The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters. This is episode 980 on today the 16th

00:00:14.180 of August 2024. Almost forgot what month it was there for a moment. I'm your host Harry,

00:00:19.660 joined today by Beau and special returning guest Rafe Heydel-Manku. Apologies I had to

00:00:25.240 double check the notes for you. Not the first time that's happened.

00:00:27.980 So how are you doing today sir? Excellent, great to be with you. 20 away from 1000 episodes. That's

00:00:33.420 very interesting. You got a big episode lined up I imagine. It's closing in, yeah. We do have

00:00:39.540 something very big planned. I don't know if the plans are out there for the audience to know yet.

00:00:44.120 Are they Samson? Well gold subscribers continue to send in your video comments for us. And remember

00:00:50.920 as well later on today we'll be joined, this panel here will be joined by Stelios where there will be

00:00:56.340 a two-on-two pub quiz that we've got some questions come in from our audience members. Gold tier members

00:01:03.780 I assume have sent in their video questions as well. Should be good fun. These two are going to be a team.

00:01:08.820 Myself and Stelios are going to be a team. And I've said before if these two get any history questions

00:01:13.920 we are going to get steamrolled. So hopefully there aren't too many of those. That is the problem with

00:01:20.100 a pub quiz is it does show that actually you don't know what you're talking about quite often.

00:01:25.360 You know, someone's actual level of general knowledge. There's no hiding.

00:01:28.600 Could it be that in suggesting the pub quiz I have accidentally tanked my own career before it

00:01:35.200 even really started? We're all wondering that right now. About ourselves.

00:01:39.940 Oh God. But yeah, other than that today on the podcast we're going to be talking about the

00:01:45.580 continued persecution of the British people, the trouble with Disney. I don't know what that one's

00:01:50.180 about so I'm quite interested. And how our green and pleasant land will be turned into our grey and

00:01:55.160 unpleasant land under current labour plans. We already spoke on Wednesday about their plans to

00:02:00.860 pave over the countryside for new housing estates for migrants. So look forward to the wind farms and 1.00

00:02:06.100 solar farms as well. With that, let's get into the news. So over the past few weeks the talk about

00:02:12.960 media reporting on the riots and the protests that have been going on has died down somewhat since

00:02:19.220 last Wednesday when there was the hoax of all of the different riots supposedly being organised that

00:02:25.600 were then all simultaneously counter-protested against nobody who showed up by thousands of leftists who

00:02:32.080 all happened to show up with stand-up to racism and socialist worker party, professionally printed

00:02:37.560 placards. Things have died down since then. It was a very successful operation.

00:02:42.460 It was just a complete win for the forces of anti-racism, wasn't it?

00:02:46.980 The forces of evil.

00:02:48.440 Yeah, the fash were well and truly bashed and now there's nothing you don't need to worry about.

00:02:54.300 So bashed they didn't even show up in fact. It's quite remarkable.

00:02:58.060 The politics of hate were defeated thoroughly on that day. It was the new cable street, I understand.

00:03:03.300 Oh yeah, I've heard that as much as well. But obviously for the people who were involved in

00:03:08.960 the protests and the people who were arrested, the ordeal is still very much going on and there

00:03:14.600 are going to be people included in those cohorts who absolutely engaged in violent activity against

00:03:20.840 the police and involved themselves in looting. There was some infamous videos going around of

00:03:25.760 people breaking into a lush and nicking bath bombs and if you're going to get arrested, nicked for

00:03:29.980 anything. I think that's a pretty rubbish reason.

00:03:33.520 There's Greg's, there's that Greg's kid who got a well-finished load of sausage rolls.

00:03:37.920 Being from the north, I can at least sympathise with the temptation there. But yeah, it's still going

00:03:44.640 on and the way that it's still being prosecuted, the convictions, the charges that are going on

00:03:49.680 is still showing very much that there is the two-tier system in place. Nothing has been done

00:03:54.940 to address that and nothing whatsoever has been done to address the initial root causes for why

00:04:01.420 these protests erupted in the first place. There is still no justice for the family members of the

00:04:07.960 three girls and including the eight other children who were murdered and stabbed. That trial, I believe,

00:04:15.680 is still planned at the moment for next January. So again, it's incredible how for white British 1.00

00:04:22.420 people they can get very, very quick convictions, but for foreigners they can't. It has to be extended, 1.00

00:04:28.360 delayed. So I've made the mention that speedy trials are a function of white privilege. I can only 0.68

00:04:34.420 assume so. It's interesting actually because just today, Neil O'Brien, who's a Conservative MP,

00:04:42.300 has just posted stats showing that since 2007, 50,000 people who have previous convictions have

00:04:51.420 escaped prison despite having convictions for carrying a knife, sexual assault, assault, robbery,

00:04:59.020 and burglary. 50,000 people. Yet if you're a 55-year-old carer for your husband, who's never done

00:05:06.380 anything wrong in her life, has led a life of decency and respectability, and in one moment of

00:05:10.980 madness, post something on Twitter, on Facebook, and then delete it immediately, you go into the

00:05:17.180 clink. I mean, it's clear evidence of two-tier policing. Look, as somebody who's rather conservative,

00:05:22.900 I'm of course in favour of law and order. In the 2011 riots, we also saw draconian action taken to

00:05:29.620 quenish that. But as you say, it's the hypocrisy, it's the double standards, because of course we've

00:05:35.500 had scenes of Muslim gangs rampaging in the streets. Have we had any charges there? I haven't heard of

00:05:41.220 any. We've had, you know, scenes, even during the Palestinian marches, of course, we had calls for

00:05:45.380 jihad and for intifada on the streets. We had video footage on Sky and other platforms of people

00:05:51.400 cycling up to the reporters screaming, free Palestine, surrounded by large gangs of people

00:05:56.220 with weapons. And nothing offends the British more than hypocrisy and double standards. If

00:06:01.300 everybody was treated equally draconian, in an equally draconian manner, I think there'd be far

00:06:06.820 less of the anger than we're seeing now. There'd be another debate that would be being had. But it's

00:06:13.220 the severity with which decent law-abiding people are being treated at the same time that we see

00:06:18.340 reports of, you know, remember that Muslim migrant who was let off because he raped a 13-year-old

00:06:25.240 girl, but he didn't know that it was illegal to have sex with a 13-year-old girl. Sadly, there's a

00:06:29.640 shocking number of cases. There are so many examples of this, time and time again, and that's what sticks

00:06:33.220 in the court. And as you say, when we had the rioting in 2011, what did we hear from Labour and from

00:06:39.320 the Tories? Well, we have to deal with the root causes of why they were rioting. 2020, Black Lives Matter, 0.99

00:06:45.780 same thing. You had Starmer and Rainer saying, we understand the feelings over the death of George

00:06:51.500 Floyd, you know, this criminal in America who pointed a gun at a pregnant woman's belly. We

00:06:56.420 understand how you're feeling about this. This time, not once have I heard anyone say, actually

00:07:03.300 from the senior front benches of the Tory party or the Labour party, we have to understand the root

00:07:08.020 causes. Instead, they're blaming bad faith actors in the UK from, you know, from Tommy Robinson to

00:07:14.220 Lawrence Fox and everybody else, and bad faith actors abroad, you know, from France to China.

00:07:20.560 No one is listening to the people who feel that they are having their country taken away from them.

00:07:24.660 They're feeling dispossessed, and they've seen their towns and cities change beyond all recognition

00:07:30.380 in the space of two decades.

00:07:33.280 No, all very well put there.

00:07:34.780 I feel like they can't admit it because it's a keystone of their entire worldview. They cannot

00:07:42.220 admit that multiculturalism is a disaster, is a failure, is an insane experiment, really. They 0.92

00:07:48.140 can't admit that because it's what most of their worldview is based upon. And as absolutely what

00:07:54.700 you say about two-tier justice, I've said it before, but I'll say it again. I'll probably say it more

00:07:58.940 than more times in the future, that justice is quite often personified as a woman holding a sword and 0.97

00:08:06.220 scales, for obvious reasons, but she's blindfolded because she's blind. Justice is 1.00

00:08:12.140 supposed to be blind. It has to apply to everyone equally. It has to, otherwise it's not real justice,

00:08:18.300 it's not proper justice. So, you know, calling things a two-tier care or two-tier policing system,

00:08:23.100 two-tier justice system, it's actually a very, very polite way, isn't it? It's a very, very kind,

00:08:28.700 soft way of saying that the rule of law has been subverted. The rule of justice itself isn't applied

00:08:36.860 properly. And, you know, you're very close to having a civilizational collapse at that point.

00:08:41.500 Yeah. And we have to realize it isn't just two-tier policing, as you say, it's two-tier government,

00:08:45.980 it's two-tier reporting. We now have a two-tier nation. And in many senses, you could say it's the

00:08:51.340 British state versus the British people. That's where we've got to right now when you see a concerted

00:08:56.940 effort by our courts, by our police, by our media, and by the state to suppress anybody who dares to

00:09:04.060 contradict the established narrative. And you're quite right, Bo, it's precisely because they are

00:09:09.740 the ones who are complicit in all of this. They laid the foundation for, they created the tinderbox

00:09:15.180 that's now igniting through mass immigration. You know, reform shouldn't have any seats in parliament

00:09:21.340 if the Tories simply acted like a 1980s conservative government and was tough on crime and

00:09:26.860 tough on immigration and tough on asylum seekers who are here illegally and not here for genuine 1.00

00:09:31.340 purposes. There were so many opportunities that the establishment had here to try to get in control

00:09:37.020 of this situation in quite measured ways. None of that was done. And consequently, we're seeing the

00:09:42.620 results of that, which is, of course, people think, where else can we go? What other routes do we have?

00:09:47.020 We've elected in government after government to bring immigration down to the tens of thousands.

00:09:51.820 The British people have been betrayed every time they have elected a government. And now they've just

00:09:56.940 elected a labor government. Well, they didn't elect a labor government. They threw out a conservative

00:10:01.660 government and by default got a labor government. And they can see that there's no hope for at least

00:10:06.300 another five years for any of this to change. And so whilst, of course, you condemn utterly the violence

00:10:11.740 and the terrible scenes we've seen, nevertheless, there are millions more people who are just as angry and who have

00:10:18.220 not taken to the streets violently, but who feel alone and they feel as if they feel despondent,

00:10:24.700 that they have no future for them and most importantly, for their children.

00:10:27.900 And two points I'd like to address there before we move on to go through the links that I've got here.

00:10:33.500 So first of all, I think it cannot be stressed enough how much that this is all a result of mainly

00:10:39.340 the elite class absorbing and drinking the Kool-Aid of the utter insanity of the ideology of a globalist,

00:10:47.820 multiculturalism, where you can have foreign populations move to anywhere in the world

00:10:52.860 en masse, create ethnic enclaves that don't deviate from their original culture, 0.81

00:10:57.340 and then expect them to somehow mix and get along with an already established population with their

00:11:03.580 own culture. Some, again, have said that this is some kind of 4D Machiavellian power moves going on

00:11:10.300 behind the scenes. I disagree completely. I think these people are, on a certain level, insane.

00:11:16.140 I think the actions of our leaders cannot be explained outside of them genuinely believing

00:11:23.180 the rubbish that they spout about multiculturalism. And second of all, when it comes to the riots and

00:11:29.660 the people who are being persecuted, as we'll find out as we go on, obviously there are people who have

00:11:35.260 been caught on camera committing violent acts, looting, breaking into shops. Those people,

00:11:42.060 absolutely we can condemn. I do think for most of these people who have been arrested and are being

00:11:47.500 charged and convicted, especially of the very broad charge of violent disorder, there are a lot of

00:11:53.900 questions and there's a lot of uncertainty over the legitimacy of such charges. Because as we go on,

00:11:59.420 it seems that a lot of these people have been picked up off the streets for being around or in a crowd of

00:12:07.020 people. And the police just picking them out and deciding we're going to nick you right here and

00:12:12.780 now. So we'll get onto the evidence that we've got for that as we go on. So first of all, regarding the...

00:12:19.500 A friend of mine actually just before the riots started, you may remember there was a protest

00:12:23.420 outside Downing Street. Oh yeah.

