The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1514

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon and welcome to the podcast of The Lotus Eaters, episode 1514.

00:00:05.320 I'm your host, Harry, joined today by Nick.

00:00:07.620 Hello.

00:00:08.040 And returning special guest, Callum Barker.

00:00:10.480 Thank you, it's good to be back.

00:00:11.780 Well, thanks for coming back.

00:00:13.040 Always, always. I never run away from you guys.

00:00:15.460 Well, there are certain circumstances, but that's all private.

00:00:18.980 And today we're going to be talking about the return of T-1000.

00:00:23.320 Sadly, it looks as though the Tories are making some gains in the polls.

00:00:27.740 We're also going to be looking at the fight for the heart of London, and I'm going to be discussing

00:00:32.660 Mr Beast's colonial empire for the last segment. And once we've all done that, half an hour after

00:00:39.340 the podcast is done, at 3 p.m. UK time, there is going to be the gold tier Zoom call. So anybody

00:00:45.540 who has a gold tier subscription to the website can join us on that and speak to me, and I believe

00:00:50.960 Stelios is joining me today. You can speak to us personally. With that, let's get into the news.

00:00:56.440 So, Nick, tell us about the return of the dastardly Tories. 0.53

00:01:00.680 Yes, they're back. 1.00

00:01:01.740 You thought you could kill them, but you can't. 0.99

00:01:03.640 They'll never be destroyed.

00:01:04.900 So there's been this massive new MRP, which is, as you'll know,

00:01:09.320 multi-level regression and post-stratification,

00:01:11.420 which is just a newish modelling method for polls.

00:01:16.580 People say, oh, it's not a poll.

00:01:17.940 Really pedantic people will jump on and say it's a model.

00:01:20.120 Well, they survey a load of people, and then they add various criteria,

00:01:23.280 like they try and get really granular.

00:01:24.880 What will a 55-year-old man with two cars who owns his own business do?

00:01:28.920 And they get really granular, and they try to project the seats based on that.

00:01:32.960 But it is just a projection.

00:01:34.740 It does every seat except Northern Ireland, and it tries to guess what they'll be,

00:01:39.440 but it doesn't necessarily work that well outside of an election cycle.

00:01:42.720 And apparently in this one, four in 10 seats have a 5% swing between first and second,

00:01:47.400 so it could go very different.

00:01:49.000 So those are just some caveats.

00:01:50.040 still at very least what we can see is that they did the same poll last year or same model and so

00:01:56.580 we can see that in september this one they've just done 26 labor are on 241 conservative 130

00:02:02.940 reform dropped to 123 lib dem 71 then all the gibbs parties um lower down so if you look at it

00:02:11.480 last year reform 311 labor 144 lib dem 78 is a massive difference that's quite a shocking

00:02:18.160 turnaround yeah tories have what labor's gained 97 tories gain 85 reform have lost 188 so it's

00:02:24.960 massive and you'll see reform trying to spin it saying kemi hasn't really done anything and all

00:02:29.520 this and and there's all this spin but any way you spin it it's not good for reform then if this

00:02:35.200 could be predicted to be accurate the fact that kemi really hasn't done anything because they're

00:02:39.400 not wrong in saying so is even more of a shocking indictment their claim is that really the tories

00:02:43.840 are still where they were what's happened is and there's something in that claim because what's

00:02:46.820 really happened here is Labour have gained from Lib Dems and Greens mainly Greens and some Lib

00:02:51.940 Dems that's where their votes are coming from basically the left is consolidating and so that's

00:02:56.480 the sort of too long didn't read and reformer dropped to third place reformer still one percent

00:03:01.440 ahead of Tories in seats in sorry in votes but not in seats because the Tory vote is more efficient

00:03:07.760 so-called yeah reform vote is spread ineffectively one of one of the problems with just saying oh

00:03:12.200 well they've not done anything they've not changed the Tories are an establishment party they

00:03:16.740 have a pedigree and a history to them and people forget very easily the past 14 years of Tory rule

00:03:23.840 and they'll just go well who am I going to vote for well the Tories are a safe bet yeah and reform

00:03:28.960 have had a lot of reversals which we can look at later obviously the financial thing and many other

00:03:32.980 things um so but a few takeaways from this so the Tories so Labour's mainly gained from Lib Dems

00:03:39.980 and Greens the Tories and reform together would get nowhere near the majority which is 326 that

00:03:45.840 you need but neither would Labour and I'll show the graphs on the internet and stuff but neither

00:03:50.200 would Labour and Lib Dems so Labour and Lib Dems together still don't get a majority either

00:03:55.660 so they need to start bringing in the Greens they need to start bringing what I'm calling the Gibbs

00:03:59.940 parties which they get called the nationalist parties and someone outside of Britain might say

00:04:03.920 oh that sounds good but it just means Wales and Scotland trying to break up the union and get

00:04:07.360 money. It means the gay nationalism parties. Exactly so we're looking at a coalition from 0.98

00:04:12.880 hell at the moment, because Labour, if it went like this, would have to beg Polanski and beg

00:04:17.620 whoever the plied and SNP people are at that point. So it's going to be very, very bad if it

00:04:23.340 goes on like this, basically. And as for restore, people talk about restore versus reform. I don't

00:04:27.780 think that's the main takeaway here. Restore, as you'll probably know, can take on about 50 seats

00:04:34.200 if they really want to and make it difficult for reform. But the ones they are really looking good

00:04:39.120 apparently uh i have them somewhere here it's ashfield from memory one of the wolverhampton

00:04:43.820 ones and um stoke stoke and trent central i believe it is yeah so i'll put it somewhere

00:04:50.400 in my notes but there's there's about three outside of yarmouth there's about three ashfield

00:04:53.920 and nottinghamshire stoke wolverhampton but if so you know you're sure about stoke i was assured

00:04:58.720 by navara media that that's a multicultural paradise yeah but um it's it's interesting

00:05:04.500 because Restore support seems to be oddly distributed about the country,

00:05:08.720 mainly in places like Essex, in East Anglia, Norfolk, of course.

00:05:12.720 But you get these odd patches up and down the West Midlands,

00:05:16.040 particularly in the Northeast as well.

00:05:17.740 So there kind of seems to be like no method to the madness.

00:05:20.580 It is everywhere.

00:05:21.240 What sort of voters, if they get this information,

00:05:24.800 are they typically seen to be siphoning away?

00:05:26.700 Would it be mainly like old Labour voters?

00:05:29.240 Well, don't quote me on this, but we are actually activating.

00:05:33.060 we are activating non-voters i remember there was a breakdown of who restore voters are

00:05:39.280 and i'm pretty sure it's like 40 something percent it was off the top of my head 40 something percent

00:05:44.600 were non-voters previously it was like 35 percent reform and then the rest kind of a mumbo jumbo

00:05:50.220 everything else so we are activating non-voters as rupert says i mean i heard a really interesting

00:05:56.620 thing on it was on it it was scarlet mcguire from merlin strategy and she said actually when you

00:06:01.420 talks people some of them are voting restore who think farage is too nasty and too extreme

00:06:06.460 and they see rupert low and they think he's actually more moderate than he's more grandfatherly

00:06:11.320 yeah it's quite interesting well i i think it comes down to the fact that rupert's kind of

00:06:15.540 seen and is more credible you know nigel farage is getting wrapped up in scandal after scandal

00:06:19.620 whether it's paying americans to to buy polls or you know about five million he kind of comes off

00:06:25.600 a sleazy to middle england and yes that kind of give creates a market that rupert low can easily

00:06:30.480 fill with that gentlemanly kind right a disgruntled rural tory could easily switch to rupert rather

00:06:35.780 than nigel yeah i mean even outside of the five million i mean rupert's sorry um farage's whole

00:06:42.100 thing with the by-election turning into a circus yeah whether or not he tried to avoid actually

00:06:47.900 partaking in that or not right it does create a bad stink to him but it just turned out like a

00:06:53.300 clown show at the end i'm sure we've all seen farage fest and you know it was on plastic cups

00:06:58.700 they could all take home and it's just it comes across as a bit tacky to more like respectable 0.84

00:07:03.780 middle england like your farmers and shires and that kind of demographic as far as i know just

00:07:09.100 calling that clapton by-election cost them about two points so that was one of the things that

00:07:14.180 damaged reform definitely um the big takeaway really is this thing about see there's always

00:07:19.420 talk about splitting the vote with restore and reform but i thought really it's the tories and

00:07:24.180 reform that need to stop being silly and just acknowledge their one party because reform is

00:07:28.860 full of toys anyway and if they if they i'll just give you this if you added reform tory together

00:07:33.720 as if they were just one as if one of them didn't exist and it's not really realistic but let's say

00:07:39.040 you did that they'd apparently win 470 seats i got this from sky news because obviously all the

00:07:43.460 little contests wouldn't stand it would just be one party and that would take away a lot of tactical

00:07:47.160 voting and things like that and if you only took 50 of the votes uh from one and gave them to the

00:07:52.100 other you'd still get 383 seats so a massive majority you only need 326 so the really headline

00:07:57.140 is these two parties can't really exist they're too similar and put them together they beat labor

00:08:02.520 they'd beat labor and they'd be able to have another decade and a half of doing absolutely

00:08:07.400 nothing and ruining the country exactly but they won't do it because of because i i mean maybe i'm

00:08:12.460 crazy but then sky news said the same thing i'm like i'm not crazy i'm mainstream like restore

00:08:16.280 aren't damaging reform anywhere near as much as this tory reform split is damaging and given that

00:08:20.460 They're all former Tories.

00:08:21.780 I just think it's bonkers when you step back.

00:08:23.780 I know it's like...

00:08:24.180 They might as well just come together, you know.

00:08:26.160 They talk about splitting the vote a lot.

00:08:28.280 Well, why doesn't Reform and the Conservative Party merge do that?

00:08:32.340 Yeah, because Reform, it's like, oh, the Tories are dead and they're ruined.

00:08:35.040 But Kemi says she's doing something new anyway,

00:08:37.360 and then half the Tories are in them.

00:08:38.800 And speaking of half the Tories being in Reform,

00:08:42.060 if replicated at the next election,

00:08:43.320 the poll suggests that both Robert Jenner and Sola Brabman

00:08:45.480 would lose their seats to their old party.

00:08:48.440 so bit of a balls up there I mean this is all what you were saying with the whole thing 0.93

00:08:53.220 appears like a clown show I mean I'm certain one of the things that's probably damaged uh reform and 0.95

00:08:58.500 the Tories as well at the polls is the fact that the whole thing on the center right and right in

00:09:03.540 general just seems like a lot of personal arguments going on between people it's just personal

00:09:08.160 rivalries yeah yeah and most people will look and they'll go well Andy Burnham seems like a fair

00:09:13.780 fella I'll just go with him then yeah or they think well I'll consolidate to keep reform out

00:09:19.100 and just not do and not vote for the greens anymore even if this is what I'm saying even

00:09:22.580 if reform the Tories could agree a pact they'd still not have enough seats to form majority

00:09:25.540 however Labour would also struggle to govern having lost 162 of the 403 seats that it holds

00:09:29.980 at present so we're talking about an absolute nightmare where it'd have to rely on both the

00:09:33.420 Liberal Democrats the Greens or the Nationalist parties as I said so total hung parliament

00:09:39.480 coalition nightmare forthcoming now i just picked this telegraph article just to see a graph that

00:09:44.300 actually isn't loading but we at least get to see who the telegraph are backing you know like the

00:09:49.160 coolest possible picture of kemi like tory's on track to win more seats before joe like

00:09:53.480 it's like it's like we need a cool picture of kemi have you got any other pictures of kemi no this

00:10:03.560 is the best we have this is the only cool one i just think james bond yeah yeah maybe they're not

00:10:08.920 doing that but it just that's how it just seemed funny to me because it's like i'm just so pro

00:10:12.480 chemi but sometimes i do pro reform articles but um yeah i had a good graph that basically just

00:10:17.960 showed you it's not really loaded but basically just shows how we're heading for a coalition

00:10:21.160 nightmare and there was another poll interestingly so you get the mrps which are as i say more of a

00:10:27.200 model but then you get these other polls that seem to consolidate the findings so if some people say

00:10:31.180 oh that's just one model that's nonsense well look at this one then from elect calculus and find out

00:10:35.740 now on behalf of Restore Britain. And here you see Labour on 261, so even more than the other

00:10:41.500 model, Conservatives 145, slightly more than the other model, and Reform 127, which is like four

00:10:47.020 more than the other model. So it shows very much the same trend. They all get a slight boost and

00:10:51.760 the smaller parties get less than the one we just looked at. But actually, it's the same story. So

00:10:57.060 it's very much the same story. So not looking great for Reform when you look at that. And with

00:11:02.760 tactical voting added, and it all gets a bit tricky to predict tactical voting for various

00:11:07.600 reasons, but you don't really know how it's going to go. But with tactical voting added,

00:11:12.420 Labour just gets even more. 288 conservatives go up to 165, but reform dropped to 84. So it's not

00:11:19.340 looking for reform on tactical voting. There's so many reasons for this. One reason apparently is

00:11:23.180 that some Tories will even vote against reform. They just hate them that much. Tactically they'll

00:11:29.000 vote against them is one thing that I've heard. But, you know, tactical voting doesn't seem to

00:11:34.320 favour reform, but basically it's what we've learned here. So, and there's another interesting

00:11:38.540 one, and as I said, Restore, these same people found that the thing that restored Britain's best

00:11:42.540 seats, aside from Great Yarmouth, Ashfield, Wolverhampton, South East, and Stoke-on-Trent

00:11:46.380 Central, just to confirm that. The Guardian had another one as well, Servation. So another poll

00:11:51.860 from Servation also went very similarly. So Labour on 266, and then Reform, Conservatives

00:12:00.080 are second in this one as well. That's not the best graph. Oh, this is the graph I wanted.

