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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Tutors for the 27th of September 2021.
	I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about how the media controls the government because the public is stupid.
	Carl chose there.
	Also, the return of the cringe.
	The Labour Party is currently having their conference and it's my favourite time of year.
	Love watching that cringe.
	Anyway, so also the last thing to mention, the last video we're going to be doing, is we have entered the final phase of social justice.
	Yes, and that doesn't mean the end of social justice, it just means what it's going to look like going forward.
	Mm-hmm.
	So some stuff on the website, first to mention.
	So some of the stuff that went up over the weekend.
	So first thing being the premium contemplations.
	What is intelligence?
	Looking at intelligence from a psychological perspective.
	It'll be Josh and Hugo, I imagine.
	Yeah, this is obviously Josh's field of expertise.
	Yeah.
	Very good.
	So, we go to the next one.
	We have the Epochs.
	So, this is the life of Sir Francis Drake.
	Yes.
	England's greatest hero...
	No, explorer, villain to the Spanish.
	Probably the French as well.
	And General Mad Lad, actually, to be honest.
	It was a really good episode.
	Why is he not a hero?
	Um...
	Piracy, I think.
	Yeah, but against who?
	The Spanish.
	Pirates.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Nobody cares.
	Not my problem, you know.
	They were doing it too, so...
	But yeah, that one's two hours long, though, because Beau really, really was into this, so this is the entire life of Sir Francis Drake.
	Sounds good.
	Very good watching.
	Next to mention is the dumbest country on Earth.
	Presumably tying in with Josh's research into IQ. Yes, so he looked at the lowest rated IQ country on Earth on average.
	People have an IQ here of apparently 59.
	So that's the lowest on Earth.
	And looking at, well, how does that manifest in the country?
	Have we got the audio for this?
	Has this got an audio?
	I assume it does.
	It does, yes.
	Excellent.
	Because I'm going to listen to this later.
	Because this, I mean, I really want to know what it's like.
	Just, you know.
	Some of the problems.
	Anyway, I suppose we should talk about it.
	I'm not going to make any jokes either.
	Say what it's like, you know, living in Scotland.
	Anyway.
	I'm so sorry.
	I disavowed myself.
	Let's move on.
	Thinking of Scotland, I suppose we should talk about the live event a little bit first.
	Yeah, yeah, okay.
	It was really good.
	It was really good fun, yeah.
	And I like that the second thing I did, I just pulled together at the last minute and it seemed to go okay as well.
	Yeah, it was very good.
	Dank was fun.
	Leo was fun.
	Andrew Lawrence came down, which is nice.
	Yep.
	And who else was there?
	I'm trying to remember the names off the top of my head.
	No, it was you and me.
	It is everyone, isn't it?
	Yeah, I think it's everyone.
	Yeah, it was everyone.
	But the whole thing will, of course, be up on LotusEast.com, so you can come over and check it out.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, let's get into the media.
	Yeah, so the media controls the government because the public, I said, is stupid but really is just misinformed and for some reason still broadly thinks that what the media says is true and in many cases that's not correct.
	And it's because the media have an agenda.
	They are not happy with Brexit.
	They are not happy with how things have gone.
	And if they can find something they can pin on Brexit to gin up antipathetical sentiment against it, they're going to do that.
	And so let's go back about, what, three or four days now to this just little report by the Shropshire Star.
	And this is reasonable reporting.
	This is like, you know, local news reporting things in a responsible manner that's not going to make people feel like the world is ending, right?
	So, as they say here, the drivers are being urged by the government to buy fuel as normal after the lorry driver shortage hit supplies.
	So, BP said that a handful of its filling stations are closed due to a lack of fuel.
	And SO owner ExxonMobil also said that a small number of its Tesco Alliance petrol forecourts have been impacted.
	So this is not a big problem, right?
	It's not a big problem.
	And a government spokesman said there is no shortage of fuel in the UK. People should continue to buy fuel as normal.
	If that petrol station doesn't have any, just go to the next one.
	That will have some.
	We recognize the challenges facing the industry and have already taken action to increase the supply of HGV drivers, including streamlining the process for new drivers and increasing the number of driving tests.
	Now that's the right thing to do, right?
	Streamlining the process to allow people to qualify as being a HGV driver An increased number of tests so you can recruit more people because, of course, the wages in this industry are going up, which is good for the drivers themselves, and this is not a big deal.
	Yes, the shortage is caused by the lack of foreign labour, but the correct action here is one they were starting to take.
	Recruit more of our own.
	We can get people to drive lorries.
	That's fine.
	And we should.
	They say, you know, we'll closely monitor labor supply and work with the sector leaders, blah, blah, blah.
	Everything's fine.
	BP's head of retail, though.
	And I wonder how much of this is about, like, the petrol companies having an incentive to do this, right?
	Hannah Hofer said that it was important for the government to understand the urgency of the situation, which she described as bad, very bad, according to a report by ITV News.
	But it's not, like, very bad.
	It's just slightly bad.
	Nothing to be panicking about.
	Nothing to worry about.
	It's not the end of the world.
	The country isn't collapsing.
	Calm down, right?
	And this is what ExxonMobil said, actually.
	Weirdly enough.
	Look, a small number of our 200 Tesco Alliance retail sites are impacted.
	Very small.
	A Tesco spokesman said, we have a good availability of fuel, with deliveries arriving at our petrol filling stations across the UK every day.
	That's a responsible thing to say.
	The BP spokesman said, oh no, things are bad, very bad, very bad.
	Are they?
	From whose perspective?
	So anyway, this small issue again has hit supermarkets with shelves being half full and grocers forced to increase salaries and introduce signing-on bonuses to fill gaps.
	Oh no!
	How terrible.
	So instead of like three different kinds of cucumber, I only have two different kinds of cucumber, and the people filling the shelves are being paid more.
	I mean, have you seen any shortages around in our area?
	When we were driving back, I think we saw some petrol stations that had stopped.
	That's because of the panic buying.
	Yes.
	But it reminds me of the pandemic, just when occasionally you go into the shop...
	Toilet paper, quick, buy toilet paper, but there's no shortage of toilet paper.
	Yeah, the shortage is caused by consumer activity, not by any kind of supply problem.
	Yeah, so naturally the media ran with this, like the lunatics that they are.
	Let's have a look at the Daily Mail's reporting.
	Block caps in the headline, which shows that they're really taking this in a responsible manner.
	UK needs nearly 2 million workers!
	Oh God!
	UK job advert numbers have reached the highest figure in at least a year, with almost 2 million positions currently being offered.
	Okay.
	So they complain that basically this has gone up by 220,000 to 1.9 million.
	And according to the figures, there are 36,000 new adverts for chefs, sales assistants, and 6,000 bar staff, and 7,500 job adverts for HGV drivers.
	Some offer salaries of upward of 50 grand a year.
	Good.
	That's great.
	The Road Haulage Association estimates the UK was short of 100,000 HGV drivers.
	So why did they only put up 7,500 job adverts?
	Never mind.
	Anyway, so Brexit and COVID are among the major reasons put forward by transport groups and ministers for the shortage, which has sparked chaos for the UK's transport industry.
	It's not chaos.
	It's just delays.
	Things are being delayed.
	That's it.
	Tony Wilson, the director for the Institute of Employment Study, says, We estimate there is about a million fewer people in the labour market now than there were before the crisis began.
	And probably about a quarter of that is explained by lower migration, and that's mainly lower immigration since the pandemic rather than higher immigration.
	Well, that's not bad for the native workers of the country, is it?
	This is all good news for you.
	That's it.
	Yeah, I mean, my brother used to be a chef, for example, and he ended up having to leave because of the pandemic, go a different job elsewhere.
	And then, well, he could go back to it, but the pay wasn't worth it, so...
	Yeah.
	Why would he?
	But the thing is, they're going to keep raising the pay until it is worth it.
	Anyway...
	And they point out that, you know, transport firms are offering huge salaries.
	Now, don't get me wrong, this is bad for the smaller transport firms who perhaps can't afford these huge salaries.
	Fair enough.
	But it's good for the individual drivers, and that's what I think is very important.
	And as we talked about the other day, did we talk about it or did we just see it?
	Apparently, one firm in Lincolnshire, a vegetable firm, is advertising broccoli picker rolls for £30 an hour, which is £62,000 a year to pick broccoli.
	Do they need any weekend staff?
	No.
	No, they don't, Callum.
	I need you for the podcast and I'm not paying you more.
	Or if you want to sign up, I can pay you more, but I'm not going to.
	Anyway, so Sky News decided to stoke the fire here.
	Again, petrol driver shortage.
	Situation will get worse before it gets better.
	Thanks, Sky.
	It doesn't have to be worse at all.
	The situation isn't particularly bad.
	And so obviously the police were like, well, look, just please be sensible.
	You don't have to go nuts and start filling up jerry cans full of fuel.
	This isn't the war.
	We're not, you know, collapsing.
	Everything's fine.
	But of course, because the media have been ginning this up, drivers are facing long queues at petrol stations for the second day.
	UK has shot tens of thousands of drivers due to the Brexit and coronavirus pandemic.
	The government insists there's not a fuel shortage, but there have been signs of panic buying.
	Yeah, I wonder why.
	Like wall to wall, by the way, fuel shortage in the media.
	Wall to wall, fuel shortage.
	People are going, oh God, I'm going to have to go panic buy.
	Because these people are liars.
	Again, there is no fuel shortage.
	That's not what's happening.
	They're not telling you the truth when they say this.
	But Sky News understands that Boris Johnson has allowed ministers to relax immigration rules to tackle the HGV driver shortage.
	That's the shortage.
	So the framing of this is dishonest, in my opinion.
	And some, apparently, 400 petrol stations had introduced a £30 limit on fuel due to unprecedented customer demand.
	That's the reason.
	Unprecedented customer demand.
	And it's not unreasonable for them to say, well, look, just don't buy more than 30 quid at a time.
	There's no need.
	You don't need it.
	It's fine.
	It's a tank's worth of fuel.
	You'll be fine.
	But anyway, after causing this artificial catastrophe, the BBC decides to make light of it, and this was just the best joke that anyone could come up with.
	Oh, can anyone fill McCann up with petrol?
	Ha ha!
	BBC journalist Phil McCann had to go and report on the petrol shortage, and this was everywhere.
	They loved this.
	This was the funniest thing in the world.
	It's like, right, so you've created an artificial problem, and now you're just laughing at everyone because of it.
	Thanks.
	It's not a bad joke.
	Oh, it's not a bad joke.
	I don't know if he's a cleaner or something.
	They were like, nah, you've got to do this, mate.
	Sure, it's not a bad joke, but there's no need for any of this, right?
	And it was ITV that had to come out.
	I couldn't believe it was ITV of all places.
	They had to come out and do some responsible coverage, saying, well, look, BP said that 20 out of its 1,200 petrol forecourts were closed due to a lack of fuel.
