The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1458

00:00:00.140 Hello, and welcome to the podcast of The Lotus Eaters, episode 1458 for Thursday, the 9th

00:00:06.800 of July, 2026. I'm your host, Luca, joined today by Carl and Firas.

00:00:11.200 Hello. 0.99

00:00:11.900 And today we're going to be talking all about the absolute stupidity that is going to be 0.99

00:00:17.440 the Clacton by-election. 1.00

00:00:20.120 Should be fun.

00:00:20.720 Yeah, it should be. It should be very good fun for us. We're then going to be talking

00:00:23.680 about how our politics are corrupt. I mean, really corrupt. And then we're going to be

00:00:29.980 to be talking a bit about Japan as well because actually it seems that they're starting to crack

00:00:34.460 down on the foreigners so it'll be very interesting to actually see how they're dealing with it

00:00:39.540 and who knows maybe we'll take some ideas from them. Before we get into the first segment though

00:00:44.460 just want to let you know the latest episode of Chronicles is out ladies and gentlemen

00:00:48.560 and we've had some just good jolly escapism on this one dealing with a series of characters that

00:00:54.440 It's just so quintessentially British, the characters of Jeebs and Worcester created by, you know, very, very famous British author, P.G. Woodhouse.

00:01:04.700 So the entire thing is a collection of short stories.

00:01:07.340 And through it all, Woodhouse just cycles through so many of the things that are characteristic of British society, British hierarchy, British culture.

00:01:15.520 and at the center of it all you have just this character of jeebs this valet this absolute

00:01:21.440 giga chad who is just the the you know the absolute apex of competence maintaining this

00:01:27.960 hierarchy against all of the subversive elements that want to topple it and so i think that you'll

00:01:33.680 really enjoy it ladies and gentlemen i've actually recorded part two for it as well this morning so

00:01:38.300 there'll be more to come with that all said then let's talk about clacton yeah so um yeah that

00:01:45.040 would actually click oh okay so sorry right there we go there we go so the circus has come

00:01:52.800 clangton uh dan and i did one of our political chats discussing how it has led up to nigel

00:01:57.840 frange resigning as an mp so now he is just the leader of reform uk he's not even like

00:02:02.400 the bailiff of somewhere or something like this now he's not he's not anything uh and in a week

00:02:07.820 or two we'll probably get the dates of the by-election announced and there'll probably

00:02:11.160 been about six weeks until the by-election is actually fought um so if you want to know how

00:02:16.000 it's come to this go and watch that um but this is what they want it to be right Nigel Farage

00:02:23.820 looking like uh an out-of-touch fool on a stage next to a comedy candidate um and that would work

00:02:31.420 if they didn't back the comedy candidate if the comedy candidate actually wasn't one of their guys 0.82

00:02:38.400 it turns out he is one of their guys and turns out they are backing him and so actually the judo

00:02:44.780 flip they thought they'd done on farage isn't going to work no they couldn't resist now just

00:02:51.140 to be clear most people think it's actually a good idea to boycott this because this was called

00:02:56.420 for farage to defend himself against allegations in a parliamentary investigation by the standards

00:03:01.460 commission uh into scrutiny over donations a five million pound donation made him that was within

00:03:06.920 12 months of him standing for an MP uh standing to be an MP in Clacton um I don't actually think

00:03:12.540 that Nigel Farage did anything particularly malicious here actually because it wasn't clear

00:03:16.040 that he was going to stand as an MP in Clacton that seems to have been a fairly spur of the

00:03:19.420 moment decision and he claims to have had legal advice whether he's right or wrong in it I don't

00:03:23.140 know I'm not a lawyer I don't know the standards procedures blah blah blah but the point is this

00:03:27.680 this all seems a bit trivial to me but it seems that Farage probably pulled the trigger a bit too

00:03:31.940 quickly this would only have kicked the can down the road so even if he had like won this there's

00:03:36.560 still going to be the the investigation is just paused while he's not an mp it continues if he

00:03:41.440 becomes an mp again so also as well you know in this case it's this particular thing that the

00:03:47.900 standards committee are focusing on but if it wasn't this thing it would have just been another

00:03:51.900 thing and another thing until they got him yeah and as as we said in the political chat um the

00:03:57.580 media is just basically weaponizing the sort of third of the population who are um economic

00:04:03.180 grievance mongers the sort of gary's economics audience yeah and at the end of the day frosk

00:04:07.120 is trying to say don't care not my problem you know it's this particular thing that they've

00:04:11.840 has been wheedling away at him and it's been diminishing him you can feel the diminishment

00:04:17.040 and he's lost his uh swashbuckling edge and he's been getting angry at the media and he's been

00:04:22.040 losing his temper and so they they've scented blood in the water and they've been going after

00:04:26.760 what they've got i don't agree with that i think it's terrible actually but anyway uh so about

00:04:32.120 37% of people think that everyone, yeah, you're right to boycott,

00:04:36.440 but 25% of people think no.

00:04:38.300 38% of people don't know or don't care.

00:04:40.960 So this isn't exactly a slam dunk either way for anyone

00:04:45.100 because I think Faraz was expecting it to just be a slam dunk

00:04:47.920 and on the expectation, oh, well, it's an election.

00:04:51.540 You will come and contest it.

00:04:53.000 Well, Restore chose not to contest it

00:04:54.920 and everyone else followed our lead on that.

00:04:57.540 And so actually it's kind of, in a way,

00:04:59.560 it kind of has left Nigel in this position

00:05:01.660 um but again this requires them not to endorse the bin candidate which they are so anyway uh

00:05:10.040 so here's uh an article uh from a chap who uh alleges the christian calgi uh senior correspondent

00:05:19.140 political correspondent for the daily mail uh says speaking to the daily mail from one of his

00:05:23.480 favorite pubs in essex in clangton um basically uh faraj now has to take this seriously well

00:05:30.220 really he's the only one who has to take this seriously the rest of us who have no dog in this

00:05:34.660 fight um we can just laugh at the circus from the audience as you would expect this to have to be 0.61

00:05:42.120 um asked if he's bracing for the hustings and his count bim face uh he said no it'd be silly

00:05:48.060 um i'm not going to do that but i'm asking for an endorsement of me as a person and our agenda for

00:05:53.220 change okay well obviously but that doesn't change the fact that the parliamentary standards

00:05:58.800 committee may find you guilty for not having declared this five million pound donation um

00:06:03.260 uh and so asked if he considered the possibility of fighting as the only proper candidate

00:06:09.400 farash said no of course not why would they not contest an election it's a real election it's like

00:06:14.880 well that's the point you thought you were sort of you know pulling a trap card on them or whatever

00:06:20.880 i can't remember pokemon or whatever it is you thought you were being clever and well actually

00:06:25.880 they don't have to comply with you and so now you're kind of left at the center of a mistake

00:06:32.860 of your own making and now you're like left contesting with count binface um and so he he

00:06:40.780 argues that well what what they're doing is showing contempt for the electorate in clacton

00:06:44.500 because you know these are these are real people this is a real election and it's like yeah but if

00:06:48.700 you have to say this it probably isn't though right nobody is you know anyone who has to declare

00:06:53.100 that I am the king is not really the king.

00:06:55.500 And Farage being like, this is a real election.

00:06:58.700 It's like, no, it's not.

00:06:59.580 Then where are the other candidates from the official parties?

00:07:02.660 Exactly.

00:07:03.140 This didn't have to be called.

00:07:04.920 You called it as a method of protecting yourself. 0.99

00:07:08.120 So it's actually not for the people of Clacton,

00:07:10.380 because you're obviously arguing,

00:07:11.620 you should elect me to be the MP of Clacton.

00:07:13.400 Well, you already were the MP of Clacton.

00:07:14.900 So there's no argument that he can really make here.

00:07:18.600 So he's kind of stuck his foot in it.

00:07:20.740 But it's not just Nigel Farage

00:07:22.100 who's taking this seriously obviously um it's his surrogates like rahim kassam who's uh attacking 0.99

00:07:27.520 count bimface which i think if if you're attacking the joke candidate you're also missing the point

00:07:32.940 of the joke candidate uh and they're also rerouting their activists from the manchester mayoral 0.86

00:07:38.940 election down to clacton now to make sure nigel farage's rear end is pulled out of the fire

00:07:44.360 any thoughts so far gentlemen well i mean the first thing first thing that i just say is that

00:07:50.040 When I originally watched Farage's actual address,

00:07:53.300 where he said that he was going to do this,

00:07:55.080 I thought it was a very impressive display, to be honest with you.

00:07:57.680 I thought he came across forthright.

00:07:59.760 The emotion was clearly genuine.

00:08:02.440 And irrespective of any wrongdoings that he's actually done financially,

00:08:07.240 I did think that the way that they came after his family

00:08:10.300 and hounded them was absolutely disgusting.

00:08:13.400 And again, just not a standard that they would ever give

00:08:17.240 give to those who are fully of the establishment uh at the same time i have to say i was quite

00:08:23.700 blindsided by the reaction to it i didn't expect the riposte and so i can't really blame farage

00:08:30.500 for not seeing it after all when is this exact circumstance ever actually converged before i

00:08:38.700 can't ever recall the time in my memory when the major parties were so well no we're not going to

00:08:42.660 do it out of contempt for the person who called it yeah i've not seen that happen i mean like it

00:08:47.880 didn't happen in makerfield did it no so far i was obviously looking at right okay so if the guy

00:08:51.400 resigns and calls by election then the political circus gets around it everyone competes and i can

00:08:55.240 definitely win in clangton yeah so why don't i follow that same playbook and again like you say

00:09:00.980 it actually on the on the face of it it looks like a very savvy idea um unfortunately i guess uh

00:09:06.460 politics are very complex the wind out of his sails completely with this whole thing how sorry

00:09:10.880 gone for us. I mean, and they're backing literally a bin, but Farage has a lot of ways of countering

00:09:18.460 it. He could say, well, this proves that the uniparty is a uniparty. And he can say that

00:09:24.440 instead of these guys contesting the issues, the rape of Britain, the demographic replacement, 0.99

00:09:30.260 et cetera, et cetera, they are sending in a bin guy to pretend to be serious. So he has certain 0.99

00:09:37.440 responses to this that he could come up with, but they would require him to tack harder to the right

00:09:43.260 and genuinely break with them when part of the reason that he's angry is that they aren't

00:09:49.680 recognizing him as one of them, which is the same dynamic with Trump. Trump, at the end, ended up

00:09:55.660 becoming completely diluted when he was accepted. And since Farage wants the same kind of acceptance,

00:10:01.980 you should be wary of what that acceptance actually implies agreed why you would want

00:10:07.840 that acceptance after everything they've done to you is still beyond me he's he's a man of the

00:10:12.820 system that's the thing he's always been a man of the system and he doesn't want to stop being

00:10:16.660 a man of the system that's why he's out bragged that he was a man of the system by having crushed

00:10:20.360 the bnp and so on and so forth and that's why he's outraged that the system is responding this

00:10:24.060 way it's like no i'm here to save you don't you understand what i'm trying to do for you

00:10:28.200 is what his pitch essentially is.

00:10:30.920 Anyway, so the reaction to this from the powers that be hasn't been brilliant.

00:10:36.260 I mean, you've got, like, Times Radio.

00:10:38.520 The Farage dream is over.

00:10:40.300 The more messianic they are, the bigger the fall.

00:10:42.580 It's over for a Nigel Farage. 0.66

00:10:44.520 Just to be clear, right, Count Binface is not going to beat Nigel Farage.

00:10:48.320 I mean, at least I don't think Count Binface is going to beat Nigel Farage.

00:10:52.420 Now, the thing is, right, there is a non-zero chance that it could happen. 0.98

00:10:58.200 And as we'll get into in a bit, it has happened in the past.

00:11:01.180 Like, comedy candidates have won elections.

00:11:03.260 So it's not that it couldn't happen,

00:11:06.400 but it would be very embarrassing for everyone involved if it did.

00:11:09.940 And it would take a great deal of organisation and coordination

00:11:12.560 on the parts of all the parties involved.

00:11:14.780 Yeah, there is the potential that the British public in Clacton are like,

00:11:17.980 yeah, I'll vote for Boaty McBoatface, right?

00:11:19.840 There's the potential for that.

00:11:20.900 But Clacton is actually known well as a kind of outrider constituency.

