimpanzee to music making fun of somebody that you had met

00:48:59.420 personally just for internet brownie points you should you should log off you should exile yourself

00:49:05.160 to St Helena and never be seen in public life again and that's the that's the kind thing that's

00:49:11.240 the kind thing personally I'd have you put in prison uh the preliminary hearing comes less than

00:49:15.060 two weeks after Graff the judge issued another significant ruling in the case where he a few

00:49:20.340 weeks ago had found prosecutor Christopher Ballard in contempt for violating a court order governing

00:49:24.880 public comments about the case so the one of the prosecutors have been making like public comments

00:49:30.580 stupid thing to do but again this is such a high profile thing that was so high profile when it

00:49:36.760 happened as well everybody's going to have an opinion everybody is going to have something to 1.00

00:49:41.380 say on it it was just stupid for a prosecutor to go out and do something like that graft did though 0.97

00:49:45.800 reject a defense request to remove the death penalty as a possible punishment describing such 0.93

00:49:50.540 a sanction as disproportionate so it's still potentially going to get him um get him the uh

00:49:57.200 What would it be?

00:49:57.820 Firing squad.

00:49:58.720 Yeah, firing squad. 0.70

00:50:00.360 Appropriate.

00:50:01.020 No, firing squad is for soldiers.

00:50:03.460 Firing squad has a certain level of honour associated with it.

00:50:07.600 Hanging is for common criminals.

00:50:08.840 Yeah, we're biased as Englishmen, I suppose.

00:50:10.760 Yes.

00:50:11.700 That decision has allowed prosecutors to continue pursuing capital punishment

00:50:15.580 if Robinson is ultimately convicted.

00:50:18.340 The Daily Mail has some more information on what's going on.

00:50:21.940 Prosecutors have said that they will present a slew of new evidence over the week,

00:50:25.420 also including DNA linking Robinson to the murder weapon autopsy findings witness statements and

00:50:31.080 further surveillance of him at the scene we obviously already have the some of the extra

00:50:35.100 surveillance footage so they are actually following up on all of this and so again it just seems

00:50:41.240 pretty open and shut I mean it goes and tells some of the story in here when Robinson was taken into

00:50:47.060 custody authority said his construction worker father Matt had convinced him to surrender to

00:50:51.660 investigators after recognizing him in surveillance images images of the suspect showed him in a dark

00:50:57.000 graphic t-shirt dark hat and jeans and the uvu campus as you can see here according to prosecutors

00:51:01.940 he uh his father texted him and said tyler is this you this looks like you robinson then allegedly

00:51:07.240 confessed to his dad when confronted and initially said he would rather kill himself than turn

00:51:11.640 himself in but was later convinced to confide in a family friend who worked with the washington

00:51:15.780 county sheriff's office so and not to not to forget as well uh he did all of this for his 0.80

00:51:22.740 transsexual girlfriend boyfriend who is a furry who lived in abject squalor judging by all of the 0.79

00:51:30.400 photos of their apartment that have been put on the internet yes let's find the let's find the

00:51:33.800 photo because they include the photo in this daily mail article uh right here further down if i just

00:51:39.220 take a moment uh yes all of this was done for this person yeah who i as i understand it has

00:51:46.400 basically been protected from being prosecuted as a co-conspirator despite knowing about it yes

00:51:52.880 it appears from the information that is available that these people were involved in discord channels

00:51:58.420 where there was a lot of radicalization going on uh potentially a lot of you know speculatively

00:52:05.260 uh some grooming going on to try and convince people to go into sort of like radical gender

00:52:11.140 ideology it's basically trantifa yeah yeah trantifa they'd been high they'd been hosting

00:52:15.880 parties from people out of state presumably other people in their discord servers who had been

00:52:20.900 coming around and the speculation is that this had led to some kind of plan making on trying to get

00:52:26.800 charlie kirk for being a quote-unquote transphobe that's why there were so many um trans identifying

00:52:31.560 anonymous accounts sort of alluding to something big happening on in utah on that day yes yes i

00:52:37.880 forgot about that whole part and also by the way discord knows about this stuff it has all the

00:52:43.040 it constantly monitors it it monitored it from a previous um non-binary identifying school shooter

00:52:49.000 who basically planned the entire thing on discord and they didn't want to cooperate with the 0.70

00:52:52.020 authorities so and but they will ban your right-wing discord channel so they're complicit in

00:52:56.400 it people do this on discord all the time to the point where it's basically like a stereotype that

00:53:01.140 people will be groomed on discord by degenerate freaks the discord shrugs their shoulders and

00:53:07.000 let it happen uh and other information in here uh the this person is called lance twigs apparently

00:53:15.020 uh robinson allegedly told uh lance i had the opportunity to take out charlie kirk and i'm

00:53:21.060 going to take it the 23 year old allegedly told twigs to find a note he left under his keyboard

00:53:26.120 which read if you are reading this per my text then i am so sorry i left the house this morning

00:53:30.680 on a mission and set an auto text i had enough of his hatred some hate can't be negotiated out

00:53:36.640 apparently he was saying similar things in like dinner table arguments with family members as

00:53:40.380 well so that's no surprise and the thing is i remember when some of these texts were leaked

00:53:45.220 online and you saw the screenshots and lots of people were theorizing because obviously there's

00:53:49.600 all the theories about whether robinson actually did it or whether it was a conspiracy he's alive

00:53:54.920 in a gotha with jeffrey epstein or israel did it or erica kirk secretly the egyptian planes

00:54:00.620 tp usa to do a coup over the organization bloody bloody blah and people were using this kind of

00:54:06.580 like overly dramatic theater kid language as this reads so unnaturally people don't actually talk

00:54:12.360 like this yeah they do i'm sorry you've never met over dramatic discord troons yep that's exactly