	20 out of 1,200.
	This is not a problem, right?
	So the situation, of course, was made worse by the long queues because of panic buying, because of what the media had been telling them, that there was a fuel shortage when there wasn't.
	And so they have to be like, is there a shortage of fuel in the UK? There's no shortage of petrol and diesel in the UK. The shortage at petrol stations is caused by issues with transporting fuel from distribution terminals to forecourts.
	That's it.
	You just have to wait.
	Some of them will have to wait a couple of days until they get refilled.
	That's it.
	So anyway, moving on to the next one.
	The drivers themselves, of course, again, ITV, the one outlet that's actually done some responsible reporting on this, it seems, apart from the local ones, you know, this one Plymouth driver being like, there's no fuel shortage.
	Stop panic buying.
	Please stop.
	But this is something that has been demanded for quite some time.
	As you can see, two months ago, reported by The Guardian, the UK's biggest lobby group, business lobby group, has called on the government to relax post-Brexit immigration rules to help companies struggling with staff shortages to hire more workers from overseas.
	The Confederation of British Industry has said the government needs to immediately update its shortage occupations lists to include several areas where employees are finding it difficult to recruit staff, including butchers, bricklayers, and welders.
	Well, I'm sorry, but that is actually entirely the point of Brexit, wasn't it, in my opinion, when it comes to the question of immigration, right?
	When people are like, oh, they're coming here and taking their jobs, yeah, yeah, that's what this is.
	And then you're like, yeah, but we can't find the staff to fill these jobs.
	Well, then train them.
	That was the point.
	You know, you offer, you know, apprenticeships, you know, whatever qualifications you need.
	This isn't a shock either.
	No, absolutely not.
	That was the point of it.
	That was what people wanted.
	Like, but obviously, you've got massive big business lobbying of the government saying, well, hang on a second, you know, this is going to hit our profits.
	It's like, good.
	Good.
	That's what I want.
	I want that to be this kind of, you know, natural market restructuring.
	You know, this is not like some artificial hand coming in and be like, right, we're just going to steal from you like a socialist.
	No, this is just how it should have been in the first place, before the labour market was flooded artificially by cheap foreign labour.
	Deal with it.
	Cry me a river.
	But anyway, I'm sorry I'm sympathetic about this, but I really am, right?
	And you've got, like, I love this.
	You can see how this really is ringing with the public, where 2,000 people are like, yeah, please let in foreign workers on a petition to the government.
	You can see it's 1,976 signatures.
	Anyway.
	Boris, of course, collapsed instantly on this problem, as he does on every problem, when he should have stood firm on this and pointed out that this was the point of Brexit and this would be good for the British people, one of the reasons that you voted for your sovereignty back.
	Boris has ordered a quick, rapid fix to the UK's acute shortage of lorry drivers, which has unleashed a widespread supply chain disruption, including at petrol stations.
	Not true.
	20 out of 1,200.
	20.
	20!
	But also, from what I saw, I wasn't able to confirm because I was working on the Labour stuff, but the situation of a shortage of HGV drivers is throughout the EU as well.
	Yeah, apparently in America and the European Union there is a shortage, but I haven't looked into it either.
	Let's just assume most charitable circumstance is it's an entirely British problem, just for the sake of the argument.
	It doesn't matter, right?
	But this is the point.
	This is the managerial vanguard perspective, where it's like, oh, the government mustn't intervene.
	No, no.
	The society itself, the market itself, will find the solutions itself by raising wages and training more people who need good jobs to do those jobs.
	Bringing in foreign labour was the opposite of what the solution should have been.
	One person close to the situation said the Prime Minister had issued instructions to fix the escalating problem.
	Boris wants this solved, he said.
	Meanwhile, an ally of Johnson said Boris is completely fed up with bad headlines on this and once it's sorted, he doesn't care about visa limits anymore.
	Bad headlines.
	Oh, the media are printing stuff that's bad.
	Who cares?
	They print stuff that's bad every goddamn day of the week.
	They printed nothing but bad things about you and you won a massive majority.
	Do the right thing and it doesn't matter what the media say.
	That's how this is.
	But as you can see, this is where the Conservatives are completely trapped by the media.
	They are...
	Bullied into doing everything, and Boris Johnson just doesn't have the stones to resist it.
	Priti Patel, apparently, was previously the strongest opponent of giving temporary visas to foreign HDV drivers.
	Again, reinforcing my identity, I mean, Priti probably is pretty solid on this, it's just a shame that she's trapped within this Conservative Party.
	Arguing that it would lead to a stampede of different industries demanding similar preferential treatment, which they undoubtedly will, and if there's one thing that there's a massive problem with the Conservative Party, it's corporate lobbying.
	Anyway...
	With panic buying at petrol stations, Patel has dropped her resistance and now agrees with Transport Secretary Grant Schapps that the proposal is worth pursuing.
	Whitehall Insider said that any package will be likely to set out a set of temporary measures, lasting out to six months to see us through Christmas.
	So, again, just completely collapsed in the face of media harassment of the government.
	And why are they doing this?
	You know why they're doing this.
	They're doing this because they want...
	Metro reports then that that means there's going to be more than 10,000.
	I mean, 10,000 is virtually nothing in the way that our immigration is, but still, 10,000 foreign workers will be temporarily permitted to work as lorry drivers in the food sector to tackle the supply crisis.
	And so this will go on until after Christmas.
	Retailers are basically complaining that they have to pay people more.
	But moving on, I find this to be the most interesting part.
	The UK is suspending competition laws.
	Is that wise?
	Is that necessary?
	What does that mean?
	That means, right, so to maintain a free market, you've got to make sure that corporations can't form a cartel, which means they're forbidden by law to share certain kinds of information with one another and essentially conspire against the customer.
	And the Conservative government was like, well, we'll suspend that.
	Officials said the move will make it easier for companies to share information and prioritise parts of the country most at need.
	What, the 20 stations that BP are slightly short of?
	That's not justified.
	I don't think it's justified at all.
	I think there was a reason this was passed to begin with.
	Exactly.
	There was.
	And it's for the exact sort of reason that social media is being dominated by Silicon Valley, to prevent this kind of cartel behaviour.
	And Alex Jones can't be platformed, Donald Trump can't be platformed in one day.
	But anyway, PRA chairman Brian Madison told the BBC that shortages were down to panic buying pure and simple.
	Just panic.
	There is no shortage of fuel.
	This doesn't need to be done.
	And allowing them to now conspire with one another against the customer was a really stupid decision, I think.
	But anyway, what do I know?
	I'm just a guy who hosts a podcast.
	But anyway, so I personally view this as an attack on the working class, as I posted on my Facebook page the other day.
	You can follow my new Facebook page, by the way.
	I set one up under my own name rather than the old brand.
	But this is why I think that basically the left and the Remainers and the business are begging for open borders, because this is an attack on the working class.
	The working class would have used this opportunity to get a bunch of new jobs, get a bunch of new qualifications, and buy themselves houses and move up in the world.
	But no, they're going to provide limitless cheap labour, and that's not good.
	So anyway, let's see what the smear merchants on the continent had to say about this.
	For anyone who doesn't know what the London economic is, it sounds like it might be something professional and prestigious, but it's actually a leftist rag that produces constant left-wing propaganda, so be aware.
	And so they went around the foreign papers and were like, oh well, in Spain, La Vanguardia.
	Which I assume means the Vanguard, which I assume means they're communists, talks about KFC struggling to find chickens and having to close branches and McDonald's not serving milkshakes and soft drinks.
	Well, McDonald's are always short on milkshakes.
	This is a perennial problem with them.
	But I haven't found that.
	In many shops and supermarkets, there isn't milk.
	Had a problem with milk in the supermarket recently, Calum?
	Not personally.
	No.
	And we've just been travelling as well.
	Nowhere appears to have had that.
	I mean, who knows?
	Maybe in somewhere we haven't been, they have.
	The images of empty shelves have become usual as if it was a boycotted Cuba.
	Does Britain feel like it's a boycotted Cuba at this point?
	No.
	Even under the initial panic buying from the pandemic, it wasn't a boycotted Cuba.
	No.
	It was like one shelf might be empty.
	No.
	Lies and smear merchantry on the continent.
	Italy's Repubblica TV talked about Great Britain's post-Brexit apocalypse earlier this month.
	Yeah.
	The idea that this is Brexit?
	No.
	I mean, tangentially.
	All these arguments about Brexit, positives, negatives, and all the ideas, kind of went out the window when the pandemic started, because compared to that, it's negligible.
	Yeah.
	They said, London, Manchester, Cambridge, and Birmingham.
	In all of these cities, there is a supply crisis that is hitting supermarkets and fast foods.
	That's not true.
	Yeah.
	a different brand of whatever it is you're looking for because maybe that brand isn't there but i mean i haven't actually experienced that although we did go to coventry and i had to get oat milk that i wasn't a fan of that was unpleasant yeah crisis a Apocalypse.
	You were very upset in the car.
	I was.
	I mean, it's not the brand I like, you know, but it might just be that that supermarkets didn't stock the brand I happened to like anyway.
	There didn't seem to be a shortage.
	There was loads of oat milk.
	It was just the wrong oat milk, okay?
	But anyway, yeah.
	Smear merchants on the continent are telling lies, and Britain is not in an apocalypse.
	Didn't know why I have to say that.
	Moving on.
	Britain sucks, says a Frenchman.
	Thanks.
	In the new Statesman.
	So, Fred Siriae, who's a British chef, a television chef in British TV, predicts a grim future for the UK restaurant industry.
	I don't know.
	When Brexit happened, all of these people went home or never came back.
	In 2016, we'd never made any provision to replace these people.
	So people leave, you don't replace them, and then COVID hits.
	There are no staff.
	It's just crazy.
	And I think people don't think it's a career, and it's labelled as low-skilled.
	The thing is, it hasn't got a good reputation, sadly, and that's a shame.
	Okay, well, then...
	Well, also you get treated like crap.
	Well, yeah.
	I can speak to this.
	Well, not necessarily treated like crap sometimes, but you have to do quite a lot of work that you don't have to if you had another job in getting similar pay.
	And then you look back at that and think, well, why would I work on weekends endlessly, you know, have no holidays and endlessly be in this hot kitchen when I could just carry on doing what I'm doing?
	And I could be a HGV driver.
	Well, you know, not even that.
	It's just the idea that the problems with chefing are purely immigration are not the case, I think.
	But the point is, he's basically just like, look, this is all Brexit, Brexit's evil, and it's because I am dependent on cheap foreign labour.
	It's like, well, stop being dependent on cheap foreign labour.
	Anyway, and then finally you get the absolute cringe that I thought I'd share with you at the end of this segment.
	Someone called Munya has made a Brexit petrol shortage song.
	Brexit petrol shortage.
