The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1462

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 1,462.

00:00:06.400 Islander! Islander 6! It's out! Buy it!

00:00:10.020 It's only 15... I'm sorry, it's £14.99.

00:00:12.720 It's only 15 quid.

00:00:14.500 Shaving a penny off of our audience, Harry.

00:00:16.420 You do understand how much these things go for on resale, don't you? 1.00

00:00:20.280 If you don't get it now before it sells out, frankly, you're just stupid. 1.00

00:00:24.040 So buy it. 1.00

00:00:25.460 Here's Josh.

00:00:26.740 Buy ten of them.

00:00:27.760 Here's Nate.

00:00:28.480 and we're going to talk about 1.00

00:00:30.740 Britain being rubbish 1.00

00:00:32.280 Keir Starmer being 0.99

00:00:34.240 like trying to be a good guy

00:00:36.320 for his last few weeks of office

00:00:38.020 and you're going to be talking to us about your love

00:00:40.620 of BBC

00:00:41.860 No, the nation's love

00:00:44.280 Alright then

00:00:46.220 Samson, the aircon's

00:00:48.840 gone off mate

00:00:49.260 That's no surprise

00:00:52.340 I had to say it because I'm going to

00:00:53.700 You are wearing your three piece today as well

00:00:56.840 That's fair

00:00:57.640 Harry's already sweating.

00:00:59.140 Oh, yeah, my hands are already.

00:01:00.720 I'm just greasy.

00:01:02.600 I mean, you should be able to understand being a greasy man yourself.

00:01:05.800 Greasy man.

00:01:06.980 Harry hasn't washed today.

00:01:08.680 Yeah, I washed last night.

00:01:10.320 Thank you very much.

00:01:11.100 I had to go, you could put 4.30 in him.

00:01:12.640 Get on the road straight away.

00:01:14.740 On the road again?

00:01:16.460 Yeah, the office, the main office, stinks very distinctly of BO and sweat.

00:01:21.800 So expect the same in here.

00:01:23.860 Not that you can smell us.

00:01:25.620 Maybe you can.

00:01:26.220 Smell us through this.

00:01:27.160 All right, let's get on with it then.

00:01:30.000 Can we wait for the AC to be on?

00:01:31.760 Because Samson's banging around back there.

00:01:37.620 Lotus Ease has never changed.

00:01:39.540 It's good to be back.

00:01:40.560 I was going to say, welcome back, Josh.

00:01:42.480 For the first time in ages, it was almost like you'd left or something,

00:01:46.080 but thankfully we know you'd never do that.

00:01:48.080 Yes, I'm like a recurring health... 0.69

00:01:50.420 You're like a bad smell, appropriately.

00:01:53.240 Yeah, I just sort of ooze in under the door.

00:01:56.100 Like Slimer.

00:01:57.160 exactly like that yeah yeah hope everyone's been having a good week so far yeah yeah we've just

00:02:05.320 we've got a long week this one this one's dragging this week you know like this is what i mean you

00:02:10.700 know how like a week goes by and you're like oh holy shit a week's gone i'll tell you what i did

00:02:14.220 see actually to actually talk about something mildly relevant to people's lives something

00:02:18.580 interesting for people on the way here i saw farmers um using the combines on their crops

00:02:25.480 the crops are tiny

00:02:27.520 so food prices are going to go up

00:02:29.820 quite a bit because it's not rained all summer

00:02:31.940 here so do prepare for that

00:02:34.000 it's going to be an expensive year for food

00:02:35.880 next year. They should be changing

00:02:37.360 they should start doing vineyards

00:02:40.080 instead. That would be nice

00:02:41.760 That's what we used to do in this country. If we get cheaper wine

00:02:43.940 and cheaper olives I could live with more

00:02:45.800 expensive bread. I mean wine

00:02:47.980 has calories in it. Yeah I know

00:02:50.020 yeah

00:02:50.220 I know yeah

00:02:52.540 I noticed

00:02:53.840 it's my preferred drink of choice now i'm in my 30s we all good samson

00:02:59.760 no no right we're just gonna have to we're just gonna have to sweat it out boys

00:03:07.180 sweat cast well all right and with with that take us into the news josh so britain is burning at

00:03:16.460 the minute and in fact there are lots and lots of fires all across the country um and if you're

00:03:21.480 concerned about that what you could do is buy a copy of islander six it won't help you with fire

00:03:26.840 it's not fireproof in fact it might catch on fire but you'll feel better as the flames slowly

00:03:32.980 consume you having read such nourishing articles and so if you want peace in your end of days this

00:03:40.300 is the magazine for you also we have merch a great great thing to die to islander six

00:03:48.120 what a sell um if you want a last drink of water or tea or coffee before you go you can get a mug

00:03:55.660 or a nice t-shirt so when they find you you're going to be well dressed well not if you're

00:04:00.500 burned to death well it's not people will remember this is quite morbid and uh it's only going to get

00:04:07.660 worse from here um because there have been lots and lots of fires all across britain um i'm going

00:04:13.680 to play this video this is from north wales i believe uh yes um hopefully there's no sound

00:04:19.740 because it's loud um yes this is uh going on all across the country and i don't think anyone

00:04:27.700 really realizes quite the extent to which that all these fires are widespread and it is a little

00:04:33.980 bit concerning because it has been very dry um there's not been much rain um as i was talking

00:04:39.520 about before we got into um this segment um because of that there's also been not much in

00:04:45.980 the way of farms crops growing but um the bbc put together this map which if we could

00:04:50.700 perhaps zoom out a little bit um samson on this if we could zoom out um but basically that's that's

00:04:59.820 in that's the opposite about um but thank you anyway um so you can see the the red dots are

00:05:06.820 fires active in the last 24 hours from yesterday when this was published and then the slightly

00:05:13.080 lighter dots the past seven days and you can see that actually there have been quite a few fires

00:05:19.580 here which is sort of unsurprising given how we've had a long spell of hot weather which is

00:05:26.340 uncharacteristic of Britain. I think it shocks everyone into a sort of state of uncertainty

00:05:32.960 But one thing that is going on is that you've got people like Zach Polanski saying,

00:05:39.900 the climate crisis is not a distant threat, it's here and it's happening now.

00:05:44.180 And our fire brigade on the front line of it are asking for help.

00:05:48.260 So they're making it about the climate.

00:05:50.460 But actually, it's a lot more nuanced than that.

00:05:53.100 First and foremost, it's worth mentioning the makeup of the British Isles.

00:05:56.700 And the areas that tend to have fires tend to be moorlands and heathlands.

00:06:02.100 and of course mountains are thrown in here as well but most people know where the mountains

00:06:07.000 are in the British Isles but you can see that you've got tracks of the north of England you've

00:06:11.840 got northern Wales which you know I showed you the video of and southern Wales as well and parts

00:06:17.800 of Devon and Cornwall and round here as well and then if you go forest down there yes it is and

00:06:23.500 there are lots of moorlands and heathlands down yeah I've been been camping there quite a lot

00:06:27.020 And you can see that, in part, it maps onto this a little bit.

00:06:31.100 So there is partially a natural explanation.

00:06:34.560 But of course, if people are deliberately starting fires or even just being negligent,

00:06:39.600 it makes sense that it's in the areas that are most vulnerable to them in the first place.

00:06:44.520 Because, you know, if you live in, say, central London,

00:06:47.800 it's going to be pretty difficult to start a fire on the concrete with no organic matter

00:06:52.380 other than the refuse on the streets, perhaps.

00:06:55.140 um and so what i wanted to talk about um was the fact that actually oh it's uh it's quite often the

00:07:04.280 case that these fires aren't natural so all of the instances that i'm showing in britain today

00:07:09.740 i took um from yesterday so it's just one 24 hour period just which articles in the news cycle are

00:07:18.200 about people starting fires so here we've got a woman who was accused of arson this was one of

00:07:25.400 the widely published ones i believe um this was near manchester um saddleworth i think that's near

00:07:32.920 manchester isn't it harry you're the resident norther okay i'm sorry her name was shania slade

00:07:41.540 yes but there's no mention of motive or anything like that um although it was reported that

00:07:48.640 fireworks were being used in the middle of the daytime in the moorlands you can see here it is

00:07:52.940 not night time while the fires are going on that's the um typically best time for fireworks

00:07:58.300 yeah in the middle of the day um but there is actually a video of what went on here

00:08:04.560 and there's no audio for whatever reason but it's probably for the best because i imagine it'd be

00:08:10.620 very annoying because what it is is a bunch of youths um launching fireworks in the middle of

00:08:17.340 the day and uh oh oh starting fires that's one of the usual oh usual just big groups of youths

00:08:25.800 just in the middle of the countryside for some reason uh launching fireworks when it's not

00:08:32.420 rained for a very long time and starting fires there's a pair to be um ethnic component well

00:08:39.020 It seems a bit mixed.

00:08:40.900 Yeah, it's a bit of a mixed group.

00:08:42.740 But my point isn't necessarily that, you know,

00:08:46.640 it's ethnic minorities going out and starting fires,

00:08:48.600 or even that it's eco-people saying that it's, you know, 0.60

00:08:52.320 there are lots of fires, therefore we need climate lockdowns

00:08:55.320 or something like that. 1.00

00:08:56.440 Sometimes it's just idiots doing these things. 1.00

00:08:59.540 Actually, it looked a bit more just like a gang of idiotic teenage chavs. 1.00

00:09:03.740 Exactly. 1.00

00:09:04.640 And the fact that they're laughing about it and videoing it

00:09:07.760 seems to suggest that they didn't really care that much about the fact that they just started

00:09:13.500 a big fire which by the way fire travels fast if someone's say walking they don't realize there's

00:09:19.340 a fire nearby sometimes they travel about 40 miles per hour especially when it's windy and

00:09:24.140 it travels which you can't outrun and uh people do die and we typically do have uh summers where

00:09:31.020 it's warm but also very windy all at the same time yes how we often get burnt and how i've been

00:09:37.920 burnt this summer you just don't really because of the wind and so these fires can actually kill

00:09:43.820 people and actually are a reason for concern although often they're in the countryside they're

00:09:48.740 in rural areas and that's not to mention the destruction of habitat and the like although

00:09:53.160 some moorlands are deliberately burnt um exactly um it's done a lot on dartmoor near where i grew

00:10:00.420 up where they burn all the gorse bushes off because they're not that useful um and they allow

00:10:06.360 other things to grow up for the grazing animals and the like so some of the controlled burning

00:10:10.400 is actually quite nutritious for the ground as well exactly yeah because the ashes come down

00:10:14.500 and as long as it rains somewhat soon after it forms a nutritious layer for new growth and the

00:10:19.620 like um but then there are other instances as well just yesterday um these are two teenagers

00:10:27.040 arrested following arson attack on crop fields in york of course you don't actually get these

00:10:32.700 reported um in mainstream news outlets mainly because people don't necessarily put two and two

00:10:39.220 together that actually a lot of these fires are because of people either you know teenagers being 0.99

00:10:45.780 idiots or people being negligent maybe not putting out a barbecue or having campfires when they 0.98

00:10:52.620 perhaps shouldn't um but the farmers magazines pick up on these because it affects them quite 0.99

00:10:58.540 severely well primarily they won't be reporting on this widely because it doesn't fit the narrative