00:54:19.820 how they talk they they think they are the main character in some like unwritten anime

00:54:25.680 they talk they talk to fit that's that's it's also the interaction between people who are

00:54:32.280 autistic in the wrong direction and then people that are deeply dark triad and represent some of

00:54:35.780 the same antisocial personality traits and then they meld and one manipulates the other yeah and

00:54:40.900 you know people still try and talk to me and say you know maybe it wasn't this guy maybe it was

00:54:46.320 some kind of conspiracy i've never believed it no but fuente said that actually one of the best

00:54:50.600 bits about this and he's like right okay so you're saying this incredibly competent conspiracy was

00:54:54.040 conducted by israel and then they had a guy at the front who shot handgun into his exploding

00:54:58.600 microphone it blew for his neck and then when they went to plant the evidence they just picked

00:55:01.900 the wrong rifle out the gun barrel and left it at the scene and mossab was like ah shoot i guess 0.78

00:55:06.120 we've got to blame the trun yeah i i guess we've got to pin it on the fall guy now come on erica

00:55:12.920 i'm sorry you're gonna have to hold off on your tp usa promotion just a little bit longer uh says 0.65

00:55:18.540 netanyahu on the phone smoking a big cigar while he's at it um candace owens of course is still

00:55:24.600 kind of pushing this stuff without explicitly saying it as much as she used to she has been 0.62

00:55:31.020 leaking like she keeps leaking personal messages between the two of them which frankly is just like

00:55:37.000 those are charlie's personal messages between the two of you that should be something that kind of

00:55:41.720 But also, like, okay, him responding to Jordan Peterson promoting an ADL-linked investigation 0.97

00:55:49.080 into the term Christ is King, saying it's anti-Semitic, and saying this is dumb as a 0.97

00:55:53.080 Christian, is not proof that Netanyahu had him assassinated because he was about to flip 0.95

00:55:57.640 from being his top guy to his biggest critic.

00:55:59.520 Like, sorry, but for all the insinuations he's trying to do here, that doesn't say that.

00:56:04.980 Sorry to break it to everybody, Charlie Kirk was not about to become a griper.

00:56:08.220 No.

00:56:08.460 shock shockingly enough charlie kirk wasn't about to you know be like like american history x go to

00:56:14.560 netanyahu and it's like speak to this yeah well he did he did an israel trip no he was going to

00:56:20.160 organize an israel trip was i think it was bill ackman because there was the accusation that

00:56:23.620 bill ackman was arguing with charlie kirk and that didn't actually happen and then um he sent

00:56:28.100 netanyahu quite a personal letter saying here's how to win the eight front war this one's really

00:56:31.300 funny though i must say yeah um because the guy that made that meme was actually one of the

00:56:35.260 original groopers that in the grooper war in like 2017 kept making memes about charlie kirk so it

00:56:40.080 wrapped right back around charlie's sharing the memes of his biggest critic but the thing again

00:56:43.620 this does not prove that israel had anything to do with it this just proves that charlie kirk

00:56:48.000 liked what is objectively a funny meme yeah that's a great meme in order to be able to think you have 0.98

00:56:53.760 to risk being offensive jews meg fuentes you're a psychopathic rat so good thing is i still i still 0.96

00:57:01.820 hold a candle for jordan but that was a terrible terrible take yeah what like i mean she is right 0.99

00:57:07.400 when she was asking why is he still writing in sonnet form i don't know what jordan's doing

00:57:10.900 weirdly like haikus anyway jordan's not well yeah i hope he recovers i hope he spends as much time

00:57:16.940 with his grandkids as possible so the actual evidence towards all these conspiracies is not

00:57:22.280 there as far as i can tell but you know what there is still lots of evidence for um the left

00:57:29.440 wing of American politics being full 1.00

00:57:31.480 of psychopaths who want you dead. 1.00

00:57:33.460 Yeah, I'm glad we spent all of that political capital 0.98

00:57:35.560 in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's death on podcasters

00:57:37.480 infighting and allowing

00:57:39.480 the left to get away with it because we were so focused

00:57:41.180 on whether or not the men in maroon shirts did it.

00:57:43.800 Yeah. And also,

00:57:45.440 frankly, it's just a huge missed opportunity

00:57:47.220 by the Trump admin. Yeah. Like, they should have

00:57:49.340 done something with it, and they didn't.

00:57:51.140 Many promises made by Stephen Miller.

00:57:52.860 And as such, you get inside a wire

00:57:55.040 reporting on this saying Tyler Robinson was seen

00:57:57.180 laughing in court as Erica Kirk

00:57:58.960 wept just feet away with onion person who in their own bio calls themselves a trans disinfo

00:58:06.060 influencer just responds with beast mode because that's what it is to murder a family man in front

00:58:12.160 of his own children that's going beast mode you can't live with these people no you you really

00:58:16.380 can't and do you know who else you can't work live with uh my birthday buddy sadly we share 0.75

00:58:21.600 the same birthday hassan piker oh deport into turkey denaturalize and deport yeah denaturalize 0.97

00:58:26.940 the poor or just throw him in a dungeon somewhere use the cockroach spray you can always throw 0.83

00:58:30.560 people in dungeons this is a lost art that we need to get back to put hassan piker and

00:58:35.200 he dances to indian we are charlie kirk and then introduces david dayen of the american prospect

00:58:43.960 and just we don't that's enough of that there is just dancing like a clown

00:58:51.600 to a song making fun of the death of somebody that he'd met personally 0.98

00:58:59.080 that's the scum yeah this is like in humans like scummy behavior this is the kind of person the 0.98

00:59:06.820 same thing the destiny that you become when you just are devoured by your own impulses and 0.99

