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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 14th of September 2021.
	I'm joined by Leo.
	Hello!
	Good to have you back again.
	Also, we're talking today about the American Hunger Games, the comedians who are getting cancelled left, right and centre.
	Lefty ones this time.
	Yeah, which is bad, but I'm enjoying it.
	But also the riot shields of love, because the police are now insisting that their love riot shields are definitely for love and not for hate.
	But if you, the public, picked up their riot shields, then it would be for hate.
	Yeah.
	And also the whole concept of hate crime means that it's the perception of whoever, of the witness.
	So if I perceive it to be hateful, it doesn't matter if they intend it to be loving.
	Apparently not.
	It's hateful.
	It's a hate crime.
	No.
	If the police disagree, police opinion apparently holds more weight.
	Overrides!
	Yeah.
	Oh my god.
	We'll get into it.
	It's a great story from Harry Miller.
	A couple of things to mention first.
	Stuff on the website.
	So new premium articles we have.
	Some of them...
	I think this one went up over the weekend.
	So this is from Hugo.
	The new normal is upon us.
	So go and check that one out.
	And also the next one being the Tories and the NHS, which are a difficult relationship, let's say.
	But also the last information, of course, is the live event we're doing.
	So 24th and 25th of September.
	I believe the 25th is sold out because that's a slightly smaller venue.
	There are still tickets available for the 24th, the Friday of September, if you'd like to come and watch Colin Dankula.
	And also, I'm on the 25th.
	And I might possibly be on the 24th.
	What part of a secret guest do you know?
	Oh, right!
	I didn't know I was a secret!
	Well, there you go!
	I guess if it's sold out, we'll see if a lot of cancellations come in.
	Then they'll be disappointed at the level, the calibre of secret guest.
	A secret guest who fails his number one.
	I've got one job, and that's to be a secret.
	I'm just a guest.
	I finished one speech.
	Carl's doing his other one.
	I don't know what we're going to do for the other two at this point, but we'll do something that'll be good.
	I know the one I'm going to be doing on immigration policy is going to be fun, at least.
	Anyway, not going to ruin that one, because that one's a secret.
	Let's get into the American Hunger Games.
	I love this so much.
	So I'm calling this the American Hunger Games because it really looks like the capital out of the Hunger Games.
	And this happens on occasion whenever the people in the, what do you call it, the coastal elites, as the Americans like to call them, get together because they look absurd.
	And I thought we'd go through an event over the weekend, which is, not the weekend, it was yesterday actually, which is absurdist.
	So the first one here being Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
	The medium is the message.
	What she done?
	She put on a dress with Tax the Rich painted over her arse.
	Because stunning and brave.
	Yeah.
	Oh, and completely no hypocrisy there at all.
	I mean, it's like, what, that's going to be like £500,000 worth of, like, Gucci or Givenchy or something like that?
	No, no, no.
	She's done very well.
	She went out of her way, she says in the text underneath her post, proud to work with, at whoever, a sustainably focused black woman immigrant designer.
	Black woman immigrant.
	Of course.
	Yeah, of course.
	Probably from Nigeria, Liberia.
	You know, she's really gone out of her way to get an underprivileged black designer from around the world.
	No, she's from Canada.
	An immigrant.
	My fashion designer is an immigrant.
	Black lives.
	From Canada.
	Amazing.
	She immigrated from Toronto.
	And the hypocrisy of having this, I mean, I'm assuming that's not, you know, she didn't get it for $45 in TK Maxx.
	That is, you know, some sort of bespoke coutier.
	What do you say?
	Coutier?
	I don't know.
	I'm not into the fashion scene at all.
	Yeah, I can't even say the words.
	But my interest in this is not from a fashion perspective, of course, because all fashion is trash.
	At least the staff that gets represented here, and you'll see why I'm saying that in a minute.
	But the designer here, I thought, was actually quite interesting, because I looked her up, and if you go to her Wikipedia, they have the 15% pledge attached.
	Apparently this is an organization she founded, which encourages retailers to pledge at least 15% of their shelf space to black-owned businesses.
	It's like, okay, so it's literally a black jizya.
	You know what the jizya is?
	No.
	So in the Muslim world, if you're a non-believer, then you have to pay a special tax to exist.
	Right.
	That's the deal.
	Right.
	Which is, you know, die or pay tax.
	So pay the tax.
	And the funny thing here, it's like, yeah, we're going to segregate off 15% of the shelf space at your grocery store to be black-only businesses.
	It's like, why?
	Why not just the best product?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	The best, the cheapest.
	I think if people did that, then if you're distorting the marketplace, you're actually doing a disservice to black-owned businesses that provide a competitive product.
	You're literally saying they can't compete with the white products?
	Yeah.
	Absolutely.
	And a lot of times, you know, charity, anything that distorts a market actually, you know, long term can do a lot of damage.
	Like we saw this with aid, overseas aid.
	So, you know, they go into, you know, a country that's got suffering from a famine and they dump food.
	They basically, you know, just provide free food.
	Then the...
	Destroys the local market.
	The local market can't, you know, the farmers can't, there's no incentive for them to grow crops, so they stop growing crops, they go bankrupt and whatever, and then when the foreign aid stops, it makes them completely dependent on, you know, foreign aid, which is absolutely the opposite of what should be happening.
	But yeah, she's a wokest, but I mean, you're surprised she's working for AOC. But if we go back to the gala here, you can see AOC looking very smug.
	Very, very smug with her arse.
	I like how that's her entire career, though.
	I love in about 10 years or 5 years, whenever she starts going grey and wrinkly, it's just like, yeah, that's over.
	No one's going to pay an interest again anyway.
	So you can see here, Democratic Representative AOC wears a tax-the-risk dress at the Met Gala, where a ticket costs US $30,000 to attend.
	What?
	And do they have 15% allocated to people on welfare so they can come and enjoy some champagne and rub shoulders with the glitterati?
	I don't know.
	I mean, AOC here is actually a diversity attendee, let's say, because she didn't pay for a ticket.
	So if we go to the next one here, she's talking about the fact that she got it for free, that $30,000 ticket.
	A free ticket?
	But everyone else there paid $30,000.
	Right, the rich people did.
	Yeah, so that's the thing on my mind, which is that, yeah, okay, you might be able to say that she didn't pay for a ticket, therefore the tax the rich thing, of course it's not, because it's still going to be paid for, and also she's rich.
	But then the fact that you're in an event where everyone's got to pay 30 grand just to attend, and everyone else is like, oh, stunning and brave, clap, clap, clap.
	This reminds me, my mate was at Davos, and they had a diversity and inclusion zone.
	With separate waterfowl and zone.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	You're just included.
	You're just inclusive in this area.
	Not the rest of Davos, but, you know, June Sarpong was in there, you know, drinking champagne.
	And it's just, you know, it's the opposite.
	These people are the most privileged elites.
	And they're like, you know, talking about diversity and inclusion.
	Like, why don't you get Barry?
	Get Barry from Skagnes.
	Big Baz.
	Down in Davos.
	I'm sure he'd love some champagne.
	Inclusion zone.
	Segregated champagne.
	What happens?
	This really feels like her Marie Antoinette moment.
	It couldn't be worse if she wrote Tax the Rich on the side of a Learjet.
	Or a limo or something like that.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Anyway, so here's a guy making a point, which is another Babylon Bee prophecy has not been fulfilled.
	So this was the Babylon Bee writing a joke article back in the day, saying AOC now selling a tax-the-rich caviar for $10,000 a can.
	And then she goes to an event where you guys pay $30,000 to attend.
	fantastic there was a there was a russian guy i saw on my timeline who made a good point though which is that if you actually look at the percentage of americans so we go the next one there's a russian guy making a point that i can't read that yeah you can hit translate if you want but the the one percent of americans to be in the one percent you have to have 361 000 dollars apparently now so even if you were in the one percent you'd have to spend 10 of your income before taxes to even attend this thing we're Yeah.
	So that just gives you a perspective of how elite of elite the situation is.
	But then the top 1%, that's like 4 million people.
	So that's still quite a lot of people.
	They couldn't all attend anyway.
	The idea that, oh, it's the 1%.
	No, this is like the point, point, point.
	Yeah, the point, point, 0.001%.
	The people who understand how percentages work.
	Anyway, the lack of awareness is stark.
	It travels around the world, as making the point with this Russian chap, but also, of course, to everyone else in the country.
	See you at the next one.
	We've got Dan Crenshaw making his response.
	I'm not even mad at the lack of self-awareness or hypocrisy anymore.
	At this point, it's just hilarious.
	These people are a giant joke.
	And, yeah.
	I think that is largely a response to AOC. It's so completely tone deaf and so...
	Just the hypocrisy of it is just so outrageous.
	It's self-satirizing.
	It's so on the nose, I'm not even sure anything has to be said.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But one of the things I think should be said is some of the other stuff AOC's been up to because she is a lunatic.
	So if we go to the next one, there's a quote from her.
	So the Daily Mail put out a quote saying, AOC calls women menstruating people while explaining the female body.
	Because that's all women are now, they're just menstruating.
	Yeah, well, I mean, I guess a trans man, so somebody who's born a woman and transitioned to being a man, they can still menstruate.
	Yeah, that's the point she makes.
	Not just women.
	Trans men and non-binary people can also menstruate.
	Non-binary.
	GOP mad that at this are protecting the patriarchal idea that women are the most valuable as a uterus holder.
	No, it's just that to be a woman, you need a uterus.
	And there's no such thing as a...
	Female penis.
	Let's put it that way.
	She went on.
	So if we go to the next one here.
	Trans, two-spirit and non-binary people have existed and always will exist.
	People can stay mad about that if they want, or they can grow up fingers, rainbow flag, trans flag.
	Who's mad about it?
	I don't even know what two-spirit means.
	I think that's...
	I have no idea.
	I think it's a Native American thing.
	Okay.
	I'm not totally sure.
	I just...
	It reminds me of, I remember on Tumblr, back when this was all a joke, and now it's mainstream politics, is there was someone arguing that there was wolf gender or something, and they identified as a wolf.
	Oh, there's so many different genders, it's ridiculous now.
	There's literally hundreds, more than thousands if you look on Tumblr.
	And it's ridiculous.
	It all boils down to categorizing people in a completely unnecessary way.
	Non-binary people have always existed.
	And it didn't matter.
	Being a man, you've always had people ranging from Hulk Hogan to David Bowie.
	And further, on each side, you've got Engelbert Humperdinck, who's even hairier and more masculine.
	And you've got the guy out of placebo.
	There's always been non-binary people.
	They just haven't made a big fuss about categorising themselves and having different flags and putting everybody into rigid little boxes.
	A guy who's not very masculine.
	That's what we call him.
	You don't need to make some weird category.
	Yeah.
	Being a man.
	A man has always included a vast, diverse array of body types and all the rest of it.
	Sexualities and stuff.
	So I don't know why people need to make such a fuss about it.
	This categorisation...
	I mean, are they all computer programmers or something?
	They need to fit everybody into an array.