00:11:26.140 they voted the only ukip mp in in douglas carswell remember back in like 2014 or whatever it was

00:11:31.640 um they voted specifically for reform in 2024 when it was again the polling was just going up

00:11:38.620 on its own organically but the people of clacton like no no we want to push back against what's

00:11:42.720 happening in this country so i don't think that they're going to it's not like you're gonna get 0.66

00:11:47.320 a bunch of bloody people from brighton there no voting well there are a lot of families from what

00:11:51.220 i understand in clacton who are exiles from wunden exactly so they've experienced it firsthand you 0.97

00:11:56.560 know it'll come to them if it's not sorted exactly so if this was in bristol or in brighton or just

00:12:02.960 somewhere lib dem voting i could quite see count binface getting that kind of we hate nigel farage

00:12:09.420 block and sufficiently outpacing farage in his own votes but because it's in clacton i just don't

00:12:16.120 think that's going to happen right so i mean and hey you know if after the by-election i'm wrong

00:12:21.260 then hey i'm wrong who knew right but i don't think this is the end of nigel farage i think

00:12:25.760 that comes later but then they you know oh andy burnham well farage is going to be spending a

00:12:31.000 summer arguing with a bin okay but it's a bin that you've endorsed as we're going to get onto

00:12:35.940 your bin yeah it's literally you but it's not just your bin it's literally your avatar in the

00:12:41.740 discussion and so it's just okay and it is a perfect avatar for you i mean if i wanted to

00:12:48.980 represent the british political establishment i i would probably use a bin yes i mean here is

00:12:53.620 andy burnham being deferential to count bin face in the makefield by-election and he posted this

00:12:59.160 just the other day saying always worth knowing when bin day is as in no i accept you are our

00:13:04.500 avatar our warrior in the fight against nigel farage yeah he concedes that that's what he is

00:13:11.020 and so it's like okay well you've put yourself into bin face as a symbol of you and your system

00:13:17.560 yes yes and it okay so complaining they do one clever thing yeah exactly and they immediately 0.67

00:13:23.820 tear it all exactly they're actually stepping into the only trap left open to them that frage can lay

00:13:29.700 which is him actually being a symbol of the system a nudge for us to see they all support this guy 0.95

00:13:35.580 because they think you're clowns this is their response i i will say as well that look 0.52

00:13:40.920 i i enjoy the memes as much as the next man right i've had a good few days on the internet however 0.90

00:13:46.860 at risk of being a killjoy i do think there is something somewhat sick about the when especially

00:13:53.900 when we cover all of the horror stories that are happening in britain all of the time now and yet

00:13:59.620 someone thinks uh it's just business as usual and we have time for these sorts of like comedy side

00:14:06.100 bits shenanigans it's like i'm sorry it as we come into a more serious more violent more

00:14:12.140 temperamental society this bin face sort of stuff begins to look more and more tone deaf

00:14:18.540 yeah and so the the fact that they are all in in open or tacit endorsement of this 0.98

00:14:27.500 allows for us to still position himself as an anti-establishment character even though

00:14:32.220 technically is the establishment in clacton and if they just laughed about all of this the bing

00:14:38.540 guy would just be a bing guy but they haven't um and so you've got like this um sort of reaction

00:14:44.400 from the media the world's watch like a minute or so of bbc news night interviewing camp bin face

00:14:49.800 what are you doing just sort of to pause here bbc news night used to be the political show

00:14:56.100 in britain the show like when i was young it was very boring stuffy men interviewing other very

00:15:03.620 boring stuffy men on insanely boring policies and tax policies and all this sort of stuff

00:15:08.540 i would never watch it because i was a kid but it was it it had substance yes it was boring because

00:15:15.880 it was let's was full of substance and technical detail so on pause on that bin face joins us in

00:15:22.140 the studio hello bin oh it's count actually but it's lovely to meet you paddy the wonderful panel

00:15:29.000 news night listeners i've come down to earth specially to be on news night and because there

00:15:34.540 are no world cup games on so i was at a loose end well now look here's the thing we know that

00:15:39.720 the monster raving loony party are running as well so do you think it's time for a loony bin

00:15:45.540 Well, look, the fact is, if the Looney's and Farage want to fight amongst themselves for the novelty vote...

00:15:52.540 No, I'm talking about you and the Monster Alien...

00:15:54.540 I know you are. I'm making a separate point.

00:15:56.540 Well, why don't you do a pact?

00:15:58.540 No, I don't need a pact with anybody. I'm quite happy, thank you.

00:16:01.540 Here, here. Well, hang on a minute, because why don't we...

00:16:04.540 And indeed the SNP. It's very kind of you.

00:16:06.540 I mean, these are serious times.

00:16:08.540 Bye-bye.

00:16:09.540 Why don't you bin off the bin on Newsnight now?

00:16:12.540 We know that your name is John, and we know, really, a lot about you.

00:16:17.540 Isn't this time, for serious times, to bin off the bin?

00:16:21.540 Oh, here we go. I mean, has anyone here seen Return of the Jedi?

00:16:24.540 Nobody wants to know what's underneath a recyclon.

00:16:27.540 It's disgusting. It's absolutely putrefying.

00:16:30.540 No, no, if you want to be serious with me, I'll tell you. 1.00

00:16:33.540 You want to talk to Count Binface and then you get me on Newsnight 0.99

00:16:36.540 and you start trying to deconstruct a character,

00:16:39.540 i would say what are we doing here on a program which used to construct proper investigative

00:16:44.480 journalism and now is a a souped up podcast paddy great point by count bimface yes because they're

00:16:51.900 trying to take him seriously why are you trying to deconstruct what is obviously a parody character

00:16:55.860 yeah you're a souped up podcast just like us like we're a souped up podcast isn't it time you got 0.64

00:17:01.920 serious you invited me on exactly so what did you invite me on like it's like it makes clowns of

00:17:09.740 everyone involved if they even try to take this seriously and they are and so it's just like

00:17:15.380 what are we doing here to be fair to be fair to count bin face is a braver man than i because

00:17:20.620 there's no way i'd be you know campaigning for six weeks at the height of summer wearing a bin

00:17:26.000 well yeah seaside a costume can't be comfortable andrew mar fell into basically the same trap

00:17:31.640 has funded himself or been funded.

00:17:35.040 Can I therefore ask a serious question? 0.89

00:17:36.920 Who funds Count Binface? 0.97

00:17:39.320 Good question. 0.95

00:17:40.760 Well, Count Binface principally. 0.99

00:17:42.860 I got me old space piggy bank.

00:17:45.180 It's quite, I have to say, you know,

00:17:46.740 I don't want to do a pen and teller here

00:17:49.880 and lift the lid on the election process,

00:17:52.660 but to be an MP,

00:17:54.780 it's actually remarkably affordable.

00:17:56.800 500 quid to stand for an election.

00:17:59.820 That's a bargain.

00:18:00.760 Do you know how much it is to stand for London Mayor?

00:18:03.920 I have absolutely no idea.

00:18:06.660 Ten grand.

00:18:08.020 Ten grand.

00:18:08.960 That's a third pound.

00:18:10.100 That rules me out.

00:18:11.740 But for those ones, I have to crowdfund.

00:18:14.300 And, you know, humans, they drop me the price of three affordable croissants,

00:18:18.760 three pounds, or whatever they can muster.

00:18:21.660 And that's very kind of them.

00:18:22.960 But, you know, I'm not looking for your crypto.

00:18:25.680 I'll let you into a secret, Andrew.

00:18:27.340 I actually did get an email from somebody asking if I wanted to get involved in crypto.

00:18:32.580 I thought, aha, that's what this is all about.

00:18:35.100 I'm not falling for that one.

00:18:37.520 This could be quite a tight race.

00:18:42.220 Could it, Andrew? 1.00

00:18:44.720 Let me ask you a serious question, Mr. Binface.

00:18:48.000 Why are you asking Count Binface serious questions, Andrew Marr? 0.61

00:18:52.600 Well, they can't help themselves. 0.94

00:18:53.740 they they please give us the farage of their imagination literally though they're like okay

00:19:00.960 you are our warrior our champion yes we've designated to fight the eat the big villain

00:19:07.840 when he says this is going to be a tight race what he's saying is we are going to throw

00:19:12.360 everything behind you exactly is what he's saying i i said this in the chat with dan

00:19:16.200 they're going to make him a national celebrity yeah and they're going to make themselves look 0.92

00:19:20.120 stupid doing it uh and don't think it's just these oh no the new statesman britain must unite behind 0.98

00:19:27.000 count bimface do you want to hear the incredible argument out of this count bimface belongs to a 1.00

00:19:32.320 proud british tradition of candidates who exist solely to allow the electorate to express how 0.91

00:19:36.720 inadequate they feel the other options are oh now the new statesmen care about traditions do they

00:19:41.080 exactly and it's not a tradition if it started after the 60s like whatever started after the 0.97

00:19:46.460 1960s you can't call that a tradition but okay that's fine this was a moment of idiocy and now 0.97

00:19:53.720 you're pretending that that moment of idiocy is tradition yeah if it started after the 60s it's 0.99

00:19:58.420 not a fucking tradition but let's let's take what he said what will done the business editor of the 0.99

00:20:03.240 new statesman has said here okay so you guys refuse to stand right the establishment refuses 0.97

00:20:08.360 to stand and will done is saying yeah so what you can do is you can vote for count bin face if you

00:20:12.880 don't like nigel farage or you can vote for nigel farage count binface is now the establishment

00:20:18.120 proxy and nigel farage has from will's own statement here been made the counterculture 1.00

00:20:24.960 insurgent figure again you guys are thick you are thick you are moronic you don't understand that 0.99

00:20:32.400 you will you all you had to do is just let count binface so count binface um how how many light 1.00

00:20:39.100 years did you have to travel to get here and how exactly do we nationalize adele you know that

00:20:44.420 that's what you should have been asking don't ask him how he's funded don't say oh no he's part of 1.00

00:20:48.820 a long british tradition of where you can stick it to nigel farage on our behalf you you morons 0.98

00:20:54.700 like you now own count bin face right you own him right and so he ends this right he ends this i 0.98

00:21:03.220 mean look i'm gonna read out a few more this is a tradition that predates our democracy by at least

00:21:07.620 nine centuries so in your face for us right does it really it's the jest yeah yeah because it's the

00:21:12.200 court jester he's saying this is the tradition of right um count binface is not just a novelty 0.51

00:21:18.580 candidate he occupies an important political role a role that can only be fulfilled by putting a bin 0.91

00:21:23.720 on his head yes as the entire establishment right a court without fools is a dangerous place count

00:21:29.260 binface has a job here to do show the political class the entire establishment that anyone who 0.77

00:21:33.740 considers themselves above the rules can be taken down by a man with a bin on his head

00:21:37.260 So he is literally the tool of the establishment to take out Nigel Farage because of his attempt to get out of scrutiny.

00:21:45.680 Just to be clear, the left absolutely loves the new statement.

00:21:48.880 Oh, absolutely. It's that paper of choice.

00:21:51.660 Yeah, exactly. So this isn't, you know, some far extreme publication.

00:22:00.260 No, no, yeah.

00:22:01.100 It's not like Jacobin or something.

00:22:03.640 Yeah, exactly. It's as much theirs as The Guardian.

