The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters. Today is Monday the 6th of June and

00:00:14.680 this is episode 933. It's the 10th. It's the 10th of June. Sorry, I made that.

00:00:21.320 Stelios is just defining what the date is today. Stelios chooses what day we're on.

00:00:26.020 I want it to be the 6th of June. He wants summer to never end. He's very benevolent.

00:00:30.840 I'm your host Stelios. You know what this means. The table shall be banged. And I'm joined by Josh.

00:00:36.300 Hello. And Dan. Hello. Right. Today we are going to discuss how reform wins,

00:00:42.260 how the European right is rising and how goblins, you heard correctly,

00:00:47.640 goblins are reportedly terrorizing people in Zimbabwe. That's right.

00:00:52.140 So, should we begin, Dan? Yes. Let's talk about what it's going to take for reform to win,

00:00:57.240 because this is starting to get a little bit interesting now. This was by far the most

00:01:01.800 boring election of my lifetime up until about a week ago, and it is now the most interesting

00:01:06.980 election of my lifetime. So, first thing to say is, by all means, if you haven't ordered yet,

00:01:13.660 we are closing the pre-order period for the magazine this week. So, if you want to get a

00:01:18.860 first edition, head over to Low Diseases.com and do that now. Right. Now, if you want to play along

00:01:23.740 at home, you want to go to this website, Electoral Calculus, where basically you can sort of plug in

00:01:31.100 whatever numbers you like, and you can find out what's going to happen. But we're going to be

00:01:34.740 talking about some of this. So, I'll give you an opportunity to load that up if you wanted to do

00:01:39.040 that. Let's start off with a little bit of poll tracking, which the Telegraph have helpfully

00:01:43.760 provided for us here. So, we can just sort of get a sense of the scale of how badly things are,

00:01:49.860 or how well things are going. But badly, of course, if you are conservative. So, this is the general

00:01:54.940 sort of poll trackers. Now, as you can see, both the two main parties, and it was really only the

00:02:00.080 two main parties there, were sort of level pegging before we decided to lock down the world over a

00:02:07.600 scare. Is this not June 2021, after the lockdowns? Yeah, well, that's as far as it goes back. But

00:02:14.600 basically, they had been level pegging until then. And as you can see, the fear campaign,

00:02:19.340 which the Tories decided to lean into, gave them that sort of short-term bump. But by,

00:02:25.000 you know, what's this? This is end of 21. People were getting a bit fed up with it.

00:02:30.860 You know, the fear-mongering was no longer working. And basically, since then,

00:02:35.080 the Tories have been well behind. And it's only accelerated ever since then. And you've got

00:02:41.060 this sort of irredeemable gap in the middle. A couple of things I will also point out on the

00:02:46.040 polling tracking. That's people's views on immigration. Any chance we can get this in

00:02:52.260 not dark mode? Because we can't see the key now. But the... There we go. So, as you can see,

00:03:00.980 people who think that immigration is doing damage to the UK, I mean, overall, it is the view now.

00:03:11.060 Immigration has become the main issue for this election. Strongly amongst Tory voters. Only

00:03:16.640 Labour voters still think that immigration is a good thing. Not sure why. Because they're

00:03:21.960 immigrants, probably. I mean... Well, that could be it. I mean, immigrants largely vote Labour.

00:03:27.340 In fact, the vast majority of immigrant groups vote Labour for at least the first generation,

00:03:34.300 right? You know, in Muslim communities, it's like 99% Labour.

00:03:40.920 Although I would say, easily, the most anti-immigration and probably racist people I know

00:03:45.900 are people who are first-generation immigrants who came here sort of 20, 30 years ago.

00:03:49.620 They like kicking the ladder out underneath them, don't they? It's funny, isn't it?

00:03:52.860 Yes. So, immigration is the major issue. Right. Now, let's look at polling by age because it's

00:03:58.920 worth making this point as well. So, Labour are dominant amongst the younger people, the sort of

00:04:03.520 18 to 24s. I mean, there's just a sort of unassailable gap there. If you go into the 25 by 49s,

00:04:11.380 these people were somewhat affected by the fear period that we had around here and it sort of

00:04:16.460 improved the Tory's chances. You can see why they lent in to project COVID fear so heavily,

00:04:21.860 but it never sort of permeated through to an actual commanding position. 50 to 60, you know,

00:04:29.060 they actually had a lead amongst these people during the project COVID fear, although that

00:04:33.760 has since dropped away. But the defining feature of the Tory strategy is this, if you look at the

00:04:38.800 over 65s. Now, for the over 65, that's basically all they've got. It's 65-year-olds. So, I mean,

00:04:46.760 that is why you're seeing what looks to be like completely insane Tory messaging around this

00:04:54.720 election, which is, you know, let's do conscription. Let's send the young people off to fight in that

00:05:00.580 Ukraine war that you've been sitting there watching on the news every night.

00:05:03.660 Well, it's not a serious policy proposal, is it? It's just sort of boomer bait.

00:05:08.060 Exactly. It's the group you love so much. And talking about in Brokonomics.

00:05:17.020 Well, it may have come up in Brokonomics once or twice, but, you know, it's, you know, the

00:05:22.220 conscription policy, which to be fair, isn't mainly conscriptionism. I mean, mainly it's just

00:05:27.280 free workers for the NHS. So it's...

00:05:30.360 State slavery, yeah.

00:05:31.120 Yeah, and delivering things to old people. Now, that policy, it's something like two-thirds

00:05:36.280 don't like it, but the third that do like it are all 65-plus.

00:05:41.980 That's as explicit as you can possibly get of the Tories admitting, we've given up on

00:05:47.880 the young in the middle age, we're just going for the old because at least we know they're

00:05:51.260 likely to vote for us.

00:05:52.720 Well, I think it's worse than that. I think what they're doing is effectively torching their

00:05:57.020 long-term viability as a party in order to try and lock up to stop that bleed that you're

00:06:03.540 seeing there in the only group that still votes for them, which is the over 65s. Because

00:06:07.260 not only have you got conscription, which, like I say, is mainly just slave labour for

00:06:10.880 the NHS and delivering things to old people, as if, you know, presumably they don't have

00:06:14.880 Amazon or something. But also there's, of course, the quad lock that they've now put

00:06:19.200 on pensions. Now, nobody under 65 is going to give that policy any credence whatsoever

00:06:25.180 because everybody under 65 understands perfectly well that they're not going to get a pension.

00:06:30.700 But the people who are 65 now, you know, you might stretch out for a few more years where

00:06:35.520 they're going to have their sort of quad lock pensions and their slave labour.

00:06:38.620 So, yeah, so that's basically why the Tory policy in this election campaign looks so mad.

00:06:45.000 It's because they're torching it just to shore up the over 65 vote.

00:06:49.600 Polling by country. I'm not sure London is a country. Maybe it should be, you know,

00:06:56.300 actually, let's statehood for London. Two-state solution. The rest of us in London. I quite

00:07:02.060 like that.

00:07:03.260 I can live with that.

00:07:04.260 Yeah. London, of course, you know, there's no meaningful reform presence there. Tories have

00:07:11.500 always done low there. The rest of the South, that's the only area where the Tories still

00:07:18.120 have a reasonable showing, even though it's behind. And as you can see, reform are shooting

00:07:23.620 up there. But in places like the North, again, you know, some growth. In fact, look, in the

00:07:29.300 North, reform are level pegging with the Tories now. Scotland, well, they've got that Scottish

00:07:36.080 National Party, which appears to be not particularly Scottish, not particularly national. It's not

00:07:43.180 even fun. It's like the scandal party at the minute. I mean, everything they do is going

00:07:49.680 wrong. All of their sort of foundational leaders have been kicked out of the party for various

00:07:58.180 reasons. Nicola Sturgeon's under investigation, I believe, for fraud, as is her husband.

00:08:04.840 And just think of how much she risked and for what reason. She sort of lost her possession

00:08:11.420 for the scandal that erupted after. I mean, that was the uproar. There were other reasons.

00:08:16.920 But you remember when, with the Isla Bryson affair.

00:08:20.180 I mean, she gets to spend more time with her cats or whatever it is that she's into. But

00:08:23.780 I mean, even there, look, the SNP have fallen behind Labour, which is quite remarkable.

00:08:30.600 I want to have a look at England as a whole, just for the fun. Oh, there you go. Yeah.

00:08:34.060 Strong showing there and reform are heading up to that sort of Tory level.

00:08:38.280 Well, the Tories are on decline, aren't they? So even amongst their sort of chosen demographic,

00:08:43.300 which is, you know, pensioners, they're still going down and losing people to reform. So even

00:08:49.200 though they've cornered this demographic and sort of scorned everyone else, which isn't going to help

00:08:55.840 them in the long term, as you say, even amongst that target constituency, they're still going down.

00:09:02.140 Yes.

00:09:02.460 So the damage is being done as time goes on.

00:09:04.540 The policy is to try and shore them up. Interestingly, we don't have a huge difference

00:09:08.420 between the sexes because you often see those sort of charts of in the US of how the Democrat

00:09:13.480 vote is heavily female skewed. There's a bit of that going on, but that seems to be less of an issue

00:09:18.640 here, which is broadly the same pitch. Although reform does much better with men than it does with

00:09:26.000 women. Women tend to like seeing lots of fighting age males being shipped over or something or whatever

00:09:31.340 it is. But yes, it's not quite as strong on that. Brexit vote, you can probably work out for

00:09:37.580 yourself. Let's have a look at how it's held up since the last election. And look at that. Tories

00:09:42.600 have just bled away support. So, I mean, they've lost a full half of their support from the people

00:09:47.980 who voted for them last time. And some of them are going to Labour, but pretty much they're all going

00:09:55.040 to reform. So primarily you would say that the vote in the upcoming elections is primarily a

00:10:02.540 non-conservative vote. An anti-Tory rather than a pro- Labour.

00:10:06.300 Let's look at Labour to address that point. They haven't gone anywhere. It's the same votes yet.

00:10:10.680 Labour are not getting more popular. The Tories are just hemorrhaging support.

00:10:15.660 That is the lesson from this election, really, is that it's not that Labour are particularly good

00:10:19.880 or particularly resonating with people. It's just that the Tories are monumentally bad.

00:10:27.740 Yes. And I blame David Cameron for this because he came in and he wanted to modernise the Tory

00:10:33.660 party. And what do we mean by modernise? Basically, he's get rid of all the white men who believe

00:10:38.140 in conservatism. Just get rid of them, sideline them, push them out.

00:10:42.120 He was sort of almost a Blairite. I think it's fair to say he was basically Blair wearing a blue rosette.

00:10:49.180 Yeah. I mean, he called himself the heir to Blair. He's very much a Blairite. And all the

00:10:54.380 circular people, and that was when I was still involved in the party, all the circular people

00:10:57.720 around him, they loved Tony Blair. They were obsessed with him. They talked about him all

00:11:03.120 the time. It's like, how can we emulate him? How can we become like him? And there was only a few

00:11:06.900 of us sort of involved back then who were saying, by the time of 2010, we were saying, no, no, no,

00:11:11.660 this is the time to go back to proper conservatism. They're sick of Labour. This is your moment.

00:11:15.960 And when obviously I was supporting David Davis, but the majority decided to go with David Cameron

00:11:22.080 and we got this modernisation. So what that meant was parachuting candidates that he wanted

00:11:28.700 into the safest seats, which makes it quite interesting to when you come to what the Tory

00:11:33.620 party is going to look like after the election. So I put this thread up. So there's going to be a

00:11:39.900 number of my threads on here, but they're so good. That's why I needed to share them with you.

00:11:43.780 Um, well, I basically just say, look, based on the latest polling that we've had, the polling

00:11:48.280 after reform came out, Rishi Sunak does get back in, but his majority is slashed from 27,000

00:11:55.620 to about 2000. That's pretty close, isn't it? Which is, well, this is the thing. I mean,

00:12:00.220 I'll show you this, but even if they get 55 seats here, all of them, all of them are super

00:12:05.820 marginal. So Rishi Sunak stays in. Um, and Nadim Zahari, now he's stepping down, but if

00:12:14.840 he wasn't stepping down, he, he should win his seat. Um, because he's, he's, he's got

00:12:20.500 one of those nice safe seats. Priti Patel, um, she'll probably come back in and she'll be

00:12:26.480 the, you know, a contender for the Tory leadership coming back in. Um, Suella Braverman, her seat

00:12:32.300 is a bit of a knife edge, Fairham. Um, Fairham is kind of Hampshire's Clackton. So if she

00:12:37.660 had flipped to a form, like I was sort of suggesting that she do, then she'd probably

00:12:42.040 have a much stronger chance, but for whatever reason, she wasn't accepted or, or wasn't

00:12:46.020 brave enough. Um, her seats are knife edge, but she might get back in and be another leadership,

00:12:50.100 um, contender. Um, who else stays in? Um, Nuss Ghani, um, will probably win Sussex World.

