The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1495

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 1495 for Monday the 31st of August

00:00:07.680 2026. I'm your host Luca joined today by Stelios and Firas. Hello. Hello everyone. And today we're

00:00:13.940 going to be talking all about Iceland dodging a bullet. I mean just pure Matrix style just you

00:00:20.640 know throwing itself over. We're then going to be talking about hope for Australia which really

00:00:26.080 should have about three question marks at the end of it but we're going to explore it

00:00:29.700 and then we're going to be talking about the festival of cultural enrichment which you've

00:00:35.040 been wading through this morning i need a shower by the way this is a topic i suggested you did

00:00:43.480 so you have to thank me twice yes because also yesterday on x i pointed your attention towards

00:00:49.380 something that you did that wasn't particularly appealing to your eyes it wasn't wholesome either

00:00:56.420 no it wasn't appealing to anyone's eyes anyway ladies and gentlemen before we get into the first

00:01:03.520 segment of course monday so fear apps will be live at three o'clock with a new realpolitik

00:01:09.160 talking all about um walls and why they're really important i just assume from the saying that the

00:01:17.460 himalayas are there for a reason and i'll be talking about the geopolitics of india fantastic

00:01:21.760 so do tune in for to listen to us discuss that of course as well uh we've just had a weekend which

00:01:27.600 means i had a chronicles come out on saturday we finally put the byron away for now but thank you

00:01:33.120 for everyone who enjoyed that it was great to hear from you uh now moving on to carrying on my

00:01:37.980 conversation with nick about c.s lewis's um sci-fi trilogy the cosmic trilogy this time looking at

00:01:45.180 The second novel, Perilandra, which is an absolutely fantastic novel where the main character goes to Perilandra to Venus and finds it in an Edenic state.

00:01:55.180 So in the same way as Earth before the fall and the transgressions of Adam and Eve, so Ransom goes to Venus and finds it in a similar state and has to avert to prevent the fall of Venus.

00:02:07.660 So a fantastic novel, really, really gripping start to end.

00:02:11.340 Go and get our thoughts on all of that.

00:02:12.860 And there's just one more thing that I actually wanted to draw your attention to before we begin, which is the fact that I recorded last week a video for The Daily Channel, which if you aren't aware of, you should go and subscribe to it, where I basically just went through some really important work from Remigration Now, where they go through, and this is not by any means a finished list, but where they have basically been documenting all of the lives of British people from the very beginning.

00:02:42.440 You know, people who were born in the Victorian era to now who have been murdered and betrayed by our governments as a result of the influx of mass immigration.

00:02:52.520 I think it's possibly the most important daily I've recorded for the channel, so I would encourage you to go and check that out.

00:02:59.300 With that all said then, Stelios, please tell us about Iceland.

00:03:03.940 Right, so let me just collect my thoughts.

00:03:08.700 also i have the the icelandic tie today ah very nice it would require to have also white

00:03:15.420 somewhere in it but it's it will do for now all right everyone chill the relationships between

00:03:22.340 the eu and iceland are a bit icy at the moment the weekend that just passed is historic in terms

00:03:30.020 of their bilateral relationships because the icelanders voted on a referendum and the referendum

00:03:36.920 was not about joining the eu the referendum was about negotiating joining the eu right they didn't

00:03:44.260 want a session process yeah they didn't even want to hear that 52 percent yeah i mean it's basically

00:03:49.760 the same 52.8 well yeah close to 53 it's very i'm just saying that those figures are very close to

00:03:56.740 how we voted in brexit so yes that's a flashback right so and 47.2 percent voted for it as you

00:04:06.380 would expect this was a bit um higher in cities and rural areas voted for no and especially people

00:04:18.400 in the fishing industry we will talk a lot about about fishing right so this is really interesting

00:04:24.900 because normally the eu bureaucrats are listening to countries wanting being desperate to join the

00:04:32.560 you and thinking that this is something important and that to them and that normally that you know

00:04:40.440 it's all of the wonderful benefits of layers and layers and layers and layers of bureaucracy

00:04:45.480 yeah absolutely but no representation no control over your own fate yeah no currency of your own

00:04:54.260 well that is attractive to a particular sort of person yes well they aren't used to hearing no

00:05:00.980 And this is what the Icelanders told them in a chaddish way.

00:05:05.900 So let's see here what is happening.

00:05:08.700 Iceland's voters give the EU the cold shoulder.

00:05:12.440 The narrow rejection of the resumption of accession negotiations between Iceland and the EU

00:05:21.080 hits Brussels at a bad moment.

00:05:23.900 A chance for re-energizing the enlargement and reform process has been missed.

00:05:28.040 Can I pause you there for a second?

00:05:30.000 because I couldn't help noticing...

00:05:31.120 I will freeze instead of pause.

00:05:32.920 Would you freeze for a moment, please?

00:05:34.960 Could it help noticing that Ukraine is included

00:05:37.480 in this map supposedly of the EU, as is Britain,

00:05:41.900 under the heading, the future shape of Europe?

00:05:45.200 I saw continental Europe

00:05:46.400 because it doesn't include the parts of Russia.

00:05:48.260 It includes Switzerland too.

00:05:49.920 Ah, it includes Switzerland as well, and Norway.

00:05:52.280 How fascinating.

00:05:53.920 Okay.

00:05:55.240 Just sort of the expansionist streak is a bit...

00:05:58.800 I will unfreeze now and continue.

00:06:01.140 Please.

00:06:02.620 Right.

00:06:03.080 So, as expected, it was a close result.

00:06:06.540 52.8% of Icelandic voters rejected the government's proposal of restarting accession negotiations with the EU, while 47.2% said yes.

00:06:17.400 What is interesting is that the relationships between the EU and Iceland aren't always icy.

00:06:24.900 Sometimes they're good.

00:06:25.980 And in 2009, for instance, Iceland applied for membership, EU membership.

00:06:34.260 Right.

00:06:34.820 But then the whole process stalled because of the debt crisis of the Eurozone.

00:06:40.060 And eventually it led to people not from Iceland, governments of Iceland, not necessarily retracting their application, but not pursuing it.

00:06:52.880 Kicking it down the road.

00:06:53.780 Yes. And the current government, it is a three-party coalition between Social Democrats, who are the leaders of the coalition, liberal reformists, really pro-EU market, and some left-wing populists.

00:07:10.980 and most of them said essentially let's pursue the referendum now particularly because of donald

00:07:18.580 trump's uh statements about greenland and his approach towards greenland which personally i 0.96

00:07:23.840 think it was idiotic and also some of the statements made by the u.s u.s ambassador 0.87

00:07:30.900 in iceland where he jokingly said well greenland and iceland should become the 51st and 52nd state 0.99

00:07:38.680 right that's good for x to own the libs it isn't particularly good for for real life politics and

00:07:47.100 for relationships between long-time allies particularly allies who are meant to constitute

00:07:52.600 the western world and whose cooperation is a good thing presumably but this didn't deter the

00:07:58.940 icelanders they didn't think that there was an imminent threat host to them and it essentially

00:08:05.620 backfired and the good thing is that the current government said that under this government they

00:08:12.020 aren't going to pursue this more which is well i mean it's good but but obviously it implies we

00:08:19.100 will carry this on at a later date and you will give us a right answer next time is what the

00:08:23.540 underlying premise is right so now let's talk a bit about what this referendum was conceived of

00:08:30.320 us being about people would normally rush to impose non-icelandic politics on iceland but this

00:08:39.120 is sloppy not particularly good quality take and the issues that iceland face and icelanders think

00:08:47.200 that they face aren't exactly the concerns that other europeans have for their countries so this

00:08:53.940 This was primarily marketed as an economics-focused campaign.

00:08:59.420 But in a way, it's not just about economics.

00:09:03.300 And I do think that Iceland dodged a bullet, and I will talk about this towards the end,

00:09:10.520 with respect to particular matters that weren't on the radar of this referendum.

00:09:16.060 But let's talk now about Iceland and Icelanders.

00:09:19.140 So Iceland's defense alliances, NATO, for instance, and security did not make their

00:09:25.460 way into the campaign.

00:09:26.980 People weren't feeling threatened, they weren't feeling threatened either by NATO enemies

00:09:32.240 or something.

00:09:33.360 So that wasn't the issue about it.

00:09:36.460 Security was not an issue, instead it remained largely focused on economic issues.

00:09:42.520 Fish and marine industries account for almost 40 percent of Iceland exports and many no

00:09:48.300 No voters feared that the country would cede some control of their lucrative fishing grounds

00:09:53.960 under the EU's Common Fisheries Policy.

00:09:56.960 I mean, look at what it did to Britain, right?

00:09:58.920 Completely decimated fishing communities in Britain.

00:10:01.860 So it's not like the Icelanders' fear about this was unfounded.

00:10:07.740 In fact, it was very rational.

00:10:09.800 And I would say correct.

00:10:11.200 They would lose a substantial amount of control over their fishing industry.