	Well, it's a category for everyone, isn't it?
	Anyway, moving back to the event itself, the Hunger Games.
	So if we go back to this, one person made the point here, Rita from Sky News Australia.
	The help is masked while the rich guests mingle maskless.
	Of course they do.
	And then the image here of some verified channel being, oh my god, congresswoman, blah, blah, blah.
	And then it's some old congresswoman.
	with this disgusting dress and it's written down the side equal rights for women because you know women still living as slaves yeah I'm sure it doesn't look like everybody in the background's got the same equal rights as her no it's not but also also women have got equal rights under the law of course but it's the great point of like she's virtue signaling about like yeah equal rights anti-virtuous whilst all the help sit there with their masks on being the plebs of the Yeah, waiting to clean up after her annoying little dogs.
	Yeah, I can just tell from looking at her, she's got annoying little dogs.
	Yeah, she probably does.
	But there are loads more images out of this, so we go to the next one.
	There's a whole other selection of images I found, just on Getty Images.
	So if we go to the first one here, you've got AOC again, showing herself off.
	And then the next one, apparently she had a little purse with Tax the Rich on as well, while she hangs out with her friends in tuxedos, because, yeah, of course.
	And then if we carry on, there's this one, which I found really weird.
	This is a photographer, which is...
	Clearly a bloke with a big beard.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
	Don't misgender them!
	I don't care.
	Or Zim.
	Zim, Zim!
	I mean, with the coloured hair, but okay, whatever.
	And then again, the mask.
	The endless mask.
	That is a beautiful woman.
	Yeah, and then we have the next one, another perfect guest.
	The perfect people, the Alpha Plus, who doesn't need to wear a mask, and then the Help, who carries the tail with the mask on.
	I mean, it really is just obviously gross.
	Yeah.
	And I don't know how people there live with themselves, even for a moment, and not realise this is a total mess of a thing to do.
	Yeah.
	There's also, of course...
	The lack of self-awareness, especially for a politician.
	To have that lack of self-awareness and not realise how bad that's going to look, how alienating that's going to be to somebody in a shotgun shack who's scraping by doing some sort of hard job that the wages have been reduced because everyone's been offshored.
	There's not only, of course, the class socialism, which AOC wanted to bring.
	There's also, of course, gender socialism, which you can insert into something like this, because why not?
	So if we go to the next one, we have some other queer stuff here.
	So the first one being a lady with Peg the Patriarchy written on her vest.
	I don't even know what that is.
	Isn't that the second one here?
	The lady from the women's football team that sucked?
	What?
	A women's football team sucked?
	I do not believe this!
	Oh, against other women.
	They didn't just lose to men.
	They lost against other women really badly.
	I think they lost to Sweden or something after taking the knee, and it became a big story of just like, for God's sakes, people.
	Because they were also complaining at the same time.
	It wasn't just that they lost the game, but they've been complaining for ages that they're underpaid because the male's football team get paid more.
	It's like...
	That's just the market.
	All the people complaining about the gender pay gap could go and buy a season ticket to a women's football team tomorrow, but they won't because it's terrible.
	But this lady who clearly isn't getting paid enough turned up to a $30,000 ticketed event.
	With a little sign there saying, in gay we trust, because this can't be normal for a minute.
	It has to endlessly harp on about gender politics.
	And also, man, they're coming in, they're like, you know, waving all these flags for, you know, hey, you know, I'm gay and all the rest of it.
	And it's like, you know, we don't...
	We don't mind.
	We don't mind.
	It's 2021.
	It's absolutely fine.
	We've all got gay mates.
	We know loads of gay people and stuff.
	It's a bit of a cliche.
	If you did it in Afghanistan, or if you did it in the 17th century, then yeah, you'd be making some sort of bold statement.
	But now it's just like, so what?
	How many of the Taliban elite go to events like this?
	Yeah.
	Oh, and the ones that really get on my nerves are the ones who are like, oh yeah, I'm queer.
	But there's quite a few comedians that are like, I'm queer, but I've never had a same-sex experience.
	And it's like, well then, you're not queer.
	You know what I mean?
	Like, you've got to suck a dick before I'm going to let you call yourself queer.
	You can't just come in and steal some of the glory, some of the privilege points on the oppression pyramid by calling yourself queer.
	It's ridiculous.
	I mean, it's all meaningless.
	I could call myself non-binary.
	I'm a non-binary genderqueer right now.
	I'm a non-binary genderqueer.
	Stunning and brave.
	Yeah.
	Stunning and brave.
	Except for some reason when I do it.
	Because people post, like promoters post gigs and they say, I need a non-binary or female act.
	So I email in and my mate Darius emails in saying, yeah, non-binary.
	We never get them because they know that we're taking the piss.
	I've been saying this to people.
	There are jobs in the UK government which are openly discriminatory.
	And some of them are along lines of sexuality.
	And if you're gay, you get higher up on the list.
	So just say you're gay, what are they going to do?
	Make you suck off the boss in the interview?
	It's not going to happen.
	Let's go back to the...
	Let's go back to the Hunger Games here.
	So you have another one here.
	So this is Kim Kardashian arriving in her...
	Neo-burka?
	I don't know.
	Weird rich people doing weird rich people things.
	I mean, like, the guy next to her, I think, is that?
	I don't know.
	But it looks like Antifa.
	But her with her.
	Yes, I'm a shadow.
	But whatever.
	Weird rich people doing weird rich people things, as they usually do.
	Completely tone deaf.
	It looks very science fiction.
	We are living through...
	A period of time that would have been seen as properly dystopian science fiction from the perspective of the 80s.
	I mean, that is what The Hunger Games is meant to be an example of.
	The rich capital.
	But this is where the story didn't end.
	Because the story then went online.
	Because Nicki Minaj, apparently, didn't get an invite.
	She didn't go.
	I don't care about Nicki Minaj.
	So, if we're really here, my cousin in Trinidad won't get the vaccine because his friend got it and became impotent.
	This is her opinion on YouTube.
	Just reading it.
	His testicles became swollen.
	His friend was weeks away from getting married.
	Look at all.
	Now the girl called off the wedding.
	Just because he had swollen testicles.
	I mean, that's not exactly till death do us part.
	I mean, it's not even like, you know, till swollen testicles do us part.
	Yeah, so she says, just pray on it and make sure you're comfortable with your decision, not bullied in regards to taking the vaccine.
	How does he know he's impotent?
	I mean, you've got to try and have a baby first.
	You can't just look at your testicles and be like, oh, they're a bit big.
	I must be impotent now.
	And this kind of blew up because a lot of people were just like, no, he's got an STD. I don't know.
	I don't care.
	I'm not here to talk about the medicine here for a minute.
	We're going to talk about the politics.
	Because a certain person who got very mad about this is Joy Reid.
	Do you know Joy Reid?
	Joy Reid.
	So she's a leftist commentary in the United States who, whenever critical race theory is criticized, she jumps in the way and goes, no, not the honor of critical race theory, and just has to protect it for some reason.
	Don't know why.
	Could be a benefit.
	And she did a video here moaning about Nicki Minaj daring to say a thing happened in her life.
	And she said, you have a platform of 22 million followers.
	I have 2 million.
	Just a little self-like, you know, bigging yourself up for no reason.
	For you to use the platform and to encourage our community to not protect themselves, my god sister, you can do better than that.
	And of course, our community, being the black community, I hate these terms, to be honest, but okay, whatever, that's that thing.
	And Nikki responded with, this is what happens when you're so thirsty to down another black woman, by the request of a white man, which white man, name them, that you don't bother to read all my tweets.
	Quote, my God, sister, do better.
	Imagine getting your dumb ass on TV a min after a tweet to spread false narrative about a black woman.
	The attack on black women is what it is.
	Yeah, I can see Nikki's point.
	I can absolutely see Nikki's point.
	And also, I think Nikki didn't get invited to the Met Gala.
	We all know why.
	I saw those pictures.
	It's snobbery.
	It's classism.
	Because wokeism is a new class structure.
	It's only the people, the educated people, the elites that have the time and resources to read The Guardian every day and find out what the correct opinions are this week that can attend these things.
	Nikki Minaj is seen by some as too trashy.
	So obviously they're not going to invite her if she's going to...
	Embarrass them.
	I think the critical race theorists would describe it as representing blackness, but let's put a pin in that for a minute.
	Those people are awful.
	So we move on from there.
	She's actually got a point that she's just spreading fake news because Nicki Minaj apparently is pro-vaccine, in general anyway.
	And you can see...
	I don't know.
	Simp of Nicki Minaj here mentioning it.
	So the fact that she's like, yeah, go ahead and get the vaccine, you know, not my opinion, just has an experience.
	So yeah, completely fake news.
	And if we go on from this, it gets worse and worse.
	And so we get the next one up, John.
	You can see her responding to the media, and the media are awful, and I'm glad that more people can see why they're awful.
	So the Daily Beast decided to go with, Nicki Minaj won't get vaxxed, says she's worried about swollen testicles.
	Ha ha ha!
	Nope.
	No, she didn't.
	So she responded with, please show me where I said I was worried about anything.
	Yes, I'm glad you guys get to see how the media really works.
	Because the media are the worst.
	But this isn't where the B-fight decided to end.
	It started to end with...
	Just throwing racial slurs.
	Because I guess if you're a black woman fighting with a black woman, you can do whatever you want.
	So let's go to the last one here, in which you have Nicki Minaj responding to Joy Reid.
	Calling Joy Reid a, quote, lying homophobic coon.
	Oh, words.
	I guess I can join the Reindeer Games too, right?
	People can go on TV and lie on me.
	I can report on them too, right?
	Doesn't have to be truth.
	It can be hearthrus.
	Uncle Tomana asked who on earth would trust the US FDA guys.
	And the screenshot she's got do make a fair point.
	I'm not sure about the other part of this, but we'll leave that there.
	So this is Joy Reid back when Donald Trump was president.
	And you remember this happened with Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, all the rest of them.
	It's the Trump vaccine.
	I'm not taking it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But now it's the Biden vaccine.
	So I'm going to take that because it's a good one.
	But not even that.
	Any criticism, even scientific, is evil and misinformation.
	And I have no respect for these people, especially, because they're people who just flip on it because now Blue Team is pathetic.
	In the same way as if there was someone who was saying, oh yeah, vaccine, great, because Trump's making it.
	And then after Trump loses his position, it's like, yeah, don't do the vaccine, it's evil.
	Those people are worthy of absolutely no respect.
	And you can see Joey Reid being one of them.
	I mean, will anyone, anyone at all, ever fully trust the CDC government again?
	And who on God's earth would trust a vaccine approved by the US FDA? How do we get a vaccine distributed after this broken Trumpist nonsense has infected anything even if Biden wins?
	So, yeah.
	And then we have the last one here being a quote tweet.
	I don't know what the truth is.
	I don't really care.
	It's just a bee fight.
	Joy read controversy from homophobic blog posts to hacky claim.
	So she is, in Nicki Minaj's words, a lying homophobic coon.
	That's the quote from Nicki Minaj.