00:11:04.320 that they're wishing to push at the moment exactly climate narrative so you know if this was

00:11:09.800 you know say on on the bbc you know headlines for instance you know team there's a a rampant

00:11:15.300 a wave of arson then well yeah that would defeat their object of pushing this climate

00:11:23.220 yeah but thankfully a lot of the local news and the farmers news reports on this stuff

00:11:29.900 so here's another one as well this is from cambridgeshire people just deliberately starting

00:11:37.280 fires apparently six fires were seen at different locations around fields and hedgerows around this

00:11:42.560 single farm. Um, and then there's another one here in Trowbridge, which is Wiltshire,

00:11:48.280 which is where we are currently. Um, another arson probe after teenagers, again,

00:11:54.500 starting fires and also West Yorkshire as well. Um, BBC did report on this one, but they just

00:12:02.240 say arson arrests after fields set on fire, which is about as low density of information as you can

00:12:08.520 get um so considering all of these news articles came out in a 24-hour period it perhaps gives a

00:12:17.840 new perspective on this graphic that um fires active in the last 24 hours well actually a

00:12:25.880 decent portion of those are going to be people either deliberately starting them or um are going

00:12:33.540 to be people being negligent because that does happen as well not everything is malicious there

00:12:37.940 are lots of instances of people just not knowing how to properly deal with things and particularly

00:12:42.220 when it comes to sort of peat land in moorlands people don't realize that the fire can travel

00:12:49.220 underground in the peat and then pop up in other areas and so they'll think that it's controlled

00:12:54.560 and that they can manage it and actually is burning underground and that can bubble up to

00:13:00.580 the surface not the correct verb there but it can come up to the surface and actually start a proper

00:13:07.580 fire above ground, which can be very dangerous. But it's not just Britain as well. Paris is

00:13:15.940 undergoing the same thing at the minute and lots of other areas of France as well, because believe

00:13:21.340 it or not, they're undergoing the same heat wave. And there are also instances of arson there as

00:13:28.080 well. And so they're trying to create this narrative that it's this climate crisis, but

00:13:33.040 actually it's people deliberately starting fires on purpose. Apparently an area of 4,700 acres has

00:13:42.000 been burnt which is three times the size of Gibraltar according to this news article which

00:13:46.640 is an interesting metric to use and 900 people have had to be evacuated so it's quite serious

00:13:51.620 I mean it's quite scary for basically a whole village to potentially lose their homes and again

00:13:58.660 This is one from the past 24 hours, as well as that previous one, where it was fireworks again, firework mortars sparking fires in France.

00:14:10.140 But there are also cases of people deliberately starting them.

00:14:13.960 And here was an interesting one from 2022 of an ex-firefighter.

00:14:18.260 He defected to the opposite side and started starting fires for some reason.

00:14:24.000 and uh his motivation for doing it um at which he said um he'd started several over the last few

00:14:30.760 three years um up until that point where he was caught he said for the adrenaline to get social

00:14:36.300 recognition and he also said um to escape um his um oppressive family environment to provoke

00:14:46.160 firefighting operations so he could get away from home so sorry sorry he he started them whilst he

00:14:52.400 was an active fireman yes it was like well i'm just gonna start this fast i'll get called out

00:14:56.340 so what so he could try and run away from that's mental so there are all sorts of crazy people out

00:15:01.600 there um and speaking of which there's a case in canada here i haven't looked into this one so i'm

00:15:08.220 just gonna take it at face value here but maybe there's more detail um but this is how cnn presents

00:15:14.540 anyway so take it with a grain of salt uh a climate conspiracy theorist said the government

00:15:19.240 deliberately lit wildfires. He just pleaded guilty to start in 14 himself, which, uh, you know,

00:15:26.080 person wants to prove their own theory, correct, uh, publicly perhaps. And they go around starting

00:15:31.500 fires, but this is from, uh, 2024, the article, but it was of talking about the fires started in

00:15:37.740 2023 in Canada. Um, and, um, yes, there are also attempts to debunk the notion that people are

00:15:46.500 deliberately starting fires here's vox saying the viral false claim that nearly 200 arsonists are

00:15:52.680 behind australia's fires this is from 2020 and uh within the article they say actually 24 people

00:16:00.080 are currently facing criminal charges for deliberately igniting fires in new south wales

00:16:04.340 so it's only 24 people it's not 200 but 24 is probably enough to start large they did

00:16:09.960 bred wildfires they did less than 10 each yeah that counts for all of them yeah it's a bit

00:16:17.140 ridiculous really oh wait sorry sorry 200 arsonists are behind the australia fires but yeah 20 24

00:16:22.400 that's enough that's still enough to claim that arsonists started the fires and the the la wild

00:16:28.840 fires at the beginning of last year um wasn't that accidentally started by just one guy i believe so

00:16:35.320 yes i thought about including them but um and it spread so much and so fast that like half of la

00:16:41.840 had to evacuate yeah and there are also videos of people deliberately starting fires i saw a few of

00:16:47.160 those while i was doing the research but i just kept them out because we covered it at the time

00:16:50.900 yeah and i didn't want to go over for the round sorry if it was more than one it's a while ago

00:16:55.660 no no um there were lots of people starting fires but it was that main guy who um who's one uh

00:17:02.060 spread whereas some of the other ones they didn't necessarily spread far and were contained

00:17:05.960 um but yes it does seem to be caused by just one guy that's where all the celebrities lost their

00:17:11.360 houses yeah um so yes um you also get things like this most wildfires on the west coast are all being

00:17:19.820 started by antifa and then they're saying it's false actually it was not antifa it was some other

00:17:25.000 guy oh oh that makes it better that's fine then yeah you've you've got you've got us you've debunked

00:17:30.240 But notice how they always have this specific, narrow definition to falsify, when actually the reality is that when it's hot, fires can be started either negligently or deliberately.

00:17:43.560 But what you're not going to get in a lot of these is people talking about these things in a way that's actually rational and looking at the evidence.

00:17:51.220 And the evidence seems to suggest that a decent portion are either deliberate or accidental and caused by human beings.

00:17:57.780 it's not that the fire is just starting because it's so scorchingly hot because although it does

00:18:03.080 happen in nature that you get fires it's not as common as people think um you know think of how

00:18:09.920 difficult it is to start a fire with you know a hand drill or something like that it's not an easy

00:18:15.960 thing to do and so you you often need you know modern technology a lighter fireworks or a

00:18:23.480 cigarette is a good example i accidentally set fire to my uh recycling bin once last year i

00:18:30.960 threw a cigarette that hadn't actually gone out in there and then like 20 minutes later i was like

00:18:35.580 why does it smell like smoke see it's you it's harry it's me it's me the whole time i had to

00:18:43.060 use the hose pipe to put the whole thing out it's rather embarrassing really but um yes in

00:18:48.500 California, heat and dry conditions make arson a more potent threat. At least NBC here reported

00:18:54.500 on it accurately in that the conditions make it right for people to do bad things. That's the

00:18:59.620 real story here. It's not that people are going out and it's just the environment conjuring up

00:19:07.400 fires because of climate change. Sometimes it's just hot and this happens. And of course, it's

00:19:12.980 not to say that it's not something to worry about because this happened in Spain recently.

00:19:17.300 um you know just a few days ago um a wildfire killed at least 12 people and i believe there

00:19:23.080 are 23 people missing i don't know whether there are any updates on that including four britons

00:19:28.180 and lots of other people and that's in almeria which i've been to quite a few times actually

00:19:32.600 in spain and if you don't know it's quite a desert-y region um close by is where they filmed

00:19:39.440 the the you know the good the bad and the ugly trilogy the dollars trilogy as they're known

00:19:44.020 um good place to visit by the way um but apparently not then not when it's on fire um but if you if

00:19:52.680 you've seen those films you've seen those environments you know what this is like

00:19:55.960 quite a lot of spain looks like that even even closer up north um around sort of like the

00:20:01.240 barcelona area there are parts of it that's still kind of sandy not quite as desert like as that but

00:20:06.700 a lot of it is very dry and dusty and also some of the locals do mental stuff one time i was there

00:20:12.100 about 10 years ago i was in this little town called astarte a little beach town it must have

00:20:17.120 been some national or local holiday or something in the evening there was just like huge crowds of

00:20:22.640 people out and they had children literally firing fireworks at one another in the street i remember

00:20:29.500 when i was in in spain um in almeria actually and there was a guy just letting off fireworks from

00:20:35.300 his hands he just had them in his pots like these little fireworks in his pocket and was just

00:20:40.700 lighting them and just letting go of them at the right time and i noticed that he had a finger

00:20:44.400 missing so i wonder how that happened i don't know the kids were the same they were just firing them

00:20:49.640 from their hands and they were sort of aiming them at one another and if you're walking in the wrong

00:20:54.180 place in the street you had to kind of dodge out of the way because you just suddenly find a

00:20:58.320 firework heading straight for you and yeah if you're doing that sort of stuff if it weren't

00:21:02.940 for the fact that it was a beach if it had been somewhere where it was a little bit more um

00:21:07.320 foliage to catch then you know could have easily set the whole place on fire but my point being is

00:21:13.120 that there's not really much we can do about this it seems like a lot of these fires are deliberate

00:21:19.340 that much needs to be emphasized but also how do you prevent this sort of thing often it's in the

00:21:26.340 middle of nowhere with very little supervision and you can't prevent people from going to areas

00:21:32.280 that are susceptible to fire, because in the case of Britain, that's a decent portion of the

00:21:37.520 country. And so the only thing I can really think of is making sure that the fire services are

00:21:44.480 sufficiently supported in these sorts of times. But when it's this widespread, I imagine it's

00:21:50.400 quite difficult for them to contain it. Many of these fires have got like 8,500 firefighters

00:21:55.680 responding to them. So it's quite draining if they're a multiple in close proximity to one

00:22:01.020 another these sorts of areas for example um so i suppose it's something that as a as a civilization

00:22:07.860 we're going to have to answer eventually especially as the population grows but i just wanted to 0.99

00:22:14.020 mention that it's not climate change necessarily it could well just be lots of idiots arrest all 0.99

00:22:21.420 teenagers that's my solution yes you spend your adolescence in prison that'll form some character 1.00

00:22:29.820 deport all chinese all chinese well where are they getting the fireworks from yeah you invented 1.00

00:22:36.880 fireworks therefore you all suffer and then and then arrest all children it just makes the most 1.00

00:22:42.200 sense so there's quite a few here that's random name i can smell downtown swindon through the

00:22:47.780 screen apologies for that one one tall order says we have lotus eaters out of context i think we need

00:22:54.100 technical difficulties of the lotus eaters that would surely be an endless video all you need

00:22:58.520 for technical difficulties it's just to uh they have come on thankfully yes uh yeah all you'd need 0.50

00:23:03.780 for that is to watch the podcast live sigil stone the heat is so bad i saw a nigerian meltdown and

00:23:09.360 fill a pothole yeah it's happening organically now finally they're attributing you you don't

00:23:14.840 even need reform uh candidates to let it happen he got elected as well didn't he well of course

00:23:20.620 with a campaign message like that that's a random name those burning uh burnings near where you grew

00:23:26.440 up is because they knew you were hiding in the wilderness josh they were trying to root you out 0.68

00:23:30.720 the gypsy life ain't easy don't expose people to my my sneaky ways like that you know uh claim to 0.98

00:23:37.740 re-tarmac your driveway and paint it black now yeah if there's ever a bustle in your head row 1.00

00:23:41.580 this guy zeppelin reference there uh sigil stone oh the effing uh canadians are poisoning my air

00:23:49.540 with wildfire smoke again no wonder i felt like s the last couple of days we need to invade canada

00:23:55.760 for this yearly ecological terrorism.

