The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - June 12, 2026


Will Makerfield Back Restore Britain?


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00:00:00.000 Good morning, I'm Luca from the Lotus Eaters reporting to you from Abrams, the district of Abrams here in Makersfield.
00:00:07.440 On my way up to Wigging yesterday, I was delayed by conspiracy by Big Rail, and now it seems that big weather is also trying to stop our activists on the ground.
00:00:17.600 But I can tell you it's not working. We've just been over to the forward command centre for where our activists are going out in the ground,
00:00:26.160 otherwise known of course as the local pub and they're now going about throughout the day you
00:00:31.800 know knocking on the doors and canvassing around the local constituency. One of the things that's
00:00:37.980 really encouraging as well is that even in weather such as this we had about 12 dozen 13 people
00:00:45.380 there ready to go out campaigning and of those about half of them were in fact first-time canvassers
00:00:52.060 as well who'd never done anything like this before and so the fact that they've come out
00:00:56.700 in this weather on the Thursday morning is very very encouraging indeed and we look forward to
00:01:03.260 keeping an eye on them throughout the day and reporting back to you on what we see on the door.
00:01:07.660 Well we're back at the pub after a few hours campaigning out in the pouring rain I'm suitably
00:01:13.420 sodden from it all and honestly some really encouraging stuff seeing on the door you know
00:01:19.660 people have been received, our canvassers going out there and, you know, having genuinely long
00:01:25.260 conversations. There seems to be a genuine amount of public interest on the door. Obviously, this is
00:01:30.480 from constituencies and streets that haven't had Restore Britain canvassers knocking on them so far
00:01:35.920 and very, very encouraging to see. One thing I will say is that I've been interested to see
00:01:42.220 how many people actually locally as well are sticking firmly to Labour in all of this as well.
00:01:49.380 I have personally thought that perhaps after the Boris 2019 election and the collapse of the Red Wall, that voters might be a little bit more pliable and a little more open minded about the options available to them.
00:02:03.960 But there does seem to be still a firm hold for Labour here as well.
00:02:08.420 But what is genuinely encouraging is to see that that is breaking and that actually some people are looking for genuine political answers to the great questions of our time.
00:02:20.200 They're looking for answers to what party is going to address mass immigration, what party is going to protect women and girls, what party is going to cut away at the net zero nonsense.
00:02:31.360 and also as well we've also had a talk of farming on the door as well and agriculture 0.61
00:02:37.120 which has been surprising but interesting and so Restore Britain seem to be received pretty well
00:02:44.720 on the door so far and I look forward to coming back to you with some interviews with some of
00:02:49.620 the canvassers who've been out there personally knocking themselves. Hello well I'm here joined
00:02:55.000 by Jake who's been out here campaigning this morning in the pouring rain absolute patriot.
00:02:59.800 Jake, how have you been finding canvassing so far?
00:03:03.340 I'm completely new to it.
00:03:04.640 I've never done anything like this before.
00:03:06.220 So it's interesting to actually go out on my way to do it
00:03:09.060 and to get the experience of having done it.
00:03:11.420 So far, I've had some positive results.
00:03:16.000 I had some people saying that they're definitely going to vote for Labour.
00:03:18.560 I had some people saying that I'm definitely voting for a store.
00:03:22.800 A lot of people didn't answer the door.
00:03:24.280 I suppose that's to be expected on a Thursday morning as well.
00:03:27.320 And I'd say it's been positive.
00:03:29.800 And as someone who this is your first time coming to the experience of canvassing for a party,
00:03:36.200 what drew you to Restore Britain to actually go that extra step and put in the legwork on the ground?
00:03:44.320 Over the past 10, 15 years, I've really been, it began in the beginning as noticing a few things here or there.
00:03:52.060 And over time, I began to realise, no, my country is very poorly run.
00:03:56.500 Everything seems to be very much inverted.