00:12:25.180 And my friend who's a suit and tie wearing chap, wouldn't say boo to a fly, was simply there to

00:12:32.140 show his support and wasn't taking part in anything. And he was simply standing on the wrong side of

00:12:37.900 the street to the recognized area where you could protest. Wasn't even told that he was on the wrong

00:12:43.900 side of it. Never given an opportunity to be informed, actually, you need to be standing over

00:12:48.300 there. Was handcuffed, kept for a couple of hours on the street, then transported to a police station

00:12:54.220 for over 20 hours before being released. And this is somebody who's never been in trouble with the

00:12:59.580 law before. It's absolutely remarkable that we're in this sort of a situation now.

00:13:03.500 Yeah, there's been a shocking amount of footage similar to that coming out of people who have been

00:13:08.300 a little bit close to the edge of a pavement, who have been arrested by the police, or again,

00:13:12.780 being part of a larger crowd who are not doing anything violent and the police decide that they're going to

00:13:18.700 go in, rough a few of them up and take them, put them in cuffs and put them in the back of a van.

00:13:23.180 Again, the implications this has for the police just suggests, as Bo said, that there's a complete

00:13:29.660 breakdown of law and order, and that the state are using their stormtroopers, as I've seen quite

00:13:34.860 catchily named, to persecute people who are political dissidents for no other reason from

00:13:41.420 the fact that they are protesting against the state. And again, on the subject of the two tiers,

00:13:47.500 here's Jess Phillips, who has admitted that she had a mistake over a tweet addressing the unrest.

00:13:53.340 This was in response to Richard Tice, who played the clip that I mentioned earlier of a Sky reporter

00:13:59.180 being approached by a man on a motorbike who swore about the EDL, who again, do not exist anymore,

00:14:09.980 and shouted, free Palestine. And then other masked men surrounded the reporter and made

00:14:13.820 gestures to the camera. Very threatening behavior, nothing that anybody should support. And this was,

00:14:19.100 of course, done by Middle Eastern and Asian populations. And sharing the video on X,

00:14:25.500 Mr. Tice said, Keir Starmer and Labour no doubt think these pro-Gaza masked folk are far right too. 0.99

00:14:30.460 And then Jess Phillips responded saying, these people came to this location because it has been spread

00:14:35.420 that racists were coming to attack them. This information was spread entirely to create this

00:14:39.660 content. Don't spread it, Mr. Tice. So Jess Phillips quite reasonably could be accused of

00:14:45.180 supporting violent actions, supporting harassment, supporting the thoughts of things that if she was

00:14:50.620 on the other side of the aisle or not within Labour, she would get arrested for these days,

00:14:55.100 because she's playing to her constituents. But this is now able to say, oh, I made a mistake.

00:15:00.540 I should have addressed it differently. I should have worded it differently. And she gets off scot-free,

00:15:05.500 whereas your mate from down the pub who maybe tweeted out something inappropriate and then deleted it,

00:15:11.020 sorry, he's getting two years. Quick word about sort of making a mistake.

00:15:15.660 It's not a mistake. Okay. For a start, you're a professional politician, have been for many,

00:15:19.580 many years. You don't accidentally say whole sentences. You don't accidentally type out a sentence

00:15:24.620 and press send by a mistake. That's not what it is. Okay. You might think it's a political

00:15:29.980 mistake in hindsight, but the thing itself wasn't a mistake. You know, we speak for a living. So I

00:15:35.340 know what it's like to misspeak. A number of times I've said Victoria when I've meant to say Elizabeth

00:15:39.980 and vice versa. You know, sometimes I'll say Orson Welles when I meant H.G. Wells or something.

00:15:44.300 That's a mistake. Okay. That's misspeaking. You don't accidentally have an opinion and type it out

00:15:50.300 and press send or verbalize it by mistake. I hate this. It's such childish nonsense.

00:15:56.300 People like Jess Phillips are so used to excusing away behaviors and practices that it's

00:16:01.980 it's an automatic, it's akin to, you know, putting a hammer onto her knee and having the knee go up.

00:16:07.100 And when anytime she sees threatening behavior from the Muslim community,

00:16:10.540 the default reaction is to issue a statement like that. And she knows full well how, you know,

00:16:16.060 the dark side of elements in the Muslim community. And remember when she was facing down 1.00

00:16:20.060 on Muslim protesters outside schools and schools in Birmingham, you remember when she was seated there

00:16:26.380 during the election campaign surrounded by Muslim male elders. She's had a lot of attacks from from

00:16:32.620 from Muslims over the whole Palestine issue in social media and so forth. She's not naive to what's

00:16:37.180 going on. And yet, even when it's against your own interest, even for a campaign of women's rights,

00:16:43.020 like Jess Phillips, as most feminists are, they're very, very quick to forget about the misogyny 1.00

00:16:49.820 and the violence against women and so forth from the Muslim community. It was interesting that this, 0.85

00:16:54.380 you know, that the rioting from the working class was filled with men and women. Those scenes that I 0.70

00:17:00.140 saw that we're referring to here were exclusively male and noticeably faces were covered up. Now,

00:17:06.220 innocent people coming out to defend their community don't have their faces covered up.

00:17:10.460 They come out. We saw in 2011 when the Sikhs and Turks came out to defend their shops from rioters.

00:17:16.140 They didn't have their faces covered. This was a very, very sinister gang, this Muslim defense league, 1.00

00:17:21.820 perhaps. And Jess Phillips thinks we're all fools. And, you know, the level of willful blindness here,

00:17:28.700 I think, is completely outrageous. But unfortunately, it's par for the course.

00:17:32.380 And they have to lie. It's baked in. I mean, as you say,

00:17:35.420 a lot of feminists will just be blind to the misogyny that's in Islam, but they'll go further. 1.00

00:17:40.300 When she was at least verbally attacked or people in her campaign were maybe physically

00:17:45.740 attacked or their car tires were during the general election, she said it was just men.

00:17:49.900 It was just men that did this against women. Nothing further than that. I mean,

00:17:55.180 they have to lie and misrepresent about reality.

00:17:57.740 They love their euphemisms. They really love their euphemisms.

00:18:00.700 Well, the alliance between the left and radical Muslims always ends one way. 0.86

00:18:05.020 Just look at the Iranian Revolution. You know, the students allied with the Ayatollah to overthrow

00:18:09.580 the Shah. As soon as they came into power, the students were the first ones to be strung up.

00:18:13.740 So, you know, I mean, I mean, look at the Palestinian activists who ran for the Green Party

00:18:19.180 earlier this year and won. And the first thing that they did that they did they jump on saying,

00:18:22.860 right now it's time to tackle environmental issues. No, they certainly did not.

00:18:26.620 They immediately got out their Palestine flags and started shouting slogans.

00:18:31.180 Moving on to the police. So this was a footage that Turning Point released the other day coming

00:18:37.420 from the August 14th Pakistan Independence Day of the police, not in riot gear. We mentioned the

00:18:45.020 instances that we'll be referring to in a moment of the police just arresting English people for

00:18:49.660 gathering in crowds. They were in full riot gear and decided to arbitrarily pick people out.

00:18:55.180 What happens when it's a large foreign Pakistan population celebrating the independence of a 0.86

00:19:00.620 foreign nation? Well, what do the police do here?

00:19:02.620 Do a little dance.

00:19:14.140 I don't recall them doing any Morris dancing on St. George's Day, do you?

00:19:19.020 Oh, God, if only if only I could see something like that. No, this is clearly, again, the police

00:19:24.140 showing their biases, showing who their real constituents are. And on the subject, and keep this in mind as

00:19:30.220 well as we go along. So this is what they do when it's foreign populations in large crowds out in 0.98

00:19:35.500 the street dancing and causing a ruckus, as these sorts of things always do. What happens to the

00:19:42.380 British population? The actual people who, in one way, misguided in the ways that they do it, or not

00:19:48.620 maybe, trying to protect their country or do what they think is protecting the country? Well, they get

00:19:53.740 more than a thousand of them arrested. The National Police Chief Council said one thousand and twenty-four

00:19:58.860 have been arrested and five hundred and seventy-five charged across the UK. We are getting some very,

00:20:04.460 very quick convictions from this. There's this large article talking about it. So here's some,

00:20:09.260 here's one that I picked out here. Andrew McIntyre in Liverpool Crown Court today charged with

00:20:15.180 encouraging murder, violent disorder and possession of a bladed article. Of course, if that's true,

00:20:20.220 then of course he needs to be punished for such a thing. Joseph Bradford, Jamie Eastbrook,

00:20:25.580 Ellie Jane Cox, and Lisa Bishop are set to be sentenced at Bristol Crown Court for violent

00:20:30.060 disorder. And that's where you start to see violent disorder, very broad, very vague, ambiguous term

00:20:36.060 in the way that they're using it here. Jerry and Boyce and Daffron Williams sentenced today for

00:20:41.820 publishing threatening material on a Facebook account intending to stir up religious hatred. So,

00:20:47.900 again, free speech in this country, completely, completely dead. Whether or not it was religious 0.99

00:20:54.300 hatred or ginning up anything like that, it is a post on Facebook. You shouldn't go to prison for it.

00:21:00.140 Violent disorder suspects have been warned that they could face more serious counts after a 15-year-old

00:21:04.540 boy became the first to be charged with riot. And rioting carries a maximum of 10 years in jail.

00:21:12.940 And there's more reporting from the Metro talking about specific instances. Of course,

00:21:17.580 there are people who did loot, riot, do bad things, and they deserve punishment for it. But there was

00:21:23.020 one that I wanted to highlight here who got arrested for violent disorder, who is Stephen Malin and Ryan

00:21:30.780 Shears. They were each jailed for two years and two months after ending up at the very forefront of the

00:21:37.420 mob during unrest in Hartlepool. Malin was described as one of the main instigators of a large-scale

00:21:43.500 disturbance on Murray Street while Shears was bitten on the backside by a police dog during the incident.

00:21:49.820 And judging by this, in a moment that I'll show you, it basically just looks like assault by the police.

00:21:54.780 So this is what they got arrested for, if the clip plays.

00:22:07.180 Yes, they are acting like dickheads. This is what working class people can be like after a few drinks. 1.00

00:22:13.340 It's one of the charming things about them.

00:22:31.020 Let's be fair, he is being belligerent and I have given him a couple of warnings,

00:22:34.620 but you don't get two years in prison for that. Well, you do, but you shouldn't.

00:22:40.220 You shouldn't. Apparently, now you do. You should get a slap on the wrist and a warning,

00:22:43.660 especially because neither of them had any prior convictions. He's obviously had a couple of

00:22:48.380 drinks and he's being a dick, as you say. Yeah. You don't go to prison for two years for that,

00:22:53.100 though. I mean, come on. Yeah, a slap on the wrist. Certainly not a custodial sentence,

00:22:57.660 perhaps nothing at all, perhaps not even a fine. But two years.

00:23:01.980 You shouldn't get a police attack dog on you for that either. And again, contrast this,

00:23:08.540 again, with these guys. What do the police do? These are a bunch of working class yobbos 1.00

00:23:15.180 getting rowdy and drinking. They're in full riot gear. They've got the dogs out. What happens when

00:23:21.260 a situation like this is happening? You know, you don't know what's going to happen at a large

00:23:24.780 crowd gathering like this. Well, they're fine. They're happy. They're dandy. They're dancing.

00:23:28.620 Well, I think a better comparison is with the Hare Hills riots, where we saw the police actually

00:23:33.900 running away from the Roma and Muslims who were rioting on that occasion. You know, 1.00

00:23:40.140 again, I'm in favor of law enforcement. I believe in tough enforcement of the law. I like the German 1.00

00:23:44.380 and the Dutch police because they aren't afraid to get hands on. I think if this chap had just got

00:23:49.340 a sharp hit to the head with a truncheon or something, he probably would have retreated and

00:23:53.100 would have escaped his two year prison sentence. So I don't mind police engaging with engaging.

00:24:00.220 Although here, no one was being violent in this thing, right? That's the big difference here.

00:24:04.060 This chap was just being provocative. He could easily have just been carried off and made to

00:24:07.900 cool down in a police van for a couple of hours. There are so many ways you could have deescalated

00:24:11.980 that rather than having such a two year sentence. And probably this chap's career prospects also,

00:24:16.940 because now his name is everywhere. Anyone who does due diligence. But yeah,

00:24:20.700 I'm all in favor of the police getting tough with all rioters and getting very hands on. We have

00:24:25.340 such a limp wristed police usually, except when it comes to the native population.