	That's what this is.
	There's no petrol shortage.
	So this is still a lie.
	But this was going around all of the sort of like left wing Remainer.
	This is like Scientists for EU shared this is where I found it.
	So they're lying as usual.
	But loads of other ones shared it.
	So let's watch this and have a nice cringe.
	All of you who voted Brexit, is it all that you expected from a man who never pulls out correctly?
	And if I had one wish like Ray J, just throw my can and set me free.
	I'm trying to lose this belt unlike AJ's.
	We're here in for seven hours, now I need to pee.
	Since there's no WC, it's gonna be that treat.
	Ooh, they're so selfish.
	British people can't help it.
	Ooh, you know how they love the Q. Britain's panic buying.
	Petrol pumps are drying.
	Said Brexit would be fine and turns out they were lying.
	Fuel is running real low.
	Need European blokes to come through in their HGVs.
	Okay.
	I was expecting that to be worse.
	Really?
	Like the TikToks you've shown me throughout the years.
	Sure, but I watched that with total cringe.
	It was bad, don't get me wrong.
	So basically, the Remainers are lying to you about how bad this is because they are annoyed that they lost the Brexit referendum and were no longer a part of the EU. Deal with it.
	Speaking of cringe, and I can't be too mad that you did that because I'm going to do worse.
	Anyway, the return of the cringe because it is Labour Party Conference.
	It's that time of year, folks, in which we all get together and look at the screen and wonder what the hell is wrong with them.
	What am I even looking at?
	So here's the first thing I wanted to mention so we can get that up, which is just the video we did, the compilation I did last time of some of it.
	And yeah, that was the ending there, in which some chap decided to scream, you have nothing to lose but your chains, and then give a salute, which he then turned into a fist to try and cover it up.
	But it was...
	Because, I mean, it really looks like a Nazi salute.
	Yes.
	Workers of the world.
	Anyway, so we have another Labour conference, and I thought we'd go through it for fun.
	So let's go to the next one here, just to get up for the Labour conference, which you can watch on livestream.
	What is with all these Nazi salutes?
	This was during the clapping and the lady doing the sign language decided to do that.
	So that's what happened.
	So yes, let's get into it.
	So if we go to the next one, I first want to go around some of the interviews that were going on around the situation.
	So Angela Rayner, deputy leader, decided to go to some side gig and said, We cannot get any worse than a bunch of scum, homophobic, racist, misogynistic, absolute pile of...
	Banana Republic, Etonian piece of scum, and I've held back a little bit that I have ever seen in my life.
	Okay, but enough about the Labour Party.
	Tell us what the real problem is.
	Yeah, so if we go to the next one here, this blew up because it did, and then Keir Starmer said he wouldn't call Tory scum and he's going to talk to Angel Rayner.
	Keir Starmer's conciliatory position.
	Well, I would use that language, but he doesn't disavow it, does he?
	I also found it strange that they even attempted to, like, mediate this, because this is stock Labour Party rhetoric.
	This isn't new.
	Even from senior members.
	I mean, last conference, people could go and watch themselves how bad it was, even from senior members.
	So anyway, she also had one bad interview, so if we go to the next one here, she went on.
	Oh, sorry, this is compared to her old stuff.
	Yeah, this is an old video she did.
	MPs need to dial down their language.
	And, yeah, it didn't.
	So let's go to the next one.
	So this is the bad interview she gave in which she was asked why Labour cannot guarantee the safety of its female MPs given that Rosie Duffield is not at the party conference because she didn't feel safe.
	Angela Riena, she was shocked by the level of misogynistic abuse female MPs get.
	That's coming from within the Labour Party.
	Okay.
	No clocks ticking in there, apparently.
	Anyway.
	Starmer had a worse one.
	Before we go on, I just want to have a comment.
	When she's like, we can't get worse than this bunch of homophobic, racist, misogynistic, banana republic, they're just saying we're just really upset that the Conservatives aren't woke like we are.
	Yes, and you'll see that in the clips we get through.
	So if we go to the next one, we have Starmer, who's having a much worse interview, and we'll play the first clip of this to enjoy.
	Is it transphobic to say only women have a cervix?
	It is something that shouldn't be said.
	It is not, right?
	But Andrew, I don't think...
	So Rosie Duffield should not have said that.
	Can you explain to people watching why she should not have said that?
	Andrew, I don't think that we can just go through various things that people have said.
	Rosie Duffield, I spoke to Rosie earlier this week and told her that conference was a safe place for her to come, and it is a safe place for her to come.
	Evidently not.
	She's not there.
	Yeah, but I love that that's the discussion, right?
	No one at the Conservative Party conference is going to be, I hate to defend the Conservatives on this, but at least people, you know, Owen Jones was there a year or two ago, just wandering around, and they were all like, piss off Owen, you prat.
	But no one, he wasn't like, oh, I'm afraid for my safety.
	No one there was going to assault him for just being there.
	Punch a Nazi is a phrase that is openly used by leftists.
	Punch a communist is not generally used by rightists.
	It's not part of their culture to engage in physical violence for politics.
	But so the Labour Party conference is a terrifying place if you hold wrong opinions.
	And even an avowed commie like Owen Jones can go to the Conservative Party one safely.
	I saw Posey Parker actually post a video on our YouTube channel of someone who did go down to a Labour conference with a big flag saying adult, a human being.
	Oh yeah.
	And it's ragged with Jess Phillips and wasn't happy to see her anyway.
	So let's move on from this because we'll get to the next one in which the first trans newsreader, that's how she describes herself, has a problem with him in that interview.
	And saying that, I'm happy to come on your program, Andrew McMahon, and show you my cervix.
	Would you like that?
	The gutter level of dehumanizing transphobia on the BBC. So India Willoughby, I'm not really familiar with this person.
	That's a man who believes and wants to be a woman.
	So how does she plan on doing that?
	I don't know.
	She doesn't have a cervix.
	So, I guess, as the commenter points out, we're going to get the first ever, you know, inspection live on TV, and when they don't find it, I guess...
	But again, listen to this.
	The gutter level of dehumanizing transphobia on the BBC. Well, to say that males aren't born with cervixes is not transphobic.
	It's just a fact.
	If we go to the next one, she protected her tweets in response to this, so I imagine she's got some pushback.
	Anyway, let's go to the next one.
	Oh, I love the cell phones.
	Yeah, so we go to the next one.
	That's all outside of Consense.
	So that's the stuff outside conference, where they're interacting with the media or whatever.
	I love going inside conference, because they live stream it.
	And you should give it a watch if you've got the time.
	But if you don't, well, I've got a solution for you.
	Because this one's four hours long, and that's just the first day.
	And each one of the subsequent days for this entire week, each one is eight hours long.
	But anyway, let's get to enjoy it, because they're great.
	So let's go for the first speech of the entire event.
	Let's play the next clip.
	We're looking at this conference timetable and we can't see where we're able to debate anything about equalities, let alone COVID and equalities.
	So, I love it.
	First speech of the entire conference was a delegate coming up and accusing the conference itself of being racist.
	Amazing.
	First speech, conference is racist.
	Rightio.
	Anyway, so let's go to this next link here, just to show, because this one I'm not going to play because it's so goddamn long, is Labour Conference decided that they would get up and clap for all those they've lost in the past year talking about COVID, and so they all get up and clap.
	Normally it's a moment of silence, but okay, they applaud.
	They applaud their dead instead of a moment of silence, which maybe they didn't like them.
	I don't know.
	Whatever.
	They take a moment of silence later on for Sabina Nessa, which is a person who was murdered.
	So they understand the concept, just not for their own members.
	Yeah.
	So this went on for an awfully long time, didn't it?
	God, yes.
	About two minutes worth.
	Really strange to watch as well.
	So if we go to the next one, we have Politics for All reporting that journalists are getting booed at Labour Conference.
	Based.
	In case you're wondering what this is, this was some based action.
	Yeah, don't get me wrong.
	Journalists should be booed.
	So let's go to the next one.
	Before we go on this, Michael Malice has got this great one, was it?
	The average journalist should be considered like a tobacco industry executive.
	That's when we know we've succeeded, and that's correct.
	Let's see how they treat them.
	I'd like to know why the CAC has allowed Murdoch's lion Tory rag to come to this conference.
	I should add that some newspaper is not available at annual conference.
	It has not been since annual conference in Liverpool in 2016.
	And we do, however, welcome journalists from a range of publications, including...
	Fair enough.
	That's the only good thing.
	The rest of it is going to be worse.
	So they don't sell the sun there, but the sun people can turn up and watch.
	I mean, you're live streaming the bloody thing anyway.
	So let's go to the next one, in which Angela Rayner tries to argue that we beat the Nazis by being Nazis.
	Let's play.
	Conference in 1945, our party put forward a manifesto called Let Us Face the Future.
	And I believe that is our task this week.
	Then, as now, our country stood together in the face of a global crisis.
	A crisis that we survived through shared values of collectivism, community and public service.
	Labour values, British values.
	In 1945, the country faced a choice.
	Between a Tory government who sought the credit for the shared achievement but longed for the status quo that preceded it.
	Where the state would step back and the market would rule again.
	God no, anything but that.
	I love that.
	Anything but being tyrannised by the state.
	But we also beat the Nazis with our values, British values, of collectivism, community and public service.
	And having the state dominate all of public life.
	Yeah.
	Typical British values.
	That's right.
	I'm an Englishman.
	Unless she was confusing that with the Soviets and she was fighting on the Soviet sides during the war.
	Yeah, that's true.
	She may be looking at the Soviets there.
	Yeah, but collectivism.
	Kind of the Nazi thing.
	Not really the individual liberalist thing, is it?
	No.
	Anyway, let's go to the next one in which the General Secretary decided to just infight with the Corbynites throughout his entire speech.
	Well, he didn't get much of a choice, to be fair.
	But let's enjoy.
	Everybody remembers why they joined Labour.
	What was it for you?
	For me?
	Jeremy Corbyn.
	Shouts of Corbyn.
	You know, the man who isn't allowed into the parliamentary Labour Party.
	In my first job, which was for Croydon Trades Council, I learnt about organising and solidarity.
	We've moved resolutely to tackle anti-Semitism.
	We're delivering an action plan to drive it out of our party.
	I'm working hands-on with the Jewish community to regain their trust.
	That's why, Confidence, with your support, we will have by December an independent complaints process for all forms of discrimination.
	But we can't just deal with symptoms.
	That's why all party staff, MPs and thousands of members have already taken anti-Semitism training, provided they are greatly rich in this Labour movement.
	Anti-Semitism training makes it sound like it's training to be anti-Semites.
	It's why I set off a diversity and inclusion board for the first time ever.
	We're auditing the diversity of our organisation and acting on it.
	Voters will ask us, what is the difference between the Labour Party and the Conservative Party?
	Well, thank you for your courtesy.