00:23:58.340 Of course, Americans always looking for any excuse

00:24:00.600 to try and invade Canada.

00:24:02.120 Mm-hmm.

00:24:03.880 Good luck with that, Sigil Steyn.

00:24:05.780 Once all order again,

00:24:06.880 that reform candidate's suggestion

00:24:08.300 on what to do about potholes.

00:24:10.820 I have a similar suggestion

00:24:12.200 for what to do about arsonists, blimey.

00:24:14.640 I've got a great idea.

00:24:15.300 Use them to put out fires.

00:24:17.480 Have an on-stand group of arsonists at all times

00:24:22.080 and you can roll them collectively over the fire

00:24:24.420 to put it out.

00:24:25.020 I thought you were going sort of like the opposite to that firefighter

00:24:27.860 who turned to the dark side and sided with the fire.

00:24:30.900 Make them firefighters.

00:24:33.220 No, no, you just bundle them all together like a bundle of sticks

00:24:36.780 and you just roll them over the fire.

00:24:38.560 Arsonist farsies. 0.99

00:24:39.780 Yes.

00:24:41.140 Once all order.

00:24:42.120 Also, we had something similar here in the US,

00:24:43.960 the sewage leak into the Potomac outside DC.

00:24:46.640 Climate freaks were trying to blame subsequent algae bloom

00:24:49.540 on the heat wave we've had.

00:24:51.240 Yes, sewage leaks are often responsible for those sorts of things.

00:24:55.020 um base tape enjoy the spain versus argentina game this weekend oof that's that's harsh that

00:25:01.820 is saying we're going to samson banning from the chat yeah that's us i don't even like football

00:25:06.220 but i mean come on man that's just not kind uh that's a random name for the record the u.s lost

00:25:11.080 every war against us know your place um i don't know who's that who is that in response to uh

00:25:19.420 that's in response to sigil stone about canada that's a random name of course being one of those

00:25:24.320 mark carney indians that canada brought in as far as i remember you know you kind of just look the

00:25:32.800 same um anyway uh i'm going to talk about the shocking face turn of starmer in his last few

00:25:40.560 weeks as prime minister of britain first though by islander it's very very cheap compared to what 0.98

00:25:47.180 you'll be paying for it if you try and get it through ebay so don't be stupid be smart buy it 0.99

00:25:53.200 now or I pay you. Yeah. So anyway, we are looking down the barrel currently of an Andy Burnham 1.00

00:26:04.140 prime minister. It's pretty much confirmed because I think Bo spoke about this on Monday,

00:26:09.380 but on Monday, Mr. Burnham, Mr. Andy Burnham, Andrew to his mum, secured the backing of 349

00:26:17.560 MPs, which meant that there were fewer than 81 MPs who could have backed anybody else,

00:26:21.960 which means there's no leadership contest, there's no circus around the whole thing.

00:26:25.720 The only circuses that we need to worry about are the Manchester mayoral election

00:26:29.180 and the Clacton by-election.

00:26:30.960 Thank God we don't also have a leadership contest to worry about as well.

00:26:37.060 He has sailed straight through.

00:26:40.060 Andy Burnham, as a result, it says, is more or less confirmed.

00:26:43.080 It requires the approval of three organisations affiliated to the Labour Party

00:26:46.760 to rubber stamp it, but, I mean, who else are they going to go for?

00:26:49.640 Are they just going to say no?

00:26:51.120 No, sorry.

00:26:51.620 The writing was on the wall.

00:26:52.840 Sorry, you're too specky and northern for us, Andy.

00:26:57.040 Sorry, you've got to go.

00:26:57.940 We're getting Rainer in instead.

00:27:00.420 The most universal approval among Labour's 403 MPs

00:27:03.880 means that parties will not mean to vote.

00:27:06.640 Assuming three organisations give their backing to him,

00:27:09.520 he'll become Prime Minister on Monday, the 20th of July,

00:27:13.740 as the House of Commons goes into recess.

00:27:15.840 So that is next Monday.

00:27:17.600 We could have as soon as then for Andy Burnham.

00:27:21.620 to come in, being the new leader of the Labour Party and the new leader of the country.

00:27:26.660 Keir Starmer will, he's going through his little retirement tour right now, his resignation.

00:27:32.480 He will front his final Prime Minister's questions on Wednesday the 15th, which is today.

00:27:37.720 It's probably going, I think it went on right before we came on.

00:27:41.180 That was the last time you're going to see Keir Starmer shout at Kemi Badenoch.

00:27:46.240 So it's tragic.

00:27:47.480 And I'll be honest, I'm going to miss him because, frankly, in the past few weeks since Andy Burnham was confirmed to have stabbed him in the back and the rest of the party was going to throw Starmer under the bus for being a weird robotic automaton with no feelings or emotion or public relations acumen, he's decided actually he's going to become the good guy now.

00:28:12.000 He's decided, I've had enough with being the face of 15 minutes hate for the country.

00:28:17.320 I'm going to have some fun with this.

00:28:19.140 He's going to have sort of a Darth Vader-esque redemption in his last moments.

00:28:22.840 That seems to be what he's going for.

00:28:24.160 First of all, he created this new clip,

00:28:26.180 because one thing that we'll all miss about him is how memeable he is,

00:28:29.280 when he just came out and called the entire parliament gay. 0.57

00:28:32.400 Really proud that we got the gayest parliament. 0.85

00:28:34.340 I don't think just of all time, anywhere in the world, 0.98

00:28:36.880 I don't think there's any parliament that is gayer than this parliament.

00:28:40.100 i mean we've all said it we've all been thinking it many have been saying this but it's great that 0.98

00:28:47.060 uh you know keir starmer just came out in front of all of his supporters and said you're all gay

00:28:51.800 those uh those ukrainian boys know don't they oh yeah yeah i mean i include keir starmer and how 0.85

00:28:57.240 gay the parliament is obviously i think what makes this clip even better is just the like

00:29:02.040 like the swing jazz playing in the background like it like like he is like some like 0.94

00:29:09.640 doing a pimp walk through his last few weeks of parliament just sort of like flipping people off

00:29:14.840 as he goes he has been absolutely milking the football remember this is a guy who is one of

00:29:22.500 the most historically unpopular prime ministers of recent memory against rather stiff competition

00:29:29.080 it has to be said and one of the rare instances of a prime minister in recent years who isn't a

00:29:36.780 who has been stabbed in the back by his own party because really if things had gone to plan he should

00:29:43.220 have been leading the party until 2029 under the next election that was his in stated intentions

00:29:48.500 but now he got usurped he got couped for Andy Burnham um he's historically unpopular and he's

00:29:54.620 just decided you know what screw it I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the good guy now uh with some of the

00:29:59.300 things that he's been doing with the football especially remember how he was like oh pubs can

00:30:03.620 stay open till 5 a.m so that people can watch the football great thank thank you thank you

00:30:10.620 mr keir starmer he's also expected to announce that if england win the world cup he's going to

00:30:17.320 announce a bank holiday for everybody and given that the world cup finals are on sunday the 19th

00:30:23.920 this leads to the possibility that his final act if england gets through to the finals

00:30:29.140 and then if England wins

00:30:31.600 that Keir Starmer will be handing

00:30:33.420 the keys to number 10

00:30:35.020 as he gives everybody the day off work

00:30:37.460 everybody

00:30:39.340 will love him

00:30:39.980 people in politics have very very short memories

00:30:43.440 you won't have to go to work on Monday

00:30:45.140 hung over thanks to Keir Starmer

00:30:47.560 so you know what

00:30:48.940 I've been rather critical of the guy

00:30:50.840 Keir's been doing it for you

00:30:52.420 this one thing makes it all better Keir

00:30:54.920 you might have been arresting us and persecuting us

00:30:57.580 tyrannizing us and preventing us from getting demographic security but you've given me a day

00:31:02.280 off so far right thugs mate day off forgiven yep exactly and as well as that he's decided

00:31:09.360 he's going to go full patriot mode by telling argentina to f off about recent remarks where

00:31:15.700 pablo quino a pablo quino a member of the argentinian government i just need to double 0.82

00:31:24.520 released a large statement whining about the Falklands because they're sore losers

00:31:29.760 and claimed that the Falkland Islanders were an artificially implanted population to which 1.00

00:31:34.980 the Prime Minister's official spokesman said, so we can be assured that these are the actual

00:31:39.980 thoughts of Keir Starmer because this comes from his official spokesman. Well, no. That was the

00:31:47.340 statement uh he that was it yeah there's well no there was a bit more to it i just kept the

00:31:54.920 part that was actually important which was that he said no like keir starmer's spokesman coming

00:32:01.700 out with a chad no response to the whining argentinians on the falklands question uh so

00:32:07.540 you know patriot patriot our guy this whole time um uh he has been doing some serious stuff

00:32:15.180 Obviously, the actual serious stuff that has been going on, he is still trying to push through a lot of stuff, which is going to help to implement the digital ID agenda that the government has been looking forward to ever since Tony Blair by announcing official social media restrictions specifically for 16 and 17 year olds, which includes daily curfews from midnight to 6am.

00:32:38.280 for you pages based on past interests will be disabled infinite scrolling features like video

00:32:43.200 autoplay being disabled and regular regular mandatory breaks when using ai chat box the

00:32:49.180 restrictions can be turned off but will apply by default this was uh this was something that he

00:32:54.840 said he what this he wanted as his legacy basically tyrannizing children doing 17 year olds this is

00:33:02.860 job of parents basically yeah no but this yeah yeah absolutely right right here's here's the

00:33:08.580 thing um i know what this is actually for this is for digital id because alongside this the

00:33:15.560 government has said that they're not going to restrict access to vpns so if you actually wanted

00:33:20.320 to protect people from these sorts of things then you would also have to restrict vpns because vpns

00:33:24.960 are easy ways to get around this obviously what it's for is to have gate like gatekeeping in place

00:33:31.140 to force these companies and to force app manufacturers and such to comply with digital

00:33:36.280 ID, right? By themselves though, I think just like basically banning smartphones from anyone

00:33:43.600 under the age of 18 would be a fantastic idea. And I'm not actually opposed to this sort of stuff.

00:33:47.940 I know you went automatic lulbert mode with the doing the job of parents.

00:33:53.200 Well, yeah.