00:12:58.160 Um, Ran, Ranil Jowandran. Any, any help on that? Jayawardena. Jayawardena. So, so, so

00:13:07.620 Ranil Jowardena, um, you know, he, he'd be in and he'd have a four digit majority, majority

00:13:13.300 in the thousands. So that will give him a nice safe seat. But the Tories in what, 2019

00:13:18.520 were winning by 10,000, 20,000, sometimes even 30,000. These are, um, a couple of thousands.

00:13:26.820 So this is a very, very delicate. Well, this is my point. If you've got a majority

00:13:32.260 in four digits, your leadership contender on the other side of this. Uh, and the other

00:13:35.680 one I'll highlight here is, um, Sabit Bahati. So, so that is what the Tory party is going

00:13:43.340 to look like after the election. These are the people who hold their seats. Now let's

00:13:47.300 talk about who's going, um, gove. Now he's smart enough to step down before he gets kicked

00:13:51.720 out anyway, but he'd be gone. Um, globalist chancellor. Um, what was it? Oh, Jeremy Hunt.

00:14:00.440 He's going to be gone. Mm-hmm. Um, Oliver Dowden, deputy prime minister.

00:14:05.740 He was, uh, responsible for that online harms bill, which was absolutely horrendous. It

00:14:12.120 was just enhancing internet censorship. Yes. Yeah. I mean, Labour will do that more, of course,

00:14:17.860 but a subject for another time. Grant Snaps, um, one of the few that people actually know.

00:14:23.620 Um, he, he's going to be gone. Penny Morden, Portsmouth North. She can bug her off.

00:14:28.840 Don't get Bill Gates writing a forward for her next book. Um, I don't know who this guy

00:14:33.620 was, but apparently he's the Lord Chancellor, Alex Chalk. He's gone. Um, Mel Stride from

00:14:38.640 Work and Pensions will be cashing in his own pension early. Um, Gillian Keegan, the education

00:14:46.700 secretary, she's also gone. Now, this is remarkable for me because she, she stands for Chichester.

00:14:52.960 Mm-hmm. Chichester. I don't know if you've ever been there, but it's basically distilled

00:14:56.380 middle-class Toryism in a place. If you were to concentrate the juices of, of, of middle-class

00:15:02.840 Toryism and then just splash it liberally, Chichester would grow up. I mean, actually this,

00:15:07.740 this Ralph Lauren denim shirt is from House of Fraser in Chichester, which I bought, which I bought

00:15:13.780 when I was 17, 26 years ago, and I had no idea that the shirt was going to outlast

00:15:18.580 conservatism in Chichester.

00:15:20.400 Well, there we go.

00:15:21.500 Yeah. Um, Mark, Mark Harper, um, he's going to need his own transport, the transport

00:15:27.680 secretary, because he's going to be gone. Esther McVeigh, I kind of like Esther because

00:15:31.440 she pushed back at least a little bit on the Loch Ness, or lockdown madness.

00:15:36.260 The Loch Ness monster, yeah.

00:15:37.280 Yeah, but she, she's, she's gone as well. Um, Liz Truss, um, who, who, who is perhaps

00:15:43.660 most famous for briefly being prime minister and appearing on Conor's show. Um, she's going

00:15:47.860 to be gone.

00:15:48.820 In reverse order of importance, yeah.

00:15:50.820 Yes, yes, quite. Um, and Kemi Badenoch. Now her, her seat is a bit of a coin flip, but

00:15:56.560 I think she'd probably win it because she's going to get lots of support from Tory HQ. So

00:16:00.680 she's my favourite for Tory leader after the election. Now, regardless of the rights and

00:16:09.620 wrongs of it, I do think it's worth noting the optics of the Conservative Party primarily

00:16:16.760 being a Southeast Asian Heritage Party led by a black woman when immigration is the top

00:16:25.220 issue of the day and will continue to be for many years and it will be across Europe. Now,

00:16:29.920 whether that's right or wrong or not, I'm not passing comment on that. I'm just saying

00:16:33.100 that optically it might be a bit of an issue for the Tories.

00:16:37.580 Well, even operating within their own diversity paradigm, they've gone for the diversity of

00:16:45.160 London. That's the diversity that they want to, want Parliament to reflect, which isn't

00:16:49.380 actually the case in pretty much the rest of the UK. Maybe if you live in somewhere like

00:16:54.460 Birmingham or some of the northerly towns that have seen lots of mass immigration,

00:16:59.240 then maybe it's going to start looking like your high street. However, to the rest of

00:17:04.520 the UK, it doesn't look like that.

00:17:06.560 And the point that I want to make on this is, you know who understands this, go and have

00:17:10.640 a look at Keir Starmer's Twitter feed. And he's got lots of images there and just scroll

00:17:15.120 down his Twitter feed. And I'm telling you, it's just white British, white British, white

00:17:19.860 British, every picture, every video, it's just white British throughout. So he's not, he's

00:17:25.360 not overtly saying it, but he understands the mood of the country. And he's shifting

00:17:31.760 in that direction.

00:17:32.680 Well, you know, who's been whispering in his ear to do that, right?

00:17:35.680 You tell me.

00:17:37.240 A Mr. Anthony B. Liar, I think it was. Yeah. Tony Blair.

00:17:42.160 That's the one. So I think the Tories, you know, they're going to be knocked down to

00:17:46.560 maybe somewhere between 50 to 100 seats, maybe even lower, maybe even zero seats. But they

00:17:51.440 haven't, they have an optical issue with the fact that they've been through this modernization

00:17:56.260 and the safest seats are now in the hands of people who, like you say, are reflective

00:18:00.060 of London, perhaps not everywhere else.

00:18:02.660 That would be a massive change. And there is the obvious question of what would happen

00:18:07.000 in the next five years, because it seems to me that if we look at it a bit philosophically,

00:18:12.560 what we see now is the failure of the third way. So for instance, up until the nineties,

00:18:19.400 mid nineties, there was the dilemma between capitalism and communism. And then some people

00:18:25.280 started saying, no, we need to sort of mix them and have the third way. That's why a lot

00:18:29.440 of parties, especially Labour, and then afterwards Cameron, as you said, said he's the heir to Blair.

00:18:35.000 Yeah. And they seem to be doing, enacting the same policies as just, you know, with,

00:18:40.560 with, with breaks. So I don't know what Starmer is going to do now. Most probably he's going

00:18:48.060 to accelerate on what we're living.

00:18:51.560 I believe he will probably get down immigration because he, what he's primarily concerned with

00:18:56.000 is control of the public sector and, and he's, and he's getting his tendrils through that,

00:19:00.400 or at least, you know, you know, re-accelerating that sort of Blair Wright agenda. But I,

00:19:04.460 I think he probably will push back a bit on immigration because, you know, it's, it will

00:19:08.080 get him what he wants elsewhere.

00:19:09.300 But have you heard him talking about the demographic issue of England as being also

00:19:14.520 cultural and national? Because if he's not, then who is to say that, you know, a week or

00:19:22.180 a month after he gets elected, he's going to say, yeah, but we need to fill the GDP and

00:19:27.700 the demographic is merely an economic problem.

00:19:30.100 Yeah. I mean, I'm most certainly not advocating for labor here and I'm not, I'm just asking

00:19:34.940 you, I'm not trying to be, yeah, no, no, no, no, no, I, no, I get, I get your point, but

00:19:39.480 he at least understands the optics of this going into the election. I'll say, I'll say that

00:19:44.060 much. In fact, it's so bad for the Tories that I, again, I put this out. If you go to

00:19:49.820 the betting markets and you believe that Tories are only going to lose a hundred seats, which

00:19:54.080 would be a really bad election in itself. If you believe that, then you can have this

00:19:57.820 six bed, 3,800 square foot house for only 9,231 pounds. The betting market will give

00:20:08.040 you the odds to turn that into the house.

00:20:11.500 So, um, Tory boys, if you're listening, um, you've got an opportunity to get yourself,

00:20:16.120 um, a mini mansion for, for nine grand. If you actually think that your party is going

00:20:21.780 to do well, best of, best of luck with that. Um, it's got so bad that I, I had to write

00:20:27.160 this open letter to Rishi Sunak, um, to try and make the case.

00:20:31.340 He does know who we are now because he released a statement about our media platform. So obviously

00:20:36.060 he'll be listening.

00:20:37.100 Uh, yeah, yes, hopefully so. But my open letter to Rishi Sunak, for those who are listening,

00:20:40.700 I'll just, I'll just read that out. Um, in light of the poor record of your government

00:20:44.240 and the multiple unforced serious errors of this campaign, I have placed a bet large enough

00:20:49.560 to secure my wife a new kitchen. If you stand down ahead of the election, I now believe

00:20:53.760 it is your duty to do so. So hopefully he will read that and take the appropriate action.

00:21:00.040 Um, right. So getting to what reform needs to do to win. Now, if you've had a look at

00:21:05.160 the calculator thing that I put up, I don't think it's going to be done in one shot, but

00:21:10.380 this is what it would take for reform to become, um, for the, for the zero seats thing to become

00:21:16.760 reality and reform to become the official opposition. This might happen in the election

00:21:20.800 afterwards, but, but it's not actually that far from where we are now. So basically all

00:21:25.180 it requires is from, from here for reform to go up nine points and for the conservatives

00:21:31.120 to go now down nine points. That's all it takes. And then, and I know it says two seats

00:21:37.240 for the conservatives, ignore that because both of those don't exist anymore after boundary

00:21:40.940 reviews, but, but honestly, it's, it's not a big shift from where we are right now to

00:21:46.200 actually get zero seats for the conservatives and for, and for reform to be the official

00:21:51.280 opposition. It's, it is that close. Um, so what, what, what, what, what do I think will

00:21:57.820 actually happen? Uh, I mean, I've been, I've been having a bit of a, bit of an argument

00:22:01.520 with, uh, Peter Hitchens this week because he bizarrely has, he's going to be the last person

00:22:08.200 in Britain voting Tory, despite the fact he wrote several books on why we need to get

00:22:12.040 rid of them. Now it's possible. And for whatever reason, he's backtracking. Um, but, but Peter

00:22:16.700 is a good guy. He, he, he's, um, he, he was a visionary on this stuff before it was possible.

00:22:21.000 And now it is, and I'm hoping to get him on Brokonomics. So, um, so mad respect, Mr.

00:22:26.940 Hitchens. But, but look, basically, basically my point here is I think you need to look at the

00:22:32.480 elections of 1906, 1910, and 1918. So 1906, the situation is we have a very unpopular

00:22:41.360 Tory government, but it is not the Tories themselves that are unpopular. It is the ruling class as

00:22:47.580 a whole that are unpopular. So what happens is the election of 1906, the Liberals get a

00:22:53.000 massive landslide, but nobody's actually that up for the Liberals. It's just like it is now

00:22:57.880 where Labour are going to get in kind of by default. So what happens is they get a massive

00:23:02.760 landslide. Um, and of course they're useless because the whole ruling class was, was useless

00:23:07.580 at that point. The next election, 1910, it's a hung parliament. The election after that, 1918,

00:23:14.560 the Liberals are destroyed and replaced with the Labour party. You can see a similar thing

00:23:19.620 happening here where we're going to have a large Labour landslide at this election. You can well

00:23:25.120 imagine the next one as, you know, just a slightly improved version of that polling data that I just

00:23:30.340 put up, a hung parliament in 2029. Well, it's perfectly feasible that they're going to sort

00:23:36.420 of hemorrhage votes as it goes along because there's all, there's this sort of pendulum swinging

00:23:40.680 in British politics whereby the incumbent party tends to do reasonably okay, but they slowly hemorrhage

00:23:49.660 popularity in votes as time goes on. And eventually that's going to bleed over to a party that's

00:23:55.360 going to be there to mop it up, which might well be reform.