	Good God.
	And if the last thing here, just to mention, that tweet is real and still up.
	I mean, no respect for this person.
	I mean, this person is a paid schmuck, in my opinion.
	It just shows how vaccines and the whole coronavirus pandemic and all the responses to it have become partisan and have become politicised.
	It's not about the science anymore.
	I just want to make clear as well, I disavow Nicki Minaj's statements, but I'm just reporting on the fact that they are there.
	But yeah, so the elitists all gathered for their little Hunger Games, and apparently one member of the elite wasn't invited, because she dared to have tweeted a thing about an experience she had in her life.
	Right.
	That's how quick you get kicked out of the club, I guess.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, that's the thing, and talking of people getting kicked out of the club, we've seen some woke comedians getting cancelled this week.
	Is that a nice segue?
	Yeah.
	That works.
	So basically, we've seen some comedians getting cancelled over the last month or two.
	So Andrew Lawrence was cancelled because he tweeted about the England penalties, which to me were obvious attempts at humour.
	And man, I hate how...
	I hate how people, when they get offended by comedians' jokes, they always take it at complete face value.
	There's no room for any nuance or context or irony or maybe just the concept that possibly the comedian was joking.
	Is that possible?
	Could the comedian have been joking?
	Andrew Lawrence was cancelled.
	If you scroll down on this, I think we can see the offending tweets.
	There we go.
	So he said, all I'm saying is the white guys scored, which is provocative, it's confrontational, which is what Andrew Lawrence does.
	He normally says things like this in the guise of a character, which obviously gives you more leeway.
	But at the time, because England getting to the final of the Euros, the national unity, even as a Scot...
	I got caught up in it.
	I was like, you know, I was really proud of them.
	And obviously, you know, the team's great.
	I think Marcus Rashford's great.
	I mean, he took a terrible penalty.
	I'm not going to lie.
	Like the women's football team could have scored that and he spooned it.
	But, you know, as soon as the game finished, all the wokers came out on Twitter to call everybody racist, all the England fans racist.
	It's just ridiculous having it shoved in our face.
	It's like, no, the England football team, it's the ultimate celebration of diversity and bringing together.
	And also, football has always been at the forefront of genuine social and racial integration.
	Like, in the 70s, Millwall had more black players.
	And bear in mind, Millwall's held up as, like, the most racist football team.
	Millwall had more black players than The Guardian had black journalists.
	So The Guardian, The Guardian is more racist than Millwall.
	And Millwall's genuinely more progressive and more racially integrated than The Guardian.
	Well, you know, it's colour blindness versus anti-racism for you, isn't it?
	Absolutely.
	I mean, that's, you know, Millwall and football, you know, a huge number of black athletes because, you know...
	I wanted to mention, though, you made a great point, which is that Andrew usually speaks in the words of a character.
	He's playing a character who's usually very woke and that's it.
	And Carl made a video about this, making the obvious point that the build-up to the joke here is the England team will win because they are diverse, and therefore the logical conclusion is if they lose, therefore the diversity is the problem.
	And Andrew just ran that experiment.
	He's like, I'll take your logic, and then we'll run it through the machine, and this is the outcome.
	He's not even saying I agree with it because of course I don't, you don't, and all the rest of it.
	But that's their logic.
	And putting that in their face was his crime.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And some of the selections to take penalties were, you know, they seemed politicised.
	They seemed, you know, driven by this need to show diversity and prove that, you know, diversity is good.
	When really, you know, they should just do it based on merit.
	But yeah, so Andrew Lawrence, he was like pretty much...
	Completely cancelled.
	His tour was cancelled.
	All his tour dates were gone.
	I know he lost a lot of club gigs as well.
	All the promoters were on the comedy forums saying, well, I've got this, you know, who wants to go to wherever it is for 400 quid because I've cancelled Andrew Lawrence.
	I hated how the comedy industry really rounded on him and, you know, this guy's got family, he's got kids and stuff and to...
	You know, the glee with which they turned on him and went after him like wolves.
	I mean, I stuck up for him.
	I think a couple of other people stuck up for him, you know, just to say, like, come on, we can't...
	Like, every comedian has said something that's potentially offensive, so we can't just go around cancelling each other.
	And, all right, fair enough, let the woke dicks on Twitter cancel people, but we shouldn't be doing it to each other.
	You know what I mean?
	I just thought it was disgusting.
	And more recently, Roy Chubby Brown...
	So we move on to the next one.
	So Roy Chubby Brown was cancelled from performing in Sheffield.
	They said the theatre, the venue said it doesn't reflect the values of Sheffield.
	And I don't know, I think down-to-earth northern comedy where everybody gets slagged off.
	I'm not familiar with him.
	He told a spicy joke again?
	He's a pretty offensive...
	He's in the same vein as maybe Bernard Manning.
	And yeah, to be honest, some of his stuff...
	I remember watching a DVD of his in the 90s.
	where he went he went a bit racist and the weird thing was it sort of ruined the it ruined the gig it all got like serious um but he was talking about immigration but then on the other hand like i mean we're not allowed to talk about immigration and we're not allowed to talk about the huge social upheaval that's this happened in northern post-industrial towns um so maybe we should be allowed to talk about that i mean Maybe if we could talk about it, there'd be less racism and less of a sort of knee-jerk reaction through people voting for Brexit.
	I think maybe the liberal elites, the people who hold the cultural power, should understand that.
	If you can't talk about it socially and culturally, you're going to force it.
	Because voting always happens in private.
	So if the only place people can express their dissent or express their true feelings...
	As in the privacy of the polling booth, you're going to have right-wing populist governments forever.
	Based.
	Anyway, they're obviously Andrew Lawrence, Roy Chubby Brown, they're anti-woke or non-woke comedians.
	But now, this cancel culture machine that the left set up to destroy people like Andrew Lawrence and Roy Chubby Brown, it's been turned back on their own.
	So if we move on to the next slide, we've got Rufus Hound, who's pretty woke.
	He's been on Twitter.
	I've seen his tweets slagging off Lawrence Fox and all the rest of it, because Rufus Hound, because he's a woke lefty, he's elevated to a higher pedestal.
	So he's been accused of yellow face racism because he's appearing in a pantomime playing Aladdin.
	Wait, hang on.
	Did he put yellow makeup on?
	Well, let's have a look.
	Yeah, that's the image.
	So he literally just wore a hat.
	Yeah, he's got some sort of racist hat on.
	It's racist.
	I can't even look at that.
	I'm disgusted.
	Sorry, he's wearing eyeliner for people listening.
	He's wearing eyeliner, some kind of like, you know, garbs, and then a hat.
	But look what he's done with the eyeliner.
	He's made his eyes squinty, like a child in a playground in the 80s.
	Has he though?
	Yes, he has.
	He's done it.
	He's racist.
	He's basically, you know, I haven't seen anything that bad since I went to a party with Justin Trudeau.
	So he's dressed up, he's culturally appropriated, whatever.
	Where's Aladdin from?
	Is he Chinese or something?
	I've no idea.
	Middle Eastern, isn't he?
	Middle Eastern, right, yeah.
	So, yeah, he's...
	Oh, he's actually...
	He's not Aladdin, he's villain Abanzar.
	Okay.
	Yeah, and that's...
	Yeah, it's...
	I mean, it's terrible.
	It's genuinely, deeply offensive and racist by the rules that these leftists like Rufus Hound have built.
	So now he's...
	And the great thing was, if we scroll down...
	So he tweeted, and one of my friends sent me this tweet because we're laughing about it.
	So this top tweet, he's like, Hello, some days you just feel sad, you know?
	Like, you know.
	Oh, fucking you know in a tweet.
	You know?
	Apostrophe no?
	Like, even though there are plenty of good things, the bad things just feel a bit too heavy.
	Problem is, there's a lot of heavy shit, guys.
	The sliding of fascism, the planet burning, love not winning in the end.
	You know?
	Fuck, I feel sad.
	Is there like a weed smoking emoji he could put in there?
	Make it make sense.
	Well, my mate sent it to me and said he's just lost out in a bit of TV work.
	But he's blaming it on the slide into fashion.
	Turns out he was sad because he was being accused of being racist by people exactly like him.
	So it's wonderful.
	And then he's making all these excuses for why he was wearing yellow face and why he'd made his eyes pointy.
	Is he saying he's part of the slide into fascism?
	Well, I'm saying he's part of the slide into fascism because I'm now woke.
	I'm woke and I'm a non-binary genderqueer and Rufus Hound is racist.
	But yeah, so he makes all these excuses.
	If you scroll down, there's various excuses for...
	At no point did I think it was Yellowface.
	Yeah, the character Abanzar isn't Asian in origin.
	He's not from Woking, is he?
	You know what I mean?
	He's obviously from somewhere Rufus.
	He's Russian, actually.
	Somewhere slightly...
	With a slightly different skin tone to us.
	And yeah, what's this chinoisery?
	He's even making up words.
	And he's talking about his eye shape and all the rest of it.
	So he realises he's been caught out.
	But the thing is, man, if that had been a right-wing comedian, if that had been me, if I'd put on yellow-faced makeup and made my eyes squint and put on a turban...
	Like, you know, Rufus Hound would have come out trying to destroy me.
	So, I mean, I think it's terrible.
	Genuinely, I think it's terrible when people try and destroy comedians for things like this.
	It's just ridiculous.
	You know what I mean?
	It's pantomime.
	If anything, it's part of British culture that we should be...
	If pantomime was something that was done by Amazonian tribespeople, everybody would be protecting it and there'd be Arts Council funds to keep this tradition alive and all the rest of it.
	And instead, because it's white working class people that go to it, it's, uh, this is racist!
	This is racist!
	You've got to ban it!
	You know what I mean?
	Yeah, for people who might not know, I don't know if foreigners don't know or not, but pantomime is a very British thing.
	It's kind of like a stage performance of a play, except, like, it's got massive amounts of audience engagement, I think, is the thing that separates it.
	Yeah, and there's various phrases that are done in every pantomime.
	Like, he's behind you!
	The villain.
	Oh no, he didn't!
	Oh yes, he did.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And actually, talking about it, you realise how completely ridiculous it is.
	It's one of those British things like Morris dancing or deep frying things.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's like the kind of atmosphere where grown soldiers could dress up in women's clothing to play characters and it would...
	Yeah, it's always got men.
	It's always got men in drag, you know, playing, you know, Widow Twanky or whatever, and ridiculous storylines about, yeah, giant beanstalks and all the rest of it.
	But yeah, it's funny.
	You go when you're a kid.
	It's a Christmas thing.
	They also do adult pantos and stuff.
	But anyway, so, yeah, Rufus Hound.
	Has been caught out for races, but there's another one, even more left-wing.
	So there's a picture of Justin Trudeau, just to show, if you scroll down, you can just see his face there.
	I mean, that is...
	He even did his hands, I only just noticed that.
	Yeah, yeah, that's some commitment to being a massive racist.
	Did he do his whole body?
	But his dick stayed the same size.