00:22:05.880 oh yeah yeah exactly this is the credible version of the guardian right right and so okay you've

00:22:11.880 literally said no he's our guy against Nigel Farage so we have a job to unite behind Count 0.99

00:22:16.200 Binface you are moronic actual morons right and so yeah you have and but they all felt it right 0.99

00:22:21.720 they all felt the pull which is why before that was published Burnham was like yeah yeah no I 1.00

00:22:25.900 deferred to Count Binface look at me being deferential to Count Binface the Lib Dems

00:22:30.020 we're keeping a seat warm for you count bin face bring it home like what are you doing it's meant

00:22:35.860 to be a comedy here's the snp mp saying vote count bin face like you understand that you are now

00:22:43.640 saying he's our man he represents the moral structures of the current reigning establishment

00:22:49.920 and all we're doing is now pouring scorn on the voters of clacton because we refuse to engage

00:22:55.880 if you actually believe in the morality and the things that count bin face stands for

00:22:59.940 against nigel farage which is what you're saying when you say vote for him you should have been 1.00

00:23:04.060 fielding your own candidates yes you guys are morons you've like you've actually managed to 1.00

00:23:08.940 like allow nigel farage to get out of the trap that he put himself in because you hate him so 1.00

00:23:14.320 much it's genuinely embarrassing um count bin faces the perfect clap back says the independent

00:23:20.200 no no well if the independent is saying it then the opposite must be true comedy character

00:23:26.580 you wouldn't fight a bin you wouldn't field a bin would you you are fielding a bin like he's

00:23:33.820 your candidate you've said oh yeah he's our guy nhs advocacy group this has got like you know

00:23:39.100 780 000 and followers something like 730 000 followers this is an nh a massive nhs have

00:23:45.700 group no vote for count bimface like if you thought count bimface was actually going to

00:23:50.920 say something edgy and funny you would never come out and say vote for captain face right also are

00:23:57.220 they actually serious about wanting to make this man an mp not only over nigel froth yes yes but

00:24:03.020 not only is he like you know the comedy character that just turns up to all the elections usually

00:24:09.300 to face the leaders you know but it's the fact that he does that because he knows he's never

00:24:13.560 actually going to have to do the job and you're now here being like oh yeah but he'd be better

00:24:17.680 at this job yes complete contempt i mean don't get wrong it would be an improvement on a number

00:24:23.480 of mps that i could think of oh definitely on the entire labor front bench but yes i mean

00:24:28.660 definitely smarter than david lammy definitely uh more honest than tulip sadiq definitely

00:24:34.260 you know you could go down a list of people who count bin face would be superior to yeah uh

00:24:42.760 and now he's their avatar sure uh and so you've got um just people on you know our sort of non's

00:24:49.980 online being like in the last two days the msm have given more air time to a man dressed a bid

00:24:53.880 making a mockery of our democracy than it has in the last year to rupert low restore britain

00:24:57.600 rape gang inquiry yes and he's exactly right and that's that's the point these people are such

00:25:03.060 contempt for the people of clankton they were like no no no if we can gin up enough support

00:25:07.800 for the public to defeat Nigel Farage

00:25:09.940 with a guy with a bin on his head,

00:25:11.580 then it's a sacrifice we're willing to make, right?

00:25:17.060 And it's like, look, sorry,

00:25:18.160 I don't like Nigel Farage.

00:25:19.260 I'm sure he's not been a good MP for Clacton.

00:25:21.580 I don't hate Nigel Farage,

00:25:22.920 but like, I don't support Nigel Farage.

00:25:24.760 I'm sure he hasn't been a good MP, 0.78

00:25:26.200 but you guys are genuinely taking the piss at this point. 0.68

00:25:29.200 Yeah.

00:25:29.540 And it's-

00:25:30.280 Out of the people of Clacton, not of Nigel Farage.

00:25:32.240 Exactly, yeah.

00:25:32.840 And out of the British public in general.

00:25:34.600 If you want to contend against Nigel Farage,

00:25:36.900 make the case against him yeah whereas we're gonna let a bin run and back it yes explicitly

00:25:45.280 tell you to vote for as opposed to leave it be and let let it be an embarrassment completely

00:25:51.240 different story exactly if if you know like occasionally count binface may have had a viral

00:25:55.900 video going around because he went to clacton and did something funny you go haha well that was funny

00:26:01.860 anyway moving on you know news night is going to move on to serious matters yes you know no no no

00:26:06.480 know you you got the comedy character in and then you lectured him for covering up his face 0.97

00:26:10.300 like you are moronic uh anyway so this is count bin face he's a guy called jonathan harvey he's 0.98

00:26:18.460 basically uh the the modern well he's just an embodiment of like the led by donkeys mentality 1.00

00:26:24.120 yeah he's like the cock womble comedian establishment to the core would never

00:26:29.160 interrogate a single thing oh 100 100 i mean he's got a wikipedia page um and he's been doing this

00:26:36.220 for a long time in 2017 he stood as a novelty candidate lord buckethead and but there was

00:26:41.300 another guy who played lord buckethead and he asserted his ownership of the character so harvey

00:26:45.960 created camp in face and stood in the 2019 general election uh the best he's done so far is the london

00:26:50.560 mayor election was nearly 25 000 votes that was 10 grand well spent and better than said he can

00:26:56.240 yeah like well yeah yeah yeah all right just have some standards here yeah but he's he's exactly

00:27:02.780 as you say

00:27:03.960 regime comedian

00:27:05.480 right

00:27:05.980 he's been

00:27:06.420 literally

00:27:07.120 he's written for

00:27:08.600 Have I Got News For You

00:27:09.840 and

00:27:10.340 Last Week Tonight

00:27:11.700 with John Oliver

00:27:12.320 right

00:27:13.120 yeah

00:27:14.340 exactly

00:27:15.380 oh god

00:27:16.460 he is that sort of

00:27:17.960 2000s

00:27:19.020 James Felton

00:27:20.200 like cockwomble humour

00:27:21.760 yeah

00:27:22.120 embodied

00:27:22.780 and it's like

00:27:23.380 and the thing is

00:27:23.920 I don't even think

00:27:24.640 he's necessarily doing a bad job 1.00

00:27:25.900 as his Count Bimface character either 1.00

00:27:27.760 when he's dealing with them 1.00

00:27:29.000 he's actually not doing a bad job

00:27:30.360 no I give him that

00:27:30.960 so yeah

00:27:31.880 credit

00:27:32.180 He's not doing badly.

00:27:33.320 They are.

00:27:33.760 Yeah, they're doing badly.

00:27:35.740 He's not the kind of comedian that I would go and watch or anything. 1.00

00:27:39.760 Obviously, I despise his libtard politics. 1.00

00:27:42.740 But he's making them look stupid, but he's one of theirs. 1.00

00:27:46.300 If this was some sort of right-wing outrider comedian, 1.00

00:27:48.880 like Sam Hyde or something, making them look stupid, 1.00

00:27:51.340 it'd be like, okay. 1.00

00:27:52.180 But the reason that he's been brought into the fold,

00:27:53.740 the reason he's been put on television,

00:27:55.140 he's been on Andrew Mara and on BBC News,

00:27:56.680 is because they know he's one of theirs.

00:27:58.820 He's safe.

00:27:59.340 He's completely safe.

00:28:00.140 All of his opinions are regime approved.

00:28:01.680 exactly he's never gonna have an opinion about israel you know what i mean uh so the question

00:28:07.920 i guess then comes well is it gonna happen well it's happened before actually so this is uh hangus

00:28:13.860 the monkey who is a a football mascot who won the mayor of hartlepool in 2002 and the rock and roll

00:28:21.140 loony party won the mayor of queenborough in 2002 um but these were much more innocent times

00:28:28.120 where there were far fewer actual problems.

00:28:30.980 But as you said, Farage, Farage, sorry, Farage, Farage.

00:28:35.940 That's insulting.

00:28:36.660 I've told you.

00:28:37.360 Farage does need to come out basically hard and say,

00:28:39.400 no, look at all the terrible things that this country's,

00:28:41.480 that's happening in this country.

00:28:42.820 He would have to tag hard to the right

00:28:44.040 to basically overcome this narrative.

00:28:45.460 And I don't think he's going to.

00:28:46.940 Anyway, other people who are standing,

00:28:48.860 just if you're wondering, Piers Corbyn,

00:28:52.080 Jeremy Corbyn's brother.

00:28:52.900 Oh, I forgot Lawrence Fox is standing.

00:28:54.620 I thought that was a bad idea.

00:28:56.180 just let them play amongst themselves uh a chap called henry west whose a single issue is france

00:29:02.740 uh the fact that it still exists yeah well um which does keep me up at night to be honest exactly

00:29:08.160 like they didn't endorse this kind of joke candidate right because henry west is like you 0.51

00:29:12.160 know he's a youtuber a gamer he's a shit lord right he's having some fun great they didn't 0.88

00:29:17.460 endorse this character they didn't get him on news night yes and they've got cam bim face on 0.83

00:29:20.780 news night right so the question is who on the right are we going to support and i don't want

00:29:25.220 I'll support a joke character, obviously,

00:29:27.720 because I just don't think we're in time for that.

00:29:29.580 So there's a young lad called Kai Stevens

00:29:31.660 who's running for the British Democrats.

00:29:33.200 I don't know who these people are,

00:29:34.500 but he's a right-winger.

00:29:36.240 He's part of the online right.

00:29:38.000 And I would rather someone like that be given a platform

00:29:41.700 and be able to make the arguments

00:29:43.860 from the actual right against Nigel Farage

00:29:45.880 because Farage is always weak

00:29:47.340 when he's getting arguments from the right.

00:29:49.440 And this definitely drags Farage into a place

00:29:51.820 that he's not comfortable with.

00:29:52.580 So good luck, Kai.

00:29:55.220 kyle please invite count binface on the show i don't want no no no i don't want him here

00:30:05.260 like again where where is count binface appropriate well apparently on bbc news night

00:30:10.520 a souped up podcast that is apparently our inferior because we have standards so uh the

00:30:16.480 bbc should put forward the stig um uh then sarah on the deceiver offered farish five million pounds

00:30:21.640 and donations,

00:30:22.480 bladed by his greed.

00:30:23.180 He took the money

00:30:23.580 without question.

00:30:24.200 Yeah, I know, 1.00

00:30:24.660 stupid on Farage's part. 1.00

00:30:26.120 He should have just declared it. 1.00

00:30:27.700 The banality of British politics

00:30:29.340 is interesting.

00:30:30.040 Five million pounds,

00:30:30.740 American politicians

00:30:31.480 were probably confused by that.

00:30:33.060 Exactly.

00:30:33.440 It's so trivial as well.

00:30:35.360 Just the amount of money

00:30:36.800 that AIPAC pours

00:30:37.740 into the pockets of politicians.

00:30:39.680 And that's a fraction

00:30:40.980 of the money they take.

00:30:42.920 It's very strange as well.

00:30:44.460 I don't pretend to be an expert

00:30:45.780 on parliamentary procedure

00:30:47.300 or anything of the sort,

00:30:48.280 but the fact that he was

00:30:49.300 legally advised

00:30:50.420 that he didn't have to announce it is it's like well even if even if you think that is the case

00:30:57.480 this is not just any client this is nigel farage this is a man that you have to constantly cross

00:31:02.460 every t and dot every i on because they're going to be looking for this sort of stuff so it all

00:31:07.180 feels very strange does it suggest that he doesn't expect to be hated that much by the establishment

00:31:11.960 good question

00:31:15.080 innocence is not for these times anyway let's let's move on all right um so speaking about

00:31:24.540 corruption and things that weren't declared and things of that nature uh there is obviously a

00:31:30.260 campaign against reform reform is claiming that the leaks of the details of richard tice's account

00:31:35.920 who's been accused of taking a half-million-pound donation that he didn't donate,

00:31:41.680 and of Nigel Farage's accounts happened from the National Crime Agency,

00:31:47.300 which I would say is incredibly serious because there are only two sources possible for that information,

00:31:54.120 either their banks or the National Crime Agency.

00:31:58.380 And the National Crime Agency, as an independent body that isn't supposed to be political,

00:32:02.040 getting involved in this way and leaking things

00:32:05.080 does reflect an insane amount of corruption.

00:32:08.240 But this is what the system wants

00:32:10.280 and the system is continuing with this campaign.

00:32:12.760 And now it's been revealed that the police

00:32:15.720 are investigating a donation

00:32:18.700 that was given to Robert Jenrick in 2024

00:32:22.200 when he was running for the leadership of the Tory party.

00:32:25.840 It didn't investigate him then when he was a Tory, did you?

00:32:28.360 Nope, nope.

00:32:29.760 But now the Metropolitan Police is investigating

00:32:32.020 him uh apparently the electoral commission had been investigating these allegations god knows

00:32:38.660 for how long and now the investigation was moved to the metropolitan police well they've been doing

00:32:44.020 with james mcmurdoch for over a year now right like i think they kick their heels and you know

00:32:49.760 do it really slowly on purpose yes process the process is a punishment so that they can leak

00:32:56.140 information whenever they want to when it is politically convenient this is obvious and it's

00:33:00.860 transparent. And the issue with Robert Jenrick seems to be that there was a £100,000 donation

00:33:09.760 given to Jenrick by, I believe, a gentleman called Philip Ullman. And it turns out that

00:33:19.660 £37,500 of that was in fact given by another businessman, Gary Klopfenstein, who is based

00:33:29.780 in the United States.

00:33:31.260 Yes, they both are, moving on.

00:33:35.240 And it seems that the two gentlemen

00:33:37.420 got into some kind of dispute with each other,

00:33:39.820 some legal dispute,

00:33:41.140 and then Ullman said that actually

00:33:43.440 that chunk of the money came from someone else.

00:33:47.140 And therefore, it is a foreign donation, apparently,

00:33:50.300 and this is what Jenrick is being investigated for.

00:33:53.780 And just to give you a quick note

00:33:55.680 on who Ullman is, who gave that money,

00:33:57.720 He wrote an article in The Telegraph in 2024 attacking immigration in Britain,

00:34:03.420 while also saying that his whole company was predicated on supplying an insane amount of cheap foreign labour to British businesses.