00:23:58.380 If the Tories stay on this trajectory, they're gone in two elections. They are an ex party in two

00:24:04.060 elections. They're gone, replaced with reform. Um, now there's going to be a bit of an effort for

00:24:10.000 obviously people like us and people watching at home to stop them from going wet because they will,

00:24:14.460 they will start to tend wet as they go along. Um, but you know, I, I think two elections,

00:24:19.940 you know, we could have a completely different paradigm and, you know, at that point, then you

00:24:24.400 can start going after Labour, you know, to get rid of the other, the other part of the, um, the unit

00:24:28.500 party. So, um, you know, what I actually think is going to happen is it's going to need to be a

00:24:32.720 double tap. This election puts conservatives on the ground, the election after that, one to the head

00:24:38.240 that, that takes them out. Um, we need to make the next parliament all about mass immigration being

00:24:44.860 toxic, put that issue to bed for a generation, get people away from that. And then the election

00:24:50.000 after that, we need to make it about how the big state is toxic and destroying everything. And by

00:24:53.700 then the financial and economic pressures, as I've explained on brokonomics many times will be

00:24:58.060 becoming more obvious. And I think really things get interesting when Farage steps down because he

00:25:04.140 doesn't want to do this too much because he wants to go and enjoy his house and his talk shows. And

00:25:08.360 you know, he's good at politics, but he clearly doesn't want to be doing it too long. Things get

00:25:14.540 really interesting when you replace, um, Farage with a millennial, because I've always said you

00:25:21.360 can only upgrade a boomer so far. Well, as a millennial, you know, if Farage wants to make me PM,

00:25:28.360 go ahead. Well, I mean, and, and the, and the message is whoever, whoever is that next man,

00:25:33.140 and maybe you're watching right now, um, you know, this is your job. We need to smash this

00:25:38.380 consensus. We need to move reform to the right where they're talking about re-immigration.

00:25:42.500 There's lots of stuff we need to do. And if that is you get on it, get it done. Um, and finally

00:25:47.780 for everyone else who isn't that man, go and buy the Islander.

00:25:53.700 Right. So before we start with the segment, I want to say something to the audience.

00:25:57.700 Yes. I'm sitting still. If you listen to anything, it is Josh that bangs the table

00:26:03.060 and Dan's bracelet that is, that also does the same.

00:26:08.820 No, because I've been getting lots of comments that I'm banging the table or something.

00:26:12.980 I like a good table banging. You know, it's, it's, it's how people know you're serious.

00:26:17.100 Yes. If you don't hit the table, how do they know that you mean it, Stelios?

00:26:20.840 Okay. Right. So there, we had the EU elections now and the right one massively, but, and we will

00:26:28.880 tell you a lot about this, but before we talk about it, just head to our website and check

00:26:34.820 out our magazine, the Islander. Right. So.

00:26:38.720 So in a short time before these elections, there were many incidents of, uh, assassination

00:26:48.700 attempts and also attacks against politicians. So just to name, uh, two social Democrat politicians

00:26:56.120 who were attacked, the Slovakian PM, Robert Ficho and the PM of Denmark, uh, meta Fredrickson.

00:27:05.680 She was attacked, but also we had, uh, further incidents. We had a Polish, uh, border guard

00:27:13.480 who died by someone who tried to cross the border between Belarus and Poland illegally. And

00:27:20.160 we also had the attack in Meinheim that, uh, led to the death of the police officer, Reuven

00:27:26.920 L. And, uh, it was an attack against the conservative politician, Michael Sturzenberger.

00:27:33.460 So Olaf Scholz, who was the, who is the leader of the SPD party that is currently ruling Germany

00:27:44.160 wanted to virtue signal to the German people that he is going to actually do something about

00:27:51.060 the attack. And he says, Germany plans to send criminal asylum seekers back to Afghanistan

00:27:57.540 who abuses the protection we provide loses the right to this protection. The German

00:28:02.840 chancellor announces plans to change German law and create new charges. Now, why am I starting

00:28:09.880 with this? It's very simple because many politicians in the EU say they're going to do things about

00:28:17.080 the number one issue in people's mind in Europe, which is safety. And they end up doing absolutely

00:28:22.840 nothing. And, uh, a lot of people were not convinced by his message. So we have from

00:28:30.040 and wokeness today is the start of a new era in Europe and they are registering a lot of victories

00:28:38.340 for the right. So in France, the national rally, uh, headed by, uh, Marine Le Pen wins a historic

00:28:46.340 party. 31.5 of the EU vote, forcing Macron to dissolve the national parliament. Germany,

00:28:53.420 the IFD surges to become the second largest party liberal parties tank. Belgium, prime minister

00:28:59.420 resigns after his crashing defeat against the right. Italy, Meloni's brothers of Italy wins in a

00:29:05.000 historic landslide. Austria, the, uh, FPO freedom party of us of Austria is, uh, that doubles their seats

00:29:14.860 and becomes the largest party in the nation. In Spain, the right is beating the left by 10%

00:29:20.600 and in Luxembourg, the first ever seat for ADR. And the list goes on. And that was yesterday around

00:29:28.260 11.35, uh, PM UK time. And there are many more things to... The only thing I don't like about that

00:29:35.220 is Italy because Meloni is a fake right winger. She's a globalist. She has, uh, let down many people.

00:29:41.800 And, uh, the question is if the European union shifts to the right, will that enable her to guard

00:29:50.800 her borders a bit better? So the concerns that you are echoing are concerns that many people have.

00:29:59.160 Right. So let's look at this projection here yesterday. So they are talking about the parties

00:30:06.640 in Europe. So the European people's party, which is a center right party is gaining close to 13 seats.

00:30:14.960 And it's because it has become the largest, it is the largest party in the EU. Socialist Democrats,

00:30:21.680 they lose around four seats. The Renew party loses around 22 seats. Conservatives and reformists gain

00:30:29.360 around three seats. Identity and democracy gain about nine seats. The Greens lose about 19 seats. And you

00:30:36.960 will see, I think they lost even more. The left is losing one seat and non-aligned gain 36 seats.

00:30:45.120 Now we have here more analytic results, and I can show you these results and then compare with

00:30:51.280 the previous one. So let us see here in the, wait, we can see here the legislative period of 2019-2024.

00:31:03.920 We have here a fewer positions for the right, and you will see that they get increased. But what if,

00:31:12.640 what you see is that the people who are, who have primarily lost lost are people from the Renew Europe

00:31:18.880 Party, the Greens. And Social Democrats, they lost about three seats, and the left lost about one

00:31:26.320 seat. The Greens have lost about 21 seats, and Renew Europe has lost a lot. So you'll see all the

00:31:32.640 parties. What also Renew Europe? What are they about? You'll see, they are basically modern liberal

00:31:39.360 and Democrats. But it's, the emphasis is on modern liberalism. So they want a big state,

00:31:46.800 basically, and they call that liberty. Right. They call that a, the necessity for liberty,

00:31:52.800 that you have a very big non-estate. Yes. So, if these were the previous results

00:32:02.880 for the legislative period of the previous five years, and now we can look at what happened right now.

00:32:08.560 So you see, the center-right EPP has gained around 10 seats. The Renew Europe has gone to 79,

00:32:19.520 the Greens dropped to 52. And as I said, Social Democrats, they lost about two or three seats,

00:32:25.440 and the left lost about one seat. But you do have here a massive expansion on the parties on the right.

00:32:31.280 Right. And as you will see, and as we will say, one of the people who are primarily bunging the drum

00:32:39.040 of the rise of the extremist rights are precisely the EPP. They're pulling out the horseshoe theory.

00:32:46.160 For them, anything further to the right than center-right is not right-wing, but it's straightforwardly

00:32:52.560 far-right. And we will hear even more about that in the next five years.

00:32:57.120 The wet rights, aren't they? The wet rights. Well, I would say that they call themselves

00:33:02.320 center-right, but in any conventional sense of the term, they're not. I think they're basically

00:33:08.000 what we were talking about before, third way. They're wets. Yeah. Well, it's sort of neoliberal,

00:33:16.960 neoconservative sort of center ground. I don't really have any beliefs or values. I kind of go

00:33:23.520 whichever way the votes and money take me. There's that sort of politics, right?

00:33:28.000 Who really want to be seen as acceptable by the left. This is one of their major pitfalls.

00:33:36.320 So you could say that they are basically advocates of the third way. Third way is just that they use

00:33:43.520 it with brakes instead of just head-on acceleration like the parties to the further left.

00:33:48.400 They don't want to be scorned when they get invited to dinner parties by their left-wing

00:33:51.840 mates in the city. It's just a big collection of people who want to be involved in something

00:33:55.920 glamorous, but aren't good-looking enough to do show business. None of those people should be

00:34:00.160 involved in politics. Right. We have here from Yuri Bezmenov's ghost, France did the meme.

00:34:06.080 So we have this funny meme here that is talking about how the term far-right is a term of abuse.

00:34:11.440 And it says the modern leftist political compass. Everything is far-right except from, you know,

00:34:18.880 very far authoritarian left. You're either a Stalinist or you're far-right.

00:34:24.160 Yeah, everything right of Mao is far-right. And they have here where Le Pen won in France. So the

00:34:33.680 brown is for the national rally party of Le Pen. And you see here, I think this is Paris here,

00:34:41.440 Yeah. And as you can expect, Paris...

00:34:43.840 Is that lots of white to signal the surrender flag, is it?

00:34:47.280 Well, Paris in France is what London is in England.

00:34:51.680 Of course, yeah. I feel sorry for the French.

00:34:54.240 And it's bizarre because it's Paris that has been ruined the most.

00:34:56.720 It's funny how that happens, isn't it?

00:34:58.000 Yeah. Now, Macron dissolves parliament. He got double-scored. And he gives a speech after a

00:35:04.320 crushing defeat to Le Pen in the European Parliament election. And he says,

00:35:08.080 I mean, you would expect someone to sort of engage in self-criticism,

00:35:14.640 but you're going to tell me, Stelius, you are talking about politicians.

00:35:18.080 He says, the rise of nationalists, of demagogues is a danger for our nation,

00:35:22.640 but also for our Europe, for France's place in Europe and the world.

00:35:26.240 And for those listening at home, there's a picture of a man who's thinking about how he can rig the

00:35:32.800 upcoming election.

00:35:33.680 He's also doing that white supremacist hand signal. The ADL is going to be after him.

00:35:39.440 I'm sure they will. But what is interesting is that you would expect people who lost to sort of

00:35:46.240 of at least pretend that they got the message, and at least acknowledge in their rhetoric that

00:35:54.800 there are more dangers to European nations than right-wing demagogues and nationalists,

00:36:02.880 because there are many threats that Europeans face, many threats that Europeans have,

00:36:09.200 and many concerns that Europeans have, and they think their EU leadership does not address.

00:36:17.120 I want to show you here a video. If it is, I think that would be hilarious. So I wanted to show

00:36:22.320 you the youth wing of Macron's party reacts to the news that there will be snap elections after the

00:36:27.840 party's disastrous defeat to Marine Le Pen's national rally in the European Parliament election. So let me

00:36:35.520 show you a room of faulty soy boy French do the soy boy meme simultaneously.

00:36:56.640 Yeah, I mean, if that's accurate, that's hilarious. Here we have people from Marine Le Pen's party,

00:37:03.840 they are cheering and they have the French flags. You see that this is a major victory for them and

00:37:15.440 they see this as a sort of opportunity for national renewal and they want this to be reflected

00:37:23.520 in the rhetoric of French leadership and also EU leadership.

00:37:28.560 Right. So we have Belgian prime minister who resigned and we have here Alex Decro unexpectedly

00:37:37.120 resigns after a brutal EU election. Right-wing parties swept the floor.

00:37:42.320 So you see Macron announced that he is going to host, he's going to organize an election for

00:37:50.480 next month. The Belgian prime minister who is supporting globalist agenda, and you can see,

00:37:55.840 he has the rainbow flag behind him. He resigned after a brutal defeat. So some things are changing in Europe.

00:38:06.080 Now let's go to Germany, because Germany is a curious case here. You see, the AFD party has won around 5.2 percent.

00:38:17.680 The AFD?

00:38:18.080 Yes.

00:38:18.800 Yes. What did they say? I don't know. I said AFD. So it's Alternative for Deutschland.

00:38:26.400 Is that how you would say it in German? You're more accurate than me.

00:38:30.400 Yes. So you have the CDU, that is the Christian Democratic Union, who went to 30 percent. The AFD to

00:38:40.640 to 15.90 percent. And the SPD, which is the Social Democrat Party of Olaf Scholz, less than 14 percent.

00:38:50.480 And the Green Party, 11.90.

00:38:53.760 And isn't it funny, because didn't Olaf Scholz bring in votes for 16 year olds on the assumption that they're all going to vote left wing,

00:39:00.080 and they just all went out and vote for the Nazi Party instead?

00:39:02.800 Well, I don't think that it's a, it's a party of that sort.

00:39:07.520 No, no, no, no. From his perspective, he thought that votes for 16 year olds would lock in a sort of lefty green paradigm forever.