	So if we go on to the next one, there's another comedian, Janie Godley, who first rose to prominence.
	She's a great act, by the way.
	I've gigged with her in the clubs and she kills.
	Absolutely brilliant act.
	And really fun and really edgy.
	Politically, she's very left and she's very close to the SNP. So internationally, she's quite famous for this image.
	This is the thing that sort of, you know, thrust her to prominence.
	Trump was visiting Scotland, she'd end up with a sign saying Trump is a C-word.
	Yeah.
	And since then, over lockdown, she blew up making videos and stuff like that.
	In Scotland, anyway, she's quite famous.
	So if we move on to the next one.
	So she was...
	people dug out...
	well, I should probably put this in context.
	So basically the SNP... Scotland's sort of split down sectarian lines.
	So on one side, you've got the Unionists who want to stay in the UK, Rangers fans, Protestants.
	They tend to be on this side.
	And on the other side, you've got the woke left.
	You've got people who want to leave the UK.
	They want Scotland to be independent.
	You've got the SNP and, you know, to a certain extent, Catholics.
	They're not all completely in one group, but there is this divide in Scotland.
	And it used to be serious.
	People used to, you know, get killed.
	Well, it still is serious, but people used to get stabbed over it and stuff.
	So what the SNP did, because they hate the Unionists, they hate Rangers fans and all the rest of it.
	The SNP and, you know, the Yes Stapo, they dug out old tweets, you know, with the Daily Record, which is a paper in Scotland.
	They had this campaign to get Rangers podcasters and Rangers fans arrested and charged with...
	For sectarian comments.
	And they did.
	They got seven Rangers fans and podcasters charged for these comments.
	But then people on this side, people on the Rangers side, were like, well, why don't we do that to the left?
	So they dug out the Daily Record, which had run this, you know, outed all these people.
	They dug through the Daily Record journalists and found just ridiculously racist, offensive sectarian comments.
	Which is illegal, let's call it.
	Which is illegal, although nothing seems to be happening.
	It only seems to happen.
	You only seem to get charged with it if you're on this side, if you're on the unionist side.
	If you're on the side of the SNP, you don't get charged.
	Because they're in government.
	Hate crime laws are applied in a very partisan way.
	But yeah, and then they dug out all the daily record journalists for being racist.
	But then they also turned to people like Janie Godley, who's very close to the SNP, and has spoken out on the SNP's behalf and has also been involved in criticising and cancelling people on the other side.
	She gets stuck in.
	So they dug through her old tweets and also her old podcast, and they found some Pretty genuinely racist stuff.
	The thing is with Janie, she's quite an edgy comedian and she puts out a lot of content.
	It sounds ridiculous to say if you put out enough stuff, you're eventually going to say something racist.
	That does sound ridiculous.
	But she puts out a huge amount of content.
	I mean, they've taken some of it, and we've got a clip of it here, but they've taken some of it out of context.
	But context doesn't matter with Count Dankula.
	Exactly, exactly.
	And Count Dankula's joke was completely defensible along the lines of, you know, he wasn't glorifying Nazism.
	The Nazi is the pug.
	Yeah, and he was saying, the joke, Count Dankula's joke, the Nazi pug salute, if people don't know about this, there's this Scottish comedian called Count Dankula who taught his girlfriend's pug to do a Nazi salute whenever he said, you know, pro-Nazi stuff.
	And it's hilarious.
	I mean, alright, the joke's not to everybody's taste.
	I laughed my ass off when I saw it.
	I couldn't stop laughing.
	And the joke only works because the pug, it's the sort of disparity, the dissonance between the absolute cuteness of the pug and the absolute evil of Nazism.
	So he's not promoting Nazism.
	He's not saying Nazism is good.
	But it's completely explainable.
	It's completely understandable.
	And it's funny.
	And it's funny, which, you know, should always be a defence for comedy.
	You know what I mean?
	If somebody laughs, that's a defence.
	You know, somebody likes it.
	But, yeah, so Janie, I mean, well, we've got some stuff here.
	So there's some examples of her.
	Let's play the clip.
	Yeah.
	Oh, no, that's a party wedding!
	That's an Indian party wedding!
	Oh, because there's two.
	Was that an anti-cultural wedding then?
	No, it was a one wedding, but he'd get Indian and Pakistani mixed up because he's a...
	Gippo?
	They don't like being called that, don't they?
	Well, people don't like being called p***ies.
	I thought that just said it was Nelly, because I sang that song.
	I'm going to show you what a n*** on the room is blessed with.
	Oh, please don't say that word on the podcast.
	I know you're allowed to say that, but you're singing it in a song.
	But these are Irish tinker gippos who are...
	Don't call them gippos, Mum.
	They're gypsies.
	Gippo is a really offensive word.
	I'm trying to...
	So for people who are listening, the first one there was the Pakistani.
	Take the first part of that word.
	That's a slur in Britain because of reasons.
	And then also the N-word and gyppos, which is more common.
	I think if you're white, you've got to be so careful using those words.
	Or just maybe don't use them.
	They're loaded with decades of historical oppression and abuse and all the rest of it.
	But also you're a left-wing comedian who's tied to the SNP. Yeah, she's...
	Locking people up like Count Dankula.
	Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
	So, yeah, she's sort of been cancelled.
	She's been dropped from her ad campaign...
	two ad campaigns for the Scottish government, which, you know, from a sort of comedic point of view, I understand if you're gonna work with the government, you've got to be sort of squeaky clean.
	But then people have come after her.
	She's doing pantomime and she's doing a tour.
	Her tour venues are standing by her.
	Although obviously, I mean, if she was a right-wing comedian, they'd have completely thrown her under the bus.
	But yeah, so her tour, I think her tour is gonna be fine.
	Might even, you know, boost her profile and help her sell some tickets.
	I was talking to her about it the other day, so I'll check in and see.
	But I thought it was bad.
	A Tory MP was trying to get her cancelled from her pantomime.
	And for somebody on the right, for somebody from the Tory party that was supposed to be pro-liberalism and free speech...
	For them, they'll have the defence of being like, look, we didn't start the fire, and if this is the game we're going to play, we're all going to go down to hell together.
	Yeah, but I'm from the point of view of like, you know, people have tried to get me cancelled and I'd rather not cancel anybody else.
	You know what I mean?
	Purely so I look good.
	I agree.
	To be honest, I even have it so that she could work with the government when the SPN's in charge and when the Tories are in charge, they should be able to hire Count Dankula for Christ's sake to do an ad campaign.
	I don't really care.
	Oh, that'd be great.
	Count Dankula.
	Yeah.
	But if we're going to play this game, Well, that's why I'm like, it shouldn't happen, but I'm not going to be unhappy about this.
	the response from the SNP I don't know if it's in the next the next section but like yeah Nicholas Sturgeon just just said that Janie had given a dignified response and said all these things happen and you know other lefties like Don French are dropping by to support where were they when
	And fined.
	Yeah.
	And zipped mouths.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the state got involved.
	Whereas, you know, the state is bending over backwards to make excuses in this case, which purely shows how partisan all this hate crime stuff is.
	And, yeah, Sturgeon said, you know, these things happen.
	She's a comedian.
	She said so herself that she thought that gave her license to say things that she now accepts were completely out of order and unacceptable.
	I know that when people make mistakes, the climate we live in these days is pretty unforgiving.
	Yes, it is unforgiving, Nicholas Sturgeon.
	So why are you creating a hate crime bill to make it even more unforgiving and actually criminalize jokes and conversations around the dinner table and stuff like that?
	It's ridiculous.
	So, yeah.
	And, oh, yeah, so, I mean, there's other stuff.
	So, our daughter that she does the podcast with has been called out for stuff she did.
	I mean, this was way back in 2006, but we can see some.
	If you scroll down, you can see some of the...
	I mean, don't scroll right to the bottom.
	Are you, like...
	Here we go.
	So, yeah, like, there's the...
	If you scroll down a little bit more, just two paragraphs.
	Yeah, here we go.
	Like, the downright offensive lines, like, he's sweating like a blind...
	P-word?
	I don't think we can in the UK anymore.
	Yeah, in a sausage factory.
	Or Nigeria, do you think that's why they call them...
	The N-word.
	The N-word.
	I mean, that's...
	I mean, this is the other thing people always say.
	I've grown or I've moved on since then.
	And, you know...
	That's fair enough.
	Ashley would have been very young in 2006, but Janie's stuff was like 2017.
	It's like, you're 56.
	Oh yeah, and this is me, so I got accused of being racist, purely because I went on Radio 4 calling for more working class representation in comedy.
	Just like it's because you went on Radio 4.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So I made the point that BBC comedy doesn't represent all the voices in the UK. And when they attempt diversity, they just get somebody with slightly different skin tone, but the same Oxbridge, Russell Group, educated voice, the same opinions.
	So you're not getting genuine diversity, just the tokenistic diversity of slightly different skin colour or different sexuality or whatever.
	So this meant that apparently I'm racist because I was saying that all non-white people should sound the same.
	Which absolutely wasn't the point I was making.
	I think it's obvious that wasn't the point.
	But I was accused by the Live Comedy Association.
	Because we've got a Live Comedy Association now regulating live comedy in the UK. Because nothing makes stuff funnier than a statutory group regulating things.
	You know what I mean?
	It's just going to make comedy wonderful!
	But we've got this thing, and they've got a diversity and inclusion officer, obviously.
	And so, yeah, she said that I was racist because of what I said on Radio 4.
	And I complained, and they ended up sending me a certificate of non-racism.
	So I'm now the only comedian in the UK who's guaranteed to not be racist.
	Officially non-racist.
	I'm officially non-racist.
	I love the end of that letter there.
	This letter is intended as a formal document which can be sent to any industry professionals as evidence that the LCA as an organisation does not believe that you are racist.
	I'm not racist.
	I mean, that's about as much use as a babysitter having a letter saying they're not a paedophile.
	It's like...
	Why would you...
	I'm like, I'm going to show that to Promort and they're going to be like, oh, this is reassuring.
	This is very reassuring.
	You must not be racist.
	I think this is essentially an N-word pass.
	You can make as many jokes as you want, as far as you want, and then you can pull out the letter and be like, oi!
	Oh, boy.
	Oh, God.
	So, yeah.
	But I'm worried about where it's going to go next because some of my favourite comedians, in fact, all of my favourite comedians say, you know, ridiculously outrageous things that, you know, are going to get...
	going to offend a lot of people.
	Jerry Sadowitz, he's still touring and his stuff, oh my God, I mean, there's no context in which it can be okay.
	It's deeply racist, misogynistic, homophobic and all the rest of it.
	I mean, I saw him at the Soho Theatre and he said...
	Oh, it's hilarious.
	It is the funniest thing.
	My mum used to take me and my brother to see him.
	He's a Glaswegian comedian.
	He's so funny.
	Just so deeply funny.
	But just so outrageous.
	It's a shame there's nothing online.
	He purges all his stuff online.
	He purges it because he's a perfectionist.
	I've been to DVD recordings and stuff that he then just can because he doesn't...