00:34:12.880 I'm against immigration, so I'm going to give generic money?

00:34:15.680 Are you sure he's the guy? 1.00

00:34:19.080 The immigration minister during the Boris wave and the guy who smuggled in on the Afghans? 1.00

00:34:22.860 Yeah, there's always more Afghans. 1.00

00:34:24.880 What can I say? 1.00

00:34:25.880 Yeah.

00:34:26.360 What can I say?

00:34:27.000 But this is the case that Ullman makes in The Telegraph, in which he gives details about how some of his employees would share a bed, one using a bed during the day and a second at night, and living off as little as a packet of biscuits a day.

00:34:39.560 So he ran this kind of modern slavery business for years and years and years, made an insane amount of money, and now he's making donations to clear his case.

00:34:49.740 Actually, I'm based and I'm against immigration.

00:34:52.140 Yeah, exactly. 0.99

00:34:52.920 Get lost.

00:34:53.380 Exactly. 0.88

00:34:54.000 I hate the Tories.

00:34:54.880 I saw Michael Gove the other day.

00:34:57.000 um you're talking to andrew neal and andrew neal's like but you increased immigration massively and

00:35:01.720 he's like ah but we could have reduced it we had the power to reduce it's like then why didn't you

00:35:05.840 he's like oh well it was about the the option so so you're you didn't have to stab us in the back

00:35:10.700 you're like just yeah that's so weird i had the option not to stab you in the bag yeah but i

00:35:16.480 stabbed you in the back go if you do realize that's worse yeah it's right that's way worse 0.85

00:35:20.740 if you're like well look the system was the system we just couldn't change it because rishi 0.82

00:35:24.040 santa wouldn't let us or something you'd be like okay well fair enough that's sort of swell a

00:35:27.780 braverman argument but gove is actually no no we could have done whatever we want and we chose to 0.70

00:35:31.740 stab you in the back yeah yes it's just like this is why i hate the conservatives like if you're in 0.51

00:35:36.220 the conservative power you should be like hell why are we tolerating this yes why is he the editor of 0.98

00:35:40.080 this the editor of the spectator why are we tolerating all of this he pollutes our party

00:35:44.880 by being here like uh because him and that's what they are that's why not just that it's because

00:35:50.660 Gove and Dougie Smith run

00:35:52.780 the actual Conservative Party, whether

00:35:54.720 they like it or not. So, you know, this is

00:35:56.680 sort of how political

00:35:58.700 systems run in modern

00:36:00.620 times. Oh, and by the way, the guy

00:36:02.740 who gave the 37,500 seems

00:36:04.680 to have been convicted of wire fraud in the United States

00:36:06.840 and guilty. A lot of people

00:36:08.700 seem to get convicted of wire fraud. There seems to be a little bit

00:36:13.060 of a pattern. Weird. But now

00:36:14.860 let's talk about the other side.

00:36:17.220 Let's talk about the Labour Party.

00:36:18.840 Ah. 0.98

00:36:19.020 uh andy burnham is to be handed a dossier of dodgy dodgy creepy or sex pest mps before taking 0.97

00:36:27.140 over as prime minister okay is he going to kick them out or is he going to make them no he's not

00:36:32.540 going to give them frontline positions but he's going to rely on their votes right the thing is

00:36:38.660 that's really weird about that as well as that currently they have quite a strong majority in

00:36:44.620 parliament just kick and if you were to just be like yeah we found these like real bad wrong ones

00:36:49.220 we're just going to kick them out like that would sit that optically that would be the right thing

00:36:53.840 to morally it's obviously the right thing to do but you know what i mean like from a real

00:36:57.420 politic perspective for their own self-preservation their own sense of building some trust with the

00:37:02.460 public especially for burnham being a fresh start it'd be a great way to be like oh well starmer

00:37:07.640 allowed these people in i'm not you elected me to restore trust in the i mean look at starmer with

00:37:12.980 mcsweeney and mandelson and epstein yes we're gonna get to that yep you would literally like

00:37:17.920 okay if it's like you know eight or nine okay well you've got 408 majority yeah get rid of them

00:37:22.040 you're exactly right so there are dozens of these mps who are supposed to be according to labor

00:37:28.440 if it's dodgy creepy or sex pests if it's dozens like 30 of them maybe that kick out the worst

00:37:36.500 I mean, I don't know how...

00:37:37.300 At least.

00:37:38.040 Spin the wheel.

00:37:39.740 And the allegation, this is Labour leaking it,

00:37:43.580 and they are saying that we drew up this list

00:37:46.360 to help Mr Burnham avoid similar scandals

00:37:49.180 that engulfed Sir Keej Starmer.

00:37:52.080 So they're just sort of, yeah, we're not going to prosecute them,

00:37:55.000 we're not going to investigate them,

00:37:56.140 we're not going to do the right thing,

00:37:58.060 but we're just going to help Andy do a bit of a better job.

00:38:00.860 That's the idea here.

00:38:02.500 But again, who's drawing up the list?

00:38:04.940 because if actually no...

00:38:06.660 Well, it used to be that Mandelson would have these lists

00:38:10.620 and they would be run by Max Sweeney.

00:38:13.080 Yeah, exactly.

00:38:14.260 And they literally had the spreadsheet.

00:38:17.080 So now it's, okay, who's the other faction in Labour

00:38:20.020 that is essentially... 0.98

00:38:21.040 Because we don't know that these are sex pests

00:38:23.760 or whatever it is.

00:38:24.860 We just know that there's going to be a list of names

00:38:27.100 that don't have this faction in the Labour Party

00:38:29.940 marginalise them.

00:38:31.240 And maybe they are.

00:38:32.640 I don't know.

00:38:33.220 But if it's like, you know, 30 or 40, it's like, really, that seems a little bit high.

00:38:37.960 Yep.

00:38:38.460 You know, so who knows?

00:38:40.940 And since the police are investigating Robert Jenrick over 40,000 pounds, 37,000 pounds,

00:38:46.260 where is the investigation into Mandelson exactly?

00:38:49.120 Oh, yeah, he's not in jail at all.

00:38:50.980 Like, what's going on there?

00:38:52.780 What happened?

00:38:53.460 He was leaking state secrets for decades.

00:38:57.000 To a foreign network.

00:38:58.280 To a foreign network of pedophiles. 0.98

00:39:03.220 To a foreign network of pedophiles.

00:39:06.360 What happened?

00:39:08.180 The story seems to have completely disappeared.

00:39:10.600 Nobody cares, apparently.

00:39:11.540 Kicked into the long grass.

00:39:12.740 Nigel Farage got a donation from someone,

00:39:15.460 which, I mean, in the face of it,

00:39:17.200 is just nothing, really.

00:39:18.360 And he didn't declare it.

00:39:19.540 It's like, okay, but if Crystal Harbour was like,

00:39:22.900 you know, some sort of Zhuang Li or something

00:39:25.940 from the Beijing head office,

00:39:28.860 I would understand it.

00:39:30.260 But it's not, it's, okay, he's a crypto billionaire

00:39:32.120 and he really liked Brexit,

00:39:33.660 so he gave Farage a bonus for it.

00:39:36.080 Okay.

00:39:36.900 Well, remember, remember,

00:39:38.940 Mandelson was taking money from the Chinese. 0.96

00:39:41.240 He was.

00:39:41.820 And his company, Global Council,

00:39:43.360 had a huge number of Chinese clients.

00:39:45.780 But for some reason...

00:39:46.600 And we keep having espionage scandals 0.99

00:39:48.400 involving labour and the Chinese.

00:39:51.740 What about that massive embassy 0.99

00:39:52.780 that they're just like,

00:39:53.640 oh, I don't know if we should allow 1.00

00:39:54.720 the Chinese to build this massive embassy. 1.00

00:39:56.300 Ah, that's a good question.

00:39:57.680 I don't know if you should, actually. 1.00

00:39:59.920 Hunting over Chagos.

00:40:01.360 Yeah. 1.00

00:40:02.120 Allows for Chinese wiggle room in the Indian Ocean. 1.00

00:40:05.520 Is that more important than Nigel receiving gifts?

00:40:09.700 I say yes so, but that's because I'm not part of the Labour government.

00:40:13.860 And it's just so much more substantial. 1.00

00:40:16.520 Things like handing over Chagos, 0.95

00:40:18.260 giving the Chinese access to the cable network that sits underneath London, 0.83

00:40:22.660 doing what Mandelson did,

00:40:24.440 literally betraying the country and its economic secrets

00:40:27.080 to a network of foreign pedophile financiers. 0.92

00:40:29.780 Have you considered that Nigel Farage is racist 1.00

00:40:31.620 and Count Bimface isn't. 1.00

00:40:33.180 Oh, yes, apparently. 0.79

00:40:35.240 Apparently.

00:40:38.220 How about when, you know,

00:40:40.400 the Conservatives tried to put pressure

00:40:41.980 and have Starmer properly investigated

00:40:46.360 for his role in the Mandelson affair?

00:40:48.140 What happened then?

00:40:49.580 The Labour Party whipped its members

00:40:51.560 into voting against any kind of investigation.

00:40:55.880 And they refused to let their guy get investigated

00:40:58.960 for his relationship with Mandelson.

00:41:00.420 because who knows what the relationship

00:41:02.560 between Mandelson, Max Weenie, and Starmer

00:41:04.420 would have turned up.

00:41:06.180 So there are police investigations here

00:41:09.000 and we keep hearing about them

00:41:10.380 and they get leaked to the media

00:41:11.580 and all media circuses constructed around these things.

00:41:16.240 What about Mandelson?

00:41:17.540 What about Starmer and Mandelson and Max Weenie?

00:41:19.680 We've got a fair amount of information

00:41:20.840 that we can triangulate fairly accurately.

00:41:23.860 Max Weenie was essentially the architect

00:41:25.800 of Starmer's campaign.

00:41:27.160 and we know that mandelson was in charge of the voting lists about who would become an mp in

00:41:33.660 certain things and had control of kind of like the core pillar of the the uh party so it's not

00:41:39.440 like we don't know that they're deeply enmeshed and that starmer was obviously reliant on mcsweeney 0.99

00:41:44.460 who himself was the protege of mandelson yes so it's like okay well we know that you're a disgusting 0.99

00:41:49.980 network of awful people. Yep. And what happened here with Andy Burnham? Oh, let's see. So there 0.99

00:41:59.640 was a media company that donated £45,000 in free work for Burnham's campaign. In free work?

00:42:07.620 Free work, yes. As in they didn't even give him £45,000? No, no. They gave him free work that

00:42:13.420 was worth 45,000 pounds.

00:42:14.760 And they got 338,000 pounds back.

00:42:17.120 That's a nine-time return.

00:42:20.420 That's a good return here.

00:42:22.760 Mr. Burnham, we can also make videos.

00:42:27.260 We're very good at it. 0.99

00:42:33.140 We're in the wrong fucking business, lads. 0.99

00:42:36.540 I mean, look at this. 0.99

00:42:38.540 So they give him free promotional material,

00:42:42.220 probably over, probably inflate its value

00:42:45.840 to sort of say, hey, we worked really hard for you

00:42:48.660 and this was incredible.

00:42:50.500 And what do they get in exchange?

00:42:51.920 They get 300,000 pounds of taxpayer money.

00:42:55.200 Isn't this corruption?

00:42:56.820 I mean, does this not deserve a media circus?

00:43:00.160 Why is the media circus always against the right?

00:43:03.720 I'm not defending Faraj.

00:43:05.360 I think he should have declared all of this.

00:43:07.220 He should have been fully transparent.

00:43:08.940 He knows they're coming for him.

00:43:10.280 But why aren't you guys interested in this nonsense?

00:43:13.220 This is why you get called the establishment.

00:43:15.320 Exactly.

00:43:15.820 Right.

00:43:16.560 Exactly.

00:43:16.860 This is the system just rewarding its own.

00:43:19.480 And this is such an obvious quid pro quo.

00:43:21.760 Yeah.

00:43:22.520 This is such an obvious quid pro quo.

00:43:24.440 You scratch my back, I scratch yours, right?

00:43:27.680 Doesn't make it illegal, but receiving a gift isn't illegal either.