00:24:30.540 No, absolutely. And then it gets even worse when you go to Belfast and see what some men are being

00:24:36.460 charged with. So this was an 18 year old, Cameron Armstrong of Lewis Gardens, who was charged with

00:24:42.380 rioting. And the police told the court that footage had been captured of a male heavily involved

00:24:47.020 with the riot that seemed to match his description, judging by the clothes. But his legal team has

00:24:53.420 said that he had just turned 18 and was there to have a look at what was occurring. They added that

00:24:58.140 he had been encouraged by his sister to stay home. When he saw the situation deteriorate, he decided to

00:25:03.020 leave. Now, again, you know, this is going to court. We'll see what happens with it. But I would not be

00:25:08.780 surprised if the situation as laid out by the legal team is correct. And that he was basically just an

00:25:13.980 onlooker who was like, what's going on here? And they decided to pick him up because that has been

00:25:18.780 what has been happening. And I wonder how much of this kind of behavior has accounted for all of

00:25:24.380 the violent disorder convictions and a lot of the people who were picked up, particularly in London,

00:25:29.100 such as Sutton Man, 61, a 61 year old man named David Spring, who was making threatening gestures at

00:25:38.700 police and chanted who the F is Allah during large scale disorder in Whitehall. He's been jailed

00:25:44.780 for 18 months. So this is a picture of him. And you can see him from the bag and the particular

00:25:49.580 shirt that he's wearing is an older gentleman. And this was apparently all caught on police cameras.

00:25:56.460 So he's going to prison.

00:25:57.500 So it's actually only alleged that he chanted that and was being threatening in that image.

00:26:02.380 It's a very carefully chosen image.

00:26:04.860 The footage seems to show he wasn't really doing anything of the sort.

00:26:09.260 Well, we've got the footage as laid out by this account Guy's channel on Twitter. And if I go to

00:26:15.900 a particular timestamp here that I've made a note of, we can see the footage laid out pretty well.

00:26:22.300 So you can see here, I'll go in full screen for the audience. This is the same gentleman,

00:26:27.340 same shirt, same rucksack. Would you agree?

00:26:29.260 It is definitely him.

00:26:30.540 Yeah, it's definitely him. So what actually happened?

00:26:33.580 There is no doubt that the man you can see in these video clips is David Spring. And the leader

00:26:40.460 and context of him being arrested was a woman being arrested and then a second woman being arrested and

00:26:48.460 literally thrown to the ground by the cops. And you can see him right at the beginning here,

00:26:54.620 meandering around. Then the cops arrest the first woman and assault the second woman. And he's right 1.00

00:27:00.140 there. You can see him.

00:27:03.020 What have you done?

00:27:05.020 Nothing.

00:27:07.020 Look at that, disgusting.

00:27:12.060 Look at this guys, this is the British police. Shameful. Why are you grabbing her? Why are you grabbing her?

00:27:17.020 Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you. 1.00

00:27:23.020 This is disgusting. Look at that. Three officers trying to grab a woman.

00:27:27.980 After that, they punch a bloke to the ground. This clip is only 17 seconds, but there are two focuses.

00:27:34.620 One of the bloke in the middle and towards the right, who is being set upon by the cops,

00:27:40.220 and the other of David Spring to the left, where he's initially talking to the cops. Then he sees what's

00:27:45.900 going on, and he starts to remonstrate with the cops, and presumably swear a little bit at them.

00:27:52.620 This is an image from the beginning, just so he's easier to pinpoint. Okay, and straight on to the video.

00:27:58.780 We're back, we're back, we're back.

00:28:15.500 Immediately following that, he's arrested. This is just a few seconds after the video you just saw.

00:28:21.660 And again, that's where he is at the start of the short clip, and you'll see him commit the crime of

00:28:27.100 walking forwards towards the police, after which they arrest him.

00:28:40.380 And this is the sum total of David Spring at Whitehall.

00:28:48.140 Yeah, that's all the footage that we have of him. He's surrounded by police officers and a large group

00:28:52.700 of people who seemingly are arbitrarily being picked out for heavy-handed treatment,

00:28:57.020 for getting a little bit too close to the police each time. He steps forward. What's going on?

00:29:02.620 Boom. Arrested.

00:29:03.660 And so where's the evidence of him quoting who the F is Allah?

00:29:07.420 Apparently it's part of the police body cam footage, but we don't have access to any of that.

00:29:12.060 So we have to take their word for it.

00:29:13.580 What makes this scenario, this situation here particularly egregious in terms of two-tier policing,

00:29:18.700 is we've just recently, of course, we know that those chaps who were in a car chanting,

00:29:24.460 we're going to rape your Jewish daughters, got off and haven't been sent to prison or anything else. 1.00

00:29:30.540 And I don't know, if you want to weigh up which is more extreme and saying who the F is Allah,

00:29:35.660 or we're going to rape your Jewish daughters, I think the jury is out on that one. At least, 1.00

00:29:41.500 hopefully this guy could have had a jury trial, because I think if there was a jury trial,

00:29:45.340 rather than the quick way we're seeing these things being dealt with, I think there would

00:29:49.020 be perhaps more common sense being used in these situations.

00:29:52.620 I think, I think Blakelock says that probably these people got convicted so quickly because

00:29:56.780 they pleaded guilty. Don't plead guilty. Say, no, you have to do a proper file on me,

00:30:04.540 take it to the CPS, they have to think about it, then we'll go to a trial, then a magistrate

00:30:09.340 or a jury can convict me. I'm not just going to let you send me to prison for 18 months.

00:30:12.620 The problem, of course, if you don't plead guilty, then you're going to get a tougher sentence.

00:30:16.300 If you're guilty.

00:30:17.660 If there's video evidence. In this case, unless the body cams show him saying that,

00:30:23.900 I think, yeah, this would be a situation in which I wouldn't have pled guilty. I mean,

00:30:27.340 what has he done? Nothing. Noticeable.

00:30:30.140 Again, though, there is probably a lot of strong-arming going on with this. You see the

00:30:34.620 way that they're treating them. Do you think that kind of heavy-handed treatment is ending

00:30:37.660 the second the camera is going off? What have they been told when they've been being

00:30:41.100 transported in the police vans? What's been going on there? I would imagine that a lot

00:30:45.180 of these people feel that there is no point in pleading anything other than guilty because

00:30:49.420 they've been told that your life is over. Your life is over. There's no point. And on your point

00:30:55.580 there as well, he himself, David Spring, according to the article, is recently retired and now spends a

00:31:04.780 lot of time for his wife who's in ill health. So he has dependents who are basically depending on

00:31:11.260 him. But of course, we've seen that if he was a Muslim, as has happened in the past, who has sexually 0.93

00:31:17.020 assaulted children, that defense alone, oh, I have dependents, I have family dependents who rely on me,

00:31:23.740 would be enough to let him go. That is sadly, shockingly enough, something that has happened in Britain.

00:31:28.540 It's a classic, classic thing that claiming ignorance of the law is no defense whatsoever. Oh,

00:31:33.900 I didn't know it was illegal to do this or that. That should be, has always been absolutely no

00:31:38.540 defense whatsoever. Suddenly it is for certain people only. Yes. Again, justice turned upside down.

00:31:46.780 And again, if we go back to the root causes of this, a lot of this is to do with the mass migration that

00:31:51.740 has particularly ramped up in the years since COVID. Who was the person who was administering

00:31:58.700 over that in the Home Secretary position? Well, that was Preeti Patel. This interview has recently

00:32:03.740 come out with GB News, where the interviewer was asking her about this, asked if she felt the need

00:32:08.540 to apologize for record numbers of migrants, 2 million net EU over the past five years to June 2023.

00:32:18.220 And that's from non-EU net migration as well. People who are predisposed to, to not integrate

00:32:25.980 as well, especially again, if they're allowed to make their own enclaves and not put under any

00:32:30.540 pressure to assimilate. And she decides to get legalistic about it. Oh, well, have you considered

00:32:35.500 the context? Have you considered the social and health and social care visas that were necessary

00:32:42.140 for the, for solving COVID during lockdowns? Have you considered that? Have you considered the

00:32:48.220 Ukraine and Hong Kongers? Well, the fact of the matter is that she is lying. She is lying to deflect 0.65

00:32:55.500 either that or she is completely ignorant of what her own department was doing. When you talk about

00:33:01.420 health and social care, Connor has spoken about this quite a lot. In 2021, I believe it was 70,000 health and

00:33:09.660 social care visas were granted and only 11,000 positions were filled. So if you're going to use

00:33:18.220 that argument, it's a failed argument. And you mentioned actually Neil O'Brien at the end of last

00:33:23.340 year, he released these figures, total net EU migration over the last five years, slightly over

00:33:29.340 2 million. Of the non-EU, only 15% of them, only 15% of them were here to work. Almost the same amount 0.90

00:33:40.780 were here as work dependents. So that's them bringing their own families over. The studying, 0.57

00:33:45.820 450,000, they brought a lot of dependents over as well. Over 250,000, 269,000, I should say, asylum.

00:33:56.060 And then we've got humanitarian as well. So if she's trying to use that argument,

00:34:00.220 it is a complete lie deflection, a complete non-acceptance of accountability and responsibility

00:34:06.700 for the effects, the long lasting and long-term effects that her own policies have brought to 0.78

00:34:12.060 this country. Yeah. And I should say also, I can't remember the exact statistics, but a shocking

00:34:16.220 percentage of those who come on these visas, say for care homes and so forth, come for care homes that

00:34:20.940 don't actually exist. And the number of student visas who come here for people who say they're

00:34:25.260 going to become students who immediately disappear into the underground economy or don't continue

00:34:30.460 their studies after six months, it's shocking. And this woman is running to be the leader of the 0.97

00:34:35.660 Conservative Party, and she's supposed to be one of the hardliners. They simply don't get it. They 1.00

00:34:40.860 still don't get it. They've been given a trouncing, not enough of a trouncing, unfortunately. The Tory

00:34:45.660 party needs to die because even now they haven't learned the lesson of the level of betrayal of

00:34:51.180 the British public. And the problem also here is that I tried to tell everyone to stop using net

00:34:56.140 migration figures because net migration figures, if you have a million coming in and 400,000 leave,

00:35:01.980 then you've got a net figure of 600,000. But the people who are leaving our country and the people

00:35:06.780 who are coming here are vastly different because there's a huge element of white flight going on,

00:35:12.380 people going back to Europe, British people going to live in Canada, Australia, Spain,

00:35:17.740 New Zealand. And the idea that you can just replace one for the other, that works on an

00:35:23.340 economic or infrastructure level if you're talking about school places and so forth. But the culture

00:35:28.220 is changing fundamentally because of that. People are leaving here and people who are coming here have

00:35:33.900 no understanding of our ways and our culture. And I fear too much of the discussion is about net

00:35:38.460 migration figures. Last year, we had 1.3 million gross.

00:35:43.500 Yes, absolutely. And even if you want to take the economic argument, well, GDP per capita is

00:35:48.940 full. So that doesn't work either.

00:35:51.420 2 million over non-EU over five years. That's an unparalleled crime in all of our history. That's 1.00

00:36:00.140 how I characterize that. We've had many enemies of England over the years. I think maybe the Duke

00:36:05.980 of Palma or something, or whoever, Napoleon. He's gathered so many sort of traitors and enemies.

00:36:13.660 That's one, Preeti Patel is one of the worst of all time. And how dare she sit there and smirk, 1.00

00:36:21.260 smirking away that she didn't do anything wrong and that she did the right thing, didn't she? No,

00:36:26.140 you didn't do the right thing, Preeti. No, you did a terrible, terrible thing.