	Doesn't think it's good enough.
	And I wish he'd put stuff out because it's hilarious.
	There's a DVD you can get called The Total Abuse Show.
	And some of his jokes are just like the most...
	One of his jokes is, how do you crucify a spastic?
	On a swastika.
	You know what I mean?
	I mean, it's just so efficiently offensive.
	It's just a few words he's managed to cram so much offense in.
	And his act was kind of, you know, certainly must have been quite inspirational to Frankie Boyle, who does similarly...
	Or used to do similarly crass and outrageous and deeply funny jokes, like his joke about Harvey.
	Frankie Boyle, for some reason, has managed to evade all the cancellation.
	I think it's because Frankie Boyle went super woke and started hiring all his woke employees.
	Yeah, he's paying his money to the church.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So they don't investigate him.
	Protection money to the racket, to the mob.
	It literally is a racket at this point.
	And this is Frank Sinazzi, so he's one of my favourite acts.
	He's hilarious.
	And he closes out our Hate and Live shows.
	I run a show called Hate and Live and he closes it out.
	But basically he's a lounge singer who dresses up as Hitler and does interpretations of Frank Sinatra songs.
	So we've got like a clip here Strangers on my flight And it made me nervous.
	They're terrorists alright.
	They're wearing turbans.
	This won't turn aright.
	Cause one just touched his shoe.
	Something in their smile.
	It made me anxious, something in their beards.
	It made me nervous, something in their past.
	I wish I'd never flown!
	So I'm worried that, you know, he could get cancelled.
	Like, you know, these are...
	I mean, as far as he hasn't.
	And also, all these comedians...
	Jerry Sadowitz started in the 80s.
	You know, Frank Sinazzi's been going a while.
	You know, he's a friend of mine.
	I absolutely love him as a person and also as a comedian.
	And I'm worried that they're going to get cancelled.
	What's to stop them?
	This culture that we've got means there won't be any new Franks and Nazis coming through, because if anybody tried that, you know, it's alright if you're already established, but if you tried it now, you'd get so many complaints.
	One man and his pug did, and...
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Oh, boy.
	Anyway, we'll move off that.
	We're going to go to the riot shields of love.
	I love how you literally have an N-word pass, like, from the official regulatory body.
	LAUGHTER I'm not sure that's what they meant by the letter.
	Who's to know?
	I don't think I can really put it to the test in 2021.
	Anyway, moving on.
	So the police now have riot shields of love, not hate.
	They swear.
	So I thought we'd go through some of this so everyone knows the British police are internationally a joke.
	And if you're not aware, well, let me prove it to you.
	So this is some of the stuff I just found on my Twitter account.
	This is why I like Twitter.
	Because it's a leftist hellhole, which is why the police are on it.
	You can find all of the stuff they're up to.
	So here's the first one, which is the British police, who attended Pride and started taking pictures with furries, and then posted pictures of them with furries.
	Why is a furry at Pride?
	Pride's about sexuality.
	Keep that in your mind.
	Anyway, moving on from this, because of course the furries are the furries.
	So we move on, we go to fetish pride.
	So this is another thing we found at Swindon Pride, which is just all the different flags you can buy.
	Fuck.
	There's a flag for puppy play?
	Yes.
	Oh my god.
	People who dress up in dog costumes.
	It's ridiculous.
	And also, man, I thought, isn't this just like they're making it patriotism of sexuality?
	I thought flag waving was...
	If you're waving a Union Jack, that's bad.
	If you want to be a nationalist for rubber...
	You can.
	You can definitely get rubber pride and enjoy yourself.
	And the police are also engaging in this.
	So we go to the next one.
	We have, of course, a tweet which is now deleted.
	Aww.
	But let's scroll down because the internet never forgets.
	In case they delete.
	Glad I saved it.
	So this is LGBT plus Kent police.
	Everyone loves a photo.
	Why did they delete it?
	What's wrong with that?
	There's them in Canterbury hanging out with a bunch of guys in leather gear with the leather pride flag behind them.
	There's the guy from Aloo Aloo.
	Hans?
	Hair flick or whatever he's called.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, the guy in the middle, actually.
	Yeah, it looks especially like a hair flick.
	That's the guy who gave me a cavity examination at the airport, I think.
	I recognise those gloves.
	But anyway, yeah, this is Canterbury Pride.
	I actually know where this pitch is taken as well, Canterbury being a bit of a meme.
	So yeah, the police started hanging out with leather fetishists, took a picture of it, put it out, and then deleted it once I found it and retweeted it.
	So, good boys.
	If you're on Twitter and you want to do some good work, I guess we can just bully the police into being the police.
	So they deleted it.
	So is that the police suggested that there's something wrong with leather fetishism?
	Certainly, yes.
	I mean, that seems to be the suddenly, you know, backtracked and deleted.
	I'm actually offended as a leather fetishist.
	But also, if you accept it, it's like, well, why aren't you standing with puppy pride?
	Yeah.
	Go on.
	Oh, they did.
	There is actually some images of that.
	Anyway, so let's move So this is not the only thing they've been up to.
	So there's also this one, which is the account itself was deleted by them.
	They literally deleted their own account because of how embarrassed Faircop made them, which is fantastic.
	So this is the tweet they had in which they had a pride car.
	So it's one of those cars they painted with rainbows.
	So if you're tortured, you get charged with a hate crime now, not just a normal crime.
	Right, yeah.
	I'd be more proud of the police if they actually did anything to just even try and catch the person who broke into my car and nicked two grand's worth of camera gear.
	Nah, you didn't have a rainbow on it.
	This is why you need to get rainbow insurance.
	Yeah, you didn't misgender me.
	I'm going to gender.
	I'm going to gender all my stuff, so if anybody nicks it, it's a hate crime.
	Yeah, I literally call it rainbow insurance.
	You could probably sell it to people as well and make a premium.
	So they put out a pride car.
	Rainbow flag is at Canterbury today.
	Everybody loves it.
	And Faircott were like, you sure about that?
	And yeah, they're gone now.
	So, hmm, bye-bye.
	Bye-bye.
	And they're not the only ones.
	There's more of this.
	There's another one I found.
	So this is the police.
	What was it?
	I think this was Yorkshire Police, North Yorkshire.
	As you can see there, there's the pink helmet, sparkly helmet, I don't know what you call it.
	And then they put it on some guy, some poor lad, and he's posing with it.
	And he says in his tweet, let's celebrate intersectionality.
	As someone who listens to a lot of North Korean propaganda, that does actually sound like a phrase.
	It's like, let's advance socialism into the future or something like that, you know?
	It's just like, oh, God.
	And of course, this literally looks like the Red Dwarf meme.
	So if we go to the next one, we have, of course, people who watch Red Dwarf should get this.
	So you've got the criticism cop, which is literally a guy in a pink police uniform who stops criticism.
	And Johnny Vegas tweeted about this back when he did it, being like, wouldn't this be funny?
	Criticism's a crime.
	Meet the cure.
	And it's him.
	And then you have the actual police, who dress like the criticism cop.
	And police criticism.
	Yes, being offensive is an offence.
	Literally.
	Which it isn't, by the way, just in case.
	No, no, it is.
	No, being offensive in and of itself isn't an offence.
	Yes, it is.
	Section 127 Communications Act 2003.
	It is illegal to post anything that is grossly offensive on an online platform.
	All right.
	So if it's online, it's a crime.
	If it's offline, you're quite right.
	Right.
	And this is online, so I better be careful what I say.
	Yes, if anyone finds anything offensive in here, we are actually criminals, because the UK is a free country.
	Totally not a tyrannical hellhole.
	Well, it's funny, I've done underground shows in Brunei, which is an oil-rich, you know, basically an Islamic dictatorship, where comedy's banned.
	And I felt more free on stage, and at less risk of being arrested than I do performing in the UK. You can actually get a lower sentence as well in Islamic countries, so blast me.
	Oh, really?
	So if you get charged for blasphemy in Kuwait, you get a lower sentence, maximum sentence, than you do for Section 127 in the UK. Wonderful, isn't it?
	Anyway, so there's one more I wanted to demonstrate here.
	So if we get the last one here, we just have the police with their trans fan, which totally doesn't look like they're saying free candy.
	As one guy commented underneath when I posted this, he's like, yeah, I mean, if a pedo did want to get a van and drive around and not be noticed by the police, police aren't pulling that van over, are they?
	Just saying.
	But anyway, this is the money they're spending it on.
	But the trans van is, of course, also could be interpreted as a threat.
	Like, we're going to lock you up in the van if you're trans.
	And also, this is the interpretation of the trans riot shields.
	So this is what I want to talk about.
	To talk about the amazing riot shields of love.
	So Harry Miller is an amazing chap who got investigated for his thinking because he liked a limerick and has ever since been on a glorious crusade to fix the police service as an ex-cop.
	And I think his court case is still going on about this limerick.
	No, he's actually made a counterclaim against the criminal justice.
	But he does a lot of things.
	And the latest thing, I really want to give him applause for.
	So let's go to this article, which is from the critic Schrodinger's Shield, he titled it.
	So this is about the transgender riot shield.
	So if you scroll down to show people the image, just the cops posing with, this is with their rainbow wings, but I'm sure people remember the transgender riot shield.
	So in here he says, Designed so the copper
	behind can be visible in front of the shield, behind it, the new riot shields are wrapped in the colours of the trans flag and offer no such transparency.
	If nothing else, the change will have a chillingly effective metaphor.
	Totally true.
	I love the way he writes as well.
	It's just fantastic.
	Fair Corp last week turned its attention to Leicester, formally reporting the deployment of the politically charged riot shields as a non-hate crime incident.
	So a non-crime hate incident, sorry.
	So it's not a crime, but it is a hate incident.
	Oh yeah, and these non-crime hate incidents, there's basically 150,000 of these have been recorded.
	So if you're accused of a hate crime, even if the police investigate and find out you did nothing wrong.
	It still goes on your record.
	It still goes on your record.
	Then anybody who does a DBS check, any HR department, if you apply for a job, and HR departments are super woke now and they're super high in tolerance and diversity and all the rest of it, inclusion.
	So if they see that you've got a non-crime hate incident, there's no way you're getting that job.
	There are stories I haven't been able to verify them of people losing promotions in the police service or not getting jobs as teachers because of this sort of thing as well.
	I don't know.
	But the situation is absurd.
	Harry continues in here and it gets very good.
	So Harry reported the police for a non-crime hate incident because they have a transgender riot shield and he interpreted that as a threat.
	Well, because riot shields are a weapon.
	Yes.
	I mean, I used to work...
	I was a criminal intelligence analyst, and I was on a ride-along somewhere in Woolwich, and somebody got battered to the ground by the police using riot shields.
	So they used them tactically as a weapon.
	Offensively and defensively.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So he says, surprisingly, an officer called to confirm that...
	In accordance with approved police practice, the incident had indeed been recorded as a non-crime hate incident, although not against any individually identified officers.
	The reason given for this abrupt departure from policy was that, following an exhaustive five-minute investigation, Lester Schur had concluded that the officers were pure of heart.