00:33:54.900 But parents do not exist in a vacuum and their children have to socialize with other

00:34:00.900 children and if those other children have parents who aren't enforcing the same rules as you you get

00:34:05.860 the social contagion yeah but also you you can just you kind of be good parents and and try and

00:34:13.800 and check your your children's phones and monitor what they're up to and that's do that to a point

00:34:18.760 you can do that to a point but you can't do it eternally if if you want this kind of stuff

00:34:23.240 actually applied uniformly so it's not just your kid it's their friends as well because otherwise

00:34:29.960 maybe you enforce it and they end up being the one weird kid who gets left out because their

00:34:35.560 parents don't let them have all the latest technology or maybe they just get around that

00:34:39.560 by using all their friends stuff anyway i think the best thing to do is have separate platforms

00:34:44.300 especially designed for the age group in question i think it's weird they did in australia um i'm

00:34:50.500 not entirely sure um because there are a load of exemptions in australia for their social media

00:34:54.440 ban which mainly included reddit and i don't want my kids going on reddit either that's the worst

00:34:58.220 place they could exactly that was very politically motivated i think the the unhealthiest thing is

00:35:03.420 having platforms where there are under 18s and over 18s mixing together that's that shouldn't

00:35:09.040 really be done and i think that um the internet used to be a lot better uh separating those two

00:35:15.460 groups and that's when you know in the time that we were growing up right there were lots of things

00:35:20.040 that were dedicated towards well it was it was also in the time that we were growing up children

00:35:24.380 just hadn't yet caught on to social media as much well they didn't have smartphones yeah they did as

00:35:29.140 well like i mean it annoys me that parents sort of absolve themselves of their responsibility

00:35:34.040 from this it's like oh but other kids might no no no you're either a shepherd or you're a sheep

00:35:38.660 like you can lead by example or you can just choose to bow down to everyone else as as as a

00:35:43.880 parent i mean i've only got a toddler right now but i'm dreading the teenage years coming around

00:35:48.740 but i've been told by plenty of people and i can completely understand this perspective

00:35:53.360 You as parents, if you're not helicoptering and monitoring everything that they do,

00:35:59.200 can only do so much.

00:36:00.520 You can set an example, but...

00:36:02.800 They're not going to get £1,000 to buy a smartphone, are they?

00:36:07.000 They exist in a social environment.

00:36:10.540 Yeah, no, I get that.

00:36:11.400 I just...

00:36:12.000 That is going to influence them.

00:36:13.660 Yeah.

00:36:13.960 And you don't want to be the parent whose kids end up hating them over this sort of stuff.

00:36:19.740 even if in the long run it ends up benefiting them how many kids do you have nate i would

00:36:25.600 take my chances mate i would i would be hated to stop my child being groomed online i'm not gonna

00:36:30.480 lie well how many kids do you have because it's very very easy to talk about this sort of stuff

00:36:37.780 when you don't actually have the experience well i mean it isn't yeah i yeah that's all that's all

00:36:42.760 i'm saying here i used to think much the same as you but when you start when you have kids of your

00:36:46.880 own, trust me, it changes your perspective on a lot of this stuff. Either way, this in itself

00:36:52.100 is not actually being done to protect children or teenagers. This is being done to push through 0.51

00:36:57.100 digital ID, which we all know is what's going on. Also, Keir Starmer has officially,

00:37:05.380 his government has officially put through the legislation that will allow for the proscribing

00:37:11.540 being of the IRGC, along with a number of other groups

00:37:15.400 considered to be terror groups in the UK,

00:37:17.680 and has actually broadened the definitions of this,

00:37:19.820 which will allow other groups in the future

00:37:21.660 to have an easier time being classified as terror groups

00:37:25.820 and being prescribed in the government.

00:37:27.380 Will that be Islamic or will that be... 0.81

00:37:29.920 That's a great question. We'll have to see how it goes. 1.00

00:37:31.920 Notice Eater's presenters.

00:37:34.560 No, they've extended it over to Russia as well.

00:37:38.700 Yes.

00:37:38.900 It's not, it's not. 0.73

00:37:39.540 It seems mainly foreign power.

00:37:41.900 So unless we start taking foreign money,

00:37:44.840 I think we should be safe.

00:37:46.480 Also, because I remember reading this,

00:37:49.620 I did think to myself,

00:37:50.540 because they've not said anything about it,

00:37:51.900 what are they going to do with the embassy?

00:37:54.520 Which embassy?

00:37:55.640 The Iranian embassy.

00:37:56.180 The Iranian embassy.

00:37:57.060 Given that the IRGC is just the government of Iran.

00:38:00.540 Yeah, we've still got an embassy on our land.

00:38:03.220 I don't know.

00:38:03.700 Very famous embassy, in fact.

00:38:05.760 Well, they're not above conference games.

00:38:07.740 There were certain siege that occurred.

00:38:08.380 They're not above confiscating assets, are they?

00:38:10.940 They confiscated a bunch of Russian assets.

00:38:13.200 Who knows?

00:38:14.840 Yes, and also Starmer is looking to really screw over Burnham 0.67

00:38:19.300 because, I mean, hey, you stabbed me in the back, bro.

00:38:23.440 I'm not taking kindly to that.

00:38:25.520 So first of all, he's considering appointing 19 allies to the Lords

00:38:28.520 in his final act as Prime Minister,

00:38:30.200 which actually goes against what he initially said back in 2023.

00:38:33.360 It's amazing how a couple of years as Prime Minister

00:38:36.360 will change your views on such,

00:38:37.540 because obviously as a leaving prime minister he has the right to grant titles and appoint lords

00:38:45.060 and initially back in 2023 he said they were very hard to justify now he's got about 19 personal

00:38:52.160 allies that he might throw in the lords as well which will just further entrench labor in the

00:38:58.000 government and also mean i would assume if burnham tries to pass anything that starmer and his cronies

00:39:03.440 are not fans of that it could end up scuppering that as well this is just repaying favors and

00:39:08.280 greasing palms for an easy landing out of office oh yeah that's that's always the way we speaking

00:39:13.420 of out of office did you see what he was trying to do at what starmer no i'm not sure he's been

00:39:20.740 vying for the leader of nato oh really which is mental oh yeah actually mental yeah he's also

00:39:28.020 been recently granted uh i think the highest honor a foreigner can get in france yeah and

00:39:33.900 obviously france is macron's heavily involved with nato big supporter of nato he's wanted and

00:39:39.160 burnham's going to carry this on as well um closer ties with the eu so it definitely seems like he's

00:39:45.000 vying for his next job after all of this uh but no doubt the one that's going to scupper burnham

00:39:52.360 the most is the extra 15 billion pounds for defense spending which have been pledged by

00:39:58.460 Keir Starmer's government which is one of his final acts where he has said that some road and

00:40:05.100 energy projects would not go ahead as planned to raise defense funding to 80 billion a year by

00:40:10.380 2029 which would bring it up to the NATO specified 3.5 percent of GDP which would bring them up to

00:40:18.700 parity with a lot of other european countries he said the plan would be built on by his successor

00:40:23.580 widely expected to be andy burnham who is yet to comment on the plan the treasury later confirmed

00:40:28.900 only 10.3 billion pounds in savings had currently been identified meaning burnham would have to

00:40:36.400 find the remaining 4.7 billion in his first budget in the autumn so he's gonna have to make some cuts

00:40:43.560 Which is one of the most monumental FUs on the way out that I've ever seen.

00:40:51.940 As well as that, Keir said that he had ruled out further borrowing to fund the increase.

00:40:58.280 And instead, the money would be found by cutting the long-term investment budgets of other government departments by 1%.

00:41:03.820 So he is immediately forcing Burnham into a position where he's going to have to make some cuts,

00:41:09.700 which may or may not play well with the public but given that this was an internal party coup

00:41:15.220 is the big question is going to be how's it going to play with his own ministers

00:41:19.520 how's it going to pay play with his own internal party because Keir Starmer's basically gone

00:41:25.460 uh yeah 15 extra billion pounds to defense I suppose uh we've got 10 billion and Andy shows

00:41:31.220 up he's like oh where's the next five billion coming from not my problem sparks up a joint

00:41:36.880 gets into his convertible drives off into the sunset screw you burnham seems to be the approach

00:41:44.140 that's being taken here because of course he's just he's just handing him the bag over because

00:41:47.860 these are all changes that would have had to be made in the first place right the defense

00:41:52.780 commitment spendings were going to have to be made a lot of the other changes that the government's

00:41:56.480 going through which is not favorable and popular with the labor party insiders are going to have

00:42:02.440 to go through because it seems that the government has taken a particular has chosen a particular

00:42:05.920 direction and is sticking with it, which we'll see evidence for in a moment. And now Keir Starmer

00:42:11.640 doesn't have to be the face of it as it continues to make incredibly unpopular decisions or decisions

00:42:16.780 that destabilize the Labour Party. The Department for Transport is making a further £700 million

00:42:23.160 in savings from roads projects, with the A38 Derby junctions and A46 Newark bypass scheme

00:42:29.040 being considered for cancellation. Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is finding an

00:42:33.900 additional two billion pounds from its budget so net zero provisions as tony blair has been saying

00:42:39.760 might be getting cut back on because tony blair has been suggesting for years at this point

00:42:44.020 don't listen to the miller bands especially ed miller band he's insane i hate him ban him from

00:42:49.040 the party if you have to don't go ahead with net zero you're going to destroy the country if you

00:42:53.200 do so so blair's getting what he wants from that some details of planned commitments over the next

00:42:57.920 four years include more than 64 billion pounds to strengthen the uk's nuclear deterrent and here's

00:43:04.660 here's the list of them here including you're saying here's the deterrent and it's just a bloke

00:43:09.100 it's just it's this guy we're paying him to stand at dover and just say no to any nukes that head

00:43:15.420 our way um it's a bold plan yeah this includes new submarines and f-35a fighter jets capable of

00:43:21.640 carrying nuclear bombs five billion pounds to fund a drone transformation for the armed forces

00:43:27.340 more than eight billion pounds for global combat air program a scheme to build the next generation

00:43:32.960 of RAF stealth jets in partnership with Japan and Italy plans for the Royal Navy to become a hybrid

00:43:38.500 Navy using self-controlled vessels and AI another win for Tony Blair with his um with his Oracle

00:43:44.600 connections I would assume because who's going to get those contracts for the AI companies

00:43:48.020 and the Royal Air Force will continue to develop will develop autonomous fighter jets and bring

00:43:52.880 its uncrewed electronic warfare drone system into service this year, 2026. So basically

00:44:01.940 updating the whole thing, because I would assume that everybody has been looking over at what's

00:44:06.220 been going on with warfare in Ukraine and Russia as the future generations of what warfare is going

00:44:10.800 to look like from now on and saying, right, we need to modernize so that we can catch up with

00:44:15.340 that and preferably advance it he's basically building his droid army very dystopian isn't it

00:44:24.160 but it's the world we live in uh the dip which is the defense investment plan as seen held by this

00:44:31.380 gentleman here yes it is acronym well it's the most british acronym they could have chosen for

00:44:36.220 it if anything so it's got like very mr bean energy isn't it the dip uh who also says that

00:44:42.600 ministry of defense will attempt to make efficiency savings worth almost 11 billion pounds by 2030

00:44:47.320 again all of this all of these savings again are going to have to be done under burnham so he's

00:44:53.600 going to have to be the one at the face of the government who's cutting all of this and presumably

00:44:57.220 if they're not going to be going through with borrowing with it um i would assume implementing

00:45:02.220 soft touch austerity in certain places as well raising taxes or raising taxes raising interest

00:45:09.640 rates, all sorts of things so that the government can try and suck up revenue. So everything to

00:45:14.980 make this money up might be very unpopular. And Keir Starmer just gets to, I don't know,

00:45:20.820 go to a Swiss mountain resort and laugh it up while Burnham's taking all the heat for this.

