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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #467
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Hello there and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
This is episode 467.
I'm your host Harry, joined today by Josh.
Hello there.
And today we're going to be talking about the need for a license for fish and chips because of eco-nutters by the looks of it, Canada's booming suicide industry, and the increasing number of migrants assaulting the Western world.
Now, for those of you who are Gold Tier members who are looking forward to the call later on today, if it's not showing up on the website, we're experiencing some problems with that, but it will be going on at 3.30.
It's going to be me and Connor talking to you all, so if you just look out for your emails, our background team are going to be sending out emails with the link so that you can access that if it's not showing up on the website by 3.30.
So just keep that in mind, and with that, let's get into the news.
So, the attack on meat continues.
The mission to turn us all into soy boys.
I feel like you're already on your way there.
Oh, jeez!
I'm joking.
People in glass houses, Harry.
So yeah, they're trying to turn us all into soy boys, and this is gaining traction in the media, and it seems like the institutional capture of the media seems to be reaching its zenith.
And worst of all, and this is particularly egregious, they're coming for our fish and chips in Britain.
I mean...
This is one of the greatest institutions of our culture.
Yes, we lost the empire, our queen is basically a pointless figurehead at this point, and all of our politicians are completely useless and neutered.
But at least we've still got the fish and chips, guys.
Nothing like going to a seaside town, getting some fish and chips with the fam.
The only thing that could be worse than this is dumping tea in Boston Harbour, isn't it, really?
I mean, even then, I don't know if we lost...
Still brings a tear to my eye.
I don't know if we lost anything particularly worthwhile in that interaction, so, you know, the fish and chips brings value.
What, you're not a fan of tea?
Well, yeah, the loss of...
I thought you meant the loss of the American colonies.
No, I mean the tea.
Oh, yeah, well, the tea was obviously a heartbreak.
So, yes, it's worth pointing out that there is...
A case for environmentalism, but a conservative case, which you have pointed out here in this premium video on the website, which is worth checking out.
I think any good conservative is somebody who does care about the environment, both in terms of just caring about nature for the sake of it, but also recognizing that there are many good qualities that nature can bring to your life, such as you and I know the joys of just going for a quiet walk in the forest by yourself. such as you and I know the joys of just It can be very therapeutic, so I think this is very important.
And plus, just generally, if we want to preserve the institutions and culture that we like, we don't want to be paving over the country.
But as far as I can see it, the only real way to preserve it properly is to institute private property in basically every section of life, because then you're giving people an incentive to actually preserve something.
Whereas the government, yeah, they have the green belts across England, but they are cutting more and more into those every single day with the need to build more houses instead of preventing mass immigration.
So, with that clarification out of the way, let's have a look at the fish and chips story.
So, fish and chips could soon be taken off the menu as, I think that's the World Wildlife Fund, report calls for government action.
So, the report titled, Risky Seafood Business, investigated the total number of fish consumed by Brits.
The WWF claim, that's not the World Wrestling Federation, by the way.
That's a shame.
Vince McMahon spreading his tendrils over here.
The WWF claims that a total of 887,000 tonnes of seafood was eaten by people in 2019, the equivalent to 5.2 billion portions of fish and chips.
This is a good thing.
This brings a tear to my eye.
It's actually making me hungry just talking about it.
Among the most popular fish included haddock and cod, which accounted for 29% of the total.
While 81% of the seafood was fished or farmed outside UK waters, the WWF also investigated supply chains of 33% of the most popular seafood items to determine the risk each poses in terms of production and consumption.
Mussels, sardines and herrings were found to be relatively low risk, but swordfish, tuna and squid were deemed to be high risk.
Have you ever had swordfish before?
It's very nice.
No, I haven't actually.
Once had it for breakfast in the Mediterranean.
I suppose swordfish could be high risk, but it depends on how you eat it.
If you eat it point first, it might be a bit dangerous.
That's a terrible dad joke.
I am very sorry.
The report went on to say that more than 250 endangered, threatened and protected species have been impacted by fisheries supplying the UK markets.
As a result, the WWF is urging for more to be done to address the problem, calling on the government to take action to ensure that all seafood...
Produced and consumed in the UK comes from sustainable sources by 2030.
Just the thought of fish and chips is throwing me off reading, apparently.
It really is.
Your mouth watering is so distracting.
It's how you test people if they're truly British.
You put a plate full of fish and chips in front of them and test how much they're salivating.
If you're truly British...
You'll be drooling by a minute.
Drooling in no time, yeah.
No, I see this and I go, well, yeah, if you want to protect the fish, especially if we're going to be eating them, you probably don't want to fish them into extinction.
You don't want to overfish them, yes.
But I don't see government as being any sort of solution to these problems.
When has basically non-ownership slash communal ownership of anything, which is basically what the government does, actually incentivised anyone to keep it sustainable?
I say...
Let me buy all of the fish in the world, and I will keep them safe for you.
I'll have regular allocations of how much you can fish and what you have to do to offset the damage done by the fishing.
And maybe then, if you give people a primary incentive to be able to actually protect them beyond charity groups petitioning the government, then maybe you will actually get some sustainable fishing done.
The main thing I... It's obviously the government intervention but also the fact that it's a negative interpretation of the situation in that there are lots of ways you can encourage fish populations to grow more.
You can also farm certain species.
I know some don't fare well with mass cultivation.
Evidently just supplying UK markets with enough fish to meet demand is a very lucrative business I would imagine.
So yeah, there are going to be some form of solutions.
I mean, you could even go the Bill Gates route of dumping loads of chemicals in the sea that are good for fish.
If it works, that doesn't hurt anything else.
I don't know enough about it, and it sounds bad.
We'll just dump the chemicals in the water.
Wait, no, if they make the fish gay...
If they make the fish gay, they won't reproduce.
We lose all the fish anyway.
Be a massive trap to catch out Kanye West.
Him and his fish sticks.
The article continues.
WWF spokeswoman Kate Norgove said, the ocean is the blue heart of our planet, which is objectively not true.
I mean, most of the life is on the surface, isn't it?
Like, the big animals, that sort of thing.
There are lots of ocean deserts where just nothing lives.
Oh, really?
Fair play.
I always hear the old chestnut of the like, oh, we don't know what's really at the depths of the oceans.
Anything could be down there.
But I've never looked into it beyond just hearing people say that.
Maybe even a whole city.
Ooh.
Protecting this precarious resource should be the top priority of every single fishery around the world.
Yet for too long, unsustainable practices have gone unchecked, draining the ocean of life.
Miss Norgrove added, moves to strengthen certification for sustainable seafood across the supply chain are a vital first step, but they are not the end point.
Along with efforts from retailers to improve transparency across global seafood supply chains, establishing core environmental standards for all food sold in the UK, including seafood, has a transformative impact.
We are urging the UK government to play its part and take that step.
So translating from activist speak, that means either increased regulations, which will choke the supply of fish and chips, which will ruin a lot of people's small businesses.
It will ruin my life.
It will ruin our lives, first of all.
But then it will also ruin the businesses of plenty of fish and chip shops, which is one of the only really reliable businesses that you can open in the UK.
Either that or just ban it outright, which is going to have the same effect, just worse.
So moving on to lots of other media reporting on stuff that's...
The BBC have caught on to this and they've asked, can eating fish ever be sustainable?
To which all you need to say is yes, so that must be a very short article.
Moving on to the next BBC article, the climate benefits of veganism and vegetarianism.
So it's nice that our state-mandated...
Media outlet is just trying to push us all to be vegans and vegetarians.
Don't you love paying for this?
Quality journalism.
I don't pay my licence fee.
Oh, true.
There's no need to...
I mean, I don't watch any TV. I think TV's terrible for you.
So moving on to this next Guardian article, they're also, of course, chipping in, the main left-wing outlet.