00:39:17.840 Yes. And they just went, yeah, enough. I'm not living like this in this country for the next 40, 50 years.

00:39:23.760 Yes. And they went straight to.

00:39:25.360 And I have in the end a claim by Rolf Schollhammer about the young people in Germany and why they voted for AFD to a very large extent.

00:39:35.520 So the in the previous election five years ago, the Christian Democratic Party had close to 29 percent.

00:39:44.560 So they gained a point. And the Green Party was in 20.5 percent.

00:39:51.360 So the Green Party's agenda was the second. And now they've sort of lost half of their support in five years.

00:39:57.840 I mean, it's amazing they've still got half. They have de-industrialized, they have destroyed Germany.

00:40:01.840 Yes. And the SPD party was two percentages more and the AFD was around 11. So things are changing.

00:40:12.240 And here, let's see how Germany voted in the European Parliament election that said they were in black and AFD in blue you have here.

00:40:19.920 Yeah. Top mark, top marks to anyone who can guess where the, where the Cold War line was drawn through Germany.

00:40:28.960 Hmm. It's almost like the people who lived under communism can recognize communist mismanagement more easily. It's funny that, isn't it?

00:40:36.800 Except for that one bit there, which is Berlin, which was a, you know, a little island in itself.

00:40:42.720 Very own London and Germany there.

00:40:45.000 Yes. And here I have the reaction of the Greens. Again, this is priceless.

00:40:52.520 30 percent, leichte Gewinne. Grüne, 12,5. Das sind deutliche Verluste. SPD, 14. Leichte Verluste zum letzten Mal.

00:41:02.600 AfD, 16. Deutliche Zugewinne. Die Linken, 3 mit Verlusten. FDP, 5. Das sind leichte Verluste.

00:41:12.520 They're not particularly happy, are they? Do they strike as a happy audience?

00:41:16.520 Well, the thing that offends me about this video is look at all that bloody lens fare.

00:41:20.600 The Green Party are using lights when they have done more than anyone to turn the power off in Germany.

00:41:26.200 That was a fascinating video of nothing happening there, yeah.

00:41:29.120 Yeah. They should be doing this with bloody, I don't know, candles or something.

00:41:33.080 Right. So, I want to talk a bit about Greece, my country. In Greece, we have several interesting results.

00:41:43.160 Is that a pizza? You've got a pizza party.

00:41:46.520 Where?

00:41:47.800 At the top there.

00:41:48.940 Here.

00:41:49.360 P-I-Z-A. There's a Z missing. Up there, look.

00:41:53.520 There. Oh, yeah.

00:41:54.500 It looks like the pizza party.

00:41:56.900 Okay. So, there are some very interesting ramifications and consequences of this election.

00:42:04.300 So, you see, the entire country has sort of voted for the New Democracy Party and they gave them around 28.3%,

00:42:12.300 except for here, Xanthi and Rodopi, which are, basically,

00:42:20.260 they were, they had the parties that won there are parties for the local Muslim communities.

00:42:27.380 Ah.

00:42:27.880 This is something that a lot of people from the right are saying, you know, you have parties that are essentially Muslim parties

00:42:36.740 and they are winning in these places here.

00:42:39.180 Now, Stelios, because I am unfathomably based, if I was also Greek, which of those parties would I vote for?

00:42:45.140 Which of those parties? I really don't know.

00:42:48.640 But I will say that for the first time in many decades, there are more than 20% to the right of the ruling party

00:43:00.440 that is claiming to be centre-right.

00:43:03.800 So, what happened here is that, basically, they alienated a lot of their base voters.

00:43:09.680 So, the 28% one, that's the centre-right, is it?

00:43:12.900 That's the centre-right.

00:43:13.960 Who's to the right of them?

00:43:14.960 They are attached to the EPP.

00:43:16.360 So, to the right, you have here, to the very, to the right, you have here, Greek Solution here.

00:43:22.700 Oh, I like the sound of that.

00:43:23.720 You have this party called Victory.

00:43:26.600 Oh, that sounds good.

00:43:27.840 Yeah.

00:43:28.400 And you have here the Voice of Reason and you have other parties here.

00:43:31.600 Right.

00:43:31.820 But the important thing here is that a lot of people are looking at this as a defeat in Greece.

00:43:39.400 Why?

00:43:39.700 Because we had national elections about a year ago and the party who won, New Democracy, had more than 40%.

00:43:47.820 They won around 40.5% of the vote and basically they alienated more than 12% of the population and their voter base.

00:43:59.220 So, they appealed to swing voters who aren't as loyal and basically they betrayed a lot of the ideological supporters.

00:44:08.400 And, you know, how they did so, the main issue that people, the main three issues that people have raised concerns against them.

00:44:17.540 Number one, it is cost of living crisis.

00:44:21.280 Number two is immigration.

00:44:22.960 And number three is the way in which they legislated for gay adoption.

00:44:31.140 And this is a very big issue.

00:44:33.020 But for two to three months, they literally put the whole country, fight each other with respect to whether there should be, whether homosexual couples adopting children is a human right or not.

00:44:48.400 And basically there was zero public discussion of a healthy sort in this.

00:44:53.880 So, people were absolutely frustrated when they saw that all of these issues that everyone in Europe is talking about, be it immigration, be it safety, be it the raising cost of living crisis, they weren't treated as national emergencies, but this one was.

00:45:15.760 I mean, you say adopting children, but I mean, we could get slightly more specific because every single time I see an example of this, by sheer coincidence, they've always adopted a boy.

00:45:26.260 Well, I really don't know about this.

00:45:28.940 I really, and I cannot comment.

00:45:30.800 But you see here, the party, the main center-right party lost close to 12%, but the left parties didn't win.

00:45:39.620 So, for instance, you have the Syriza party here, which is the coalition of radical left.

00:45:44.100 They basically are in 15%, so they didn't win.

00:45:50.280 And you have also Varoufax's party.

00:45:52.960 He says, in yesterday's European elections, I suffered a crashing personal defeat, along with my comrades in Greece and Germany.

00:46:01.360 Our sex societies, caught up between the radical center and neo-fascism, cannot help a dying Palestine, a war-torn Ukraine, our own people.

00:46:10.260 But fight on, we must.

00:46:13.360 Cheerio, Yanis.

00:46:14.320 I want to ask, what is the radical center?

00:46:16.480 You know, just a question.

00:46:20.420 Radical center.

00:46:21.540 I don't know.

00:46:22.180 Maybe it's the people.

00:46:24.980 I don't know.

00:46:25.860 Some people just love throwing isms.

00:46:28.400 Yeah.

00:46:28.840 They just love throwing isms.

00:46:30.040 But the people are getting radicalized.

00:46:32.000 My section is all about that happening here, and your section is all about the people have had enough of this shit.

00:46:38.820 Well, people have had enough of unrestricted immigration, and you can see it here from Visegrad 24.

00:46:46.400 And we see also from BBC News, this is how Don Butler reacted to the EU results, because this is interesting to see how a lot of people are rushing to give their interpretation of what happened and essentially turn on, switch on the ideological machine in order to present this in the way that fits their narrative.

00:47:09.560 So Don Butler says, we were all warned about the rise of the far right in incels.

00:47:15.040 The attack on woke feeds into this dangerous rhetoric.

00:47:19.100 The surge in support for the far right across Europe is a warning for us all.

00:47:22.980 Farage on reform, some Tories should be nowhere near power.

00:47:26.560 What do the EU elections and the right wing in Britain have to do with incels?

00:47:32.140 There's nothing to do with it.

00:47:33.480 What the hell?

00:47:34.400 She's scared.

00:47:35.120 Well, I have the impression she just wants to virtue signal to women who are particularly averse to insults.

00:47:46.260 Women that are particularly averse to being mentally stable, yeah.

00:47:50.240 Well, so I have here a clip from Ursula von der Leyen.

00:47:58.540 EPP is the strongest political group in the European Parliament.

00:48:02.100 EPP has the most leaders, together with others.

00:48:06.620 We will build a bastion against the extremes from the left and from the right.

00:48:14.440 So this is my point about the EPP.

00:48:18.200 It's wets like her.

00:48:20.100 I mean, I didn't even know that she wasn't a socialist until you showed me that clip.

00:48:23.640 But I mean, it's the same bloody difference with the EPP.

00:48:25.660 They're just wets.

00:48:26.300 This is basically, it shows a lot.

00:48:30.260 It shows how they basically do not engage in self-criticism.

00:48:33.920 Because there are some interesting portrayals we can make, some interesting analogies to make.

00:48:40.020 Because you would think that someone who screams, who's on a wooden boat that is sinking, because there is a lot, it is flooding.

00:48:48.060 And there are sharks around it.

00:48:51.240 You would expect that person to try to save the boat, rather than just trying to sink it.

00:48:58.320 So what I'm trying to say by this is that it is absolutely beyond doubt that one of the things that does fuel the extremes, the extreme right, is uncontrolled migration.

00:49:13.200 It does, okay?

00:49:14.560 Whether people, not everyone who is frustrated with unrestricted immigration is far right, but an extreme right.

00:49:23.940 There are right-wing people who are frustrated with unrestricted migration.

00:49:28.260 But if they are doing basically everything they can to flood Europe with unrestricted migration,

00:49:37.240 yeah, and then it's a bit rich to start in saying, well, yeah, but the extreme right is rising.

00:49:43.580 What did you do to prevent it?

00:49:45.280 The answer is nothing.

00:49:46.860 It's such a perversion of the language.

00:49:48.220 Because it is people like her, the centrists, the extremists, because they're ruining us with debt and mass immigration.

00:49:55.040 The people that they call on the extreme, people like us, we're not extreme.

00:49:59.100 We just want to have a country, and we want to have homes, and we want to have families, and we want to live a good, decent life and earn a good wage.

00:50:05.020 That is all we want.

00:50:05.760 We are not extremists.

00:50:06.660 They are.

00:50:07.000 Exactly, and you could say that one of the main purveyors of the constant appeal to the far right is actually the center right.

00:50:14.880 Because they think that by doing so, they are voting, they are appealing to the same area voters.

00:50:23.260 They are, in a sense, fishing from the same pond.

00:50:25.880 So, I have here a response to this, and I'm saying it is the left that is Europe's major problem.

00:50:31.180 Leftism is bad in itself.

00:50:32.460 In addition to that, European multicultural leftists promote, whether intentionally or unintentionally, agendas of the non-European extreme right.

00:50:41.860 Because there is a pattern.

00:50:43.120 You will see a lot of people who are immigrating into Europe.

00:50:47.380 They are supporting left policies of open borders.

00:50:50.980 And in their country, they are supporting ultra-nationalist policies.

00:50:55.520 Whatever problems Europe has, its current leaders are not able to solve them.

00:50:59.680 They are not guarding Europe's borders.

00:51:01.400 They are patronizing to European patriots.

00:51:04.080 They destroy the European economy with suffocating regulations.

00:51:07.800 In the name of democracy, they pronounce the popular will to be hate speech.

00:51:11.100 They make a parody of democracy by giving power to unelected bureaucrats.

00:51:15.320 And perhaps, worse of all, they dismiss the worries of those who feel unsafe.

00:51:19.380 Because this is, I would say, the main thing.

00:51:23.280 People feel unsafe.

00:51:24.720 They feel that there is no rule of law.

00:51:27.220 And when they try to talk about it, they are renounced as advocates and purveyors of hate speech.

00:51:36.020 And Winston Marshall is saying something good.

00:51:40.620 He says, the globalists left-right still don't understand modern populism.

00:51:44.540 Instead of contending with the failures of 25 years plus of establishment politics,

00:51:49.960 they smear and besmirch the reaction to it as far-right.

00:51:53.060 Because to contend with the legitimate concerns of ordinary people

00:51:56.260 who have turned away from elite concept of correct think

00:51:59.160 would be to contend with their own failures.

00:52:01.640 I think he's absolutely correct here.

00:52:03.780 And especially when it comes to Europe, because you're correct.

00:52:11.080 Terms are used in particular contexts.

00:52:13.520 So, for instance, in the UK, conservative means something different

00:52:17.140 than what it means in America, in the US.

00:52:20.400 And also, you could say the term liberal.

00:52:23.000 And in some cases, whatever the term far-right means in the US and the UK,

00:52:27.860 in Europe, it has historical links to the extreme right.

00:52:37.420 And one of the reasons why they constantly do this

00:52:40.140 is because they want to get people on the right

00:52:42.860 to get so bored with being bombarded with the propaganda

00:52:46.100 and just start identifying with the term

00:52:49.460 so they can use their propaganda machine to the European people

00:52:54.660 and say, yeah, but look at who they are.