00:59:11.820 appetites and your own darkest thoughts and you don't you don't put any you don't impose any moral

00:59:15.840 standards on yourself because you have the correct ideology and therefore you can only be anything

00:59:19.140 you can only ever be correct and so you don't have to be virtuous in any way shape or form you 0.95

00:59:23.200 can be as disgusting and depraved an individual as you like you like um who's the fat one with 0.98

00:59:28.300 the beard and glasses vorsch you can you can you can i've not heard that name you can you want to 1.00

00:59:32.520 you can be into bestiality and have like an ogre as a girlfriend it doesn't matter we're going to

00:59:36.380 bring the marxist revolution to you it's just that's these people yeah this guy will bay for 0.99

00:59:40.860 your blood he will cheer on you being murdered in the most gruesome and tragic manner possible 0.98

00:59:45.640 uh you can't live with them and i hope that tyler robinson gets convicted as guilty and i hope they 0.99

00:59:52.660 hang him because i would really love to see hassan piker an onion person and vauch's response 0.96

00:59:57.860 uh to that because it's well deserved i'll go into the rumble rants now for that unrelated i

01:00:04.660 just realized that the triplet curse i tried to give harry at the live event this is from random

01:00:09.320 name again missed and hit connor instead you're welcome well i don't think there's another one

01:00:13.520 hiding behind my wife's spinal column but yes um you never know those who didn't see my twitter

01:00:17.240 announcement we've got two girls on the way so i've now got a plausible excuse to attend taylor

01:00:20.520 swift concerts oh no i'm not dropping the meme you weren't using the excuses anyway connor it's

01:00:27.240 too late for the excuses now but then if it's triplets maybe you never you never know maybe

01:00:31.680 there's a son hiding there we i i expect to get an heir eventually otherwise i'm just gonna have

01:00:36.260 to henry the ape's it um same here same here i keep telling people i am gonna get a son one way

01:00:40.920 another which is why random name cursed me to have triplet daughters next oh we're gonna have

01:00:45.100 to do i mean triplets are great but don't even try it but we're gonna we're gonna have to do

01:00:51.080 like the most girly play dates aren't we yeah actually my daughter would absolutely love it

01:00:55.860 yeah she loves little girls and she wants a little sister i keep telling her you're getting

01:01:01.460 a little brother listen you don't screw this up for me i just keep looking this i keep looking

01:01:05.940 at the lovely lawn that i've got because i spend so much time in my garden i'm going

01:01:08.360 oh that exact spot

01:01:10.000 is where my grass

01:01:10.560 is going to die

01:01:11.020 because there's going to be

01:01:11.400 a slide there

01:01:12.200 there's going to be

01:01:12.500 a trampoline there

01:01:13.400 there's going to be 1.00

01:01:13.760 yep

01:01:15.220 yep

01:01:16.020 moss grows back

01:01:17.500 the moss grows back

01:01:19.300 EC was here

01:01:20.440 the firing squad option

01:01:21.740 exists in Utah

01:01:22.560 on account of

01:01:23.400 Mormon belief

01:01:24.040 in blood redemption

01:01:25.040 which planet does he go to

01:01:26.040 after he dies

01:01:26.540 what's the one

01:01:28.860 with Xenu

01:01:29.560 from Scientologists

01:01:30.860 increasingly esoteric

01:01:34.060 Hiro San Shiban

01:01:36.740 again says

01:01:37.420 reminder that Discord

01:01:38.100 staffs themselves are furries the fbi won't subpoena them for the people who knew it was

01:01:42.780 coming and encouraged him to do it the fbi is still the enemy any such cases true scot's eye

01:01:46.980 guy never forget candace started a doxing website and it still lies about the doxing

01:01:50.480 website existing i i do forget about that sometimes uh random name if my daughter was

01:01:56.100 no never mind no never mind come on don't be mean all right and last segment if we can get that up

01:02:02.420 for us, Samson. I'll just go through this one quickly and ask the question, are we approaching

01:02:09.160 financial collapse because of the AI bubble? Because quite a few financial experts and indicators

01:02:15.080 are suggesting that while it may not be a full-on 2008 financial collapse, we are starting to look

01:02:20.940 like there is even more of an overvalued finance bubble going on around the AI sector, particularly

01:02:27.040 in San Francisco, than was thought. And when that pops, I imagine a lot of people's investments

01:02:32.300 are going to be lost and a lot of people are going to be very unhappy and some companies are

01:02:36.060 going to go under so one of the first things that i noticed when i went into the guardian of all

01:02:41.440 places was this amazing article absolutely bananas san francisco homes sell for one million dollars

01:02:48.320 above asking price amid ai boom now this is in very particular well-off areas in san francisco

01:02:54.800 that's where like um inside out was set isn't it i think it is actually you're right yeah i thought

01:03:00.500 i recognize this kind of architecture from somewhere also parts of san fiero from san

01:03:04.720 andreas classic classic game uh and presumably about i would i would expect that these sorts

01:03:11.300 of areas are far away from where the heroin hobos are going to be they're not near the tenderloin

01:03:17.020 yeah yeah i bet they're not uh so this is a new analysis from real estate brokerage compass found

01:03:22.700 that in the first half of 2026 more than 140 homes in the city sold for at least one million dollars

01:03:27.960 above their asking price, 44 of them in June alone. The figure is a huge jump from January

01:03:33.160 through July of last year, in which only eight homes sold for more than $1 million above asking

01:03:37.720 price, just six homes sold above that amount in the first six months of 2024. San Francisco's

01:03:43.740 single-family home prices have risen about 17% year over year, and this is a massive uptick from

01:03:50.400 a few years ago when it was being known for places like the Tenderloin and being known as just like 0.73

01:03:55.860 a democrat hellscape wherein heroin hobos would possibly just take a dump in front of you right 0.75