00:03:58.520 there seems to be a lot of very nasty things going on in this country and there seems to be
00:04:04.400 absolutely no political will to solve it and every time people promise they'll do something they are
00:04:11.380 they'll just outright lie and not do it or they're actually complicit in or profit from it in some
00:04:16.640 way or another and over the time i began to notice more and more things like this and it got to the
00:04:23.100 point where it's just I'm so sick of it there needs to be a way of resolving it and I felt
00:04:28.180 almost like a moral compulsion to do something this is my home and
00:04:32.220 and when restore Britain came about it seemed really the most credible means of doing it
00:04:39.600 something like restore it seemed good in the beginning but then I look at someone like Nigel
00:04:44.920 Farage he seems kind of a bit of a flip-flop it's of um I heard the phrase like use car salesman
00:04:53.080 kind of a bit sleazy and and the reform party seems seems to be filled with people who will
00:05:00.360 jump ship from the tory party um and someone like rupert low himself and i when i actually
00:05:08.120 listened to him speak he has a certain gravitas about him a certain force of will and especially
00:05:15.160 one thing that you know the rape gang inquiry especially he said we're going to do it he
00:05:21.480 fundraised it and was it crowdsourcing and then you actually done it and the
00:05:27.540 result should be released fairly soon I believe and to actually go and do that
00:05:33.860 it requires to you put yourself out there and a lot of people are going to
00:05:40.540 hate you for just standing up for what's right so I'm joined here by Neil Neil
00:05:46.040 would you tell me a bit about how involved you are with restore and how
00:05:50.920 you felt it's been going out? Yeah, I've come up from Derbyshire. I'm the constituency organiser
00:05:56.740 for Derbyshire Dales and we've come up, a couple of us, and there might be more have come up to
00:06:02.000 one of the other areas, but two of us come up today together to help support Rebecca Shepard
00:06:07.860 because it's important to get any more MPs in and essentially to show up the failure that
00:06:16.960 the alternative of just people continuing to vote for uniparty candidates i spoke to one young chap
00:06:24.400 who was he was giving the line that he's been fed about oh dear we might split the vote and i was
00:06:31.360 pointing out to him well you know if you're going to vote for robert kenyan then you're voting for
00:06:36.000 somebody who's allying himself with the likes of zahawi who was would have been very keen to keep
00:06:41.780 everybody locked down um and wanted passports to be able to go to a pub and i remarked on the
00:06:48.340 recent attempted murder in belfast by somebody who was let in by the immigration minister kenrick
00:06:54.640 a generic rather and um and suella braverman and how anybody can bring themselves to vote for a
00:07:03.740 party that's got those characters in it i do not know i mean even if the if the local candidate
00:07:10.260 was a saint and clearly the local you know their local candidate has received a lot of talk about
00:07:19.820 oh he said this and he said that and I made the observation that's a minor detail compared to the
00:07:25.180 fact that he would ally himself with the likes of Zahawi, Jenrick and Braverman and somebody like
00:07:32.400 Farage who'll just twist wherever the wind's blowing and follow it up by handing over to
00:07:39.740 somebody else who's um who's influenced him in some manner that suited him so anyway that young
00:07:48.500 chap um who's who's never seen anything good um i made the observation to him that you know if we
00:07:56.600 if we consider the the previous bit of uniparty regime and the the 13 years hard labor we had
00:08:07.360 before that that in his aid because I would take a guess he's probably about your vintage
00:08:12.800 that he's never seen anything better so he's got no hope of knowing that there could have
00:08:18.720 been anything better but we've really got to turn things around and we're not going to do it by
00:08:24.180 people going oh dear well if I if I don't vote for what I think if I just vote for the least
00:08:30.160 worst option then we'll maybe get away with it so anyway I've got Rebecca to go and have a word
00:08:36.360 with him and i think he i think we've got his vote and um how long have you been out campaigning
00:08:41.940 around maker field uh today we've done about about two hours out in the rain and it's been
00:08:47.600 absolutely torrential i make the observation to people that uh skin's waterproof but um my
00:08:53.720 waterproof skin is just meaning it's funneling down and into my boots but um it's not the first
00:08:59.960 time i've been prepared to get wet for things i believe in and uh sometimes you've just got to
00:09:04.580 make a bit of a sacrifice because the state of the nation is far more important than me being a bit
00:09:09.880 damp and uncomfortable. And whilst I actually have the opportunity to speak to you as well,
00:09:15.120 even though of course we're here sat in Makerfield for this by-election, it will be interesting to
00:09:19.700 hear your thoughts as well about how Restore Britain's message has been received in your
00:09:23.980 local Derbyshire. In Derbyshire I've got quite a good number of members and the difficulty in any