00:52:57.060 Remember what happened in World War II.

00:52:59.100 And basically try to interpret everything

00:53:02.680 in terms of the main narrative of World War II.

00:53:07.860 And we have here something by Rolf Schollhammer.

00:53:12.020 He has a really interesting article here,

00:53:14.660 a small article on how young people in Germany voted

00:53:19.820 to a very large extent for AfD because they want to have a future

00:53:24.080 and they are not interested in the virtue signaling

00:53:28.460 of the Green Party and other parties

00:53:31.900 that are just patronizing to them.

00:53:35.240 And all they're saying is that vote for us

00:53:39.220 and you will be the agent of progress.

00:53:43.340 They don't understand progress in these terms.

00:53:46.280 So this is, by all means, check Rolf Schollhammer.

00:53:50.080 So a lot of things are happening in Europe,

00:53:52.680 a lot of interesting things.

00:53:54.120 We will have to see how things eventually

00:53:56.480 because a lot of politicians are letting people down.

00:54:00.100 But I think that these are massive news

00:54:02.380 and I'm just interested to see what is going on afterwards.

00:54:08.400 Okay.

00:54:09.620 Well, I've only got six minutes to do my segment.

00:54:13.760 So why?

00:54:16.140 Because we've got 10 video comments.

00:54:19.740 So in the chat, if you would like me to do my segment,

00:54:22.260 let me know if you just want to go to the video comments

00:54:24.360 and do the written comments.

00:54:26.480 Please say so.

00:54:28.980 Because we've got a lot to get through.

00:54:31.160 We've had feedback saying that people want to hear more

00:54:33.400 from us doing the comments.

00:54:35.080 And so I don't want to hog it with a segment

00:54:36.880 that I can do another time.

00:54:38.360 What do you reckon, chat?

00:54:39.240 I'm going to have a quick look.

00:54:42.160 You could always give us a quick taster of it

00:54:44.720 and then come back and do it another time.

00:54:47.040 Just to wet the app.

00:54:47.680 The chat is unanimously going for goblins.

00:54:52.260 I mean, we have 36 minutes plus.

00:54:55.960 I know, but we've got to do the video comments.

00:54:58.600 We will.

00:54:59.980 Okay.

00:55:00.740 We've got hype for the goblins.

00:55:02.460 It's fine.

00:55:02.940 If we need to overrun and do some video comments.

00:55:05.340 But we have listened to you.

00:55:06.400 Don't worry.

00:55:07.200 We are going to do them.

00:55:08.200 But I do need a mouse and a...

00:55:10.020 Of course, Josh.

00:55:11.240 A stream deck.

00:55:12.980 I literally will be still here.

00:55:16.540 While we're setting up a segment...

00:55:18.320 This is democracy at work, chat.

00:55:20.880 You've voted for the goblins and you've got the goblins.

00:55:26.260 It's going to be a good segment.

00:55:27.360 There's so many goblins in the chat.

00:55:29.180 It's just a feed of goblins.

00:55:31.920 So I think we all understand and know that goblins are real.

00:55:35.800 I think we've determined that this is the case.

00:55:38.080 Goblins are real.

00:55:39.720 They live amongst us.

00:55:41.060 This much is obvious.

00:55:42.260 And what I wanted to look at today is the terrible news that goblins have been terrorizing Zimbabwe.

00:55:49.860 And I feel very sorry for Zimbabwe because no one...

00:55:53.660 I think we all are familiar with goblins, right?

00:55:55.300 No one wants to put up with this.

00:55:56.600 This is a terrible and grave indiscretion.

00:56:00.440 Also, we have a magazine.

00:56:02.420 It does prepare you against goblin attack.

00:56:05.060 Here is the glamorous assistant, Stelios, holding it up.

00:56:07.880 Oh, I've taken it now.

00:56:09.520 But he was holding it.

00:56:10.560 Here it is.

00:56:11.320 This guarantees 100% protection against goblins if you read it and imbibe its wisdom.

00:56:18.580 So make sure to pre-order it because on the 17th, I believe, it's going to go off of sale.

00:56:23.540 So you've got to pre-order it before it releases.

00:56:25.820 Otherwise, you will miss out from that 100% goblin guaranteed protection.

00:56:30.520 So anyway, the reason I found out about this was actually something that Samson, our producer, put me onto.

00:56:36.620 It was this story here.

00:56:39.120 Police officers desert station sighting goblin attacks.

00:56:42.180 And this was published at the end of May.

00:56:43.660 So not too long ago.

00:56:45.460 And I'm going to read a little bit from it.

00:56:47.120 It says, a ward counsellor confirmed an unusual situation.

00:56:53.100 We built a police station for the officers and initially they patrolled in pairs.

00:56:56.560 And Gulani explained, however, they haven't been able to stay for extended periods.

00:57:02.760 And this is, according to him, they described being harassed, bodies being violated, doors opened on their own and things climbing on the roof, making it impossible to sleep.

00:57:12.660 And apparently the police from Plumtree, which is where this police station is, withdrew the officers, stating they wouldn't endanger them further because they were worried they were going to get harassed, potentially sexually harassed by these goblins.

00:57:27.840 Female goblins, of course, harassing the male police officers.

00:57:30.800 And this is obviously a cause for concern.

00:57:34.560 And this is just scratching the surface of the goblin problem because this is March, so a month, you know, two months prior, should I say.

00:57:44.740 That's how the calendar works.

00:57:47.640 Apparently there was a family being terrorised in a similar province, right?

00:57:53.040 So this is titled, Horror Film Come to Life, Goblins Terrorise, Bulawayo Family, Children Beaten, Food Vanishes.

00:58:01.400 And what the article actually says is very interesting.

00:58:04.920 And this is a direct quote from, I think, a member of the family.

00:58:07.880 We don't know what to do anymore.

00:58:09.820 It started last November.

00:58:10.760 One morning, our children woke up and their heads were shaved.

00:58:13.740 We thought it was a one-time thing.

00:58:15.420 Could you imagine waking up and your children's heads have been shaved?

00:58:18.160 By the goblins.

00:58:18.940 By the goblins, of course, yes.

00:58:20.680 What else would it be?

00:58:21.680 Let's be honest.

00:58:23.040 The next day, our youngest child woke up in the middle of the night screaming.

00:58:26.220 He had been stabbed in the leg with a knife.

00:58:28.140 Okay, that's pretty serious.

00:58:29.700 These goblins are getting out of control, aren't they, Stelios?

00:58:32.900 He also woke up with his head shaved again.

00:58:36.320 I mean...

00:58:36.800 Are they just barber goblins?

00:58:39.360 You know, you have deep goblins and stuff.

00:58:42.020 Well, all of these barbershops opening up in Britain is making me start to worry about, you know, the introduction of goblins into our system, you know, shaving heads.

00:58:50.860 It's a portal from a fantasy universe to our world.

00:58:53.540 Sorry, so can I just establish what's going on here?

00:58:57.540 Africans are being terrorised, having stuff stolen.

00:59:02.700 Head shaved, being stabbed.

00:59:04.380 Being stabbed and sexually assaulted by goblins.

00:59:07.260 Yes.

00:59:07.560 Well, I can empathise with their problem because here in Europe, we're having the exact same thing, but it's not goblins doing it.

00:59:13.380 I know, yeah.

00:59:13.940 Yeah, well, it's even more difficult for them because rather than tangible, you know, physical people doing crimes, it's goblins, which are magical in nature and therefore harder to...

00:59:25.680 And able to borrow away during the day.

00:59:28.020 Exactly.

00:59:28.480 So they carry on to say, this family, we sought help from different prophets and churches, but the situation only worsened with each attempt.

00:59:37.100 Doors and windows would come open inexplicably.

00:59:39.760 Our children's clothes, especially their uniforms, their school uniforms, I presume, would be torn.

00:59:45.040 They were no longer able to attend school, so these goblins are preventing their children from being educated.

00:59:49.700 They must be racist or something.

00:59:50.860 We hired a spiritual healer for a cleansing ceremony.

00:59:54.600 The following day, the house mysteriously burnt down, but only the bedrooms were affected.

01:00:02.800 Everything in the kitchen and dining room was untouched, which is interesting.

01:00:06.120 So the goblins, you know, at least a little bit benevolent, don't want to ruin their kitchen and dining room, but just the bedrooms.

01:00:13.000 So furthering their war on education, they've terrorised schools.

01:00:18.860 And I like this picture here.

01:00:22.080 Presumably, this is something left behind by a goblin, like a talisman.

01:00:25.900 It looks like some buck teeth that's really hairy with a sort of beaded chain, I suppose.

01:00:33.200 It looks like a goat that's walked into a fan.

01:00:35.380 It does, yes.

01:00:37.100 This looks like a bad Stephen King short story monster.

01:00:41.120 But supposedly the school had to close because the teachers and children were too scared to go to school.

01:00:47.680 That's not an African fleshlight, is it?

01:00:51.460 There's a lot of tooth there for that.

01:00:54.540 That would be very dangerous to use.

01:00:57.060 But it's not the only school.

01:00:59.760 So this was, I believe, 2022.

01:01:03.540 There was also one in June of 2022 as well.

01:01:06.860 And there's a different picture of some goblin memorabilia here.

01:01:12.220 Obviously, this is not an isolated incident.

01:01:14.280 Dozens of African news services are reporting on the goblin phenomena.

01:01:18.460 There are patterns that people are noticing.

01:01:21.120 So another school has been besieged.

01:01:23.840 And, you know, it's been a problem.

01:01:26.220 They say, this one here, saying that church and village leaders have been called for a cleansing ritual following alleged incidents of goblins sexually harassing teachers and students at the Majiji Primary School in the Booby District of Matabeta Leyla Land, North Province.

01:01:46.160 And the decision was made by village heads, villagers and parents and school authorities at a meeting held last week to discuss the emergency of the reported goblins.

01:01:56.480 So they're taking this very seriously.

01:01:58.040 Obviously, all of the village leaders, all of the people in the local community are coming together to deal with this goblin menace.

01:02:05.300 And it says, this is a direct quote here.

01:02:07.040 The school headmistress asked the apostolic church to hold a night prayer at the school following a rise in number of teachers who had been sexually abused by goblins.

01:02:16.100 And apparently one of the members mixed salt and warm water and sprinkled the substance all around the classrooms to chase these goblins away.

01:02:23.920 You know, because, of course, everyone knows that salt and warm water is how you deal with goblins.

01:02:29.020 I mean, this is a household remedy.

01:02:30.940 I want to see where this goes.

01:02:32.020 Because this segment is reshaping my entire worldview.

01:02:34.720 Because, I mean, I thought that these were all problems that we were having in Europe.

01:02:38.280 But it turns out Africa has this problem as well.

01:02:40.860 Only goblins.

01:02:41.560 And in fact, going back to 2013 here, four Zimbabwe schools closed because of the goblin problem.

01:02:49.620 So there's also this story as well.

01:02:52.900 This is the Daily Mail picking up on it in 2012.

01:02:56.080 Female students sent home from Zimbabwe in school after they claimed they had been attacked and possessed by goblins.

01:03:02.020 Not just attacked, but they're getting taken over by goblins.

01:03:04.920 Apparently, this is the report of a parent.

01:03:07.940 She fell into a trance and all of a sudden she started screaming and kicking into the air vigorously for about five minutes.

01:03:13.760 She did not say anything during the fit.

01:03:15.860 And when she recovered, she said she had seen a baboon trying to slap her.

01:03:20.220 Was the baboon possessed by a goblin?

01:03:23.640 No, no, no.

01:03:24.340 What it is, is that these goblins, also sometimes referred to as tokoloshis in the native language,

01:03:31.180 can transform into things and can be invisible.

01:03:35.360 Shape shifters.

01:03:35.740 Yeah, and sometimes they're only visible to the person they're harassing.

01:03:39.860 And so it turning into a goblin and trying to, into a goblin, into a baboon and trying to slap her makes perfect sense.

01:03:45.280 But it can also make African school children, it can possess them and then make them behave atrociously and kick up an enormous fuss and just make the place intolerable.

01:03:54.340 Yes.

01:03:55.180 I see.

01:03:55.840 But also think of the possibilities because students could be so bored of going to school and they could start saying that they're afraid of the goblins.

01:04:03.920 No, no, no. Children in Africa, Stelios, are really keen to go to school.

01:04:08.340 They, they, they, they, they're not, you know, slacking off like Western children.

01:04:13.240 Because as we're reminded by the UN and lots of transnational corporations, African children want nothing more than to learn.