00:12:04.100 Reform 153. Sorry, Labour 272, Reform 153, Conservatives 85. So in this one, Reform does

00:12:12.040 come in second. So it's slightly better than the other ones, but Labour's still doing very well.

00:12:16.380 And it's a sort of a similar story. They just have these two slightly different until you add

00:12:20.880 tactical voting and reform on this model drop or this poll dropped to 62 they dropped to fourth

00:12:26.700 place with tactical voting that's interesting that um part of the tactical voting for the

00:12:32.220 labor coalition includes a significant number of tory seats as well they would just flip to keep

00:12:38.840 to keep farage out or there is just the the competition between the two would screw both

00:12:44.240 parties over yeah people are desperate to keep reform out even some tory it's it's so they

00:12:49.620 really struggle for a number of reasons i'm just i'll find some little comments on this as well

00:12:54.600 lower down um this one's quite interesting what does this say this poll also suggests labor is

00:12:59.760 gaining considerable numbers of voters back from other left-wing parties but not from reform yeah

00:13:03.580 this is the main as i said at the start so uh labor have mainly they were losing votes to the

00:13:09.800 greens and lib dems but that's reduced from 60 to 46 and the losing them from to tories and reform

00:13:16.540 has gone from 27 to 24 so they're still mainly coming from the left just consolidating essentially

00:13:21.360 um there's some quite interesting stuff as well about how tactical voting really works

00:13:25.600 if i can find it so salvation's chief executive says estimating tactical voting is a complex

00:13:30.300 consideration but the mechanics here is simple four in ten voters are currently backing a party

00:13:34.080 that can't finish in the top two where they live and are willing to vote tactically but when we

00:13:38.980 ask whether they lend their vote to the stronger local contender in a two-horse race around half

00:13:43.140 say yes that gap with some 18 points of the national electorate is an enormous untapped

00:13:47.920 reservoir for parties looking to squeeze voters so it all comes down to how tactical the voting gets

00:13:53.380 um anyway so all a bit technical but you get the idea um what have i got next oh yeah i'll go into

00:14:00.400 that in a sec just whether burnham's gonna gonna call the election and whether he'll win but i just

00:14:05.540 wanted to pause and say why have reform spaffed it so badly basically and someone i just i just

00:14:12.000 listed all the things I thought before even confirming whether they have data behind them

00:14:15.440 obviously the donation sleaze or perceived sleaze which is the five million gift and then the channel

00:14:21.160 four sting and the sort of quasi dodgy stuff about donations even if they didn't do anything illegal

00:14:26.420 calling the Clacton by-elect John Curtis polling expert says that the financial stuff didn't impact

00:14:31.800 them immediately but has lost a point in the longer term Clacton by-election lost two points

00:14:36.480 just calling that I say softness on key questions like immigration but that's for some people

00:14:40.800 obviously maybe like us general vibe of unprofessionalism i think doesn't help taking

00:14:45.300 on ex-tories has definitely harmed i wouldn't even say with the softness on questions like

00:14:50.080 immigration it's more confusion farage was taking a much softer tact at the beginning of last year

00:14:56.540 which got him all of the flack than he is currently right uh when when he's going out and saying

00:15:01.100 things like what was it uh calling out white male rage and saying that it's a you're allowed to be

00:15:06.080 like that and zia yusuf trying to tack to the right of the rest of the party but that's something

00:15:10.640 that's happened very recently so there's a bit of confusion and inertia going on there yeah and

00:15:15.540 I've written taking on ex-tories definitely has harmed them internal conflicts brackets here

00:15:19.460 limits of Farage persona I think Farage just has a limit in the country of how many people like him

00:15:24.620 treatment of Rupert Lowe has definitely lost him some and some people as I said to you think

00:15:29.260 Rupert's the less nasty option which Scarlett Maguire mentioned but in terms of really sort of

00:15:33.080 data the donations and the collecting by-election have definitely affected them I think the other

00:15:38.300 ones are harder to prove but they've just done most of this to themselves you know most of those

00:15:42.760 were unforced errors the rupert thing was unforced the donation nonsense a lot of it's unforced errors

00:15:47.980 yeah and the fact that nobody actually knows what's going on with the conservatives right now

00:15:51.720 because nobody's paying attention is actually something of a benefit for the tories if there's

00:15:57.160 no controversy circling around them yeah just just do nothing and by the time the next part

00:16:02.480 the next election comes around reform will be the party of controversy and the tories will just

00:16:08.140 bit. Well, you know, we're just the Tories. We've always been here. Yeah. And this is, to be fair,

00:16:12.940 this is some things that were beyond their control. Labour getting a boost through Burnham,

00:16:16.940 even if not taken directly from reform, they've had a boost through Burnham, definitely,

00:16:21.100 though not a massive boost. Kemi improving an establishment against them, because they do have

00:16:25.840 the establishment against them. Someone replied to me on Twitter, Pete Thingy, saying that was

00:16:30.000 victim mentality. I don't think it's victim mentality. They do have channel force things.

00:16:34.220 They have people looking, Dominic Cummings said they'll do everything they can to attack them.

00:16:37.860 they will that's that's true yeah they're definitely like targets of the establishment

00:16:42.080 reform but um yeah it'd be unfair to say that they haven't gotten haven't been targeted sorry

00:16:49.300 yeah would you say that the helping to push the narrative of get starmer out has accidentally

00:16:56.080 been reform shooting themselves in the foot yeah because because starmer would have been a much

00:17:01.820 easier face to go against in the next election yeah they said get starmer out they did it then

00:17:06.600 then they were running against Burnham going well this guy I mean he he just replaced Starmer he's

00:17:10.560 the joke it's like that's what you wanted that's like yeah I was I was gonna say in they fought

00:17:14.340 the local elections on that entire kind of slogan get Starmer got what they wanted of an old left

00:17:19.240 wing Andy Burnham no Stern and Burnham as um Bo would put it and he's it's like what what could

00:17:24.640 they what can they do you know it's a tricky one have a slogan against it it was always tricky for

00:17:28.420 Kenny Bainlock because he was destroying Starmer in the PMQs and I always thought go easy on him

00:17:32.520 because he'll actually go and you'll be up against someone better.

00:17:34.900 Burnham's not great either, but he has given them a bounce.

00:17:37.500 He's not given them this massive bounce. 1.00

00:17:38.760 They still need a coalition with all the Gibbs people, 0.99

00:17:40.940 but he's given them a little bit of a bounce, Burnham.

00:17:43.060 And this is why Stephen Daisy in The Telegraph says

00:17:45.560 that this is how he'll win the next election.

00:17:48.400 And he basically says, because the other side's a mess.

00:17:50.920 It won't be on policy, strategy, outcomes, or leadership.

00:17:53.540 It will be on absence of a credible alternative.

00:17:56.120 And that's kind of hard to disagree with at the moment.

00:17:59.120 He says, we can see this in Australia.

00:18:01.160 We can see it in Canada.

00:18:02.520 This dynamic can be seen elsewhere.

00:18:04.000 It's a similar story down under where Conservative voters

00:18:05.720 are split between the Liberals, Australia's centre-right legacy party

00:18:09.440 and One Nation, very similar.

00:18:12.220 And he talks about Canada, how they had to change it to even compete.

00:18:15.440 They had to basically stop having all these different parties

00:18:17.380 and just consolidate.

00:18:19.000 And so he says, of course, some kind of cooperation

00:18:20.960 between Kerry Batenuk and Nigel Farage would appear to be the obvious answer,

00:18:24.440 whether in the form of a non-aggression pact or bolder,

00:18:27.180 a full-blown merger.

00:18:28.160 The former option is less improbable of the two,

00:18:29.780 but even then the obstacles to a strategic truth are daunting and he's just saying they're not

00:18:34.440 going to sort out the bad blood so we're going to get Burnham winning the other big question though

00:18:38.940 is will Burnham call an early election Alex Armstrong GB News says he will because he says

00:18:44.260 Labour in the lead there's an economic shock coming which hasn't hit yet he can unite the

00:18:48.860 soft left EU referendum which they want Burnham mandate needed to deliver on defence social care

00:18:55.680 and income tax and the right are currently at war

00:18:57.960 and you've got the far-left tactical vote.

00:19:00.780 OK, that's the argument.

00:19:01.960 Four, Liz Truss says no, he definitely won't call it.

00:19:04.800 Let's have a listen.

00:19:06.220 This election is never going to happen.

00:19:08.580 It was never going to happen.

00:19:10.820 Andy Burnham would be mad to call an election now.

00:19:14.040 Really?

00:19:14.600 He's got three years on the clock.

00:19:16.480 Yeah.

00:19:17.020 He is an optimist, I think, about what he can achieve

00:19:21.140 in those three years.

00:19:22.240 I think he's wrong.

00:19:23.160 I think he's totally stuffed.

00:19:25.400 But why would he give up three years of definite power

00:19:29.240 of a huge majority to roll the dice on five years of,

00:19:34.760 you know, it could be a hung parliament, he could lose.

00:19:37.120 Remember Theresa May went in ahead in the polls.

00:19:39.900 17.4%.

00:19:40.520 And lost a majority.

00:19:41.800 Like, why would he do that?

00:19:43.200 You would be mad.

00:19:44.340 I'll argue with you why I think he will.

00:19:46.140 He'd do that.

00:19:46.540 That's the other thing for why you would not call it.

00:19:50.580 He's got three years of going, look at me.

00:19:52.480 I'm chatting to the president and I'm doing all these things

00:19:54.480 and Theresa May is a stark warning

00:19:56.820 because she called it very confidently. 1.00

00:19:58.680 Then it turned out she was rubbish at debates 0.98

00:20:00.220 and managed to fall behind. 0.98

00:20:02.040 Thank you noted political pundit Liz Truss. 1.00

00:20:04.880 Hey, she knows about winning and losing.

00:20:08.460 I mean, I've got to agree.

00:20:10.600 Andy's got this kind of super majority

00:20:12.300 and he's got a mandate to really do,

00:20:14.360 well, not a mandate,

00:20:14.900 but he's got the power to do what he wants

00:20:16.660 and implement all the popular policies

00:20:18.380 Keir Starmer didn't really do.

00:20:20.280 And, you know, we get three glowing years under Burnham

00:20:22.580 and look how great Labour's been.

00:20:24.480 and we'll get another five.

00:20:26.600 Slightly worried you called him Andy there.

00:20:27.840 I'm like, you're either mates in him

00:20:28.880 or you've fallen for his matey routine.

00:20:32.060 No, he's just fallen for him, actually.

00:20:34.240 It's the cold, dead eyes are irresistible.

00:20:38.080 I do think, though, that the worry of a future economic shock

00:20:43.360 that's probably very close,

00:20:45.280 given what's going on with oil prices

00:20:47.620 and oil reserves globally right now,

00:20:50.220 is probably something that's got some people clenching a little bit.

00:20:54.480 and worrying about the future and it could be three golden years of burnham or it could be um

00:21:01.200 three harsh years of an of some form of economic or energy crash yeah if you were burnham though

00:21:07.200 what was it what was it wes streeting coming out saying oh what to do in your home if you

00:21:11.760 in the case of a power outage have you got a torch nearby i've caused yeah some miliband candles yeah

00:21:17.920 i mean the the argument for not calling it is pretty clear it's yeah you're there you get you

00:21:23.280 could get three years assuming they don't get rid of the neck another leader starmer only got two

00:21:28.000 you could be on in for longer than starmer look like you're like a you know statesman whereas

00:21:32.640 you or you can be a joke and a statistic so i think it's but then again we know he likes a bit

00:21:37.180 of a gamble on makerfield so would he do it it's a tricky one you could see both sides i mean if i

00:21:42.620 was in his position i wouldn't do it why potentially waste the majority they have right now

00:21:47.040 yeah i'm not a westminster insider so yeah it's only whether you think getting in before the

00:21:52.740 budget and all that but yes looking at that mrp knowing they'll have to cooperate with the smp

00:21:59.100 implied and things like that and they'll just have him over a barrel i think no way but um and

00:22:03.380 philip johnson says the same in the telegraph no andy burnham won't call an election and he cites

00:22:07.620 basically his own hubris he says that burnham has uh demonstrated that he's he basically believes

00:22:13.820 in himself to an absurd degree so that he he won't he won't realize how badly he's going to do

00:22:20.540 I can't really find the quote, but he basically...