How can the UK reduce meat consumption and cut emissions?
It says, the most damaging farm products, organic pasture-fed beef and lamb.
So it's all the posh stuff.
Not even the posh stuff, like organic pasture-fed beef and lamb are the stuff that most nutritionists will tell you they're the best meats for you.
The healthiest.
The healthiest ones that will help you get...
And healthiest for the animals themselves as well.
The most humane.
So Guardian comes out in favour of battery farming.
Interesting direction to take.
So, they go on to say, England must reduce meat intake to avoid climate breakdown, says Food Czar.
Why call it a Food Czar?
That's so weird.
Czar Nicholas II of food.
Well, he's known for causing loads of people to starve, so it's not exactly the best.
Yeah, if we're getting advice from the Russians on how not to starve our population.
Obviously, it's just the name for an authority.
We're not being...
People will be like, well, it actually means this in the comments.
Well, we know.
All right.
So it carries on to say, the future of farming is in the spotlight as we try to shift our relationship with the natural world.
Globally, 83% of farmland is taken up by livestock.
Many scientists and campaigners are arguing for an overhaul of meat and dairy consumption to free up more land for nature and reduce emissions.
Also, just the vague language of many scientists and campaigners.
Just like, many.
How many is many?
What percentage?
As you expect with an article like this, the language is incredibly manipulative.
I always hate the use of the first person plural, we, when discussing stuff like this, because it's like, I never agreed to this.
You never agreed to this.
This is the government deciding this on my behalf without my consent.
As always, but that's democracy for you.
But the extent of the institutional capture of this anti-meat tirade has captivated lots of medical institutions as well.
Here's medical news today saying the green Mediterranean diet could be a win-win for health and the planet.
And it says, people who eat a traditional Mediterranean diet have lower rates of heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
New research suggests that a green Mediterranean diet, which avoids all meat and provides extra greens...
Maybe even better for human health.
If the diet catches on, the benefits for planetary health could be equally impressive.
By the way, the Mediterranean diet, if you don't live in Europe, it's things like olives, your breads, that sort of thing.
I imagine it also includes a lot of fish.
Yeah, normally.
But it's very nice, very healthy.
I love Mediterranean food.
I think it's...
I'm going to be a heretic and say that it's better than fish and chips.
I know.
I'm a meat and potatoes kind of lad, me personally.
You're a northern lad, aren't you?
Yeah, the fanciest we got up there is Sunday roast.
I'm a dirty southerner that grew up on the coast, so seafood abound.
I know.
But yeah, it carries on to say, climate scientists believe that one of the most impactful things that people can do for the environment is to reduce their consumption of meat and dairy products.
And this is going to go on and on and on, as you're going to see.
Research Trusted Sources notes, I mean, if they're calling themselves Trusted Sources, that must be true.
It's like the Inflation Reduction Act, you know?
It says it on the name, why not trust it?
That global production of animal-based foods, including livestock feed, accounts for 57% of total greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, whereas production of plant-based foods accounts for only 29%.
Another study estimates...
I mean, there is the fact that...
Plants breathe in carbon.
I mean, that's probably why.
Plants are carbon negative when they're actually existing before you harvest them.
Obviously, the production of them and cultivation for human consumption uses carbon.
But still, it's a weird characterization.
Another study estimates that if everyone became vegan, this would reduce the amount of land worldwide that farmers need to grow food by 3.1 billion hectares, or 76%.
Which is an absurd proposition.
I don't trust this.
I don't trust any of these studies.
These studies will probably be, well, if we just take the food that we're feeding the animals and just eat that instead, then, you know, everything will be fine.
We won't need to farm all of these animals.
And you go, well, I don't want to eat farm food.
Well, some industries are better than others.
Like, if you eat venison in Britain, you're doing the country a favour because deer is a pest because we got rid of all the natural predators because we killed them and ate them and skinned them.
For ourselves.
Because we could.
Yes.
We don't need any more reason.
Now we have no bears.
We can walk around at night in the woods and it's safe.
Yeah, and it's lovely.
And people are thinking, let's reintroduce wolves into our lovely peaceful forests.
On the topic of that...
Oh, no.
In addition to cutting emissions from food production, say the authors, rewilding the freed-up land would remove 8.1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year for the next hundred years.
Do not trust the experts.
Do not listen to the experts.
Don't forget, this is medical news today, and they're, yes, we're going to rewild the environment.
This is somehow our purview, isn't it?
So...
Here's another one from Scientific American who are insufferable.
Eating less red meat is something individuals can do to help the climate crisis.
How about no?
Moving on.
This is from a company known as Fast Company.
I've not really heard of them before.
But they're saying, it's time for a meat tax.
Here's how to make it work.
See, this is where it always comes in.
It's either we get daddy government to ban it, or we get daddy government to tax it.
That's the only solution these absolute retards have.
So the article says, rearing livestock and growing crops to feed them has destroyed more tropical forests and killed more wildlife than any other industry.
Do you think that...
Yes, that's how powerful the industry is.
But logging?
Do you think that maybe the logging industry has destroyed more tropical forests?
No, I think that's just how much we love meat.
It's the cows that are doing it.
This is our domination of the earth.
All this is showing is our supremacy.
Animal agriculture has also produced vast quantities of greenhouse gas emissions, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So it carries on to say, to slash emissions, slow the loss of biodiversity and secure food for a growing world population, which I don't necessarily approve of, there must be a change in the way meat and dairy are made and consumed.
A rapidly evolving market for novel alternatives such as plant-based burgers, boo, has made the switch from meat easier.
Yet in countries such as Britain, meat consumption has not fallen fast enough in recent years to sufficiently rein in agricultural emissions.
that's because we don't want to eat your stupid plant-based nonsense.
The rapidly evolving market.
What's that market looking like?
Well, I know what the people who eat it look like.
Skin and bones.
And that's enough to put me off it.
If you want to make yourself feel ill, Google fruititarian and look at some images of them.
They look like they've been let out of Auschwitz.
They don't look healthy at all.
No, but also this is just another example of how this is not at all a grassroots...
Ironica.
No pun intended.
Grassroots movement of people just deciding all at once, ah yes, we need to do these measures to save the world, because these plant-based foods generally don't sell very well.
Yes.
I mean, whenever there are shortages, you just see all of the plant-based stuff left.
I would rather starve.
That's true.
And it carries on to say, in our view, the most likely result would be simply, simple even, I don't know how I misread that, direct taxes on meat and animal products.
Our latest research, published in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, considers how an environmental tax on meat could work.
Our calculations suggest that the average retail price for meat in high-income countries would need to increase by 35-56% for beef, 25% for poultry, and 19% for lamb and pork to reflect the environmental cost of their production.
In the UK, where the average price for a 200g beef steak, or about a quarter pound, is around £2.8, or about $3.4.
Consumers would pay between £3.8 and £4.3, or about $4.60 or $5.20 at the checkout instead.
So that's a significant markup for you to meet.
Yeah, so we're in the middle of this massively inflationary period right now over in the West, and people are struggling to clothe and feed themselves, especially with energy bills and such.
And we are It's unbelievably out of touch, isn't it?
It's absolutely ridiculous and disgusting.
But they're also going for new means here.
So here's an article from the Scientific American again.
Eating too much protein makes pee a problem pollutant in the US. In the US, people eat more protein than they need to.
Although it might not be bad for human health, this excess does pose a problem for the country's waterways.
The nation's wastewater is laden with leftovers from protein digestion, nitrogen compounds that feed toxic algae blooms, pollute the air and drinking water.
This source of nitrogen pollution even rivals that from fertilizers, washed off of fields and growing food crops, new research suggests.
Well, we have such a thing known as sewage treatment plants, and if this nitrogen, this excess nitrogen, is a problem...
I suggest you just treat it at the sewage treatment plant.