01:04:02.860 there on the street and this is why a lot of rich asians are moving in as well yes uh but the 0.66

01:04:07.920 inventory has plummeted roughly 45 percent according to compass markets intelligence

01:04:12.680 report published last month single family median home price has increased from 1.7 million dollars

01:04:18.580 to 2.2 million dollars houses are getting snapped up an average of 18 days on the market the fastest

01:04:24.960 pace in five years skyrocketing demand in this price range is absolutely bananas according to

01:04:31.100 mike simonson compass's chief economist simonson has previously explained the widespread overbidding

01:04:35.580 was of course related to the ai boom its migration and hiring as well as preparing for major ipos

01:04:42.260 because some of these massive ai tech companies that have been popping up are preparing to start

01:04:47.640 releasing their shares onto the open market soon so people are trying to get there so they can get

01:04:53.220 jobs and you know like it says prepare for these ipos that's it ai open ai and anthropic both

01:04:58.880 headquartered in san francisco have filed to go public on the u.s stock market evaluations

01:05:03.520 approaching one trillion dollars which is impressive for companies which as far as i'm

01:05:10.320 aware i've never interacted with any of their products yeah i've only ever used grok to find

01:05:15.900 my own tweets have you really this is a good search tool because the twitter search bar doesn't

01:05:20.480 work but other than that unless it's a source of i've half remembered this source can you find the

01:05:25.240 link for me or this source is included in a post on twitter but i can't find the actual link to it

01:05:29.680 can you track it down for me other than that like i'm not matt goodwin i'm not gonna use it to write

01:05:33.600 my books yeah i suppose the one time i have you the one time i have used it i wrote a load of

01:05:39.380 music at the beginning of the year uh and said uh okay i've got all of these songs if i was to

01:05:44.720 release them on an album what would like an optimal track listing for them be and it gave me a track

01:05:49.900 listing suggestion which i then listened to all of them in and went that sucks and did my own

01:05:55.280 anyway so you know that's what i use have used grok for you're the only person to call ai a poser 0.53

01:06:00.920 yeah it's kind of like nah that sucks dude uh their debuts promised to mint a new class of

01:06:06.080 multi-millionaires in san francisco which is already home to the highest concentrations of 0.88

01:06:09.860 billionaires per capita in the world a lot of this is also contingent though on the iran war

01:06:16.120 getting wrapped up yeah because energy costs are really high uh materials that are used for

01:06:21.680 ai and data centers move through the strait of all news and there is going to be a supply choke

01:06:25.940 point well data chips uh produced but a lot of them are being produced by samsung and what did

01:06:31.260 we see with samsung recently uh their shares in one of the reports that i saw had dropped 10

01:06:37.460 despite record profits and that's because obviously there's going to be infrastructural

01:06:42.580 problems like that and also people are beginning to suspect and this is when you always get the

01:06:48.200 sort of market downturns when the investors begin to suspect that we've hit peak and things might

01:06:54.900 start on the downturn because obviously all of the financial markets are a confidence game it's not

01:06:59.540 whether you have absolutely reached peak it's whether all of your investors think that you've

01:07:03.580 reached peak and if somebody calls the bluff and says well i'm gonna sell it all off now the rest

01:07:08.720 of them will all follow suit like headless chickens. And they're also anticipating two

01:07:13.340 things, which is a shortage of land or a slow growth in the development of data centers to

01:07:19.020 actually facilitate the revolution, because there's a lot of opposition, because it's very

01:07:23.260 expensive, and also a regulation arms race, because of course the UK and the European Union

01:07:28.900 are very eager to put some significant restrictions on the ability for AI-generated content. They're

01:07:35.420 trying to ban platforms like x outright um at which point you know a large data set that grok

01:07:40.660 is relying on to to um service its users will just go off the market and so unless they can

01:07:48.100 get through that legislation and that supply chain bottleneck um you're going to see that bubble

01:07:52.820 be threatened to pop much quicker well that's one of the suspicions that people have surrounding

01:07:58.000 farage with uh hardborn um that he would obviously have his crypto assets bill and also potentially

01:08:04.360 stuff with ai um and then also why people are suspicious sometimes of jd vance and his

01:08:09.840 connections to peter teal well peter teal is very supportive of reform and um there are people i'll

01:08:15.380 be careful what i say there are people in reforms orbit that would like closer cooperation with

01:08:19.100 palliative for for example um cross-departmental data sharing to ensure that things like deportations

01:08:24.260 can get off the ground or the nhs is a bit more efficient well james or is um an associate of

01:08:28.840 peter teal's isn't he and he's head of policy of reform as well so yeah you've got all of these

01:08:32.800 connections. So people are suspicious of these politicians because they think that they're only

01:08:36.440 being put in place so that big AI tech guys can make sure that the regulation isn't put in place.

01:08:42.920 I think that's certainly the case for some. I think it's also the case that they're negotiating

01:08:47.540 with their more politically aligned innovators in the sector because Tony Blair is of course

01:08:53.720 very tight with Larry Ellison and Ellison is very tight with the Trump administration. In fact,

01:08:57.420 Ellison is snapping up a massive media empire. He's also the head of Oracle and he wants to

01:09:01.400 record literally everything you do and then retroactively delete the times that you go to

01:09:04.460 the toilet from his database. So thank you, Larry. I'm very grateful for that privacy.