00:22:22.480 Are we arguing off the back of Sigma Burnham?

00:22:25.100 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:22:27.160 It's too much of a lone wolf to listen to anybody else.

00:22:31.480 So Mr. Burnham, as he demonstrated by the manner in which he became Prime Minister,

00:22:35.780 believes in himself completely.

00:22:36.920 The argument that he needs an election now,

00:22:38.260 because in three years' time the country will be even deeper in the mire,

00:22:41.340 misunderstands his personality.

00:22:43.000 He thinks his premiership will transform the country,

00:22:45.000 bring about the economic growth on which he relies for extra revenues,

00:22:47.820 therefore thereby removing the need for big welfare cuts and see off reform and the Tories

00:22:52.440 you know the banking on the Burnham delusion but of course there's also his fear of losing

00:22:56.820 I think he'd be afraid of losing and I think he'd want to be like yeah I was in for longer than

00:23:00.780 Starmer so yeah seems unlikely and he also points out for now he's ahead in the polls but only by a

00:23:05.800 few points and no one in his party is pressing him to have an election you know they don't want

00:23:09.400 to lose their jobs and a certain number will definitely lose their jobs almost on current

00:23:13.340 projections so yeah and he only as uh we said before he only needs to look at what happened

00:23:18.440 to Theresa May in 2017 she was 20 ahead in some polls and then lost her majority so

00:23:23.220 would be pretty crazy um so and he says it here about that you can hobnob with he says why would

00:23:30.040 someone who's virtually guaranteed three years as prime minister hobnobbing with global leaders

00:23:33.480 risk it all for an election that he might lose just to become a footnote in a book of political

00:23:37.480 facts and I think that's well I mean one thing to always consider with polls is that one of the main

00:23:42.760 purposes of polls is perception management and to push people like every poll is a push poll

00:23:48.800 in one way or another so releasing a load of polls uh that are as scientifically backed as

00:23:54.280 possible saying oh it looks like the tories are coming back reformer yesterday's news

00:23:58.240 might just be a push to get people back onto the tories yeah can always be that they're definitely

00:24:04.640 that element of polling um and you know new government have got some form in slightly

00:24:09.340 questionable polls, haven't they? But Daniel Hanlon says he would call an election if he

00:24:14.540 was Burnham. He says, I'm just trying to give all sides, even though they're all from the

00:24:17.660 Telegraph. He said, if I were Andy Burnham, I'd call an immediate election. It'll not

00:24:20.640 get a better moment. The right's divided. Reform at 23%. It's a perfect split. And he's basically

00:24:26.640 saying you're not going to get a better chance. So do it now. Daniel Johnson says, I bet

00:24:31.880 Kerry Bainup would win a snap general election. Rahim Kassem seems to be involved with reform

00:24:36.600 was sharing this with disdain, but he says that Kemi's coming back. One thing he cites is the

00:24:41.660 fickle female vote. Not my words, but he says this is crucial because he says female voters 1.00

00:24:47.700 have tended to lean left. So basically women like Kemi and female voters have tended to lean left

00:24:52.640 and are more likely to switch support between parties than men. The shift implies that Kemi

00:24:57.040 is cutting through with attractive new policies on domestic issues. She needs to broaden her 1.00

00:25:00.960 appeal by dissecting labors the eu reset but basically women seem to like came and there was 0.98

00:25:07.100 that graph wasn't there recently that women are moving to the tories and even restore has more

00:25:12.560 women yeah and labor are doing well with men but women have moved to conservatives on the whole

00:25:18.420 more women have grown conservative yeah and even restore with like seven to compare seven compared 0.99

00:25:23.700 to six but it's not dynamic because um it was always traditionally thought that women are kind 1.00

00:25:28.820 a more left wing. But as these polls are coming out, we're kind of seeing the opposite. You've

00:25:33.260 got more men voting for Labour, you know, than women, which is odd. And I think, I'm

00:25:39.320 not sure how it compares to the younger generations, because I'd imagine young women obviously

00:25:43.200 would tend to spot it more to the Greens. But you're absolutely right, the polls are

00:25:47.060 showing that women are voting Conservative for some reason.

00:25:49.460 Some of it might just be, oh, we like Kemi, she's sassy in PMQs. And then blokes might 0.74

00:25:53.560 like Burnham. And Labour is quite a blokey party. They don't ever have a female leader.

00:25:56.920 Tories have had a few

00:25:58.300 you never know

00:25:59.860 what mad things

00:26:00.420 people are voting on

00:26:01.100 you know the fact that

00:26:01.800 the fact that they think

00:26:02.620 some of them think

00:26:03.160 restore are more moderate

00:26:04.400 than reform

00:26:04.880 I mean you could argue

00:26:05.640 they are in some sense

00:26:06.280 as we've discussed

00:26:06.920 but they vote on mad things

00:26:08.700 they vote on mad things

00:26:09.360 a lot of people

00:26:09.800 probably vote reform

00:26:10.820 because they think

00:26:11.440 Nigel would be good

00:26:12.040 to go for a pint with

00:26:13.040 yeah yeah yeah

00:26:13.900 people the farmers

00:26:14.780 vote for

00:26:15.420 may vote for Rupert

00:26:17.200 because oh he's a farmer

00:26:18.360 like me

00:26:18.900 I like the cut of his jib

00:26:19.940 it's relatable

00:26:20.780 and some

00:26:21.240 as we experience

00:26:22.500 in Makerfield

00:26:23.080 vote for Burnham

00:26:24.200 because he's

00:26:24.700 he's a relatable

00:26:25.500 northern lad

00:26:26.200 you know

00:26:26.540 he's a great guy

00:26:27.380 vote for him

00:26:27.860 I can't remember

00:26:28.360 which election it was

00:26:29.020 but a nice woman

00:26:29.720 who was a fan of GB News

00:26:30.980 who I ran into

00:26:33.000 near where I live

00:26:33.760 and she started speaking

00:26:34.900 she said she was

00:26:35.700 going to vote reform

00:26:36.640 but would vote Corbyn

00:26:37.900 if he was standing

00:26:38.720 I think he was

00:26:39.420 considering standing

00:26:40.060 as an independent one

00:26:40.700 I can't remember

00:26:41.060 what it was now

00:26:41.440 but I was like

00:26:41.720 that's a name

00:26:42.400 we've not mentioned

00:26:43.020 through all of this

00:26:43.680 whereas in with the blue chair

00:26:46.300 the blue steel chair

00:26:47.520 out from Austin

00:26:49.040 it was him all along

00:26:50.460 where's Jeremy Corbyn

00:26:51.940 in your party

00:26:52.860 and all of this

00:26:53.600 he's going to be kingmaker

00:26:55.160 let's be honest

00:26:56.020 yeah

00:26:56.360 But isn't that mad?

00:26:57.580 Because people are like, why would you vote Reform or Corbyn?

00:27:00.440 Authenticity, I suppose.

00:27:01.540 That's about all they have in common, a perception of authenticity.

00:27:05.080 Is your party even standing anywhere?

00:27:06.880 Or might have lost that now.

00:27:08.240 It's still a thing.

00:27:08.920 I thought they fell apart.

00:27:09.840 Did they already fall apart?

00:27:11.140 Because I hear more about George Galloway's workers' party

00:27:14.060 than I do about Jeremy Corbyn these days.

00:27:17.060 I mean, you'd think they'd be standing in the Holborn and St. Pancras by-election,

00:27:21.660 but they're not, whereas Galloway is.

00:27:24.860 They're falling apart, I think.

00:27:26.360 Anyway, that's pretty much my segment.

00:27:28.120 John Curtis did a summary of it,

00:27:29.080 but I've basically said all of it anyway.

00:27:31.840 Basically, it's not very good for...

00:27:33.620 The headline is, whatever reforms say,

00:27:35.740 this is a disaster for reform.

00:27:37.680 It's quite good for Labour, not amazing.

00:27:39.480 It's quite good for Tories, not amazing.

00:27:41.640 And that is politics, guys.

00:27:44.160 Abandon all hope.

00:27:45.940 Abandon all hope.

00:27:47.640 The train keeps a-running no matter what.

00:27:50.220 Yeah, yeah.

00:27:51.340 Fantastic.

00:27:52.340 All right, we've got quite a few rumble rants from that.

00:27:55.100 I'll read through some of them here.

00:27:56.980 Random name, remember seeing Calum at the live event?

00:27:59.100 I wanted to say hi, but I would run the risk

00:28:03.040 of getting press ganged into the Ukrainian army.

00:28:05.880 It's getting bad.

00:28:06.700 As our friend Jacob Rees-Mogger said, 0.99

00:28:09.840 we need the Englishmen to go and fight and die

00:28:12.000 for liberalism in Ukraine. 0.86

00:28:13.360 It's your duty.

00:28:14.100 It's your duty.

00:28:14.660 It's our duty. 0.98

00:28:15.280 And if some of you have to die, 0.91

00:28:16.700 that's the price I'm prepared to pay here in Somerset 0.99

00:28:19.800 with my cricket.

00:28:20.960 I don't know, send my own children to war.

00:28:23.160 No, darling.

00:28:24.040 No.

00:28:24.400 tom rat was at the local restore meeting last night for our area and there were 30 people there

00:28:30.060 all ages all parties restore the leverage around which the right will pivot and i like my parliament

00:28:34.960 like my wife likes her husband that doesn't sound great i hope things improve friend

00:28:39.380 this is remind me of star wars prequel politics which politician would be which character sadly

00:28:46.320 we have no one near charismatic or devious enough to be a palpatine so everybody else is going to

00:28:51.620 have to be some variation of faceless bureaucrat random name i like my politicians like mr beast 0.87

00:28:57.020 likes his africans poor and destitute paladin says rip jezbollah we'll be getting on to that

00:29:03.640 don't worry he's recreating old colonial empires from first principles it's quite impressive 0.99

00:29:08.840 hapsification people that vote tory will get what they deserve by playing the stupid switch between 0.95

00:29:13.180 labor and the tories and also these are the reasons why i dislike democracy there's plenty 0.58

00:29:18.320 more to go on top but Callum tell us about what's going on in uh in St Pancras Holborn and St

00:29:26.680 Pancras the by-elections oh wait actually should we get the segment up please Samson thank you I'm

00:29:32.000 not sure do I need that gadget there we go I'm not you can use the mouse use the mouse if you

00:29:36.520 want to go down to our document just pull the mouse down is that me controlling it yes you're

00:29:41.280 controlling it first segment I put together sorry it's a tad shabby but we're just going to give a

00:29:45.900 i want to have a bit of a discussion and an overview overview about the holborn and some

00:29:49.500 pancreas by-election interesting you mentioned um corbyn and your party because as i said i was

00:29:55.500 looking through the list of candidates um you know when i was frantically putting apart this segment

00:30:00.540 and i was shocked to see that they weren't standing they're not there and it's a surprise because it's

00:30:06.700 It's a very left-wing, as you can see,

00:30:11.140 it's a very left-wing constituency.

00:30:14.280 Keir Starmer won, and that was with 48% of the vote.

00:30:19.320 The second was a Gaza independent with 18% of the vote.

00:30:23.600 Of course.

00:30:24.100 And in third, the Greens won 10% of the vote.

00:30:27.420 So that's a massive kind of...

00:30:29.300 It's pretty locked in over there.

00:30:30.880 Yes.

00:30:32.320 And, you know, so naturally it's a very left-wing area.

00:30:36.440 But I wanted to have a bit of a look into the candidates

00:30:39.460 who are standing this time.

00:30:42.420 So we've got Sagao Abdirawali,

00:30:46.000 who's the Labour Party candidate.

00:30:49.540 She's pretty much just a diversity hire, to be honest.

00:30:52.220 I did do a little bit of a look up onto her,

00:30:54.320 and there wasn't really much that caught the mind.

00:30:58.980 Nothing particularly notable about her.

00:31:00.380 No.

00:31:00.820 An inspirational story, according to Sadiq Khan,

00:31:02.900 but when I watched this video on it,

00:31:04.260 I couldn't see anything inspirational.