	So, yeah, you can hear them just constantly cheering him.
	That's gold.
	That's absolute gold.
	I mean, you know, when they say not much is the difference.
	Unfortunately, that's kind of true.
	You know, the Conservatives, you know, have a deep strain of wokeness running through them, which is very annoying.
	But also over the pandemic period, massive state involvement.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, the country, I do feel like the country is being run by Jeremy Corbyn, to be honest.
	V made the point the other day, it's like, you know, like when Jeremy Corbyn said he'd lost the election but won the argument, well...
	I mean, is he wrong?
	It's like, no.
	There's also him talking about anti-Semitism training, and you can hear the occasional jeer or booze coming out of the clapping there as well, which is of interest.
	The clapping was for the anti-Semitism.
	I need to be trained in how to be a better anti-Semite.
	Oh boy.
	Anyway, so next thing.
	So this is day one, right?
	So day one...
	This is day one!
	Also on day one, they decided to start begging the audience for more Bames, because they weren't happy that they looked too white, apparently.
	So let's play this clip.
	I'm conscious we haven't had any black Asian minority ethnic speakers yet, so is there anybody?
	This is what identity politics does to you.
	Well, like, you know, Kemi Badenoch and Priti Patel are just, like, glowering from, you know, like, oh, look, God, it is a very white-looking audience, actually.
	Yeah, so let's get this next look up.
	I love the over there, possibly.
	But this is day two, which I've got to jump forward to and then we'll go back.
	But just on day two, you can see GB News reporting here.
	Too many white men putting their hands up to speak, Labour delegates are told.
	During a debate on housing and transport, the chairman of the session noted the people putting their hands up to contribute did not reflect the diversity of those in the hall.
	He was very upset.
	So anyway, if we go to the next one...
	Hang on, hang on.
	Can we just linger on this?
	We're going to get to it.
	It's part of the clip.
	So if we go to the next one, we have just the full clip in case people are interested.
	And we're going to play the full clip because it's so much more gold than they're making it out to be.
	Let's play.
	I am going to use this opportunity to ask for more speakers, but before anyone puts their hands up, I am aware, sitting here, one, it is very difficult to see all of you, there are very bright lights which you can't really see when you sat down there, and two, the people putting their hands up do not reflect the diversity of the people in this hall, and that is very clear to me.
	I am afraid, and I'm not speaking from a position of particular strength here, there are too many white men putting their hands up.
	Labour, 2021.
	I am not anti-white men.
	Thanks for letting us know.
	Some of my favourite people.
	My dad's a white man.
	Very convincing.
	But...
	I do not want white men to exclusively dominate this or any other debate at this conference, and following on from my comrade in the chair this morning, I do wish to see the diversity of the hall reflected.
	I'm not putting anybody on the spot here, but if you want to speak, do not be afraid to put your hand up.
	We want to hear from you.
	This is an inclusive conference.
	Hands up now, please, bearing that in mind.
	Thank you.
	This is an inclusive conference, so keep in mind, no whiteys.
	He's trying to make fun of people who are like, oh, not racist, I've got black friends.
	But the people who usually do that aren't saying no darkies at my conference, and that's what he's saying about the whiteys.
	He wants no whiteys at the conference.
	Unbelievable.
	Anyway, so also, he's blind, I assume, because I just found the four previous speakers before he gave that statement, and the first guy is Palestinian stuff, so I don't know, maybe white, we'll assume he's white.
	White man, and the next one, white man, maybe.
	But then you have a white woman, then you have...
	An Indian man?
	White man.
	I don't know what, like, cracky smoking.
	If you could scroll down, I put four more, so the four more below this one as well.
	And again, all white men, three of them are women.
	I mean, I suppose you were saying from the audience, putting the hands up, right?
	The thing is, if you look at the audience, it looked like a gammon fest.
	If you want to describe it like that.
	I don't see why I can't if they're going to do it that way.
	But I love this, you know, Labour 2021, no more white men.
	Okay, thanks.
	Yeah, if we go to the next one as well, I just want to mention some more stuff.
	So apparently Labour went clubbing afterwards.
	So the guys are all wearing masks, all insisting that the country wear masks.
	Sadiq Khan, a man who is currently enforcing a mask mandate on London Transport, went clubbing that night.
	And you can see him there.
	Dawn Butler, no mask.
	Sadiq Khan, no mask.
	Not social distancing.
	But who's surprised by this?
	I hope they're having a good time being massive hypocrites.
	We're going to carry on, so we go to the next one.
	Labour Green New Deal decided to tweet something out, and it's mega cringe.
	So I've cut it down a little bit at the time, but we'll enjoy.
	So let's go to the next clip and enjoy this.
	Capitalism is incapable of solving the problems it's created.
	Left to their own devices, bosses will continue to extract profits, exploit workers, lobby governments to halt change, and argue that our demands are radical, unreasonable, unworkable.
	Do not believe corporations when they say little individual lifestyle changes are good enough.
	Even with global lockdowns, Emissions in 2020 were only 7% less than 2019.
	Only the structural, systemic change can save workers here and those in the Global South, and crime at refugees will be disproportionately affected.
	We must cancel the debt of low-income countries so that they can fund their just transitions.
	And a just transition does not mean leaving workers behind, but putting our class front and centre with retraining and funding to put skills and experience to best use in socially useful work.
	Born in Middlesbrough, raised in the North-East, I saw these long-term effects as Fat Tribe Deindustrialisation Conference for a composite one for a socialist Green New Deal!
	I mean, the Benito Mussolini hands to the side.
	But look at her.
	She's like, yes, we need to reform all of the economy and de-industrialise because it's harming the global self.
	Therefore, we should cut their debts.
	And then train our workers.
	Presumably, she's not objecting to bring in the foreign labourers for the HGV crisis.
	But her complaint is that I saw the effects of deindustrialization where I lived.
	Therefore, let's do it again!
	Bro, we'll retrain this time and everything will just work.
	No, you idiot.
	How did you miss this lesson so easily?
	But also, you know, you take away debt of some country, well, they'll just take up more debt because why wouldn't you?
	It's cheap.
	Well, if you're going to get it cancelled in a few decades' time, just do it again.
	Yeah, what's the point?
	Anyway, so the Labour Equality Minister also celebrated taking the knee, so let's go for the next clip.
	Conference equality is the core commitment of our party.
	It runs through us like the writing in a stick of Brighton Rock.
	We saw it this summer when our brilliant England football team took the knee together to say, enough is enough.
	They failed to condemn those who booed the England players for taking a stand, showing themselves to be utterly out of touch with the people of this country.
	The Tories say they want a war on woke.
	Well, you know what I want, Conference?
	I want a war on inequality.
	I just love her.
	These millionaire footballers and her are all in agreement.
	We're in touch because we're obsessing over socialist concepts like equality, but the Tories, they're out of touch because they want to destroy that with their war on woke.
	I think one of you is correct and not the other.
	Which one has the massive majority?
	Historic majority?
	Just out of interest.
	And who's out of government.
	And who's looking like he's going to be out of government quite some time.
	We'll go to the next clip here, which is just the Equality Minister demonstrating the point that she gets the biggest clap when she talks about trans rights compared to anything else.
	So let's play this.
	A Labour government that would introduce a Race Equality Act to tackle structural racism and inequality at source.
	A Labour government that would make tackling violence against women and girls a priority.
	That's right, that's what we do.
	But not grooming gangs.
	We're not going to mention that.
	No more excuses.
	A Labour government that acknowledges that trans rights are human rights.
	That crowd goes wild.
	You're not allowed to stop clapping.
	First one, stop clapping and get shot.
	A Labour government.
	Angela Rayner stopped.
	There we go.
	There's the turf.
	So I wanted to set that up, because the big thing for them is now, of course, trans rights, let's say, or trans privileges, because everyone has the same number of rights, you moron.
	That's how human rights work.
	Even trans people have human rights.
	That's how that works.
	Anyway, but then they had a debate about some motions they had in their own women's issues, and let's see how that debate ended up transpiring.
	Next clip, please.
	I'm very proud to support this, actually, because as you can see, I'm a transgender lady.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	The thing is, with COVID, women were affected far more than anybody else, really.
	Social justice, equality and inclusion can never be achieved without recognition and support for all women and marginalised groups.
	This motion supports BAME women, disabled women, women of all sexualities, trans women, cis women, non-binary people, young women, older women, women who cross many sectors and women who do not feel they fit any label society tries to give them.
	Conference Violence Against Women and Girls also includes violence against black, brown, minoritised women, LBTQ +, and disabled women.
	We must continue to support funding the specialist services which saves lives.
	We need to continue to stop the closure of black, brown, minoritised refugees and support services.
	I'm in support of this motion.
	As you can tell, I'm a trans woman.
	But since I became a woman, I have experienced undue harassment and violence against my person, not only by misogynistic men, but by women as well.
	That's right.
	The problem is misogynists.
	Putting the hello fellow women aside for a minute, I wanted to first talk about that lady there who was arguing for increased funding of minoritized refuges.
	Shelters, yeah.
	I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, audience, but I spoke about this to you yesterday as well.
	I'm not sure there are segregated refuges on the basis of race in the UK.
	But I mean, what they'll say is, well, look, you know, due to the immigration into the UK and the way it's been done, some refuges just don't really have any English people around.
	And so they're minoritized.
	I suppose.
	But otherwise, I guess she's arguing for segregated refuges, which is one thing.
	But also the other one there, the lady trying to list, like, oh yeah, so this motion is for women.
	Also, of all sexualities, of all genders.
	And you can see how umming and erring as she goes through all these different lists of types of women.
	If I forget something, am I in trouble?
	Yeah, and then she ends up going to women however they identify, regardless of what term society puts on them.
	And I love that.
	It's women plus.
	Like the LGBT... Women plus.
	Yeah, literally.
	The LGBTQ plus.
	You know how they just give up?
	Right, any letter out of the sun.
	So it's just women plus whatever.
	Well, you didn't need a shorthand.
	Yeah, so that is their shorthand.
	Women plus.
	That's how they're going to define women from now on.
	Well, Mixon doesn't really take off, so I guess women plus.
	I think women plus is a really great way of framing it, actually.
	I don't think they can resist it.
	Anyway, that's a taste of the cringe.
	If you would like more, I've done a short compilation of day one.
	It's about nine minutes long.
	Well, ten minutes long, actually.
	And go and enjoy that on the second YouTube channel.
	What is it?
	LotusEaters.com.
	We'll pin it in the comments and put it in the description so you can go check it out.
	Because it's a very hilarious edit.
	Yeah, but that's going to be going on all week.
	I won't bore with it all week, but I'm going to be watching because it's funny.
	So we have entered the final phase of social justice.
	Now, why do I say that?
	Well, because the final phase isn't the end of social justice.
	This isn't social justice coming to an end and finally achieving a state of social justice.