00:09:32.780 of rural constituency is that in ours where it's 40 miles from one end to the other compared to
00:09:38.060 here where it's a fairly short distance then to try and get people together is always going to
00:09:42.640 be a challenge but we need them to come together and I've put in place because one thing I mean
00:09:49.440 previously I was a member of the other party but it was um it was absolutely shambolic and they
00:10:01.160 talked about it being grassroots but in fact the reality of it was that when we at the local level
00:10:08.360 with them decided that we'd like Ed Oakenfull as our campaign manager word came down from on high
00:10:15.120 no you can't because they'd already stabbed him in the back prior to the general election by hiring
00:10:21.180 hope not hate to do a hit piece on him so um you know i've i've seen that the difficulties of
00:10:29.800 dealing with that when you've got a party that wants absolute total control and everybody under
00:10:36.340 their thumb but mercifully um the party that rupert's put together here is is quite the
00:10:42.980 opposite so i've been given a free reign to do things as i see fit and until people start to
00:10:48.180 stop telling me no you're doing it terribly wrong then I'll persist the approach I'm taking is that
00:10:54.140 in each of the wards because we're fairly scattered that we'll have a ward leader and we're going to
00:11:00.500 keep going and dotting around all the wards so that we can get amongst people and also put in
00:11:08.160 things that are going to bring people together so I want people to be able to have more in the way
00:11:16.520 of local societies so we're not just going out when today is an as a necessity we've got to go
00:11:22.080 out put leaflets through doors and so on but we need to build um a wider team that's through more
00:11:32.480 of more of society than just people who are members of the party we need to be able to offer
00:11:37.200 them a bit more so i'm looking at doing things like highway surveys surveys so when we're just
00:11:42.500 doing routine canvassing we'll go out and we'll do a highway survey we might do a litter pick i
00:11:47.660 think litter picks are a bit cliche but there's still a thing to do there's always litter to pick
00:11:52.060 up it seems um so there's um just for the benefit of the camera chap over there is trying to feed
00:11:59.360 me but it can wait a moment um be slightly confusing otherwise so yes you know i'm trying
00:12:06.620 to do things like that and trying to get more activity so that we become part of the infrastructure
00:12:12.760 that people are used to seeing in their constituency rather than somebody they only see
00:12:17.920 when there's um you know when there's going to be a local election well that's wonderful thank you
00:12:22.880 for your insights and uh obviously after a long cold walk around the constituency i shan't keep
00:12:28.340 you from you from a nice hot lunch in the pub so you're going to enjoy that sir thank you for your
00:12:32.780 time. Well as I say we've been out canvassing around the local constituency this morning and
00:12:39.220 amongst the activists of course with Restore Britain inspires a lot of passion and people
00:12:43.460 have come from very far away. We've had some activists who've come from as far as Southampton
00:12:49.080 but I actually have the fortune to be sat with a gentleman here who's come from even further away
00:12:54.560 so would you care to introduce yourself sir? Yeah sure my name's Lucas Morgan I was born in Melbourne
00:13:00.220 in Australia my mum is from Scotland and my father's side of the family is from Yorkshire
00:13:05.260 so one week ago today I was in Australia and and that was enough is enough so I got on the
00:13:12.060 flights on Friday landed here Saturday and then started getting to work and so I mean it's a
00:13:19.040 fascinating story would you tell me a bit about like how you came to discover Restore Britain
00:13:24.200 all the way, sorry, all the way, you know, over in Australia
00:13:27.760 and why its message resonated with you so much
00:13:30.880 that you were willing to travel all that way to come and campaign?
00:13:35.460 Well, I think I was living mostly in Belgrade, Australia,
00:13:39.680 so going back and forth.
00:13:40.760 And I knew about Restore, I guess, just by being part of the zeitgeist,
00:13:45.560 I guess, you know, no matter where you are, you get affected by everything,
00:13:49.800 even in Belgrade, especially in Australia.
00:13:52.900 So I was aware of Restore back when it was just a movement.
00:13:56.120 And I sort of had a path then.
00:13:57.900 I thought this is something I think we're on the right track here finally.
00:14:01.740 And then when it became a party, I was starting to think, uh-oh,
00:14:04.940 I might actually have to jump in here.
00:14:07.100 So at the start of this year, I was at the University of Notre Dame
00:14:11.520 in Western Australia studying medicine, first year med student.
00:14:15.000 And then after a week, because I thought, all right,
00:14:18.620 I can be a rich doctor.
00:14:19.760 I can escape what's coming.
00:14:22.200 but being there at that institution and all the universities in Australia are the same,
00:14:26.260 they're completely captured by Marxism, especially race Marxism.
00:14:30.180 After one week there, it was obvious that I can't escape it by being rich.