00:36:29.580 Guilty of a terrible, terrible degree of treason. We must never forget and never forgive because

00:36:36.300 this was the, not just her, but for the last 20 years, it's been the greatest act of harm in our

00:36:42.780 history, in 2000 years of our history. Far more consequential than the cost of fighting the Second

00:36:48.460 World War. You know, we were never given a vote on this. We were given a vote on Brexit, but this is

00:36:53.580 far more consequential than Brexit. We must never, ever forget and forgive those who've done this to

00:36:59.500 this nation. Because of course, you know, we've gone through bad times of economic crisis, but

00:37:04.140 an economy can rebound because we were culturally intact in previous generations in the 70s and so

00:37:09.660 forth. That's no longer the case. Yeah, well, the invasion they've allowed to happen is worse than the

00:37:15.420 Roman invasion, worse than the Norman invasion. And the Romans, as far as I'm aware, didn't even really 0.91

00:37:19.820 leave any genetic trace in our own population. They came here, they built a bunch of infrastructure,

00:37:24.940 and they left. And on that, I think that's all I need to say on that subject. So let's move on to

00:37:31.340 your segment, Beau. Would you like the mouse? Yeah, or if you could just, or Samson, can you sort of

00:37:35.180 scroll down for me on the document and do my clips for me? So, I think there's something rotten in the

00:37:43.260 state of Florida. And that's something rotten has got a name. That name is the Walt Disney Company.

00:37:52.460 There's something terribly wrong. Okay, so recently in the news, in the last few news cycles,

00:37:56.860 there's been the story of a very unfortunate poor lady who died from an allergy from eating in a 0.89

00:38:07.180 restaurant or a pub, an Irish-themed pub in Disney World in Florida.

00:38:11.260 I'm just looking at this headline. I've not seen anything about this.

00:38:14.940 Okay, yeah. I mean, it only happened a couple of days ago, I think. Or it only got in the news

00:38:18.300 a couple of days ago. So I'm not going to do the segment all about this, so don't worry. But this

00:38:23.420 is just the latest thing, latest example of where Disney are acting like they think they're above the

00:38:30.860 law, like they think they're masters of the universe, very, very conceited and arrogant.

00:38:35.180 Are they acting like an evil corporation from RoboCop?

00:38:38.860 Yeah, exactly, yeah. Yeah, it is like that. So this woman, the details of this, they were told

00:38:45.660 that you don't need to worry about your allergies, we've got that covered. And they specifically

00:38:49.100 asked at the table, and they served her food, and she went into anaphylactic shock, I believe,

00:38:53.900 and died, unfortunately. Very sad.

00:38:55.340 What, the DEI policies at Disney World?

00:38:58.140 Yeah, yeah.

00:38:59.180 Well, D-I-E in this case.

00:39:01.420 Yeah, literally in this case. People make the joke, but...

00:39:04.540 And so the husband wanted to, he's trying to sue Disney, and they've said,

00:39:11.180 you can't sue us, you can't bring any sort of big suit against us, because when you signed up to

00:39:15.660 Disney Plus, the TV thing...

00:39:18.380 The completely unrelated to Disney World, you would think...

00:39:21.820 There's a line in there that says, you cannot bring a class action against us, or something like

00:39:26.140 that. And so they're trying to extend it to this. But of course, that's nonsense, because

00:39:31.820 effectively, then, what they'll be saying is, if you sign up to Disney Plus, you're signing away

00:39:36.220 all your rights, effectively, that they own you now, like chat or something, they can kill you,

00:39:40.300 they can dispose of you, and you can't, they've got no legal recalls. It's crazy, it's nonsense.

00:39:44.220 It's rather crass, but there was an episode of South Park about 10, 15 years ago now,

00:39:50.540 where it makes a joke out of the characters signing up for Apple terms and conditions, and

00:39:55.740 everybody's going through them with a fine-toothed comb, except for one or two people who do what we

00:40:00.140 all actually do. Which is, we go, scroll to bottom, accept. And it turns out that in the Apple terms

00:40:05.660 and conditions in this episode, there's a clause that says, we can conduct human experiments on you.

00:40:11.500 That's like this.

00:40:12.540 Well, yeah, caveat emptor, right? Who knows paragraph 206 of any of your app, what it says there.

00:40:19.020 I mean, the thing is, this doesn't have any legs at all. I think this was a decision made,

00:40:22.780 they were getting bad PR over this, and I think some rookie lawyer must have put out this statement,

00:40:29.180 because, you know, putting my lawyer's hat on, you know, even if a paragraph of this contract says

00:40:35.980 that you must go to arbitration if there's a grievance, any judge will look at the entire

00:40:41.020 contract in this broader context. You can't just take one paragraph out, and the entire contract

00:40:45.260 is about a streaming service, not a visit to a resort. And so it's not going to fly. I think,

00:40:51.100 you know, Disney has gone down so dramatically in the public's estimation. Its share price has

00:40:55.820 collapsed. It said flop after flop in terms of films. It's losing subscribers to Disney Plus.

00:41:02.380 This is the last thing, this PR is the last thing it needs. So I'm absolutely sure they're

00:41:06.460 going to come to some settlement, or they're going to make some sort of gesture towards him.

00:41:10.380 And this was a very bad PR disaster. And I'd be surprised if that lawyer who advised that this

00:41:15.580 is still working there.

00:41:16.620 Yeah, I mean, this isn't going to boost Disney Plus subscriptions, is it?

00:41:19.900 Yeah. I mean, so it's, but it's just the latest. Disney are embroiled in lots and lots of legal

00:41:26.860 battles. And as you say, I mean, they're on the way down, hopefully. They used to be,

00:41:33.100 it used to be such a wonderful thing. You think of the original Snow White from the late 30s,

00:41:37.100 or you think of something like Fantasia or Dumbo or something. It's just, it couldn't be more family

00:41:42.300 friendly, more wholesome. And now it seems-

00:41:45.580 Even up to the 90s, Lion King, like childhood classics.

00:41:50.620 They are involved in all sorts of crazy stuff. One of the things, if you can play that link

00:41:55.660 that I put, anti-white policy secret footage. This guy, this one guy, who was a, who was a-

00:42:02.220 I think it's the, it's the, this one. No. Where is it? You just had it.

00:42:06.380 I recorded this earlier with my lap.

00:42:08.860 Oh, excuse me. Let's not play that. So anyway, this guy was-

00:42:13.740 It was the GB News. It was the GB News.

00:42:15.180 Fired from, fired from Disney. And he put on one of those little fake, not fake,

00:42:22.860 hidden tiny little cameras where it just looks like the button on your shirt. One of those.

00:42:26.140 No, it was that link, Samson. It was the GB News.

00:42:28.300 And he was recorded, and he was recorded talking to various people. And they just absolutely came

00:42:33.500 clean when they thought they were off the record. Saying, yeah, no, we don't, we don't hire,

00:42:37.420 we don't want to hire white men or white people in general, really. Which is, you know,

00:42:43.180 it's actually against the law. You can't actually do that yet, at least.

00:42:45.660 I love this clip. He claimed that Disney uses buzzwords to avoid legal action. And Giordano,

00:42:52.220 the name of the man who was caught, alleged that a mixed race candidate was not hired because he was

00:42:56.460 not visibly black enough and did not have the look that they wanted. So they literally got the 0.86

00:43:01.420 colour swab out for him to make sure, are you black enough? You're not a Joe Biden voter, clearly.

00:43:06.620 Well, that's where this sort of virtue signaling spirals down into, isn't it? You're not black 1.00

00:43:12.540 enough. You're not gay enough. You're not disabled enough. It's, it's, it's... 1.00

00:43:17.260 I'm not sure how you're not gay enough works, actually. Yeah, right. 1.00

00:43:19.900 I'm quite curious about that one.

00:43:21.500 Well, we know how Hollywood works, so they have way of testing.

00:43:24.060 Well, Disney have also very, very, have lent heavily into the pride thing, crazily so. Where,

00:43:31.100 you know, products, merchandise and things that are explicitly for little kids,

00:43:35.420 got rainbows all over them and stuff. It's, it's weird. It's really weird.

00:43:39.100 Well, you know, we're in this weird world now where, you know, Milton Friedman famously said,

00:43:43.900 the only motivation for a company should be the profits for its shareholders. And we're now in

00:43:49.020 a state where corporations, woke corporations are deliberately self-harming in order to pursue

00:43:55.500 a completely irrelevant ideology. We've never seen this phenomenon before. It's, you know,

00:43:59.660 it's the most weird sort of masochistic practice that's being undergone. And of course it is,

00:44:04.620 it is biting them in the arse. I mean, you had the head of entertainment at Disney saying that

00:44:09.180 she wants to ensure that 50% of characters are LGBT or diverse.

00:44:14.300 Oh, just like in real life.

00:44:16.940 Yeah, exactly. You had the head of animation saying, what was it that she said that she

00:44:20.700 tries to insert queerness into every cartoon that she deals with. 0.84

00:44:23.900 The not so secret gay agenda. 0.83

00:44:24.940 Yeah, it's remarkable. But then you've got the backlash, right? So you had the best thing,

00:44:29.420 Ron DeSantis, who was putting through a bill in, in, in, in Florida saying you can't teach children

00:44:35.420 under 10 about gender identity and, and sexual orientation. And Disney put up 5 million to

00:44:42.140 fight this as a result of which DeSantis revoked all of their tax breaks by having them there.

00:44:47.420 So that came back to bite them very, very painfully. They are paying the price for this

00:44:51.180 and their share prices plummeted because nobody wants to watch She-Hulk. You know,

00:44:55.260 nobody wants to watch marvels of, you know, all these, uh, you know, ethnic minorities, 1.00

00:44:59.900 women who were just clearly there, not because of their talent or characters,

00:45:03.660 but because of what they represent.

00:45:05.100 And why crowbar them into content that's meant for small children,

00:45:09.500 small, like prepudescent, prepudescent children who have got no, no carnal concept.

00:45:15.100 They don't need to know about sex one way or another. And you're crowbarring in

00:45:19.340 homosexual stuff. It's, it's freakish. 1.00

00:45:22.380 Well, you know what they say, get them while they're young.

00:45:23.900 I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to go, I'm going to talk about DeSantis in a minute,

00:45:26.860 but if you go through the next few slides, just about the various sort of sex crime.

00:45:31.260 Oh, bloody hell. Sorry. I keep pressing plays.

00:45:33.100 There is sort of sex crime that, um, that Disney have been embroiled in.

00:45:36.780 I mean, they've got, they've got, they've got like 75,000 employees and tens and tens of thousands

00:45:42.860 of other employees that might not be directly exactly on the books of Disney, but work for

00:45:47.420 other companies that work directly for Disney, like work on something, you know,

00:45:51.820 like there'll be a, like this pub, for example, it's not actually a Disney pub. It is in Disney

00:45:56.140 World and they are affiliated, but they're not actually Disney employees, for example.

00:46:00.540 Which is why Disney can't be held liable for anything that they do, I assume.

00:46:03.900 Yeah.

00:46:04.780 Well, they can though, because they have a duty of care because they're on Disney's property,

00:46:08.060 aren't they?

00:46:08.300 Of course they can, yeah. So the fact that if you, if you employ a hundred thousand people,

00:46:12.300 150, 250,000 people, some of them will turn out to be sex criminals. Okay. One or two might

00:46:18.300 even be a serial killer and that's not your fault. Right. Okay. So, but nonetheless,

00:46:23.660 there are patterns and merges. We just want to click through the next few links that there's

00:46:27.500 just all sorts of stuff where it's a bit beyond like, well, that's just what you're going to get

00:46:33.100 if you're dealing with large numbers of people. Just, there's just loads and loads over the last

00:46:37.180 few years. There's just lots and lots of stories of all sorts of things coming out of Disney being

00:46:42.460 involved in. But of course, if you're a pedophile, you're going to want to go to these sorts of

00:46:47.020 places, right? Exactly.

00:46:48.540 Well, this is actually quite interesting because recently I did a segment on the Mr. Beast controversies

00:46:53.900 that have been coming out. There's been another video come out since then by one of the people

00:46:57.820 who's making a lot of accusations against him that alleged that there is a registered child sex offender.

00:47:07.180 Being Employed and Mr. Beast. So it does seem that a lot of these sorts of companies that are

00:47:11.740 targeting towards child audiences, as you say, attract these sorts of people.