I mean, it's that easy.
Also, if this is such a problem, I've not seen any of the effects of it, personally.
You would think that this would be causing some major issues if it was as much of a problem as they're suggesting.
So, the most egregious of all of these scientific institutions is the journal Nature, which is the kind of premier scientific journal many...
Scientists would donate a kidney to get an article published here.
They have an article saying, eating one-fifth less beef could half deforestation.
I mean, all of these outlets have been directly pushing this.
The agenda is very clear.
They're not hiding it in the slightest.
And speaking of agendas, let's have a look at the BBC. It says, lab-grown meat and insects, good for planet and health.
No.
Apparently, dining on the likes of lab-grown meat or ground-up insects could lead to big savings in carbon emissions and water as well as freeing up land for nature.
I don't care about any of those things that much to eat insects.
Yeah, that's the funny thing as well.
None of these are telling me why it will benefit me to eat these.
It will benefit all these abstract things like the environment, like nature, deforestation of forests that you will never visit in your entire life halfway across the world.
I don't care.
If you want to sell this stuff to me, you're going to have to sell it to But it's not going to work because I don't want to eat lab-grown meat and I don't want to eat bugs.
They're arguing here that scientists say pressures on the planet could fall by more than 80% with such foods compared with a typical European diet.
So it's just another attack on Europeans, coincidentally.
It's funny that, isn't it?
Yeah, we need to start eating bugs like the Chinese.
That's what we need to do.
Yes, because we need to model all our behaviour on the Chinese, because they've just got everything figured out, haven't they?
John approves.
Raising his fist in solidarity.
So here we have Forbes.
Eating insects could cut your environmental impact by more than 80%, Finnish study says.
So they're reporting pretty much on the same thing that the BBC were.
And, of course, the elephant in the room here is this next article.
This is from the World Economic Forum.
Five reasons why eating insects could reduce climate change.
And I'm going to read out the five reasons.
Edible insects can produce equivalent amounts of quality protein when compared to animals.
That's just a lie.
Quality protein.
That's an actual lie.
Does it taste the same?
No, no, and it's not even that, because they're going to make the argument that the amino acids contained within the protein are going to make up all your nutritional so-and-so.
That's just a lie.
Yeah.
I mean, you get different quality proteins from chicken, depending on how they've been raised.
So I doubt that insects are going to give me the quality protein I need to survive.
Nonsense, yeah.
Insects require less care and upkeep than livestock.
We're actually running out of protein, which is nonsense.
We've just run out of protein.
Guys, meat just vanished.
I mean, the World Economic Forum are not considering that people have protein in them as well.
Where's it all gone?
We are literally able to manufacture powder that has protein in it, so I doubt we're running out of that any time soon.
It is such a ridiculous statement.
Obviously, when I was saying people are made of protein, I'm not suggesting you start eating people.
But if it came to it?
I mean, yeah, move to Papua New Guinea, get along with the locals, cannibalise your neighbours.
It's all good.
So, they go on to say, insects are part of a virtuous eco-cycle, and you can start small and work your way up.
You can start with an ant and maybe end with, I don't know...
A giant African man snail.
Are they making an argument from Virtue here?
God!
Listen to Virtue from the World Economic Forum, yes.
You heard it here first.
But it's worse than that.
There are also outlets like Mashed who are...
Not fans of potatoes?
Well, they are.
They want you to eat potato peels, but they're saying 14 food scraps you didn't know were edible.
And it's just like, yes, we're going to make you eat food scraps.
So they say potato peels, herb stalks, carrot tops, parmesan rinds, which sounds disgusting, juice pulp, cauliflower leaves, orange peels, banana peels.
Can you imagine eating either of those?
Sprout tops, cabbage hearts.
They're literally saying you can eat banana peel.
What?
Broccoli stalks, watermelon rinds, beet greens, and almond milk pulp.
This is disgusting.
Finally, I've got a use for all that almond milk pulp lying around.
So if I'm just walking down the street and feeling a bit peckish, ooh, banana peel stray on the pavement.
Mmm, yummy, yummy.
No!
Mario Kart's forever ruined.
So it gets even worse than that.
So wind turbine blades could be recycled into gummy bears, scientists say.
I don't know what the scientists have been sampling, but it sounds like some pretty hard drugs.
They've been sniffing some gummy fumes, maybe.
The next generation of wind turbine blades could be recycled into gummy bears at the end of their service, scientists have said.
Researchers at Michigan State University have made a composite resin for the blades by combining glass fibres with plant-derived polymer and a synthetic one.
I don't like the idea of having gummy bears made of glass fibres.
That sounds slightly, you know, off the beaten path.
Just eat some glass, why not?
Window lickers rejoice!
Once the blades have reached the end of their lifespan, the materials can be broken down and recycled to make new products, including turbine blades and chewy sweets.
The wind power is one of the dominant forms of renewable energy.
I don't know whether that's true.
However, turbine...
I mean, surely...
That would be nuclear.
However, turbine blades made of fiberglass can be as long as half a football field and cause problems with disposal, with many discarded in landfills when they reach the end of their use cycle.
Do you want to eat a wind turbine gummy bear?
I don't think so.
They're mostly useless anyway.
Can you imagine going to the wind turbine farm and the farmer just smacks his hand on it?
This bad boy can hold so many gummy bears?
So, I want to take us on to a bit of a tangent because I thought it was funny.
Here's an article from Psychology Today.
Why autism might not make you a better environmentalist.
I wonder what relevance this has, eh?
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has credited her autism with giving her the ability to stay focused on the climate emergency.
She once tweeted, I have Asperger's, and that means I'm sometimes a bit different from the norm.
And...
Given the right circumstances, being different is a superpower.
Oh no, she's been watching too much Hollywood.
Christ, that Predator movie where it's like, actually, do you know that autism might just be the next stage of evolution?
Big brain Hollywood screenwriters.
So you people watching at home, congratulations.
All of us in the office, we're the higher beings.
So, there is some good stuff going on.
People like Lord Frost are saying that denies that there's a climate emergency and says we should bring back fracking and nuclear energy.
I mean, obviously, yes.
We've also got the North Sea full of oil.
I mean, come on.
All of this climate emergency nonsense.
You could save the cost of living crisis at the same time if you did all of this.
However, we have people like Prince Charles, who is our future king.
Prince Charles calls on public and private sector to unlock trillions for sustainability eco-drive.
He is to be the head of our country one day.
Great.
Also, World Economic Forum bought and sold.
I'm glad that when Queen Elizabeth goes that we've probably got like 20 years of Charles Tops.
That's true, yeah.
Thankfully he's already still very old.
But if you're looking for religious guidance as well, I'm afraid if you're Catholic, that's not great either.
Pope Francis tells young people in Europe to eat less meat for the environment.
So yes, we've got the woke Pope.
However, the UK government at the minute has at least outwardly claimed that we won't be forced to eat less meat to halt global warming because humans are ultimately omnivores, which is surprisingly reasonable from our own government.
Oh, it's a blatant lie, though, let's be honest.
I don't trust anything that the government says.
Well, I don't trust the government, but it's nice that they're saying it.
They're giving me a nice pat on the back and telling me everything's going to be okay.
Yeah, it obviously makes sense not to believe them, but it contributes to the validity of our argument when the government itself agrees with us.
That's true, but in the year 2000, if you'd said, by 2030, you're planning on taking everyone's cars away, they'd have said no.
That's true.
I'm not saying that they should be trusted.
I'm just saying that at least they've weighed in on our side.
I mean, it's a small mercy, but it's something.
I suppose so.
But yes, these sorts of things enable eco-lunatics like JustUpOil.
So here's an article talking about the fact that they have damaged fuel pumps on the M25 service stations.
They also did this on a second day as well in this next article from The Guardian.