00:31:05.120 just that she was diverse.

00:31:06.640 She's just a Somalian. 1.00

00:31:08.000 Oh, she's just... 1.00

00:31:09.400 I mean, I don't think you understand the difficulty

00:31:12.260 of being Somalian in the first place, 1.00

00:31:14.260 so that's enough for a round of applause. 1.00

00:31:16.200 We have a man wearing beans on his face.

00:31:18.500 Mr Barmy Bunch for the Monster Raping Loony Party.

00:31:22.720 And to be fair... 0.99

00:31:23.400 He's got the full burka there. 0.89

00:31:25.440 That's the level of seriousness

00:31:26.880 in which we should take parliamentary politics,

00:31:29.340 to be honest.

00:31:30.240 So I should be taking notes.

00:31:31.780 It's very, very impressive.

00:31:33.920 No one can see his...

00:31:35.620 Yeah, his head covering is much more thorough than hers. 0.63

00:31:38.580 She needs to step up her game. 0.99

00:31:40.220 Exactly. 0.97

00:31:40.520 We've got Ewen Cameron from a Conservative Party,

00:31:44.920 some Independent...

00:31:46.560 Oh, my goodness. 0.66

00:31:47.400 The Wicked Witch of the West from the Climate Party. 0.97

00:31:50.860 We actually have one of the cast and crew of Hocus Poses.

00:31:54.000 She's actually in front of a tree there as we speak.

00:31:56.820 She actually is in front of you. 0.97

00:31:57.800 If you pan down, she's chained to it.

00:31:59.860 one of the only trees in Holford and St Pancras to be fair whilst I I don't want to be too cruel

00:32:07.280 because whilst I was at the um um the maker field election in the run-up to it and was interviewing

00:32:14.320 people uh the climate party had a candidate there um who flagged me down in the street and spoke to

00:32:20.260 me you can go back and watch the video where I interview him he seemed to be one of frankly one

00:32:24.340 of the more interesting and well-informed people who I spoke to there and particularly of the people

00:32:30.100 running for uh well sorry standing for the seat last time I was on we did a segment why why trees

00:32:36.620 have rights so you know we're all down with the that was a little I did watch that I completely

00:32:41.720 agree Liz you're totally right oh I in my mind I was like no I want I want a nice HS2 railway

00:32:48.660 actually we were pro trees i'm sorry we're about we're about 20 years away from being able to do

00:32:56.580 such a thing how many more billions can you find well i think the whole industry needs a shake up

00:33:01.500 but oh what's interesting though is hs1 and hs2 are literally like they're next to each other and

00:33:08.120 you connect them up into one mega railway imagine that birmingham to paris or god knows where your

00:33:13.540 war should be against the bats and the newts because they always stop it it was the bat

00:33:17.380 tunnel that made hs2 a nightmare and you take care of everything else i think i take a lot of 0.96

00:33:21.900 one to be honest i i remember when hs2 was supposed to be running up to manchester in my neck of the

00:33:27.560 woods and how local towns all over destroyed themselves trying to prepare for an influx of

00:33:33.320 londoners and how well that all turned out i was thinking why don't they fix like getting back from

00:33:38.760 manchester because i used to do comedy all around the country i was like i can't get back from the

00:33:42.540 north i used to get a night coach from leeds five hours it's like five got in like 5am to london

00:33:47.520 where it's like we want to get slightly faster between bergham and london it's already pretty

00:33:50.660 fast if you if you're trying to travel in this country via rail from anywhere in the northwest

00:33:56.200 down south you're going to have to have probably about two or three changeovers in really awkward

00:34:01.800 places and the first leg of that journey is going to take ages bring an ice axe and a tent

00:34:06.200 some kendall mink cake because you'll be out for days cost a ridiculous amount of money as well

00:34:10.200 I remember seeing people

00:34:11.340 showing their tickets

00:34:12.560 and it costs hundreds

00:34:14.260 just to get up and about

00:34:15.680 but to get back on track

00:34:17.120 so we've got 0.89

00:34:17.820 Wicked Witch of the West

00:34:18.700 for the climate party

00:34:19.720 and as we mentioned

00:34:20.960 George Galloway

00:34:21.940 is tossing his hat

00:34:22.660 in the ring

00:34:23.080 for the by-election

00:34:25.940 you know what

00:34:26.920 fair play

00:34:27.720 look at that

00:34:28.220 cold blue Celtic stare

00:34:30.280 when you say

00:34:31.860 tossing his hat in the ring

00:34:32.600 that's normally a metaphor

00:34:33.380 but he always

00:34:34.100 has that hat

00:34:34.560 he's got his hat

00:34:35.100 we've got our Tyler

00:34:37.980 Tyler Johnson

00:34:39.400 for Restored Britain.

00:34:40.820 Is that his official title,

00:34:42.040 R Tyler?

00:34:42.460 R Tyler. 0.98

00:34:42.980 He's R Tyler.

00:34:44.020 There he is.

00:34:45.620 We've got, you know, 0.90

00:34:47.520 Rejoin EU 0.51

00:34:48.200 because that's still a thing.

00:34:50.660 Is that one of the doctors

00:34:51.620 of the old series

00:34:52.520 I've never watched?

00:34:53.460 I don't know, mate. 1.00

00:34:54.340 She's got like a neck scarf. 0.99

00:34:56.120 All right.

00:34:56.560 She looks a bit outdated

00:34:57.520 to be honest.

00:34:58.080 Can I fit her name

00:34:58.740 on the little paper?

00:34:59.960 It's going to be a struggle.

00:35:01.460 That's a good point.

00:35:01.960 I didn't even read it. 0.87

00:35:04.420 She just blazed over it.

00:35:06.180 Bron, do you know?

00:35:07.280 Bron, do you know?

00:35:08.020 Bryony and Lombay Kapoor.

00:35:11.280 Lombay Kapoor.

00:35:12.580 Pardon me, I dialed.

00:35:13.780 Bryony and Lombay.

00:35:14.860 Four names.

00:35:15.320 Four.

00:35:16.340 Every rejoiner has at least four names.

00:35:18.380 Peter Newman, who's an interesting chap.

00:35:20.340 He's done a lot about counter-terrorism.

00:35:23.820 UK voice, Ketton.

00:35:27.060 That's a great representative of the UK.

00:35:28.620 Yeah.

00:35:29.480 Might be a good guy.

00:35:30.920 Might be, yep.

00:35:32.300 I like the Tash.

00:35:32.940 He's got kind of Kitchener, sort of Kipling. 0.97

00:35:35.100 He looks like an Indian Enoch Powell, come to think of it. 0.98

00:35:37.520 No, do you know what he looks like? 0.96

00:35:38.600 He looks like pre-activism Mahatma Gandhi

00:35:41.520 when he was just a lawyer.

00:35:44.320 He looks like early EP Freddie Mercury.

00:35:46.320 Yeah.

00:35:48.040 Yeah, really early.

00:35:49.520 Yeah, no, that's fair, that's fair.

00:35:50.900 And then we've got Zach Polanski,

00:35:52.280 kind of headliner,

00:35:53.740 Communist League,

00:35:54.800 Christian People's Alliance,

00:35:55.960 Liberal Democrats.

00:35:56.560 Why have the Communist League

00:35:57.380 and Zach Polanski standing?

00:35:58.520 Isn't that just one part?

00:35:59.460 Yeah, well, he looks like a friendly chap,

00:36:01.320 doesn't he?

00:36:01.760 He looks like a communist.

00:36:03.800 Oh, Christian People's Alliance are there. 1.00

00:36:05.100 They're all right.

00:36:05.940 Yeah.

00:36:06.180 They've got some good policies.

00:36:08.240 Last time I saw their policies, it was like protect the unborn.

00:36:11.200 Who wouldn't want to do that?

00:36:12.360 Respect the EU referendum.

00:36:15.080 Make big companies pay tax and have stronger policing.

00:36:19.560 I was like, this is great.

00:36:20.940 I don't know anything else about them.

00:36:23.200 So we've got a huge roster of candidates,

00:36:25.440 largely left-wing areas we kind of established.

00:36:28.460 But it's interesting that Polanski himself, the leader of the party,

00:36:32.100 I think he's having a huge gamble with this by-election 0.97

00:36:36.260 because he's kind of, he's, oh, bugger off. 0.76

00:36:39.420 Putting himself on the line. 0.94

00:36:40.460 Yeah, he's done it as a kind of a show of confidence

00:36:43.060 in the Green Party to almost define,

00:36:48.120 the election can be seen as a defining kind of moment

00:36:50.940 for the left wing in this country,

00:36:53.400 but it just doesn't reflect the polls at the moment.

00:36:55.660 This is the national average kind of polling throughout Britain

00:36:59.780 and the Greens have just kind of petered off after April.

00:37:03.080 They've kind of sunk back down to Lib Dem-esque polling rows

00:37:06.980 before they were having quite a high spike and it's gone.

00:37:10.980 They did well in Gorton, obviously,

00:37:12.420 and then Polanski started saying stuff and now they're just...

00:37:16.320 And then everybody got a good look at Zach Polanski's face

00:37:19.380 and went, oh...

00:37:20.520 And his views and passed and they were like, no thanks.

00:37:23.600 Well, that's the thing.

00:37:24.200 It's like the more people kind of learn about Zach Polanski,

00:37:27.960 you know, Green Party seems kind of idyllic

00:37:29.640 in a way it's like oh we love our bees and trees it's very like elizabeth you know we want to

00:37:33.720 protect our nature and then it's zach polanski actually wants to flood the country with five

00:37:38.060 million five million immigrants and like legalized heroin on the side and wait let's hear him out

00:37:44.320 i mean ostensibly he could he should do well because he's none of those candidates are named

00:37:50.800 candidates he's the only national name candidate in the in the ring well him him and galloway

00:37:55.700 Emma Galloway and everyone else is you know not as high profile so it's really like all-out war

00:38:02.100 for Polanski he's got to win it and I saw that on the ground because when I first started

00:38:07.260 campaigning in Holborn and St Pancras we found four Green Party leaflets already and this was

00:38:13.660 the first kind of week so it was like these guys are going like balls to the walls they want to

00:38:19.840 get this guy elected obviously and to the point where he's cancelled his conference to focus on

00:38:25.100 the by-election if he does win that's going to be horrific because then he'll be able to actually

00:38:29.900 do things well i i actually think the opposite i think for us getting polanski in parliament

00:38:36.000 would be a positive because he's only one kind of green party politician but it's the amount

00:38:42.980 of exposure to him you're going to get that constant nonsense that he spouts all the time

00:38:46.900 and it's going to put people off that's true so part of me thinks you should fold in behind 0.88

00:38:52.660 galloway and just support him but yeah yeah i mean it's it's fair it's it's that kind of palestine

00:38:59.200 uh left-wing anti-war vote foreign vote they're going for for both of them well galloway's run

00:39:05.460 just to spite polanski as far as i can tell he he specifically didn't he stood he wanted to stand

00:39:10.820 against the greens didn't he i can't remember why he turned from exile yeah he was self-exile

00:39:16.420 from russian exiles because he hated the greens i think it's because of their is it because their

00:39:20.720 radical sort of views on other things like trans and things like that i think he's very anti he's

00:39:25.440 very lined with the greens on things like palestine but not on he's he's very socially

00:39:30.080 conservative is he catholic yes and and the catholicism social views of catholicism really

00:39:37.220 uh do put um like uh motivate a lot of his views yeah yeah so as we've kind of established a by

00:39:44.500 election, Polanski's trying to challenge the seat, you know he's called off the

00:39:49.140 election and they've had a massive, they've had mass campaign days but it's

00:39:53.500 it's not all been like sunshine and roses for Polanski because this has come

00:39:59.900 out, I'm not sure, could we get the, just tap the video?

00:40:03.500 Yeah have a go.

00:40:04.500 He actually gets heckled quite a bit.

00:40:07.500 I think the problem with definitions is they mean different things to different people.

00:40:23.500 If you're defining Zionism as the displacement of genocide of the past,

00:40:27.500 Which is how in practice 0.82

00:40:33.360 Zionism has become 0.93

00:40:35.480 the truth.

00:40:37.040 That's racist.

00:40:42.960 That's really it.

00:40:43.820 But even going back to that article,

00:40:45.540 it was on the news on the side, Polanski gets

00:40:47.280 heckled by the Jewish community at the Huston.

00:40:49.380 So not really everyone is on board

00:40:51.320 with Polanski. Not all these minority groups are on board

00:40:53.420 with Polanski and his green messaging.

00:40:55.680 He's going to constantly struggle with his own base.