00:47:17.260 It would do, wouldn't it? Yeah, I suppose. So anyway, just moving on to Florida itself,

00:47:23.100 the state of Florida and DeSantis himself. So as Rafe mentioned, originally what it was,

00:47:30.860 DeSantis brought in a bill in Florida saying, making it illegal for sort of, I think it was under

00:47:35.580 10s to be taught sex education. Perfectly reasonable in my opinion, in most people's 0.76

00:47:40.140 opinion. There's no need for it at that age, I don't think. And it got labelled as a don't say

00:47:45.580 gay bill. And the LGBTQ plus community got extremely up in arms about it because for some reason they

00:47:53.660 want to indoctrinate small children with all sorts of concepts of sex, whether it be straight or gay.

00:47:58.940 They just want to do that. That's just part of their thing.

00:48:02.460 Have you ever heard of drag queen story time going to an old folks home? 0.99

00:48:06.060 Yeah, they're not interested in that. Yeah. And so DeSantis made for himself a lot of enemies

00:48:12.140 in the LGBTQ plus community. And of course, Disney being so heavily infiltrated with it,

00:48:18.380 they had to come out and say something. Well, they didn't have to, obviously, but they felt they had to

00:48:21.580 come out and say something. And at least to begin with, it was fairly mild criticism,

00:48:26.220 but they did come out and criticise it. And then people, the community and people within their own

00:48:31.100 ranks said, that wasn't enough, you have to go further. And they kept goading their own senior

00:48:34.620 management to go further, say more and more, until DeSantis hit back. And then it becomes a

00:48:39.900 tit for tat thing almost. And anyway, I won't bore you with the details. It was a year, a couple of years

00:48:44.060 ago now. But the point is, is that the state of Florida and Ron DeSantis himself, the governor,

00:48:49.180 it has been a war of words and law affair between him and Disney. And then Disney owned a big,

00:48:59.180 massive plot of land. What was it called? The Reedy Creek sort of reservation, a Reedy Creek

00:49:05.100 bit of private land. And they had special, all sorts of special tax relief. But they weren't,

00:49:12.300 that's not unique in Florida. Like the Daytona Speedway has got that, for example, and those other

00:49:16.300 places. But so DeSantis tried to strip them of that, or did, I think. And anyway, it got into a

00:49:21.500 bit of a tit for tat law affair. And the state essentially won nearly everything, I think,

00:49:26.620 if not everything in that. Because like everything else, Disney tried to argue just ridiculous things,

00:49:33.020 just tried to argue that they can do what they want, in essence. I'm boiling that down to its

00:49:36.940 very, very low resolution. But I mean, they're actually based in California.

00:49:40.940 You know, that's actually where they're sort of registered and stuff. I think it's Burbank,

00:49:43.820 California. Ron DeSantis is saying, look, just because you bring in a billion dollars of

00:49:48.380 tax revenue a year, doesn't mean you can do whatever you want. It doesn't mean you

00:49:52.220 you control Florida. Right. And Bob Iger, you know, the CEO now, Bob Iger, you know,

00:49:58.700 there's just a war of words. It looked like, you know, mainly, but again, the point of mentioning all

00:50:03.180 this is that in the last few years, Disney company has been acting as though it thinks it can

00:50:09.900 do whatever it wants, act however it wants. But it's hurting it. That's the problem,

00:50:13.740 right? It's gone down in popularity by 25 points. I think last time, because I discussed this on

00:50:18.300 another show. And, you know, every film has bombed since in the last five years that it's done.

00:50:24.060 And people aren't subscribing to Disney Plus. And you think, why on earth would any business want

00:50:28.620 to alienate potentially half or even 60 or 70 percent of their audience? People who used to go to Disney,

00:50:34.860 who simply don't want to do to support them, given the politics they're espousing.

00:50:39.340 Why do non-political institutions need to get political and alienate a vast segment of what

00:50:45.100 should be their customer base? It's just mind boggling.

00:50:47.420 Well, and so and make their shareholders poorer. Yeah, of course, I think there are a few influencing

00:50:52.620 factors in this. One is that we now have the newfangled conception of stakeholder capitalism

00:50:57.980 rather than the shareholder capitalism, which is promoted by things like the World Economic Forum,

00:51:03.100 that you are not working on behalf of the shareholders. You're working on behalf of

00:51:06.780 stakeholders, which are seen to be the entire world. And you need to have a responsibility

00:51:11.820 to promote certain values, which are, of course, always incredibly revolutionary leftist globalist

00:51:18.540 values. And then there's also the fact of the legal requirements for a lot of companies to have certain

00:51:24.940 diversity quotas in the first place. But then that becomes rather circular. You've got the ESG that

00:51:30.940 suggests you should do that. And also now bridge is another avenue for them trying to do that.

00:51:35.580 The problem is that once you get those positions, those people, those diversity hires in those

00:51:40.700 positions, they work within their own sectarian interests to propagate more people like themselves,

00:51:46.940 especially if, God forbid, if they get into some kind of hiring or executive position,

00:51:51.740 they're only going to hire people like themselves. So it starts off as legal requirements become

00:51:56.460 before becoming just the normal corporate culture within those organizations. And you mentioned all of

00:52:01.500 the footage that you see from these leaked Zoom calls coming out. Well, these are the sorts of

00:52:06.300 people who are now in charge of broad swaths of the companies.

00:52:11.020 It does beg a belief, though. Don't you want to make entertainment content which people like and will

00:52:17.580 pay for and you make a profit out of? Don't you want to make your share price go up so your shareholders

00:52:22.540 will be happy? Apparently not. No, apparently it's more important to Bob and his senior team to push

00:52:30.140 the message, as Critical Drinker says. Well, a lot of the narcissists as well in these creative

00:52:36.380 positions, they go, well, I can't sympathize with the story unless it's explicitly about me,

00:52:40.940 unless the character looks like me, acts like me, sounds like me. And therefore,

00:52:45.100 who's it going to appeal to? Well, you, that one person. I mean, one example is the movie they're

00:52:50.940 trying to make. Well, it's been in production for, I think, like three years of Snow White.

00:52:56.060 They had like, they replaced the dwarves with like hippie type people. And then the dwarf community 1.00

00:53:02.220 weren't happy with that. The little people community weren't happy with that. So they changed them out 1.00

00:53:05.820 for little people, but not live action people. Peter Dinklage is furious. They're going to be CGI

00:53:10.380 little people. Dinklage pulling up the stepladder behind them. It's just nonsense. And it is the

00:53:15.500 complete, a complete departure from like the 1937 original Snow White, which is, you know,

00:53:22.220 a really wholesome, lovely thing. But that's what Disney is now, a car crash. And one last bit,

00:53:27.340 sort of a couple of last things to mention is Gina Carano. She was, she was let go from Disney for 1.00

00:53:34.380 sort of daring to have Republican leanings or anything remotely like that. And even though this is,

00:53:39.580 again, being played out over a few years here, she's going to sue them. And they tried to have 0.93

00:53:46.620 it thrown out before it even got to trial. This is a couple of weeks ago now. That was dismissed.

00:53:50.940 So it looks like she is actually going to go to trial against Disney and probably win,

00:53:55.260 depending on what the judge decides.

00:53:56.700 What was it they fired her for? It was because she was speaking out against the COVID restrictions

00:54:02.460 at the time and against people being demonized for being unvaccinated. And she had the gall

00:54:08.700 to compare it to German persecution of the Jews in the 1930s.

00:54:12.940 It was just having an opinion which isn't in line with them, with their, the Disney party line,

00:54:19.580 if you like. It's as simple as that.

00:54:21.260 And even though people on the left have said that Trump Trump's America is like Nazi Germany,

00:54:26.060 that's fine, apparently.

00:54:27.100 Right. Yeah, I know.

00:54:28.300 All right. So, but of course, if you go up against Disney in the courts,

00:54:32.300 they are going to throw, you know, a dozen of the most expensive lawyers in the world at you.

00:54:37.260 And any normal person, even an actress couldn't dream of being able to afford it to stand up to them.

00:54:43.260 So, stepping good King Elon, first of his name, Elon is basically bankrolling it.

00:54:51.020 Oh.

00:54:51.500 All of her, all of her fees, which is kind of cool because he's got some sort of, again, a great thing.

00:55:00.140 He's got some sort of personal boggle, some sort of beef with Disney and Bob.

00:55:05.340 Well, he's got a lot of children, one of whom hates him because I think it was his son decided that he was a girl all of a sudden.

00:55:14.860 So, yeah, I can understand that Musk has a personal stake in this.

00:55:18.460 Yeah. Yeah. So he said he's just going to bankroll her, which is great.

00:55:23.260 So Disney are actually looking at, you know, actually staring down the barrel of a very, very serious legal battle.

00:55:29.580 But as I say, it's one of many. I think they're, I think they're in the courts for like 10 or 15 different things.

00:55:35.100 It's all at once at the moment. All sorts of things, people dying, unfair dismissal, all sorts of, all sorts of crap.

00:55:42.660 Can I just say, thank God for Elon Musk.

00:55:44.760 Yeah.

00:55:45.040 Seems as if he's fighting every battle that needs to be fought on our behalf, you know, including in this country.

00:55:50.480 Yeah. I would love him to do, at least in America, do sort of an anti-bizarro George Soros and fund DAs all over the country.

00:56:00.400 Based, right-leaning DAs.

00:56:02.500 That would be a very good use of his money.

00:56:03.880 Yeah. That would be cool. And he's just, everyone knows this, but obviously he's fantastically rich.

00:56:09.200 I'm not sure everyone really knows how rich he is. When I looked up last week, Google just said 223 billion.

00:56:15.880 So I think that's like 40 or 50 billion more than Bezos.

00:56:19.100 Isn't that more than...

00:56:19.660 Okay. It's way more than Bill Gates. Way more.

00:56:21.760 Isn't that more than what he had when he bought Twitter?

00:56:24.480 It may well be.

00:56:24.980 That might be. You might want to fact check me.

00:56:27.380 But it's a silly amount of money. You know, like the latest space telescope costs like 10 billion.

00:56:36.240 Right. The Channel Tunnel, even though it's quite a couple of decades ago now, that was like 15 billion.

00:56:41.460 He's got over 220 billion. It's honestly insane amounts of money.

00:56:46.060 Again, I always point this out, is that Elon Musk has a certain level of immunity to a lot of things as well,

00:56:51.840 because of the fact that the US government is so reliant on some of his own companies with their own government contracts.

00:56:56.680 Right. Yeah. If we're going to go back to the moon and therefore onto Mars, we need SpaceX.

00:57:04.880 NASA can't hack it on their own. They cannot.

00:57:06.600 So, yeah, I might do a bit all about Elon's vision of going back to Mars soon.

00:57:13.780 Going back to Mars?

00:57:14.520 Sorry, sorry. Getting his ass to Mars in the first place.

00:57:18.020 Are you revealing some secrets there, though?

00:57:20.340 No, no, no.

00:57:20.620 You've got some insider info.

00:57:21.920 Going back to the moon and then onto Mars.

00:57:24.100 So, one last thing. People might have seen this clip for a while ago, and I don't know if the clip actually bleeps out the F-bomb.

00:57:32.000 If it doesn't, apologies for anyone who's seen the moon.

00:57:34.080 You hope. Don't advertise.

00:57:37.340 You don't want them to advertise?

00:57:38.500 No.

00:57:39.500 What do you mean?

00:57:42.340 If somebody's going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go f*** yourself.

00:57:51.620 Keep playing. It's a key bit of an instance.

00:57:53.700 But go f*** yourself. 1.00

00:57:58.060 Is that clear?

00:57:59.920 I hope it is.

00:58:01.700 Hey, Bob.

00:58:02.880 You're in the audience.

00:58:04.080 Well, let me ask you then.

00:58:05.360 He's talking to Bob Iger.

00:58:06.860 That's Bob Iger he's addressing there.

00:58:09.280 So, that's just brilliant.

00:58:10.880 It's just like, because another thing, just very quick to say that a whole bunch of people withdrew their advertising off Twitter and sort of Disney and Bob Iger seem to have been some sort of nexus for that.

00:58:23.420 So, that's why he's addressing Bob Iger there.

00:58:25.100 So, it's like, no, no.

00:58:26.240 You think you're a big fish.

00:58:27.440 You're the CEO of Disney and yourself a multi, multi, multimillionaire.

00:58:30.580 Yeah, no, you're nothing.

00:58:31.180 And, you know, don't advertise then.

00:58:33.080 Yeah.

00:58:33.480 Go f*** yourself. 1.00

00:58:34.300 It's brilliant.