00:10:16.740 this is after three victories in the cod wars in the 20th century as well so you don't want to lose

00:10:22.100 those games and from what i've seen and i'm not an expert on iceland politics but from what little i

00:10:31.380 researched what they the idea is that fishing industry is not only a really important source

00:10:37.460 of wealth for icelanders but it's also a sort of now it's a national trademark yes in a way

00:10:43.380 it's really important for them on a national level not just economic some insane kind of fermented 0.98

00:10:49.220 shark which is genuinely disgusting if you try it and and uh just think about it but apparently they

00:10:58.420 think it goes well with some of the liqueurs that they make i don't know perhaps if i visit iceland

00:11:04.900 i'll see this and give you update us on fermented shark policies in iceland please yes i wouldn't

00:11:10.980 feel particularly bad about eating sharks they aren't exactly you know winnie the pooh no no i

00:11:16.820 wasn't suggesting that i was just suggesting that fermenting it was like what disgusting okay okay

00:11:22.100 that's all right so the greater rake yavik the the city vote greater rake yavik supported the

00:11:29.540 government's proposal to try and obtain the best possible deal in membership negotiations but the

00:11:35.060 rural vote prevailed and from the ruling coalition the supporters of the liberal the liberal reformists

00:11:42.980 and the social democrats generally supported the yes vote but the left-wing populists

00:11:50.340 also in the coalition governments their supporters voted for no and the opposition parties voted for

00:11:57.220 know right so let's see here um what was interesting was that at the request of the

00:12:05.260 icelandic government the european commission largely stayed out of the referendum campaign

00:12:10.780 well that was to their detriment last time i mean was there any greater campaign you know

00:12:17.340 argument for brexit than just give a hofstat turning up in your country and basically saying

00:12:22.640 yeah you belong to wars yeah and Ursula von der Leyen would have convinced them no possibly not

00:12:27.900 and the author of this article is lamenting about this he would they would be pro yes but I will

00:12:36.660 agree with a bad timing because I do think that generally speaking the image that the EU is

00:12:42.960 projecting lately isn't exactly an image of stability or an image of respect for sovereignty

00:12:50.440 or competence or competence or respect for um european just not having content growth let's say

00:13:00.020 for for economic development no that's not it they're in favor of regulation and also changing

00:13:07.680 population mixes we are going to talk about this towards the end but suffice it to say what is

00:13:13.540 interesting is that 90 percent of the players in the fishing industry voted for no and this

00:13:20.680 raises the question of why would the 10 percent there not want to support no and want to have

00:13:28.180 less control as a country over their fishing sector but i would say that this isn't particularly

00:13:36.680 a paradox or an interesting question it's all about potential corruption because if you are

00:13:44.360 um among the people who are saying that well we will strike a deal through the back door with the

00:13:50.680 eu and it's going to favor us against the overwhelming majority of the players in the

00:13:56.680 fishing in the rest of your domestic competition yeah they would totally vote for yes right okay

00:14:03.160 let's move forward this is the sky news article about it it doesn't actually add anything to what

00:14:10.840 i said before not sky news yeah the economist here says that eu enlargement has hit an icelandic

00:14:18.600 snag and they're saying it's much more about fish and it's about than it is about geopolitics

00:14:25.800 and there are also other people saying it's much more about geopolitics than fish

00:14:31.080 both of them are important fish are important geopolitics is important as well right then here

00:14:38.880 we have this from Reuters let's listen to this lady so Iceland because it's so central to its

00:14:47.440 economy but also its national identity it says that they would they were concerned it's something

00:15:00.180 that Iceland has fought hard for for decades

00:15:02.260 and they never had to share these.

00:15:04.700 Many Icelanders simply don't trust

00:15:06.720 that if they join the EU

00:15:09.140 that they wouldn't lose control of their fishing waters.

00:15:12.220 And that is kind of a red line for many Icelanders.

00:15:21.400 It has music.

00:15:22.420 I hope that we don't have any issues.

00:15:25.900 We will ask the editing team if there are any.

00:15:28.420 I think it was very generic background music.

00:15:31.040 Okay, we will ask though.

00:15:32.280 Right, so the question here is, what happened?

00:15:37.540 Why did Iceland say no to the EU,

00:15:40.940 given the fact that many countries in Europe

00:15:43.600 and, let's say, in the Western world,

00:15:48.120 not necessarily, because not all of them are in Europe,

00:15:50.940 but some of them would qualify as trying to approach the West.

00:15:55.660 um why did they say no to it why and this should prompt a moment of reflection and i don't doubt

00:16:03.540 that it won't because the eu is full of unelected bureaucrats who really have a ready excuse

00:16:12.920 for dismissing anything that suggests that they aren't god's gift to human nature and i don't

00:16:20.640 think they are no i mean they insist that there is no such thing as someone who is actually european

00:16:25.660 And they did that when the Save Europe Act reached the level of signatures to meet with them and they said, no, no, if you want to save Europe, you're racist.

00:16:36.720 They have zero interest in their own population.

00:16:39.520 They keep stifling every single business with growth.

00:16:42.940 They make more money out of imposing fines on technology companies than they make from technology companies that are grown in Europe.

00:16:51.580 It's just impossible to deal with them.

00:16:53.780 I want to share with you two quotes and focus a bit on the language used there, because I think that this is an indication that Iceland did dodge a bullet.

00:17:05.400 Right. So this is from the ECR group. Iceland's vote should prompt reflection in Brussels. At a time of growing geopolitical uncertainty, Icelandic people chose not even to reopen accession negotiations, underlining concerns about national sovereignty, democratic accountability and subsidiarity.

00:17:25.940 I don't know for the life of me how they can pose this as a question. It's not even a question.

00:17:34.100 Well, it's not a question. At the end of the day, these are all arguments that we retread. And, you know, when it comes to national sovereignty, that was obviously the most important thing in the British people's mind when we voted to leave the European Union.

00:17:47.640 And that was 10 years ago. And the fact that the EU walked away from all of that, and basically rather than be forced into a position where it had to reflect on how it had gone so catastrophically wrong, that one of its key contributors, you know, the United Kingdom had decided to leave it, and the British people decided it wasn't for them.

00:18:09.100 Well, instead what they did was just work with the British government, which was sympathetic to them anyway, and just kind of circumnavigate the entire question by still tying us to a lot of their fundamental treaties and obviously keeping us in line with the ECHR, all of this sort of stuff.

00:18:27.600 And so there's never actually been a moment, even when Brexit might have pushed it, where the EU has ever actually looked at itself and gone, what is so repulsive about us that nations as different as Britain and Iceland just don't actually want to be a part of what we're offering here?

00:18:44.980 Focus on the difference in tone when they're talking now about Iceland, when they're trying to lure Icelanders to join the union, and when they are talking about people who are already member states.

00:18:58.760 Right.

00:18:59.240 ECR group co-chairman Patrick Jackie said, Iceland's decision must be respected and Brussels should take its implications seriously if a people fears that decisions on matters of fundamental national importance.

00:19:13.440 does the eu understand the concept of national importance no just asking could eventually be

00:19:21.140 taken beyond its democratic control and therefore decides not even to resume negotiations the

00:19:27.280 european union must consider carefully what this says about its current direction absolutely but

00:19:33.060 the outcome the verdict of such reflection shouldn't be that the european union hasn't

00:19:41.500 been progressive enough, the verdict of this reflection should be the European Union has

00:19:48.120 gone out of its way to disrespect national sovereignty of the European member states.

00:19:57.180 And one thing to say here, because there are general debates about European integration

00:20:01.900 and the formation of the identity of a European and how this could happen and what are the

00:20:11.160 circumstances under which this would be desirable and what the circumstances under which this

00:20:17.380 would be undesirable are.

00:20:19.860 And I want to say that when you call yourself European Union and you don't have an exclusive

00:20:27.840 identity for who counts as a European, and you also think that guarding Europe is a crime

00:20:34.400 against humanity because we see the the footage from Ceuta they show that essentially Sanchez had

00:20:45.920 Sanchez ordered his border border guards to open the border for people to flow in the Ceuta from

00:20:54.480 Morocco this is an image of decadence decline and the disrespect for the sovereignty of the Spanish 0.93

00:21:05.040 and the spanish identity sanchez will then say all these people who came from morocco

00:21:10.480 from all over the world they're not only europeans because they have to be given a passport

00:21:16.240 and they have to be regularized and they have to be given citizenship but also they are the people

00:21:22.560 who need benefits and benefits that the native spanish and the native europeans have to pay

00:21:29.120 And if the native Spanish and the native Europeans have complained about having to pay them,

00:21:35.120 Sanchez and his buddies, the unelected bureaucrats of the EU, 0.97

00:21:38.660 are going to trash them as racist, extremist, far-right Nazis. 0.77

00:21:46.320 So this isn't exactly proper conduct.

00:21:49.440 And I really don't blame the Icelanders for not wanting to begin the negotiations for entering the Union.

00:21:56.580 I doubt that this was their concern because their population mix and the migration flowing into Iceland isn't the kind of migration that flows into other European nations such as Germany, France and the UK.

00:22:15.580 I will share with you some of the statistics. According to the data I found, Iceland has a population of about 400,000 people. Almost about 22% are migrants, but they're mostly from Romania, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland.

00:22:36.620 so it's eastern european migration to iceland the issues of of migration didn't

00:22:45.880 flew under the radar there wasn't any issue with migration here on the campaign and there don't

00:22:53.260 seem to be and iceland doesn't seem to be facing the issues that for instance france germany

00:22:58.540 spain and the uk face however there is an issue that even if they don't think that these these

00:23:07.140 would be their problems they would soon become their problems because joining the eu would imply

00:23:14.400 that they would join the eu pact on migration and asylum for them to not do this and bear in mind

00:23:22.360 And they already have most of the benefits that come with membership of the EU, particularly

00:23:28.480 when it comes to the economics.

00:23:30.320 So the EU, why would the EU want to do that to them?

00:23:34.560 Right. 0.77

00:23:35.960 That would essentially mean that Iceland would have to accept its share of the illegal migrants

00:23:44.740 that people like Sanchez would allow into the EU.

00:23:48.740 And then other leaders like Maloney, like the Mertz, like Macron would say, well, maybe 0.93

00:23:57.920 we don't like them or some of them we do, but it's a crime against humanity to do something 0.99

00:24:03.560 about it.

00:24:04.560 But now we have Iceland.

00:24:07.420 It is very sparsely populated.

00:24:09.860 It has about 103,000 square kilometers area, and it has four people per square kilometer.

00:24:19.940 So what about doing to them what we're doing to everyone else, such as what they're doing 0.87

00:24:25.640 to Ireland? 0.74

00:24:27.180 And I'll just give you an example, for those of us from Ireland watching, check out for

00:24:31.800 instance what happened in Newtown, Mount Kennedy in Ireland, where the Irish government, member

00:24:37.200 of the EU, really interested in promoting the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, just

00:24:43.320 said, well, let's put them there.