01:09:08.980 Yeah. So you have, you have these tech companies leaning on or having friendships with various

01:09:13.600 politicians, political parties, because they're basically competing to be the operating software

01:09:17.180 of the 21st century state. Yeah. I would imagine it is also just sort of like what, like you say,

01:09:22.180 if we get regulated, our market value tanks potentially, and then we've spent a load of

01:09:26.740 money on nothing. And also there's the hedging of your bets of if Russia and China are going to do

01:09:30.220 this. We kind of have to do this anyway to compete. Yeah. And that's where you start to get articles

01:09:34.020 like this from The Telegraph in their financial columns by Russ Mould. The warning sign that the

01:09:40.320 US equities may have finally run out of steam. There's a bit of an easier rundown of the information

01:09:44.920 in here. In a very alarmously titled article, there's an urgent side of impending market

01:09:50.860 collapse. I'll just go through some of the information here. I'll get his away from Hal.

01:09:55.180 For over a year now, sober-minded observers observed that the AI bubble can't last for

01:10:00.180 much longer. Unfortunately for everybody, it's managed to outperform doomsday forecasts.

01:10:06.360 The US economy is now in even worse shape than it was right before its infamous downturn in

01:10:10.320 the late 1920s, according to these predictions. Ross Mould noted that the overvaluation of US

01:10:19.040 stocks has passed the level that brought the stock market to its knees back in 1929 the u.s

01:10:24.420 stocks trading on the s&p 500 are now priced 41 times their average earnings over the last decade

01:10:31.140 a measure according to a measure called the schiller cape ratio named after laureate economist

01:10:36.460 robert schiller said another way investors are paying 41 dollars for every one dollar of average

01:10:42.460 annual profits the s&p 500 has generated over the past decade that's going to be brutal as well

01:10:47.700 because a lot of American pensions and also private UK pensions are contingent on stocks

01:10:53.880 performing well. AI is one of the most bullish ones at the moment as our energy and also the

01:10:58.320 property market. I mean, the boomers got a hell of a lot of equity in the US and the UK locks up 0.96

01:11:01.860 the property market. And so any economic bubble bursting and any economic depression would lead

01:11:08.340 to the property market falling through the floor. So that, and we've currently got a massive cohort

01:11:12.880 of boomers aging into retirement and also passing on. And lots of younger people, a lot fewer than

01:11:18.340 the boomers, anticipating being handed those assets to make their start in life that has been

01:11:22.980 delayed because of previous financial collapses and because of a lack of opportunities. And so

01:11:27.480 this creates almost the perfect economic storm. Like it's not very good. Yeah, because to put it

01:11:33.600 another way, again, it says $41 for every $1. What that actually means, because I love the financial

01:11:40.500 system the way that it does all of this is uh 40 of those 41 dollars is fake yeah it does it does

01:11:47.760 not exist that is money that only exists because a load of investors have bet that this one dollar

01:11:54.780 will turn into 41 dollars sometime in the future and that is all off of the back of these a lot of

01:12:01.220 these companies who are heavily investing in ai in these ai products that they are presenting

01:12:06.580 actually living up to the hype they might have over promised and under deliver well yeah because

01:12:12.420 everybody everybody needs to remember that behind all of the complexity of the 2008 market crash

01:12:18.580 what it ultimately came down to was a load of people were given mortgages they couldn't pay

01:12:23.900 for yeah they wanted to give black people equity they had no hope of paying back yes that was as

01:12:29.060 as referenced in um the thomas soul book on the city on the situation uh for reference on black

01:12:34.620 tuesday the day that kicked off the worst financial catastrophe in modern history the ratio was 32.5

01:12:40.140 which is 8.5 points lower than it stands today uh points out the justification for these

01:12:45.640 unbelievable prices relies almost on ai and they go on to say um that nearly the entire u.s financial

01:12:52.640 apparatus has swallowed the tail that the u.s is about to unlock a permanent global revolution in

01:12:57.000 productivity and profit even as the technology turns out to be and they say here with links

01:13:01.580 worthless in the vast majority of workplaces now it links to a number of articles here one of which

01:13:07.160 is included down here employees using their job super expensive ai tokens for the most hilariously

01:13:12.340 pointless tasks imaginable and this is interesting this because this actually lines up with something

01:13:17.440 that some of our own chatters have told me before when i did when i've done segments on palantir

01:13:22.600 being suspicious on the leadership particularly alex carp where a lot of people have said

01:13:28.220 listen Harry I work with Palantir's AI products and they really are nowhere near the level that

01:13:36.060 all of these CEOs are bigging them up to be because in the same way that 2008 was a load

01:13:42.400 of people who just couldn't pay their mortgages AI right now is Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel

01:13:49.300 and Larry Ellison saying my technology will literally mean that you can fire your entire

01:13:56.360 staff replace it all with ai triple productivity and then you have elon musk going and ai in 20

01:14:03.920 years from now will mean that money no longer exists and we live in star trek super abundance

01:14:08.720 when in fact the reports that i've been hearing is that ai um works well enough but it's kind of

01:14:16.060 just the tool that you use to make like 0.5 percent percentage productivity the only reason

01:14:23.940 I have a vested interest in hoping that their wildest fantasies come true is because it must

01:14:31.580 have been four years ago now, blimey, we're old. I watched a segment on a podcast called Lotus

01:14:36.500 Eaters by one Mr. Harry Robinson, who described plenty of women's jobs in admin roles in tech

01:14:43.680 sector as adult daycare. And he was correct. It is largely daycare to prevent you from having 1.00

01:14:47.620 children of your own. And if you eliminate all of those make work spreadsheet jobs, you're going

01:14:52.420 have a lot more families and a lot happier people so i i actually hope our ai overlords um put us

01:14:58.120 put us all in the kitchen frankly well there's that sunny hope for it as well but then there's

01:15:03.260 also the problem of vibe coding yeah where you can continue to bring in very very underqualified

01:15:09.480 people off of the basis of qualifications they've earned through vibe coding and the vibe coding

01:15:14.180 doesn't work properly maybe there'll be enough improvements with an ai to to eliminate those