00:14:35.020 I can't escape it by living in Australia or Belgrade or Eastern Europe.
00:14:38.820 It's coming.
00:14:39.600 We have to fight for our civilization.
00:14:42.080 So after a week of school, that was it.
00:14:44.460 I packed up shop.
00:14:45.860 I sold everything, said goodbye to people, and now I'm here.
00:14:49.820 Look, it's me.
00:14:50.480 I mean, there's some major commitment.
00:14:53.000 And why do you feel like Rupert Lowe and Restore Britain
00:14:56.460 are the party that is worthy of such commitment?
00:15:00.520 Good question.
00:15:01.720 I think it's the directness and the honesty.
00:15:04.680 No politician is perfect, but Rupert Lowe, I've seen,
00:15:08.240 is the least politician I've ever seen.
00:15:11.440 He's adamant, he's straightforward, he's direct.
00:15:14.660 I like the fact that he's a farmer, he's from the land.
00:15:17.220 I know he's a businessman as well,
00:15:18.180 but there's something in the honesty and the directness of the vision
00:15:21.880 for the future for Britain and for Western civilisation
00:15:25.080 and to me that I respect honesty and directness.
00:15:29.320 Before I was studying medicine, I was in the Australian Army
00:15:31.740 for about 10 years and to me, honesty and being a man of principle
00:15:38.580 is the most important thing.
00:15:40.480 You know, it's like when I was at school, I could have been, you know,
00:15:43.720 a rich doctor, GP somewhere, but the cost was not only my future, but my soul in a way.
00:15:50.960 You know, so with Rupert, I don't see a God.
00:15:53.700 I don't see a perfect man, but I see someone that you can get behind and follow and I'm
00:15:57.960 happy to do so.
00:15:59.220 And how have you found in your time around Makerfield campaigning for the by-election
00:16:03.960 for Restore Britain, how have you found that message about authenticity and trust resonating
00:16:09.320 on the doorstep?
00:16:10.140 Because I imagine after all of this time and everything the British public have gone through,
00:16:14.560 they are probably quite suspicious and lacking in trust of people who say they'll come along and fix things.
00:16:20.860 Yeah, well, it's interesting you brought that up.
00:16:23.060 I can't escape my accent and I don't mind it, honestly.
00:16:26.660 But when I knock on the door and it's raining, I've got the beard and I say,
00:16:31.580 G'day, mate, how you going?
00:16:33.200 You know what?
00:16:33.800 It actually works because it forces people to just go, oh, hold on a sec, who's this?
00:16:38.700 But I found the people around here to be absolutely lovely.
00:16:42.180 Even the people who are dead set Labor supporters,
00:16:45.140 at the end of the day, even if I don't agree with them politically,
00:16:47.360 they are my brothers and sisters.
00:16:48.820 So even with them, I have a good chat.
00:16:51.120 I found the people here to be really, really accommodating and nice.
00:16:55.220 Yeah, so I'm happy to be here, even if it's pissing down.
00:16:59.300 Who cares? Let's get the job done.
00:17:01.040 Well, welcome to Britain on that front, for sure.
00:17:03.340 You've long left the sunny beaches of Australia behind you.
00:17:07.340 But honestly, it's a pleasure to have you here and thank you for your work.
00:17:10.940 Hello. I've now been out for the afternoon session of campaigning.
00:17:14.860 I've met Rebecca Shepard and been watching her go about as she's obviously pitching herself to be the Restore Britain candidate for the people of Makerfield. 0.54
00:17:24.980 Honestly, very personable on the doorstep as well.
00:17:28.080 She's been having some good conversations with a lot of voters that surprisingly here are not really looking to vote at all.
00:17:35.540 are entirely disenchanted by the entire affair of modern British politics.
00:17:40.440 Also, along the streets that we've been campaigning on as well,
00:17:43.220 there's been a lot of signs in windows just saying,
00:17:45.660 do not disturb, do not vote.
00:17:47.260 We've had too many leaflets.
00:17:48.940 No more leaflets, thank you.
00:17:50.560 In fact, on one of these occasions, I had the pleasure.
00:17:53.740 The gentleman was a little bit startled to see us, of course,
00:17:56.380 you know, going about filming near to his house.
00:17:59.160 But he was actually kind enough.
00:18:00.420 And once he came out and saw what we were doing,
00:18:02.480 was very gentlemanly,
00:18:03.520 even though he was very animated and frustrated by the entire affair of clearly having a by-election in Makerfield at all
00:18:10.500 and being disturbed so consistently on the street.