00:24:45.320 And the locals started protesting.

00:24:47.260 And then the government started talking about far-right extremism and all the bad things.

00:24:54.580 So this is something that even if it flew under their radar and wasn't in their mind,

00:25:00.600 it would become a problem given the current EU.

00:25:04.240 there are people defending the current eu and the project and like alberto alemano here who have

00:25:12.720 taken a an interest in lately i have you yeah he is let me just show you here he is a fellow at

00:25:21.420 harvard he's jean monet professor of eu law democracy fellow at harvard anyway he he seems

00:25:28.640 to have the titles that he believes lots of lots of centrists lot of of boomers would listen listen

00:25:37.440 to this and and say oh this guy is awesome he really knows what he's talking about so he says

00:25:43.120 no iceland's referendum result does not reject european integration it shows that the country's

00:25:49.120 present arrangement within the european economic area single market access free movement and

00:25:54.880 participation in EU programs without EU membership and without a vote on EU rules is attractive

00:26:01.200 enough to maintain the status quo. I don't think that this is just the case and I'll just show you

00:26:06.160 his take on Ceuta. He said, as Ceuta reminded us, today's Europe is a different Europe, one that is

00:26:16.640 coercive at the border and permissive towards corporate and environmental harm.

00:26:22.400 If it was coercive at the border, they wouldn't still be in Ceuta.

00:26:26.340 And let me just, I just had this reply to him.

00:26:32.240 An influx of thousands of men.

00:26:33.820 No resistance doesn't exactly make the EU coercive in guarding its borders.

00:26:38.580 The problem is it is not coercive enough.

00:26:40.900 Everyone knows that the EU isn't coercive at the border. 0.93

00:26:43.760 That's why they had the balls to do this in the first place.

00:26:45.940 And if you can literally look at people from the security forces, 0.96

00:26:53.920 they are helping people along to enter Saud.

00:26:59.180 So punitive.

00:27:00.180 So be very wary when people like those who will say

00:27:04.880 the EU can do no wrong and European integration

00:27:08.420 without defining European and without saying

00:27:11.880 that being european has an essential link to being from europe um yeah be really mindful so

00:27:22.760 it looks like it wasn't about migration but they did dodge a bullet because this was one of the

00:27:29.400 things that he would really like to do them but it wasn't just about dodging a migration related

00:27:36.600 bullet it was also about all the other things that participating in the european union brings

00:27:44.440 with and things that the unelected bureaucrats of brussels don't seem particularly self-reflecting

00:27:51.960 with and i'll just share with this uh post by drew godefridi who is a political philosopher

00:28:01.160 of European decadence. Despite an increasingly tense geopolitical context, Iceland still refuses

00:28:08.200 to join the EU. In reality, the EU is in terminal decline. It solves none of Europe's problems.

00:28:15.360 Instead, it creates new ones, hyper-regulation, excessive taxation, open borders, and deranged

00:28:22.320 environmentalism with no rhyme or reason. So I think that people in the EU should reflect

00:28:30.220 but they won't and it's it's it's really a pity because the eu could under circumstances

00:28:39.260 be a bulwark against those who want to divide and conquer europeans but it seems to function this

00:28:48.540 way only when it comes to the poland belarus border when it comes to every other border

00:28:54.880 that's when they just throw up the gestalt switch yeah and the say it's like almost putin's russia

00:29:02.920 is the only side that can wage hybrid warfare and employ migration flows in order to destabilize

00:29:11.200 europe but for some reason it's only um in the borders between poland and belarus um putin's

00:29:17.960 russia couldn't do that from any other border according to the eu yeah so well done for icelanders

00:29:25.720 and be proud to be icelanders and you'll do fine yeah go fish um that's a random name says for a

00:29:35.820 dollar uh the way you're making uh i said y'all uh the way you all have been talking about the

00:29:42.100 european union makes it sound like a geopolitical hemorrhoid yeah yeah it does feel like that

00:29:47.740 um all right then uh so ladies and gentlemen here at the lotus eaters we like to keep an eye on the

00:29:55.020 anglosphere you know we're very concerned about what goes on in places such as new zealand

00:29:59.700 uh that we've covered previously of course we've always got our eye on the united states and

00:30:04.140 canada as well and obviously now i would just like to draw some attention to australia um because

00:30:11.260 a lot is happening in australia and it has changed very very quickly over the years and

00:30:17.280 for a nation that basically defined the first half of the 20th century by the white Australia

00:30:25.160 policy. That is one that obviously, I suppose very, very naturally, decided to say, well, 0.82

00:30:33.080 we are essentially a British colony, and therefore it makes sense in the most sensible way for 1.00

00:30:39.120 community cohesion, that obviously those emigrating from abroad coming here should 0.99

00:30:44.840 really be British, right? However, a lot of this changed very, very quickly. Now, of course,

00:30:50.640 most of all, this was changed by World War II, which found that after the Second World War,

00:30:57.160 there was fewer and fewer people from Britain coming to Australia. And as a result of that,

00:31:04.800 Australia decided to open up the bracket of who it was going to allow in. So obviously,

00:31:10.420 there was many many millions of displaced peoples all over europe of all different sorts of

00:31:15.040 ethnicities after world war ii and as a result of this i basically said well now we're going to take

00:31:20.740 from just general people of a general european character um which you may or may not disagree

00:31:27.120 with but that's simply the way it went and then of course after that when the mass immigration began

00:31:33.320 and it began to facilitate itself there was once more as all of this is because it always happens

00:31:39.840 incrementally. You're never going to convince a nation that has been entirely Anglo-British

00:31:45.220 for most of its history to suddenly become, share a nation with this other very, very 1.00

00:31:51.740 foreign people. You're not going to be like, oh, we're going to have like 20% Arabs and

00:31:56.340 Indians in just overnight. No one would agree to that. But incrementally, that is how we 1.00

00:32:01.420 have ultimately arrived at the place that we have now. And under the 1966 government

00:32:06.900 led by harold holt um eventually we had the total dismantling of the white australia policy

00:32:13.440 and we now found ourselves in a position where um australia is quite naturally a very diverse place

00:32:21.280 uh once again just like canada just like new zealand everywhere else it's got the same problem

00:32:27.180 just like here and yeah exactly and of course i mean this article just begins in the most

00:32:33.140 cliche and tired way possible if i were to just scroll down to simply the first sentence for you

00:32:39.960 as a foodie residing in sydney i am always thankful for the cultural diversity of australia

00:32:47.180 that provides us with a variety of cuisine and the authenticity of food

00:32:51.360 that's that's all that's all the nation is it's just a supermarket a nation is just a deli

00:32:58.460 There's no thought of historical continuity or cultural cohesion. No, no, no. It's just an open-air restaurant. That's all a nation ever was or will be.

00:33:07.940 And further on down the article, it makes such points as, 0.86

00:33:11.420 Among the greater Sydney area, Lidcombe scores the lowest HHI, which means that it proudly calls itself the most culturally diverse area, 28% Chinese, 18% Korean, surpassing English on 6%, to become the top two ancestors of the suburbs.

00:33:31.440 Over two-thirds of Lidcombe residents are immigrants who were born from outside of Australia. 1.00

00:33:37.080 Why is that a good thing? 1.00

00:33:38.980 Because of food, Firas.

00:33:41.420 Do they not know how to use a recipe book?

00:33:44.320 I wish you'd stop being so narrow-minded about all this.

00:33:47.260 I really do.

00:33:47.960 Wait till you get to my segment.

00:33:52.720 Clayton tops the list in Victoria.

00:33:55.000 Pays attributable to its large population of 25% Chinese, 14% Indian,

00:34:00.880 and more than three out of five residents speak a non-English language at home.

00:34:08.480 of the total population of greater sydney 39 percent of people were born overseas and if you

00:34:15.440 travel over to western sydney specifically it increases to the majority at 53 percent so and

00:34:23.500 all of this is to only speak of immigration this is not just to speak of the fact that

00:34:28.160 without the consent of the anglo-australian people those who are the actual heritage australians

00:34:34.440 you know whose ancestors colonized it and built it up into a very successful nation

00:34:39.380 which gave us Margot Robbie yeah I mean it's a great great place you ultimately get to the fact

00:34:45.920 that not only do you have the diversity element laid in there but of course the Australian

00:34:51.240 establishment have obviously also forced on the Australian people all number of policies that we

00:34:58.580 are just used to having to deal with on a daily basis hate speech laws net zero all these sorts

00:35:04.420 of things of just you know the globalist package that gets forced out everywhere because all nations

00:35:10.100 are the same and just all of these policies if put in the west will just create success despite

00:35:16.980 the fact that actually every single place they seem to be implemented in leads to enormous

00:35:21.380 destabilization of the political system invariably some outside party forcing its way into that

00:35:28.100 system and everyone panicking that the far right are just around the corner right that's how it

00:35:33.060 It always goes.

00:35:35.840 And on this occasion, this is exactly what is happening in Australia.

00:35:40.180 We see now that Australia's right-wing One Nation party wins its first lower house seat

00:35:45.940 in Western Australia, where there was a by-election.