00:43:34.960 And then there is the fact that Burnham didn't declare that his wife was a shareholder in

00:43:39.620 a company that runs manchester's electric vehicle charging network really did did burnham go on a

00:43:45.000 big thing about uh electric vehicles in manchester did he did a huge thing on electric vehicles in

00:43:49.860 manchester who could have imagined how did i know and it turns out that actually his wife is uh

00:43:56.200 related to that the chief marketing officer in fact the chief marketing officer and uh he didn't

00:44:04.640 disclose that she owned 0.2% of the company, which for these corporations is not a small

00:44:10.040 amount of money, like 0.2% of a multi-billion dollar company. That's huge. In fact, he had

00:44:18.180 previously lied and said, we do not own any shares in any company and receive no income other than

00:44:23.840 our salaries. That's what he said in 2022. Where's the media circus, guys? Why isn't this

00:44:31.400 getting 24 7 coverage this this is why i've found myself forced to defend farage's um economic

00:44:37.880 interests right like farage okay he took money from he got paid by a gold company yeah because

00:44:43.940 he's a national celebrity and they want lots of exposure he got a donation from some dude who's

00:44:49.860 just glad okay so so what he earns a lot of money from his gb news show okay yeah because he's

00:44:54.700 nigel farage that's not this no no like you know and i've got i've got no doubt that farage could 0.82

00:44:59.580 be shown to be more corrupt than he is blah blah blah but that's not this and nobody cares and

00:45:03.920 nobody cares and let's talk about ed milliband oh yeah why why aren't we talking about that kind of

00:45:10.200 corruption why aren't we putting the solar panels over car parks i don't park your car in the shade

00:45:16.480 and have the sun inceded by the solar panels i just don't understand why does it have to no no

00:45:20.500 they should be on fields and farmers need to be taxed it needs to look like we live in cybertron

00:45:25.020 What are we doing?

00:45:26.520 Come on, guys.

00:45:28.060 Sorry.

00:45:29.240 He approved contracts for Labour donor Dale Vince.

00:45:32.900 Oh, really?

00:45:33.520 In Lincolnshire.

00:45:35.240 Yeah, he gave £5 million and he got contracts worth £130, £140 million.

00:45:40.320 Dale Vince, for anyone who doesn't know, major Labour donor.

00:45:42.920 And he's constantly on the radio or on TV arguing for Ed Miliband's climate agenda. 0.98

00:45:49.320 He's a lunatic. 1.00

00:45:50.340 Yeah, yeah, he's mental. 1.00

00:45:51.180 He is absolutely mental. 1.00

00:45:53.140 He's absolutely mental. 0.99

00:45:54.000 So why is it that Jenrick gets a police investigation, but something this bloody transparent? 0.76

00:46:02.560 Oh, because they followed the correct process.

00:46:04.540 It's not about principle, it's about process.

00:46:07.080 And since we say it's legal, it's legal. 0.92

00:46:09.500 By the way, most corruption in Lebanon is legal. 0.95

00:46:12.780 They don't just, you know. 0.87

00:46:14.040 Most corruption in the West is legal.

00:46:15.560 But it's exactly, it looks exactly like this.

00:46:18.060 It looks exactly like this.

00:46:19.740 It does.

00:46:21.400 It's all quid pro quo.

00:46:22.900 Yes.

00:46:23.340 All of it.

00:46:24.000 And so to claim that, you know, receiving money, okay, fine,

00:46:29.540 but what is this?

00:46:31.120 And what is the NCA doing leaking these people's information?

00:46:34.240 And Farage wasn't even promising anything off the back of it.

00:46:38.240 Like, you know, maybe he would have done, you know, who knows?

00:46:41.660 Maybe some crypto policies that would have been favorable.

00:46:44.040 Sure.

00:46:44.260 So that one looks a bit dodgy in terms of-

00:46:46.260 Sure, but that's all speculative though,

00:46:47.960 because he's not in the government.

00:46:49.320 Exactly.

00:46:49.920 Like Miliband's the bloody secretary for energy.

00:46:51.900 The contracts have been signed.

00:46:53.400 The money has been handed over.

00:46:55.360 We have a paper trail.

00:46:56.820 But this is okay because we followed the processes that we set,

00:47:02.100 and these processes say that it's okay.

00:47:05.280 So it's really the elevation of process over principle,

00:47:07.780 which is what happens with the establishment every single time.

00:47:13.340 What about Keir Starmer not declaring his own gifts?

00:47:16.620 Yeah, yeah, he got a lot of stick for this,

00:47:19.080 but everyone was like, okay, well.

00:47:20.480 And then everybody got over it.

00:47:22.040 Yeah.

00:47:22.660 And then it didn't trigger by-elections. 1.00

00:47:24.860 I mean, it was Faraj's fault

00:47:26.080 that he triggered the by-election, fair enough.

00:47:28.360 But nobody was hounding his wife

00:47:30.740 like they were hounding Faraj's daughter.

00:47:33.760 They didn't go after his family. 1.00

00:47:35.060 It was just the Ukrainian rent boys 1.00

00:47:36.580 who went after his family.

00:47:38.160 Separate story.

00:47:40.980 Separate story.

00:47:42.560 And again, even that story, separate story,

00:47:45.080 but still enormous amounts of narrative management around it.

00:47:50.000 Hope not hate putting out,

00:47:51.500 not hope, not hate, whatever they were,

00:47:53.520 putting out a whole report saying it was Russia.

00:47:56.260 Oh, that was the BBC.

00:47:57.860 And then at the very last,

00:47:58.860 but they were relying on another entity for it.

00:48:01.320 And in the very last paragraph, the BBC says,

00:48:04.140 actually, somebody in counter-terrorism said

00:48:06.280 that there was zero evidence for all of this stuff.

00:48:08.340 Oh, okay.

00:48:09.940 Here's your narrative.

00:48:11.420 Here's the denial of the narrative.

00:48:13.820 But we know you won't read that far down the article, so...

00:48:16.920 It's like 12 paragraphs down.

00:48:18.160 You're not getting that far.

00:48:18.960 Exactly.

00:48:19.300 uh lord ali who donated thousands and thousands 20 000 pounds in letting uh kira live in his house

00:48:28.680 we're letting kira live in his house which might have been a bit you know 20 000 pounds sounds on

00:48:33.760 the low side considering the mansion that he does own in covent garden i think he had the keys to

00:48:38.260 number 10 and whatnot didn't he was given a security pass to number 10 with zero and he has

00:48:42.880 no position whatsoever so what is this what is this exactly business as usual business as usual

00:48:50.340 oh no inquiry into those gifts look no inquiry oh our guy versus your guy that's the thing

00:48:58.560 it it really is that the left is perfectly schmittian this is the thing the left is

00:49:04.120 perfectly schmittian and you know they only worship power oh let's read about this story

00:49:12.400 a labor group with links to keir starmer fined 14 000 pounds for failing to declare donations

00:49:18.040 how much in donations if it's in the hundreds of thousands i'm going to be angry 800 000 pounds

00:49:23.180 800 000 pounds i mean so you can take 800 000 pounds like this is if it was like 30 000 pounds

00:49:37.500 and they get fined $14,000,

00:49:39.000 I'd be like, okay, yeah, I don't know.

00:49:40.140 That sounds about right, right?

00:49:41.420 But $800,000 to get a $14,000 fine?

00:49:44.500 Yes.

00:49:46.000 You could see why they'd just be like...

00:49:47.440 You'd do it again.

00:49:48.100 Yeah, you'd do it twice.

00:49:49.700 Yeah, I mean...

00:49:50.160 Five times.

00:49:52.400 So how does this work exactly?

00:49:56.800 It's wild.

00:49:57.920 This isn't corruption?

00:49:59.520 And this was Morgan McSweeney running it

00:50:01.720 and then Josh Simmons.

00:50:03.420 And Josh Simmons, actually, if I'm not mistaken...

00:50:06.420 oh he's labored together yes he hired an investigative company called apco worldwide

00:50:14.740 to look into the journalists who had revealed that they had taken these donations without

00:50:20.620 disclosing them and then they went on about how the journalist who investigated them was jewish

00:50:26.260 and evil and this and that and the other and they had to say well we didn't actually know anything

00:50:31.980 about this uh same josh simmons who resigned to give andy burnham his seat yep yep same guy

00:50:38.920 same guy and who knows what golden parachute he's going to get out of all this it seems that he's

00:50:44.680 going to get a position in number 10 worth 180 a year there we go this is the rumor so far but then

00:50:50.340 then he's got the power of patronage and then he can get himself like you know what's his bloody

00:50:54.720 name the lib dem guy who became the million pound a year facebook oh yeah oh and nick clegg

00:50:59.240 These people know what they're doing.

00:51:03.880 And he hired this outfit to claim that the investigation into Labour Together came from Russia or China.

00:51:10.800 Just as the attack on Keir Starmer and his properties came from Russia.

00:51:15.820 And take our word, guys.

00:51:16.960 And there's no incentives within the structure to actually resolve any of this corruption.

00:51:21.200 Because exactly as you say with the Facebook case, it's like, okay, I can totally tank my political career.

00:51:26.320 but I know there's some international globalist bureaucrat out there

00:51:30.520 who's always going to be willing to just give me a leg up

00:51:33.740 and save me from the fire.

00:51:35.320 It's okay.

00:51:35.760 We can rely on the loyal opposition to make a big deal out of this, right?

00:51:39.340 No, the Tories are going to be exactly the same in every way.

00:51:42.740 Yes, absolutely. 1.00

00:51:43.600 So it's just pigs in the trough. 0.99

00:51:45.380 Completely, completely, completely. 0.97

00:51:47.520 They're just looting as much as they can before they can get out of this.

00:51:51.260 And speaking of foreign influence and foreign money,

00:51:54.640 Sir Trevor Chin is a British national,

00:51:56.800 and he gets awarded an Israeli Medal of Honor

00:52:00.080 because of his services to the State of Israel.

00:52:03.360 Oh, really?

00:52:03.940 He happens to be one of the biggest donors to labor together.

00:52:06.940 Oh, really?

00:52:07.280 Oh, right.

00:52:09.000 What were the odds?

00:52:09.800 Is this foreign influence?

00:52:11.440 I mean, one might say so, but you're an anti-Semite.

00:52:16.060 I treat the Pakistanis and the Israelis equally.

00:52:19.860 That's my position, essentially.

00:52:22.300 Literally, it's also transparent.

00:52:26.180 And then Ed Miliband's favorite net zero think tank

00:52:29.080 is funded by foreign cash, apparently.

00:52:31.500 Oh, yeah.

00:52:33.000 So the Netherlands-based European Climate Foundation

00:52:36.560 and the Sequoia Climate Foundation.

00:52:38.540 Sequoia is an insane left-wing American outfit.

00:52:42.700 Headquartered in California, tells you everything.

00:52:45.000 Well, yes.

00:52:45.820 Yes.

00:52:46.140 Yes.

00:52:47.560 And so this is foreign money as well.

00:52:51.680 Why is it just generic?

00:52:53.960 It's our foreign money.

00:52:56.280 And that is always it for them. 0.68

00:52:58.560 It is just a friend-enemy distinction.

00:53:00.860 All it boils down to.

00:53:01.840 And that's what I wanted to say with this segment.

00:53:03.940 These people have no principles.

00:53:05.720 If they could get away with five million pound donations,

00:53:09.420 they would take them in a heartbeat

00:53:11.260 and they wouldn't declare them.

00:53:13.480 And the people who were involved,

00:53:16.280 like Daniel Greenberg,

00:53:17.440 who's supposed to be in charge

00:53:19.040 of investigating ethics in parliament,

00:53:20.700 they would say no no no that's fine or they'd give them a slap on the wrist fine 14 000 pounds

00:53:26.220 for collecting 800 000 pounds look who they don't go after they don't go after the tories they don't

00:53:31.260 go after the lib dems they don't go after the greens yep they go after reform right they'll

00:53:35.220 go after jemrick after he leaves the tories yes so you know who is in this big club they liked him

00:53:41.160 when he was bringing countless foreigners into the country when he was that guy you're in the club

00:53:45.400 We're not going to investigate you. 1.00

00:53:46.680 Now you're out of the club, you're done.

00:53:49.100 Exactly.

00:53:50.340 So that is the perspective that you need to keep in mind

00:53:53.800 when you hear about the financial shenanigans of reform.

00:53:57.320 And there's definitely going to be some financial shenanigans,

00:54:00.040 but they pale in comparison to what Labour is actually doing

00:54:04.320 and has actually done.

00:54:06.240 Just keep that in mind.

00:54:12.700 Burnham's getting a list of people

00:54:14.320 he must never, ever prosecute, written by one Mr. Pedro File.

00:54:20.480 Never heard of him.

00:54:23.240 Average Labour MP, probably.

00:54:27.200 It looks like it. It looks like it.