00:40:57.140 wanting to go further and further on Palestine just even though you think they're about as far

00:41:01.700 as they can be yeah even for Polanski who is Jewish of course that creates a problem I reckon 0.76

00:41:07.340 for him when they just go so extreme on it because he probably he's very pro-Palestine but

00:41:11.720 I think even he will struggle with his own base on that yeah I mean he is a Jewish man himself so

00:41:17.160 it's a bit um it's a bit like a bit schizophrenic if you ask me it's like hating your own identity

00:41:23.660 You do get very anti-Zionist Jewish people, don't you?

00:41:26.400 I think part of it is as part of the...

00:41:29.140 It might just be, and this is my own off the top of my head,

00:41:32.560 as part of the diaspora,

00:41:33.680 he sees what a negative effect it has on the diaspora,

00:41:36.780 the sort of international reputation that Israel has garnered.

00:41:40.020 But do you think it's even that?

00:41:40.960 When you look at his past, he was a Lib Dem who was anti-Corbyn.

00:41:44.080 Isn't he just an opportunist?

00:41:45.400 He might also just be an opportunist.

00:41:47.020 so we've i mean we've gone over the labor candidate as i said there's not really much

00:41:54.460 about her she's just uh she's just a somalian um just a somalian she just it's not even a country

00:42:02.000 they're working around killing people killing each other she just walked in off the street

00:42:06.320 she thought it was the benefits office labor took her in i mean she said you're standing 0.99

00:42:10.000 she put on her red hijab and now uh you know they say put put a pig in a in a red tie she's

00:42:16.640 picked she's picked a hijab this time but um so it's not much to really talk about to her but

00:42:21.560 going back on to Galloway you know they're saying he's a gift for Labour because he could really

00:42:26.540 kind of kill Zach Polanski's by-election chances there is I say don't necessarily don't count out

00:42:34.120 Galloway just yet he's got name recognition and he has had a way historically of uh kind of

00:42:40.660 squirreling his way into the seats when he stands he's quite he's quite impressive the power of his

00:42:45.720 rhetoric oh yeah he's a great uh orator and he's quite um he's a bit he's crafty as well i'm sure

00:42:52.520 you chaps remember up in rochdale was it rochdale where he stood and he sent one leaflet oh yeah

00:42:58.140 different letters for all the other one to the muslim community he knows how to play the game 0.93

00:43:02.820 wasn't the white one sort of like we need to take our country back and all of the other ones were 0.89

00:43:06.900 like and these muslims and the muslim bob was like i'm my brother yeah yeah because i remember 0.99

00:43:13.220 that the um the ones to the english community were all about rape gangs and we have to prosecute 1.00

00:43:18.400 the people obviously wouldn't fly in like muslim areas but yeah he's a crafty bloke so i i think 0.54

00:43:24.100 that's very true don't underestimate him he could just snub polanski's um polanski's i think he's

00:43:31.140 he's married is he married to a pakistani or bangladeshi muslim married to like seven from

00:43:36.500 what i recall oh yeah he's he's got a type yeah he knows what he's a type but um you know being

00:43:45.360 such a kind of left-wing seat um what are we doing why are we why are we standing candidate

00:43:53.120 some people kind of say that but i think that we have to do have to offer an alternative

00:43:57.120 as i said reform's gone with this chap pete newman he's a former policing and security expert

00:44:03.480 But counter-terrorism, I didn't have enough time to really bring up much about him.

00:44:09.500 To be honest, he seems like a good chap, solid pick.

00:44:13.040 I don't think he's the right choice for Holborn and St Pancras, really.

00:44:18.240 Who would you have put in instead?

00:44:19.620 Well, I think going on to Tyler Johnson, he's a fantastic pick.

00:44:24.160 There he is, for Britain, vote for Tyler.

00:44:26.960 And I don't think anyone is really under the delusion that we're going to win

00:44:31.100 because it is a massively left-wing seat.

00:44:33.480 um i think something like like 27 of the demographics there are students only 50

00:44:40.120 are white let alone white british so it really does beg the question why are we standing and

00:44:47.240 that's that is because we need to give those there you know a voice and i think tyler's a great

00:44:52.760 candidate he's one of the only young candidates he's quite a sharp young professional and going

00:44:58.040 back to the others you know you've got somali and you've got polanski and the rest are just kind of

00:45:01.400 of old farts so it's a real breath of fresh air and i mean you say he's a business owner we know

00:45:08.260 about some of these people um the labor candidate from what you've said is quite quite unremarkable

00:45:12.700 we know galloway's past we know polanski um who who is tyler well tyler is a legal professional

00:45:21.100 um i can't remember how long he's been doing law for but he i believe he's in his 30s he's a young

00:45:28.120 lad and he's um you know put his foot forward and he you know he's a sharp face to be um

00:45:32.980 representing Restore Britain in Holborn and St Pancras. But if you do stand you just get the

00:45:38.340 obvious headlines or not really headlines but the media can say Restore didn't do well because

00:45:43.420 as you say it's such a tough seat. No we we not I think people know we know we're not going to win

00:45:48.740 it no one even even reform are going to struggle to get a good result and the conservatives who

00:45:52.720 got nine percent last time. Yeah so other than getting some experience for a candidate what is

00:45:57.340 what is the reason well i'll expand on that kind of later but while out campaigning we there has

00:46:03.740 been um kind of hostility being such a left-wing scene we're going to go on to that from um

00:46:12.460 from last week's uh let me find it only but yeah there's been an increasing trend in like left-wing

00:46:20.940 uh political violence and extremism and we experienced that last week when our candidate

00:46:26.700 not candidate our activist and campaigns manager were attacked the hot coffee thing

00:46:33.100 yeah the hot coffee thing we got mobbed by the unwashed

00:46:56.700 you get the impression but they kind of chased them throughout and about

00:47:04.160 holborns and pancreas so i i i missed this was was this the full

00:47:08.680 gang of people chasing them out of town well it it wasn't really chased out of

00:47:14.360 town they just followed them about for you know a short while it just seems

00:47:18.300 more annoying than anything yeah but then he got hot coffee thrown on

00:47:21.280 Yeah, he got burned down his leg and blue-lighted to hospital.

00:47:28.680 If you get a burn, I believe it's if you get a burn

00:47:30.720 that fully circumvates one of your limbs,

00:47:32.680 you do have to get taken off because it could damage blood flow. 0.96

00:47:37.240 And one of the women was actually punched.

00:47:42.040 I believe it's this one.

00:47:45.940 Yes, a protest is arrested after attack on Restore Companioners.

00:47:49.180 a woman was held on suspicion of assault

00:47:50.980 as campaigners accused the party of handing out

00:47:53.160 racist leaflets. Now that

00:47:55.180 doesn't justify violence in my mind

00:47:57.300 but it

00:47:59.260 does to the left. They seem mad

00:48:01.160 to the point where they'd attack

00:48:02.540 a woman who was

00:48:04.140 punched, punched while

00:48:07.040 hanging out leaflets in Camden

00:48:08.220 so it's a bit

00:48:10.060 That's not good. No, it's distressing

00:48:13.060 It's going to be

00:48:15.160 more and more of this. I was going to say

00:48:16.500 are there contingency plans given

00:48:19.040 that this is going to happen in a lot of constituencies

00:48:22.260 where you're planning on standing?

00:48:24.320 Well, I think you've got to be sharp with security,

00:48:27.240 but it goes down to the organising itself.

00:48:30.640 You've got to be cautious about who you send information out to.

00:48:34.680 That's just basic kind of good housekeeping

00:48:36.900 for any right-wing party.

00:48:38.420 You're not going to invite who God knows to your event

00:48:42.420 because the left-wing are quite militant and volatile

00:48:46.160 against what they perceive as the far right.

00:48:49.040 to the point where they will throw coffee over you.

00:48:52.220 As Carl was experiencing, they will throw milkshakes over you

00:48:55.380 and they will attack you and wave banners and posters in your face.

00:49:01.320 But what's particularly kind of scary is that it does go beyond that.

00:49:08.000 As we know, Anne Whittlecombe was murdered,

00:49:13.780 bludgeoned to death with a hammer.

00:49:15.340 She was a big reform spokesperson.

00:49:19.040 and it's still under investigation but and just a vulnerable old lady yeah and so shocking and 0.58

00:49:25.400 disgusting and yet the news has almost sort of moved on hasn't it yeah almost like oh let's move

00:49:29.720 on to the next thing it's like hang on they're just killing old women candidates or people yeah

00:49:34.140 she's a spokesperson but but the chap who did i mean it was covered on the podcast a lot but he

00:49:39.520 traveled all the way down from the country very clearly targeted he allegedly had like left-wing

00:49:44.980 material in its house

00:49:46.500 and

00:49:47.320 I guess this is all

00:49:48.360 alleged right now

00:49:49.120 is it? 0.97

00:49:49.840 I believe so

00:49:50.680 I expect us

00:49:51.860 from getting sued

00:49:52.440 I believe so

00:49:53.700 it's an ongoing

00:49:54.440 yeah

00:49:54.920 yeah it is ongoing

00:49:56.020 but I don't want to dwell

00:49:57.040 on it because it's

00:49:57.460 been covered

00:49:58.020 but it goes back to

00:50:00.200 you've just closed

00:50:04.220 I've just closed it

00:50:05.380 that's terrible

00:50:06.080 that's alright

00:50:07.540 that's alright

00:50:08.100 you can just reopen

00:50:08.880 is there a way of

00:50:09.520 getting it back up

00:50:10.240 sorry

00:50:10.580 Samson can you reopen

00:50:11.500 that for us please

00:50:14.980 said first segment is this one yes yeah that one this is why i want to use this thing but anyway

00:50:20.580 that one so oh look at look at nick over here i can press buttons on a box oh yeah yeah it's easier

00:50:27.540 in it that's all i'm saying but yeah so the left kind of create these profiles on people they

00:50:34.040 perceive as the far right um and it's like painting a target on their backs you know they've done it

00:50:39.620 with myself they did it with ann and unfortunately after she she passed um i hope not i swiftly

00:50:45.900 deleted their um their their articles and profile on her so it's almost like they kind of collate

00:50:52.860 in some kind of list well it's almost like a checklist right yeah as woes is putting here

00:50:57.740 it's like well she's gone now tick we don't need that page anymore incredibly sinister i mean if

00:51:01.780 they if it didn't contribute to violence against her why did they take it down why couldn't they

00:51:05.880 stand by it well they they know what their role is they know why they're collecting this information

00:51:13.480 yeah so just going there's even been telegraph articles on it left-wing groups delete article

00:51:19.480 um that was after a death and it happened a week before our canvassers and uh campaigns manager

00:51:29.720 were attacked here it is 17th of september exposed the fascists and anti-seminites anti-semites

00:51:37.920 sorry um campaigning for restore britain and holborn and there he is big crosshair on him

00:51:43.740 lewis holmes who had the yeah it's literally like here are the guys to target yeah so and

00:51:48.860 pat mcguinness who was uh getting roughed about in that video and here's an old man as well if

00:51:54.860 you're like really stooping low no exactly well it wouldn't surprise me the extent that the left

00:52:00.660 go to that i think they'd happily take his crutches and beat him with them these people

00:52:05.100 are violent then there's our candidate tyler fantastic there's not really much no it's the 0.99

00:52:09.520 same nonsense bnp homeland you know oh they're they're all campaigning for fascist nazis and

00:52:17.160 blah blah blah and you know this is what you end up with it is candidates and people campaigners

00:52:25.260 whoever getting attacked by vile left-wing mobs so it really does beg the question as to why we fight

00:52:33.940 and i will i will say as as well like i mean you were in homeland there are homeland like

00:52:41.580 affiliates attached to the party but that's still no reason to target anybody for physical

00:52:47.020 violence or anything like that that's not the it's that's not the democracy and you you can

00:52:51.360 have discussions and different opinions and you know i've never attacked someone or called for

00:52:57.020 violence but the left wing seem to be doing they're putting targets on people's back people

00:53:01.740 like lewis holmes who are you know that is just a he was from reform previously he's just a chap

00:53:08.360 regular guy who wants to you know save his country and he thinks restore britain's the

00:53:12.680 model for doing that and he's facing extremist violence but um yeah so why we fight we're getting

00:53:18.820 hostile we're getting hostile interactions in Holborn and I think Giorno Maddy really kind of

00:53:24.360 put it well went out canvassing and campaigning because I was with her for this but we were we

00:53:30.720 were in a tower block um I think it's Holborn near Clarenquale but it was like being in little

00:53:40.220 Somalia basically and as we got to the bottom of the block there was a an English chap in a garden

00:53:46.940 young man and you know I definitely got to speak to him so we had we had a chat with him and he

00:53:52.540 he was mining his grandmother's flat and you know do you want a leaflet and you get a chat with him

00:53:58.920 and he's like yeah it's really good I like Rupert Lowe I like like Nigel as well but

00:54:02.780 it's kind of these people that we do it for and they are our people and you've got to stand you've

00:54:09.980 got to fight for them so this is why you're standing in the area for the for this seat

00:54:15.840 because for these people yeah because we can't leave our own without a voice you know they've

00:54:20.920 watched their areas get demographically changed gone down the drain and there are we've got to

00:54:27.620 stand up for them interesting to see if we ever move to proportional representation what happened

00:54:32.140 with parties like restore whether that would be a boost the funny thing is labor really want it

00:54:36.280 but in the in the current projections they do better with first past the post proportional

00:54:41.020 representation as much as some people really like it would just be a way to lead to a permanent

00:54:45.440 parliamentary deadlock yeah which we're going to have anyway at the moment but yeah i mean it but

00:54:51.500 i mean everybody knows the compromise and difficulties that come with coalitions it

00:54:55.260 would just lead to permanent compromised coalitions i just thought of it because of

00:54:58.480 this idea of giving people a voice that's the only way of like really your vote registering but yeah

00:55:03.540 I see what you mean about it.