This is their second day of action.
And yes, they've...
Also...
What's that police officer doing?
Just grab them by the neck and move them?
Yes.
It's so frustrating.
They treat them with kid gloves.
They do behave like children.
Well, they're also literal vandals at this point, and I'm pretty sure if some guy showed up in, say, I don't know, a Britain First jacket and started to smash fuel pumps, they wouldn't be playing with the kid gloves, would they?
No, they certainly wouldn't.
They'd be getting the batons out, I imagine.
And...
The final one is that they've blocked major oil terminals and are hiding in tunnels like children.
Like rats.
Like the rats they are.
This is obviously not helping the energy problems by just interrupting the production of oil.
I think that that's kind of dumb.
It's going to make people turn against you.
And then the same activists are going to be going, oh, the government needs to do something about the cost of living problems.
But yes, these are the people that are pushing this sort of thing, and they are lunatics.
So my advice is, despite these people, go out, buy yourself a nice steak.
And have it rare.
Have as much fish and chips as you fancy.
Yes, and then maybe tuck into some fish and chips.
That is how you save the planet, by our standards.
Alright, should we check in on Canada's socialised healthcare system?
Do we have to?
I'm somewhat worried.
Yes, because it's not going great.
It's really not going great.
So, everybody knows that you'll hear from activists and lefties all over the place that if you have a completely privatised healthcare system, that what will happen is you either pay up or you die.
Canada seems to be booking this trend by having their socialised healthcare system implemented a revolutionary new system of pay up and die.
You've piqued my interest.
I know it's quite appealing to you as a form of population control, but I need to give credit where it's due to Possum Reviews, who I follow on Twitter, who posted about this the other day and brought my attention to it.
And the first thing he pointed out was just the general long wait times you've got to expect in socialised healthcare systems.
the same that we have over in the NHS.
Obviously, the same thing can happen in private healthcare.
It just seems to be completely ubiquitous among everywhere that has a national healthcare service like Canada and the UK.
So in 2005, the Canadian Supreme Court said that wait times for healthcare in Canada were so long they violated patients' liberty, safety, and security.
What have they done about that?
They've done very little about that.
They probably made it worse.
They have got worse, in fact.
In 2021, the Fraser Institute found that the median wait time to see a specialist after a referral in Canada was 25.6 weeks.
So about half a year.
Ridiculous.
That's median.
So, average, that's about six months for probably the most small kinds of issues that you may have if you need to see a specialist.
But this is the kind of thing you've got to expect.
I know plenty of people who've struggled massively with, say, mental health services in the UK. They're not great, are they?
No, they're not great.
If you've got mental health problems and you're looking for help from the NHS, prepare to get worse.
Well, the thing is, we got rid of all of our insane asylums, and I know that makes me sound very evil, just like, yes, we need to lock more people up.
But for lots of people, it will be for their own good.
And I know that it's one of those things where it's, you know, you are infringing on someone's liberty, but...
If you're in good faith evaluating that they are a danger to themselves or others, you can't have these people walking about.
And we see that all the time with mentally ill people stabbing people or attacking people in Britain.
The entirety of San Francisco.
We don't have the funds to deal with these people properly.
Well, I actually know somebody, speaking of that, who got sectioned.
And it was actually...
You made it sound like you did it.
It's just like, I actually know someone who got sectioned.
No, I know someone who got sectioned.
Yeah, and she learned her lesson.
No, and for the time, for the way her life was going at that time, it was actually the best thing that could have possibly happened to her.
Well, that's the whole point of it, isn't it?
She was a danger to herself, and now she's a mum.
I'm not a clinical psychologist, but...
I know enough that it is good for some people.
I mean, am I going out on a limb here?
Shockingly enough, to be put in a situation where you're not going to hurt yourself or others and given constant care and treatment sounds useful.
They're not all one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
Although I don't think Josh would complain if they were.
But if we go to the next one, this is the one that really caught my attention, which was saying, after assisted suicide was legalised in Canada, many severely ill patients have found themselves effectively forced into voluntary euthanasia by healthcare costs or even hospitals just refusing to treat them.
Euthanasia is now the sixth leading cause of death in Canada.
That is actually outrageous, and I'm surprised this isn't, like...
A worldwide travesty.
Because to have euthanasia be legal, I mean, I believe that people who are suffering should be able to have the right to take things.
If they're in the right state of mind to be able to make that decision.
For example, I had this conversation with Connor before.
If you find out that you've got some debilitating condition, you can sign a form that says, once I get to this certain point where I have these certain symptoms, I no longer want to live.
And then if you give it to someone you trust, then it should be fine.
Yeah, and that actually kind of coincides with the idea of letting somebody die with dignity.
Well, yes.
But also, if you sign an agreement like that, you should be able to have a get-out clause if they come to you to kill you and you decide, actually, no, I'd rather stay living, thank you.
They're not allowed to just continue to smother you with the pillow.
But while we're on the subject of morality, you recently did a contemplations with Connor where you were talking about the morality of abortion.
And I've not actually had a chance to listen to it yet, but I imagine that will be very interesting.
Oh yeah, it was a very civil conversation.
Sorry to cut you off by the way.
Oh no, you carry on.
No, it was a very civil conversation.
Although me and Connor differ in our views, we actually had lots of constructive points.
I feel like it's an exemplary case of arguing in good faith gets good results.
We didn't necessarily agree, but we knew that each other had good intentions, and therefore we actually answered lots of interesting questions in ways where we've not really seen that outside of this office in the public discourse.
Yes, certainly on the case of abortion, that it becomes so emotional and so emotionally charged that people just end up screaming straw men at one another.
So if you're interested in checking out a discussion between two people on different sides of the abortion debate that actually doesn't descend into screaming...
Check that out.
It's premium content on the website.
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So check that one out.
But one of the articles that Possum Reviews was pointing to was this particular one from The Spectator, asking the question, why is Canada euthanising the poor?
Now, I see you're really trying to hold back your toothy grin right there.
Hey Canada, stop stealing my moves.
I'm joking.
I know that they owe you quite a lot of money for this idea they stole.
But let's take an examination into it.
So in 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada reversed 22 years of its own jurisprudence by striking down the country's ban on assisted suicide as unconstitutional.
Which is blithely dismissing fears that the ruling would initiate a descent down a slippery slope into homicide against the vulnerable as founded on anecdotal examples.
And don't you love that trusting the science has got to this point where you can foresee using this amazing thing called reason the obvious conclusion of a path that somebody or an institution is going to take.
And they go, yeah, well that's just anecdotal evidence, bro.
Show me, have you got a source for that, bro?
The whole trusting the science thing really winds me up because throughout my scientific education, the founding thing was doubt and not trusting stuff.
So when people say trust the science, I feel like that's antithetical.
Trust and science should be complete opposites.
You should be doubting everything.
That's the whole point of being a good scientist.
Yeah, I mean, the obvious deduction that you can make is, okay, assisted suicide now legal, terrible healthcare system with monster wait times, I can see these two problems colliding with one another, and they just go, source?
Have you got a source for that citation needed, please?
Anyway, the next year...
Parliament then duly enacted legislation allowing euthanasia, but only for those who suffer from eternal illness whose natural death was reasonably foreseeable.
So this is at least adding in some clauses that make it a bit more difficult to just go straight ahead with it, to be pushed into it, say...
But then it only took five years for the slope to come into view when the Canadian Parliament enacted Bill C-7, a sweeping euthanasia law which repealed the reasonably foreseeable requirement and the requirement that the condition should be terminal.
Now, as long as somebody is suffering from an illness or disability which cannot be relieved under conditions that you consider acceptable, which is going to vary on a day-to-day basis for a lot of people...
So someone with dyslexia, they could suffer with that.
And if they felt like it was bad enough, they'd be like, yep, that's fine.