00:18:15.040 And so there is, honestly, the general feeling that I get out here is apathy, distrust, disgust, frankly, at the entire campaign itself.
00:18:26.140 You just have people using Makerfield for political ends.
00:18:29.600 but insofar as Rebecca has been going around and the people that she has been able to speak to and
00:18:35.480 who have been happy to be approached on the doorstep, the message does seem to be cutting
00:18:40.260 through very well indeed. We're back at the sanctuary of the pub again after an afternoon's
00:18:45.920 worth of canvassing and campaigning and I'm joined here by a gentleman who's just thoroughly defeated
00:18:51.480 me over at the pool table further on in the pub. So Sir, would you like to introduce yourself and
00:18:56.660 say where you've come up from to campaign for Restore? Yeah, my name's Jimmy. I've come up from
00:19:01.300 Islington in London. Yeah, I'm a North London boy. Yeah, I mean, it's a bit of a drive. Four hours in
00:19:07.140 the car, but well worth it. Wonderful. And why the journey? Why come up so far in the car? Why
00:19:13.600 go out and canvas for Restore Britain? What's so special about them? I can't explain it. There's a
00:19:21.240 drive within me. There's something pulling me towards just helping and doing what I can. I've
00:19:25.980 never been into politics my whole life um but Rupert Lowe he speaks to me um as he does for so
00:19:32.420 many others who I'm now connecting with and I just feel a part of something that is growing and much
00:19:37.840 needed for this country yeah you feel like you uh you trust the party and uh the people involved in
00:19:43.840 it and um etc yeah that's a big word trust I've never trusted anyone in government it's been
00:19:49.420 yeah I mean I just he's there for us he's representing us he's saying things that
00:19:54.560 most mps won't even wouldn't wouldn't dare you know and uh when you've been going out canvassing
00:20:00.160 for these past few days as you have how is uh that message being received on the doorstep
00:20:04.840 you know it's been good actually we've i've not had many haters i mean there's a few stunt store
00:20:09.380 uh labor supporters you know they'll just maybe show you off with a with a mop i saw that yesterday
00:20:15.280 uh that was quite interesting uh quite funny really but you know it's um it's been a good
00:20:20.200 response really people are open to listen uh to listening to what you've got to say um a lot of
00:20:25.340 people are set on what they want to to vote for and who they want to vote for but there's also a
00:20:30.520 lot of undecided and uh it is between i think you know us and reform we are from what i can tell
00:20:36.040 we're neck and neck yeah i've heard on the ground as well i've um as i've come back here in the pub
00:20:41.320 of course you understand that not necessarily everyone who goes out canvassing wants to put
00:20:45.960 their face on camera but from a lot of people that i've been saying as well they have been
00:20:49.860 changing minds on the doorstep as well people are seeming very receptive to Restore's messaging
00:20:55.860 what do you think it is about Restore that's you know hitting on their concerns? I think
00:21:02.640 I mean immigration is a big one I think people are genuinely fearful of their safety for future 1.00
00:21:08.840 generations there's a lot of people here that maybe shouldn't be here or I say maybe that 0.99
00:21:13.560 shouldn't be here uh they need to go um and um you know i i'm i'm sick of being feeling shameful
00:21:20.560 about even you know saying that you know rupus give us the go to just not care anymore and um
00:21:26.900 how do you think that um reform are feeling right now about um having such you know a new rival on
00:21:34.300 the block from what you're seeing of uh obviously reform people that you've spoken to and people who
00:21:39.560 talk about splitting the vote how how do you think you know you would appeal to those people
00:21:44.420 i if anyone's splitting the vote i think reform are now um i saw a clip of farage uh earlier today
00:21:53.080 i think rupert posted it uh he was asked about restore and how he felt about us um
00:21:58.760 coming up and taking taking votes and he you know he could you could tell that he was he was
00:22:03.660 genuinely concerned about what's happening here i suppose one of the things about uh nigel farage
00:22:09.000 being in the public eye for so long
00:22:11.040 is that you can tell his tics.
00:22:13.000 You can tell when he gets nervous about that.
00:22:14.660 You know what his, you know, sort of giveaways are.
00:22:18.940 He's not our guy.
00:22:20.380 Faraj is not our man.
00:22:21.340 I think people can see right through it.
00:22:22.860 You know, he's not the guy for us.