00:45:25.660 The MOD is planning to deliver the savings by reducing the civil service workforce,

00:45:29.480 so it's not all bad, not all bad, cutting back consultancy spending and expanding the use of

00:45:36.120 technology defense secretary dan jarvis told the bbc news night that he had discussed the investment

00:45:40.700 plan with burnham but is understood he could not be briefed on certain security issues and did not

00:45:45.340 sign off on the full thing jarvis could not confirm if burnham had been told that he would need to

00:45:50.780 find an additional 4.7 billion pounds to fund the defense investment plan if he becomes prime

00:45:55.240 minister and this article is from uh is from the end of june so again just in the weeks at where

00:46:02.080 Burnham's like it's finally worked I'm going to be prime minister finally I'm going to get

00:46:05.800 everything I wanted and then it's just like I'm just going to leave this dog turd on your doorstep

00:46:10.680 set it on fire knock on your door and then I'm going to run away says Keir Starmer so fun for

00:46:17.440 that and as long with that Burnham's already been backing off on a lot of the stuff he was saying

00:46:21.840 in recent years for instance his opposition to Shabana Mahmood's asylum bill which is going to

00:46:27.640 change up the way that asylum works in this country, make it a lot stricter and also change

00:46:32.780 the most importantly, change the indefinite leave to remain period from five to 10 years and have

00:46:40.300 it, I think it's not be retroactive or it is going to be retroactive. So yes, it's going to

00:46:45.040 be retroactive. So the Boris wave is going to have to wait even longer before they can get

00:46:49.960 indefinite leave to remain, which was very unpopular within Labour, which Andy Burnham

00:46:54.620 himself said was something that he didn't agree with he didn't think it was british it didn't

00:46:58.820 think it was british values to be unfair like that has now done a u-turn and actually after

00:47:04.740 it was confirmed that he was going to be prime minister on monday voted in favor of it because

00:47:09.520 again the government has chosen a direction and they're sticking with it and andy burnham is just

00:47:13.680 going to be the specky northern face that was the scare tactic from reform types wasn't it in the

00:47:20.380 recent makefield by-election saying if burnham gets in he's gonna you know grant the boris wave

00:47:27.380 citizenship and here he is not doing it yeah and another thing another challenge that he's going

00:47:33.220 to be faced with given that one of the things that sank starmer was his associations with mandelson

00:47:37.300 and all the personal controversy and drama that came with that supposedly andy burnham is expected

00:47:43.000 to receive a list of at least 30 mps accused of harassment and inappropriate conduct including

00:47:48.980 sexual harassment bullying and other inappropriate behaviors it's a lot of by-elections potentially

00:47:54.820 yeah so that's going to be a potential landmine for him to step on immediately again especially

00:48:01.540 because Keir Starmer had managed to surround himself with controversy within within his own

00:48:06.180 cabinet from the start and that's what ended up helping to sink him Burnham's got all of that to

00:48:11.080 deal with Tony Blair has just come out and outright said people are going to hate you

00:48:16.280 like you are the most popular politician in the country right now as soon as you step into number

00:48:22.660 10 everybody will despise you cast your mind back to how popular tony blair was in 1997 before he

00:48:29.300 got into number 10 to how he's seen nowadays cast your mind back to 2024 when uh keir starmer um

00:48:36.420 was about to become prime minister and you're getting those oh keir starmer makes me feel

00:48:40.440 fruity articles and now everybody hates him and now everybody hates him unless we win the world

00:48:47.220 cup and he gives us all the day off on monday in which case supreme leader starmer air starmer

00:48:53.060 we misjudged you we didn't see what was going on and uh yeah it's yeah people are going to hate

00:48:59.420 burnham because already according to you gov polls here you can see his uh historic popularity you

00:49:05.740 can see he's always been more popular than unpopular because he's been hidden away in his

00:49:11.120 little corner of the country as mayor of greater manchester where he can just do kind of nice

00:49:16.280 things that people like and just take credit for everything good that happens in manchester

00:49:20.300 if anything good happens in manchester but as soon as you hit the first of july and everybody

00:49:25.380 suspects that he's going to be prime minister tick that's going to plummet yeah the monkey's

00:49:31.700 poor curls. And all of a sudden, for the first time, he is less popular than popular, which is

00:49:39.240 only just going to get worse and worse and worse and worse. So yeah, we're seeing the final days

00:49:44.600 of Starmer, and I'm very interested to see what happens with Burnham, given that he has been

00:49:48.940 just handed some very, very unpopular things to do over his time as Prime Minister. And I can't

00:49:58.200 wait to see how much people hate him this time next year let's go with the rumble rants uh sigil

00:50:06.140 stone the british empire ain't here to fight canada's battles anymore 14 barber i'm thinking 1.00

00:50:11.920 about buying islander is it a good idea chaps are you stupid have you been listening to us if you 1.00

00:50:17.780 have you just like been watching this mime of course it's a good idea idiot bone apple tea 1.00

00:50:24.320 party irony being our dear leader was probably chosen last in every sporting activity when at 0.99

00:50:29.740 school he's making up for lost time leave care alone sigil stone you can just wrong no one in

00:50:35.060 the entirety of human history has ever or will ever just just is the laziest argument and

00:50:39.160 dismisses the actual problems billions will not just they must uh very esoteric no that's that's

00:50:47.460 quite catchy actually uh that's a random name some kids are very resistant to peer pressure but most

00:50:52.960 aren't so unless you get lucky you'll have to monitor what your kid does and who they hang out

00:50:57.240 with speaking from experience yes and scott sci guy given the hallucination problem should we

00:51:03.360 really be putting ai in stuff with guns probably not oh snap yeah hallucinating imaginary you know

00:51:12.280 intruders and it accidentally levels an entire town but have you considered that in putting ai

00:51:18.780 and stuff with guns,

00:51:19.740 I could hand billion pound contracts 0.75

00:51:22.580 over to my mates who run AI companies.

00:51:25.160 That's a good argument.

00:51:26.580 There you go.

00:51:27.720 Can't disagree with that now, can you?

00:51:30.220 All right, well, let's talk about the BBC.

00:51:33.220 Everyone hates the BBC,

00:51:35.020 but something people don't hate... 1.00

00:51:38.400 Look at that, Shil. 0.95

00:51:39.000 That was great, wasn't it? 1.00

00:51:40.060 It's Islander.

00:51:41.360 Buy it.

00:51:43.180 So...

00:51:45.180 What?

00:51:46.340 I just thought we've all got the same energy

00:51:48.440 for it which is like you know what you know how the shills go i've never read it so you know how

00:51:52.600 i have i have read a few of the articles in this one it is very good it's exquisite i'm sure it's

00:51:58.080 good go go buy it uh if not just women will find you more attractive once you've bought it 0.97

00:52:03.000 apparently if you are allegedly yeah anyway so back to the bbc being absolute just a total clown 0.99

00:52:09.160 shit that everyone hates uh this is something which is happening year on year bbc license fee 0.97

00:52:14.700 payers are just plummeting more and more and more and more and so we get this yearly report 0.99

00:52:20.940 and just got some articles here just to go through it and basically what they're wanting

00:52:24.780 to do off the back end of it so unsurprisingly bbc license fee payers plummet by half a million

00:52:30.460 that's quite a lot in a year in one year that's quite a lot that's on top of the over 300

00:52:38.140 over 300 000 that did it the previous year i don't know anyone who pays the license fee nobody

00:52:44.000 watches terrestrial tv live tv or the bbc anymore yeah well so basically my age group at least what

00:52:49.940 you've got here is a sliding scale so you have the old guard the old uh the boomers middle-aged

00:52:58.960 people whatever as they age out if they die less and less the license fee payers are there so a

00:53:05.940 large contingent of these will be people that have just died because as you rightly say there

00:53:10.320 are not many people now that pay for their license because there's no value in it there's

00:53:14.680 no inherent value that people have and so this is this is a problem that is never going to end

00:53:19.460 right it's only going to get worse year on year you'll just see this keep happening because the

00:53:25.260 only people that are left paying it are the ones that were indoctrinated enough to enjoy the bbc

00:53:32.240 or it became such a staple in their lives at a point where it was actually okay

00:53:36.820 i was going to say the old the old holdovers they would have been paying for at a time when

00:53:42.260 the bbc was producing lots of stuff worth watching exactly this is the thing there was inherent value

00:53:47.040 behind it at one point in time which has now just been completely tossed to one side didn't pay me

00:53:51.420 to watch television these days yeah let alone pay the government additional money that i don't have

00:53:56.380 to pay well you may you may have to i'm afraid so we'll just look at a little bit of this article

00:54:02.280 just to get into some of the the numbers here so number of households paying the bbc license fee

00:54:06.300 plummeted last year at a time when the corporation is desperately seeking a revamp of its funding

00:54:11.060 model so today's this is i think it was yesterday off the top of my head was yesterday uh yeah

00:54:16.240 yesterday at the time of recording um bbc annual report showed that the license fee pay is slid by

00:54:22.160 539 000 and that was last year to around 23.3 million which is still insane to me to say that

00:54:30.420 There's like 23.3 million people paying the TV license.

00:54:34.920 That's mental, actually mental.

00:54:37.240 Harry might disagree,

00:54:38.340 but the idea that you need a license to own a television

00:54:42.660 is insane.

00:54:44.800 You don't need a license to own a television. 0.93

00:54:48.060 That's something that they try to convince elderly people 0.93

00:54:53.440 or the less intellectually inclined

00:54:56.580 to believe that you have a TV, you must have a license.

00:55:00.180 you can have a tv that's 180 quid of a year as well yep what has gone up yeah so uh it went up

00:55:07.740 the other thing to also keep in uh you know into account here is that the bbc this number will

00:55:13.600 just keep getting worse and worse and worse anyway because whilst the old guard are dying off which

00:55:20.020 you know adds a massive amount to this um overall number we're also importing a massive contingent 1.00

00:55:29.040 foreigners that have absolutely no relation to this country in any way shape or form the culture 1.00

00:55:35.120 the heritage and certainly and some of them don't even speak the bloody language so how are you 1.00

00:55:41.300 going to program for that how do you program for a multicultural mess of a society where a large 0.90

00:55:49.360 contingent of the population hates you know the the culture and heritage and history of the native 0.92

00:55:56.640 homeland that the bbc should be supporting and funding you know and actually sort of

00:56:01.760 representing on the screen so it's never going to work this thing is just it's going to completely 0.99

00:56:06.940 implode well so far the most i ever see from it is like um stuff like the horrible histories black

00:56:14.120 roman soldier from what six years ago well again that person famously hates the english people

00:56:19.380 yeah but that's that writes horrible history well yeah but that's that's more for like

00:56:22.680 pre-programming english children to like diversity yeah if you try and show that to somebody who's 0.94

00:56:29.740 just got off the boat he's going to go like bitch i don't care i'm here for benefits yeah that's 0.98

00:56:34.880 that's his that's what his response is going to be he's going to i'm not english give me money 0.98

00:56:39.640 i mean if you just look at a tv guide at any point you realize that the tv guide is basically

00:56:45.920 set up for people over 60 those are the people watching tv yeah i'm just like blimey this is like

00:56:51.960 a who's who of tv shows directed towards pensioners yeah we'll get to some of that in a minute actually

00:56:58.160 that's the interesting thing whenever i see anything from the bbc like a like a bbc production

00:57:03.980 if it's fiction unless it's doctor who then they're really not making stuff for diverse

00:57:12.260 audiences in the first place and i don't think it's because they don't want to well no they are

00:57:16.220 so we'll get to that actually in a minute well it's whenever i've seen stuff that's like prestige

00:57:20.320 BBC drama they're still very very English and white and I think that's for one reason which

00:57:26.800 is that there is a monopoly in the English television circuit of about a dozen actors

00:57:32.500 who are in everything Martin Freeman is in everything for instance all of like the office

00:57:40.580 alumni you can count at least one of them will show up in every British program so important to

00:57:47.700 No, actually, because they increased the licence fee,

00:57:52.440 the total payable amount,

00:57:55.840 the sum that the BBC received actually went up,

00:57:58.440 even though the licence fee payers went down.