00:55:05.280 Well, at the end of the day, you know, it's our capital city.

00:55:07.900 And I don't care if we're 10% of the population there, 15%.

00:55:13.880 It's our homeland.

00:55:15.520 I'm not going to sacrifice that.

00:55:16.900 I'm going to fight and campaign for these people.

00:55:18.780 I do agree with not giving up the capital.

00:55:20.280 Because a lot of people, we've had this a lot with sort of conservative type people

00:55:23.240 or people on the right saying, oh, London's fallen, London's terrible.

00:55:26.880 And I've lived in London a long time.

00:55:28.180 So I'm always like, we're just giving up the capital of England.

00:55:31.260 That's gone, is it?

00:55:32.060 So, yeah, I agree with you that you shouldn't just give up London.

00:55:34.980 And Sadiq Khan, we have to get Sadiq Khan out,

00:55:37.240 but we can never get it together.

00:55:38.900 I would vote James Cleverley to get him out.

00:55:41.520 I mean, and then with Leila's standing and it's like,

00:55:44.280 we're going to be divided again.

00:55:45.500 I would vote almost anyone to get Khan out.

00:55:47.620 Yeah, and Maddy also makes another point. 0.98

00:55:49.860 There's another reason to leave Britain-replaced areas,

00:55:52.720 and it's to kind of send a message, you know, 1.00

00:55:54.420 your time is running out, we want you gone.

00:55:57.000 And it kind of goes, you know, the British people are here,

00:56:00.320 we're angry we're not defeated and you know we're going to get every every opportunity to kind of 0.97

00:56:05.360 claw back so it's a little bit hostile environment exactly hostile environment we need more of a

00:56:11.060 hostile environment to show these people this is our country and so i kind of want to round it off

00:56:18.780 with charlie's tweet it's like when we win we're just going to crush these people the left have

00:56:24.840 been hostile and violent to us and we're just not going to tolerate it you know we're going to take

00:56:29.180 our capital back we're going to come back to Holborn and St Pancras very soon and we're going

00:56:33.900 to campaign we will not be intimidated of our streets we will not surrender and we're going

00:56:38.180 to fight for what's ours and London is ours all right then thank you very much Callum uh got

00:56:44.360 three rumble rants from that that I will go through Bay State George Galloway is the evil twin

00:56:49.760 of the rich Scottish dude from Jurassic Park changed my mind I'll be honest I have a little

00:56:55.000 little bit of a soft spot for Galloway. He's got a bit of a cheeky chappy charm. I can make him to

00:56:59.800 Richard Attenborough. Yes, Richard Attenborough, yes. Paladin, you guys need exactly one item on

00:57:07.380 the soundboard. Rupert Lowe on Joe Rogan calling Zach Polanski a gay Jew. That is a great little 0.85

00:57:12.160 soundbite that he gave us all. Random name, Timu Zielinski pretending not to be able to pronounce

00:57:17.600 anti-semitism i've got my eye on you i'd no comment no comment listen the only thing that

00:57:24.500 the only thing he's really here for is so that you can sign up i'm just here to convince you 0.55

00:57:29.660 to die for ukraine yeah please all right and uh now moving on to the final segment i'm going to 0.59

00:57:35.740 be talking about um about mr beast's secret colonial empire that he's building right under

00:57:43.220 everybody's nose. First, I'm going to read us a little excerpt from a very famous and now

00:57:48.620 quite controversial poem by Rudyard Kipling from 1899, The White Man's Burden. 0.57

00:57:54.220 Take up the white man's burden, send forth the best ye breed. Go bind your sons to exile,

00:58:00.080 to serve your captives' need. To wait in heavy harness on fluttered folk and wild, 0.98

00:58:06.200 your new-caught sullen peoples, half-devil and half-child. This is an attitude that for whatever 1.00

00:58:12.840 reason has been pervasive ever since the scramble for Africa and even beforehand and something that

00:58:18.860 Europeans, Brits and Americans still have never really gotten over. This is still the attitude

00:58:24.840 that really animates all of this kind of performative Save Africa charity that goes on

00:58:31.860 these days and I would say the greatest example of it in the modern era is that of Mr Beast with

00:58:39.440 his Beast philanthropy. Now Mr Beast is of course the centre of a number of controversies over the

00:58:45.880 years, particularly one that I think it was last year or the year before where people came out

00:58:50.600 alleging that he had been involved in some rather dodgy discussions in old Discord servers with

00:58:55.320 former associates of his. They were also calling out some of his current associations and also the

00:59:00.640 way that he treats his staff members working for his various companies. That is not what this

00:59:05.340 segment is going to be about. This is actually just going to be about how Mr. Beast is reverse

00:59:10.300 engineering imperialism from first principles and almost exactly replicating the model of

00:59:17.280 imperialism that the British Empire used. It's quite remarkable how one-to-one it is. So first

00:59:24.440 of all, this is where all of the philanthropy, all of his charitable work is funneled through.

00:59:29.640 Beast Philanthropy, Make Kindness Viral, you can see through the website, here's all of the good

00:59:34.620 work that he does. You can donate to them. You can find the different initiatives they have. They

00:59:39.700 have their Ghana initiative, Beast Pantry, where they deliver food to people. And it all looks very

00:59:45.720 above board. They're certified by a number of regulators. And here are the horrifying thumbnails,

00:59:53.280 the horrifying faces of the thumbnails on his YouTube channel for this, which is separate from

00:59:57.820 his normal one, where he talks about the various projects that he does. The most recent one being

01:00:02.580 from four months ago 14 million views we built life-saving clinics around the world now i beg

01:00:08.980 of you all not to spend too long looking at any of the thumbnails on this in any one session

01:00:14.500 because there is something of the uncanny valley about it wouldn't you say apparently they mean

01:00:19.780 solace apparently they means test every single one of the thumbnails and uh just came like 50

01:00:24.840 times over and found that just some variation of that face is the one that gets the most clicks

01:00:30.100 The non-smiling attempted smile face

01:00:32.700 is the one that just gets the people clicking.

01:00:35.300 It gets people clicking for whatever reason.

01:00:36.920 Oh, we've got one exception.

01:00:39.120 I was a frowny one.

01:00:39.680 I fought one of America's biggest problems.

01:00:41.580 But look at that, only 8.4 million views.

01:00:44.080 I guess they should have gone with the big fake smile.

01:00:47.000 Look, as soon as they bring the smile back,

01:00:49.340 15 million views.

01:00:50.380 Even that one next to it.

01:00:51.540 That one next to it is not grinning his teeth

01:00:53.220 and that's 4.7 million views.

01:00:54.960 We saved 100 children's...

01:00:56.980 Apparently the feral chimpanzee grin

01:00:59.420 just gets the most clicks on youtube as people have pointed out it's the discrepancy between the

01:01:03.460 eyes and the smile isn't it let's look at the almost fear in the eyes the people that he's

01:01:10.300 helping like mr beast please don't put this on youtube we just want help please um but this

01:01:16.480 obviously despite the outwardly facing charity of the whole thing has drawn a number of criticisms

01:01:22.760 from people both on the left and on the right accusing this of being cynical accusing this of

01:01:28.760 being just for the clicks, just to boost his profile and to get in with various different

01:01:34.100 international agencies as well. And on the right, you have a counter argument against this, which

01:01:39.700 is why are you doing so much of this for foreign peoples over your own peoples? There are enough 0.77

01:01:44.440 problems in America to be taken care of. Why have you got a global perspective when instead you

01:01:48.520 should be looking more domestic? And I'll go through a bit of this right now because I don't

01:01:53.760 want to be entirely cynical on this. I'll be fair as I can to old, what's his name? James Donaldson?

01:02:02.000 That's it. Mr. Donaldson. These are some of the ones that he's most famous for, where he, a few

01:02:06.880 years ago, back in 2023, dug a number of wells. It says 52 here. I think it went up to 100 in the

01:02:13.400 end, constructed a bridge and provided computers to schools in Kenya, obviously helping them to

01:02:18.260 get infrastructure and clean water. A hundred boreholes drill occur, so you've missed a beast

01:02:23.320 directly impact the lives of over 500,000 people all around Africa. So he really is just embodying

01:02:30.140 quite literally the white man's burden right here. Africa, we all know sub-Saharan Africa will never 0.93

01:02:37.420 be some kind of civilizational utopia. Wakanda isn't going to happen and will never happen.

01:02:44.220 some people would argue that if you just gave us the reparations then and left us alone then we'll

01:02:49.540 definitely be able to build Wakanda within the next few years no if we if we left Africa alone 0.83

01:02:55.340 it would not happen it would never be able to happen and so people like Mr Beast and the old 0.86

01:03:01.140 colonial adventurers back in the day the missionaries took it upon themselves that they 0.93

01:03:05.080 needed to pull Africa up out of savagery and into civilization which is definitely what Mr Beast is 0.87

01:03:11.440 doing here have your schools have your wells have your bridges and clean water that you never would 0.96

01:03:16.000 have been able to have if I hadn't been here in the first place the most recent one which has got

01:03:20.340 a lot of people talking was his biggest charity project yet spending over 10 million dollars to

01:03:25.980 build an entire village designed to help kids attend school instead of being forced into child

01:03:31.740 labor the village includes a school community center library medical center farm playground

01:03:37.340 sports field and houses for the teachers themselves so it's a very very kind thing to do but why is

01:03:43.580 he engaging in this kindness in the first place isn't it just red nose day but for youtube and

01:03:49.520 you don't have to have lenny henry maybe maybe or maybe this is like when the left are critical of

01:03:58.380 this by saying listen this is basically just neo-colonialism in one form or another here's

01:04:04.940 the thing. When the left point that out, they're kind of right. That's the problem with all of

01:04:10.000 this. You can go through the documents and you can see all of the things that they're doing

01:04:13.120 and you can see about all of the impact that they're having. Here's a number of the case

01:04:16.780 studies that we have. And you can see down at the bottom, who are they partnered with?

01:04:21.220 The Rockefeller Foundation. What is the Rockefeller Foundation? Essentially an unofficial branch of

01:04:27.340 the CIA. You don't get to go into Africa and the playground of foreign despots and the playground 0.97

01:04:35.520 of American foreign policy, like South America and like Sub-Saharan Africa, and do all of these

01:04:41.200 charitable works without having the go-ahead from people who are very, very important. You don't

01:04:46.800 want to be disrupting whatever geopolitical moves are being made in those parts of the world,

01:04:52.700 which is why you get pictures like this of Jimmy, that's his name, Jimmy Donaldson,

01:04:58.980 meeting up with Gordon Brown.

01:05:01.800 He knows people in very high places.

01:05:04.420 This is a former prime minister of the UK.

01:05:06.260 I wouldn't be shocked if that there's some dealings going on with the Tony Blair Institute behind all the scenes as well.

01:05:11.280 But do you know the actual reason why he built this village in Ghana?