01:04:21.120 I stand corrected.

01:04:21.760 So, uh, I won't, I won't hear any slander against the African work ethic here.

01:04:26.380 Um, so there's actually a video of the aftermath of a goblin attack here and I'm going to turn the sound off because you don't need to hear it and it's pretty low quality.

01:04:34.520 Do you hear the goblins?

01:04:35.900 Uh, you don't hear the goblins.

01:04:37.200 You hear lots of people, but here they are.

01:04:40.120 It's just some people sort of milling about.

01:04:42.640 Um, they seem a bit alarmed and startled running away.

01:04:46.240 You can't really see, but this lady's particularly frightened.

01:04:49.280 I don't know what she's doing, uh, stretching the straps of her shirt over her head for some reason.

01:04:54.740 Maybe the goblins are telling her to do it.

01:04:56.760 Um, but it carries on here.

01:04:59.420 They are running away.

01:05:00.500 Um, you can't really see because it's off camera, but you get the gist.

01:05:04.320 I think there's someone lying on the floor, um, in a sort of goblin induced.

01:05:10.260 One cannot then see the truth and one cannot then see the goblin.

01:05:13.780 Yeah.

01:05:14.380 So obviously this is a very tangible and real thing.

01:05:17.320 There they are.

01:05:17.820 They're lying on the floor.

01:05:18.620 There's something going on there.

01:05:19.740 Maybe they've been possessed by a goblin, but you get the general idea.

01:05:24.260 But I did some digging and, uh, it turns out that goblins have been a problem since at least the fifties.

01:05:33.380 So this newspaper, um, from Bantu World, um, that's a newspaper.

01:05:38.820 Um, this was 1955 and this is the, the native name for a goblin.

01:05:45.500 Goblins perhaps a Western equivalent, but it's talking about them stopping a church service.

01:05:51.280 So they've been interfering with religious matters.

01:05:53.880 How do you pronounce that?

01:05:55.400 Their word?

01:05:55.920 Tokoloshi.

01:05:56.780 Tokokoshi.

01:05:57.620 Tokoloshi.

01:05:58.420 Tokoloshi.

01:05:59.220 Mm-hmm.

01:06:00.160 Right.

01:06:00.660 So it's getting even more sinister than that, right?

01:06:05.620 So recently, well, relatively recently, this was 2012 since, you know, the fifties, there

01:06:13.120 was a case where 26 women woke up without undergarments and, uh, they actually were discovered.

01:06:19.160 It says under the chief.

01:06:20.600 I don't know whether it was found like under him or whether it was under his leadership.

01:06:25.180 They went out and tried to find them, but, uh, it'd be interesting if the goblins planted

01:06:29.660 it on the chief, um, to try and undermine his authority.

01:06:33.780 So the goblins are stealing women's underwear while they sleep and then piling it up at the

01:06:38.920 local leader's house.

01:06:40.380 Not necessarily.

01:06:41.640 It's, it's unclear what the wording means, whether it's just under the, the leadership

01:06:45.480 of the chief, they found the underwear, but they haven't specified where it was found

01:06:48.880 rather than it being found under the chief himself.

01:06:51.500 But here we are, they, they were blamed, the goblins.

01:06:54.180 They finally got the culprit.

01:06:55.660 Thank, thank goodness they found who did it because, um, that, that, that poor leader.

01:07:00.520 I mean, there must be very unsettling room to wake up and suddenly discover he's covered

01:07:03.440 in women's underwear that goblins are put there.

01:07:05.300 I know.

01:07:05.740 Yeah.

01:07:05.920 It's very strange, isn't it?

01:07:07.700 And the fact they removed them while they were sleeping at night as well, that was quite

01:07:10.700 an invasion of their privacy.

01:07:13.260 Yeah.

01:07:13.800 This starts giving some very wrong vibes.

01:07:17.300 So at the more sinister end of the goblin menace, um, there was a case in 2016 of a

01:07:24.160 man who was tricked by goblins into stabbing his wife to death because he thought she was

01:07:30.020 a goblin and he was dreaming of getting attacked by goblins, which was obviously a goblin trick.

01:07:35.040 The goblins made me do it.

01:07:36.540 And he stabbed his wife to death with a chisel before stabbing himself in the neck and shouting

01:07:41.660 for his neighbors to come and help.

01:07:43.280 Why would the goblins do this?

01:07:44.640 I don't know why the goblins would do this, but it's, it's because of their evil nature.

01:07:49.100 I think there's something about the goblins, um, that just leads them to do really terrible

01:07:54.460 things.

01:07:55.000 And it's a horrible thing for this, this man and obviously his dead wife to go through.

01:08:00.300 Presumably there's not a lot of goblins.

01:08:02.860 It's just a small hog.

01:08:04.140 I mean, there are small sort of cases of them.

01:08:07.300 It's enough that it's a sort of menace on Zimbabwe.

01:08:10.560 But I mean, what are you talking about?

01:08:11.540 They make up like 13% of the population or something.

01:08:13.640 It may well be that it's about 13% of all the problems, uh, are caused by these goblins.

01:08:20.140 Yeah.

01:08:20.760 But, but, but maybe something like closer to 50% of the crime.

01:08:23.960 Well, it seems like it's a large portion.

01:08:26.640 Yeah.

01:08:26.740 Perhaps even greater than that.

01:08:28.160 Right.

01:08:28.620 So, um, there's good news.

01:08:30.600 You can fight back against the goblin menace.

01:08:33.240 Um, because there was a clinic in Zimbabwe in 2013 that was cleared of goblins.

01:08:37.400 Um, they had a cleansing ritual in, in the, uh, the clinic, although the nurses were hesitant

01:08:43.740 to return to the clinic because, um, the association with the goblins, of course.

01:08:48.180 And, uh, there's this wonderful, you just, you just don't want to live near them.

01:08:52.440 You do not want to, you do not want to live near goblins because they just ruin everything.

01:08:55.520 So there's actually a ritual that can be done here.

01:08:59.960 This is a report from a prophet in, uh, prophet Sizibah.

01:09:04.320 Um, so this is obviously a very noble man.

01:09:06.780 Sizibah the wise.

01:09:07.860 Yes.

01:09:08.260 A man of God who, um, through his faith alone and, uh, not donations is able to fight against

01:09:16.800 this goblin menace.

01:09:17.700 And he said, I had to prepare.

01:09:19.200 That is, uh, the reason we spent the night sleeping and praying.

01:09:22.260 I had to set traps because if I had not done, that goblin was going to kill me.

01:09:25.680 He says, a goblin has a powerful spirit.

01:09:28.620 So we had to, um, we had prayer for the chicken so that by the time the goblin died, the spirit

01:09:34.120 would move from, from the goblin into the chicken rather than a person.

01:09:37.760 Because when you kill a goblin, obviously the spirit is loose and you don't want it to,

01:09:42.580 to latch onto a person.

01:09:44.700 But if you put it in a chicken, you contain the goblin problem.

01:09:48.300 Yes, exactly.

01:09:49.580 And at the end of it, you have a dangerous chicken.

01:09:51.700 You can, I don't know whether you can eat the chicken.

01:09:53.940 They don't specify.

01:09:55.780 Maybe you've just got to kill the chicken and bury it somewhere far away.

01:09:58.960 I don't know.

01:09:59.820 I don't know.

01:10:00.340 Catapulted or something.

01:10:01.620 Maybe.

01:10:02.240 But, um, there was also a bit of a scandal with this, um, sort of exorcism, goblin exorcism,

01:10:07.460 because there was Jameson whiskey involved.

01:10:10.860 And, uh, they says, and the prophet says about this Jameson whiskey that was involved in

01:10:15.980 this exorcism, uh, as for the Jameson bottles, it was just a coincidence because

01:10:20.020 all we wanted were empty bottles, um, where we put our prayers, the bottles would explode

01:10:24.840 as a signal for us to go ahead.

01:10:26.600 So he wasn't drinking them.

01:10:28.800 He wasn't, you know, a bottle of whiskey down.

01:10:31.160 If I'm getting this right, when Africans are around large quantities of empty alcohol bottles,

01:10:37.500 that somehow causes the goblins to manifest.

01:10:43.640 Potentially.

01:10:44.560 But he's saying that the goblins actually don't like the empty bottles because they contain

01:10:47.760 the prayers, which then defeat the goblins.

01:10:51.040 So if you empty the bottle of the whiskey and then fill it with prayers, it actually

01:10:56.140 fights the goblins.

01:10:57.160 Yes.

01:10:57.340 That does make sense now.

01:10:58.240 Yes.

01:10:58.980 So there has also been some research into this goblin, goblin phenomenon.

01:11:04.820 And, uh, there are lots of African women who believe that goblins also give them cervical

01:11:10.500 cancer.

01:11:11.260 And there's the quote here at the top of the research paper, goblins left dirt in my birth

01:11:15.220 canal.

01:11:15.560 And basically it reports, uh, lots of people who believe that goblins leave, um, dirt in,

01:11:23.500 in their birth canals, which gives them cervical cancer.

01:11:25.820 Um, because these goblins terrorize lots of women, the cervical cancer spreads between lots

01:11:32.360 of different women because, uh, everyone knows that that's how it works, obviously.

01:11:36.260 Because I mean, there is, there was no other way that that dirt could have got there.

01:11:39.400 So yeah.

01:11:40.440 So it must be goblins.

01:11:41.760 Absolutely.

01:11:42.800 So.

01:11:43.440 Remarkable.

01:11:43.920 Um.

01:11:44.440 Um, to, to sort of, uh, break the gag now, what is actually going on with this goblin stuff?

01:11:50.080 I don't actually believe in goblins.

01:11:52.080 Uh.

01:11:52.700 Well, you made a really strong case for it.

01:11:54.120 I mean, it's, it's true.

01:11:55.080 No, Josh, Josh, what, uh, who said that once you eliminate the impossible, the only, um,

01:12:02.380 interpretation that exists, however implausible is the truth.

01:12:06.160 So goblins.

01:12:06.580 I'm not having it.

01:12:07.600 There's goblins in Africa.

01:12:08.600 Okay.

01:12:09.140 Well, my, my explanation, because, you know, being a man of science, I've got to come up with

01:12:14.140 alternative explanations.

01:12:14.760 There's a scientific paper right there.

01:12:16.300 That is true.

01:12:17.360 However, um.

01:12:18.560 It's published.

01:12:20.700 That's, that's true.

01:12:22.140 Um.

01:12:22.460 Um, however, I think there is an alternative explanation here because the, the people of

01:12:28.240 Zimbabwe largely come from the same ethnic group, which is, uh, they're, they're a tribe.

01:12:32.800 I can't remember the exact name, but they are Bantu in origin.

01:12:36.820 And, uh, if we go to this, this is the Bantu expansion and it shows you the dates that, um,

01:12:42.820 the Bantus of West Africa moved eastwards and southwards.

01:12:47.620 And here we have, uh, it's the Shona people, sorry.

01:12:51.300 They're, uh, the, the ethnic majority in Zimbabwe.

01:12:54.060 Anyway, and, um, their path south and east would have gone through certain lands, which

01:13:00.680 contain pygmies.

01:13:02.420 Pygmies, obviously very small.

01:13:04.440 Um.

01:13:04.700 Yes.

01:13:05.140 Hunter gatherers, right.

01:13:06.040 They had a different lifestyle to these Bantu speaking people and Bantu ethnic people,

01:13:11.160 should I say.

01:13:12.160 And so perhaps.

01:13:13.180 But when the, when, when the Bantus moved down across Africa, I mean, presumably they, they

01:13:17.040 integrated harmoniously with the tribal people that they found.

01:13:20.840 No, they didn't.

01:13:21.600 They killed them.

01:13:22.400 And that's what happened.

01:13:23.360 Right.

01:13:23.560 But they might have come into contact with the pygmies, um, in places like what is now

01:13:27.940 the modern day Congo and central Africa and the small people that would have appeared and

01:13:32.560 disappeared into the forest, like it was, you know, second nature to them and may have

01:13:36.740 sort of made their migration difficult, um, might be the source of these invisible people

01:13:43.620 that are terrorizing them and, uh, carrying out these mischievous attacks upon them that

01:13:49.980 don't really amount to much because of course the hunter gatherers, again,

01:13:52.400 experienced, uh, an agricultural society.

01:13:54.640 And so there's only so much they could do.

01:13:56.620 And because, you know, this migration was BC, right.

01:14:00.420 It was thousands of years of communication has turned this into a sort of mythical story

01:14:05.120 as opposed to, you know, uh, a perfectly explainable one.