00:58:01.260 So it actually increased by £3.9 billion.

00:58:04.300 Blimey.

00:58:05.940 Oh, no, sorry.

00:58:07.060 It increased by £36 million to £3.9 billion.

00:58:11.700 That's still a hefty sum of money.

00:58:13.620 £36 million it went up by.

00:58:16.100 that's quite a few shows that they can finance now isn't it well well within not really is it

00:58:21.040 yeah not really yeah oh i mean now that's taken doctor who off until who knows when that'll save

00:58:28.240 them a hefty bit of money and so this is going up year on year because they keep trying to increase

00:58:33.240 it year on year um and as they say you know it's due to inflation etc etc now so what's happening

00:58:39.680 is is that the whole point of this is a new bbc tax right so you guys are gonna have to pay for

00:58:44.580 something the idea is is that we're all gonna have to pay for the bbc basically the long and

00:58:48.180 short of this whole uh segment spoiler alert because the bbc is allergic to any introspective

00:58:57.860 thought right okay so we're losing license fee pairs oh well we just must get the money from

00:59:03.300 somewhere then it's like right okay but maybe you should just stop and think why you're losing the

00:59:07.860 rather than stopping to think why they're losing the license fee they are now just clutching at 0.97

00:59:12.320 straws to try to get more money via other means and it's just this self-congratulatory circle jerk 0.58

00:59:19.380 that they are doing with the government so which makes perfect sense because the bbc is 0.61

00:59:24.040 ostensibly the propaganda arm of either the government any government that's the tories as

00:59:30.920 well as labor or you know the establishment as it were they're looking to push a certain thing at a

00:59:35.820 certain point in time which we know from freedom of information requests that they have done this

00:59:39.340 because Lewis Brackball did some good work on that.

00:59:43.520 They're never going to let it go.

00:59:44.860 They're never going to stop the BBC.

00:59:46.800 They can't.

00:59:47.840 The government will never stop the BBC.

00:59:50.240 So what we have here is the government ruling out several options of funding, right?

00:59:57.060 So they've ruled out a household tax, but they haven't.

01:00:02.160 They haven't.

01:00:05.000 They just ruled out calling it a household tax.

01:00:08.120 That's concerning.

01:00:09.340 Yes.

01:00:09.900 So every household, just in general, has to pay for it then?

01:00:13.580 Yeah.

01:00:14.540 Well, yeah, so we'll get to that.

01:00:15.780 So they've ruled out advertising. 1.00

01:00:18.060 Stupid. 1.00

01:00:18.940 Why would you rule out advertising? 1.00

01:00:21.060 Why would you rule out a subscription service?

01:00:23.380 Again, it's because they need to keep their propaganda arm going.

01:00:26.700 Those are the two most successful models of media at the minute.

01:00:32.340 So what they've said is that the license fee will continue in some form,

01:00:35.020 but how it's going to continue is basically becoming a household tax so the bbc has said

01:00:44.500 that the current state is no longer sustainable which it isn't of course and and they know this

01:00:49.600 but again rather than having some introspection on why it's unsustainable why people are checking

01:00:54.560 out they just always a downward trend um you know how can we do this well lisa nandy

01:01:01.920 our culture secretary this uh very interesting individual uh has basically come out and said

01:01:12.620 that there is that there's a way that we can do this which will apparently benefit people

01:01:19.260 by making it cheaper for everyone but everyone will pay for it and what that is

01:01:24.800 is basically a license fee if you have amazon if you have netflix if you have any other streaming

01:01:36.660 service that's not related to the bbc in any way shape or form you have to pay for the bbc to work

01:01:43.700 so it's like an additional subscription to the subscriptions that you already have

01:01:47.240 so i don't pay for any of those anyway well but anyone else this is just an expansion of

01:01:52.600 Although I don't agree with it.

01:01:53.940 The subscription economy.

01:01:55.440 Well, but basically everyone, most people, if you don't have the BBC,

01:01:58.020 most people will have Netflix.

01:01:59.420 Most people will have Amazon, you know, even just for Amazon Prime.

01:02:02.120 Even if you have Amazon Prime just for the delivery, you have Amazon Prime.

01:02:07.900 So you will have to pay for this.

01:02:10.280 So, yes, they've ruled out calling out household tax,

01:02:13.340 but it is a household tax that effectively everyone will have to pay for.

01:02:17.800 How will the actual corporations that they're like,

01:02:20.180 Because this could potentially put a big dent into the UK market

01:02:25.060 for Amazon Prime, for Netflix.

01:02:27.100 Oh, massively.

01:02:27.800 For Disney Plus.

01:02:29.080 So you're going to need to work with them as well

01:02:32.040 because they could just say, all right, we'll just pull services

01:02:34.380 if you're going to ruin our profitability over there.

01:02:36.960 I'd rather have that £180 and any streaming service.

01:02:40.700 I'd happily just go back to reading.

01:02:42.880 Yeah, I mean, I would cancel just out of principle.

01:02:46.560 Yeah, there you go.

01:02:47.560 the plan's already drawn the ire of the motion picture association representing u.s streamers

01:02:52.400 and studios would we also be able to quickly return to something mentioned in the previous

01:02:57.020 article um where it talks about the fact that we we've been able to recognize that 94 percent of

01:03:03.740 people in the uk use our services but only 80 percent are paying but then to turn that around

01:03:10.140 94 percent of people in the uk doing anything is a quite an absurd claim like yeah that's a guess

01:03:16.820 they have no idea in 94 people drinking water or using a toilet today yeah is not a certainty

01:03:23.560 and so i i struggle to believe that at face value that's an absurd suggestion well yeah yeah i mean

01:03:30.960 oh yeah they've they're just pulling out their rear end and we'll we'll show you in i'll show

01:03:34.540 you in a minute how that is absolutely just out their rear end um but looking at the bbc for

01:03:39.900 instance right so they've increased their funding by what was like 36 million right by increasing

01:03:44.820 the license fee but they're still having to make 500 million pound in cuts so the whole the model

01:03:52.140 was unsustainable even without people checking out even without people cancelling their license

01:03:58.520 right because they're having record uh total number uh in terms of income that they that

01:04:04.680 they're getting from the license fee the whole thing was unsustainable to begin with it's insane

01:04:08.480 that they're having to do all of this regardless um but you know again why have some introspection

01:04:14.220 why actually look at your balance sheet and go well we should probably shouldn't have done that

01:04:17.380 uh because they can just force people to pay for it basically and so that's what they want to do

01:04:22.620 so as you you said harry from this article yeah the motion picture association which represents

01:04:28.400 us streamers and studios they're like what no what what what sorry why why why would you pay for that 0.97

01:04:36.120 that's that's absurd um and so you've got nandy again this this genic fool coming out uh and 0.83

01:04:43.580 suggesting that culture media and sport committee uh she suggested it to the culture media and 0.98

01:04:49.320 sport committee sorry for the first time that those who watch the bbc and streamers could pay

01:04:52.900 the license fee amazing while those who only watch the streamers may pay a smaller charge

01:04:57.800 you're still paying for it uh while there could be a targeted concessions for people who need them

01:05:04.020 nowhere in this have they gone can why are people cancelling their license nowhere in any of this

01:05:13.200 conversation have they just gone maybe we should figure out why people aren't paying anymore

01:05:17.060 so if the life accepted that it's a good thing a moral good and therefore um that people should

01:05:24.860 accept it and and they're only chasing it down in a sort of enforcement sense rather than

01:05:29.380 well maybe no one's watching it because there's nothing interesting which if you are to speak to

01:05:33.980 anyone even the old people that do watch tv they'll say well there there isn't as much good 0.97

01:05:38.840 stuff on anymore yeah yeah that is the whole thing's just insane and it's just put blinkers

01:05:46.200 on plead ignorance it's already spread out among so many other platforms the the only way that i

01:05:54.480 could see this working is if they cut a deal with the motion picture association to basically have

01:06:01.880 like a 20 or 30 pound tax that comes out every single month that gives you the license fee

01:06:08.740 but also bundles in netflix prime video and disney plus i could see people going with it

01:06:15.000 if they did something like that they won't be able to yeah there's just there's no way that

01:06:19.840 those companies would agree to that because it will hit their bottom line like they want

01:06:23.860 it also monopolizes the bbc within britain by saying well to have them you have to pay for us

01:06:32.320 rather than uh open market competing with one another where you know netflix can increase their

01:06:39.300 prices monthly you know which they love these but you see what i mean like they just simply

01:06:44.260 will never agree to that because they will not have autonomy uh an agency um and so and and the

01:06:51.480 arguments that they're trying to make are the most absurd so it says this nandy has had conversations

01:06:56.200 with streamers over all these ideas and quote they can speak for themselves regarding response

01:07:01.660 while stressing that the government continues to rule out a streamer levy that's not what this is

01:07:06.180 this is a streamer levy you idiot an idea taken up by several other nations that would see

01:07:10.600 the streaming video on demand pay a small amount of their uk subscription revenue to cultural fund 0.84

01:07:16.060 for british content but this would be the same thing in principle you're just calling it a

01:07:21.680 different thing and consuming the finance in and the levy in a different way it's the same thing

01:07:27.460 as the same thing as the household tax and they're trying to basically point out that

01:07:32.240 these streamers have come to britain and using infrastructure that the bbc created

01:07:37.800 that's their argument so it says this um where is it uh the streamers would be reluctant to see

01:07:45.000 additional charges on the consumers but i think they would be more reluctant to see additional

01:07:48.700 charges on their businesses basically it's threatening to tax them more insane we don't

01:07:53.560 want to deter investment in to the uk don't you don't you i'm pretty good at it staggering uh some

01:08:01.660 of the biggest streaming companies are here investing in very big numbers right across the

01:08:04.660 country partly because of british creativity partly because of the bbc but also because

01:08:09.180 everyone is on the hunt for locally rooted stories with universal appeal and the uk is brilliant for

01:08:13.380 that it's not well i think also that a lot of um film and tv recording if it's not going on

01:08:20.360 in the United States is going on in either Britain or Ireland.