00:54:30.540 All right, then. Well, yeah, to the beginning. Thank you.

00:54:34.700 All right. So, ladies and gentlemen,

00:54:36.460 after Sano Takaichi became the new Prime Minister of Japan

00:54:40.220 towards the beginning of this year,

00:54:41.780 We here looking in Europe and the larger West were very curious about what it would mean for Japan, because the fact of the matter is there would undoubtedly be some rearrangement in terms of economics, in terms of economic policy.

00:54:55.700 Very famously, one of the things that was said about her was the fact that she really was the heir apparent to Shinzo Abe as well.

00:55:03.440 And also the fact that, you know, even she saved her party, right?

00:55:08.720 Her personal persona, her actual personal popularity managed to save a party that was becoming diminishingly, you know, popular.

00:55:18.080 And so all of this has really proved to say that she came in with 316 seats,

00:55:23.760 basically is the most ever won by a party in the Japanese diet,

00:55:28.260 their parliament's lower house, in electoral history.

00:55:31.340 And, of course, for the LDP as well, her actual party,

00:55:35.660 since they were established back in 1955,

00:55:38.620 they have been in power for about 65 of 71 of those years.

00:55:43.820 Right, yeah. So the Japanese basically have one party. 0.72

00:55:46.620 Yeah.

00:55:46.800 and this party is quite a broad party i understand yes uh and the japanese very uh conformable in

00:55:54.260 this way yeah democracy is not really in their board and so they're not really looking to be

00:55:59.340 like oh yeah we're gonna like chuck this party to that party in the same way that we are who got

00:56:04.140 swept up by the entire narrative of that but one of the angles in all of this that we here as i say

00:56:10.680 in particular were curious to see what would happen with is the issue of immigration because

00:56:15.900 there was undoubtedly some rhetoric from Takaichi and many in her party that suggested that the

00:56:21.700 Japanese government was going to get tougher on foreigners. And the reason why we were so 1.00

00:56:27.840 interested in this is because that is the one issue more than any other that you are most likely

00:56:33.500 to get rug pulled on if you are from the populist right, the sort of generic right. And so we've

00:56:42.780 seen this time and time again. We saw it from our own Conservative Party, who told us they'd get

00:56:47.340 the numbers down back when David Cameron came in in 2010, and they consequently exploded over 14

00:56:54.560 years of absolute treason. You also have Maloney as well in Italy, who promised to do similar such

00:57:00.080 things, and that all turned out to be wrong. She's now promising to find a way to expedite

00:57:04.720 deportations of foreign criminals. I'm sure she is. It took her three years, but you know, we sure 1.00

00:57:10.440 well. As if it wasn't top of the list of mandates that you'd come in on. And so the entire thing was

00:57:15.680 like, okay, well, where are we going to go? Well, if we just look at the pure ambassadorship,

00:57:20.580 we can see for a fact. Now, on the one hand, this is just a little bit of a comic story,

00:57:25.460 but I'm going to indulge it, which is during her visit to India, Japanese Prime Minister

00:57:30.300 Sana Takaichi greeted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a smiling face and called him,

00:57:35.520 sorry, and called him her elder brother. However, a Japanese media outlet later reported that the

00:57:41.840 Japanese delegation had flown in bottled water on the government aircraft after banning the use of

00:57:47.800 local tap water by the delegation. This contradictory practice, in the eyes of some

00:57:53.780 observers, epitomises Japanese insincere and perfunctory treatment of, as well as, contempt 0.95

00:58:00.460 for india we're polite not stupid yeah pause here yeah exactly exactly like you want to drink india 0.86

00:58:08.380 this is a chinese propaganda outlet and i sort of enjoy them as much yeah yeah parody account 0.82

00:58:14.520 sure um but no chinese delegation would ever drink the top water this is my point 0.81

00:58:20.680 And then Kiyosnama are just necking with Indian water. 0.99

00:58:25.160 Straight from the Ganges.

00:58:27.780 You know, so a bit of common sense in the delegation.

00:58:30.700 I'll give them that.

00:58:31.660 And then we come to the fact of, okay,

00:58:33.860 well, what is the actual Japanese public's mood

00:58:36.240 when it comes to this sort of thing?

00:58:37.920 Now, this is actually, these figures that I'm going to provide for you now

00:58:41.400 are really from the perspective of the actual foreign inhabitants themselves.

00:58:45.760 But it says, with multiple answers allowed,

00:58:48.320 Housing-related discrimination emerged as the most common issue, with 19.4% saying they had experienced discrimination while searching for a place to live.

00:59:00.500 Discrimination at work followed at 17.5%, whilst 13.2% said that they encountered it while looking for jobs. 1.00

00:59:08.580 So all I'm reading from this is that the Japanese have turned into libtards. 1.00

00:59:11.960 Yes. 1.00

00:59:13.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:59:13.600 There's been a concerted campaign to turn the Japanese into libtards 1.00

00:59:17.140 and to promote immigration into Japan. 1.00

00:59:19.460 Yes.

00:59:19.880 Because, I mean, I've had friends and family who've visited Japan 0.81

00:59:23.340 and they were like, yeah, the Japanese were insanely racist to me. 1.00

00:59:26.540 And I was just like, well, you deserved it. 1.00

00:59:30.180 What were you doing in that country?

00:59:33.620 Respondents identified strangers as the most common source

00:59:39.660 of discriminatory treatment.

00:59:41.620 You don't say.

00:59:42.440 cited by 44.8% of the respondents with multiple answers allowed. Workplace related individuals

00:59:48.940 accounted for 35.9% while housing and real estate personnel made up 23.8%. Star employees were

00:59:56.760 cited at 22.1%. And then the final thing I just wanted to say from this is that it goes on to say

01:00:02.780 that the most common type of hate speech involved exclusionary slogans such as foreigners should

01:00:10.020 get out and go back to your country, which was cited by 83.2% of respondents who had

01:00:17.840 some anecdotal evidence of encountering hate speech. So of that, though I understand the

01:00:24.660 point you're making, when they do show their cause, when they do pop a bit of flair,

01:00:30.520 they really go for it. There's no half measures in there. Japan's foreign resident population

01:00:37.700 rose 9.5 percent to a record of 4.12 million at the end of 2025, topping 4 million for the first

01:00:46.880 time, according to data from the ISA. And there's just a cheerful little quote at the end here,

01:00:52.760 which goes on to say that some people seem to think immigrants are unnecessary in Japan,

01:00:59.620 but I believe we can build a better future together. One respondent wrote in the free

01:01:04.440 response section don't japan what are you doing yeah are we not a bad enough example yet right

01:01:09.820 and and this is really the thing japan you have so many case studies at your disposal

01:01:14.340 that not only i think there should be a small part of britain that is kept exactly as is uk'd

01:01:24.040 and then you bring in students from japan this is what it's students and you tell them look

01:01:28.700 you know you have to spend a week here yes now go back home and tell the others tell them what

01:01:33.060 you saw in peckham japanese tourist go to tower hamlets man yeah so what you okay and very very

01:01:41.280 small part five six buildings but it'll do uh and but the entire thing is of course the trajectory

01:01:47.380 we understand where this goes and we understand that uh one particular immigrant may say this 0.95

01:01:53.700 and may even feel it genuinely but you cannot stop the tide of demographic one absolute retard yeah 0.97

01:02:00.140 There's no experience of immigration. 0.99

01:02:02.260 Yeah. 1.00

01:02:03.080 And so it just, it cannot be bought.

01:02:05.540 But then we come...

01:02:06.220 Just before you go...

01:02:07.180 Oh, sure.

01:02:07.780 I love this.

01:02:08.520 Some people seem to think immigrants are unnecessary,

01:02:10.720 but I believe we can build a better future together.

01:02:12.240 Okay, but are they necessary?

01:02:13.340 Yeah.

01:02:13.700 No, you're not saying they're necessary.

01:02:15.400 You just think that,

01:02:15.980 ah, maybe the immigrants will improve Japan. 1.00

01:02:17.540 Well, I don't think they will. 1.00

01:02:18.660 And I'm not a fan of Japan. 0.99

01:02:20.240 Why are their own countries terrible? 0.99

01:02:21.880 Like, honestly.

01:02:22.440 Some people seem to think immigrants are unnecessary,

01:02:24.880 but I, as an immigrant, think we are.

01:02:26.660 Yeah, well...

01:02:27.280 It's really just the argument.

01:02:29.040 And so then we get into this article, which is Japan's beloved Indian restaurants are under threat, an unexpected casualty of the country's immigration backlash. 0.86

01:02:41.960 We have the recipes.

01:02:43.460 I know. I can hear Rowan Atkinson in the sketch.

01:02:47.060 I love that that was meant to be a parody of the right wing as well, but it's a great point.

01:02:51.060 I'd vote for it.

01:02:51.820 um so it goes on to say further down the article that um japan has uh little immigration sorry i'm

01:03:00.720 oh maybe i'll just read it from here japan has little immigration uh foreigners are just three

01:03:07.440 percent of the population compared with 15 across the oecd yet indian restaurants are

01:03:15.080 everywhere yeah the country has between four thousand and five thousand of them more than it

01:03:20.840 has mcdonald's outlets is there a japanese piers morgan who's like but we need the slop san

01:03:26.000 well yeah yeah there are bound to be those people it says um sorry so uh the country yes um despite

01:03:37.240 having only 59 000 indian residents most are owned and staffed by nepalese immigrants who number about

01:03:44.940 300 000 and it says as japan's politics japanese politics turns against immigration the government

01:03:52.080 has tightened rules for the business management visa on which most uh foreign restauranteurs

01:03:58.360 depend the intended target lies elsewhere yet the humble curry house has become a casualty 1.00

01:04:04.540 well i'm so sorry for you i mean don't get me wrong the nepalese are by far the worst of the 1.00

01:04:08.780 immigrants you could have like they're actually seem to be fairly normal conservative people 1.00

01:04:12.600 actually yeah you know they're not like you know southern indians or something right so you could 1.00

01:04:17.580 do a lot worse than nepalese people as your immigrants um but i'm sorry for your humble 1.00

01:04:21.760 curry houses they'll just have to be staffed by japanese people you know i went to poland right 1.00

01:04:26.120 i went to a thai restaurant in poland an authentic thai food made hated it given to me by a polish 0.87

01:04:31.080 person made by a polish person and i was just like how have you managed this and they were like

01:04:36.100 we have the recipes. Recipes, mate. But just to explain the actual development then on this

01:04:44.540 particular business management visa. So originally, before the reforms that Tokaichi's government had

01:04:50.700 brought in, the minimum capital investment that you had to provide was about 5 million yen,

01:04:56.480 which as it points out here is about $31,000. And now this has been boosted sixfold to 30 million

01:05:05.020 yen so 200 basically you know getting on for 200 000 and it also requires applicants to employ at

01:05:11.740 least one full-time japanese worker or permanent resident and existing holders have a three-year

01:05:17.800 grace period so it's basically saying look if you're going to come here also you have to prove

01:05:21.820 that you actually have three years of actual business experience right you can't just use it

01:05:26.580 as sort of a a means to springboard yourself into the country right so we could set up a

01:05:32.560 load-seater's Japanese branch.

01:05:34.780 We could.

01:05:35.780 Good to know.

01:05:36.520 Anyone want to go and do that, Samson?

01:05:39.760 I'm getting excited about that.

01:05:41.180 Thumbs up over there.

01:05:43.260 And also the fact that, as I say, full-time employees, 1.00

01:05:46.620 you actually have to hire Japanese. 0.99

01:05:48.280 You can't be an Indian and just immediately staff your company with Indians. 0.96

01:05:52.140 You have to hire local permanent residents. 1.00

01:05:57.040 And so it goes on to say that in recent years,

01:05:59.300 officials have grown suspicious that some foreigners, often rich Chinese, have used

01:06:06.040 shell companies to secure visas. In October, the government raised the visas minimum, as I've just

01:06:11.400 said, and the effects have been drastic. Applications for the visa have fallen off by 96%.