01:15:19.740 problems but from the all the reports that i hear of people who actually work with a lot of these

01:15:24.660 tools from these huge companies is they are nowhere near what they're advertised to be so

01:15:29.100 the whole thing is a bit of a bit of a confidence game a confidence trick as you would expect from

01:15:33.960 people trying to massively boost their investments that they're getting and if it does pop

01:15:39.660 i i would imagine it would be like the dot-com bubble i don't know enough to make any kind of

01:15:46.180 like precise predictions and all of this sort of stuff i'm not some giga brain 300 iq economist or

01:15:52.640 anything but i expect as many people do that if it bursts a lot of these tertiary companies these

01:15:59.260 marginal companies who've popped up around the side are going to go under the big ones we don't

01:16:04.400 know exactly which ones but the big ones will survive and a lot of the infrastructure that

01:16:07.940 they've created will last as well but people will then go on to temper their expectations

01:16:13.400 and you'll end up in the same way that you ended up with google and amazon and there's a few after

01:16:18.480 the dot-com bubble as being the clear market leaders you'll end up with a couple of them but

01:16:22.960 a lot of people will stop still probably lose a lot of money from their investments and people

01:16:28.460 will be left um a little bit more cautious moving forward i would expect that is to be the case and

01:16:34.280 but it's interesting as well that at the moment the bank of america is uh warning that there is

01:16:39.380 about to be a snapback on the stock market because of this. The Bank of England is also saying that

01:16:46.340 there's going to be a downturn at some point probably this year. Maybe they're sick of all

01:16:51.740 the AI-generated adverts we keep seeing on Twitter of Nigel Farage covering him in goo on question

01:16:55.960 time. I would be too, to be honest. Apparently these AI tech companies are also starting to

01:17:01.680 issue their own private bonds as well as a way of trying to earn money, so they better hope they

01:17:07.960 start making some good profits off of that or else they're not going to be able to pay those

01:17:11.280 yields when they're due and then you start to see that the regulators as we mentioned earlier

01:17:16.800 are starting to look at how they're going to start regulating this because people are increasingly

01:17:21.100 using ai to make their decisions in investments and financial services which would be just like

01:17:26.900 the ultimate kind of samsara yeah of this like the snake eating its own tail uh investors investing

01:17:33.000 in AI because the AI

01:17:35.080 product told them to invest in AI

01:17:37.200 Grindset Ouroboros

01:17:38.340 genius, genius, absolute genius

01:17:41.180 so I don't know what's going to happen in the future

01:17:43.200 I do know from lots of reports

01:17:45.040 that these products are not what these

01:17:47.260 big tech bros are making them out

01:17:49.200 to be, they are not going to revolutionise

01:17:51.720 society just yet

01:17:53.020 and turn us into Star Trek society

01:17:55.100 but

01:17:56.820 I think a lot of people are going to

01:17:58.460 lose a lot of money before they figure that

01:18:01.220 one out samson do we have any video comments okay okay i'll go through these oh thank you

01:18:10.700 uh binary surfer someone should do a deep dive on palantir the more you look into it the more

01:18:15.340 it becomes obvious it is u.s security state adjacent slash sponsored that that seems

01:18:19.600 yeah that does seem true i mean well i actually have already done that video yeah they're they're

01:18:23.560 a cia cutout yeah that's what they that's literally what they started out you can find

01:18:27.900 it on their wikipedia page um i don't know if alex carp who frankly seems nuts to me

01:18:34.960 it likes to brag about it but that is literally what they are uh surfer as well regarding farage

01:18:42.320 i trust you've all seen the 300 movie obviously uh the correct take here is no prisoners no mercy

01:18:48.060 i don't know exactly what you mean by that uh unless you just mean like no prisoners no mercy

01:18:53.700 against reform um at which point i know it's it's it's difficult it's i'm i'm gonna be honest i'm

01:19:01.480 gonna take a lot of heat for this um it's it's hard not to like farage despite his weakness on

01:19:06.820 certain issues he is he is again he is a main character and he's enjoyable to watch in the

01:19:11.040 same way that trump is a main character he's enjoyable to watch but he causes us no end of

01:19:15.040 frustration yeah scott's eye guy i think local ai is the future models like quen 3.6 are where

01:19:20.980 the commercial models were about nine uh nine months ago china is probably doing it deliberately

01:19:25.740 uh random name just to remember what people call ai now is an actual ai it's just a search engine

01:19:31.520 on steroids yeah pretty much really useful for coding though it saved me lots of man hours on

01:19:36.300 my game that's great if you already know how to code properly uh but like like like you say here

01:19:41.520 you're not a vibe coder you know it's useful for for saving time but if you're just using it to do

01:19:46.520 all of the coding for you have you watched tyler olivera's content yeah i've watched some of his

01:19:50.640 right shout out he's a patriot watches my channel good guy um when he got banned from patreon for

01:19:55.180 the exact videos you thought he got banned from patreon for um he just put into a series of

01:20:00.580 i can't believe they're all on welfare yeah it's just hey you say we run the media how dare you

01:20:07.240 shut it down anyway i covered that great guy anyway he just he just punched into ai can you

01:20:13.400 just create me like a clone of patreon and it generated it for him and now he's just using it

01:20:17.520 to generate his own revenue independently.

01:20:19.420 So, you know, if Buy Me A Coffee bans me

01:20:20.860 based on the Telegraph,

01:20:21.740 I might just ask him to do that for him.

01:20:23.020 Oh yeah, fair play, fair play.

01:20:24.480 I'll sign up for it.

01:20:25.980 Ocigdor, families become a triad,

01:20:28.000 the husband, the wife, and AI overlord.

01:20:31.040 And Baystate machine learning

01:20:32.080 has been developing for decades.