01:05:16.920 It's part of his Ghana initiative,

01:05:19.140 which is that for one of his private companies feastables where he produces food they make

01:05:25.820 chocolate ghana is where they source the chocolate the cocoa that they use for the chocolate and so

01:05:32.780 he has an initiative to try to reduce child labor and child slavery in ghana as part of his ghana

01:05:40.240 initiative so that he can be seen to be giving back while getting the cocoa from ghana that's

01:05:46.640 literally what the british did you get the you get the actual resources you get the raw materials

01:05:54.160 and then you bring them over from the people and then you turn them into a manufactured product

01:06:00.360 and you sell the product and you get the profits from it while doing missionary and charitable work

01:06:05.660 back there so that you can say we're not just exploiting you so that picture earlier where the

01:06:10.280 guy's in the sling and he's like i'm getting you life-saving operations like now get back to work

01:06:13.560 it's quite impressive how he has just recreated british colonialism from first principles because

01:06:23.340 what was british colonialism at first it was it was a private enterprise signed off by the

01:06:29.180 government we want to go over here and make some money and get some raw like raw materials and

01:06:34.020 resources off these people the british government says well here's your license go ahead and now

01:06:40.000 he's doing exactly that with sign-off from the rockefeller foundation and gordon brown it if that

01:06:46.860 even is him by the way it's the same face as the thumbnails i'm like has he just been photoshopped

01:06:51.020 into that cardboard cut out of them i like to think that he's had some kind of surgery done

01:06:55.220 which means that his face is stuck like that permanently that's that's the he can only pull

01:07:00.500 thumbnail faces from now on that is the curse of mr beast so what i'm essentially saying is that as

01:07:06.880 well as being a private enterprise, Mr. Beast, after USAID has been massively scaled back,

01:07:13.100 is essentially serving as a private face of US foreign policy. He's an extension of US soft power

01:07:21.560 being projected out into the world, except now instead of the US government under Trump being

01:07:27.200 able to say, we're doing that ourselves, now it's look at what amazing philanthropists our

01:07:33.060 private citizens are

01:07:34.460 otherwise I've just realised

01:07:35.520 maybe a bit late

01:07:36.120 but that is a perfect

01:07:37.340 Mr Beast video

01:07:38.140 I reinvented clonialism

01:07:39.600 from first place

01:07:40.400 what it's just him

01:07:44.040 like waving them

01:07:45.020 onto the ships

01:07:45.840 come on guys

01:07:48.180 it's not going to pick itself

01:07:49.500 oh dear

01:07:50.580 oh dear

01:07:51.460 and there are the

01:07:52.660 there are also

01:07:54.360 the criticisms

01:07:55.060 that comes from all of this

01:07:56.420 and people saying

01:07:57.160 that this is entirely

01:07:58.020 self-interested

01:07:58.940 and I will say

01:08:00.080 obviously reducing

01:08:01.860 the amount of child

01:08:02.840 labour, reducing the amount of slavery in the world on the face of it is a good thing. Whether

01:08:08.780 or not it's being done for cynical reasons, if it results in positive outcomes, then you can say,

01:08:14.480 you know what, two thumbs up, you did a great job. But people are very critical saying, well,

01:08:19.220 because this may be being done for cynical reasons, when you do things like build these

01:08:26.900 wells, are they being maintained? That is a question that people are asking, and people like

01:08:31.740 I hypocrite made the mistake of alleging that they simply weren't without proof and as you can see

01:08:37.320 this was deleted because last year Mr Beach responded saying when pages spread straight up 0.81

01:08:42.780 lies like this with zero proof the wells are still operational should I sue them so over people

01:08:47.720 tearing down my name for some clout it's so effing annoying so he got quite litigious over this 0.90

01:08:53.140 I hypocrite took it down to avoid being sued but that still leaves the question like what we get 0.58

01:08:59.700 on our side is we see a YouTube video of you doing this how do we know that it's still being 0.86

01:09:05.080 maintained well he had an answer for that as well where in August of last year he said people

01:09:09.460 desperate for ad revenue have falsely claimed that the 100 wells I built for people in need don't

01:09:14.180 work anymore with zero proof so I sent someone to every single well to get video proof of them all

01:09:19.320 still working over a year checkmate liars here's proof with a link to a page and then he immediately

01:09:25.260 responds with site might just crash because of all the clicks so if it's down here so if it's

01:09:30.500 down here's basically what it looks like just 100 videos of all 100 wells that you can watch and

01:09:35.720 you know you can click through it and you can see there's the wells and the problem is you would

01:09:41.200 expect this page to still be up right and you would expect it to be giving last check-in on

01:09:46.220 these videos with june 20th 2025 you'd expect june of 2026 there to be an update on this page right

01:09:51.920 because it still definitely is on the website, right?

01:09:54.680 I went and followed the link.

01:09:56.340 It's not there.

01:09:59.180 Doesn't mean the wells aren't still there.

01:10:00.660 Doesn't mean the wells aren't still there,

01:10:02.260 but it does mean...

01:10:03.260 And you can go and you can track down

01:10:05.020 the original page on Archive,

01:10:07.300 and it's just basically screenshots now.

01:10:09.760 You can't actually double-check any of this,

01:10:11.900 and it's not been updated.

01:10:13.800 But it does mean that he was happy enough

01:10:15.880 to update all of this and put all of this there

01:10:18.580 to assuage the...

01:10:20.000 to put off the criticism that he was engaging at the time. I've looked all through the website and

01:10:24.780 can't find it anywhere. Maybe I'm too stupid to find it. I'd say if you're still trying to present 0.99

01:10:28.840 the good publicity in the face of this criticism, it's important to maintain such things. Does not

01:10:35.420 mean the wells aren't still there, but this is something that you really want to maintain

01:10:39.660 and keep updated on your website. Although I don't doubt that they are very sustainable. I mean,

01:10:44.840 they're basically an arm of the US government at this point, after all. So they're definitely

01:10:49.380 still going out there and doing these things. But that's when we go on to the right-wing

01:10:53.840 criticism of what Mr. Beast does, which is what makes so many people repulsed by Mr. Beast and

01:11:00.540 his so-called charitable acts. No concern for doing good things, only concerned with the

01:11:04.500 appearance of doing good things. Personification of modern philanthropy. Instead of helping out

01:11:08.860 his own people, he does what he thinks looks better on paper, with people pointing out that

01:11:13.680 his original town that he comes from, Greenville, North Carolina, has an almost 25% poverty rate.

01:11:19.380 and saying, why aren't you doing more for that?

01:11:21.980 The problem being that actually he has made

01:11:23.980 a number of statements and proved

01:11:25.280 that he does actually do things for his local community.

01:11:28.520 So this is a very difficult bit of criticism

01:11:31.180 to throw at him when if you, you know,

01:11:33.700 in preparation for this, this is why I said,

01:11:36.000 I'm not gonna be too cynical about it.

01:11:38.120 If you watch any of these videos, like stuff like this,

01:11:40.680 life-saving clinics around the world,

01:11:43.000 about two or three of the five that he builds

01:11:45.480 do actually get put in difficult areas to live in,

01:11:48.560 in america that don't get access to this sort of stuff so it's not just a global perspective that

01:11:53.860 he's taking on it he is also actually helping people in america as well so i've got to give

01:11:58.280 him some credit for that right you've got you've got to give him credit he's probably just doing

01:12:01.880 his best and i can understand i mean to be fair to steal money yeah yeah he's just going well i've

01:12:06.200 got all this money now i'll try and do something good and if you do that everyone's always going

01:12:09.300 to say what about all the other things you're not doing that's what the internet's like yes he even

01:12:13.440 is doing some of them so and if and if you're trying to do something like that across the world

01:12:17.000 then of course you are going to have to end up being basically part of the foreign policy establishment

01:12:23.460 in one way or another as well.

01:12:27.300 And, oh yeah, sorry, I left that one in there by accident.

01:12:31.920 But the thing is, going back to the white man's burden,

01:12:34.940 the question is, well, there is also the question of why isn't he directing all of it into America then? 0.91

01:12:42.300 Why is it that since the scramble for Africa and before, ever since we had contact with a dark 0.60

01:12:49.100 continent, that white Europeans have essentially taken it as their lifelong, their civilizational 0.55

01:12:56.580 mission to save all of the rest of the world and take on the white man's burden, to pull people up

01:13:02.120 from savagery into civilization? That's a question that I think is beyond the scope of this. But

01:13:08.420 Let's look at some of the examples of what happened last time we did it, because really there are two routes that you can go down with this,

01:13:17.640 which is that you end up actually helping the local people, and due to their cultural practices, they end up having a population explosion,

01:13:27.480 which then ends up overwhelming the resources they have access to again, and then you either have a massive population collapse,

01:13:35.060 and they all move north up to Europe.

01:13:40.540 Or you have what happens with something like Live Aid.

01:13:44.200 So everybody remembers Live Aid, right?

01:13:46.000 Nick, you were alive during...

01:13:47.320 You performed at Live Aid, didn't you?

01:13:49.180 It's the little quick medley.

01:13:51.180 Yes, I remember Live Aid,

01:13:52.240 even though I would have been very young then.

01:13:54.060 I think you're this one, aren't you?

01:13:55.540 Is that not you?

01:13:56.680 No, that's the candidate for Hoban.

01:14:00.840 We saw him earlier.

01:14:02.480 But yeah, I remember Live Aid was massive,

01:14:04.200 even though surely I was too young to you'd think to remember it but I it was massive it wasn't just

01:14:09.220 live it kind of went on and on Geldof was just he was ubiquitous during my childhood it was a

01:14:13.540 massive thing yeah so they they've raised over 150 million dollars for starving people in Ethiopia

01:14:19.760 well what happens you know it was quite a colonial side because it was like do they know it's

01:14:23.840 Christmas time at all it was a little bit like come on guys let's get them on board with Christmas

01:14:28.040 yeah they probably don't get worse for completely Bob Geldos like well we need obviously we need

01:14:33.820 them to be good God-fearing Christians first and foremost but what happens when you do these sorts

01:14:38.920 of things do you get obviously the people who are directly impacted by it are going to have some

01:14:44.460 level of you know appreciation for it but in terms of like the global memory of such things

01:14:51.740 what actually happens with the global spokespeople of these countries that you go and you send 150

01:14:57.620 million dollars to. Well, they go, thanks, but no thanks. That's evil because you're white people

01:15:04.940 doing this. If you're white people doing philanthropy in Africa, what that actually is 1.00

01:15:09.760 to these sorts of spokespeople for the global community, you could say, is that you could say,

01:15:16.220 well, actually, this is just colonialism. You're being very patronizing to us. What we actually

01:15:21.460 want instead is gibs and once we get our gibs then you just leave us alone and then presumably all 1.00

01:15:28.360 of the africans in the west move back to africa and then our our societies collapse obviously 1.00

01:15:34.160 because they built them in the first place and then they erect wakanda there what's the number 1.00

01:15:38.440 that they're putting on that right now what's the figure for global reparations doesn't end

01:15:42.200 to begin with a t a trillion well we're lucky it doesn't even go higher consider this number

01:15:48.940 97 trillion dollars according to the guardian that's an extremely conservative estimate

01:15:56.100 that's the conservative number of all of the unpaid labor extracted from africans in north

01:16:02.500 american colonies so not even everywhere else in the world just the north american colonies between

01:16:07.700 1619 and 1865 um which is i believe about a quarter of global gdp i think the indian number

01:16:18.360 is a bit more silly isn't it something like 45 trillion or dollars i don't know which they

01:16:23.600 denominate it in it would have been pounds so even when you do that you get people saying well you

01:16:29.560 shouldn't have actually done live aid you shouldn't have actually done well building you should have

01:16:33.700 just given us a quarter of all of the money circulating the planet right now and then we 0.95

01:16:40.280 will build wakanda and we will never have to deal with the evil white devil ever again there's gonna 0.65

01:16:45.480 be one bloke with a load of questionable medals on his uniform who has 97 trillion dollars that's 0.56

01:16:51.200 what's gonna happen yeah that's what happens remember that remember that old warlord that

01:16:54.580 they said was the richest man in the world and had all of the gold in the world you're gonna end up

01:16:57.860 with that guy and here's a guardian article from two years ago live aid led to the patronizing save

01:17:03.620 africa industry we don't need a musical about it because there was a musical done about live aid

01:17:07.940 a couple of years ago so you can do all of this you can give to the world you can try and be a

01:17:14.560 philanthropist and you can try and take on the white man's burden. Except as Rudyard Kipling was

01:17:19.440 pointing out back in this poem over a hundred years ago, you will be hated for it. They will

01:17:25.560 resent you for it in one way or another. And people always refer to the white man's burden.

01:17:30.580 I always think that there is a deep satire and cynicism in this, because it's literally saying, 0.92

01:17:36.860 send the best people you have to kill themselves for the sake of your captives who will hate you. 0.99

01:17:42.640 Maybe that's a part of Christian charity, I just think it sounds like being a complete sucker 0.99

01:17:47.480 when you get nothing in return, you don't even really end up getting gratitude in the end and 0.84

01:17:53.080 if you don't end up with the population explosion then collapse or mass migration movements when

01:17:58.600 you massively inflate the population of these places, well what do you end up with at the end

01:18:04.600 of Live Aid? Well people have known about this since 1986, is it turns out that Live Aid, all of

01:18:09.900 that money that they raised was given over to the warlord dictator of Ethiopia at the time.

01:18:17.600 The reason that there was a famine in Ethiopia being that as well as normal natural constraints

01:18:22.460 on food production, the warlord was also just bombing and burning farms everywhere.