Well, you're going to see some of the examples that we get to in a bit aren't too far off from that.
And they can take advantage of what is now known euphemistically as medical assistance in dying for free and it's made for short.
And, you know, at least it's free.
At least you don't have to pay extra to die.
Well, that's a small mercy, isn't it?
Imagine the savings.
I mean, you talk about compassionate healthcare from Canada and the UK, these sorts of countries.
Think of the compassion that goes into not charging someone extra to be killed.
I mean, it's so ridiculous.
Oh, it's so dystopian.
Soon enough, Canadians from across the country discovered that although they would otherwise prefer to live, some of them were just too poor to improve their conditions to a degree that was acceptable.
And not coincidentally, Canada has one of the lowest, some of the lowest social care spending of any industrialised country, palliative care, which as far as I'm aware is care to basically reduce your suffering if you've got...
When you're dying, yeah.
Yeah, when you're dying, it's only accessible to a small minority, and waiting times in the public healthcare sector can be unbearable, to the point where the same Supreme Court legislated against it in 2005, so that's all clear there.
Many in the healthcare sector came to the same conclusion.
Even before C7 was enacted, reports of abuse were rife.
A man with a neurodegenerative disease testified to Parliament that nurses and a medical ethicist, living up to the Haughty title of an ethicist.
All of these people who are ethicists tend to be terrible because they just know how to rationalise awful things.
At a hospital, tried to coerce him into killing himself by threatening to bankrupt him with extra costs or by kicking him out of the hospital and by withholding water from him for 20 days.
That is the textbook example of just being evil.
I don't use that word very often.
I use it very sparingly.
But that is evil.
Yes, that is evil.
That is abuse.
These people need to be fired and put in prison.
This is disgusting behaviour.
Virtually every disability rights group in the country also opposed the new law to no effect.
And it's no surprise that they were trying to oppose this.
When the family of a 35-year-old disabled man who resorted to euthanasia arrived at the care home where he lived, they encountered urine on the floor, spots where there was feces on the floor, spots where your feet were sticking.
If you stood at his bedside when you went to walk away, your foot was stuck.
According to the Canadian government, the assisted suicide law is about prioritising the individual autonomy of Canadians.
And so does that sound like you've got a lot of individual autonomy when the people who are supposed to be looking after you leave you to rot in your own filth?
And then when you go, I don't know if I can continue to live like this, they go, we've got this amazing form you could fill out.
You don't have to live like this anymore.
You don't even have to live anymore.
Monstrous.
It's the antithesis of healthcare, isn't it?
It really is.
And here's some of the interesting reasons for it.
Despite the Canadian government's insistence that insisted suicide is all about individual autonomy, it has also kept a lie on its fiscal advantages.
Even before Bill C-7 entered into force, the country's parliamentary budget officer published a report about the savings it would create, whereas the old MAID program saved about $87 million per year.
A net cost reduction, in the sterile words of the report, Bill C-7 would create additional net savings of $62 million per year.
So it's purely economic.
Just pure economics right here.
Just killing people for money.
Well, killing people to save money.
So, you know, when people pretend it's only private companies and private healthcare that would ever do anything to cut costs and make more profit, keep this in mind, please, because it turns out governments, when you actually look at them, when they actually have to administer services for the public, act like gigantic corporations, except the only barrier they have is how much they're taxing you and how much money they're printing at the time, and even then, they'll still kill you if it saves a few pennies.
Next year, the floodgates will open even further when those suffering from mental illnesses become eligible for assisted suicide.
Although euthanistic doctors and nurses have already pre-empted the law, there is also already talk of allowing mature minors access to euthanasia too.
So mature minors, I assume, would be people who are teenagers.
You know, the sorts of people who are probably going through hormonal changes...
Well, this does explain, at the very least, why...
Kefels, someone with gender dysphoria, has fled Canada.
Yes, this does explain it, really, doesn't it?
But yeah, mentally ill people and children and mentally ill children aren't just poor and unable to potentially put up the costs that these hospitals are going to be threatening them with, it seems.
But I would also say that these are the least likely people to be in a...
to make this kind of decision reasonably.
But this does, you know, Canada is inextricably linked with the World Economic Forum, given that Klaus Schwab penetrated the cabinet and has at least half of the cabinet as young global leaders from the World Economic Forum.
So this does seem to me to be a little bit in keeping with the World Economic Forum's depopulation agenda.
It's just a little bit suspicious that a place that's so, astroturfed by the WEF would implement a system like this.
But yes, and as I pointed out, we've got euthanasia is now a leading cause of death in Canada, number six.
I like how the headline here, and Ephesus are freaking out.
That's like a YouTube clickbait title.
Yeah.
It is a little bit.
Even though the only example we've seen so far, the ethicist, was all for it.
Of course they are.
Ethicists are freaking out because they're just so happy.
Finally, the government's listening to us.
So because of the broad eligibility, more than 10,000 Canadians have been euthanized in the most recent year that data was available, which I think would have been last year, because that seems to be the year that they really opened it up for rife abuse.
And we've got disturbing reports from experts troubled by the laws, as reported in the New York Post.
So Alan Nichols was a 60-year-old man with a history of depression and other medical issues.
None were life-threatening, though.
He was hospitalized in June 2019 over fears that he might be suicidal, but then he asked his brother to bust him out of hospital as soon as possible.
Within a month, he'd submitted a request to be euthanized and was killed, despite concerns raised by his family and a nurse practitioner.
His application for euthanasia listed only one health condition as the reason for his request to die.
Hearing loss.
So you know the dyslexia joke he made?
Not too far off.
I actually feel genuinely physically sick hearing about this.
How can people who get into a profession that are meant to help people pressure people into consenting to commit suicide?
It's...
It's about as evil as evil can get.
I have to agree with you on this.
His family reported the case to the police and health authorities, arguing he lacked the capacity to understand the process and was not suffering unbearably.
They say he was not taking needed medication, wasn't using his cochlear implant, and that the hospital staff has improperly helped him request euthanasia.
Once again, you've got to put a human face on this stuff.
These 10,000 people, they're not just figures.
These people had families.
These people had unique situations to them.
And in a lot of cases, it seems, these people were either misled or pressured into taking the euthanasia option.
We got this one, which was a chronically ill man releasing audio of hospital staff offering assisted death.
Now...
You know, once again, the sort of thing that we're talking about when we say, you know, you should be allowed to have a dignity in this sort of thing, is degenerative disease that means you're going to be in debilitating pain for the rest of your life, or you're already terminal.
Or maybe you're really old, maybe in your 80s, late 80s, early 90s, and your quality of life is reduced to the point where maybe you don't want to carry on anymore.
and your family, given you so old, you probably made peace with that.
But then we talk about a 42-year-old man who launched a landmark lawsuit against a London hospital, several health agencies, and the Ontario government and federal government alleges that health officials would not provide him with an assisted home care team of his choosing, instead offering, among other things, medically assisted and the Ontario government and federal government alleges that health officials would not Sigh.
This is what socialised healthcare ends up getting you.
Foley suffers from cerebellar ataxia, a brain disorder that limits his ability to move his arms and legs, and prevents him from independently performing daily tasks.
Now, that is awful, but I'm not, you know, some kind of sick utilitarian who's going to say, oh, he's more of a burden on society than he is a plus to society, so we should just kill him.
It should be his choice, obviously.
Yeah.
Obviously it should be his choice, and I'm sure his family would probably be happy to put up money to be able to help him in this situation, especially given that they seem to be supporting him in the lawsuit.
And this is from 2018 as well, so this is before last year the restrictions were opened up.
So this is what was going on while it was still slightly restricted in comparison to what it used to be.
So, he claims he's...
Oh, yeah.
In his lawsuit, he claims that a government-selected home care provider had previously left him in ill health with injuries and food poisoning.