00:58:34.840 That's the true definition of f*** you money, isn't it?

00:58:37.340 And the last thing, the last thing I would say is you mentioned the price, the share price.

00:58:42.120 If you look at it, I've got it on the six months at the moment.

00:58:44.160 And you can see it looks pretty down, or it is down in the last six months.

00:58:47.960 And that looks terrible.

00:58:48.720 If you click on the year to date, can you click on the year to date?

00:58:52.020 So, it actually looks a bit different.

00:58:53.620 And then the one year, if you can.

00:58:55.380 All right.

00:58:56.960 So, again, if you look over one year, it's not that bad.

00:59:00.020 If you look over five years, though.

00:59:02.120 Ooh.

00:59:02.860 Yeah, not too great.

00:59:04.580 So, when was it the end game came out?

00:59:08.780 The last big hurrah in Marvel?

00:59:11.020 To be fair, I can understand around here, 2021, we're still in the middle of the pandemic lockdowns.

00:59:16.500 So, presumably a lot of people, all by Disney Plus, so that they can try and, you know, drink the Soma during lockdowns.

00:59:24.920 And then all of a sudden they go, hold up, everything on this is terrible.

00:59:29.960 All of the new Disney programs are terrible.

00:59:33.120 Oh, Mandalorian Season 2?

00:59:34.860 Oh, there we go.

00:59:36.180 Yeah.

00:59:37.140 Yeah.

00:59:37.780 And if you finally go to the max on that graph.

00:59:39.800 Now, you know, I worked in asset management for many a year, but not that I was ever a chartered financial analyst or a trader or got anywhere near those roles.

00:59:50.300 Nonetheless, I've looked at lots and lots of charts in my time.

00:59:53.020 It still looks really overvalued to me.

00:59:55.720 I think they'll keep, I think it will keep probably dropping down.

00:59:59.080 And that spike there, that's just obviously a massive bubble for them, I would have thought.

01:00:03.940 And if they keep going the way they're going, keep doubling down on the ideology and keep making the crap content that they are, I can only imagine that price will keep plummeting.

01:00:17.780 And yeah, I for one hope the Disney company implode and die.

01:00:23.140 Yeah.

01:00:23.580 We'll still have the VHSs or the digital versions of Fantasia or whatever.

01:00:30.460 So that's fine.

01:00:31.240 They're not going anywhere.

01:00:31.980 We don't, the world doesn't need Disney company anymore.

01:00:34.920 So, um, all right.

01:00:36.560 And on that, to be honest, Disney, uh, given their immense level of power, like a lot of the film studios, they do act as gatekeepers for filmmakers and creatives of real talent and real vision who don't care about the ideology.

01:00:49.420 They've got a story that they think is good, that they want to tell and they want the money to do it.

01:00:53.880 And so many of those people, I would assume, given that they're giving all of their money to insane ideologues, aren't getting those opportunities.

01:01:01.980 They're getting pushed out in favor of other people and they're having to stay to, um, uh, maybe indies or there's, there's very few people who are given big budgets who are still of real creative vision these days.

01:01:13.580 The only one that I can really think of who I really like is, uh, do you know, Robert Eggers?

01:01:18.680 Uh, Robert Edwin.

01:01:20.140 He did The Witch, The Lighthouse, um, Northman.

01:01:23.160 Oh yeah, I saw The Lightman.

01:01:24.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:01:24.520 The Lighthouse.

01:01:24.680 Oh, it's a very messed up film, uh, but he's obviously got a creative vision and I think he's a real exception because his films don't have any ideology in them.

01:01:33.460 They don't actually have any diversity in them whatsoever.

01:01:36.160 So I find it remarkable that that man has been given budgets and I'm very grateful, but I want more people like him.

01:01:42.060 More insane visionaries, please.

01:01:44.540 Less insane ideologues.

01:01:45.960 And Northman was good.

01:01:46.860 And one of the final thing to say on this is, of course, that they've also destroyed established brands like Star Wars where so many fans are annoyed and upset by what they've done.

01:01:55.440 George Lucas is upset by what happened.

01:01:58.540 Not even touched, other than Gina Carano, not even touched on Star Wars.

01:02:02.480 Yeah, and what a complete dumpster fire that is.

01:02:06.120 Uh, yeah, run it into the ground.

01:02:08.560 The Acolyte was one of the boring, the worst, the most boring things I've ever sat through. 0.61

01:02:13.880 You were forced to watch that by the fandom menace, weren't you?

01:02:17.560 Yeah, I was, uh, Mr. H Reviews, a great channel, check it out.

01:02:20.800 Had to review it on that and, uh, just complete indifference.

01:02:23.960 You know when something so bad, like the Toxic Avenger movies from the 80s or something, it's so bad that it's funny.

01:02:29.880 It's so bad that it's good.

01:02:30.800 Well, they're great.

01:02:31.180 It wasn't even, yeah, it was not that.

01:02:33.580 It, it, it, it, it, just pure, it's pure non, pure trash.

01:02:37.620 Anyway.

01:02:38.440 Yeah.

01:02:38.680 Screw Disney.

01:02:39.080 Oh, I was, I wanted to start talking about terrible 80s films then, but I shall refrain.

01:02:42.920 We can talk about those in Lad's Hour.

01:02:45.280 Hopefully some questions pop up.

01:02:47.040 All right, so let's finish all of this off by talking about our green and pleasant land.

01:02:52.040 Um, would you both agree that Britain has one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world?

01:02:56.540 Certainly, uh, I'm from Cheshire.

01:02:58.680 Cheshire is home to a number of areas of great beauty, great natural beauty.

01:03:03.560 Some of the market towns I'm familiar with are noted for having beautiful areas that are very well kept by local authorities.

01:03:09.400 Well, prepare to say goodbye to that under Labour, because Labour is planning a shakeup, according to this Telegraph article, that will force councils to back onshore wind farms.

01:03:21.320 And not just, not just normal eyesore onshore wind farms, but enormous eyesore onshore wind farms, with potentially wind turbines going over 800 foot.

01:03:36.220 Gosh.

01:03:37.320 This is what has happened, is Ed Miliband has refused to set a height limit.

01:03:42.740 And as such, in Scotland, for instance, which never, I don't think, had these height limits to begin with,

01:03:47.500 but they've approved one, which is going to stand more than 823 foot, 823 feet in the air.

01:03:57.360 You mentioned, uh, that Britain actually has got, uh, some very, very beautiful landscapes and vistas.

01:04:03.620 Absolutely.

01:04:04.380 Even sort of the South Downs and some of the Moors.

01:04:07.580 Yeah.

01:04:07.740 The Welsh Valleys.

01:04:09.200 Unbelievable.

01:04:09.900 Cumbria and the lakes.

01:04:11.320 Yeah.

01:04:11.460 For me, one of the most beautiful things on our isle are the Scottish Highlands.

01:04:17.460 They're absolutely breathtaking, often.

01:04:20.180 Absolutely breathtaking.

01:04:21.000 The amount of shade I've thrown with my tongue in cheek at Scotland.

01:04:24.020 Their land is absolutely beautiful.

01:04:25.680 They know how to take it.

01:04:26.700 Yeah, I know.

01:04:27.320 It's all right.

01:04:27.600 They'll down a bottle of bookie, they won't even remember.

01:04:30.120 Yeah.

01:04:30.700 Most jocks have got a sense of humour.

01:04:33.240 Scotland is lovely.

01:04:34.780 It's absolutely lovely.

01:04:35.600 So to sort of, to spoil it with, um, gargantuan wind farms.

01:04:39.720 And presumably they're going to go on hills and so forth to get the maximum wind flow.

01:04:44.440 And of course, you know, one of the beauties of England are his deforested hills because I just love the moss and the grass.

01:04:51.720 And there's, you know, you just think of, you know, Elgar, you know, thinking of Nimrod going through the Morvins.

01:04:56.140 And the idea that you're going to see a bank of these white elephants there is just, it's tragic.

01:05:01.880 And, you know, I'm coming on a train here to, to beautiful Swindon.

01:05:05.340 I passed, uh, I passed five of these things, none of them doing anything.

01:05:10.380 You know, because the fact is actually, if it was windy every day and if it was sunny every day, we actually do have already enough capacity to fund, to, to, to, to energize the country.

01:05:20.720 But of course, it's not windy every day. It's not sunny every day.

01:05:23.720 And the big problem here, of course, is that we don't have storage technique.

01:05:26.740 You can't store the energy from wind power or from solar power.

01:05:30.680 And, uh, I just think what are we doing here when we don't actually have the mechanisms yet to actually cope with it, with, with, with having a solar and wind power, um, you know, grid.

01:05:41.280 You're quite right.

01:05:41.740 Yeah, absolutely. From what I've read and I was looking, I'll refer to a Bjorn Lomborg article at the end of this, uh, he was saying that basically if you wanted to have the capacity to store all of the energy that would be produced by this, if they were running at max efficiency all the time, which as you say, would mean that you would need to be windy and sunny every single day of the year, then you would need to develop new technology for it.

01:06:04.160 And the technology for battery storage that we have would not reach the capacity needed.

01:06:08.440 And also that means that a lot of batteries end up getting chucked away and they end up into places like Africa and, uh, in the subcontinent where they end up, uh, clogging up rivers, releasing toxic, um, uh, toxic agents into the rivers, terrible, terrible effects on the environment, ironically enough.

01:06:25.620 And that's not to, um, to ignore that. I actually looked up before this. Okay. How many, how many wind turbines would you need in Britain if you wanted to power the entire grid all year round? And it said 7,000. And then I looked up, well, how many are there? 11 and a half thousand.

01:06:42.360 Okay. So why aren't we entirely wind powered all of the time then? Well, it's because they're rubbish. They only work. They only work when the wind is blowing. And even then they only get maybe 40 to 60% efficiency anyway, because a lot of the energy doesn't get transferred to the grid that they produce.

01:07:03.840 Yes. And of course, what happens now is when it isn't, when it isn't, you know, windy or sunny, we, you know, the, the, the government, the country fuels up the gas, the gas power stations to provide the, uh, to fill the void.

01:07:14.940 But of course, with this government's ridiculous 2030 policy of stopping and having net zero by 2030 in terms of energy, there won't be any gas powered stations to actually fill that void.

01:07:26.580 You know, my main concern about all of this is energy security and solar and wind power right now will not provide us with energy security.

01:07:34.920 And we could have avoided everything we've avoided post the invasion of Ukraine.

01:07:38.940 If we hadn't had someone like Nick Clegg and his time in office when he basically said in 2010 or 2011, oh, we're not going to go down the nuclear path because it'll be 2022 by the time that comes online.

01:07:50.240 Well, I'm sorry, that was more or less just before we had the invasion of Ukraine, all of our prices went up.

01:07:56.040 Would have been useful.

01:07:56.560 One of the reasons the economy tanked was because of our high energy prices.

01:08:00.500 And we now have these wonderful small nuclear reactors we could have put in place.

01:08:03.920 I wish we had embraced France's, uh, you know, France's policy on nuclear power.

01:08:08.640 We wouldn't be in this situation.

01:08:10.100 It would be far easier to get towards this 2030, 2035, uh, policy that the government foolishly is pursuing.

01:08:17.460 That's ridiculous logic as well, because the idea that Clegg was putting forward is we can't do that.

01:08:22.680 It would take too much long-term thinking.

01:08:25.100 And that's the, that's the problem with all of our governments for far too long is that they are entirely in the short term,

01:08:31.500 except at the same time, they're holding these two ideas in their mind at the same time.

01:08:35.040 Well, we can't do nuclear because it's too long-term planning needed.

01:08:38.080 But also we can do project 2030 net zero by 2030, which also requires lots of long-term thinking,

01:08:45.680 except long-term thinking in the entire wrong direction.

01:08:49.300 Thanks for that, Nick.

01:08:50.520 Thanks, Nick.

01:08:51.400 And another example of you being a failure as a politician, I would actually,

01:08:55.140 if it's up to me, if I was Lord Protector, absolute monarch or something of England,

01:08:59.680 I would open up a new coal seam just to, just to annoy the, uh, just to annoy them, yeah.

01:09:08.520 The Green Party is going to be furious with this one, LOL, signed in.