	No, what this is is going to be the continual destruction and deconstruction of Of anything that is something you can identify.
	If that can be identified, that will be deconstructed and deconstructed, and it will be this constant roiling cycle.
	And the reason for this can be summarised in a tweet that was deleted by ContraPoints.
	And as you can see, this person who saved it was not happy about this tweet.
	This tweet must have been really controversial.
	Here's a deleted tweet that ContraPoints deleted and thinks she can get away with.
	Spread this S like wildfire so she won't be able to get away with it.
	Get this MF off the internet.
	Okay, well, what was the tweet?
	Gen Z people, er, queer people are hard to figure out.
	They're like, I'm an asexual slut who loves sex.
	You don't have to be trans to be trans.
	Casual reminder that heterosexuality doesn't make your gayness any less valid.
	Who made ContraPoints so based all of a sudden?
	Did you see her last video?
	No, I haven't seen it.
	She even mentioned in the middle of it, like, she was disavowing the socialists as a bunch of lunatics.
	Based?
	Yeah.
	Welcome to the capitalist side, Natalie.
	If you can lower this tweet though, the one other thing in this I wanted to mention was in that text.
	Right at the top you have, what is it, trigger warning?
	Yeah.
	Transphobia, homophobia.
	I love it.
	But the point that Natalie's making here is that the words have lost their essential meanings, right?
	They no longer correspond to an underlying reality and are not a representation of it.
	The words are now entirely analytic.
	They're just defined a priori, without any regards as to what is happening in the world at all.
	You know, none of these things really matter.
	And we'll come back to this after exploring some examples.
	So the first thing I wanted to start with was Keir Starmer saying that chicks have dicks, right?
	So, and saying, of course, that means men have cervixes.
	This is a primary example of this, because the word woman normally speaks to an essential set of characteristics, adult, humans, and females.
	And that's what a woman was traditionally.
	Of course, Keir Starmer is trapped within this insane world where the...
	Words that we use are no longer connected to reality.
	Reality doesn't have any influence on these words.
	And that's what ContraPoints are speaking to.
	They're just saying they're all of these contradictory things at all at once.
	Well, yeah, this is what the woke millennials have done to Generation Z.
	You have provided them with an inability to form a sort of organized structure of reality.
	And so anything can be defined to be its antonym at any time.
	All of the definitions have been expanded to include their opposites.
	And that's why Keir Starmer is sat here going, yeah, it's wrong to say that women of a cervix.
	Well, by what standard, Keir?
	You know, by the standard of insane wokeness that doesn't believe in reality, maybe.
	Trans women or women?
	Asexuals are sluts.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You know, is that your standard kit?
	And if it is, why?
	Why is it your standard?
	And do us a favour and just quickly define woman for me.
	I'd really love to hear your definition.
	But anyway, yeah, so this carried on, right?
	I'll move on quickly because you've covered a lot of the stuff I was going to cover.
	Go to the next one, Pink News, right?
	So it was Rosie Duffield, as you say, was...
	Essentially prevented from coming to this conference because she was public about her gender-critical views, as in she thought that the term woman had a connection to the biological reality of what a human being, a female human being, is.
	And one of the major crimes that she'd committed was liking a tweet from anti-trans campaigner Maya Forstater.
	Again, not sure she's anti-trans.
	I think she might just be like, look, I think there's an essential definition here that we might need to use.
	But she was exiled, basically, and this is the TERFs getting absolutely stomped on by the intersections.
	I think she's on trial, isn't she?
	She is currently on trial, yeah, for posting the suffragette ribbon that was supposed to be a noose threat.
	Obviously isn't.
	It's absurd.
	But these are the places you end up in if you end up disconnecting the words you use from the reality that you're meant to be trying to describe.
	Anyway, so Sajid Javind weighed in on this, burst in like an absolute titan, total denial of scientific fact, and he wants to run the NHS. Well, I mean, I agree with Sajid, of course.
	Obviously, women don't have cervixes.
	I'm just suspicious of Sajid.
	I know how you say his name.
	Sajid.
	Yeah, at this point, because of his baseness, and then when he got kicked out of government, he was like, yeah, BLM. Well, I mean, I'm not going to say he's not an opportunistic Tory.
	I don't know.
	But you'd think this was a hill you could die on, but the NHS is not going to die on this hill.
	They don't think that gender dysphoria is a mental illness.
	They don't think it's a disorder.
	As they say in here, many people with gender dysphoria have a strong, lasting desire to live a life that matches their expressed gender identity.
	They do this by changing the way they look and behave.
	Some people with gender dysphoria, but not all, may want to use hormones and sometimes surgery to express their gender identity.
	And those people who are not all we saw at the Labour conference.
	Gender dysphoria is not a mental illness, but some people may develop mental health problems because of gender dysphoria.
	Right, so there we go.
	According to the NHS, gender dysphoria is not a mental illness.
	Well, when did this change?
	This changed in 2018, when the World Health Organization decided they weren't going to consider it a mental health disorder either.
	And so this was renamed, removed the term gender dysphoria as a mental health disorder and renamed it as a gender incongruence.
	I don't know, what the hell does that even mean?
	It means disorder.
	Right.
	It's just a politically correct way of saying it.
	But the point is, it's not considered a mental health disorder now, and that's why the NHS doesn't listen to this one.
	But thankfully, again, this is why Josh is such a useful fellow to have around.
	He sent me a screenshot from the ICD-10, the diagnostic manual that is used by clinical psychologists in the UK, and they think it's a disorder.
	As they say, for this diagnosis to be made, the transsexual identity must have been persistent presently for two years, must not be a symptom of another mental disorder.
	And they say disorders, gender identity disorder of childhood.
	Disorders usually manifest in early childhood, characterized by persistent and intense distress about the assigned sex, together with the desire of the other sex.
	There is a persistent preoccupation with dress and or activities of the opposite sex and a repudiation of the patient's own sex.
	These disorders are thought to be relatively uncommon and should not be confused with much more frequent nonconformity with stereotypical sex role behavior.
	So this is, as far as the psychologists are concerned, a disorder, but as far as the NHS is considered, not a disorder. - Yeah.
	Thankfully, though, Tom Harwood was around to chime in with the official GB News position on this.
	Many trans men have cervixes, really not the hard to acknowledge.
	If Keir Starmer had simply said those words, his answer wouldn't have sounded so odd.
	Instead, he just obfuscated, failed to explain, and consequently sounded baffling and ambiguous.
	That's right, I'm a conservative.
	Trans men have cervixes.
	So that's women who want to be men, they have cervixes.
	Yes.
	Does it work in reverse, Mr.
	Harwood?
	It's just a long-winded way of saying women of cervixes, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Anyway, Tom, remember, though, does believe that a trans woman is a woman, so he is officially politically orthodox when it comes to left-wing politics.
	Easy, Jimmy.
	The problem, I would have said, is he thinks of himself as a conservative.
	How he does that, if a trans woman is a woman, Tom, what is a woman?
	Just define it for me.
	I await your answer.
	Anyway, moving on.
	So you've completely disconnected the term woman from any kind of essentiality, and of course that means you have to pathologize anything that lies outside of this.
	In 2019, the official guidelines for the American Psychological Association labeled traditional masculinity as harmful.
	This is something I'm going to come back to in greater depth because I only learned about this today.
	This is very interesting.
	But citing more than 40 years of research, the APA warns that masculinity ideology, which sounds based, which truly...
	Sorry, what?
	Masculinity ideology, right?
	So this traditional masculinity marked by stoicism, competitivism, dominance and aggression is on the whole harmful.
	That is on the whole absolutely awesome.
	And we will be promoting that later on.
	But the point is, it doesn't matter that these things are, again, essentially contained and connected to what it is to be a man, right?
	You have to adopt these kinds of ways of thinking if you are, of course, a man.
	If you want to be a man, but that's something that's biological.
	Again, connected to being an adult human male.
	So now we've totally dissociated these words from their essential meanings.
	Everything is up in the air and everything can be attacked in any kind of nonsensical way.
	For example, you can have lesbians against women.
	Lesbians against straight women.
	How dare you come to our bars?
	We are lesbians who want to have sex with men.
	Yes.
	Well, you get that as well.
	I should have got that up as an example.
	But there were lots of these, of course.
	But this was just an amusing one where it was like a bunch of lesbians were complaining that they went into a gay bar and propositioned a bunch of women and women were like, oh, I'm straight.
	Sucks for you.
	I was thinking more about the new movement of like, yes, there are lesbians who want to have sex with just men and only men.
	Yeah.
	Lesbians that love penis.
	Right.
	Makes sense.
	Moving on.
	The white feminists are being attacked by other women.
	There can only be one winner.
	Men.
	I think as winners go, men have successfully lost this war.
	I don't know if the men are women.
	The only combatants in the war left are women.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Especially the trans women, who are definitely women.
	And, yeah, the men are definitely out of this.
	So this is about white feminism.
	The branch of non-intersectional feminism that is called white feminism is being attacked by the intersectional feminists.
	And that means that women are turning on women.
	Lazy polemics about terrible white feminism empower men to use the fact that all white women are supposedly high up on the privileged pecking order to tell middle-aged women to shut up or even worse, accusing them of weaponising their abuse or trauma.
	Doesn't help women of colour either.
	It implicitly posits Asian male crime against women is somehow lesser than white male crime.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	You can see...
	The roiling competitiveness and this just carries on and carries on in a downward spiral.
	And you're not allowed to define yourself in any essentialist way either.
	Because as you may remember our good buddy, I don't know who this chap was actually.
	What was his name?
	If we can go to the next one.
	The chap who defined himself as super straight...
	This guy had to delete his TikTok account because he got in a lot of trouble for this viral video.
	Kyle Royce, I can say.
	Kyle Royce, that was it.
	He wanted to say, well, look, I want to only date the opposite gender who was born as the opposite gender.
	I want to date someone who's female.
	That's my sexual preference.
	Authentically, that's my sexual preference.
	And one user turned around and said, hang on a second, super straight means you think that men who date trans women are less straight, meaning that trans women are men and therefore not real women, which is not only transphobic, but scientifically inaccurate.
	Oh yeah, show me your cervixes.
	Sorry, scientifically inaccurate, I don't think you want to bring science into this, because we're in the realm of pure ideology.
	Pfft.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	So, absolutely not.
	I love Shizek.
	I do as well, even though he's a stupid commie.
	He's just a funny guy.
	Yeah, he's likeable.
	He says, you know, this is really silly because you're claiming to be super straight.
	You like women, but you're excluding an entire group of women.
	You're excluding an entire group of women because we have defined them as women because the definitions don't matter anymore.
	But he goes on to give this amazing analogy, right?
	If a plumber only works on shower drains and refuses to work on sinks, we don't call him a super plumber.
	No, but we don't say that the sinks are shower drains, do we?