01:14:10.440 Are there any pygmies still around?

01:14:11.740 I mean, has anyone still got.

01:14:12.500 Yes, there are.

01:14:12.920 They still live in, uh, hunter gatherer tribes to this day in, um, remote rainforests and

01:14:18.100 things like that.

01:14:18.640 Well, I want to meet one.

01:14:20.380 Really?

01:14:20.900 Yes.

01:14:21.100 I want to meet a pygmy.

01:14:21.940 If anyone's got one, get in touch.

01:14:24.680 We'll fly you out to Africa.

01:14:25.880 Yes.

01:14:26.300 I want to meet one.

01:14:27.140 I think it is smoked whiskey that works best with goblins.

01:14:31.180 Mm-hmm.

01:14:31.880 Um, yeah.

01:14:32.980 From Isle of Isle.

01:14:34.140 Yeah.

01:14:34.400 So that is my charitable explanation.

01:14:36.760 That's saying, okay, maybe there's a grain of truth to this.

01:14:39.520 And here's my uncharitable explanation to this goblin phenomenon.

01:14:43.380 Um, oh yeah, there are the pygmy villages, by the way.

01:14:45.620 There's a map of them.

01:14:46.360 Oh, look.

01:14:47.660 Yeah, there they are.

01:14:48.740 Oh, I couldn't.

01:14:49.900 Mm-hmm.

01:14:50.220 It's the blue ones.

01:14:51.180 That's where you can go.

01:14:52.260 I don't really want to go to the DRC.

01:14:54.780 You can go to Cameroon.

01:14:56.440 Um, but anyway, this story, I think.

01:14:59.560 Why can't, why can't the pygmies be the people who are coming over on the boats and being

01:15:03.820 the delivery drivers?

01:15:04.740 That'd be hilarious if your pizza was delivered by a pygmy.

01:15:08.460 Well, they're hunter-gatherers, so they're not really going to get along well with a bicycle

01:15:12.100 or apps or the modern world.

01:15:14.720 I don't know.

01:15:15.060 I just, I think there's something in this.

01:15:17.000 But anyway, this is my uncharitable explanation.

01:15:19.620 This is a story about a sorcerer, a village sorcerer, obviously.

01:15:24.100 Um, we know them as witch doctors in the West, but they're sorcerers, really.

01:15:27.540 Like Fauci.

01:15:28.320 Yeah, exactly.

01:15:29.220 Um, village sorcerer, Fauci.

01:15:31.320 Um, so there was an explosion which was blamed on goblins.

01:15:36.340 This killed six people.

01:15:37.820 And, uh, this was in 2013.

01:15:40.760 So six people died from this explosion, which was obviously caused by goblins.

01:15:44.480 And it was a ceremony that was trying to purify the goblins.

01:15:47.240 He chopped off the head of a goblin.

01:15:48.640 This is the actual story.

01:15:49.980 And the goblin exploded, which killed people.

01:15:52.760 Um, well, actually an investigation found out that they were trying to extract mercury

01:15:58.740 from landmines to sell on the black market for a sizable amount of money.

01:16:03.780 And, uh, they blamed it on goblins because they were doing naughty things.

01:16:08.120 They were doing things they weren't, that's illegal in Zimbabwe to do that.

01:16:11.040 Doesn't mercury poisoning give you powerful hallucinogenic effects?

01:16:14.280 I'm not sure.

01:16:15.720 It may well do.

01:16:17.040 Um, but if they're extracting mercury from landmines, it would be awfully, um, coincidental

01:16:22.840 that a goblin just happened to explode when they're dealing with explosives, isn't it?

01:16:28.000 And that it's a socially acceptable story in Zimbabwe that they can, you know, get away

01:16:33.340 with.

01:16:33.940 Um, although they did face consequences in this case because they were found out.

01:16:38.300 But, um, I'm now starting to wonder if I'm looking at the Lord of the Rings in a completely

01:16:42.880 different light.

01:16:43.560 Is it possible that J.R.

01:16:45.080 Tolkien went to a pygmy village and just did a lot of ayahuasca?

01:16:48.780 He's a well-traveled man.

01:16:50.060 We can't rule it out, can we?

01:16:52.040 But, um, it's worth mentioning as well that it's not just me that's, um, onto this goblin

01:16:56.600 menace.

01:16:57.000 My stream deck's not working, but, um, Lord Miles, who has been on this podcast before,

01:17:02.800 um, posted about, um, 5k likes and I'll drive eight hours to interview the village being

01:17:07.880 terrorized by goblins and there's 27,000 there.

01:17:11.640 So he went and, uh, did it and he's, he went to the village.

01:17:16.320 There he is.

01:17:17.420 There he is, uh, with the, uh, one of the villagers and apparently he's got a video on

01:17:23.600 the way, so maybe he's going to help me unveil this, this goblin menace in Zimbabwe.

01:17:28.640 He went to Goblinville.

01:17:30.240 Exactly.

01:17:30.980 You can't, you can't read out that middle bit.

01:17:33.480 No, I'm not going to.

01:17:34.460 Um, however, just as a final point, um, this is a government website and, uh, within this

01:17:43.820 it says, uh, British nationals live in, um, about 15,000 live in Zimbabwe, whereas 112,000

01:17:50.620 Zimbabweans live in the UK.

01:17:51.980 So my message to all of you at home, if you live in Britain, is that if 112,000 Zimbabweans

01:18:00.320 are here, who's to say they haven't brought their goblins with them?

01:18:04.280 I mean, these goblins are dangerous.

01:18:07.660 We've seen they, they kill people.

01:18:09.040 They assault people sexually.

01:18:10.760 They steal your underwear.

01:18:11.960 They steal your underwear.

01:18:13.020 And they give it, and they give it to a Zimbabwean.

01:18:14.440 Potentially, exactly.

01:18:15.740 And so they do all of these terrible things.

01:18:17.760 Perhaps we need to be a bit more cautious, um, when dealing with these people.

01:18:21.860 Because of the goblins, obviously.

01:18:24.580 And, uh, yes, I, I wanted to draw attention to this, this plight, because it's a very important

01:18:29.200 topic that doesn't see the light of day very often.

01:18:32.540 Crime went goblin mode.

01:18:35.160 It did indeed.

01:18:36.300 Good God.

01:18:36.660 That was a powerful segment, Josh.

01:18:38.000 Well done.

01:18:38.620 Right.

01:18:38.780 Thank you.

01:18:39.500 Let us go to the video comments.

01:18:40.940 I'm sorry to be the one to have to break this to you, but we do not care.

01:18:53.940 Now I get some pushback for this, but there's a certain type of right-wing commentator that

01:18:58.140 I'm finding I really distrust.

01:19:00.300 There are easily audience captured, or just rehashed talking points from the people they

01:19:03.840 interview or surround themselves with.

01:19:05.480 But everything is shallow and without substance, which makes me wonder, does the right also

01:19:10.840 have an NPC problem?

01:19:15.700 Well, I really think...

01:19:17.440 Apparently there was no video for the audience there, so...

01:19:20.080 Ah, okay.

01:19:20.880 We might need to explain it quickly.

01:19:21.640 Audience, are you seeing it or not?

01:19:22.960 Because there was a slight delay before it went up.

01:19:27.560 Yeah, let's replay.

01:19:29.800 Oh.

01:19:30.200 Oh.

01:19:30.240 Oh, no, they did see it, I think.

01:19:37.820 Yeah, you know, they've seen it.

01:19:39.680 They've seen it.

01:19:40.380 It's okay.

01:19:41.520 We can go to the next one.

01:19:42.300 So, well, we may as well briefly mention it.

01:19:44.760 I think that a lot of right-wing commentary and political commentary more generally is focused

01:19:50.700 more on growing an audience and getting money and signaling to your in-group is how you do

01:19:56.720 it.

01:19:56.880 So, rather than actually making meaningful commentary that's going to affect politics,

01:20:00.900 they signal that they are the epitome of whichever group they identify with the most

01:20:06.700 politically, and that they uphold all of these values, and it's more about signaling

01:20:12.680 group membership and basically virtue signaling, but in a right-wing direction.

01:20:17.600 Luckily, we don't do that here.

01:20:18.520 No, but I think that there's a fair amount of that going on, and it's what's impeding

01:20:24.100 a lot of genuine depth and discussion, I think.

01:20:27.980 Let's go to the second one.

01:20:29.260 I'd like to thank Beau for the series he's been doing on the fall of the Roman Republic.

01:20:33.420 This is extremely important to me because I never really learned about it in school,

01:20:37.340 and I've always really wanted to know what happened.

01:20:40.180 How did they transition from the Republic to the Empire, and what made the Republic go away?

01:20:45.160 And since I live in a republic, I feel like it's pretty important if I figure that one

01:20:49.740 out.

01:20:51.060 Yeah.

01:20:51.480 Epochs is superb.

01:20:53.140 If you studied history at school, you'd be well forgiven for not liking history, but if

01:20:58.060 you watch Epochs, you will love it.

01:20:59.820 Let's go.

01:21:00.640 Third one.

01:21:01.720 Since milkshakes are a thing again, I'm a bit annoyed by all these folk talking about it,

01:21:06.860 saying, it's just a milkshake, bro.

01:21:09.120 What of it?

01:21:09.780 But these are the same people that are throwing a guy in prison over stickers and treating

01:21:14.420 him worse than we treat most terrorists, or the fact that they're still complaining about

01:21:18.820 the Jess Phillips thing, and the way they talk about it kind of makes it sound like Carl

01:21:23.180 Hatter locked in his basement or something, when it's just words on the internet, bro.

01:21:28.040 Yeah, well, they're just holding double standards on purpose because they're political enemies.

01:21:34.560 They're not going to treat us fairly.

01:21:36.320 You know, did Joseph Stalin treat the people in the gulags fairly?

01:21:38.860 No.

01:21:39.440 So we shouldn't expect fair treatment because they're not going to give it to us.

01:21:43.820 Video by Sam Wesson.

01:21:45.260 I would like to recommend buying Peter Kemp's 10 Years at War trilogy from Passage Publishing.

01:21:52.640 Before becoming a soldier who ended up fighting in both the Spanish Civil War and World War

01:21:58.680 II, Kemp was a classic student who ended up having to prepare for a career in law until

01:22:06.160 he became so alarmed by the spread of communism that he ended up enlisting in Franco's forces

01:22:12.680 to help fight the communists.

01:22:15.260 So two points on that, Weston.

01:22:18.960 Yes, you're right.

01:22:20.340 But two, you need the light sources in front of the camera because that was a bit like a

01:22:23.940 trailer for The Dark Knight.

01:22:25.420 You're looking very sinister, but in a cool way.

01:22:27.660 Yes.

01:22:28.260 Right.

01:22:28.700 Let's go to the next one.

01:22:31.160 Very true.

01:22:31.880 I just wanted an opportunity to complain about Swindon.

01:22:35.480 You never miss these opportunities, do you?

01:22:37.700 I don't, yeah.

01:22:38.660 It's a fawn in my side.

01:22:40.720 As a native Swindonian, I've had it with this slander.

01:22:43.220 And so, Mr. Josh, if that is your real name, I'm going to create a new series of video

01:22:47.880 comments forged in the mold of my Ohioan series, which will be available on my YouTube

01:22:51.700 and Rumble channels while I get around to finishing it.

01:22:54.180 Prepare yourself, Mr. Josh, for the gentleman's observations of Swindon.

01:22:58.160 I'm preparing to be cultured.

01:23:01.980 I'm really looking forward to it.

01:23:05.240 I also have issues with some areas of Swindon.

01:23:08.640 I think Old Town is good, but I really dislike the Johnny Morell building.

01:23:14.640 It's just...

01:23:16.160 But Josh has been called out and somebody is on the case of making Swindon look good.

01:23:21.260 So, best of luck, sir.

01:23:22.880 Mad respect.

01:23:23.840 Let's go to the next one.

01:23:27.920 Hey, how are you?

01:23:30.180 Do you have a telescope powerful enough to see a star that has collapsed in on itself?

01:23:35.400 I think it's called a, uh...

01:23:37.500 A, uh...

01:23:38.020 A black hole.

01:23:42.080 A black hole?

01:23:43.660 A black hole?

01:23:45.400 You mean to tell me that the man has a hole just for black people?

01:23:48.440 That is fucked up.

01:23:49.660 That is fucked up.

01:23:50.900 I should fuck up all your shit.

01:23:56.260 That was actually what I was saying.

01:23:58.200 This is completely in context.

01:24:00.620 And, uh, that was also great.

01:24:02.560 I enjoyed it.