01:20:33.320 All big companies have been developing it

01:20:34.680 behind the scenes.

01:20:35.200 Open AI jumped the gun

01:20:37.360 and forced all the other orgs

01:20:38.880 to release their unfinished products.

01:20:40.840 That would be hilarious

01:20:41.720 if the whole thing was just a rug pull by Open AI

01:20:44.100 so that Sam Altman could pump it

01:20:45.800 and then dump it.

01:20:47.520 liberals like to put down 1.00

01:20:51.660 Amy's entertainment on the basis that 1.00

01:20:53.600 it was all about selling plastic junk

01:20:55.560 to children unlike today's

01:20:57.580 entertainment but the fact is today's

01:20:59.400 entertainment is all about selling stuff to people

01:21:01.420 it's just that now it's all intangible

01:21:03.480 stuff like going to useless

01:21:05.300 colleges going

01:21:07.180 to get going to Burning Man

01:21:09.440 getting your nose pierced

01:21:11.200 getting tattoos doing drugs

01:21:13.080 they're still selling stuff it's just that's 0.98

01:21:15.380 even more useless and more

01:21:17.140 harmful than what they were selling in the 80s are that that archetype of protagonist with the 0.99

01:21:23.220 just the the pissed off black woman the shaved side of her head it's in everything it's in

01:21:28.600 saints row it's in this game that i've never even heard of it's uh it was in telltale batman do you 0.88

01:21:32.680 remember tiffany fox i never played i did think i saw some cut scene i think i saw some clips of

01:21:38.840 her great game terrible character like the moment i see it i'm just this isn't for me i know all of

01:21:44.740 the um creators biases that are going to be baited into this game and i know i'm gonna hate it yeah

01:21:48.880 see the thing what you talked about with experiences there is interesting because it relates to

01:21:51.920 something i've been thinking on recently this and this definitely isn't because i have been

01:21:56.500 complaining about my missus uh wanting to go out and do things every single day which inevitably

01:22:01.580 means me spending money yep unnecessary spending of money my wife is watching now i pay a mortgage

01:22:08.120 so we have a house can we stay indoors please anyway yeah i know exactly exactly right but my

01:22:12.580 i thought of something there's like the the idea that every single day should be different and you

01:22:19.520 need to do something on every single day feels to me like a very very modern sort of development

01:22:27.780 and i can't help but wonder if like the proliferation of american style 24 episodes

01:22:33.720 per season episodic tv has something to do with it by giving people a point of comparison every

01:22:39.720 episode you're watching these people do something different oh look how exciting their lives are

01:22:44.280 they can afford to do whatever they want the cast of friends they're going to the cafe every single

01:22:49.000 day and getting up into hijinks and you know the way and this doesn't apply to all of them but you 1.00

01:22:54.180 know the way that women don't exist unless you're paying attention to them yes uh part of me wonders 0.99

01:22:59.740 if it's a case of people going how is like if i'm not doing if i'm not replicating what i see on tv 1.00

01:23:06.880 is my life as real as the televisions yeah if we if we don't if we don't go on some fancy dinner i

01:23:11.820 turn into marty mcfly from the photo of back to the future yeah i just start fading away

01:23:15.500 so i i wonder about that and the whole like oh i'm gonna go to burning man man and have an

01:23:21.040 experience and find myself that feels like a development from media rory's about to like

01:23:26.240 kool-aid man through the wall and like get you in a headlock and noogie gonna be like mate i never

01:23:30.680 knew myself before i did that iowa you're on stonehenge sorry it's a really niche joke

01:23:37.100 can we play the next one yeah let's go thank you lotus eaters for being an intellectual

01:23:41.700 inspiration in a world of candace and jcq thank you lotus eaters an amazing community that makes

01:23:49.320 me think we have a lot more in common than not thank you thank you i'm not a cat person but

01:23:55.180 they look very nice those those kittens were adorable i am a cat person i'm just deathly

01:23:59.440 allergic to them so they're not they're not harry animals yeah i i'm fortunately allergic to them so

01:24:04.120 we never have to get one oh god random name you just reminded me yeah in that game dustborne they

01:24:09.480 have second singing segments where the good guys sing with the dustborne with the new porn our kind

01:24:14.680 of his newborn demonic stuff i've just remembered that because i remember the clips going around

01:24:19.900 of it i feel like the norm mcdonald bit where he goes i don't know about you this might sound harsh

01:24:24.500 but i believe everyone involved in this story should die yeah or that just sounds like some 0.95

01:24:29.060 fucking commie gobbledygook to me well that was too uh what was it sarah sarah silverman that was 0.99

01:24:34.680 yeah that was great anyway comments uh yeah some general ones my god i'm gonna watch one of these 0.99

01:24:40.700 live from taffy taffy duck feel luckier than count bin faces costume designer uh radicalized

01:24:47.140 zoomer northern monkey and southern pofta dream team i'm gonna be honest this has been one of the

01:24:52.480 most fun podcasts i've done in ages yeah it has actually i've missed it i've missed it do you

01:24:56.000 want to go through yours yeah sure uh dirty belter the face of the establishment is a bin that seems

01:25:00.240 fitting true daniel butchers given the backstabbing for political maneuvering that goes on in the tory

01:25:05.080 party i will not put it past the tory defectors to have started all this by leaking some of the

01:25:08.340 initial details knowing what would follow with the media circuses etc that is actually the opinion

01:25:12.200 that's the opinion of joker reese mog and there are some people that are concerned about that in

01:25:16.480 reform so there you go uh anglo poster if it does end up just being farage versus bin face turnouts

01:25:21.800 can be incredibly low people will see it as a joke election that paired with the fact that a lot of

01:25:25.260 constituents assume rightly Farage has it in the bag and not turning out to vote means Count

01:25:28.640 Binface has the opportunity to actually do something hilarious here. I hate him too.