	Entirely pure of heart.
	Was this investigation carried out in the 16th century by the Spanish Inquisition?
	I mean, what on earth?
	So even though anyone else doing this would have been a crime, the officers are pure of heart and they would never be against wokeism.
	Therefore, they did nothing wrong.
	Pure of heart?
	That's...
	That's insane.
	That really shows the sort of confessional state that we're living in.
	That this wokeism is a new religion.
	Yeah.
	So this reckless more than little as a standard practice is to name and shame, for instance, because I once sardonically, sorry, am I saying the right?
	Sardonically, I don't know, tweeted that my fondness for Sarah Brightman makes me gender fluid.
	The police have argued in open court that I must be excluded from certain categories of employment for the next six years.
	So this is Harry Miller talking about the persecution he's faced for daring to say a thing which offends wokeness and no one else.
	And the judge, when he was charged, because they came and questioned him, I think it was him.
	So the judge or the magistrate said, you know, this doesn't even approach the foothills of illegality.
	But the state can still...
	We're seeing it with Marion Miller.
	The state can charge you and then you have to go through all that process.
	You've got a non-crime hate incident recorded against you.
	So regardless of what you've done, this is basically state intimidation.
	Regardless of what you've done or you haven't done, the state can come in and if anybody steps out of line or has the wrong opinions, they can say, listen, we can get you.
	Even though we can't lock you up, we can cause you a huge amount of pain and hassle.
	So Harry's flipping the table and taking a new strategy, which is public intimidation of the state, which is great, instead of state intimidation of the public, because he's reporting the police.
	So he says that even though he's been excluded from employment for six years in some places because of his dangerous thoughts, so even though I am a former police officer without so much as a speeding ticket to my name, an application to serve as a lollipop man would have me turned down on the grounds that I may kick a trans child under the bus.
	Yeah, that's how they view you.
	I mean, that is why you have a non-crime hate incident against your name.
	The entire rationale for recording non-crime hate incidents is to facilitate intervention, thereby nibbing poor behaviour in the bud.
	By recording the complaint, Leicestershire Constabulary has acknowledged that the riot shield constitutes a symbol of recorded hostility.
	They accept it, by definition of them recording it in the book.
	However, in a further departure from policy, it also states that it will not modify its behaviour in any way, and that the politically contentious riot shield will be back on public display at the next available opportunity.
	In other words, it is hate, but it is the right sort of hate.
	Ha ha ha, yeah.
	Or as North Yorkshire Police tweeted last week, quote, it's not wrong if it comes from a place of good.
	I mean, it is ridiculous that they're making these sort of moral judgments about the hate.
	This is why hate crime laws, one of the reasons they're terrifying is because it's so diaphanous, it's so nebulous.
	You can't pin down, you can't logically, rationally pin down in a sort of, you know...
	A scientific way.
	If something's a hate crime or not.
	It's all perception.
	And it's all, oh, they've got a pure heart.
	Oh no, they've got a bad heart.
	But that's the thing.
	We've usually had it that there was some leftists who got charged under Section 127, for example.
	There was a lady who tweeted out, hashtag kill all white men.
	She's a leftist.
	And they did the investigation and then they threw it out because of course they did.
	But at least they did the investigation.
	In this incident, they've just said, no.
	Why?
	Because our officers are woke.
	Therefore, they can do what they want.
	But if you did this, you'd be in big trouble.
	so he continues Wikipedia describes a riot shield as a tactical weapon of defence following the kill the bill riots in Bristol a superintendent from Somerset and Avon described the shield strikes as a legitimate deployment of police weaponry Leicestershire police however reject any suggestion that a riot shield is a weapon Ha ha ha.
	It's definitely...
	I've seen it used.
	I've seen it used as a weapon.
	I've seen it used to batter a guy to the ground.
	If the public took them to a public protest in London, they'd be detained for taking weapons to a protest.
	Yeah.
	So Harry writes, Great, I said.
	So, if I get a riot shield and paint it in the colours of the suffragettes and march with it through Leicester City Centre, that will be fine, will it?
	No, said the officer he was on the phone with.
	That would be a public order offence.
	What?!
	You cannot march a politically provocative riot shield through the streets of Leicester.
	But how are the suffragettes politically provocative?
	How have we reached this point where what's going to be politically provocative next, like Martin Luther King?
	I'm serious!
	Yeah, there's that aspect of it, but it's literally the officers on the phone with him being like, we can do it, you can't.
	Why?
	Because we're better than you.
	Much better than you.
	You're garbage.
	Anyway, so why not, I asked.
	You told me it's not a weapon.
	Police responded, it's not.
	However, I can tell from this phone call that you are motivated by antagonism.
	That would make the shield a weapon.
	We cannot allow a member of the public into the streets with a weapon.
	But an officer with a weapon?
	Well, don't worry, he's not antagonistic.
	Therefore, the shield changes its form and becomes a symbol of love, not a weapon.
	To summarise this sophistry, carried out by a cop whose heart is sweeter than the icing on a fairy cake, The riot shield is a powerful symbol of love.
	However, in the hands of a dark-hearted member of the public with a history of comparing themselves to Sarah Brightman, it becomes a dangerous symbol of violence.
	Harry Miller picks it up.
	Oh, God.
	So what's Harry Miller done?
	Anyway, suitably chastised, Fair Cop went out and brought some genuine police riot shields in preparation for my forthcoming appearance at the Royal Court of Justice.
	Today they are in the paint shop.
	Perhaps it's time for Sweeney Todd to stop up on Jelly Babies and get the Ford console fired up.
	So he is going to go down to his court...
	With a couple of riot shields, and they're going to have the suffragette colours or whatever else painted on them, and charge him.
	Go for it.
	You charge him, you have to charge the police.
	That is how the damn law works.
	And if they're just going to deny it, that he's not going to go through the courts.
	The police in this country are an international joke, not just nationally, but Americans endlessly make fun of us for them, Canadians, all the rest of it, and they should, because they are just embarrassing.
	The entire industry needs to be reformed.
	It's not that the police is a pointless institution, but it needs to become an institution, not a clown factory.
	Yeah, and also, they can't be doing this moral arbitration at the frontline officers.
	It's ridiculous.
	You can't be like, oh, this person's got a pure heart so they can carry this weapon, and this person's got a bad heart.
	I do have sufficient face in the court system because they actually do good things quite regularly.
	Tends to be a bit smarter.
	They have to implement the laws that the Parliament have passed, which is why you get Section 127.
	But quite often you'll get judges who are just like, no, don't waste my time with this.
	You try and mess with me, I won't send you to jail.
	Yeah, which happens a lot with Harry Miller's original case.
	The judge said...
	Get the hell out.
	Yeah, this is ridiculous.
	And criticised the police and the criminal...
	What are they called?
	CPS or whatever?
	Yeah, Crown Prosecution Service.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But in Scotland, the police and the criminal justice system and the courts and everything, everything's being consolidated and centralised.
	And the SNP, I think the government's got too much control over, certainly over the police.
	And I don't think the criminal justice system and the courts are as independent in Scotland as they are in the rest of the UK. No.
	Speaking of the SMP, I have some suggestions for those Riot Shields, Harry, if you'll take a minute.
	We've got some amazing segues.
	Yeah, I just wanted to mention the SMP, remember on Pride, they tweeted this out, Happy Pride Month from everyone at the SMP, with their logo, which looks like a noose, which is...
	What the lady in Scotland is being tried for is suffragette colours.
	So yeah, Marion Miller tweeted a picture of a suffragette ribbon, which looks a lot...
	She was arrested and charged with a hate crime because it looks like a noose.
	It didn't.
	It doesn't look anything like a noose.
	This looks far more like a noose.
	And I love that the S&P actually tweeted out a version of their logo in the racial pride flag, because of course you have black and brown segregated from the rest of the queers, as they describe themselves, because the S&P believes that black and brown should be segregated from everyone else, I assume.
	And yeah, put that on one of the riot shields.
	And then, if they do charge with you, it also becomes a conversation about the SNP and whether or not their symbol and their logo and this particular tweet is also a crime.
	And I just love the idea that the SNP's logo becomes a criminal symbol under their own watch because of their own laws.
	And speaking of Nicola Sturgeon, I thought we'd also enjoy her getting shafted by a very good man, Trevor Phillips.
	Oh, I love Trevor Phillips.
	Trevor Phillips is fantastic.
	He had Nicola Sturgeon on his show and managed to get her agreed to take the white privilege test that her government's passing out to teachers.
	Let's play this clip.
	You've issued guidance on racism to schools, which advises teachers to take a test to measure their white privilege.
	Have you taken that test, First Minister?
	Sorry, I haven't.
	I'm happy to do so.
	But if you want to give me more detail of that, I will certainly consider it.
	But I'm not entirely off the top of my head sure what you're referring to.
	Well, it is a test which says...
	Because of who you are and how you're born, you have privilege in your case, which I, in my case, do not have.
	And the advice that your Department of Education has given is that schools should give The teachers should take this test to demonstrate that they, because they're white, have this advantage.
	And I think it would be rather good.
	I mean, why don't we do a deal that the Scottish Government Cabinet takes the white privilege test and one of your colleagues comes back on and tells us what the results are?
	I'm happy to do it.
	I think these things are really important.
	I don't have the particular guidance in front of me.
	I'm not trying to dodge your question.
	But she did at the start of that blathering there say that she's happy to do it.
	And I look forward to it.
	I look forward to Hamza Yusuf being the most white privileged.
	The guy who's always worrying about whites.
	Well, he is immensely privileged.
	I mean, he went to, you know, private school.
	Exactly.
	You know, like most of it.
	Like most woke people.
	They're all going to get the highest of schools.
	The most privileged people.
	Yeah.
	I thought I'd end on just this, finally, other piece of good news.
	So this is a guy tweeting out that the Crown Prosecution Service has told me that it has ended its partnership with the Diversity Champion Scheme run by LGBT charity Stonewall.
	Very good.
	This is great.
	There's a lot of organisations that are ending their association, which, I mean, we were talking about, you know, rackets and, like, paying the church or paying the mob.
	This is one of them.
	We spoke about this a lot on the podcast, but this follows the departure of the European Court of Human Rights.
	Sorry, no, EHRC, sorry.
	Ofcom and also the BBC News and all the rest of it, because loads of departments are pulling out, thanks to the work of Kemi Baden-Ock and Liz Truss, I am to understand.
	So glory to them and also good news.
	Police are going to get what they deserve.
	The S&P are going to get what they deserve.
	And if not, well, we now have the right to walk around with the riot shields with the S&P's logo on, apparently.
	If they don't.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	So, um, Callum, you're not observant as you think you are, because the first video comment that played after I got back from my holiday, uh, there was a cameo in the background.
	Yep, that old guy was there.
	We met up.
	Also, as well, this took place AFTER the whole fiasco of my grandma being sick and having to call an ambulance for her on my birthday.
	That old guy really cheered me up.
	He's a great guy.
	Great to talk to.