01:24:03.880 Let's go to the next one.

01:24:05.060 Oh, dear.

01:24:07.520 Hey, guys.

01:24:08.200 Just a little thought.

01:24:09.300 It's so weird that people will just touch, like, the horses of the Kingsguard or they'll

01:24:16.880 wander into, like, villages in the Cotswold not knowing that these are people's houses.

01:24:21.840 There just seems to be, like, this element of, like, people overlooking that this is an

01:24:26.040 ancient country and that everything in this country is just some form of, like, theme

01:24:31.180 park.

01:24:31.700 It's, like, a thing to do or see.

01:24:33.380 It's just so bizarre.

01:24:35.600 I've been thinking about this, actually.

01:24:37.280 And I think that people who do that come from countries where artifice is completely

01:24:42.880 hegemonic, right?

01:24:43.940 It's everything.

01:24:45.040 So Chinese tourists are particularly bad for it.

01:24:48.380 Some, you know, parts of America are particularly bad where it's something sort of real and wholesome

01:24:55.300 and authentic.

01:24:56.360 And they just don't get how it can be real, how it can be organic and not put there for

01:25:01.840 tourist consumption.

01:25:03.460 It's very strange.

01:25:04.600 Let's go to the next one.

01:25:07.280 Any thoughts?

01:25:31.180 No, I love the boss man.

01:25:38.000 Dan is about to take care of things.

01:25:41.180 I am the captain.

01:25:42.240 Mad respect for the boss man.

01:25:43.920 Let's see Sophie's video.

01:25:45.380 Watch.

01:25:45.580 Of course, one of the nicest things about Denmark is the beach.

01:25:50.000 It's always love going out there.

01:25:51.560 And look, there's some fish in boats.

01:25:54.700 And of course, ending the day with some fish and chips.

01:25:57.400 Good enough for you, Harry.

01:25:58.680 Fresh fish caught in the morning, I assume, from one of those boats.

01:26:03.520 Wait, is Sophie in England?

01:26:05.080 No, she's in Denmark.

01:26:06.540 But I have to say that this fish and chips portion isn't particularly big.

01:26:12.720 I'd return that back.

01:26:13.980 I want more chips.

01:26:15.340 Well, those are cod balls.

01:26:16.320 You've been here for a long time, Stelios.

01:26:18.000 You're demanding the Englishman's portion of far too many carbohydrates.

01:26:22.560 And there's also the frustrating thing that sometimes the more you pay, the less you eat.

01:26:27.700 No, I'm not having it.

01:26:29.640 Let's go to the next one.

01:26:32.660 And targeting white people and Indians as well.

01:26:36.140 Why Indians?

01:26:37.000 Because of the colonial affect about them.

01:26:39.960 Yes, Connor.

01:26:40.740 Indians have taken full advantage of the empire as was and have spread out around the world.

01:26:45.560 Unfortunately, due to the rest of the world being hopelessly and actually racist, they often face persecution.

01:26:50.920 Notably, in the 1970s, Pierre Trudeau threw open invitation to persecuted Indians around the world to move to Canada.

01:26:57.740 They came.

01:26:58.600 And I'm friends with their children who say their parents will never vote against the Liberals.

01:27:03.000 Prime Minister Castro is desperate to repeat this, but he's playing with fire with Muslims.

01:27:10.260 It's interesting how Justin doesn't look like his father, doesn't it?

01:27:14.020 Have you seen a picture of him next to...

01:27:16.540 Fidel Castro.

01:27:17.400 Yeah.

01:27:17.880 He does look like Castro, actually.

01:27:19.220 Yeah, he does.

01:27:19.680 Have you seen the picture of his mother caressing Fidel Castro?

01:27:23.740 I saw that one as well.

01:27:24.480 Yeah, his mother was very friendly with Castro.

01:27:27.820 Let's watch the next one.

01:27:31.060 Ah, that's it.

01:27:32.000 Right, so we will go to the comments now.

01:27:35.720 Yes.

01:27:36.420 We have time, some extra time to take more.

01:27:39.340 Do we not?

01:27:39.820 Right, we don't see why not.

01:27:41.100 We could take a minute or two on, can't we?

01:27:43.660 Yep.

01:27:44.360 Okay.

01:27:44.660 Right, a quick couple from my section then.

01:27:48.720 Dan, what are your thoughts on reforms proposed tax cuts?

01:27:51.620 No idea.

01:27:52.520 Haven't watched it yet because it was only just before we came on, but I will take a look at that and probably do a video on it soon.

01:27:57.380 Maybe a Brokonomics on all the manifestos and stuff.

01:27:59.980 Noor Verivar says, Farage as leader of the opposition is the absolute best case we can hope for off the back of this election.

01:28:07.440 Make it happen.

01:28:08.300 The Tories need to stop splitting the reform vote.

01:28:10.280 Absolutely right.

01:28:11.700 I agree entirely.

01:28:13.980 Bleach Demon says, I can only hope reform will remove the uniparty types like Tice.

01:28:18.780 Yeah, well, Tice has been binned, hasn't he?

01:28:20.360 But they're on a momentum upswing and they want positive news at the moment.

01:28:24.980 So they can't just proper bin him.

01:28:26.160 They've got to move him sideways and then outwards.

01:28:28.280 But yeah, but he will be gone because he's a massive cuck.

01:28:32.640 Baron von Warhawk says, at this point, voting for the Tories should be seen as completely taboo for any true Englishman.

01:28:39.600 Quite right.

01:28:40.580 Time after time, Tories have shown themselves to be the biggest pack of traitors since Mosley and his black shirts.

01:28:46.580 Derek Power says, hearing about politicians simping over Blair radiates nothing but ick.

01:28:54.540 And Alex Oogle says, the table shall be banged.

01:28:59.260 One can only hope that means the first instance upon the table surface, but there is room for uncertainty.

01:29:04.600 To paraphrase Stephen Fry from the comedy series, It's a Bit of Fry and Laurie, what in the name of Greek buggery are you talking about?

01:29:11.200 Okay, basically, Alex, in the previous weeks, a lot of people are saying that when I'm in a segment, they hear the table being banged.

01:29:22.440 Okay, someone is hitting the table and they think I'm doing it, but I'm not.

01:29:28.620 Stelios would never bang a table.

01:29:30.840 He's been accused of this table banging from his opponents, but he's a good, honest man.

01:29:36.300 You know who I blame?

01:29:37.800 Goblins.

01:29:38.580 That's true.

01:29:39.380 Absolutely.

01:29:40.520 We do have some goblins in the studio.

01:29:43.480 Goblins made you two do it.

01:29:45.260 Yeah, well, in fact, we had a power cut last week, didn't we?

01:29:48.360 That was goblins as well.

01:29:49.360 It was, yeah.

01:29:50.040 They ate the cable.

01:29:51.120 Yeah.

01:29:51.420 All right.

01:29:51.900 Yeah.

01:29:51.980 Okay.

01:29:52.680 So, Lord Nereva, where were you when Europe overwhelmingly flipped far right?

01:29:58.140 I was at work, trying not to laugh in front of clients.

01:30:02.240 George Happ, some right-wing parties winning across Europe is great to see.

01:30:06.300 If only we had something similar in the UK and not just hate-not-hope containment-like

01:30:11.260 reform.

01:30:12.540 Baron von Warhawk, careful boys, let's not celebrate so soon.

01:30:16.600 Just because some politicians claiming to be conservative have gotten elected doesn't

01:30:20.980 mean they aren't just pretending to get votes.

01:30:23.560 We should only celebrate only votes, start getting turned back, pride flags start going

01:30:28.020 down, and sores get banned from entering these countries.

01:30:32.100 Well, I mean, at least a good thing.

01:30:35.140 It's a step to the right direction.

01:30:36.800 And I think it's the more conservative voices are heard in the EU parliament, the more easy

01:30:44.380 it's going to be for every other conservative politician to enact conservative policies.

01:30:48.640 But, as we said before, things can also, you know, turn, go south.

01:30:56.560 Annie Moss, I'm so glad I learned about goblins today and either this.

01:31:00.020 Kudos, Josh, that this should have been on yours.

01:31:02.600 Bold Eagle 1787 says the CDU are the Tories of Germany.

01:31:07.140 They're always in coalition with the SDU and all the Greens.

01:31:10.760 There can be no change in Germany until the CDU is destroyed.

01:31:16.800 Kevin Fox, Macron could not recognize that the people are moving to the right because

01:31:21.340 that cognitive part of his brain was removed during his last visit to Davos.

01:31:27.260 And Omar Awad, the non-right parties are so low energy they seem performative.

01:31:33.840 I guess it's hard to summon real emotions about not having as many serfs to pour your

01:31:38.760 Pratt brand coffee.

01:31:41.380 Do you want to go to yours, Josh?

01:31:43.560 Sure.

01:31:44.080 So we've got a little bit of misinformation from Lord Nerevar here saying there were no

01:31:48.940 goblin problems in Rhodesia.

01:31:50.440 Just saying.

01:31:51.040 And I don't mean to, you know, I like what you're going for here.

01:31:55.440 Okay.

01:31:55.780 This is hate speech.

01:31:57.140 However, that news article was from 1955, which is when Rhodesia was still a thing, right?

01:32:03.240 That's before Zimbabwe and Mugabe and all of that stuff.

01:32:08.380 So the goblin menace goes back far beyond these petty squabbles of mortal men.

01:32:14.780 But they've been harassing the Bantu for decades from the south.

01:32:17.140 They have, yeah.

01:32:18.140 At least 100 years, it seems.

01:32:20.340 Sophie Liv says, I can see Callum didn't manage to stay hidden while visiting there.

01:32:25.000 You need to rein your goblin back in.

01:32:28.960 Yes, we've been trying to get Callum to stop visiting Zimbabwe and terrorizing the locals.

01:32:34.000 But he's a difficult man to control.

01:32:37.040 You know, he's eating their food and tricking them into stabbing each other and the likes.

01:32:41.760 Bleach Demon, do these Zimbabwean goblins arrive in little rubber boats too?

01:32:46.180 Well, we've not been able to get to the bottom of that yet.

01:32:48.580 Yeah.

01:32:48.740 But we think, you know, as a company, our collective goblin wisdom at Lotus Eaters is that they can travel by any mode of transport that a human being can, which is interesting.

01:33:02.040 Make of that what you will.

01:33:03.660 Yes.

01:33:03.860 So, Bold Eagle, 1787, thanks for the donation, says, how ironic would it be if it was white liberals that were the goblins after education is colonialism to them?

01:33:17.420 So, they're perceiving the white liberals in Zimbabwe, terrorizing them.

01:33:21.740 Somebody in the chat has been quite clever by saying that you should have named the segment The Goblin Menace.

01:33:27.140 I quite like that.

01:33:28.700 Revenge of the Goblins.

01:33:31.380 Goblin Menace, yeah.

01:33:32.460 I don't get it, but...

01:33:34.120 From The Phantom Menace from Star Wars.

01:33:36.000 Okay.

01:33:36.480 Probably.

01:33:37.220 Yes.

01:33:38.120 Yeah.

01:33:39.200 Chase Balls says, all of the mainstream left-wing parties deserve to sink as they have got absolutely no policy to answer to the goblin problem.

01:33:47.980 I thought that had been put in the wrong section for a second there.

01:33:51.520 Michael Brooks, goblins equal aliens.

01:33:53.920 Well, there was actually, when I was talking to Carl, trying to convince him about UFOs, there was a...

01:33:59.980 One of the most credible UFO sightings was outside a school in South Africa.

01:34:06.120 It was a different ethnic group to the Tokoloshi goblin-plagued bantus.

01:34:13.840 So, it was acceptable.

01:34:15.080 In fact, it was a multi-ethnic school, and therefore there were a plurality, and therefore more feasible beliefs.

01:34:21.420 Baron von Warhawk, the final comment I'll read today.

01:34:26.280 Zimbabwe goblins, huh?

01:34:28.480 I think we know where Callum and Lord Miles should go for the next video.

01:34:31.760 Well, funny you say that, because he is going there.

01:34:35.700 Lord Miles, at least.

01:34:37.320 So, yeah.

01:34:38.660 That's your goblin forecast for today.

01:34:41.220 Right.

01:34:41.660 Right.

01:34:41.980 Okay, so, I really enjoyed this podcast today.

01:34:45.760 Thank you for doing this, and I hope you enjoyed it as well.

01:34:49.880 And don't forget to visit us tomorrow at 1 p.m. for the next podcast.

01:34:54.620 See you and goodbye.

01:34:55.440 Thanks for coming along, chat.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #933

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