01:06:19.280 Write that down and send it to Harrison. Include that as part of the policy. You must have that

01:06:25.380 level of investment amazing according to the attorney you shouldn't get visas to have a

01:06:29.540 restaurant no no it's an obscene idea yeah we can just get the internet um the recipes well i love

01:06:36.220 this even japanese firms cannot find japanese workers how are we supposed to says and you 0.99

01:06:40.320 katari another nepalese restaurant no you're not yeah what do you want me to say like you know 0.51

01:06:45.800 there's no like god you know we were promised 3 000 years ago that we'd open a nepalese restaurant

01:06:50.100 and japan like come on and uh it goes on to say that uh the broader loss would be this is perfect 0.84

01:06:58.460 so good the broader loss would be cultural as well as economic immigrant cooks are part of what

01:07:04.400 gives tokyo its culinary range if india thai vietnamese and other immigrant-run restaurants

01:07:10.580 disappear salarimin will lose some favorite lunch options i mean literally

01:07:15.280 is morgan's like that speaks to me

01:07:19.820 yeah genuinely you'll just have to eat japanese food mate i don't know yeah famously very good

01:07:28.580 and this uh article does repeat some of the things that i've said but it also goes on to say that

01:07:33.700 these stricter rules come as some uh residents complain of over tourism as well now this is the

01:07:39.380 other thing so there is also those who are trying to anchor themselves into japan from the business

01:07:43.980 end of it niggle their way into it but there is also the question of actual just over tourism

01:07:48.940 now i've covered in the previous segment uh the particularly uh terrible scandal of nara

01:07:54.760 beautiful city been there myself and the deer there which is very very sacred to the japanese

01:07:59.760 aren't they like tame or something yeah and they bow to you and you know they they take the food

01:08:04.120 out of your hand and everything uh and the chinese tourists who in particular who've been going over

01:08:09.740 there they didn't eat the deer they didn't eat the deer but they were abusive right to just put it 0.90

01:08:14.960 plainly the chinese are horrible to animals i don't know why yeah morrissey speaks of this yeah 0.99

01:08:19.340 i've never read it um ah that's gone off that's don't know why that is i'll read from here then 0.82

01:08:26.580 i suppose the stricter rules come as residents as over tourism and soaring land prices in part

01:08:31.920 due to foreign investment prompting a push by uh sanita kichi for tighter regulations on foreign

01:08:38.340 nationals. Her government announced last year, sorry, a sharp increase in visa fees for some

01:08:49.740 tourists for the first time in nearly 50 years, hiking the cost for single and multiple entry

01:08:54.920 permits fivefold. And goes on, there's some quotes from here as well, where it says that

01:08:59.900 It's impossible. Bad Tathoki came to Japan as a student in 2016 and saved for years to open her

01:09:08.460 first restaurant in 2023. Now I'm worried, not about myself, but about my daughter. What did I

01:09:16.080 do to her? She said, my heart pounds when I think about the next visa renewal. We need things being

01:09:22.760 said like that in Britain. Sorry to hear it, but you're not entitled to live in Japan. No. 1.00

01:09:26.920 Yeah. And like I said, the Nepalese are just by far from the worst immigrants you could possibly 1.00

01:09:32.300 get. Every Nepalese person I've met has been respectful and decent and very conservative.

01:09:36.840 So like, you know, Nepalese people, I haven't got a problem with at all. But like, sorry, 1.00

01:09:40.280 you're just not entitled to live in Japan. No. And the other thing as well is that the 0.99

01:09:44.980 Japanese have tripled the departure tax in a push also to counter and combat over tourism.

01:09:51.740 Now, for us, actually, this will not seem like a great deal. So basically,

01:09:55.460 Japan have tripled it as a departure tag on Wednesday

01:09:58.320 as a part of a push to address the growing number of inbound tourists.

01:10:03.800 Now, previously set at 1,000 yen,

01:10:06.040 the tax has increased to 3,000 yen for all travellers,

01:10:09.860 departing Japan regardless of nationality.

01:10:13.280 So I was a bit puzzled by this because when I went to Japan,

01:10:16.280 I thought, well, I didn't pay 1,000 yen for anything.

01:10:18.920 It's in the price of your ticket when you go there.

01:10:21.460 So it's within the tax of the actual ticket itself.

01:10:24.140 But the other thing as well is that 3,000 yen is not a lot of money. It's about 13 pounds for us, which is a pittance. But if you're coming from a lot of those countries like Vietnam, from Thailand, from China, and you're at the lower end of the economic spectrum, that is a significant hurdle for you. And it's those sorts of people that the Japanese have most umbrage with.

01:10:45.940 And for all of the stories that, you know, because as well, I will just focus on the fact that look at the language that's being used here. It's always a motive. It's always done from the immigrant side of the story. And we know this how well to spot it, because it's in every article we see here from an establishment newspaper as well. That's how it always goes. It's just a pure peel to emotional empathy. 1.00

01:11:07.240 And the thing is as well, but what's lost in all of this is that

01:11:10.760 Sana Takaichi was partly elected on the mandate by the Japanese people

01:11:15.200 to crack down on this.

01:11:16.760 And who is her obligations to?

01:11:18.940 Who are our loyalties for? 0.99

01:11:20.640 Is it the Japanese people?

01:11:22.180 Global citizens.

01:11:22.780 I was going to say that.

01:11:23.760 Isn't it like global capital?

01:11:25.600 Isn't that what I'm saying?

01:11:27.100 I'm so used to being rug pulled when it comes to immigration, man.

01:11:30.440 Yeah. 1.00

01:11:31.060 And so I hope I've laid out here the fact that there are obvious

01:11:34.180 tangible benefits that are now being done by the Japanese government. And that is all very

01:11:39.080 encouraging. And I encourage them to go full steam ahead with it all. However, there is room

01:11:43.920 for improvement. Now, one of the things that comes to it is that the Japanese seem to be tying 1.00

01:11:49.800 themselves in knots over particular issues to do with mosques and Islam in Japan. Now, for example,

01:11:59.940 from this. It goes on to say that a mosque has been constructed without planning application

01:12:06.100 or permission in an urbanised control area in this eastern Japanese city, where new construction is

01:12:12.340 generally prohibited, prompting the city to demand its removal and secession of its use.

01:12:17.780 Seems very reasonable. 1.00

01:12:18.800 Does indeed. The issue has become a matter of concern, and although discussions have been

01:12:24.020 ongoing with the pakistani embassy which is believed to have ties to the owner of the mosque

01:12:30.140 uh no clear path towards the facility's removal has come into sight uh for a genuine question

01:12:37.640 what possible benefit does japan get from diplomatic ties with pakistan well it's managed

01:12:43.700 for 2 000 years without them well yeah that's my point like what possible interest do you have

01:12:48.760 i just want the japanese to build nuclear weapons and get over this like this whole thing of peaceful

01:12:53.840 japan just you know maybe don't go full manchuria but don't go full baby steps just baby yeah just 0.77

01:13:01.120 go somewhere in between but who cares like if you're in japan like pakistana says something

01:13:05.900 so so i got to what it does right um the city confirmed the illegal construction in october of

01:13:12.660 2024 after receiving reports from residents it has since posted warnings at the site on multiple

01:13:18.720 occasions ordering a halt to construction, and all the way now in March 2026, the owner submitted

01:13:25.320 a corrective plan pledging to demolish the building within five years, but in April an

01:13:31.420 opening ceremony attended by the Pakistani ambassadors of Japan was held, and the site was

01:13:36.400 used as a mosque. But the thing is... You have to win this fight, Japan. You have to put pressure 0.50

01:13:40.940 on your government to win fights like this. The high-trust society encounters the low-trust society.

01:13:45.820 Yes. And the Pakistanis are going to use the fact five years from now that, oh, this has been established for five years. 0.99

01:13:51.700 Now you can't remove it. So it all starts temporary and then it goes into that direction. 0.95

01:13:57.440 And if you look at the history of the East London mosque and how that was done by labor to buy the votes of the local Bangladeshi community and what ended up happening to that part of London, 0.93

01:14:07.920 you will learn that it is very important to just destroy that mosque and end this debate. 0.93

01:14:15.300 Set this precedent. 0.97

01:14:16.540 If you don't do it the way that you're supposed to, it's all over.

01:14:21.100 Again, you have every example of where this leads 1.00

01:14:24.340 if you don't get on top of this Japan. 0.95

01:14:26.720 But as we can see here, Governor Takato Ishida's intention 0.79

01:14:30.600 to remove promoter symbiotic society with foreigners

01:14:34.760 from the Fukui prefecture's key proposals. 0.84

01:14:38.600 Isn't the relationship between parasite and host called symbiotic as well?

01:14:43.020 Well, not in a parasite host relationship.

01:14:47.620 Parasite doesn't do anything for the host.

01:14:49.880 Okay. 0.68

01:14:50.220 It says, demand is growing amongst Muslims across Japan

01:14:57.400 for Islamic burial grounds and halal school meals.

01:15:01.060 In Japan, cremation and burials of ashes in Buddhist temple graveyards is a norm. 0.74

01:15:06.980 And Michito Ohashi is a visiting researcher for the Aichi Prefecture University Institute for Multiculturalism and Coexistence, who specialised in the Muslim community in Japan, as if there needs to be one.

01:15:22.820 Ohchido says, look into how many shrines have been burned down just this year in Japan.

01:15:25.980 Yeah, that as well.

01:15:26.980 Ends of Buddhist shrines being set on fire.

01:15:30.040 Yes.

01:15:30.580 I wonder who it is. It might be linked to the Paris church burnings, the France church burnings.

01:15:35.560 Hmm.

01:15:36.980 There is a tendency for local issues to be widely shared on social media,

01:15:41.540 which makes it easier for anxiety to spread.

01:15:44.840 Literally, the Jonathan Miller...

01:15:46.580 Nine shrines and temples in the first five months?

01:15:49.340 Yes.

01:15:50.000 I bet there wasn't nine in the past 500 years.

01:15:54.000 It's insane.

01:15:54.960 Well, there may have been, to be fair.

01:15:57.220 Okay, maybe in 500 years.

01:15:59.500 You know what I mean?

01:16:00.540 I do know what you mean, yeah.

01:16:02.840 But this quote, again,

01:16:04.840 Again, there is a tendency for local issues to be widely shared on social media,

01:16:09.800 which makes it easier for anxiety to spread.

01:16:12.660 Isn't that just a Jonathan Miller defense to Enoch Powell?

01:16:16.420 You're spreading the anxiety by informing the public of the issue.

01:16:20.360 Or by mentioning that the public is actually anxious.

01:16:22.880 Or by essentially kind of validating that the public could be anxious or should be anxious about it.

01:16:27.880 But as we can see here, I'll just turn the volume off as it goes,

01:16:31.860 because you won't be able to understand it.

01:16:33.620 But you can see here just evidence of unlicensed cemeteries as well that they're having now for mainly Pakistanis illegally buried over 14 bodies using heavy machinery without permission.

01:16:46.820 Constant pattern seems to be going here, which is just, no, we're going to do things our way now. 0.98

01:16:51.900 Screw you. Screw the host nation. 0.99

01:16:53.900 You don't have to have these people, Japan. 1.00

01:16:55.700 You can just remove them and you should. 1.00

01:16:58.140 Don't tolerate this.

01:16:59.360 Yes.

01:17:01.060 You also come to the matter of Hokkaido.

01:17:02.960 Now, Hokkaido is a northern island of Japan, and we also have stories here, as given by this Japanese woman, 0.52

01:17:09.220 who begins to talk about the fact that a small group of only 224 Pakistanis in Hokkaido have created a no-go zone for the Japanese.

01:17:18.140 Would you believe it? 0.84

01:17:19.280 Haven't we heard something like this before in our own countries?

01:17:22.280 Yeah, or in Malmo, or wherever.

01:17:24.640 Birmingham, London.

01:17:26.760 You're not allowed to notice a pattern. 1.00

01:17:29.940 And they chase you out in Japanese. 0.98

01:17:31.900 Now we do actually have some footage of this as well, of one of them like this happening.

01:18:01.900 don't know what you're allowing in guys no and then the only thing i conclude with is that though

01:18:09.400 this is from last year you also have these visual just displays of cultural dominance just being

01:18:14.460 like yeah we're here now dare you to remove us you you can and you should and so as i say quickly

01:18:20.540 yes before this grows now as i say i am very supportive of a lot of the things that i've

01:18:26.160 covered here in the first half of the segment but i do also think that there is much more to be done

01:18:31.280 And I do think as well that I know that the tendrils of globalist money have been put into Japan, particularly by the United Nations, who are desperate to see them be broken up.

01:18:43.180 One, because they're an example of an actual homogenous, successful, prosperous, safe country.

01:18:49.220 It's mainly because a lot of right-wingers said it's okay to have population decline, you can be like Japan.

01:18:54.620 And they're like, Japan? Okay, we'll get on to that.

01:18:56.960 And you should see who's promoting a lot of the immigration in Japan. You wouldn't believe it.