01:09:12.480 We've still got, I think, millions and millions and millions and millions of tons of coal

01:09:16.100 in this country under the ground, just sitting there.

01:09:18.860 And if anyone's got a problem with it or take it up with China and India,

01:09:21.520 they still burn loads of coal.

01:09:23.160 Yeah.

01:09:23.380 And on the nuclear issue as well, I've seen some graphs.

01:09:26.680 The real answer is to build half a dozen nuclear power stations, isn't it?

01:09:29.700 That's the real answer.

01:09:30.440 Well, I've seen some graphs talking about, if these plans go ahead,

01:09:34.300 how much of the power grid will be powered by, however so much, by renewables.

01:09:39.300 And on those, nuclear from right now to 2025 to 2030 to 2035 barely shifts.

01:09:47.400 It's at however so many percentage points now.

01:09:49.780 And then by the time we get to 2035, it's maybe one or two percentage points.

01:09:53.380 Whereas wind and solar explodes.

01:09:57.380 And that's incredibly wishful thinking.

01:10:00.340 And we were the world leaders with nuclear power.

01:10:03.000 You know, Britain led the whole world from the 1950s onwards when it came to nuclear power.

01:10:07.200 Wind scale.

01:10:08.080 Yeah, another of those great achievements of the genius of the British mine,

01:10:11.340 which we actually have never actually lived up to its full expectations

01:10:14.800 or haven't pursued as other countries have taken that mantle from us.

01:10:18.860 Yeah, a little bit of milk got in.

01:10:20.780 The wind scale.

01:10:21.520 There was a slight problem at wind scale, wasn't there?

01:10:23.280 They needed to put, after the fact, some giant filter on one of the funnels. 0.96

01:10:28.540 But then it was fine.

01:10:29.560 But people say, oh, there's Three Mile Island.

01:10:31.420 There was a bit of a problem.

01:10:32.780 Fukushima.

01:10:33.240 Don't you remember Chernobyl?

01:10:34.600 We can't do it.

01:10:35.260 It's like, well, that's not.

01:10:36.660 You're being silly.

01:10:37.660 Come on, you're being silly.

01:10:39.200 Chernobyl was just the Soviets being, you know, 1.00

01:10:41.660 typically Soviet and incompetent, really, wasn't it? 0.91

01:10:44.920 I mean, we can do things better than that.

01:10:47.080 But this is one of the ways in which, you know, I think Angela Merkel in the history books will go down as one of the worst premiers rather than, you know, she was adored when she left office.

01:10:56.240 Not only for letting in a million Syrian migrants, but also because after the Japanese tsunami that destroyed the power plant there, foolishly decided we're going to abandon our German nuclear projects because there are so many tsunamis in Germany.

01:11:10.260 Every weekend there's another tsunami coming into Germany.

01:11:14.480 Those North Coasts, man, they're dangerous.

01:11:16.680 And then we're cozying up to Putin and the Russians and became dependent on the Russians for oil and gas. 0.59

01:11:21.340 And, of course, and then you have that famous scene of Trump at the UN chastising the Germans for being reliant on Putin.

01:11:28.140 And they cut to scenes of them laughing.

01:11:30.220 And then, of course, we saw what happened afterwards with Ukraine, didn't we?

01:11:33.140 Oh, yes.

01:11:34.040 Yeah, and everything that happened with Nord Stream as well, which I covered a bit of what was going on with that yesterday.

01:11:38.820 A lot of the reporting, as I said yesterday, very suspicious regarding the narratives that are suddenly being produced about Nord Stream.

01:11:46.160 No, it was Ukraine.

01:11:47.540 It was all Ukraine. 1.00

01:11:48.040 Very, very strange.

01:11:48.900 I feel like it's one of those stories like JFK on 9-11.

01:11:51.560 Just you're not encouraged to really look at any of the detail properly.

01:11:55.100 Forever.

01:11:55.840 I loved it.

01:11:56.300 The Wall Street Journal manages to somehow get very confidential information from four Ukrainian insiders who all reveal that, no, no, it was come up with.

01:12:06.360 It was a plan done entirely by Ukraine over a drinking session in May of 2022. 0.59

01:12:12.620 Really?

01:12:13.200 Really?

01:12:13.520 Anyway, that's neither here nor there.

01:12:16.600 But anyway, so what's actually going on is that the housing communities and local government department, which I believe is headed by Angela Rayner,

01:12:25.120 they've released new national planning policy frameworks which say local planning authorities should support planning applications for all forms of renewal and low-carbon development.

01:12:34.820 And what this will mean is that they will push through.

01:12:37.540 They will push through anything.

01:12:39.520 Any council or other planning authority rejecting a proposal will risk expensive legal appeals that developers are more than likely going to win,

01:12:48.180 which I'm sure is going to be a real windfall, no pun intended, for the renewable companies who are going to be getting government contracts and building all of this.

01:12:55.240 It's going to be great profits for them.

01:12:57.680 Ed Miliband, as I mentioned, he's not setting any height restrictions on them,

01:13:00.980 so you're going to get wind turbines literally the size of skyscrapers that would dwarf the shard, that would dwarf the gherkin from London all across the countryside.

01:13:12.680 Under the new rules, councils and other planning authorities will be obliged to identify suitable areas for renewable and low-carbon energy sources

01:13:19.440 and supporting infrastructure in their local plans,

01:13:21.760 and they will become responsible for approving all applications for wind and solar farms up to 100 megawatts,

01:13:29.560 which is double the current limit.

01:13:31.200 So these will be not just larger wind turbines, but larger onshore farms than we've ever had before.

01:13:37.760 The aim, they say, is to remove the bottleneck created by the last government's rule,

01:13:42.780 and a spokesman for Ms. Rayner said that she wanted wind and solar developers to engage with local communities,

01:13:50.160 which should also benefit from hosting such projects.

01:13:53.280 He said, under our plans, communities will still have a say in what is built in their area.

01:13:58.060 I very, very much doubt that.

01:14:00.340 And we have been clear the rollout of renewables must not come at the expense of nature.

01:14:04.140 So as well, from what I've seen, the ones that have already been approved have been in lots of Lib Dem areas,

01:14:09.020 but also graphs that you see from another Telegraph article printed about the Ed Miliband's decision to not set height restrictions

01:14:16.100 show that, of course, with these things, that you always get a massive problem with NIMBYism.

01:14:21.280 These people in these Lib Dem areas, these people in the areas that really support onshore wind farms,

01:14:27.380 saying upwards of 80% of them say, oh, we absolutely support these onshore wind farms,

01:14:32.460 less than 40% of them would want them in their local area there.

01:14:35.520 What was the case, isn't it?

01:14:36.340 Somebody else's problem.

01:14:37.720 They're an eyesore.

01:14:38.400 I don't want them across my fields.

01:14:40.820 I don't want them across my hills.

01:14:42.140 They can be somebody else's.

01:14:43.520 Is Ed Miliband really the calibre of minister or person you want to be in charge of energy policy?

01:14:53.000 I mean, because it's a tough area of policy.

01:14:57.580 I just don't know if Ed Miliband is tussing us to actually be able to do that.

01:15:04.440 Well, he's been dealing with it for quite a few years now, right?

01:15:06.680 It's his sort of pet hobby.

01:15:09.920 But, of course, his policies are all wrong.

01:15:12.380 But this goes hand in glove with the Labour government's policy on freeing up the planning system,

01:15:18.240 some of which I'm in favour for, on housing.

01:15:21.560 Because we have had a problem with nimbyism with the conservative shires and conservative MPs 0.98

01:15:26.180 not wanting to have any development at all in their neighbourhood.

01:15:29.800 And we do now have to have more houses built.

01:15:31.900 But I'm just curious whether the Labour government are going to be building these primarily

01:15:35.780 in conservative and Lib Dem constituencies,

01:15:38.480 knowing that after this election you can tell full well who's never going to vote Labour.

01:15:42.260 We now know which constituencies aren't.

01:15:44.860 And rather than annoy their future voters,

01:15:46.820 you may find these now in the home counties and the shires.

01:15:49.520 Yeah, I do find a lot of government policy tends to be based on spite for the other team's voters.

01:15:55.480 It's shocking that it would have to work that way, but unsurprising, sadly.

01:16:01.060 So it says as well,

01:16:02.220 some areas will retain protection from large developments and organisations like Natural England

01:16:07.500 are trying to accelerate efforts to classify parts of the English countryside as national landscapes

01:16:13.200 in order to protect them from this happening to them.

01:16:16.160 In particular, the Yorkshire Wolds and Cheshire's Sandstone Ridge are both currently unprotected

01:16:22.060 but are considered particularly vulnerable and are in line to be classified as protected areas.

01:16:26.860 Now, I've not been to the Yorkshire Wolds, but being a Cheshire man,

01:16:30.500 I'm very familiar with the Sandstone Ridge.

01:16:32.340 I've walked across parts of it.

01:16:33.880 Absolutely gorgeous walk with gorgeous views.

01:16:36.900 I hope that they're able to protect it because I do not want something like that

01:16:40.380 destroyed or ruined with these hideous eyesores put in place.

01:16:45.120 And I want that to be available for my own children to enjoy as well.

01:16:48.960 So that's quite a personal thing for me.

01:16:51.400 I don't want to see that ripped away for the sake of unreliable, terrible energy sources.

01:16:58.220 Because, of course, you can say there's obviously utility in building homes for people.

01:17:02.920 I would say that the problem is that most of these homes are being built off of the back

01:17:06.340 of mass immigration, causing such a huge spike in demand.

01:17:10.020 Robert Jenrick, what was it, 89% of the housing crisis identified in his report was due to mass

01:17:16.340 migration.

01:17:17.300 But there's nothing wrong in principle with building nicer houses, better quality houses for British

01:17:24.120 people.

01:17:24.840 This is a complete waste, a destructive farce for no reason other than for the egos of the

01:17:31.260 people who think that they're going to, what, save the world by putting up these terrible,

01:17:35.560 terrible wind turbines.

01:17:36.840 I think we really should drill, baby, drill.

01:17:39.720 I love the idea of offshore oil rigs.

01:17:43.640 Are you going to sign up for them?

01:17:45.160 I think they're engineering marvels.

01:17:46.900 And they don't hurt anyone out there.

01:17:49.240 There was a really bad disaster during the Thatchies, wasn't there?

01:17:52.900 The Alpha Piper thing where a bunch of people died.

01:17:54.880 That was terrible.

01:17:55.800 But that's very, very rare.

01:17:56.960 It's like a nuclear power station blowing up.

01:18:00.340 It's extremely, extremely rare.

01:18:02.700 And again, in the North Sea, there's huge, huge oil fields there.

01:18:08.380 But yeah, no, build these giant monstrosities on our landscape.

01:18:11.620 Sure.

01:18:11.920 Why not Ed Miliband and Angela Rayner?

01:18:14.440 Why not do that?

01:18:15.060 We're getting a 500-foot one in Swindon.

01:18:18.140 Really in Wiltshire?

01:18:19.060 Yeah, in Wiltshire.

01:18:19.920 Is it going to tower over Stonehenge?

01:18:21.940 Are they going to build it in the middle of Stonehenge, probably?

01:18:24.240 Maybe.

01:18:25.200 That would be awful.

01:18:26.620 But no, it's for an Amazon factory in Swindon.

01:18:29.100 Oh, yeah, there is a really big Amazon factory, isn't there?

01:18:30.540 Yeah, yeah, because they want to have their 100% renewable energy plans on track to meet

01:18:37.280 their goal by 2025, five years in advance.

01:18:40.520 So they're going to build an enormous 500-foot wind turbine in Swindon.

01:18:44.120 I mean, to be fair...

01:18:45.180 I'm surprised they haven't got their workers running in a hamster wheel, given how they

01:18:47.720 treat their employees.

01:18:48.420 Yeah.

01:18:49.300 It might be more efficient as well.

01:18:51.000 500-foot, which is very, very flat, the Swindon's planes and such.

01:18:54.840 You'll be able to see that from everywhere.

01:18:58.000 I will admit, there's not much you can do to make the skyline of Swindon worse.

01:19:02.340 Right.

01:19:02.620 But still, the point still stands that you're making there that, yeah, it will be visible

01:19:08.280 from a great distance.