00:35:49.060 Now, One Nation has actually been around as a party for some time now, and its leader

00:35:54.620 Pauline Hanson, in much the same way as Nigel Farage, is also a political figure who would

00:36:00.580 have been known to the people for a good number of decades at this point but this is a very very

00:36:07.620 substantial win not only because the one nation party won 39.1 percent of the primary vote and

00:36:15.600 let's not forget of course as well that they have compulsory voting in australia but this was up

00:36:20.820 by 30.6% since the state election just last March in 2025. And this has also seen a loss of the

00:36:31.240 Labour Party's vote by about 22%. So within the space of a year, Pauline Hanson's One Nation

00:36:38.640 party has gone up by 30% in this particular by-election from where it did. And so you can

00:36:45.040 see how quickly uh the political situation is changing over in australia and now um very very

00:36:53.280 often you're seeing uh the one nation party and the labor party which is obviously headed by the

00:36:59.020 current prime minister anthony albanese albanese i can never pronounce his surname correctly sorry

00:37:04.640 uh albanese and so they're constantly uh toing and throwing with one another in the polls

00:37:11.140 but at the same time we get to the point where the party has secured a major win and this has

00:37:18.860 obviously really shaken them up because this was actually historically a Labour safe seat

00:37:23.940 and so it's basically it's been perfectly designed to scare the living daylights out of the Australian

00:37:31.420 Labour Party and it's certainly doing that so obviously as I say here we're now on the One

00:37:38.440 nation's official website and they say frightened by the threat of pauline represented to the

00:37:44.560 australian political establishment tony abbott led a campaign which established a trust fund

00:37:49.740 to bankroll spurious civil court cases against one nation pauline was ultimately vindicated and

00:37:55.380 returned to the leadership of one nation in 2014 to launch a campaign to return to parliament now

00:38:01.140 please do just bear in mind ladies and gentlemen that i am of course quite far away from the

00:38:06.180 situation on the ground in australia and so if i say anything that is in all inaccurate then do

00:38:12.300 obviously politely let me know in the comments uh because that's what happened when i did the

00:38:16.680 new zealand segment as well i had a lot of people saying you've got it wrong and then when i did a

00:38:20.800 follow-up segment said no you had it right the first time so you know just uh be honest with

00:38:25.920 me about it but um but i've been looking through a few of their policies as dictated on the website

00:38:30.860 and there are some that are of course very very reasonable for example foreign ownership one

00:38:36.920 nation will pursue urgent reform to australia's foreign investment rules by legislating a clear

00:38:43.060 definition of national interest based on national security competition tax a character test and then

00:38:49.480 the other impacts to australia essential services including power water telecommunications roadways

00:38:56.460 and ports will be off limits to foreign investors with a crucial shortage of housing stock in

00:39:02.760 australia we must stop the sale of property to non-residents and non-citizens this is obviously 0.99

00:39:08.540 a very sensible position and at the same time as well is actually something encouraging because

00:39:15.880 it once again exposes the fact that actually whatever shortcomings one nation does have as

00:39:21.560 a party and we'll get to those in a minute it is not strictly thatcherite in its economics it is

00:39:27.880 willing to um try and curtail the worst excesses of the economic problems that we've run into

00:39:33.960 here in britain which is allowing our energy companies and our infrastructure

00:39:38.100 and our basic utilities to be owned by foreign nations sometimes in the case of uh the energy

00:39:45.780 uh the french uh government itself and in other course of case uh in other cases of course just

00:39:52.840 uh foreign corporations chinese owning the industries um then we get to covid of course

00:39:58.560 which is also important because australia went mental just like new zealand did uh during the

00:40:04.540 lockdowns where they say that um one nation will continue to push for a royal commission

00:40:09.280 into the management of covid19 pandemic by australian governments i'll just leave that

00:40:14.420 there because i still don't know what i can say on youtube um and then of course we get to the

00:40:19.200 the matter of immigration now as they say here um australia's immigration system is broken

00:40:26.500 our population has surged past 27 million overwhelming housing infrastructure and

00:40:31.800 essential services wages are stagnating homeowners are slipping out of reach and australians are

00:40:37.460 being forced to compete with cheap labor. Now, this is all, of course, not untrue. But it is

00:40:44.620 talking about it in a sense, it's just the mere pragmatism of the economy. Again, it's not talking

00:40:52.000 about historical continuity. And it's more in the same way that you would hear Nigel Farage

00:40:58.180 simply talk about just reforming the worst excesses of the system to save the system itself.

00:41:03.780 Yeah, but I mean, I understand this because fundamentally speaking, the economy is one of the most important factors for gaining votes.

00:41:16.300 So they have to do this.

00:41:19.560 The standard of living is one of the most important factors.

00:41:22.740 Yeah, but the standard of living and the GDP are not the same thing.

00:41:26.120 sure sure but there is a difference there between gdp and standard of living britain has

00:41:35.840 a slowly rising gdp a rapidly declining standard of living yeah i don't i don't deny it i don't

00:41:43.080 deny this i'm just saying that from the from a politician's perspective from a practical

00:41:48.640 perspective they have to do this they have to address the factor that they consider that the

00:41:54.960 Australia is considered to be the most important one, fair enough.

00:41:58.840 And so we see, obviously, attitudes like deport 75,000 illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:42:04.580 Yeah, I mean, deporting billions is always a good thing. 1.00

00:42:07.720 So, yeah, right direction of travel. 0.75

00:42:10.800 Cut immigration by over 500, sorry, 570,000 people from current labor levels by capping visas at 130,000 per year 0.59

00:42:22.400 to ease pressure on housing, wages and infrastructure to stop the skilled visa rotting

00:42:29.520 that allows cheap foreign labour to undercut Australian workers,

00:42:33.400 end the student visa loopholes, you can tell from reading this.

00:42:36.620 These are all the same problems that were plagued within our immigration system in Britain.

00:42:41.460 Stop the administrative review tribunal being abused with endless weaponised appeals

00:42:48.260 that clog the system and delay rightful deportations uh reintroduce uh temporary

00:42:54.340 protection visas to basically stop them from getting the back door into permanent residency

00:43:00.040 uh deport any visa holder who breaks the law sounds sensible um now obviously they're going

00:43:06.420 to extend the waiting period for full citizenship as well uh refuse entry to migrants from nations

00:43:12.380 known to foster extremist ideologies wouldn't that be sensible and to withdraw from the 0.95

00:43:18.040 United Nations Refugee Convention, which would also be a positive step forward. So all of this 0.98

00:43:25.200 is very important. And the reason why, of course, it's so important, it won't surprise anyone to

00:43:30.980 hear, is that because that actually, when polled, One Nation supporters view immigration rather than

00:43:38.320 living costs as the top concern for voters who are flocking to One Nation. In the same way that

00:43:44.060 people came to reform uk sort of saying look hint hint please get the message we are looking for you 0.85

00:43:50.900 as the off-ramp to the immigration nightmare that we are going through and that successive

00:43:56.560 governments red or blue just continue to force on us and we can't seem they refuse to change the

00:44:03.400 direction of travel now of course one of the problems that arises with this apart from the

00:44:08.460 fact that they say, ask what they feared. 57% of One Nation supporters said Australia's

00:44:14.460 culture and identity were changing too quickly, whilst 40% said housing and infrastructure

00:44:20.800 were strained. One Nation's newer supporters were more likely to take issue with the volume

00:44:25.860 of migration, a view Hawker said was shared by many migrants. However, her more traditional

00:44:32.060 support base believes that the background of migrants is of greater concern, and Hanson

00:44:37.280 itself has spoken in plain and sometimes in sanctuary terms about uh muslim australians

00:44:42.620 after the bondi attack in december because why would you want terror attacks on your beaches

00:44:47.260 australia wouldn't you be a madman for wanting to address that problem uh after and after that

00:44:53.160 attack very naturally uh a lot of the um well one nation as a the voter base grew quite dramatically

00:45:01.280 Also, I think we've seen very contradictory images from Australia.

00:45:07.120 On the one hand, we've seen Anthony Albanese chased out of a mosque.

00:45:12.800 This has important symbolism.

00:45:16.060 Yes.

00:45:16.400 This has important symbolism.

00:45:17.480 On the other hand, we have seen the Australian police being occasionally very strong in putting down some protests.

00:45:26.260 They still have the two-tier standard issue.

00:45:30.520 But two-tier policing is still an issue in Australia, a big issue.

00:45:34.720 And so it seems that all of the momentum is with One Nation.

00:45:39.780 And of course, this is all exacerbated by the fact that, from what I understand, the current Labour government led by Albanese,

00:45:49.000 he is aware of the fact that immigration is obviously a rising issue in Australia and knows that the public want him to do something about it.

00:45:58.240 And, of course, it is within the self-interest of his own political position and his party to address that and just at least give lip service to them, show that you're hearing, get the numbers down.

00:46:10.840 But in a similar way to that which Shabana Mahmood often has from the backbenchers in the Labour Party, they've got it in their heads that if you were to reduce the immigrant intake of Australia by simply one migrant, that would be racist and that's a step backwards.

00:46:27.860 And that's obviously against the principles of progressivism and this Whig history that we're all on, which is always naturally barreling towards diversity and by extension, of course, disinheriting the generations of Anglo-Australians who obviously come from a British background, who obviously colonised it and, as they say, made it what it was.

00:46:51.780 um and so it really doesn't pay when you have people like barnaby joyce declining to guarantee

00:46:58.740 lower permanent migration than labor under one nation now what would possess you to say this

00:47:07.960 even if you were thinking it is beyond me and speaks to something so incredibly politically

00:47:14.540 tone deaf as i say given the fact that we know the majority of people are getting behind one

00:47:21.680 nation because of the question of immigration that unfortunately it speaks to a lack of robustness

00:47:28.560 within the party okay so i'll try to be a bit charitable here and say two things first of all

00:47:36.640 when it comes to migration intake question is from where presumably if english people

00:47:43.760 went to australia that would be a migration intake and i don't consider this to be bad

00:47:50.740 However, they don't seem to be defining it.

00:47:55.140 And when it comes to migration, the whole thing, and why I agree with you that it is tone deaf,

00:47:59.940 is that we are entering an era.

00:48:02.440 We always were in such an era, but now we can't afford to ignore it.

00:48:06.220 We do see the outcomes of these policies, where we need to be mindful of multiculturalism

00:48:12.040 and the various cultures, how they affect behavior,

00:48:16.400 how they affect the potential to integrate and assimilate or not.