01:18:28.360 And then you just give it to him and he goes, thank you very much, Mr. Geldof. I'll put it to

01:18:33.620 good use. And then takes all of the grain that's still in the country and all of that money and

01:18:38.560 buys arms from russia to ethnically cleanse ethiopia which is what happened yeah that's what

01:18:44.300 i was saying i had a sort of broad parody of that but i basically nailed it that's what happens

01:18:48.600 other things happen i think it was i think it was rhodesia i was reading about where

01:18:51.820 you know they tried to help out uh people there but they they had so many responsibilities to

01:18:59.140 family that if they ever got like a solid job in the civil service whatever it was what it was

01:19:04.120 called they had to just give up so much money then endless sort of slew of family members coming

01:19:09.520 forward saying you have responsibilities and the way that family the tribal structures over there

01:19:13.400 it doesn't work anyway so you can't actually save money and project into the future because

01:19:18.320 the tribal structures that exist in the present are that well if you've got any amount of money

01:19:22.900 you owe it to everybody else yeah so it is a different model so you almost do just have to

01:19:26.940 let people get on with it you either let people get on with it or if mr beast really wants to 0.86

01:19:31.260 actually make a change in the world and help africans then you're going to have to actually 0.93

01:19:35.420 just do colonialism that's the if you want africa to be pulled out of savagery into civilization 0.96

01:19:41.280 you just need to what you're doing here where you're getting the raw resources and building 0.90

01:19:46.480 little towns you need to go so much further than that you need to get the rockefellas you need to

01:19:50.660 get gordon brown you need to get tony blair the dark lord on the phone and you need to say baby

01:19:55.620 we're getting the band back together that's the only way if that's what you want to do in the

01:20:01.040 first place and with that i'll get into the rumble rants and we can we can uh all hit the road um

01:20:08.180 here we go thank you random name say no more i'm off to the trenches as we act

01:20:14.240 so well well yeah i suppose so hapsification southern plantation accident well i need slaves

01:20:21.560 sir for who will pick the chocolate and uh what else um random name again everyone always says

01:20:28.080 africans are poor and starving but never why could it have something to do with them

01:20:31.280 no i can't read the rest of that thank you very much for your donation anyway random name

01:20:36.120 and uh do we have any video chats no let's go through the video comments uh on the website in

01:20:44.320 that case down here oh you mean sorry the the comment yeah yeah got him i'll start with the

01:20:49.660 with mine on the old uh poll so zesty king if reform can't even beat the tories then why do

01:20:55.580 they even exist zia yusuf is advertising jobs on his ex account that have no reason to exist given

01:21:00.160 the party's dire recent performances something in that um maria manzi is nick in inverted

01:21:05.860 commas strangely the only it is actually me the only tactical voting that should take place is

01:21:10.060 to vote for an mp that will honestly represent the seat and its constituents fact chance of that

01:21:14.200 happening of course callum get the shires on board i'm still waiting for reply from local branch to

01:21:18.780 tell me if it exists or not we in the southwest want to boot out the liberal democrats who hoover

01:21:23.280 up the loss of the shires by the conservatives local is king uh completely but there's branches

01:21:28.220 still being set up all over the country so um i think we've got it's like 400 or so out of

01:21:34.620 all of the constituency so it's an ongoing process yes i'm sure it's a tough job henry

01:21:38.780 ashman it's not a real labour government without rolling blackouts and a power shortage to be fair

01:21:42.980 my house came with solar panels i'll be investing in big batteries with several day supply and a

01:21:47.100 transfer switch to cut myself off from the grid when it inevitably happens again that's a random

01:21:51.800 name i feel like if the rumors are true and burnham calls a general election sometime soon

01:21:55.160 reform will have a serious chance however the longer it takes for us to have a general election

01:21:58.500 the more reform will disintegrate the future is restores it turns out we do actually have

01:22:03.040 five video comments i like the look of his first one oh never mind there's a picture of a cat on

01:22:12.880 I have a dream that Mr. Beast will go, I'm sorry.

01:22:16.560 I have a dream that one day Democrats will stop acting like retards. 0.99

01:22:26.140 That one day they'll stop letting criminals into our country just so they can steal elections with their ballots. 1.00

01:22:34.340 that they finally realise there are only two genders 0.99

01:22:39.820 and that men can never get pregnant.

01:22:46.280 I saw that a few weeks ago or something.

01:22:47.980 Yeah, that was the real speech.

01:22:49.800 Well, that they've been censoring from us the whole time.

01:22:53.780 Sadly, I have no doubt that if MLK was somehow still alive,

01:22:58.040 that he would be fully on board with the current Democrat policy platform.

01:23:04.340 Here we are on the Dutch Apple cruise.

01:23:09.420 Here in a lovely hall of New York.

01:23:13.360 What?

01:23:15.360 Quite nice.

01:23:16.460 Looks good.

01:23:26.340 Cruising on the Hudson River.

01:23:30.340 One of Mr. Beast's boats for a minute.

01:23:32.840 It's going in traffic.

01:23:33.620 It is.

01:23:34.340 look upon this land every inch of it is mine the people mine their children mine

01:23:41.700 something i believe needs to be said more often is that the fact that the millennials have had

01:23:48.180 a culture i mean we all blame the booms rightfully for a lot of stuff they do but no one seems to

01:23:54.140 understand that the millennials also have a large bill to pay for everyone i mean they were the main 0.53

01:24:03.240 soldiers of the sjw's they were the ones who basically destroyed culture i mean if anyone 0.95

01:24:11.200 deserves a whacking it's them now i don't know if you've all seen it but like some of the some 1.00

01:24:17.440 of the elder millennials who are part of the the first wave of big chungus sorry quirk chungus 0.84

01:24:22.620 are already becoming boomers did you see the screenshot of the latest lindsey ellis aka 1.00

01:24:29.160 nostalgia chick video uh where she's you know she's like an anti-capitalist warrior and her 0.64

01:24:35.360 latest video was i went on five cruises to see which was the least evil well i have to make i

01:24:42.340 mean i have to stand up for the millennials because i never do this when people say boomers

01:24:45.880 the boomers get very very angry i never get angry when people slam millennials i just go oh yeah

01:24:49.380 they mean the woke ones because i actually am a millennial but there is that cut off someone said

01:24:52.660 we need to cut off at 1990 it might be a bit earlier but the zennials are a very different

01:24:57.100 breed, and they go 77 to... 1.00

01:24:58.980 Xenials surely need to be a lot earlier than 0.96

01:25:01.060 1990. Xenials are 77 to 83 0.65

01:25:03.140 from memory, and so I'm

01:25:05.320 pure Xenial, Carl's Xenial,

01:25:07.160 and others, Dan, and it's... You're not making

01:25:09.120 a great case for them. The Xenials are great 1.00

01:25:11.060 because they have more Gen X in mentality. 1.00

01:25:13.080 So when people say millennials are woken idiots, it's the younger 1.00

01:25:15.240 millennials. They are bad. But let's just 1.00

01:25:17.240 spare a thought for the elder millennials, which

01:25:19.020 are the best generation,

01:25:21.460 some say. Like Lindsay Ellis.

01:25:23.260 Many people. Disagree. But they're very different.

01:25:25.140 so many people say millennials

01:25:25.940 but I don't really

01:25:26.560 take it really personally

01:25:27.240 the boomers take it so personally

01:25:28.400 not all boomers

01:25:29.380 but I don't do that

01:25:30.200 I just suddenly realize

01:25:30.900 I never do that

01:25:31.760 we always say

01:25:33.460 the boomer mentality

01:25:34.480 is not something

01:25:35.360 that is just strictly

01:25:36.560 for the boomers

01:25:37.420 it's a cross-generational thing

01:25:39.000 at this point

01:25:39.580 hence why Lindsay Ellis 0.71

01:25:41.020 is like 1.00

01:25:41.360 I'm fighting the system

01:25:42.600 while she's sipping a mojito

01:25:44.120 on the fourth cruise

01:25:45.780 that she's taken that year

01:25:47.040 and like sometimes 1.00

01:25:47.920 I think the zoomers

01:25:48.720 are sort of dead

01:25:49.260 behind your eyes

01:25:49.840 non-people

01:25:50.460 then I remember like

01:25:51.080 oh guys

01:25:51.620 I've noticed them all right

01:25:52.440 it's not at all

01:25:54.560 Don't lump me in with Callum

01:25:56.040 Not all but most

01:25:58.680 Not all

01:26:00.580 Some good people

01:26:01.380 Some of them I imagine are good people

01:26:03.680 No I'm joking

01:26:04.500 We were having this discussion when we first came

01:26:07.900 I didn't recognise you

01:26:09.440 Some of them I imagine are good people

01:26:11.460 We're all just eager to throw each other under the bus

01:26:15.200 Here we go next one

01:26:16.060 Man I can't believe you guys

01:26:18.340 You had a whole segment about cutting down trees

01:26:21.160 And didn't bring up tree beard

01:26:23.620 so as you can see doing pretty well with the drawings and because i've done such a good job

01:26:30.040 i rewarded myself and perked some coloring tools and tried some stuff very good some things work

01:26:37.320 better than others but now you know you're learning by trying oh frankenstein very good

01:26:42.700 but i do think i mentioned the ents i definitely mentioned tolkien when i and i meant the ents

01:26:46.740 so i don't i think i literally said the word tree bit but i'm just defending my

01:26:50.420 defending your honor yes but the the illustrations are looking great sophie

01:26:55.120 so here we are in upstate new york again enjoying a beautiful sunrise here in the early morning

01:27:03.320 yes wandering through the local shower here of course is sacro

01:27:10.500 and we're just out enjoying a short walk first thing in the morning

01:27:16.180 so it's going to be a late evening for me today all right have a better one

01:27:24.080 wholesome very wholesome very nice was that the last one yeah that was the last one right we've

01:27:30.600 got a bit enough time for a couple of uh comments from your segment and my segment if you want to

01:27:36.600 just go through a couple um go on we'll have a look uh from miriam redden 2010 how many activists

01:27:43.540 how many of the actors chasing the story are actually from Holmes and Pancras

01:27:47.260 probably not a lot or were transported by government actors of actors groups to

01:27:52.600 be fair it was only about 30 or so of these stand up to racism lot so I

01:27:58.360 wouldn't wager it would be a lot of them but they do tend to bust around their

01:28:01.600 activists you know happened when we're protesting and I think they'd get them

01:28:05.200 here there and everywhere Jimbo G says assuming there is no snap election in

01:28:09.700 three years a long time on the regime not a farage guy but he simply may may just have wait no who

01:28:16.800 knows he may just have to wait yeah who knows what they will try in that time and it's also

01:28:21.680 pointed out down here that you know the afd wasn't polling great last year but has come across with

01:28:27.640 you know like they've smashed it yeah i mean the afd's been about for 14 years as well you know

01:28:32.200 you're not going to win a political revolution and well this is what i was talking about with

01:28:36.100 all polls being push polls in one form or another. It might just be that they want to present the

01:28:40.940 perception that Farage has done right now so that they can get back to business as usual with the

01:28:45.720 Tories. We'll see as time progresses. Go through a couple on mine as well. So if you live, he doesn't

01:28:51.140 direct it all to America because that wouldn't get nearly as many clicks. Obviously this is not

01:28:54.520 rocket science. Although it amuses me that this is opposite Black Panther where that Wakanda lady 1.00

01:29:00.280 decides to help poor black people, not by trying to develop the rest of Africa where she's from, 0.71

01:29:05.420 but building a community center in Chicago. Hey man, youth centers, they'll change the world.

01:29:10.640 Jimbo G, there's zero excuse for Africa to not pull itself up at the mud in 2026. Now they have 1.00

01:29:15.860 smartphones. Yes. Courtesy of the Tony Blair Institute. Random name. In other words, this

01:29:20.640 Mr. Beast segment is just another example of how the more things change, the more they stay the

01:29:24.800 same. Yes, there is only one Africa policy. There will only ever be one Africa policy. 0.83

01:29:29.900 And it is just some form of colonialism in one way or another. And just one more 0.92

01:29:34.480 Altric Dorr in the Rumble Rant says millennials are 50-50

01:29:37.720 it's just the old loud SGW

01:29:39.380 set everyone's perspective

01:29:41.400 you know what

01:29:42.420 if you guys want to cope 1.00

01:29:44.160 if you millennials just want to cope that's fine by me 1.00

01:29:47.060 I'm very objective about it 1.00

01:29:48.460 I can tell, I can tell

01:29:50.300 anyway with that that's all we've got time for

01:29:52.980 for all of the gold tier subscribers

01:29:54.640 join us in half an hour for the gold tier zoom call

01:29:57.000 to everybody else please enjoy your weekend

01:29:59.200 and have a great day

01:30:00.320 Nick, Callum, thanks for coming on

01:30:02.160 thank you

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - September 25, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1514

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