01:19:00.920 Yeah, I bet I would. But you come down to the fact that ultimately, if you're listening to this from Japan, I would just say to you, they are going to scaremonger you constantly, particularly on the issue of your birth rates, which I do admit are a genuine problem for you. 1.00

01:19:17.140 However, if it were to be a binary between letting in endless amounts of foreigners to take over jobs to support the GDP versus just taking a hit to your actual overall population size, I would strongly recommend the latter because it will serve you stronger in the long term and you won't find yourselves entangled by the entire paradigm that we have been trapped in now for the past 80 years. 0.99

01:19:43.660 And there's no need for you to run that when you can see how drastically it's failed for us. 0.59

01:19:51.920 I'll go through the rumble rants.

01:19:53.920 So we've got, oh, yes, is Occhador, yeah, absolutely right about the shrines.

01:19:59.600 Engage few for $5, thank you, says, if Japan decides to deploy nukes,

01:20:03.700 the time that would lapse between initial construction and development and ICBMs

01:20:10.400 would be measured with a stopwatch.

01:20:13.660 And also for $5, that's a random name, says Japan shows that earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, volcanic eruptions, and two nuclear strikes are less destructive than demographic replacement and diversity.

01:20:25.880 Yeah, absolutely true, random name.

01:20:27.280 Japan's one of those amazing examples of, oh, we're poor because of colonialism.

01:20:31.260 It's like, no, or because you're the kind of people who want to be poor.

01:20:35.380 That's what it is.

01:20:37.280 Do we have video comments, Samson?

01:20:40.940 Okay, great.

01:20:41.680 do you want to go through a comment or two from your segment

01:20:44.940 yeah I can do

01:20:45.740 Omar says

01:20:48.600 with all the circus going around in the by-election

01:20:50.500 you have to feel sorry for the people who collect and who don't seem to be the focus at all

01:20:53.180 regardless of the result

01:20:55.020 this isn't an election for them 0.88

01:20:56.140 which is true

01:20:57.060 the drumming

01:21:02.580 can't you hear it

01:21:07.240 I thought it would stop

01:21:10.960 it never does

01:21:14.580 enough

01:21:21.980 patience

01:21:30.500 is not thy will

01:21:33.120 history will repeat itself

01:21:37.480 yeah the problem was the Saxons at those battles

01:21:39.740 um michael says as much as u.s politics is interesting english politics is practically

01:21:45.100 entertaining it's a drama series as good as anything produced by the bbc back in the day

01:21:49.720 it's in the u.s it's a football game watching the score change every round but in england

01:21:53.700 it's like watching a very complex board game and every square has a card that randomly changes the

01:21:57.660 game and that's honestly true i mean this thing has been very entertaining uh if nothing else

01:22:03.860 um we can see that the clarkton by-election is going to be a political comedy and or satire

01:22:09.100 what if nigel actually goes all in with the comedy uh he'll probably lose to be honest

01:22:13.180 don't don't be brilliant um justin says if i'm honest i kind of feel that all of this theater

01:22:18.940 in what should be a solemn and serious business of governing our country as being a complete and

01:22:23.820 blatant reflection of how corrupt and meaningless democracy has become yeah nobody feels like

01:22:27.780 there's anything at stake here yes right what's at stake is farage's career and that's it but that

01:22:32.860 isn't that so strange it's like everyone's behaving like there's nothing at stake when

01:22:36.660 in fact there's never been so much at stake in our current times yeah yeah no that's exactly

01:22:42.220 right uh jimbo says i thought four hours and bimface were funny for about five minutes and

01:22:46.020 now i hate it yeah i was the same like you know the other day i was like haha that is funny i'm

01:22:49.740 benevolent haha okay but now it's like okay it's not a joke really is it well six more weeks eh 0.65

01:22:55.160 michael says karl uh so they donate to foreign agents for us foreign pedophiles 0.52

01:23:03.680 isn't just smarmy trees in a sellout it's evil and it's like yeah no you're right

01:23:09.900 and says uh where i live in the u.s many of the grocery stores and local universities have

01:23:14.240 installed solar panels in the parking lot it's great because now there's a lot more covered

01:23:17.540 parking yeah it just sold there's two birds with one stone like why would you not just do really

01:23:22.320 that's the only place for solar panels that and and rooftops it's not on fields on actually

01:23:28.000 productive fields are you crazy if they're not put over on over the grass so you can't now play

01:23:32.400 football on it or something come on that's a terrible idea kevin says uh andy burnham to be

01:23:37.140 given a dossier does someone print off the labor 25 list that'll have taken a few pages

01:23:41.140 yeah indeed um star was fiery but mostly peaceful backdoor says that's a great username uh

01:23:49.280 gold subscriber well done chap um new hate fact i learned the other day you're eight times more

01:23:54.820 likely to die of diarrhea in india than to be shot in america well i mean it's not if you're

01:23:59.360 japanese you're not yeah unironically i was thinking about this the other day actually

01:24:06.480 if you did go on holiday to india where or what would you eat fruit i've been there once my

01:24:14.140 sister's a vegetarian she still got it really yeah oh she went over there for a few weeks and

01:24:18.440 she got it yeah if you visit if you if you visit india diarrhea is inevitable yeah that's basically

01:24:25.000 And you would have to eat at the most high-end, high-end places,

01:24:28.880 and then you still get it.

01:24:32.260 Inus familiaris.

01:24:33.300 If you go to the high-end places, you just get diarrhea,

01:24:36.260 whereas if you go to the low-end places, you die.

01:24:39.760 So the spectrum isn't what you think.

01:24:43.520 There is a third option. 1.00

01:24:45.220 Stay away from India. 1.00

01:24:48.580 I was thinking about this the day in the shower as well. 1.00

01:24:50.620 Why would I ever want to go to India?

01:24:53.700 I was young.

01:24:55.000 Whereabouts did you go?

01:24:57.220 Delhi.

01:24:57.960 And how was it?

01:25:02.840 Hold up.

01:25:04.820 I don't know how to describe it.

01:25:08.260 The combination of chaos and dishonesty and dirt

01:25:12.900 and then some areas that are kept very, very clean

01:25:16.600 through insane amounts of effort.

01:25:20.560 Through insane amounts of discrimination.

01:25:22.120 Yes.

01:25:22.360 Well, yes.

01:25:24.140 and then like the gated communities and it's just very strange yeah it's very strange anything that

01:25:32.840 is nice is behind a high wall and anytime the wall is breached you get what you expect

01:25:42.860 imagine these curpan permit registry says national dignity means nothing when losing

01:25:50.200 to a led by donkeys candidate becomes an actual option well this is why i was just like look just 0.60

01:25:54.620 don't don't bother standing right because honestly count binface will probably beat you right because 0.63

01:26:00.440 he's gonna have the national media behind him yes it'll probably be a few thousand libtards in 0.93

01:26:04.660 clacton which is like oh yeah wouldn't it be funny to vote for the bin candidate so probably 0.96

01:26:09.140 like 3 000 votes or something and you'll lose to that you'll get 200 votes or something it's like

01:26:14.420 yeah sorry the question is as well with all of these like joke characters other than you know

01:26:19.820 Kai is obviously going in there to obviously, you know, across an actual case.

01:26:24.020 But it's not like he's getting some experience.

01:26:25.640 Yeah, and he's getting some experience and everything.

01:26:27.760 But like the rest of them, it's like, OK, but if all of the other contestants are not from the established parties,

01:26:34.180 then what encouragement is there for reforms voters to actually turn out and vote?

01:26:39.740 And so you could get a very, very low turnout for Farage as well,

01:26:43.120 because actually, no matter how high it is, doesn't speak to any genuine mandate.

01:26:49.820 first kevin says first wasn't entirely correct with the statement uh there could be three sources

01:26:57.620 the ncaa the bank uh by themselves an outside source promote witch hunt sorry i'm not actually

01:27:02.020 sure what that no that's too conspiratorial and clearly he's been shaken by the allegation

01:27:06.720 uh no that that doesn't make any sense frankly sorry yeah i mean i'm not convinced because i

01:27:12.900 can't remember what i was talking about um omar says japanese curry is like indian is indian like

01:27:18.060 english breakfast tea is tea with milk is chinese the resemblance is superficial the character of

01:27:22.900 the dish is exclusive to the japanese india doesn't even have the recipe it was the same

01:27:26.600 as chicken tikka masala make it's invented in england they don't eat that in india um

01:27:31.700 michael says can confirm japanese food xenophobia my wife is japanese and swear that japan has the

01:27:37.940 best uh indian italian mexican english and american food etc huh um jimbo says i was about

01:27:44.900 say there shouldn't be a single mosque in japan then i realized the same is true of england but

01:27:48.880 alas what would richard the lionheart think honestly i just don't understand why we tolerate 1.00

01:27:53.720 it i just don't i don't want like the worship houses of foreign religions in my country no

01:27:59.360 i just don't understand why we want that carl in a different time you'd have been an excellent 0.78

01:28:04.760 inquisitor andrew says curry was introduced by to japan by the british is then adapted into an

01:28:12.580 original japanese version by local preference good for them curry houses in japan have zero

01:28:16.960 relation to india and predate indians ever setting foot in the country i'm sure everything in japan

01:28:21.000 does um the same thing happened with pretty much all foreign food in the country uh bernard

01:28:26.260 warhawk says want to hear something scary india can have five million of their people

01:28:31.320 so they could send them to five million indians to every country on earth and still have 500 0.76

01:28:36.940 million left over in reserve that is actually mad and and mode is using that yeah and actively

01:28:44.240 using that strategy absolutely i saw i was going to do a thing on this the other day because it's

01:28:48.780 it's a conscious strategy for them to literally send people out and then weapon leverage the

01:28:53.820 diaspora he said that for years yeah like he was actually transparent about it yeah it was in their

01:28:58.220 manifesto in like 2020 or something you know it's like actually a manifesto pledge i'm going to 0.96

01:29:03.360 leverage the indian diaspora and make sure we keep sending indians overseas it's like fine that's

01:29:09.100 your prerogative i get that as a hindu nationalist like prime minister of india but why are we

01:29:13.520 accepting exactly because rishi sunak is also a hindu nationalist yeah like you're wali in number

01:29:21.200 10 you know like i don't and baron warhawk says japan should heed the xbox warning an xbox uh

01:29:28.720 company an indian woman got put in charge and now she's fired 3 000 american employees and

01:29:32.620 announced who will be replaced with 5,000 new employees from India. 0.74

01:29:36.140 What a shock.

01:29:37.860 Lancelot says, drinking Indian water is like playing Oregon Trail.

01:29:41.740 You have all died of dysentery.

01:29:45.860 I worked so hard to open a restaurant in Japan,

01:29:48.680 I was scared about the new visa renewal.

01:29:49.960 What should I do?

01:29:50.640 I don't care.

01:29:51.840 Nothing will approve until the three-word sentence becomes the law of the land.

01:29:54.940 I'm not even unsympathetic.

01:29:56.820 Like I said, I like the Nepalese, actually,

01:29:58.400 because I've met them and they seem really nice.

01:30:00.300 I'm a big fan of a Discord democracy.

01:30:02.400 Yeah, well, yeah.

01:30:03.360 And a lot of them are Christians, 1.00

01:30:04.840 and that's why they come to the West 1.00

01:30:05.720 and stuff like this, right?

01:30:06.660 So I'm not against the Nepalese, 0.92

01:30:08.920 but at the end of the day,

01:30:09.900 what will happen to my daughter? 1.00

01:30:11.300 She'll go back to Nepal 1.00

01:30:12.200 and be raised with her family. 1.00

01:30:14.300 That's what will happen.

01:30:16.060 It's not the end of the world.

01:30:17.620 No.

01:30:18.040 No one's going to come to any harm.

01:30:22.620 And again, Michael, Carl,

01:30:24.020 not a big fan of Islam. 1.00

01:30:25.340 For us, no, kick them out, 1.00

01:30:26.240 destroy the mosque, 1.00

01:30:26.840 deport the convent. 1.00

01:30:30.140 And that's all we've got time for,

01:30:31.480 ladies and gentlemen

01:30:32.440 that was a paraphrase

01:30:34.440 of what for us

01:30:34.980 his position is

01:30:35.600 I'm sure

01:30:36.060 yeah

01:30:36.500 it was his actual

01:30:37.660 position after

01:30:38.340 anyway right

01:30:39.240 thank you for joining us

01:30:40.400 ladies and gentlemen

01:30:41.020 hope you've enjoyed

01:30:41.700 the show today

01:30:42.360 and see you for the

01:30:43.200 podcast tomorrow

01:30:43.960 take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - July 09, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1458

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