00:48:20.400 actually multiculturalism is the opposite of assimilation it tells people do not assimilate

00:48:26.500 keep your culture hence multiculturalism but one of the things to say here is that it's worth

00:48:34.320 if she wants to go down this way and one nation wants to go down this way and they need to be

00:48:41.780 very clear with respect to which countries they will want migration from and one of the important

00:48:50.340 things to say here is that when it comes to culture we need to be also a bit more specific

00:48:58.260 and particular with respect to how we talk about it not everyone who is for instance a an afghan

00:49:04.020 enthusiast of Bacha Bazi, obviously, even from Afghanistan, right? But it's something that

00:49:12.420 new parties will have to take into account. They can't talk about this abstractly, like migration

00:49:19.140 intake, population, people, humans, they have to be a bit more specific. 0.88

00:49:25.940 Well, what's more as well, back in the 50s and 60s, when they were dismantling the White

00:49:31.620 Australia policy this from what I understand was like so many things not on the manifesto

00:49:38.540 this wasn't something that the Australian people like yeah we really want you to open us up to Asia

00:49:44.380 and you know to the Philippines and India and etc etc that wasn't what they wanted and at the time

00:49:50.840 very naturally they were re-insured that this was not going to present any real fundamental change

00:49:56.900 their way of life that the numbers will be small and then of course as time goes on and the uh

00:50:03.300 foreign intake rises of course this creates voter blocks it creates entire communities that you

00:50:08.980 start pandering your vote towards we understand all this it's all we've lived through and i want 0.58

00:50:14.340 to add that they shouldn't do what the eu is doing uh with uh with uh the poland belarus border again

00:50:21.060 I'll take it there again, because according to the EU, the only border that matters is the Poland-Belarus border.

00:50:29.340 Putin's Russia is waging hybrid warfare against the EU by throwing people from the one side to Poland.

00:50:39.260 I know that the Australians have a fair bit of suspicion about the Chinese Communist Party.

00:50:46.780 and in the same way the chinese communist party could engage in hybrid warfare against australia

00:50:53.740 and weaponize migration flows not just from china's they already already does and they

00:50:58.880 have throughout the history the point is that it doesn't have to be just chinese yeah absolutely

00:51:04.380 absolutely it could be indirect you should be it could be indirectly involved in migration flows

00:51:10.180 that aren't from China and go into Australia with the purpose of establishing a lobby within

00:51:16.940 Australia to destabilize Australia and augment the power that other sides have over it.

00:51:23.820 Yeah.

00:51:24.380 But ultimately, this is one of the reasons why you end up getting a comment like this

00:51:30.260 is because naturally the One Nation Party, in the same way that reform was, and to some

00:51:36.020 extent you know in the way that voices now amongst restore britain are doing as well you have this

00:51:41.720 thing where you have two sides of it who are interested in different aspects of the migration

00:51:47.480 issue within the one nation party you've got some who are just looking at the pure uh economics and

00:51:53.920 looking at the numbers looking about how many houses are going to need to build the actual

00:51:59.160 infrastructure question and then you have the other side of the party which is concerned about

00:52:04.040 migration because it's actually concerned about who it is within the country and whether or not

00:52:09.940 they even want Australia to be as diverse as numerous governments have forced it to be and

00:52:16.260 so perhaps it doesn't come as a surprise when you see anti-migration rally turns on Hanson

00:52:21.960 amid the policy muddle and she wasn't actually present at this but she was being booed

00:52:28.020 when she was spoken of at this event and this is also to say as well that there is a lot of

00:52:35.040 dissident political energy within Australia right now as I've been looking around I don't really

00:52:40.120 have time to explore it in depth but more as just a general Australia segment you can see that there

00:52:46.480 have been large gatherings all across Australia in Perth and Adelaide and Melbourne and Sydney

00:52:51.800 really looking at the march for australia which is obviously does include people in it who are

00:52:59.800 anti-migration but fundamentally is a free speech rally and is something that they are wanting to

00:53:06.780 put forward as a result of measures that the australian government implemented as a result

00:53:12.600 of the bondi beach attack because of course the australian government handled it in the same way

00:53:18.460 as our european governments do which is no the problem is not having these people in the

00:53:24.160 country in the first place it's merely what people are allowed to be permitted to say

00:53:28.880 and you would find actually if those people weren't in the country to begin with

00:53:33.460 you wouldn't actually have to worry about it but also yes it's an australian's right to think and

00:53:39.140 say whatever he damn well pleases but you see albanese getting very very startled by all of

00:53:44.860 this as a result of this by-election victory in a secret harbour and I'll just play him on this clip.

00:53:51.700 This is a crucial time for our movement because across the world hard right populists are on the

00:53:59.060 march peddling politics that is dangerous, divisive and downright dishonest. We simply

00:54:06.240 must defeat them. We owe it to history. We owe it to the nation and we will defeat them. They'll say

00:54:13.380 anything and do anything to win votes bend any facts peddle misinformation and disinformation

00:54:19.440 turn australian against australian parties like one nation have no serious answers to problems

00:54:28.840 which are there their own divisions and disagreements are now showing through they

00:54:34.840 think Australians are lazy I think so who is it who is this appeal to like people to people who

00:54:44.260 think that there is absolutely no problem with multiculturalism and it's always the uh the fault 0.99

00:54:50.840 of Australians it's always the the native that has the displacement of original sin yeah it's 0.99

00:54:56.060 like we owe it to history to hand over Australia to the rest of the world yes is is the argument

00:55:03.600 that i'm hearing here and him just saying oh it's about pitting australian against australian well

00:55:08.000 when you say australian you mean someone from the philippines who's or wherever who's just arrived

00:55:13.720 here in the past five years and has a piece of paper i know what he means by versus australian

00:55:18.880 but the other thing as well is just the fact that look anthony you're trying to stave off

00:55:24.240 like a political insurrection here but you speak like you're just speaking to your own supporters

00:55:29.340 They're already voting for you. They already agree with you. How are you going to address the concerns of the growing numbers of people who are now supporting Pauline Hanson's party? And this does not seem to be there. And that's fine. It just means that you'll be housed into the political wilderness and you'll lose all of your votes.

00:55:51.940 But in the same way, we get this rhetoric about the fact that they're dangerous or a threat to democracy. And as you can see, Pauline here talking about the fact that, again, this all breeds a level of violence and antagonism towards political opponents.

00:56:08.920 Even when, and I must say this, you know, from what I've seen of the One Nation, they seem to be really the Australian version of Reform UK.

00:56:20.120 And that is hardly far right.

00:56:23.280 It's hardly dangerous.

00:56:24.840 And it's hardly a threat to democracy when the majority of people are overwhelmingly voting for it in by-elections, is it?

00:56:31.800 Actually, that's democracy functioning as usual.

00:56:35.100 Is it democracy manifest?

00:56:38.920 ah yes I see you know your comedy well but right now the polls are kind of neck and neck we see

00:56:47.300 one month we'll see Labour overtaking by a few then we'll see One Nation overtaking by a few

00:56:53.820 and so it's really I'm really uncertain as to where all of this is going to go of course but

00:56:59.040 the fact of the matter is that the One Nation party has overtaken the old more traditional

00:57:05.680 liberal party and the national party formed into a coalition because they've simply in the same way

00:57:12.060 as the Tories today they've simply been left behind by the national conversation you're not

00:57:17.360 relevant anymore and if you're not going to speak to the issues that people are genuinely concerned

00:57:22.000 about and offer them the the solutions that they want to propose then you know there's only one

00:57:28.680 direction for your career but ultimately uh look I'm not going to stand here and you know endorse

00:57:35.600 one nation after 20 minutes nor am i going to disavow them what i'm going to say to you as an

00:57:40.940 australian on the ground is simply you understand the situation and you understand whether or not

00:57:46.360 there is a room for you within the one nation party so that you can use that political energy

00:57:52.720 and passion or if your time is better spent outside of the political system because ultimately

00:57:59.000 australia is simply too far away from me to obviously give you a certain answer on this

00:58:03.900 but i am encouraged at least by the fact that the one nation party is putting migration

00:58:09.280 at the front of the agenda certainly in people's minds and it goes to show that actually um like

00:58:16.920 everywhere else in the west this is a not an issue that is going to go away anytime soon in people's

00:58:23.140 minds all right um i'll just go through uh the rumble rants so we've got uh mason roy says i

00:58:31.600 I live in Western Australia.

00:58:32.940 UK expats are everywhere here.

00:58:35.820 Secret Harbour, the electorate that voted in One Nation,

00:58:38.240 is 52% ethnically English. 0.79

00:58:40.520 I guess they have at least learnt their lesson. 0.96

00:58:42.820 Honestly, this is the other thing as well.

00:58:44.580 I know so many people personally who have been like,

00:58:47.480 I'm going to Australia, like here in Britain.

00:58:50.280 It's a lot of people at this point.

00:58:52.120 And the problem is, of course, I know, but we need those people here. 1.00

00:58:57.100 You know, we're running out of Anglos in England. 1.00

00:59:00.540 It has to be a reconquist of the Anglosphere as a whole, man. 1.00

00:59:03.920 Yeah, build up a good old fleet.

00:59:06.960 $1, that's a random name, says,

00:59:08.420 modern immigration was always advertised as being small-scale,

00:59:11.480 not affecting demographics,

00:59:13.260 and only including white-collar professionals.

00:59:15.840 Instead, we got half of that land of Saurons

00:59:19.640 with the other half still waiting.

00:59:21.520 Yeah, it seems to be that way.