	The sink and the shower drain are two separate things.
	What if the sink and shower drains do become the same thing?
	And then I only work on showers.
	Exactly!
	That's exactly right.
	So it's ridiculous.
	So anyway, returning back to ContraPoints' tweet.
	Now, what disappoints me about ContraPoints is that he's a very well-educated person and is philosophically equipped to be able to identify all of this, and yet doesn't.
	And so I find that embarrassing.
	She posts basically, if we go to the next one, a long treatise on Twitter saying, well look, I shouldn't have opened my mouth because I knew what a group of lunatics you all are, and of course you're going to try and hurt me because I don't understand how you've got to this point.
	And she says, you know, I'm not saying they aren't valid.
	I've never been big on deciding what is valid.
	This is basically a logical proposition.
	But anyway, if you're a horny asexual who loves to F, by all means continue with my maternal blessing.
	But surely you see that.
	To most people, the statement, I'm a horny asexual who loves to F, is at face value confusing, contradictory, and in so many words, hard to figure out.
	Sometimes I get the sense that people that say these things are in part because they enjoy the provocation of this seeming contradiction.
	But maybe I'm wrong.
	Just to be safe, I'm going to use my platform to explore what this means.
	And then she carries on, like, coping hard, saying, well, look, you know, maybe what you mean is sometimes straight people have gay sex just to get off.
	It's a thing.
	Is it?
	You ever been so horny you had sex with a man, Callum?
	No.
	You?
	No.
	No.
	It makes sense that some people who never experienced sexual attraction might enjoy having sex.
	In such case, they could aptly describe it as horny asexuals who loved F. I have a master's in philosophy.
	Wait, sorry.
	That's literally it.
	Just ask that at the end.
	I have a master's in philosophy.
	Yeah, well, I mean, you know, that's a big cope.
	You don't need a master's in philosophy to understand that a thing can't be its opposite.
	Yes.
	It's that simple.
	The contradiction will continue in tension until you attempt to resolve it.
	Anyway, she carries on.
	I'm straight now but still gay.
	Sounds like you're describing some kind of sexual identity quantum superposition.
	Yes, that's because that's what they're doing.
	I feel a twinge of irritation, probably because I feel this kind of fluidity is not available to gay trans people.
	Oh yeah, that's the real problem.
	It's not that they're literally engaging in double-think contrapoints.
	It's that you don't have the kind of fluidity that's available to these insane Gen Z-ers who you and your generation have completely confused out of believing that things exist in the real world and can be defined.
	That's the problem.
	No, the harm's by dating prospects.
	Yes.
	Makes the situation more complex.
	Don't get me wrong, all of these people have got terrible dating prospects, so maybe that is a genuine concern for them.
	But it's not a genuine concern for me.
	Do they have dating prospects when they're like, yes, I'm straight, but really gay?
	Because if it's the antonym, then literally, it's like, yeah, don't worry, I'm straight, but I'm gay.
	Try it in the gay club, you know, when all the women are like, they're straight, and they're like, ah, so am I. Let's have sex.
	Like, who knows?
	Anyway, she goes on to say the next one, God, I'm depressed.
	Yep.
	Watching in horror as I type this out.
	I believe it.
	I believe it.
	But do you know who's not depressed?
	Those super straight people who are getting on with their lives and being happy.
	They're not depressed.
	Watching in horror as I type this out.
	Look at you.
	You can call me a very old boomer.
	That's fair.
	Very old boomer milf.
	Of course, it's not just Gen Z that uses cryptic provocative discourse style.
	I originally started this when, out of frustration, that millennial SJW activists were attempting to communicate basically true and important ideas in an extremely inarticulate, irrational, sloganeering, dogmatic, no I will not elaborate on that, and if you disagree, you're the enemy, rhetorical mode that was off-putting to almost everyone.
	So it's the optics that are the problem, not the constant intellectual stew these people have found themselves in.
	And now that Gen Z is leaving the online discourse, I find myself irritated by the same rhetorical trends that used to bother me in Millennials.
	But that's too bad, isn't it?
	It's too bad.
	They can't get out of it because of the way that they think.
	So, what's the solution here?
	Well, there is no solution.
	This is just Marquise's endless deconstruction.
	Nothing means anything, and anyone who wants something to have a meaningful connection to the world is cast out as a heretic, which is how the TERFs found themselves on the far right.
	We would like something about the way we think to have a connection to the reality of what we are.
	That's right.
	You're a fascist.
	Get out.
	So you want to make the prediction?
	2022, ContraPoints becomes far right.
	Yes.
	Eventually ContraPoints is going to be sent something like this and be like, okay, look.
	That is a good point, but, you know, that makes me look like a lunatic.
	That makes the rest of us look like lunatics.
	And that means the people on the outside are looking at a group of lunatics.
	It's Lindsay Ellis all over again.
	Yes.
	You push this, you end up in exactly the milieu you supported.
	Yes.
	And you are lunatics.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	While Wells was duped by Stalin, he wasn't a complete useful idiot.
	He did recognize that the USSR had a lot of free speech and human rights issues, and had gone to Russia to constructively argue with Stalin about these topics.
	Unfortunately, they never reached any real conclusion, and he did leave Russia disappointed, although I do believe that Wells, being a socialist, he was blinded to the full extent of the horrors currently happening.
	So, there is that.
	I think so.
	I think a lot of them lied to themselves.
	Oh, it's not as bad as it looks.
	Yeah, it is as bad.
	A lot of effort might have also been made to make sure he didn't say it.
	Oh, doubtless.
	Thought experiment.
	When we see the hashtag say no to hate, we get the idea that there's some moral busybodies at work trying to fix the world by stopping people from hating.
	What if hate is in fact the perfectly appropriate response to these scum who are trying to destroy our culture?
	Then, saying no to hate has a very different and specific purpose.
	Saying no to hate is the way to psychologically cauterize our balls so we never fight back.
	I mean, yes, but I think that the problem is that there's going to be sort of two tones, two senses to the term.
	And if you were to come out in one sense that you think is rational and reasonable and appropriate, it will just be misrepresented as the other sense when attacking you.
	And so I don't think that we should be promoting hate in any way, shape or form.
	Personally, I think the idea of hating something is just destructive to one's own soul.
	I think we are perfectly capable of fighting back against social justice by just being good people and actually addressing the things that they're doing rather than developing a kind of pathological loathing of them that leaves us at the mercy of our own emotions in the same way that they are at the mercy of their own emotions.
	I don't see how that's helpful to any, I guess we'll just call it the right wing, in any way, shape or form.
	I think that just turns us into a mirror image of them, which is what they would love because they can't win on the virtues because they don't have any.
	And so what they're trying to do is drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
	So don't fall for it.
	I somewhat disagree.
	I mean, it depends on how you define the term hate, of course.
	Why are there always people who say, oh, Callum never disagrees with Carl?
	You disagree with me all the time.
	I'll do it more then.
	Go ahead.
	No, but it depends how you do the term.
	Because, I mean, you described it there as a pathological sort of obsession.
	Hatred becomes pathological.
	But in the sense that you can't really think for yourself, you're just like, alright, that's bad, I hate that, right?
	You're just being driven by your emotions.
	But the thing that comes to mind immediately is Christopher Hitchens describing himself as an anti-theist and how he hates religion with a passion.
	And then takes specifically Islam, for example, because he saw that as the biggest threat and the worst one, doctrinally.
	And then to say that he shouldn't be free to hate Islam, of course, leads you into the kind of laws that we have.
	No, no, no.
	I'm not saying you shouldn't be free to do anything.
	I know, but if you define hate instead of that irrational sense, because Chris Virgin wasn't irrational in his disagreements with Islamic doctrine, it was just an intense dislike.
	Sure.
	If you have that as the definition, he surely did.
	But the problem is framing it in the term of hate.
	It implies an irrational emotional reaction.
	And I think that indulging in that kind of thing...
	Maybe it's just the stoic in me who's like, look, that's not the way to handle this.
	It's not even about the opposition.
	It doesn't matter what it is.
	Who's for irrationality, though?
	Well, that's the point, right?
	It's more about your lack of control of yourself.
	Because when you find yourself hating something, you kind of lose your ability to moderate and mediate your own responses to that thing.
	And I really disagree with that.
	I understand, but if I was ever to use the phrase, like, I hate religion, it wouldn't be, I just hate it irrationally.
	I have an intense dislike of religion.
	Sure, and that will doubtless be a sensible way of doing it, but there are multiple senses in the way we can describe hate.
	Maybe intense dislike.
	I mean, if you think the word hate has been subverted too much.
	Well, no, it's not even that it's been subverted, but I think that it can just be used in a kind of sense.
	And, like, you know, this is something that's prevalent in literature, you know, where you get people with, you know, irrational hate.
	I'm not saying you're wrong or anything like that.
	I'm just saying I don't think it's a wise strategy, and I think that in and of itself is wrong to hate things.
	I personally think that's destructive to yourself, and I don't think you should be destroying yourself.
	I think you should be building yourself up.
	It's sort of like saying the antonym to love things is also irrational, though.
	Well, it is.
	Having a deep and abiding love is irrational.
	Certainly be rational, surely.
	Well, no, that's the point, though.
	You don't rationally love your spouse.
	It's a magic.
	It is something that's irrational.
	An intense like of the thing.
	Well, there can be a lot of advantages to your spouse.
	I'm not saying...
	This debate is probably much wider, is all I'm thinking.
	It's all right.
	I'm not saying it's inherently wrong, but at least on the subject of love, it's a positive emotion.
	So if you rationally happen to love...
	Well, that's just as destructive.
	Not necessarily.
	I mean, I don't think that's true.
	And I think that is in many ways fulfilling.
	I rationally love my kids.
	I love spending time with them.
	Islamists have got an irrational love for Islam.
	Yes.
	And in their proper place, as in the Middle East, that's fine.
	I wouldn't go to Arabia and say, right, you're not allowed to love Islam.
	What do they do with that love?
	Well, I don't care as long as I stay over there.
	Right.
	Not my problem.
	I'm getting at the philosophical.
	No, no, I appreciate it.
	But then you start getting into, well, that justifies us going over there and doing something.
	No, I don't want to.
	Exactly.
	But the point is, an irrational love is at least a sort of nurturing, wholesome, upward-pushing momentum.
	Rather than hatred, it's just degenerating and degrading.
	And it's degrading to you, it's degrading to the thing you're misrepresenting with your irrational hate.
	And I just don't think it's the way forward.
	Again, a rational hate.
	In my head, I don't think of it as an irrationality, but instead just an extreme dislike.
	And the thing that's ultimately making me suspicious of this idea is that if we lived in a different time and place, we might agree instantly.
	But the fact that the British government has rules in the books against inciting hatred, and these have been interpreted, I think, correctly as written, and that's led to miscarriages of justice.