	Just wanted to say that because thanks again for cheering me up, man.
	Weeb!
	Okay, makes sense now.
	Yeah, I can see the background.
	Yeah.
	I hope you're better.
	Also, Oil Guy's a good guy.
	He changed his name to Renewable Guy now because he works in the oil industry.
	Right.
	Oil is renewable if you wait 100 million years.
	Yeah.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I'd like to address the rhetoric of, quote, protecting the vaccinated.
	End quote.
	It is rooted in a postulate, unproven to my knowledge, that the virus was mutating in the unvaccinated population and these mutated variants were causing the breakthrough cases.
	The problem with this postulate is the vaccine does not prevent infections.
	It just reduces the severity of the disease course.
	This is true of all viral vaccines, to the best of my knowledge.
	That's fantastic.
	I should have brought up that point.
	I didn't think of it.
	Yeah, that's a very good point.
	I mean, I'm not a doctor, but neither is Bill Gates.
	But, like, I mean, the point that people still get infected with the vaccine.
	And actually, in Edinburgh, a lot of the comedians who'd been double vaccinated were getting quite sick.
	Like, you know, sicker than me.
	I hadn't been vaccinated.
	Not because I'm anti-vax, I'm lazy and disorganised.
	Yeah, the context for that was Joe Biden gave a speech in which he was trying to blame the quarter of Americans who are unvaccinated for all the problems in the world.
	He was speaking of them in quite light.
	Did they not have pure hearts?
	Yeah, it wasn't even slightly like recognising them as humans.
	And he was saying that they're basically the problem for the entire country and that's why everyone needs to be vaccinated.
	And I couldn't even think of a single argument trying to be charitable to him as to why on earth he would make this.
	Because of course, if you're vaccinated, you can still get infected.
	You can still carry it on.
	I mean, I guess you'll spread it less because your symptoms will be less severe so you won't be coughing and spluttering.
	I don't know if that's even the case anymore.
	Because the science changes every goddamn five minutes, doesn't it?
	Right, yeah.
	Like woke rules.
	Yeah, great point.
	Thanks.
	Let's go to the next one.
	On Tim's podcast, Tim and Ian were arguing over where rights are derived.
	Tim, understanding the foundations of natural law, argued that certain rights, natural rights, are derived from human nature.
	Ian, on the other hand, focused on the word of the Creator, presuming that it refers to a theistic God, and since he's an atheist, then natural rights don't exist.
	Rights are constructed by society.
	I still need to read more about the Enlightenment and natural rights, but from what I can tell, people are woefully misattributing natural rights to theist philosophy, and that is far from the truth.
	This has made me realize something about the relationship between good moral frameworks and religion, which I'll expound upon in my next comment.
	All right, cool.
	Apparently Hugo and Josh are going to be doing a podcast, Contemplations, over the weekend on that exact topic of rights, where do they come from?
	Yeah, but I mean, I've heard this argued before that, you know, an atheist society doesn't protect our rights.
	I mean, under wokeism, it looks like that's correct.
	But wokeism's a religion in my eyes.
	But, I mean, if you look at religious societies and confessional states...
	They didn't have particularly strong individual freedoms and human rights and they weren't enforced.
	It was really the enlightenment and the growth of liberalism and the modern world and the move away from a theocracy that brought in our individual freedoms and rights.
	I think any serious person at this point does recognise that the only countries that have actually...
	I have rights on the books and enforce them and are real and not, you know, rights on healthcare.
	That doesn't make sense.
	You have a right to speak, for example, because you're born with it.
	You're born with healthcare.
	Oh, yeah.
	You can't have a human right.
	This is what the left never understands.
	You can't have a right that means someone else is forced to toil in a field to get that right.
	But I think most serious people recognize not only that, but the only countries that have ever achieved this are the ones, largely the Western ones, who embrace liberalism or the rest of it.
	But the debate is, as I understand it, about, well, was that maintained thanks to the Christian population and their understanding of the world and whatnot?
	And now that we've become more and more atheistic, we seem to have these things exponentially falling off a cliff.
	So is that part of the problem?
	Yeah.
	Wokeism is rushed into the void left by religion.
	We're left by the absence of religion.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So do you think the Christian West is the thing you should preserve to try and stop that?
	I mean, you don't want to preserve it too hard.
	I mean, I think there's certainly a lot of...
	I mean, it's not...
	It's not entirely religious, but obviously religion has been a huge part of British history.
	But I think our values and our principles, we need a constitution, I think, in this country.
	We need our human rights to be enshrined in it.
	But I think our traditions of democracy and fairness and individual property rights, individual freedoms, freedom of speech, I think They are probably informed by our religious, by Christianity.
	I see a lot of people in the chat asking you to say purple burglar alarm.
	Purple burglar alarm.
	Anyway, let's go for the next video comment.
	It was difficult condensing a 20-minute process into 30 seconds.
	Dylan, I just walk into stores without a mask and no one has asked me to put one on in Texas.
	Also, if you're in the path of Tropical Storm, Nicholas, stay safe, man.
	And yes, Callum, I want to do gardening.
	I have a patio and you can get storage bins, put a ton of dirt in it and kind of have a raised bed set up, or you can do vertical gardens.
	But those things are kind of expensive to set up, so I need to save a little more money before I get there.
	Cheers.
	Yeah, but why?
	Like, I get the idea of, you know, self-sufficiency.
	She was cleaning her own clothes from hand, for example, as an exercise of self-sufficiency, right?
	Right.
	And I get that, and there's something therapeutic in it, and apparently it made the sheets way better, which, that's one thing.
	But I mentioned the gardening thing, because I just wanted to see, like, where would you take it?
	Because it's like people who buy bread makers and make their own bread, where it's like, yeah, because bread's expensive.
	Bread's hard to get hold of.
	You just pay a pound.
	You get a loaf of bread.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Well, there's a guy who did...
	I mean, I bake my own bread.
	I don't have a bread maker, though.
	That's for ponces.
	I just do it myself by hand because I'm a real man.
	But, yeah, there's a guy who was in the Science Museum in London, and he tried to make a toaster himself.
	You know, something you can go down to Argos and buy for, like, £7.
	£5, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So he tried to make one himself.
	Literally, he dug up the iron ore to make the almonds.
	They've got this toaster in the Science Museum.
	It's incredible.
	How much did it cost him?
	Did he estimate?
	He probably did.
	Yeah, that's probably in the exhibit.
	I can't remember.
	But it just shows the impact that the division of labour and specialisations in different areas have benefited society.
	Yeah.
	Because the thing in my mind is, I don't know if you'd be doing it, you would be doing it for your own peace of mind.
	It's a therapeutic activity.
	Because you mentioned the toaster, and you just reminded me, there's a lovely YouTube video of a guy who made a chicken and bacon sandwich from scratch.
	He grew the wheat, he went to the seaside and got salt water and boiled off, got the salt, separated it to put the salt on the chicken and whatnot.
	Everything, everything.
	$300 for the sandwich.
	That was how much the sandwich cost by the end of it.
	Just a chicken bacon sandwich.
	And it's a story about specialization and the fact that the modern world economies of scale work.
	Yeah, I just had an inkling when I saw you cleaning the clothes and whatnot.
	Where are you actually going to...
	Where's your limit on that?
	Why are you doing it?
	But I suppose we'll find out.
	Sorry.
	Bambling on.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I thought I would try to provide some insight into the Canadian election process over the next couple of days.
	Elections Canada is an organization that runs the federal elections on behalf of the Crown.
	All election workers are required to remain as neutral as possible with regards to candidates or parties.
	The election campaign is between 36 and 50 days long.
	We have one election day, which is Monday, September 20th this time.
	There are four consecutive days of advanced polling about a week previous.
	There are also special provisions to vote outside these dates, or you can specifically request a mail-in ballot.
	Alrighty.
	I was just googling because...
	Election day is a national holiday in Canada.
	I don't know why we don't have that and why the Americans don't have it.
	Yeah, it would kind of make sense.
	It would encourage people to vote.
	I know in Australia you get fined if you don't vote.
	Yeah, that's bad.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Australia is quite an authoritarian country, considering how anti-authoritarian a lot of the people are.
	But I thought it would be a great trade-off the Republicans could have with the Dems in America, that you're always arguing about the access to voting and whatnot.
	So what we'll do, no more electronic voting.
	It's all going to be paper ballots from now on, and in exchange, Election Day is a national holiday.
	It'd be a great exchange, surely.
	They can feel secure about the elections, the Democrats could stop whining about it being accessible, but of course the Dems would probably end up rejecting it because it would negatively harm them, wouldn't it?
	Yeah, they couldn't fudge things through.
	You know, my dad didn't bother voting for me, he went down to polling.
	LAUGHTER He went down to the polling station and there was a queue, so he just went home.
	Now that's a man with nothing to do all day.
	Who were you standing for?
	Lawrence Fox's Reclaim Party.
	That's cruel.
	I went on tour in Australia and I left my car at my dad's.
	And so he started driving it because it's better than his car.
	I've got a nice car because I spend so much time driving.
	I've got a nice car.
	And anyway, when I came back after three months in Australia, I said to him, oh, can you pick me up from the airport?
	Because I knew he was driving my car around and stuff.
	And...
	So he came and picked me up and we're on the motorway and he's like totally just bombing it but in fifth gear instead of like putting it up into sixth and I was like it's got six gears you can move up to sixth and he's like yeah I know I obviously didn't know but he just couldn't admit it and then like he's telling me oh your car splutters it's like it splutters because you're driving it 100 miles an hour in fifth gear you probably like just totally trashed my engine block you know what I mean?
	You're just mad about your dad?
	Yeah, yeah.
	That had nothing to do with anything except, like, I just can't believe, like, you know, I get this nice car, he's just, like, bombing it down the motorway in, like, fifth gear.
	Someone in the chat called Thomas apparently says that the cost of the toaster was £1,187.56.
	Sorry, 54 pence.
	Oh, there it is!
	This is the toaster.
	It's amazing.
	It's a great example of a way to explain specialisation and economies of scale.
	Did it actually work?
	Did he manage to toast something?
	I hope so.
	Imagine if it didn't toast anything.
	What's wrong with the fire?
	I guess the, you know, because this is another thing.
	I noticed socialists and communists and people on the left, they don't understand the complexity of markets and systems and products.
	And if you look at something, even like even a paper coffee cup.
	In the Soviet Union, you had centrally controlled economies.
	In a lot of socialist, communist countries, you've got centrally controlled economies.
	In the West, we have the market, so each individual person, the farmer decides what crops he grows, when he harvests them, and Where he sells them, the people at the market decide who they buy.
	So everybody's working in their own best interest.
	And it's a system that just works so well.
	You can sometimes get issues with monopolies and price fixing and all the rest of it.
	But overall, it works really well.
	Whereas in socialist communist countries, you have a central committee.
	There's no clue what it's doing, deciding, you know, this farm is going to grow wheat and this farm is going to grow...
	Even though that would be better as a vineyard and this needs to grow rubber or whatever.