00:59:23.060 $2 from Hetai, who says,

00:59:26.240 you're more right than you know, Luke,

00:59:27.760 could call him pauline the australian farage with all that goes with including a laundry list of

00:59:33.040 discarded political allies just don't see um just don't see a low-esque reprieve yeah and i do know

00:59:40.740 as well there was a documentary she was on recently because she's recently visited britain

00:59:45.140 right uh where she was supposed to meet with farage and didn't because he was embroiled in

00:59:50.260 his whole expenses scandal and everything but uh she did meet generic and she did meet rupert low

00:59:56.200 and she did meet tommy robinson so she met all sorts of people from you know that side of the

01:00:01.860 aisle here um what lesson she'll take away from it uh i suppose we'll find out uh that's random

01:00:08.520 name says just one more boris wave bro this time they'll integrate bro your kids will be fine bro

01:00:14.260 please uh please bro said the worm tongue yeah every single time that's how it happens uh that's 0.99

01:00:20.580 random name says uh what am i being arrested for a succulent fed post this man is touching my penis 0.99

01:00:27.400 it's honestly my favorite video of all time i love it uh and hatai says for two dollars uh victoria 0.94

01:00:36.480 will have its state election on the 28th of november might be worth keeping watch uh thank

01:00:41.180 you yes i i shall um all right then firas all right we are going to talk about how enriching

01:00:49.840 wonderful diversity is and we're going to explore the riches of caribbean and black african culture

01:00:58.640 as they are offered regularly annually uh in the notting hill carnival was there too much 0.53

01:01:05.040 jerk chicken there there was too much jerk if you if you want to know but uh we have here

01:01:14.160 the mayor of London unfortunately, Sadiq Khan, celebrating the Notting Hill Carnival.

01:01:20.640 Today London without Carnival is almost impossible to imagine. No, I can imagine it. It's just no

01:01:28.720 weekend of mad degeneracy. It's really simple. What began as a local neighborhood event has

01:01:33.840 transformed into one of the greatest celebrations anywhere in the world and a cornerstone of our

01:01:39.360 city's cultural calendar. Now we're going to talk about the culture but in a couple of moments.

01:01:44.160 Here's a defense of the Notting Hill Carnival.

01:01:47.200 Ignore the myths about Carnival and embrace the joy.

01:01:51.400 From Emma Lofhagen, okay?

01:01:56.120 And she says, a few years ago,

01:01:58.040 as I stood making small talk at a house party

01:02:00.240 with a rather posh-sounding man I just met,

01:02:02.720 I mentioned that I was going to Notting Hill Carnival.

01:02:05.960 And he said, oh God, I'd never go there.

01:02:08.600 Sensible chap. Sensible chap.

01:02:10.740 Rather posh-sounding based man. 0.86

01:02:13.320 I've heard it's absolutely depraved.

01:02:17.060 Now, she found that opinion horrifying and walked away and says that she is,

01:02:22.820 this is indicative of the mythology that surrounds Carnival,

01:02:25.840 an event that millions experience as joyous, communal and entirely ordinary.

01:02:29.940 Yeah, we'll see about that.

01:02:31.280 But which in the popular imagination has somehow, somehow,

01:02:35.000 become synonymous with disorder,

01:02:37.100 a specter onto which anxieties about multiculturalism are projected.

01:02:40.160 the same headlines run the gamut each year the annual tally of arrests and she goes on to say

01:02:46.300 that it's the same as other degenerate festivals like glastonbury okay fine um and that other

01:02:53.860 areas have had crimes as well and she points out that really it's important to remember

01:02:58.640 carnival began in the 1950s as an anti-racist protest and that exonerates it of everything

01:03:04.440 obviously because it is anti-racist and it is racist to notice that there is a problem here

01:03:09.300 Well, one thing as well, when she's talking about, oh, we need to dispel the myth, the entire story, establishment story of the Windrush generation is built on a myth.

01:03:20.340 Yes, absolutely.

01:03:22.320 Notting Hill Carnival hailed by the police as positive and celebratory despite 169 arrests.

01:03:29.140 Now, I must point out that these 169 arrests happened on the first day of the carnival, which is the family day.

01:03:35.400 It was fiery, but mostly peaceful.

01:03:37.120 It is literally a parody. And you sort of have to see that, you know, there are two factors here.

01:03:44.820 For the police, they get something like 11 million pounds. This is from 2023.

01:03:50.600 In 2024, policing this degenerate fest cost 13 million pounds.

01:03:57.040 And in 2025 and 2026, the number I'm sure is higher.

01:04:01.160 And it does serve as a bit of humiliation ritual for the police because they get to experience this.

01:04:07.120 why is she twerking at a police officer and why is he allowing himself to be humiliated

01:04:16.720 sexually assaulting a police officer and okay hold on this is from 2024 same thing

01:04:24.000 carnival in notting hill london

01:04:26.160 what can he do walk away walk away don't i mean i'm not saying taser i'm not saying beat her with

01:04:38.020 a bat on now i'm just saying walk away and say because we're on youtube but but at the end of

01:04:42.640 the day that what i want to say this is much more an issue of the fact that this is allowed

01:04:47.640 it's not on the individual yes absolutely absolutely but part of the reason why it is

01:04:53.500 i mean if you were there and they started twerking in front of you what you just walk away

01:04:59.180 you you can just you can stand you can stand there if you want still i would definitely

01:05:03.660 laugh take the video and and post it if you're a police officer and nothing beats the jetsu holiday

01:05:12.780 just to ensure that it's full diversity this one this police officer isn't being sexually assaulted

01:05:17.580 by a woman he's being sexually assaulted by a man i see the making good juice of the bins as well

01:05:22.060 Yes. Now, some of the things that you see, and this was from a video by the BBC.

01:05:37.740 What does Nongil Carnival mean to you?

01:05:40.620 It's my culture. I'm Caribbean, and so I have to be here.

01:05:45.400 Carnival is my culture.

01:05:48.480 So they're all saying that this is their culture.

01:05:52.060 how's that assimilation I'm not I'm not gonna I'm just gonna point out basically that this is what 0.51

01:05:59.520 it actually looks like yeah just to confirm this is fatty's twerking this is the latest clip from 0.85

01:06:11.500 culture yeah that just this is the latest clip from gta 6 right I don't even know

01:06:18.500 You should take the cuisine argument

01:06:21.020 The cuisine

01:06:23.400 Fairass

01:06:24.260 I like my food to have taste

01:06:27.400 Not just be fiery

01:06:28.740 Don't you want your food to have been twerked on?

01:06:31.500 Oh god

01:06:32.920 It's just seasoning

01:06:33.960 This is why I've stopped doing

01:06:37.300 Takeaways man 1.00

01:06:38.720 The assining

01:06:41.600 And you see the total cultural destruction

01:06:47.660 because here you have the Manchester Pride Parade,

01:06:50.480 which is just a freak fest.

01:06:55.040 I mean...

01:06:55.740 They vote, by the way.

01:06:57.500 I know. 0.99

01:06:58.180 And they're all dressed in weird combinations of drag and dog 0.64

01:07:04.260 and other kind of...

01:07:06.660 Beast.

01:07:07.480 Beast, shall we say.

01:07:10.860 And, like, this is one side of... 0.97

01:07:15.320 I mean, and this is half-naked people twerking at each other on a bridge. 0.93

01:07:25.300 And I just, is this culture? 0.90

01:07:28.620 Is this culture?

01:07:29.340 Culture doesn't have to be good culture.

01:07:32.220 Okay, so it's culture, but not civilization.

01:07:34.260 That's an important distinction.

01:07:35.560 No, no, this is definitely uncivilized behavior.

01:07:38.200 Thank you.

01:07:38.760 Thank you.

01:07:39.260 Well, this is what I was going to say.

01:07:40.600 In the first article where she was defending it,

01:07:43.620 she was saying no no no it's just all it's not depraved it's just ordinary but what if your

01:07:48.180 depravity is your ordinary yeah you can you can yeah what if you practice cannibalism 0.94

01:07:54.480 you hang 0.98

01:07:56.980 uh 0.97

01:08:01.200 terrible music always weird body shapes

01:08:10.200 uh because they're all really out of shape really out of shape that's what i was trying to get to 0.97

01:08:16.880 i guess most twerking has to do with fat asses i know that um i told you about this before we

01:08:23.140 came on air but i didn't tell stereos and apple i was in london uh this weekend myself and we just 0.93

01:08:28.980 so happened for the first time in my life we had a cabbie who was actually british and he was saying

01:08:33.560 it was i didn't even know nottingill carnival was on this weekend oddly enough wasn't on my calendar

01:08:37.860 yeah um but he said yeah when it's on he says i don't drive near there i don't do pickups near

01:08:43.480 there let's just say that this is a man who looked at the content of the character of the people who

01:08:49.640 attended and he was also someone who was had the very thorough grasp of what britain's domestic

01:08:57.260 policy should be yeah when it comes to such events and in terms of the music of course as well i mean

01:09:03.020 He just said these were the rudest people, right?

01:09:06.700 Yeah.

01:09:07.120 I wanted to show you this

01:09:08.440 because they are having children twerking at adults,

01:09:12.840 but X has restricted it for age considerations.

01:09:19.540 You see more of the same here.

01:09:26.340 Is this meant to be music?

01:09:29.580 Music is meant to uplift your soul.

01:09:31.220 Music is meant to be something that you enjoy, that sort of speaks to you.

01:09:35.220 Who does this noise speak to?

01:09:36.960 But the thing is as well, right, because I can't help, whenever I see Notting Hill Carnival

01:09:41.880 and I just see these sorts of gatherings, I can't help but think of when all of the

01:09:46.960 British gathered in London for the late Queen or when we had the King's coronation or something

01:09:52.740 like that.