01:08:24.760 Well, it comes here because they can get a 25.5% tax rebate.

01:08:28.160 Well, it's not even a tax rebate.

01:08:29.420 They literally get 25.5% of their entire production cost

01:08:33.080 just given back to them.

01:08:34.780 Yeah, and...

01:08:35.400 That's insane. Why are we doing that?

01:08:37.300 There are the facilities here.

01:08:38.640 There are lots of actors here.

01:08:41.040 That's why they're here.

01:08:42.000 It's not because of the BBC.

01:08:44.620 Well, no, it is.

01:08:46.080 Okay, okay.

01:08:46.920 One of them.

01:08:47.600 So this is the other argument that they make.

01:08:49.160 This is the Director General.

01:08:50.360 uh it says if you go back in time you used to pay the license fee if you're watching live tv but not

01:08:55.340 from the bbc oh brilliant so just all streamers will have to pay for it then what uh so if you're

01:09:02.060 only watching itv you would still pay the license fee so there's a logic when you think about

01:09:06.480 expanding the scope to other services no there's not they've gone into lawyer ease here we've got

01:09:10.860 precedent for it so we can justify it that's that's like me shopping at i don't know tesco

01:09:16.300 and then morrison saying well we want some of that money actually because you're shopping 0.99

01:09:19.840 in a grocery store so what talking about absolute morons um and said yeah the motion picture is not 0.99

01:09:28.020 happy about it either um but this says this so the enforcement side of this will be difficult 0.99

01:09:31.620 and that is why the government is right to be looking at all different ways you could be

01:09:35.340 thinking about scope and collection so they're looking at it seriously we need to look at all

01:09:39.360 those things and through the summer we'll be having these discussions so this is investment

01:09:44.380 by the bbc and others in the production ecosystem is one of the reasons the streamers are able to

01:09:49.260 come here and make shows no it's not but also remember the bbc's money was our money it doesn't

01:09:55.200 mean the bbc can then say well you know we we invested your money in this therefore we should

01:10:01.780 get more money whilst you're watching other people's programs it doesn't make any sense

01:10:05.480 it's such a flawed logic well in very few other areas of the economy are you forced to pay for a

01:10:12.380 service you don't want or haven't used yeah like imagine if you went to the doctor and then there's

01:10:18.600 like oh by the way uh the vet wants a payment it's like i don't have a pet it's like yeah yeah but

01:10:24.100 you've been to the doctor though haven't you it's like well hang on a minute those two things are

01:10:28.360 not connected yeah they're similar you know they're both medicine technically so why don't you pay up

01:10:34.380 like we wouldn't accept it though would we sounds like mafioso style like protection racket going oh

01:10:40.420 it sort of is yeah it's absolutely staggering um and and so again remember in all of this

01:10:47.180 no one has said why are people switching off right and it's because of stuff like this

01:10:53.840 king and conqueror this is i actually did another segment here on lotus eaters about this and it

01:11:00.940 was what was it called anglo blacksons oh yeah black anglo-saxons yeah that that was part of

01:11:06.340 this i mean why are you putting black people in with anglo-saxons like just stop this is 0.99

01:11:10.400 it's drivel it's absolute nonsense and and this is i mean have you seen raw egg nationalists i mean 0.99

01:11:15.860 touche uh is it this is we get you know 58 39 people hate it people hate it oh yeah doctor who 1.00

01:11:25.400 people hate it 38 people hate it oh god what what stupid kind of like i know professional 1.00

01:11:33.980 critics are like the dregs of society but even then 92 percent there's a black man and he's gay 1.00

01:11:39.540 so what do you expect touche i mean that's their that's their reasoning isn't it and disney paid 0.90

01:11:45.380 for something yeah i can't i can't really argue about it would you expect now i did actually try

01:11:49.240 to i tried to get a few more examples but basically no one reviewed them enough to give them a score

01:11:55.240 but that shows the level of interest right and that was in pretty big productions that i was

01:12:00.200 looking at um but to get to the point of oh 94 of the country watches the bbc do they because

01:12:09.660 this is the top 50 shows there's nothing yeah absolutely you didn't load it mate um so 28 days

01:12:16.620 right so our last 28 days here we go oh okay so so sorry what we've got so this is have i got news

01:12:23.780 for you is still running so this is what five million oh so this is over the last 28 days

01:12:31.300 have i got news for you it's only reached 5.7 million views i don't know anyone under the age

01:12:37.380 of 40 who watches that 94 of the country is watching the bbc 94 of what are we at like

01:12:46.560 70 80 odd million people now what's the official number like 60 60 70 odd million isn't it 67

01:12:52.360 they said in the last sentence.

01:12:54.740 I doubt it's that though,

01:12:55.660 more like 70.

01:12:56.580 Well, their most watched show

01:12:57.660 in the last month

01:12:58.500 only has 5.7 million views.

01:13:01.820 Britain's Got Talent,

01:13:02.940 apparently that's still on.

01:13:04.260 4.4 million views.

01:13:06.940 Something called a Manderland.

01:13:08.600 That's a spin-off

01:13:10.200 of a Graham Linehan comedy,

01:13:12.760 ironically enough.

01:13:14.140 Okay, 4.1 million views.

01:13:16.840 And then again,

01:13:18.080 Boomer coded all of this.

01:13:20.100 Coronation Street.

01:13:21.500 4 million.

01:13:22.560 Do you reckon it really grinds them

01:13:24.780 that a Graham Linehan comedy

01:13:26.260 is one of the most successful things

01:13:28.460 that they've done in the past 10 years?

01:13:29.640 I like how Despicable Me 4 on Netflix

01:13:33.560 has topped the charts.

01:13:37.000 Ah, everyone was asking for it,

01:13:38.880 the fourth one.

01:13:39.940 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:13:41.220 Is that what?

01:13:42.060 Again, you clearly don't have children.

01:13:44.220 So it's also important to note,

01:13:45.560 sorry, it is also important to note actually

01:13:47.500 that this is just the top 50 shows total.

01:13:51.060 so there's itv thrown in this as well so the the the top most watched bbc show

01:13:57.720 is only 5.7 million views in the in the last 28 days but the bbc thinks 94 of the country is

01:14:05.600 watching the bbc that's just not true because then the next one is that amanda land at 4.1

01:14:12.140 and then you have to go all the way down the death valley something called death valley

01:14:17.740 with 3.7 million views

01:14:20.860 I wonder what that is

01:14:22.040 I have no idea

01:14:22.920 but do you see

01:14:23.640 who do you think you are

01:14:24.880 as a holdover

01:14:25.620 EastEnders

01:14:26.580 a holdover

01:14:27.400 most of everything

01:14:28.700 other than Death Valley

01:14:29.420 is just a holdover

01:14:30.280 but also

01:14:31.360 where are you getting

01:14:32.720 94% from

01:14:33.760 the top 50

01:14:37.340 most shows

01:14:38.200 well yeah clearly

01:14:39.420 the top 50 most shows

01:14:40.620 in the last 28 days

01:14:41.640 yeah the top one is

01:14:43.940 the BBC

01:14:45.300 but only 5.7 million views

01:14:47.520 definitely looks like a boomer murder mystery amazing it's also have i got news for you so i 0.99

01:14:54.700 don't count the sort of people who watch that as people i know they're yeah mongoloids um so 0.86

01:14:59.580 there you go i mean look maybe lisa and director general of the bbc maybe you should figure out 0.99

01:15:06.840 why people are not watching your shows because they're not because they're garbage maybe you

01:15:13.120 should figure that out rather than just wanting to tax people to oblivion or we should just let

01:15:19.240 graham linihan run the bbc i i'm proud it would probably probably improve it graham linihan just 0.77

01:15:26.760 a wall-to-wall schedule of tranny hatred he's redirected the entire like what the bbc is about 0.66

01:15:35.980 all right then uh we've got a few more rumble ransom no video comments today that's a terrible 0.78

01:15:42.500 shame too busy buying irelander that's what's going i would bloody hope so uh be bop in two

01:15:49.040 says for me growing up in idaho the bbc was people speaking with rp accents about economics

01:15:55.600 old dudes who lived decades in some obscure country that suddenly became important

01:15:59.780 and stephen fry on just a minute yeah the bbc used to be great and this is where i disagree

01:16:05.400 with you actually that i don't i'm not in favor of defunding it because it is such a fantastic

01:16:11.520 infrastructure which is already there if you're in a position to defund it i would say gut it and

01:16:17.520 just put all your own people in it i've had this conversation with millennial woes because he's he's

01:16:22.900 of the same opinion but he's right he's a very intelligent man his millennial woes much like

01:16:27.400 any law you don't implement a law that can be used against you and the bbc has consistently

01:16:32.900 been used against this this is why you get your own guys in it but you would literally you literally

01:16:37.580 have to remain in power anything could be used against you yeah so you don't so you don't don't

01:16:44.520 you don't use anything you don't have a national broadcaster to spread your own views or to produce

01:16:50.220 cultural content i i think that would be privately i think oh god i think that would be a complete

01:16:56.780 waste and i think if you want to have a national direction for culture and for uh frankly propaganda

01:17:03.820 you need something like the BBC you can't expect people privately especially because people on our

01:17:10.200 side of the aisle uh rightoids and capitalists in general frankly are the worst cheapskates

01:17:19.420 in the entire world who are completely unwilling to fund anything that furthers their own cause

01:17:27.480 they kind of need to be whipped into doing it and so having an organization that will actually

01:17:33.300 already be there for you is the better is the better thing we would agree to disagree on vpns

01:17:39.700 are cheap all right uh optic door if you're asking the bbc to look at reality why how do you do that

01:17:47.600 yeah insert jon tron clip um random name uh has sent a bunch in let me just quickly scan them for

01:17:54.540 potential fed posting um some of those are ones i read out as well i think we should be all right

01:18:00.080 hear me out we drop a few hallucinating ai's in our cities and return in a couple of days after

01:18:03.900 the smoke clears number of license fee holders going down as more and more boomers are dying 0.94

01:18:08.360 as a preview of things to come boomers are single-handedly propping up our current rotting 0.99

01:18:13.120 system they are a ghost population because they don't contribute to the economy the birth rates 0.99

01:18:17.340 or the military meaning that we're already 50 percent uh below 50 percent white hey i'm pretty 0.82

01:18:22.860 sure people like ronnie woods are boomers who are still contributing to the birth rate so you know

01:18:27.400 like props up to a few of the old rock and roll boomers uh not everyone can be a rolling stone

01:18:33.280 to damn right boomers have 10 to 15 years left at most before they're no longer the largest

01:18:38.980 demographic at which point the system will break and things will turn dark if we haven't started 0.96

01:18:43.160 remigrating our enrichers also i say all of this as the world's brownest darkest man uh well thank 0.97

01:18:52.000 you very much for your reality check at the end there i would say actually the boomers sucking up 0.82

01:18:58.280 pension contributions i think part of it part of the reasons they keep pushing back or wanting to

01:19:04.260 push back pension age they're already doing it now yeah yeah i saw the reports on them doing it

01:19:10.220 today what is it 68 now is that uh actually the system is kind of banking that the boomers won't

01:19:16.360 last too long because it is such a huge expense for them uh that it's actually kind of also

01:19:22.480 crippling the system and that's a random name as well hey i fund you with my dollars you do