That's fantastic.
He claims he was denied the right to self-directed care, which allows certain patients to take a central role in planning and receiving personal and medical services from the comfort of their own homes.
He's now sharing audio recordings of conversations he had with two healthcare workers at London Health Sciences Centre, where he has been stuck in a hospital bed for more than two years.
In one audio recording from September 2017, he spoke to a man about what he's described as attempts at forced discharge with threats of a hefty hospital bill.
When he asks how much he'd have to pay to remain in the hospital, the man replies, I don't know what the exact number is, but it's north of $1,500 a day.
The man is heard say, sorry, fully expresses shock at the figure and tells the man he just read an article that quoted the Ontario Health Minister saying it's not legal for hospitals to coerce patients like this.
The man is heard saying that the hospital does not use this conversation in every situation.
It's only situations where somebody has a plan in the community that is feasible that they're going to accept and that's okay, he says.
Foley then says he's not been informed of a plan for his care and that his rights as a patient are being violated.
You've already violated my preferences, so what is the plan that you know of?
Roger, this is not my show, the man replies.
I told you my piece of this was to talk to you about if you had interest in assisted dying.
So we're just going to, you know, basically kick you out of the hospital, and if you don't get kicked out of the hospital, we're going to charge you a ridiculous amount.
You've already been mistreated when you have had home care, but...
There is a solution.
You could just die.
You could just let us kill you.
This is not compassionate care.
This is not any sort of health care that you would hope for from a place that bills itself as being compassionate and caring like Canada.
It's a good thing that he's a switched on bloke because...
He knows his rights.
He knows how he should be treated.
If someone didn't, for example, I'm not sure I would be as familiar with all of these kinds of rights that he understands being in a hospital.
Especially when he's got a degenerative brain disease as well.
It's impressive and, like you say, quite remarkable that man has switched on enough to know to record these sorts of conversations and be able to talk his way out of them.
And I've not checked into it, but I really do hope that the lawsuit landed in his favour, because it's absolutely disgusting.
I don't know how you could excuse something like this.
And the fact that it went on in 2018, there was a big lawsuit about it, and then in 2021, the Canadian government just opens up this law with less restrictions for further abuse.
It's disgusting.
And the last one is that police are starting to investigate medically-assisted deaths, whether circumstances are questionable as to whether the person involved was in the right frame of mind to be able to agree to this sort of stuff.
So this was about a mother who was involved in a car crash.
She had a concussion and possibly had post-concussion syndrome.
They never really got to look into it because the wait times to be able to get an appointment to see what was wrong with her brain...
That was causing her to lose loads of weight and have dizzy spells, etc.
Was so long that she never got to speak to it.
But you know what didn't have wait times?
Was it the assisted suicide?
Yes, it was the assisted suicide.
And now the two daughters of this woman, who was not in the right frame of mind to be able to make these sorts of decisions in 2021, late October, are getting a police investigation into it.
So we'll see how that goes.
But yes, socialised healthcare, living up to its reputation as always, not just killing people by accident now, killing people on purpose.
Wow, that is depressing.
It's not good, is it?
It's really not good.
Well, it's not going to get any better either, because my next segment is a massive black pill as well.
So you've got a nice weekend triple dose of black pill.
You're welcome.
I'm sure you're glad you tuned in.
Well, I think Callum and Carl at least have some fun on the weekend segment, so you've got that to look forward to.
So...
I know the migrant crisis in Europe and North America isn't exactly news to most of you, and things have gotten so bad now that it's actually worth revisiting, just to see the sheer state of everything going on.
I mean, it really took me by surprise, because I took my eye off the ball for a bit, because I was just like, well, this is going to carry on, nothing's changing.
But I didn't expect it to get to this point.
And of course, it's worth pointing out that despite all of the talk of the politicians, things keep on getting worse.
I mean, the only person I've seen do anything about it remotely good is the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, bussing all the migrants to New York.
And we could just bus all of the migrants to Scotland.
That would be the equivalent.
I feel like that would be inhumane.
I mean, the poor migrants living with all the Scots.
Yeah, I mean, think of the poor migrants.
LAUGHTER So yes, Callum has addressed this question.
He basically argues, well, if we can't reduce immigration, why not have a feminist immigration policy?
And he argues that, well, women tend not to cause all of the social problems that the men do.
So we just import all of the women?
Yes.
Wasn't this kind of the government's plan with Ukraine?
LAUGHTER Well, that was because they had conscription in Ukraine.
I don't think they were deliberately just like, yes, we're going to have all the peaceful Ukrainian babes.
We just didn't want to improve the aesthetics of the migrants.
I mean, Boris Johnson is our Prime Minister, so he might have just been like, well, I have six kids with six wives.
I think that's the number.
Let's get a few more in.
I can't blame him being sick of Carrie.
I mean, I would be.
Horse face.
Yeah.
Let's have a look at how bad it's got.
So this BBC article says, Excuse me.
Compared to 3,683 in July.
More than 22,560 people journeyed across the English Channel so far this year.
At the equivalent point in 2021, the cumulative total was just under 12,500.
Which, by the way, was double the previous year as well, if my memory serves me.
Oh yeah, it's exponentially growing.
Not even just year on year, but from July to August, month on month.
And you know that dealing with all of these...
Migrants, these opportunists, is costing the UK taxpayer £2 billion a year at the minute.
That doesn't shock me.
If anything, I'm shocked that it's such a low figure.
£2 billion is a lot for Britain.
It is a lot, but still...
Nigel Farage has rightly pointed out that this is an invasion, and this is in light of lots of Albanian criminal gangs trying to cross into the UK and smuggling people.
You steal your style?
Yeah, they've got the same hairstyle as me, the Albanians.
They're making me look bad, is what they're doing.
That's my real problem.
But no, they're known in Britain for being drug dealers, basically.
If someone's Albanian, I think there's a 50-50 chance they might be a drug dealer.
That's made up, by the way.
That's not a real statistic.
Well, from personal experience, it's not that made up.
It's probably too generous, isn't it?
Probably closer to 75% to 100%.
But yes, Priti Patel has addressed this, saying she's coming out with a new deal to rapidly remove Albanians arriving in the UK by small boats.
Which will go nowhere, because it's Priti Patel.
Yes.
And the Daily Mail points this out.
Home Office has deported just 21 out of 17,000 asylum seekers considered for removal under new post-Brexit policy as the number of asylum applications hits a 20-year high of 63,000.
Which is just ridiculous.
Jesus Christ.
Now, I know that it's kind of unfashionable in some circles to quote him, but did Enoch Powell, when he was talking about immigration, which was strictly legal immigration, bring up the figure of 50,000 being a ridiculous amount of people to import every year?
And that was only purely legal.
Can you imagine how he'd be feeling if he could see 63,000 illegal immigrants?
Although, I think I'm getting that wrong there, because these are asylum applications.
But then again, a lot of these people are probably breaking into the country at the same time.
That's one way of getting your asylum application through the door, because when there are 63,000 on the go, I don't think it's too easy to get one.
Okay, I'm just saying, get all of the 63,000.
I'll not say a rubber dinghy.
Get them on, say, a long ship or a gigantic ship or something and put them at the border and tell me it doesn't look like an invasion of barbarians.
I mean, I agree.
Just because they slip in in dribs and drabs.
Well, increasingly large dribs and drabs.
It's mostly people from the Islamic world and Africa as well, so it's not exactly the best cross-section of the world's population that are sneaking in I said barbarians for a reason.
Islam's completely incompatible with Western values, and if you import people from Africa, if you get people from the Third World, you get Third World values, which is why we have people in the streets machete-ing each other to death.
I mean, the machete is not exactly the weapon of choice of true Britons, is it?
This is all just part of the multicultural beauty of the New England that you just can't appreciate.