01:09:53.340 And not only did it require significantly less security and there were far fewer cops

01:09:58.680 about but also as well it was just tasteful yes and it was very british in its character it was

01:10:05.940 people sat around yeah yeah they were playing music and there were speakers about and everything

01:10:10.340 but first of all the music was good second of all the thing is as well that when they say diversity

01:10:16.180 and sneak clown's like oh we couldn't dream of london without it it's like what diversity means

01:10:21.540 that more less of that with the coronation parties and and the sort of british etiquette

01:10:27.440 and more of this that if only more britain the future of britain looked more like this and i

01:10:34.460 don't want britain my home to look like more of this yeah what he means is that he wants

01:10:41.620 ladies twerking on top of bus stations and destroying the bus stations then destroying 0.58

01:10:47.480 the bridges then destroying the homes then destroying the roads and saying well yeah you 1.00

01:10:53.120 have to pay it you have to pay for yeah yeah but they them will never have to pay for it no

01:10:59.440 is this art I don't get it nothing has radicalized me more than Notting Hill Carnival and obviously

01:11:28.680 you see people getting high on nitrous oxide because why not that one looks underage and is

01:11:36.400 doing drugs um why what is this is is this a cultural celebration oh there's a cultural

01:11:48.840 celebration waving don't you know of the waving machetes ritual yeah the yemenis do that but

01:11:55.740 these guys aren't yemeni by the look of it i can tell believe it or not my my my racism is that

01:12:00.140 sophisticated um these guys are not yemenis they don't have a right to be dancing with daggers

01:12:05.520 like yemenis and these aren't daggers these are full yemeni culture is not your costume

01:12:10.560 i mean what is this 169 arrests just on the family day on the family day 169 arrests for

01:12:20.940 drugs weapons sex offenses and assaults i think when you're starting for being a doctor and you're

01:12:27.180 starting also for engineering you occasionally need to let loose and have some fan he's he's

01:12:32.920 practicing his scalpel skills is he yeah i see uh sex offenders breaching parole breaching their

01:12:39.860 parole 76 zombie knives 30 flick knives and a machete confiscated 7 000 police officers deployed

01:12:46.780 costing taxpayers I'm going to say 15 million pounds because it was 11 then 13 I'm going to

01:12:52.800 say 15 million pounds but the thing is even if it cost like 10,000 pounds this is I don't want

01:13:01.420 this on my streets shouldn't have this on our streets that I mean uh this is meant to be some

01:13:10.740 kind of celebration

01:13:13.160 of liberation from slavery

01:13:15.240 which is

01:13:17.000 happening in London by having

01:13:18.920 people tar themselves in

01:13:21.120 the car

01:13:23.360 oil and

01:13:25.180 wear devil's horns.

01:13:28.380 And I'm wondering

01:13:28.980 Mad Max stuff. I'm wondering if this

01:13:31.060 is racist because some of these guys

01:13:33.300 look black, some of them don't.

01:13:36.240 I'm wondering if this 0.97

01:13:37.200 is blackface. I don't know.

01:13:39.000 Who knows?

01:13:40.740 Um, but this is meant to be some kind of celebration of ending slavery, even though slavery would have never ended without the British.

01:13:52.460 So why is this being done to the British?

01:13:54.600 We're not the United States.

01:13:56.440 There is not a single person of African origin in our country because they were brought over here on slave ships. 1.00

01:14:03.280 I know. I know. 1.00

01:14:05.820 Oh, look, more age-restricted content.

01:14:09.100 this is a child jumping on a woman uh who's twerking oh god and you see the scene again

01:14:17.360 do i have to yes you do i did it i saw it you have to see it now

01:14:21.700 you see this is disgusting because you know what they're gonna do this and then they're gonna have

01:14:33.480 people around this small kid telling him you're a king you're a king you're a king yeah yeah i 0.92

01:14:39.080 I think that kid looks like he has a cigarette in his hand.

01:14:43.040 Probably a joint, not a cigarette.

01:14:44.860 And that looks like maybe his father carrying him on his shoulders.

01:14:48.900 This is family day? 0.91

01:14:50.140 Is this also a dwarf? 0.98

01:14:52.480 His face is older. 1.00

01:14:55.140 Okay, whatever.

01:14:56.720 But whatever the case is.

01:14:58.240 Yeah, but look at all the people behind there, 1.00

01:15:01.320 the women especially, who like this. 0.87

01:15:03.120 And then they're going to say Western culture is really misogynistic 1.00

01:15:06.820 and it's just rape culture. 0.52

01:15:09.080 and they don't respect women but apparently twerking there and constantly doing like they're 1.00

01:15:14.600 about to go off you know and have a have a go at their asses is suddenly female empowerment 0.99

01:15:21.000 from last year you see children twerking white children twerking 0.99

01:15:27.480 never go fool i mean clearly assimilation is going both ways as somebody online has pointed out and 0.81

01:15:41.100 it's genuinely sickening this is sort of bacha bazi in its nascent form i would argue well and 0.95

01:15:48.960 they and they copy it as well because it's a culture that's pushed and because their parents 0.97

01:15:54.460 aren't strong enough to push the other way.

01:15:56.920 But why are they doing 1.00

01:15:58.760 the dance that women are supposed 1.00

01:16:00.720 to do? That's why I said 1.00

01:16:02.800 it's an introduction to Basha Bazi.

01:16:08.720 There's a dedicated area

01:16:10.620 for sexual assaults victim, which was

01:16:12.800 full four hours before Carnival's

01:16:14.780 official kickoff.

01:16:17.060 If your event requires

01:16:18.980 a dedicated area for sexual

01:16:20.740 assaults victim,

01:16:22.620 your event has to be cancelled.

01:16:24.460 it should be stomped out

01:16:27.560 well if any other 1.00

01:16:29.620 if the British people ever did

01:16:31.960 something like this it would have been

01:16:33.920 banned by now

01:16:34.760 it's only because it's endorsed 0.95

01:16:37.620 by the multicultural state 0.77

01:16:40.160 that it's allowed to happen 0.97

01:16:41.740 the police say that they will

01:16:44.120 have a dedicated area for girls and

01:16:46.080 women who get sexually assaulted at the Notting Hill

01:16:48.000 Carnival. I'm sorry

01:16:49.880 what?

01:16:51.700 why is this tolerated? 0.88

01:16:53.500 some of you may be raped but it's a sacrifice we are willing to make yes and then to sort of

01:16:59.340 celebrate the diversity somebody is filming here and a couple of ethiopians accost him and tell

01:17:05.180 him that no he's not allowed to film for no comprehensible reason i won't play that video

01:17:11.980 because of time but this is diversity being celebrated i guess uh the food was so great

01:17:20.620 that somebody decided to burn a food van well that'll cook it quicker

01:17:26.700 i mean four fire engines had to be sent to put it out

01:17:33.580 what arson is part of your culture like explain this to me i don't understand

01:17:39.020 this is someone waking up on bank holiday monday when you live in notting hill let's just look at

01:17:43.820 at that for a second once again we have gathered here in the depths of the filthy jungle past the 0.79

01:17:51.960 skanking monkeys we can see i'm gonna cancel the david attenborough face for obvious reasons 0.84

01:17:58.540 like this is what's done to your home because you just happen to live there yeah and everybody

01:18:05.320 treats your home as a bin and in case this wasn't bad enough oh another age-restricted video

01:18:12.420 this is one showing the attendees from last year using people's homes as a toilet. 0.65

01:18:18.900 Like they literally just go into your garden and defecate and urinate in your garden because you

01:18:25.300 happen to live there. Thing is as well, you just know that so many people who attended this,

01:18:31.380 you know, back in 2020 would have been there at the height of BLM. Yes. Just talking about the

01:18:36.340 fact, oh, we need a revolution in Britain, all of its institutions. There has been a revolution.

01:18:41.140 this is what it looks like yes of course it's so racist and everything and it's like no actually

01:18:45.180 i don't owe you anything because i've seen the sorts of things that you value and what you think

01:18:51.020 and you're just squatting in my civilization and i just want to point out that it wasn't always that

01:18:57.360 bad i mean it was always bad right but well you talked about its beginnings and but previous

01:19:03.960 generations could work respective respectfully i i i'm starting to feel that that's what he meant

01:19:10.360 In 1990, these are 36 years of impunity.

01:19:22.900 Yeah.

01:19:23.920 And permissiveness.

01:19:25.740 So yeah, they do have an effect.

01:19:28.320 Imagine how it's going to be 36 years from now if nothing changes.

01:19:31.680 It won't be.

01:19:32.320 I mean, the thing is, these people look normal and clean.

01:19:39.480 I would dare say

01:19:41.120 whereas

01:19:43.100 and the police aren't being sexually assaulted

01:19:46.660 which is nice I suppose

01:19:48.440 whereas this just looks like a small slice of hell

01:19:56.220 and yes this is what happens with impunity

01:19:59.720 this is what happens when you don't stop things

01:20:01.740 and if you happen to live there

01:20:04.640 your life is a bit unpleasant

01:20:06.120 I mean look at this

01:20:08.540 oh isn't that just the perfect metaphor this is this is really

01:20:32.500 this this is your streets being taken over this is this is everything being overrun

01:20:37.360 uh in some cases some of the elderly notting hill residents are taken on a seaside trip for the

01:20:46.340 weekend the thing is taking 21 elderly residents for a seaside weekend ends up costing 25 000 pounds

01:20:56.060 and you know what even as i found out myself when i went to margate recently even if you do get

01:21:01.940 taken off to the seaside for a bank holiday weekend guess who else is at the seaside at

01:21:07.640 this time of year now well yeah there's no escape there is literally no escaping it yes

01:21:14.000 yes older residents living in kensington and chelsea will be taken on a council-funded seaside

01:21:20.380 trip which cost over 25 000 pounds this bank holiday to avoid the chaos and disruption caused

01:21:25.760 by notting hill this was for last year's notting hill the trip was offered for those living on the

01:21:31.360 parade route faced with financial barriers to getting away if the event is so bad that the

01:21:36.260 only sensible option is to abandon your home and run and you'll notice that in all of the videos

01:21:40.780 most properties are boarded up to come back and find that there's litter in your front porch and

01:21:46.300 pissing your garden why is why are you tolerating this why is this allowed why is this allowed in

01:21:54.700 any way or form because it's for them well yes i'll say it and as james ford points out in an

01:22:00.500 article in city city am londoners can no longer afford the notting hill carnival it's not just

01:22:05.300 a question of cost as you pointed out it's a question of this is hideous pay for it why