01:19:10.280 Because I think the tallest one in England at the moment is less than 500-foot.

01:19:14.380 It's somewhere in the 450-490s.

01:19:17.040 So this will be the biggest one in Britain, or in England, so far.

01:19:21.000 We've got solar farms planned in New Forest, which are going to be equally useless.

01:19:27.180 I know that it's in the south coast of the country, but they get lots of grey, rainy

01:19:34.140 skies as well.

01:19:35.400 Solar farms only as useful as your country is sunny.

01:19:39.680 And again, talking about how rubbish most of these are, Bjorn Lomborg writing an excellent

01:19:44.100 article for the Financial Post.

01:19:45.760 He's talking more about the costs and how the costs are far too high once you count into

01:19:50.060 the fact that you have to have battery backups and fossil fuels anyway.

01:19:53.840 But it also just points to how unreliable all of these are.

01:19:58.580 He's saying that governments around the world felt that they had to spend $1.8 trillion on

01:20:05.260 a green transition last year, despite the fact that wind and solar only produce power when

01:20:10.240 the sun is shining, and the projections that they do for how efficient they will be seem

01:20:14.700 to be always based off of best case scenario.

01:20:17.100 If the sun's always shining, if the wind is always blowing, we'll be able to power it no

01:20:21.220 problem.

01:20:21.600 Oh no, that's not what happens because we live in the real world.

01:20:24.560 Guess we're going to have to spend loads of money on battery backups and fossil fuels

01:20:27.620 anyway.

01:20:28.880 I mean, it's all fine if you're talking about Arizona or Darwin in Australia.

01:20:34.580 Or Nevada.

01:20:35.420 The Isle of Wight is not really probably going to cut it, probably.

01:20:38.300 Do you know what I mean?

01:20:38.860 The Silly Isles, as nice as they are, probably is not going to quite cut it, I wouldn't have 0.96

01:20:43.220 thought, you know?

01:20:43.960 Well, maybe if we just build them bigger.

01:20:45.620 Maybe if we become even more insane in tunnel vision, things will eventually work out.

01:20:51.580 He says fossil fuels still account for two-thirds of global electricity, and why on current trends

01:20:57.060 we're a century away from eliminating their use in electricity generation, at least.

01:21:01.800 The usual way of measuring the cost of solar simply ignores its unreliability and tells us

01:21:06.380 the price when the sun is shining.

01:21:07.660 The same is true for wind energy.

01:21:08.880 If you account for a liability, their costs explode.

01:21:11.980 In 2022, one peer-reviewed study showed an increase of 11 to 42 times the cost, making

01:21:18.280 solar by far the most expensive electricity source, followed by wind.

01:21:23.120 Research shows that every winter when solar is contributing very little, Germany, for instance,

01:21:27.720 has a wind drought of five days on average when wind turbines deliver almost nothing.

01:21:32.700 So if we get anything similar up here, similar problem.

01:21:35.840 And current estimates of the cost of solar and wind also ignore the cost of recycling spent

01:21:40.340 wind turbine blades and exhausted solar panels.

01:21:43.060 Already, one small town in Texas is overflowing with thousands of enormous blades that can't

01:21:47.940 be recycled.

01:21:48.680 So these are all of the problems with it.

01:21:50.640 Is it worth destroying large swaths of the countryside over by top-down fiat because the government

01:21:56.600 has policies that say you can't do much against it?

01:21:59.540 No.

01:22:01.100 Surprisingly not.

01:22:02.240 I don't think so.

01:22:03.600 Anything to add?

01:22:04.200 No, I mean, the only green power that I've really seen working effectively is hydropower.

01:22:08.760 I lived in Canada in the 80s and 90s, and hydropower, you know, is from harnessing the power of

01:22:14.260 these mighty rivers and with the dams and so forth.

01:22:17.080 And that wasn't done for environmental reasons.

01:22:19.180 It was done simply because it worked very effectively and efficiently and year-round.

01:22:23.280 So I'm not opposed to renewables, per se, so long as they're efficient and cheap and they're

01:22:28.580 implemented in a gradual manner rather than having these arbitrary dates as we now have of

01:22:33.100 2030, which seems to have been plucked out of the air and which every single expert says it's not only

01:22:38.240 unfeasible, even if you attempted it, it would cost something well over 100 billion between now and

01:22:43.620 2030.

01:22:44.120 Yeah, on your point with the hydropower, if it worked so well, you would just do it as

01:22:49.620 a natural course of generating electricity, not by having the government force you to do

01:22:54.040 it by arbitrary means.

01:22:56.120 Anyway, with that, do we have any video comments today, Samson?

01:22:59.140 Yeah, we have two, and Samson wants us to finish at half past it if possible.

01:23:02.860 Oh, bloody hell, we'll try and speed through some of the comments then.

01:23:05.740 Something I found rather interesting about Jess's segment about Hamza Yusuf, while being interviewed

01:23:18.400 by John Sopal and saying about welcoming his third child, he was about to say welcome his

01:23:26.080 third child there, but he then caught himself and corrected himself to say here.

01:23:35.740 I'm interested to hear your thoughts on this.

01:23:39.860 Oh, it's telling, isn't it?

01:23:41.660 I think Hamza, whether he says it explicitly or not, sees himself as a representative of

01:23:46.660 foreign population and a foreign culture.

01:23:48.920 He does not actually see himself as a representative of Scotland or Scottish culture.

01:23:53.820 So that's how I see it.

01:23:55.760 Have you seen that interview?

01:23:56.720 No, I haven't, sorry.

01:23:57.940 Oh, it's annoying.

01:23:59.380 It's annoying.

01:24:00.600 Let's carry on.

01:24:01.400 People are blackfilling about the UK situation, but remember, the Tutsis were in a far more 0.94

01:24:09.180 dire scenario during the Rwanda genocide.

01:24:12.040 Remember, the Hutus were the ethnic majority that controlled the government, the police,

01:24:16.400 the army, the media, and had broad international support, all while having the Tutsi militias

01:24:22.620 completely out of position at the beginning, and yet somehow the Tutsis completely won.

01:24:27.400 Remember, it's never over, and don't drink the water.

01:24:30.280 Yeah, never, ever, ever drink the water.

01:24:34.920 I was not expecting a positive to come from looking at the Rwandan genocide.

01:24:40.100 Don't worry, guys.

01:24:41.180 It can always be better.

01:24:43.140 I've looked at the Rwandan genocide multiple times over the years.

01:24:47.140 I'm very interested.

01:24:48.060 I'm also very interested in the war in the Balkans, both of which were actually really complicated.

01:24:52.500 The war in the Balkans much more so.

01:24:53.720 Anyway, both Carl and Josh fancy themselves as knowing loads about the Rwandan genocide.

01:24:58.280 He's got the eyebrows out.

01:25:00.700 Yeah.

01:25:01.160 Not that I'm sceptical about either of their claims.

01:25:03.800 They really know what they're talking about.

01:25:05.000 Anyway, that's needlessly rude.

01:25:06.720 I think maybe me, Josh, and Carl should do a thing at one point just talking about it,

01:25:11.220 because like any good historian, the real story goes back a long, long way.

01:25:16.700 A long, long way.

01:25:17.440 It's not just like the few years running up to it.

01:25:19.480 The real story of it goes back, well, we could take it back centuries if you really wanted to,

01:25:25.740 but maybe we should do a piece about the Rwandan genocide at some point.

01:25:28.820 That would certainly be interesting, and I would watch that,

01:25:31.180 because I don't know that much about the conflict myself.

01:25:33.980 But with that, let's quickly go through the Rumble rants.

01:25:36.740 Apologies to our regular commenters.

01:25:38.700 We do have the pub quiz in half an hour, so remember to tune in for that,

01:25:43.220 and there'll be plenty of interaction there.

01:25:44.720 So Josie Angels on Rumble for $2, thank you, says,

01:25:48.640 Thanks for having Rafe on.

01:25:49.800 I could listen to him all day.

01:25:51.320 Looking forward to Lads Hour.

01:25:52.640 Let the bloodbath begin. 0.98

01:25:54.500 Me and Stelios aren't going to do that badly.

01:25:56.620 Come on.

01:25:59.480 We've got Windpill Seeker for $1 saying, regarding my segment,

01:26:03.940 Bo is right.

01:26:04.660 It would be arrogance to attribute ignorance to longstanding pattern of evil.

01:26:10.040 Your leaders aren't dumb.

01:26:11.160 They are importing a population that will keep you in check. 1.00

01:26:13.560 They have security.

01:26:15.020 I personally do think it's a mix of both.

01:26:17.740 I think they have malicious intent and are insane,

01:26:21.300 mainly because of the fact that they are working to the detriment of their own quality of life

01:26:26.920 and the quality of life of their own children as well in the future.

01:26:30.260 I said this to Richard Tyus, to his face, two or three years ago,

01:26:32.640 whenever it was I interviewed him, he tried to say it was just incompetence.

01:26:36.280 Oops, we're accidentally letting people come across the channel every single day.

01:26:41.400 Oops, and I was saying, it's not incompetence.

01:26:43.840 It cannot be.

01:26:45.360 Anyway.

01:26:46.700 Windpill Seeker again says,

01:26:47.860 The point of giving your taxes to them is if you ever rise to rally and show your numbers for your rights peacefully,

01:26:53.540 it will become a false flag to label you Islamophobes by all establishment institutions.

01:27:00.660 I don't know necessarily if I follow the logic of that coming from taxes.

01:27:05.900 That seems to just be more a function of government power and collusion with the media class.

01:27:12.520 Josie again for $5 says, 0.97

01:27:14.260 Can Iger, that's Bob Iger, be getting enough subsidies or guarantees from BlackRock or Davos that they won't go bankrupt?

01:27:20.540 Does the WEF have enough in the bank to keep this sort of thing going?

01:27:23.740 Yeah, there is the BlackRock connection with Disney.

01:27:27.760 So perhaps ultimately they don't need their own shareholders, but still, I don't think that's really...

01:27:34.820 That's not really the case.

01:27:36.040 They know there's a crisis because they had to get rid of the previous CEO, Chapek, to put in Iger, 0.74

01:27:39.980 so they realise that something's amiss.

01:27:42.480 Yeah.

01:27:43.360 And Sad Wings Raging for $20.

01:27:45.840 Thank you very much.

01:27:46.640 There's a segment on Churchill's Gestapo speech seems in order now.

01:27:50.660 No longer servants, no longer civil.

01:27:52.420 Might be interesting.

01:27:54.260 I'm not familiar with that one.

01:27:56.060 Windpill Seeker again.

01:27:57.420 Malthusians never win the Simon Ehrlich wager. 0.99

01:28:01.220 There is no group of experts more consistently wrong than TV environmentalists and TV economists.

01:28:07.200 They all buy beach houses, 100% nimbyists. 1.00

01:28:10.540 This is true, although you mentioned Milton Friedman.

01:28:12.880 Milton Friedman did actually used to have a very useful economics TV show back in the 1980s,

01:28:17.680 which you can find on YouTube.

01:28:19.060 Still worth watching.

01:28:20.500 Windpill Seeker again says,

01:28:22.000 Well, I like your economists.

01:28:25.080 Brokonomics is great. 0.92

01:28:26.440 That's Dan's show.

01:28:27.440 Yes, it is very good.

01:28:29.120 I've appeared on it once or twice.

01:28:30.380 It's well worth a watch.

01:28:31.520 With that, that's all we've got time for.

01:28:33.240 Thank you very, very much for tuning into the podcast.

01:28:36.220 Rafe, anything you'd like to say before we go out?

01:28:38.280 Anywhere you'd like to direct people to where they can find your work?

01:28:40.780 Oh, well, do you follow me on Twitter, RAFHM, or my YouTube channel?

01:28:45.800 Just Google my name on YouTube, and do please follow and subscribe if you want to see more

01:28:50.860 of this sort of stuff produced by me or my think tank, The New Culture Forum.

01:28:55.120 There you go.

01:28:56.220 Well, thank you very much.

01:28:57.160 We'll see you again in half an hour for the pub quiz.

01:28:59.560 See you then.

01:29:00.020 Bye.

01:29:02.420 Bye.

01:29:03.380 Bye.

01:29:04.840 Bye.

01:29:06.760 Bye.

01:29:07.680 Bye.

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