	So the level of complexity that's involved in just making a simple product, never mind a space rocket or an Audi A3, just something like a paper cup.
	Or a cup of coffee.
	You've got to have people growing the beans, harvesting them at the right time.
	They've got to be transported.
	They've got to go to the roasters.
	Then they've got to be transported to the market.
	And then they've got to go to where they're...
	So obviously, centrally controlled economies are just inherently flawed and doomed to failure.
	But leftists always want to bring them back because they always think that some central committee may have just...
	Dull apparatchiks who don't know what they're doing.
	It's going to create some sort of utopian system.
	Have you ever seen inside the Soviet Union during that period before computers?
	They had lasted piles of books and they'd calculate how much water is going to be needed and materials and stuff like that.
	And there's people arguing today, oh, we'll just do a computer.
	I was like, no, it'll still fail.
	If you want a great example of that, Mel's Great Famine, the book club we did, is a great one.
	Plug for our own stuff there.
	Because there's the great section, as Bo mentioned, where there's some guys who live in a commune, and they're all starving, and they literally know there's silos next to them filled with fresh grain that can be used.
	But just because of clogs in the system for transportation, they all rotted and were eaten by insects.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And, like, yeah, I mean, anybody who's worked in the public sector can see the level of profligacy, bureaucracy, and just incompetence.
	Half of NHA staff now are apparently not medical.
	Right.
	They're all administrative.
	Right.
	Although, funnily enough, I was on the radio the other day, and I was told that only 1% of NHS staff are managers, which seemed ridiculously low to me.
	Totally not right.
	There's no way to do that.
	Yeah, I don't think that's right.
	No.
	Anyway.
	I mean, also, we could just look at the money, even if it's not the percentage of workforce.
	But anyway, let's get to the comments.
	So, first things here about you letting the secret slip.
	Snowdog says the secret's out.
	Call Wizard says this episode should have come with a spoiler warning.
	And George says, so, Leo, can't say...
	Couture?
	That can say...
	Couture?
	I don't know, I can't speak English.
	Couture!
	Couture!
	It's called couture.
	Right, but he can say purple burglar alarm.
	I can.
	Is that skill?
	Is that like rolling your tongue in school?
	I can also say there's been a murder.
	The police aren't investigating it because nobody was misgendered.
	Yes.
	So, Hunger Games USA, Jonathan says, I really want to know how they train the self-awareness out of the Hollywood elite.
	Sigh.
	people feel about this yeah Omar says AOC is now the think it should so figure figurative and literal champagne socialist the whole ideology is fueled entirely by envy and if they were honest their slogan would be tax the richer than me yeah socialists never realized that they might be the rich people who are I mean, traditionally, when socialist governments tax people, they don't stop below the billionaires.
	If you're a communist, you kill the rich.
	You don't just tax them.
	When you see people like AOC or Ash Sock or whatnot, it's like...
	Look, globally, the rich starts, I think Jordan Peterson said, $27,000 a year.
	If you're above that, you're in the 1%.
	And he was talking to some Slovenian journalist who was like, oh no.
	Because she was arguing that the 1% were this, and they were ruining Slovenia.
	And he said that statistic to her, and she's getting paid more than that, obviously.
	So she started freaking out and being like, no, no, no, no, I'm only talking in Slovenia.
	It's like, why?
	You're a communist.
	Who recognizes borders of a nation?
	Not communists.
	So why do you care about this?
	But yeah, every socialist in the West is getting into the Gulag like the Kulaks.
	So anyway, Stuart says the longer politicians are in office, the more detached they come from the people they are supposed to represent.
	Maybe every political position should have a two-term limit like the US president.
	That's not a bad idea.
	It's also true.
	It's just a power of law.
	Sorry, a law of power.
	The closer you are to power, the more detached you are from reality.
	Dan Arthur says, all these alphabet people defining themselves by their niche mental dysfunctions makes astrology people seem quite quake to me.
	Yeah, have you seen the latest one where people are trying to argue that, what is it, disassociative personality disorder?
	You know, multiple personality disorder?
	Yeah.
	What Smeagol's got is agenda.
	So, like, I'm Callum, right?
	Yeah.
	But I also have another personality that's called, like, you know, Susan or something.
	Right, yeah, yeah.
	And that's a gender because Susan isn't male.
	Oh, God.
	And therefore you have to accept this.
	People just overthink stuff.
	And also, man, there's so many.
	There's just been a sort of ballooning of all these, like, mental disorders.
	And I'm sure most, I'm sure everybody could get themselves diagnosed with.
	I'm definitely, like, autistic and stuff.
	I'm sure you are and everybody on the team is as well.
	You know what I mean?
	But, you know, it's only if you look.
	It's only if you, like, you know.
	Yeah, if you sort of drag yourself around doctors to get diagnosed, it's, yeah, I don't know, I find a lot of it.
	The mental dysfunction thing is similar.
	You see it with the Twitter bios.
	They've got the pronouns and they've also got whatever, ADHD. We've all got ADHD as well.
	I love it.
	You can describe the whole Twitter bios as just like lists of mental disorders.
	Yeah, yeah.
	On the comedians getting cancelled, Snowdog says, The woke beast eats its own tail.
	Yep.
	Which is always good to see.
	That's why I'm not upset, really.
	It's like, yeah, bad, and I agree they shouldn't be cancelled.
	But I really think, I feel for Janie, because she's a great act.
	She is quite edgy, and it's a shame to see her getting cancelled.
	And also, I think a lot of the stuff has been quoted out of context, which I know they do to comedians on the right, and nobody comes out to bat for comedians on the right, but yeah, I still hate to see it.
	Her versus Count Dankula, I mean, she's definitely worse than Count Dankula, even if you're a leftist, in my view, surely.
	But I guess Count Dankula is somebody who disagrees, therefore he's worse.
	Anyway, so Edward of Woodstock says, it's a difficult line being a comedian these days.
	I'm sure you would know.
	between being funny and being offensive, and most end up saying "sod it" and jump down onto one side.
	Full respect if you go down the offensive route because an unfunny comedian is far more tragic. - Yeah, and it's completely unnecessary to police comedians because when we perform, Like tonight I'm doing my show at Top Secret.
	There's tickets available if anybody wants to come.
	Top Secret Comedy Club in London.
	And then I'm doing Comedy Unleashed in Bethnal Green.
	But when we perform, we're performing in front of an audience.
	There's like 200 people there and...
	They're just drawn from a cross-section of society.
	So if we say anything that's genuinely unacceptable or horribly homophobic or whatever, people aren't going to laugh because that's horrible.
	You know what I mean?
	It's a self-policing system.
	We've got the jury in front of us.
	I can't get over how there's literally an organisation trying to regulate British comedy.
	What joke is that?
	Yeah, and it's run by people, you know, woke elites.
	The Live Comedy Association is all woke elites who I've never, like, there's about two of them I've, like, heard of.
	Never mind, you know, met, gigging.
	They're not the sort of the working comedians who go out and make money doing the clubs.
	They're, you know, these sort of pious wokists that, you know, just do TV production or whatever.
	Yeah.
	Another one here.
	So Theodore Brewer says, apparently Aladdin was originally a Chinese story that was then added to 101 Arabian Nights by a French translator in the 1900s.
	Sorry, 19th century.
	So, yeah.
	I wonder if there's any parts of the story that you can tell where it's originally Chinese, but I haven't watched it.
	Northamptonian Knight says, so Leo now has anti-racism papers.
	Would they then be combined with the COVID papers?
	We all won't need a special pocket so much as a giant satchel to carry all our documentation for the multicolored alphabet police.
	Papers, please!
	You should really get that in your wallet.
	It's like a little card or something.
	Whenever you get stopped by the police, there you are.
	I'm part of the elite.
	I'm officially not a racist, don't you know?
	Yeah, so you can see this riot shield is not a weapon.
	There with the riot shield on the paper.
	I'm not a racist.
	I'm pure of heart.
	Officially pure of heart.
	Oh, God.
	Imagine saying that.
	Like, we investigated and found them to be pure of heart.
	Like, what?
	How did you do that?
	The fact that your letter, they were just like, yeah, give this to other industry professionals.
	Yeah, yeah.
	As if you would.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Just in case you're worried.
	Just in case you're worried, don't worry.
	I'm like, I'm officially not racist.
	Like, you're calling up a venue and you're like, yeah, we'd like to book it for a comedy club and they're like, ah, you know, these days, blah, blah, blah.
	Don't worry, I've got my papers.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	God.
	What a mess.
	So anyway, we're running out of time, so I'll just do one quick one on the clown police.
	So Duffy says, after restarting, Gurkha cops solve these problems.
	They will pay more attention to your laces and action than your heart.
	Yeah, so we had a joke about getting the Gurkhas to do the policing.
	Yeah.
	Because they don't waste time.
	Yeah.
	Let's put it that way.
	That's a good idea.
	There was a great story in which, I think, what was it?
	It was in Afghanistan.
	This Gurkha went out and they said that he needed a positive ID on the member of the Taliban they wanted him to kill.
	Specific guy.
	See why not?
	Just chopped off his head and they brought the head back.
	So there you go.
	DNA evidence.
	Oh my god.
	They investigated him and they just decided, look, just let him go.
	He's fine.
	But other than that, we'll have to end the show because we're out of time.
	But thank you for tuning in.
	If you'd like more from us, go to lovethoseethis.com.
	If you'd like more from Leo, where people find you?
	I'm on YouTube and yeah, you can probably the easiest thing to find me on is Instagram because I'm Scottish Comedian.
	All one word on Instagram and then there's a link to everything.
	The Scottish Comedian.
	I couldn't believe it was available.
	Scottish Comedian.
	That's like, what an Instagram handle.
	Also, what's your main comedy event?
	It would be Hayton Live.
	Yeah, so I run a show called Hating Live as well.
	I do solo stand-up.
	I do solo shows.
	I'm doing a show tonight and on October the 7th, and I do clubs all around the country and abroad and stuff.
	But I run this show called Hating Live with Darius Davies, and basically the audience writes down what they hate.
	It goes into a bucket, and then we've got a panel of comedians, and they have to say why they hate that thing.
	And you can write anything down.
	It's wild.
	And you've got to, as a comedian, you've got to stand up there and totally squirm your way around hating on this horrific thing.
	Has anyone ever written in a group of ethnic groups?
	Yeah, I mean, sometimes Darius filters them out because we don't want it to actually become...
	We genuinely don't get much racism or anything like that.
	But sometimes it's funny if you then give that...
	If we've got a gay comedian, then they hate on queer people or something like that.
	Douglas Murray.
	Yeah, then it's like, it's funny because, you know, and you can see the, it's funny because you can see the sort of, the actual complexity of the, you know, queer culture and how different parts of it hate other parts and stuff.
	Well, you know, Douglas would say there's the gays versus the queers.
	The people who are gay and that's part of their lives and then they have a life.
	And the queers, who have no life, and that's it.
	Anyway, but anyway, we are out of time.
	So if you want more from us, it'll be tomorrow at one o'clock.

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