01:25:31.440 I think as much as that was being discussed in the office, I don't think that's a prospect. 0.95

01:25:34.900 I'm willing to say now, I don't think there's a chance in hell that Count Binface can actually 0.92

01:25:38.140 beat Farage. If it does happen, I mean, it would be funny for about a day, but I don't think it's 0.72

01:25:44.520 going to happen. But then you'd have to put up with Count Binface in Parliament. 1.00

01:25:46.480 Yeah. I think most people are going to have the same sort of reversive reaction to him, 0.98

01:25:53.240 that many people have with the late night hosts

01:25:56.760 that do the sardonic eyebrow raise,

01:25:58.680 that sort of the John Oliver or John Stewart

01:26:00.240 attacks on Donald Trump,

01:26:02.140 where like the country's in a serious state.

01:26:04.380 It looks like you're persecuting this guy

01:26:05.720 and you're trying to make me laugh at it. 0.98

01:26:06.840 Actually, I hate you even more. 0.96

01:26:08.200 So yeah. 0.80

01:26:09.420 One more from them. 1.00

01:26:10.760 Dirty Belter.

01:26:11.480 Farage is now the victim of tactics he has used on others.

01:26:13.680 That isn't to say he's not being treated unjustly,

01:26:15.460 but the powers that be are going to smash him

01:26:17.340 and complete reform UK's transformation

01:26:18.840 to the neoconservative party.

01:26:20.360 The rats have fled the sinking ship 0.98

01:26:21.420 and are now trying to steal another ship.

01:26:22.760 I mean, most of that is correct.

01:26:25.100 And it sounds like a worry

01:26:26.600 from what you were telling me

01:26:27.420 about the inside maneuverings.

01:26:28.780 Well, the people that I've spoken to

01:26:29.840 that are sort of like senior in reform,

01:26:31.240 I did just relay saying,

01:26:32.240 look, the thing with Rupert

01:26:33.800 wasn't just dishonorable,

01:26:34.840 but you especially shouldn't have attached

01:26:36.180 moral language around deportations to it

01:26:37.900 if it really was just an interpersonal falling out.

01:26:39.900 And also you have essentially set a standard

01:26:42.000 this can be used against you.

01:26:43.260 And ultimately it will be.

01:26:44.420 And I think they realize that now.

01:26:46.360 However, that does mean that restore

01:26:48.080 should be magnanimous about this

01:26:50.120 and not try and rub it in.

01:26:51.320 because if they can point out,

01:26:53.040 well, you shouldn't have done this to me

01:26:53.880 because that's being done to you,

01:26:55.200 then you shouldn't want to turn

01:26:56.500 those vindictive standards back on them.

01:26:58.920 You should basically call time on it.

01:27:00.140 Yeah.

01:27:00.460 My main thing is just like,

01:27:02.500 don't be the party that the media want you to be.

01:27:05.100 Exactly.

01:27:06.060 Just don't do that.

01:27:07.780 Omar Awad,

01:27:09.320 I applaud you guys in stretching

01:27:10.400 upper journalistic integrity

01:27:11.540 to the absolute limits

01:27:12.540 to stay in Ofcom guidelines

01:27:13.720 by referring to Hassan Abiy as people.

01:27:16.120 It must have been a struggle.

01:27:17.200 He can go tense in Turkey 0.71

01:27:18.280 with the rest of his fellow death to Americans. 1.00

01:27:20.060 I did say use the cockroach spray. 0.98

01:27:21.320 yeah did you see that video of jackson hinkle in in tehran yes i did the best response i saw

01:27:29.700 if you can hear me the best response i saw to that was do you ever think he stops for a moment

01:27:35.340 and just thinks what have i got myself into it's the record scratch freeze frame this is me yeah

01:27:40.460 as he's chanting death to america you might be wondering how i got here yeah uh warhawk well

01:27:46.580 hassan piker is demonstrating when he does uh dances to the song celebrating the death of his

01:27:50.300 political rival is the same mindset that allowed Stalin to kill 40 million people a sheer demonic

01:27:54.240 disdain for anyone who opposes him and unquenchable uh lust for blood as long as he's not the one who

01:28:00.520 has to actually get his hands dirty because of course as we know from the Candyman incident 0.84

01:28:04.220 Hassan Piker is an absolute coward uh and I'll read one from the AI one look forward to the

01:28:10.660 popping of the AI bubble and a flood of cheap secondhand RAM SSD and Enterprise hard drive on 0.97

01:28:15.760 the market if it's cheap enough i might try and build a 200 terabyte nas i know it actually won't

01:28:21.500 be that good but one can dream i actually have to like upgrade my pc and get my graphics card

01:28:26.240 because now anytime i try and use premiere pro it comes up with an error message saying that there

01:28:29.860 will be problems with this software and i had a look at the costs and i am not remortgaging my

01:28:35.120 house for like a gtx it's just not happening yeah man i mean i don't even use computers in that say

01:28:39.880 in that same way but uh you know i got myself my steam deck at the beginning of the year managed

01:28:44.400 did pick it up for about what 350 quid have you seen the prices of them recently because of all

01:28:49.060 of this stuff the uh one they took the cheapest model off the market and now the cheapest model

01:28:55.020 that you can get is 650 pounds it's almost doubled in price to get hold of one of those things man

01:29:02.160 yeah and uh on that note uh that's all we've got time for uh so hopefully we can all see

01:29:08.740 some nice cheap tech flooding the market by the end of the year as we're all being kicked out of

01:29:14.140 our homes because we can no longer afford our mortgages. On that sunny note, see you again

01:29:18.160 very soon. Thanks for joining us, Connor. Take care.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - July 08, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1457

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