	Well, I wasn't even thinking of that, to be honest.
	Well, I think it's not directly inciting to hatred with Count Dankula, but it was argued that he was inciting hatred against Jewish people.
	And I was like, you could argue that, fundamentally.
	I'm not saying he's right or wrong in the judge arguing that, or lawyer.
	But the idea that you criminalize an emotion, you know, an extreme slight of a thing.
	Oh yeah, it's wrong, obviously.
	It's like, is that enough, really?
	Is that really where we want to go, where this is something that's off-limits?
	Well, no, I totally agree.
	And I'm not saying that, you know, people don't have moments of hatred for things, right?
	When, you know, when you hear about, like, a pedophile or something, it's totally normal to have, like, this emotional upswelling.
	Because, you know, if you're a very sympathetic person, you think, well, what happened to that poor child?
	And then you can totally understand it.
	But the problem is, if you commit to this in an intellectual way, you start to nurture it, and it starts to grow.
	And then I think you find yourself in a kind of prison that you can't escape.
	And I don't think that's wise.
	I think self-control and...
	You know, a rational opposition to these things, and even if it's not necessarily a rational opposition that is outside of the bounds of being hateful, is good.
	And that's not to say we should give an inch to the commies or anything like that.
	Obviously we shouldn't, right?
	You know, don't give them an inch under anything, but don't be hateful about it.
	Just be firm and paternal about it, I think, is the most sensible way.
	Fundamentally, I think it comes down to a disagreement on the definition of words.
	But this is the point of the senses in which the word's used.
	And the thing is, I think one sense can bleed into another very easily.
	Well, that's my problem with it, which is, you know, hate crimes as a concept.
	Oh, absolutely.
	You know I'm against a lot.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But I think that that's, you know, if you take your position, then you can lead into that quite easily.
	Yeah, but I mean on a personal level about the way that you approach the world.
	Even if you're like, well, no, it's rational for me to hate this.
	Eventually, I think it bleeds into a sort of irrationality that you can't escape because the habit you form becomes an unthinking behavior.
	So you just unthinkingly do this, and then suddenly you're just like a spiteful, hateful mutant like the left-wingers that we're opposing.
	You don't want to become like that.
	You want to become more noble and proud and confident and able to control yourself.
	Don't be like them, that's what I would say.
	I mean, I agree on that, but your definition of the word, I disagree.
	Well, like I said, it bleeds in.
	I don't think there's a hard line between the two.
	Difficult subject.
	I'll leave it there.
	Let's go to the next one.
	In martial arts, losing is an important part of learning.
	And when it comes to winning, there's a difference between, in high school, defending yourself and winning against Mr.
	Big Hard Man, or Mr.
	I Have Something to Prove.
	People like that are a literal joke.
	But, after losing countless times...
	For the second time in your life, beating one of your senseis in grappling, which you personally believe to be your weakest skill, that second victory, a real victory, not against Mr.
	Big Hard Man or Mr.
	I, something to prove, that victory feels f***ing brilliant.
	That's not just true about martial arts, that's true in everything.
	You know, when there's some particular person who's just massively more skilled than you, and eventually you get them, that's just the best thing.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I'm going to be frank, Carl.
	Your take on Star Wars is so god-awfully bad.
	I genuinely cannot tell if you're serious or you're being a Poe.
	Seriously, I cannot tell.
	And I'm probably not the only one.
	I formally challenge you to a Star Wars debate and bring your serious face.
	I don't retract a damn thing I've said about the Jedi.
	There's a bunch of SJW cultists who, I mean, this is like saying, conservatism is bad because I read bell hooks.
	Star Wars is Jedi propaganda.
	And don't you forget it.
	Moving on.
	By the way, I should mention the problems with his camera.
	I spoke to him on the Discord, which is that apparently that's a problem with his camera, not with any effects.
	I refuse to retract and I refuse to explain.
	Moving on!
	So you know how these things always tend to get lost for some unexplained reason?
	Well, instead of waiting till the next day to go to the store or order it on Amazon, I decided to cat the piece using the Vernier Caliber, slice it in Cura, fire up my 3D printer, wait till it reaches the printing temperature, and let it work, placing my MAGA hat in the background, of course.
	The whole thing only took me around half an hour.
	People who buy things are suckers.
	I tell you what, I've actively resisted getting a 3D printer because I would just use it to make Warhammer models all day, every day.
	Which we do not condone.
	Yeah, which I certainly don't condone.
	Mr.
	Workshop.
	Yes.
	Let's get to the next one.
	Hey guys, I've been enjoying my British literature course so far.
	For some reason my webcam wants to be weird.
	Oops.
	This has been the first five weeks, and I really like Frankenstein.
	I also liked James Dunna.
	I love Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal.
	Eat the poor people.
	Solve climate change.
	As for the rest of the course, we'll see.
	Also, it's a really nice company that the Lotus Eaters have there.
	For King Country, I now own it.
	I didn't really get that.
	No, I didn't really get it either, but I'm glad you're having a good time.
	Is this the Rome part of that as well?
	Yeah, the SPQR, I don't know.
	Sorry.
	Wish I had something to say, but let's go to the next one.
	So this woman worried about going to university being gay.
	It's obvious nonsense.
	The article has this insane graph showing this massive increase in bisexuals among young people.
	The ONS shows this data of people identifying as heterosexual declining rapidly in the past few years, while the number of LGB people, particularly bisexual women, increasing dramatically.
	Five years ago, apparently, one in 30 people was LGB. Two years ago, it was one in five.
	And according to the latest Ipsos poll, it is now one-third of young people identify as some form of LGBTI. There we go.
	Leftists at work.
	Corrupting your children.
	I've got a theory on this.
	I posted on my Instagram, though, that I think this is just an easy way of getting into the club without having to make any sacrifices.
	So if you just say, yeah, I'm bisexual, I just happen to be dating a man, you can't be called upon to prove it, and you're in the club.
	Especially if you're married.
	Yeah.
	You made the point.
	It's like, literally, if you're married to a woman and you just can call yourself bisexual, you're like, well, I'm not going to cheat on my partner.
	Well, obviously.
	There you are.
	Give me the job that's not harrowing white.
	Now I'm a minority.
	You know, now I'm a minority.
	I'm in the club, and I didn't have to make any sacrifices at all.
	Oh, look at my impression.
	No, I don't believe it.
	No, but it is a very smart move.
	Oh, yeah.
	I think the incentive is definitely there.
	For my 50th, I am in Vegas, and brought with me Carl's Politics of Demolition Man to show my mates.
	It did indeed go over well, and one thing popped up.
	Do our tech oligarchs have more than a little in common with the ruinous powers?
	The Chaos Gods blow on human emotions, but none of them can gain dominance as the unopposed Raymond managed to do due to their rivalries.
	So what future would each of Dorsey, Zuckerberg, Bezos, or Cook bring about should one of them gain Cocteau-esque supremacy?
	That's a very good question.
	Maybe I'll look into it.
	Dude, that Ag story looks awesome.
	Yeah, it looked great fun, didn't it?
	Yeah, I'd love to do that.
	Hey Craig, I know this is the internet, but if you want help to make fun of me, just ask, and I'll give you the help any day of the week, and just give you the video file for you to submit one of my videos.
	You see, I know this is the internet, and the Lidsita's live chat may have changed, but I'm not like the Lidsita's live chat.
	I constantly need my confidence and masculinity reassured by anyone and everyone.
	The confidence just speaks for itself.
	I don't need to overcompensate, so if you want to make fun of me, I'll literally help you do it.
	Good sir.
	Just ask for the video file.
	I'll give it to you.
	What?
	I don't know what to do with this.
	I don't think it's anything to do with us.
	I wonder if we should start banning interfights with video cards.
	I don't know what I'm doing with that.
	Slapfights, yeah.
	First take your pot, coat the bottom with a little olive oil, and then add your diced onions.
	Cook until clear.
	Add some diced garlic.
	Cook that up.
	Don't burn it.
	Drop in the...
	Giant can of tomato puree.
	Add some tomato paste if you want to thicken it up.
	Put in your wooden spoon and stir it up.
	Stirring occasionally.
	Leave the spoon in there while it simmers on low so it won't burn.
	Add your meatballs.
	And if you don't have any pork products, throw in a fried pork chop for taste.
	Add salt and basil.
	If you want it to taste more like pizza sauce, add oregano.
	That does sound great.
	What was that menu for?
	A bolognese sauce.
	Alright.
	Okay.
	Which is one of my favorite foods.
	I thought there was going to be a dish name or something.
	Just bolognese and meat.
	I suppose there is a dish, actually.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So I made something rather interesting on a Minecraft server I'm playing on.
	It's, you know, the Lotus Eater's office and stuff.
	You know, I've got the...
	Laptops or iPads or whatever.
	Got Carl there with a sword.
	Callum's got his, you know, piece of bread.
	There's a British flag.
	Even got the ship on the wall.
	Hey.
	Yeah.
	That's very nice.
	Took me a little while.
	That's awesome.
	Yesterday, my son...
	For anyone who doesn't know, on the weekends, if my son's been good, I give him a couple of hours playing games on my phone.
	And he was like, Dad, can I get Minecraft?
	Daddy, can I get Minecraft?
	And I was like, no.
	No, I'm in debt.
	Yeah, I'm in debt.
	Right, because of time sync?
	Yeah, total time sync.
	Go play with your Legos or something, or we can do some more Warhammer or something, but you're not just going to make fictional things, and that's the reason I've never played Minecraft.
	I would love to play Minecraft, more than anything in the world, man.
	I would just make ridiculous crap, spend days doing it, and it would be nothing.
	That's why I don't play Minecraft.
	I know I'd be addicted to it.
	Okay.
	I brought it back when Notch was still selling it.
	It was like 13 quid or something.
	And I'm glad because now it's mine forever.
	I think it's gone to subscription on Xbox or some crap.
	I did it for a while but then I just got bored.
	I've done all the things.
	See, I just love making this stuff so that's why I don't play Minecraft.
	I was never that good at designing.
	Oh, I'm not good.
	I just enjoy it.
	I'm just autistic.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Comrades, why do you speak of keep it in your bedroom?
	There is no your bedroom.
	There is only the people's bedroom.
	Good point.
	Literally effing in the streets.
	Hey guys, great events.
	Quick update on the live-action Radical Pokemon game.
	I'm up to three chads, eight weebs, one potential school shooter, transsexual Jedi, and a guy who sells dildos.
	Has anyone else noticed that Civic Nationalist is two four-year-olds in a coat?
	I just remember, because we met Oil Guy at the live event, and he was mentioning to me that apparently he's in a bunch of them today, and I'm like, oh crap, I should have been on guard.
	I was at the end as well.
	Damn it!
	I was hoping to find at least one.
	Nice seat that you sobered up a bit now.
	Yeah.