00:22:24.160 He's not for the people.
00:22:25.380 He's not, he's a flip-flopper.
00:22:27.120 He keeps going back on himself, you know.
00:22:29.500 And if I could as well,
00:22:31.100 how, to what extent do you feel like
00:22:32.960 the message of Restore Britain
00:22:34.920 would actually resonate with Englishmen and women
00:22:38.040 throughout London as well obviously you come from there you know those neighborhoods and you've spent
00:22:42.840 a lot of your life around them so for a lot of those people who perhaps very demoralized because
00:22:47.980 they live in London what would you say to those people? I would say there is hope London feels
00:22:53.160 like it's lost it doesn't feel like it doesn't feel like England like Great Britain it doesn't
00:22:59.300 feel like um a home i think for a lot of english londoners um anymore and uh i think
00:23:07.560 i think this will give them hope this movement this this party is um something they can get
00:23:15.400 behind and uh find their voice is there any a parting message you want to say to people who
00:23:22.160 might be listening about why they should vote for restore britain and why these are this is the
00:23:26.960 party for them to put their trust in and you know lend their support to yeah i mean if you're not
00:23:33.600 familiar with our party with restore britain listen to rupert lowe you know join us become a
00:23:42.320 member be part of the movement be part of the change um there's there's a there's a genuine
00:23:47.720 alternative to what we're used to now there's there's i mean i i wouldn't say that if i didn't
00:23:53.400 believe it. It's intuition that's happening within me. It's a feeling that I want to get behind and
00:24:00.520 be a part of. And yeah, I'm very grateful to be here and to be a part of this foundation,
00:24:08.760 this movement, this change. Wonderful. Well, Jimmy, thank you very much for your time, sir.
00:24:14.040 Thank you. We're now up in Northmakerfield. And as you can see here from behind me,
00:24:19.480 This is a very, very strong street for Reform UK.
00:24:24.140 However, I will just say that we have heard murmurings, rumours about that actually there's going to be a bit of an event happening later on.
00:24:32.760 Well, as you can see, a street that once had garden signs for Reform UK now has a full array of signs for Restore Britain.
00:24:43.160 The gentlemen and the homeowners didn't wish to actually be on camera themselves,
00:24:46.800 but it was really something to see as all of the Reform UK banners were put down and Restore Britain have gone up.
00:24:54.080 They were waiting for something like Restore Britain to come along, but they were thinking of waiting for 2029.
00:25:00.360 But they've decided to strike out ahead. They've been inspired by the message of Restore Britain.
00:25:05.920 They've been inspired by the message of Rupert Lowe and what he's been doing in Parliament.
00:25:10.920 And they've also been very respired by the message of Rebecca Shepard, the candidate for Restore Britain here in Makerfield as well, particularly with some of the residents of these houses having, of course, younger daughters as well and being very concerned for the safety of their daughters, obviously, with all of the horrors that we're seeing now, you know, sort of happening on a weekly basis around the United Kingdom.
00:25:35.840 And so that's something that's really struck well and obviously changed their support to restore Britain.
00:25:43.060 So Patriots in control.
00:25:45.440 Well, we're now concluding Thursday's events on the ground here in Makerfield.
00:25:50.420 I finally dried out after the absolute deluge this morning.
00:25:55.100 And honestly, as well, despite the grey overcast skies, I feel like a weather reporter here,
00:26:00.380 we're actually, yeah, everyone's spirits are feeling pretty sunny, to be honest.
00:26:03.640 I mean, after obviously what we've seen from the display in the street and all of those banners going to restore Britain, even though there is a amount of apathy and even fatigue on the doorstep now with everything that's going on with the local by-election and people, residents just being tired of people knocking on doors.
00:26:21.620 one thing i will say as well is that um there have been um some very enthusiastic um honks
00:26:27.800 you know and cheers from people as they've been driving by as well they've seen us in that you
00:26:32.680 know a lot of the the activists of course in their restore britain t-shirts and with their gear
00:26:37.560 and they've been very very enthusiastic and it's been quite consistent as well truth be told
00:26:42.700 sorry we're filming for the by election it's all very encouraging as you can see i hope we got that
00:26:50.160 camera. So that woman there, she's also been in favour of Restore Britain as well, which is
00:26:55.180 absolutely fantastic. So word is truly getting spread. And let's just say, I think that Nigel
00:27:02.160 Farage had every reason to be rubbing his face in worrying shame this morning.