Go for a walk in London, you can see the natural state of being of machete attacks.
Stabbings, moped theft, shootings.
It's all going on.
So it's not just Britain as well.
There are lots of cases in the rest of Europe.
Here we have Breitbart talking about Italy, saying illegal migrants' arrivals in 2022 have already topped 50,000 in Italy in the lead-up to their elections.
Also in Ireland as well, Breitbart again...
120,000 strong migrant surge drives record population growth in Ireland.
So, yes.
Seems like the foreign migrant population is growing at a faster rate than the native population.
If only there were a phrase I was allowed to say on YouTube that would summarise this whole thing.
There is a term you probably are allowed to say on YouTube.
They probably don't recognise it in reference to non-white people, but it's colonisation.
That's a safer one, yes.
Yes, that's a much safer one.
We're being colonised.
And it's funny that the people who complain about colonialism all the time are perfectly happy for it to happen to us.
Well, it's just the obvious case.
Well, it's because they hate us, isn't it?
Well, yeah, they only care about certain values if they're using them to beat us down with it.
So let's look at the dangers associated with this.
And I've collected lots of recent stories about what's actually going on here.
And here is a story from The Telegraph.
Over 50 illegal migrants aged 30 and above registered as children on UK arrival.
And I'm reading from the body of the article here.
One of 50 migrants aged over 30 have been registered as children on arrival in the UK in the past decade after falsely claiming to be under 18.
A total of 52 managed to slip through the initial checks as children before subsequently being found Right, okay.
Callum showed me plenty of pictures from his time in Afghanistan.
Have you seen...
These 16-year-olds look 30!
I know.
How does this work?
But the thing I'm trying to point to here is do you want Abdul with child pattern boldness in school with your kids?
I mean, we had a case of a guy who looked about in his 40s in a school with lots of young kids and it's the worst place you could put a Muslim is in a place full of children.
Young boys and girls, you know, either one.
But yes, there is also the obvious aspect of terrorism.
Here, if you cast your minds back to 2015, we have the EU Parliament discussing the fact that ISIS said they were going to send terrorists with the so-called asylum seekers, and apparently up to 4,000 of those were sent.
And it seems to be true, because...
Well, what happened in 2017, for instance?
Yes, exactly.
So, moving on to the Liverpool terror attack...
This bomber was an asylum seeker.
He tried to carry out an attack on a women's hospital, I believe.
But thankfully, due to years of inbreeding, he only had a couple of brain cells rattling around, so he ended up only killing himself, which is...
And also thanks to the actions of a brave taxi driver.
That's true, yes.
He shut him in there, didn't he?
Yes.
So...
Here's another example.
23-year-old Ahmed Azizi will be sentenced next week after disseminating an ISIS propaganda video.
This is after the Liverpool bombing.
An asylum seeker has been convicted of disseminating Islamic State propaganda video.
In response to the terrorist bombing at Liverpool Women's Hospital, a 24-year-old Amiri Ahmed Azizi from Sheffield, a nice South Yorkshire name there, shared a link to the video the day after Ahmad El Swilmin was killed when his device exploded in a taxi outside the hospital last November.
So yes, we've got lots of fighting age young men who hate our culture, our country, our way of life, and we're assuming that they're just going to integrate and not try and kill us.
Yeah, I mean, this is just the purely illegal asylum, illegal immigrants as well.
We've also got to remember the murder of Sir David Amos.
Last year, which was done by the son of some important figurehead in some Middle Eastern country as well.
I've forgotten the exact details, but this man who killed David Amos was not some guy who hopped on a boat across the Channel.
No, this is a guy who was here officially.
So, this is not just limited to Europe, also the United States.
Here we've got the Center for Immigration Studies drawing attention to the fact that an Iraqi asylum seeker wanted to import an ISIS terrorist hit squad.
So it reads, an Ohio FBI criminal complaint from a complex sting investigation alleges that a self-proclaimed ISIS fighter seeking asylum in the Buckeye State who claimed to have killed many Americans in Iraq between 2003 and 2006 while operating in a hit squad called Funder plotted to an Ohio FBI criminal complaint from a complex sting investigation alleges that a self-proclaimed ISIS fighter seeking asylum in the Buckeye State who claimed to have killed many Americans in Iraq between Again, the FBI ruining a good thing.
No, I'm joking.
So, the striking news that the US-7 border figure figured in this alleged terrorism plot and smuggling of two Hezbollah operatives, whomever else of ill repute earlier, adds to a strange...
What?
I can't read today.
...to a rare body of public knowledge that 42 immigrants on the FBI's terror watch list got caught crossing last year.
So, yes, it's a real thing that's happening.
Terrorists are trying to come across your border.
Why would you allow these kinds of people to come in?
I would say that Trump was right to have a complete Muslim ban.
I mean, it would be great if we could have one of those as well.
And why not just have some voluntary repatriation while we're at it, at the very least?
Why not just have a nice break on immigration for a while altogether?
Well, that would be ideal, yeah.
I mean, we live in such a densely populated country.
It's so unnecessary.
And the importation of hundreds of thousands of people seems to be egging on the Tories' ideas of just paving over the country so we can build more houses.
So there's also examples in places like Sweden.
So this is from 2018.
The Stockholm truck attack, which you may remember.
So the man convicted of ploughing a truck into a department store in central Stockholm, killing five people, has been denied residency in Swindon and has expressed sympathy for so-called Islamic State.
We've found the one thing that will prevent them getting residency.
You've got to murder a few people first.
So yes, another example of an asylum seeker So this isn't exactly cherry-picking, is it?
Because there are so many cases of terrorists being asylum seekers.
So there are cases of not even granted asylum seekers being violent as well.
So these are recent news articles which are very similar to one another.
European cops crushed to death by bus full of illegal migrants.
This is from Barit Bar.
It reports, two Bulgarian police officers were killed early Thursday as they tried to stop a bus containing migrants who had entered the country illegally, a senior ministry official said.
The incident occurred at 5am or 2am GMT in the Black Sea City of Burgos after the bus refused to stop at two consecutive border police checkpoints.
Stanimir Stanev told reporters the bus with Turkish registration plates was carrying 47 migrants whose nationality has not been disclosed.
I think if it's coming from Turkey we know where they came from.
The bus had entered a residential area when the police officers halted their car across the road in front of it The bus rammed the police vehicle, then drove over the top before smashing into a bus stop.
The two officers in the car were killed instantly.
No other injuries were reported, and an investigation into the case has been launched.
But this is horrific.
Two police officers crushed to death by a bus full of migrants.
I mean, that doesn't strike fear into your heart at what they're capable of.
I don't know what will.
But that's not all.
We've got another example of them ramming police vehicles.
So, this is in France.
North African migrants arrested after ramming and injuring four French cops.
Two North Africans, a 31-year-old Moroccan and a 36-year-old Algerian, were taken into custody by police in Vitrolles, near Marseille, on Sunday evening after fleeing from police checkpoints in a van they were driving.
As the two migrants tried to flee the officials, their van rammed a police car which contained four officers.
The officers were all injured as a result of the collision and were later taken to a local hospital with injured necks and backs.
The two migrants were arrested a short time later in Marseille.
The Algerian is said to have been on the file for Wanted People, a database of criminals, wanted by law enforcement, and was already subject to a deportation order.
How did he get in the country in the first place, I wonder?
I do wonder that.
I mean, they're not going to tell us, probably.
And very easily.
Apparently so, yes.
And something that's really quite disgusting, this next one...
This is in Italy.
African migrant caught on video raping Ukrainian woman in broad daylight.
So this poor Ukrainian woman escaped to Italy thinking it would be safer than Ukraine, only to get raped by some monstrous African.
It does show the hierarchy that we're working with, though, because there's so many contradictory things that the regime tends to be working towards.