01:22:10.440 why don't the people who go there pay for it well let's go through some of the costs shall we

01:22:15.600 um the royal borough of kensington and chelsea forks out around a million pounds to clean up

01:22:23.880 the streets after this is done. It's a million pounds to clean it up. The policing cost in 2024

01:22:30.900 was more than 13 and a half million pounds. Good grief. Yeah. But it's the grant from City Hall

01:22:38.720 under Sadiq Khan that has seen the greatest increase. It went from 340,000 10 years ago,

01:22:45.120 340,000 pounds in years ago, to 5.6 million pounds now. So Sadiq Khan has given them 16 times as much

01:22:54.140 money as they used to get. And it's become 16 times more degenerate. He's the total opposite

01:22:59.540 to me. I'm here like I wouldn't spend a tenner on it and have this on my street. For Sadiq Khan,

01:23:05.040 it's not a question of money. It doesn't matter how much you throw at it. So long as it continues,

01:23:11.400 so long as it gets larger and so long as they're able quite literally to rub the diversity in your

01:23:18.260 face yeah it will continue um the the supporters of the carnival claim that it generates almost

01:23:27.460 400 million pounds of economic benefits this is obviously nonsensical this is obviously

01:23:33.300 nonsensical because bigger and better and more pricey events generate much less money

01:23:40.720 so uh glastonbury here is quoted as uh generating 170 million uh the wireless festival 30 million

01:23:48.740 uh and that assumes that of the two million attendees which is itself a myth there are

01:23:54.860 probably not two million attendees there's probably a few hundred thousand uh that each

01:23:58.540 of them is spending 200 pounds as the writer points out that is a lot of dirt chicken and

01:24:06.100 cans of red stripe hell of a lot i mean nobody's spending that kind of money and it's an economy on

01:24:12.240 that it's it's obscene and exchanging uh cultural destruction for a few pounds i mean that is the

01:24:21.740 pact of a sow essentially you get a bowl of lentils and in exchange you give up your inheritance

01:24:27.680 so that's exactly what's happening here yeah it's disgusting and the last point that i want to make 0.63

01:24:32.420 is that not all cultures are equal no here is an italian obviously festival and how do they

01:24:40.600 celebrate their festival now that i will go to they dance to civilized music and there doesn't

01:24:52.420 to be security and people aren't jumping each other and a child can watch that and not be

01:25:00.580 you know but instead traumatized for life yes but instead what we have is um if you want to 0.95

01:25:05.700 know the future winston imagine an obese black woman twerking on your face forever that's what 0.80

01:25:12.180 we got and with that sorry i didn't i will end my segment sorry it should wear shoes though 0.79

01:25:22.420 also yeah you're quite right say again they should wear shoes video comments please dancing barefoot

01:25:29.620 is no no no obviously obviously i agree with you you know it's mediterranean summer

01:25:34.260 whatever well they're not dropping any glasses and cans and on those streets are they they're

01:25:39.060 actually they're not selling drugs it's it's tolerable yeah uh one comment here i used to

01:25:45.140 get angry at how expensive all events have become and then i realized it's basically just a tax to

01:25:49.380 keep some people out and now I don't mind paying there's one way hey here we go Whitby

01:26:19.380 2, 1

01:26:28.820 Can you just contrast that with Nottingham?

01:26:30.800 No, I wasn't that just the perfect video to play.

01:26:32.500 This was perfect. 0.77

01:26:34.460 We need to work in free zones.

01:26:37.140 Yes. 0.99

01:26:38.000 Yes.

01:26:38.540 Might I suggest the country?

01:26:40.200 I'll post this later. 0.97

01:26:42.840 Carl, we're introducing you to the boomer delusion of trying to outlive their own children 0.72

01:26:47.400 and trying to actually have unironic immortality,

01:26:50.040 I kind of forgot to go over the topic of

01:26:52.280 the obsession of, well, I'm still in the prime of my life.

01:26:56.200 And you notice this as well if you've got boomer relatives

01:26:59.320 and you're from a martial arts family. 0.93

01:27:01.640 And they can hardly walk,

01:27:03.380 but they are convinced they could take anyone and everyone ever.

01:27:08.080 And if a civil war broke out in England,

01:27:10.100 I would be the one going to them for protection, 0.72

01:27:12.560 even though they can hardly walk.

01:27:13.880 yeah there is that common attitude no doubt

01:27:20.200 hello low seaters uh this is my final friday before my uh sensing dates this following

01:27:27.800 wednesday i'm enjoying it by watching you guys and i'm looking forward to that gold zoom call

01:27:32.680 at three o'clock even though that might be my last uh gold zoom call there could be a chance that i

01:27:39.100 get a suspended sentence where you might see me again but whatever happens i will send one final

01:27:45.100 video post before the sentencing day and you will still see me so there's that best of luck i hope

01:27:52.860 it goes well for you man although a while ago seeing abhi al-salani said that she'd never felt

01:27:58.060 less safe than when meps were chanting send them back activated my neurons when the left says they

01:28:02.220 feel unsafe or under threat they mean that they can't stay indefinitely in your country or that

01:28:05.740 they can't impose themselves. They mean that they can't access any given space that takes their

01:28:09.500 fancy, that they can't be obnoxious with the protection of the state, that they can't read

01:28:12.920 to children or threaten or intimidate you. When the right wing says that they feel unsafe,

01:28:17.080 they mean that there is a significant risk of them being murdered, raped, forced out of their

01:28:20.260 communities, their children being victimised, and so on. Ironically enough, it's left-wing

01:28:23.980 miners' babble that mocks the right wing for supposedly being scared of everything, downplaying

01:28:27.300 actual grievances. Yeah, very well said. Very well said. Is there any more, Samson? 0.97

01:28:35.740 Thank you.

01:28:37.420 So an annoying thing I see a lot of political pundits do in the mainstream left is that they will cite, like, terrible examples of something and try and pass it off as a justification for why we should have something.

01:28:49.500 Look at, like, them saying, like, why diversity is okay.

01:28:52.560 They'll say, well, if diversity is so bad, how did we have a Rishi Sunak as prime minister or Sadiq Khan or Hamza Yusuf?

01:29:00.760 And I'm like, yeah, but those guys were all terrible.

01:29:03.300 They're not examples of why it's a good thing. 0.77

01:29:05.740 yeah and this extends to women as well when they just say oh well you know i'm the third 0.91

01:29:12.380 female prime minister it's like yeah and like one of them was controversial and that the other two

01:29:17.380 would just flat out shit by every by every metric so it's not really a convincing argument 0.93

01:29:23.920 okay is is that all samson okay thank you uh okay we'll go through uh some of the comments then 0.97

01:29:33.180 uh do you want to go through come on yeah no it's just i find this video hilarious because i've seen

01:29:38.300 i've uh i'm coming across them on x frequently you know the the two cultures yes yes right let me

01:29:47.340 just find the comments i can go through them if you want we'll have a second okay that's a huge

01:29:54.140 document well there was a lot to say today wasn't it right um so daniel butchers says i imagine

01:30:02.540 islamic fishing industries much like what the scottish fishing industry was lots of small

01:30:08.340 family round businesses so yes being under the eu fishing policies would decimate their fishing

01:30:14.100 industry with large fishing trawlers from spain portugal etc turning up and taking all the quarters

01:30:20.260 up this is what's surprising so many in scotland like the eu particularly on the west coast as a

01:30:26.220 lot of the west coast of scotland's economy relied on fishing before it was decimated by being part

01:30:31.200 of the eu yep sophie live says of course most of iceland's last mass landmass is uninhabitable

01:30:38.160 because it's mostly rocks so if you can only count pieces of land you can actually live on

01:30:43.200 iceland is indeed a very densely population already but i bet that's not part of the

01:30:48.460 consideration of course well you can build up with skyscrapers let's say um zesty kang

01:30:55.940 if iceland can be a target then anywhere can be too the fact that this is even a possibility shows

01:31:02.080 just how bad things currently are and michael drybelby says went to iceland several years back

01:31:10.640 what a lovely clean country and the churches on par with some of europe's i want to say one more

01:31:17.740 um lord inquisitor hector x meanwhile the eu will say nothing about china and their fishing

01:31:25.220 practices yes yes yeah true uh from my segment uh derek power master of chip he says wait a minute

01:31:31.540 australia is one of uh that is super protective of their natural ecosystem why are they importing

01:31:37.800 infinity people again uh because their hierarchy of importance is just far more ideologically to

01:31:44.880 them and also from random name and uh michael dry bulbous i've um apparently my comment about

01:31:50.780 the word y'all was not particularly popular i will just say perhaps it's just me being british

01:31:56.560 but i i've never heard anyone for as long as i've been alive in britain use the expression y'all

01:32:01.720 uh obviously if that's what you guys do in america totally respect it nothing wrong with that it's

01:32:06.880 just it was very weird to hear myself say i find it funny and you know i occasionally say it just

01:32:12.880 to to annoy you i do i do yeah i wanted to share this with the audience well now you have

01:32:19.500 i'll read a couple of comments 141 paladin says i was told i was fascist because i thought an

01:32:25.580 event where a dozen stabbings happen every year was bad yeah fair enough that's all it takes

01:32:30.320 slippery slope isn't it yeah also from 141 paladin carl imports mediterranean slaves because

01:32:35.560 he is a true patrician that is hilarious thank you uh that is funny uh that's a random name 0.62

01:32:42.100 chocolate person hold on if you have an area dedicated to sexual assault victims 0.95

01:32:46.060 won't it get sworn by the predators someone says that's a damn good question it says

01:32:53.700 firas can he walk away or will he lose his job for a non-crime hate incident that's a very good

01:32:59.260 question that's all the time that we have that definitely is yes so obviously come back in half

01:33:04.900 an hour friends to join firas for realpolitik and we look forward to seeing on the podcast tomorrow

01:33:09.800 take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - August 31, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1495

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