	Put the buck fast down.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, Paulie says, I forgot to mention at the start with the events thing.
	We are looking, of course, to try and get out of London, because London.
	I hate London so much.
	I'm literally the meme in the corner.
	I just want to go back to the Shires.
	I was with him all day, and we wake up after the first day, come out, get some food, and the entire time, I'm writing my stuff, and he's getting some food or drinking and reading, and he's just like, yeah, people speaking foreign, there's grime here, everything's horrible.
	And it's like the meme of everyone at a party, like, you know, dancing and whatnot.
	And there's just, like, foreign words, and then him in the corner just being like, I want to go home.
	My feet hurt.
	Let's go back to the shires.
	I want to go paint my miniatures.
	You know, like, yeah, no.
	But that's...
	I'm not saying you're wrong, either.
	It was just really funny.
	No, I'm not wrong.
	And I'll probably, like, write an article or something, Orwell style, about how much I hated London, just because I just can't stand it.
	And I was whining to my wife about this.
	She's just like, what was she...
	Stop whining, Dickens?
	Okay, Dickens, enough of that.
	Enough of those tooltales.
	I just don't like it.
	I should also mention, if you would like us to get out of London, and we would too, we need venues, and the specifics of it are 300 plus capacity, and that you have a personal relationship with whoever owns the venue.
	Don't just be like, this will be good.
	We need a guarantee that the venue is going to work, so know the person who owns it and can give us a guarantee that they're not going to deplatform us.
	That's it.
	If you can get in contact, contact thelotaseers.com.
	Paulie says, my brother was working in an army surplus shop during a previous media-driven fuel shortage.
	He was called by a journo asking questions about jerrycan sales, ending with, how do you feel about profiteering from the crisis?
	What a dick!
	He pointed out forcefully that they were the ones who created it and they were profiteering by trying to sell more newspapers.
	Absolutely.
	God, imagine the...
	This is why it's right that the Labour conference boos journos.
	Yanala says, we know when the media is making this into a Brexit issue because they can't get the same amount of clicks when talking about the Chinese flu anymore.
	Yeah, but not just that.
	I think it's also a bit of sort of, you know, like pathology.
	They just can't get over it.
	They can't get over it.
	Oh, Brexit bad, Brexit bad.
	We told you Brexit bad.
	Have you admitted the Brexit bad yet?
	No.
	No, Brexit good.
	It's a terribly good point, though, because you'll notice all the EU nationalists all are hyped up and sharing their stuff again.
	See?
	Luke, you said that nothing bad would happen with Brexit.
	This isn't bad.
	But if they'd just written COVID, everyone would be like, oh, another reason.
	Chris says, legislation around lorry driving, such as required, courses must be taken regularly, and the risk of fines is usually that through no fault of the drivers is also a big problem.
	Okay.
	Henry says, I'm fed up with the media stuck in panic.
	Oh, sorry.
	Sorry.
	Sorry, Simon Sideways mentioned this, and I want to give a shout out to him as well.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	As someone who's, uh, who called all of this.
	Like, he did a video a little while back being like...
	Three months ago, it had like 350,000 views.
	He was like, prepared to be propagandized about this.
	And he just went through all the, like, BS it is to be as a HGV driver here.
	And one of them was like, he backed up his truck, they filled it up, give him a form, this is how much it's in it, here's what it weighs.
	Because if you're overweight, you get fined.
	So he drove it to a weighing station because he didn't believe him, and he was like two tons overweight or something, and he got fined, like, it was some stupid amount, like 10 grand.
	So he just took it back, said, it's two times over, have your stuff back.
	I'm not doing it.
	Fair enough.
	Just the mistreatment and then the low wages and whatnot.
	There's a whole bunch of reasons.
	But on the plus side, at least the low wage problem is solving itself.
	Yeah, but then they're going to make it again.
	Yeah, Henry said, yeah, exactly.
	I'm fed up of the media stoking panics, especially around the blaming Brexit for everything.
	The smear merchants want it to be mad they're abusing their power to instigate a self-fulfilling prophecy.
	Yes, that's exactly it.
	And the thing is, you can tangentially say, well, this is because of Brexit.
	Well, yeah.
	We knew that there were going to be fewer Continentals working here because of Brexit.
	Yes.
	But those getting visas entirely, what was it?
	We did a segment on it.
	It was like 70% down for a year.
	Yes.
	And that's because of COVID. But the point is, you know, 20 of BP stations out of 1,200 around the country having a shortage of fuel, that's fine.
	That's a delay.
	That's not a petrol shortage.
	Anyway, Unala says, Well, that's the point, isn't it?
	There's going to be no accountability here.
	They're going to lose nothing, they're going to get more clicks, they're going to get more money, and they'll get the satisfaction of knowing that a segment of the population will be like, oh yeah, Brexit's responsible for this, blah blah blah blah, and nothing will be held to account, ever.
	George says, how is labour demand ever a bad thing?
	I wouldn't mind being paid £50 an hour to pick broccoli Canadian.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's not.
	It's only a bad thing for the people who own the businesses, because their profits are down, and to that I say cry harder.
	You could argue that the prices will rise, but it's fine.
	Yeah, but the wages are rising too.
	What are you going to do?
	Tacitus says, Australia has similar shortages.
	I seriously doubt it's anything to do with Brexit.
	Fair point.
	Seriously doubt.
	I think we can confirm that one.
	Yeah, I mean, you could say maybe, you know, if Europe has it well, I mean, they were involved in Brexit, so maybe they were connected to the Americans, the Australians.
	Australia.
	Yeah.
	Well, they're a member of the EU. Yeah, I'm guessing it's something to do with COVID. S.H. Silver says, Long labour clapping reminds me of the Soviet workers were told to clap Stalin for minutes on end, and the first one who chooses to stop is picked up by the secret police for disappearing.
	Yeah, exactly.
	JJHW says, Karl Marx was white, so according to Labour, no one should listen to him.
	Correct.
	XYZNZ says, Interesting.
	Anyone else notice the missing group from their diversity bingo card?
	Why no aboriginals?
	They are so opposed to letting British aboriginals have their say and have representation.
	Yes, they are.
	Chad Kuala says, Conservatives should be worried that Labour are still so insane and likely unelectable.
	With no meaningful opposition to keep them on their toes, Conservative politicians have little incentive to do a decent job.
	That's true.
	Could you imagine going to the conference and then when they call for BAME speakers, like, I'm a British aboriginal?
	Well, you are.
	But would they even be able to decipher that?
	Well, how could they say you're not?
	You know?
	Like...
	Well, no, no, no.
	I know what they'd say.
	They'd say, well, the English aren't native to England.
	All right.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, sensible person.
	The Scots aren't native to Scotland.
	The Welsh aren't native to Wales.
	You know, like, mad.
	Alpha of the Beta says, without anti-Semitism training, can you really even say you're anti-Semitic?
	Hashtag InkSoc2021.
	Well, why do you think there was such a stirring round of applause at the Labour Conference?
	Yes.
	Don't worry, all of the paid members of staff have had anti-Semitism training.
	They don't have to do it properly now.
	The one or two people who aren't anti-Semites are just like, boo, from the background.
	No more anti-Semitism!
	Yeah, Jewish Labour, yeah.
	Dave Carter says, Sweet Jesus, Labour are like the mentally handicapped dude from Of Mice and Men.
	Love the workers so much they're loving them to death.
	They're the most anti-worker Labour advocates on the planet.
	Yes, they are.
	It was part of Angela Rayner's speech.
	She wanted to basically ban self-employment.
	Yeah.
	It was ridiculously a level of restriction she was going to put on it.
	It was like, wait, okay, thanks.
	But I mean, like, I self-employed Callum for like, what, two years or something before we started this?
	Like, before we started this, me and Johnny wouldn't have been able to work for you, basically.
	Fantastic.
	Thanks, Angela.
	Yeah.
	Thanks, Angela.
	Dick.
	Robert says, the biggest difference between the Labour and the Conservative parties is that the Conservatives do not need to be trained on how not to be racist or need to push minorities to the front of the queue, lol.
	Good point, to be honest.
	That's true.
	Like, the Conservatives don't even need to be encouraged in it, really.
	But anyway.
	And notice that the Conservative women, they're actually praiseworthy.
	I mean, this is pretty much the only people we praise in the Conservative Party are the women.
	Because the men are just...
	Yeah, of the ministers and MPs.
	Yeah.
	The men are just spineless.
	Hiding behind their skirts.
	Of the ministers?
	I haven't seen a terribly impressive man in a minister position for a long time.
	No.
	No.
	Not at all.
	But...
	Kemi Baden-Ock, Liz Truss, Priti Patel, Nadine Doris.
	I mean...
	Getting a nice little, uh, sort of, uh, top Trump's deck going on here, aren't we?
	You know, oh, Labour says this.
	Nah, Nadine Doris.
	Labour says that.
	Nah, Liz Truss.
	Labour says that.
	Kemi Bainock.
	Trump.
	It's the shiny card.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the foil, yeah.
	Carbohydrate Crusader says, this is an inclusive conference except those I'm excluding based on the race and gender.
	Yes.
	Taffy says, Oh, the Labour Conference.
	If you'd shown them this 20 years ago, they would have up and topped themselves.
	Seriously, the prime use of a time machine, if one has ever invented, showing Labour what they've become.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	Anyway, I'm going to move on because we're running out of time.
	Free Will says, The destruction of the connection between words and reality is a central tenet of 1984.
	Yes, it is.
	Two plus two can sometimes equal five.
	Oceania has always been at war with East Asia.
	Yeah, that's absolutely right.
	It's deeply Orwellian, but the thing is, there's no point telling them that, because they'll just be like, yeah, well, Orwell was a socialist, therefore this is a good thing.
	And that's literally what they say.
	Matthew says, is the final phase of social justice mean there is an end to this or eventually is it endemic like the coronavirus?
	No, no, no.
	It's the paradigm we move into where words aren't connected to reality and therefore anything is whatever we claim it is and therefore you have to be constantly engaged in these political machinations in order to try and figure out like, you know, oh, next contradiction, next contradiction.
	It's just contradictions all the way down because that's all this is forever.
	Robert says, individualism is a British value, collectivism is not.
	Lol of the Labour Goon Squad.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, they are literally saying, oh, you know these French values, traditional British values, thank you very much.
	And Robin Hood says, women plus really makes you think that the word has lost all meaning at this point.
	Yes, it has, but I think we're out of time now.
	Yeah, you could do that with every word I love as well.
	I know that antonym, so I don't know.
	Hate plus includes good.
	Yeah, you do.
	Well, he actually did that, didn't he?
	It was double plus good or double ungood.
	Yeah.
	But I'm speaking with Orwell as well.
	I mean, if there is any hope, it's in us plebs.
	I guess it is.
	Yeah.
	But on that bombshell, time to end the show.
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