01:19:29.260 you're one dollar at a time so thank you very much treat harry like the cheap stripper he is

01:19:33.600 well i got rid of the i got rid of the hair that's true he's higher end now yeah that's right

01:19:38.820 come on come on worth at least two anyway do you want to go through some of your uh

01:19:43.180 uh website comments yes annie moss says thinking the english fires are a lot like the california

01:19:48.280 fires blaming blamed on global warming in actual fact arsonists yeah and i think that a lot of it

01:19:54.440 is that um and i think that there's hardly anyone pointing out as well people haven't done the work

01:20:01.560 of just going through news articles and seeing that there's a trend there like i i just had to

01:20:07.840 go through and read lots of local news and i realized wait there are lots of fires being

01:20:13.120 started um and of course journalists are lazy so they don't do that sort of thing um ap polanski

01:20:19.520 climate change is an immediate threat now okay zach it's a man-made uh then what do you want

01:20:25.720 china in india to do about this why is your only non-solution in publishing our little island

01:20:31.240 could there be some ulterior motive well yes of course i mean zach polanski doesn't actually care

01:20:39.020 that much about it he just wants there to be you know socialism and mass homosexuality and the like 0.99

01:20:46.380 he wants there to be a gay retard communism you know there's the gay race communism he wants gay 0.99

01:20:52.500 retard communism janvi says um yeah um prescribed fires are also good as it helps pine cones to 0.99

01:20:59.860 spread seeds and yeah they also clear the forest floor of stuff like dead wood and other dry fuel 0.98

01:21:04.600 that can start wildfires from lightning strikes that's a good point actually lightning strikes

01:21:09.340 there have been a few storms here and there um although not that much across the country

01:21:14.600 um i'll read maybe one more two more something like that yeah yeah go for it california refugee

01:21:20.140 i could tell you much about california's mismanagement and why it burns so badly here

01:21:24.900 now also tldr fires are caused by two things humans and thunderstorms yes that is correct

01:21:31.680 and in the absence of thunderstorms one has to assume humans and over the past seven days

01:21:36.780 there have been no thunderstorms as far as i'm aware at least and so all of those fires on that

01:21:41.680 bbc chart are presumed to be human made right omar awad um remember smoking kills but only

01:21:49.240 because harry can't be bothered to put it out i thought it was out it was a complete accident

01:21:53.860 i fell asleep on the sofa and was woken up by a very very angry fiance did you have to get a new

01:21:59.720 bin no thankfully we managed to put it out in time but i did open it there wasn't enough in it to

01:22:05.580 really cause a huge flame but i did open it there's a big fire so it's like open blazing inferno

01:22:11.340 and it was one of those split second moments where you go like what do i do what do i do close it and

01:22:16.180 pretend it's not there close it wheel it out into the middle of the road uh that saw itself out

01:22:21.800 all right we've got two more um rumble rants uh random name sends two dollars thank you very much

01:22:28.460 i am much more high market these days so i appreciate the recognition all right all right

01:22:33.080 just because you asked so nicely you ginga and thank you for not using a hard r at the end that

01:22:37.560 is i think it's going to be pronounced ginger harry okay canis familiaris would the bbc ever

01:22:43.240 make a show where harry and samson convinced me to play the life-changing silent hill 2 i had no

01:22:48.180 idea how touching it was also when's the next journey to the east we're working on the next

01:22:52.460 journey to the east it's kind of a difficult show to uh to organize uh with samson being a producer

01:22:58.780 and me having so much else to do as well but we are getting around to it also i'm very very glad

01:23:02.500 that uh you went and played silent hill too it's a wonderful game base tape just kidding boys just

01:23:07.680 put 50 pounds on england to win let's take monday off yes good man thank you care my hero any money

01:23:14.600 on england winning but uh and do you think so that makes sense dirty belters starmer isn't

01:23:21.760 giving away the falkland islands because the argentinians aren't paying him off like the 0.59

01:23:24.660 chinese are for the charcos islands true california refugee social shame parents who raise their kids 0.93

01:23:29.940 with screens in their faces 24 7 online in public everywhere that's the best solution it leaves kids 0.95

01:23:34.860 themselves out of it and solves things uh without government uh that's a great idea just not going

01:23:39.940 to happen that's just not going to happen for most people unless you have some kind of top-down

01:23:45.280 culture enforcing it people are going to be too uncomfortable shaming other parents like that

01:23:53.280 most people just don't have the spine to do it kevin fox for safety reasons parents want their

01:23:59.160 kids to have phones okay how's this for an idea an updated version of the nokia 3310 with the

01:24:04.460 addition of a camera and gps but nothing else different from the original that way you can

01:24:08.660 track them and they can photograph anyone pestering them not that the police would release the images

01:24:13.260 unless the person pestering them was white british yeah to be fair like flip phone nationalism

01:24:18.840 that's what i'm for return to tradition you used to have a flip phone yeah we're all better off

01:24:25.180 with flip phones frankly i also remember when my phone broke and i had to borrow my mum's flip

01:24:30.740 phone around the time when flip phones stopped being kind of cool and that you were shamed for

01:24:36.580 them and it was hot pink but because it was such a bold statement no one bullied me for it and

01:24:43.220 pleased me and it's just like josh has a hot pink flip phone okay now i expected to go into school

01:24:48.400 and be absolutely destroyed and i was just like my phone broke i've got to borrow my mom's and

01:24:53.600 everyone just was just like okay fair enough it's like this this is the most reasonable experience

01:24:58.160 of schooling i've ever had it helps they already all thought he was gay so it just made sense 0.86

01:25:02.280 really yeah but even so dirty belter you're kicking me out of the flat but i still have a 0.89

01:25:07.760 month to trash the place yeah pretty much uh jimbo g no it's not that he's trashing the place

01:25:14.400 it's that he's like going through and carefully unscrewing the pipes and loosening things tuna

01:25:20.280 behind the radiators yeah it's like that so you're not giving people evil ideas

01:25:25.920 giving skid marks in the toilet that won't go oh no oh jimbo g burnham could just cancel the

01:25:33.100 shagos island deal and all foreign aid if he needs a few billion of course he wouldn't but

01:25:37.060 it's amazing how normalized it is that billions are just extracted to foreign countries while we

01:25:40.860 apparently spin plates at home we give money to pakistan for some reason why here's another thing

01:25:45.600 i didn't include it in the segment but there are currently backbench and other mps pushing for

01:25:51.240 burnham to raise the foreign aid given back to 0.7 percent of total gdp which used to be the norm

01:25:59.140 before rishi sunak of all people when he was still chancellor in 2020 uh just like quietly

01:26:05.300 removed that uh removed that privilege for foreign aid but they want him to push it back up so we're

01:26:11.280 giving more money to foreigners while we've still got a country in uh in decline if it were up to me

01:26:16.440 i'd turn a foreign aid budget into a foreign raid budget and we'd go out and bring money into the 0.96

01:26:22.040 economy you'd tap into the old reaving culture would you get the long boats out send out the

01:26:27.600 ships lads time to get rowing geordie sozman as people won't all act the same way we must

01:26:33.040 compel them with the power of the state harry elic leninson 2026 uh listen man if it works

01:26:40.660 and uh do you want to go through your yeah sophie lives says man if only they could concentrate on

01:26:47.220 british legacy culture so it's something the british people would feel connected to

01:26:50.840 so the british wouldn't mind paying a fee to help preserve and present british heritage and talent

01:26:56.340 but that's not the purpose of the british broadcast central how silly of me yeah yeah

01:27:02.840 uh dirty balder says the argument that streaming companies wouldn't comply with the taxes naive

01:27:09.200 we previously said that the internet regulation was unworkable but look at the effects of the

01:27:14.780 safety act it doesn't have to work well big companies just have to be invited to the table

01:27:19.720 for a piece of the action old mafia style where the smaller companies can be crushed if they comply

01:27:24.440 and find into oblivion if they don't when yeah but they're just afraid that people will just

01:27:29.380 cancel everything that's it right that's the thing with stuff like twitter and other places

01:27:35.000 they're mainly collecting a lot of money through engagement and from tracking and selling your

01:27:39.060 data these companies are directly taking your subscription money yeah so if you just cancel it

01:27:44.360 to be like well i'm not i don't want to pay for anything so they're screwed at that point uh

01:27:48.760 michael joe belbis says just go with youtube lots of classic doctor who disperue mistakes reviews

01:27:53.480 and state of politics uh what else do you need nothing mate to be fair those are those are great

01:28:00.360 i think something um henry ashman says i do wonder whether things like youtube premium or things like

01:28:06.340 a loader seed a subscription would qualify you to pay the new license fee is there anyone in

01:28:12.280 the labor cabinet who isn't a complete window licker uh the last bit no they're all window

01:28:17.380 lickers the website would be a subscription for you know the website rather than like a television

01:28:24.460 company or a there's something i didn't include in that which i probably should have done is that

01:28:28.460 the government already wants to force youtube to change their algorithm anyway to prioritize

01:28:35.240 and uprank, you know, mainstream media, basically.

01:28:42.300 So they're already working in ways to obliterate YouTube,

01:28:46.440 which is just mental.

01:28:47.360 They can't compete in a fair market,

01:28:50.060 and so they're trying to rig the game in their favour.

01:28:51.740 But they're trying to legally force YouTube to pay mainstream media.

01:28:56.740 Well, they already do it, don't they?

01:28:57.900 It's insane.

01:28:58.500 YouTube already does that.

01:28:59.660 It would just be making it official policy of the government as well.

01:29:02.400 No, so YouTube has actually come out and contacted everyone.

01:29:05.240 who's a creator and gone please like we would like you to to to go through to the government

01:29:10.320 website and fight this really we don't want to do this yeah so it's a bit it's a big because it

01:29:14.820 will completely destroy youtube in in britain so no like that for what like i think don't get it

01:29:21.560 wrong youtube's got their problems but for once they're actually on side because it will destroy

01:29:25.340 their business model here yeah i think that they're interested in making money but they're

01:29:29.400 unintentionally on the right side here yeah yeah um and last one uh maya maiden says 94% of the

01:29:39.620 uk watch the bbc is probably people checking the weather that might be it genuinely yeah i still

01:29:46.180 use the met office i was gonna say are they including people just clicking onto anything

01:29:49.980 to do with the bbc website an annual vpn subscription is half the price of a license fee

01:29:55.500 i'm just gonna leave that are you being hanging are you being sponsored not by anyone in particular

01:30:01.860 but if you do want to yeah yeah nowhere to find me the uh the invites are open i'll just go uh

01:30:06.960 california refugee harry if i buy 10 islanders will i be an irresistible babe magnet well if

01:30:13.180 you're not already it certainly won't help it won't hurt last peter simonson it's so disappointing

01:30:18.060 harry has stopped poor shaming us to flog islander well now i'm just kind of calling you low iq if 0.89

01:30:23.340 you don't get one so or ugly or ugly or just somebody who i would spit at as i walk past on

01:30:30.540 the street and on that charming note i think that's where we should end today's episode

01:30:35.440 thank you all very much for joining us nate thanks very much for coming in

01:30:39.300 we'll see you all again tomorrow till then take care and bye islander

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - July 15, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1462

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