They want to have this war with Ukraine, and as part of that you're going to have to accept a lot of potential refugees who are going to be coming out there, but also we still want to be importing mass amounts of people from the Third World, and that's not going to work out together when, like you say, the Ukrainian refugees tend to mostly be women because they've got conscription over there.
But yeah, it's just horrific.
I mean, the death penalty is too good for that man, as far as I'm concerned.
So, moving on, they're also a danger to themselves and to their children.
So, here we've got an article from the Postmillennial.
Biden's border crisis leaves two children dead, baby in critical condition, after trying to cross the Rio Grande into the US. And this is, of course, pointing out the fact that it's dangerous and people die, people's children die, and do you know who's responsible for that?
They are.
I mean, if parents try and take their kids across the Rio Grande or they try and take them across the channel and they drown, they die, they starve, they die first, any of those things, it's the parents' fault.
It's their decision to do this.
It's dangerous.
They know it's dangerous.
They did it anyway.
And they have the moral responsibility.
And the fact that people try and guilt us with this stuff makes me sick because they were willing to...
And this is how we got guilted in 2015, isn't it?
These are the people that are choosing to do this.
They come to places like Britain and America because we have very high qualities of life.
They don't want to stay in France because France, rightly, they recognise, is a horrible country.
It's for the French people, for what?
Although less and less by the day.
I don't actually dislike France, but...
It's all just play fighting, don't worry Frenchies.
Very nice to go on holiday there, so please don't kill me.
So, moving on to one of the final articles is this one.
This is just a report from a Texas border town saying that their morgue is overwhelmed by migrants dying.
So yes, it's in their own interest not to do this.
What a privilege to have, to have your morgue stuffed with the corpses of people trying to break into your country.
Fantastic.
In South and Central America, residents are hearing about migrants stepping off of buses into new lives in cities like New York and Washington, D.C., but they likely don't know just how many people are dying to get there.
The Post reported on Tuesday that a five-year-old girl and a three-year-old boy died, which we covered in the previous article, and now sources say local morgues in that town are running out of space, unable to keep up with the numbers of migrants who drown while crossing the Rio Grande.
The treacherous trek across the fast-moving river separating Mexico from Texas has claimed more lives in recent weeks than locals know how to handle.
Every day we maybe get three or four drownings, said Tom Schmerber, I think his name is, Sheriff of Merrick County, Texas, which includes a 30,000-person ranch town of Eagle Pass.
A recent bout of rain made the already high water levels even more dangerous.
Among those who don't make it are children and pregnant women, who should certainly not be doing dangerous things.
It doesn't say that in the article, that's me.
Last week, one of the morgues didn't have a place for any more bodies, said Schmerber.
He rejected One Morgue's directed request to move the bodies to a local jail and pass And that's...
That's horrible on so many different levels, because as the person who would be having to transport those bodies and find somewhere to put, whether or not these are people who are trying to enter your country illegally, they were still humans,
enter your country illegally, they were still humans, so you want to afford them a certain level of dignity and death, and this is just robbing that from them altogether.
so you want to afford them a certain level of dignity and death, and this is just robbing that from them altogether. so you want to afford them a certain level of But like you say, it's their own fault and the fault of the traffickers trying to get them across in the first place.
But like you say, it's their own fault and the fault of the traffickers trying to get them across in the first place.
But yes, what I wanted to draw attention to is that these people, they're a risk to themselves, first and foremost.
They're doing things that are dangerous to both themselves and their family.
And I mean, that in itself is worthy of a bit of contempt.
But all of the terrible things they do once they get to the country they're trying to get to, why are we allowing this?
I mean, it's ridiculous.
And the fact that it's getting worse and worse, politicians are giving it all the talk and not doing anything about it, it makes it so frustrating.
And it's because there are leftists who are saying, oh, but you've got to help people, you can't be selfish, the nation's borders are arbitrary.
Well, I mean, in Britain it's very difficult to argue that, but...
Because we're an island, obviously.
But in the United States, that's more common, isn't it?
Where they're just like, well, we've got to let people in.
But I saw a video which is kind of hilarious.
So this is...
I think I know the video that you're on about.
He's asking pro-refugee people whether they want to adopt one into their own home.
And I believe his name is correct, comma, not political.
So if we can watch that to close out the segment.
This is hilarious.
I just noticed your black eye saying refugees welcome here.
I'm just wondering if you'd like to go down on a list saying you're willing to take the refugees into your home?
Of course not.
The only problem is rent.
You rent?
Yeah.
Maybe an issue?
Yeah, because they've got...
Well, they've put nine bedrooms in a four-bedroom house, so we're pretty much...
So, you seem to actually adopt a refugee and take them into your home?
Well, if I had any space, I would.
If you had any space.
It wouldn't be a nice place to bring them, because it's a bit out of the crowd.
But yes, if I had the space, definitely.
Thank you very much for that, love.
Do you want to adopt one into your home?
I live in a rental place, so I go cash.
Rental?
Yeah, yeah.
You can't do it.
It's someone else's job.
Yeah.
No, I'm sorry, I can't.
You can't take one.
I don't have a space.
Don't have the space.
Can I have a refugee stay at your house?
Yeah, I don't mind.
You'll go on the list?
I don't mind.
Yeah, I can't do it.
Give me the other thing.
Oh wait, I can't because my house is only a little small.
Amazing.
Would you be willing to have a refugee in your own?
Yes, if I had room.
If you had room, it's funny that.
To adopt a refugee?
No, thank you.
No, thank you.
Any reason in particular?
No, I don't.
What sort of refugee are you talking about?
Excuse me?
Would you be willing to adopt a refugee into your home?
Err, no.
Sorry, can't.
Would you adopt a refugee into your home?
Err, no thank you.
No, adopt a refugee?
Erm...
I would be willing, yeah, if I had the space.
If you had the space?
So where should we put them then?
Where should we put them?
There's plenty of people who have fallen.
Who are you, mate?
My name's Jim, who are you?
My name's Alistair.
I'm already adopted a refugee, thanks.
What does racism mean to you?
It means not equality for those who don't belong here.
For those that don't belong here?
Yeah.
Amazing!
Equality for people who don't belong here.
Oh, that's incredible.
I've seen that clip before, but it's just so brilliant, and it's so telling as well.
For the love of God, these people don't seem to realise that this whole, like, oh, I've got no room, I've just got no room, just got no room.
Oh, right, take that, and then expand it to the size of a country, okay, and you've got the problem.
So, yeah, obviously...
Nobody really wants the refugees in their homes.
Even the refugee activists.
Yeah, so just stop doing it.
Do something about it.
Stop the border.
Build a wall.
That's what we need.
Activists claim the use of they in the singular dates back to Shakespeare and earlier, but most can't or won't provide proof in quotes.
The OED traced it back to 1375 in the tale of William and the Werewolf.
However, it's clear from the quote the poem refers to multiple men, and so they is clearly plural.
From Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, the quote again refers to multiple abstract men, and in Hamlet, Shakespeare refers to an abstract mother.
In each case, the subject is not limited to one person.
Now, there is an irritating habit among lotus eaters to use they as a singular pronoun.
Stop it.
This is not grammatical and it's not English.
The approved pronoun where sex is unknown is he.
Is it?
Sorry, I've never heard that, I've never lived that, and I won't do that because I'm just used to using they when the sex isn't known.
My favourite is it because it's the most dehumanised.
That's true for you, but it's just something I've always done and something I imagine I will always do without having it actively trained out of me.
And I don't see any issue.
No offence, Alex, I think it's being a little bit pedantic at that point.
Yeah, the history of it is interesting.
I do want to...
I'm very pedantic about being grammatically correct, but it seems weird to...
This is going to sound terrible, but it seems weird to assume the sex of someone that you don't know.
It could be...
At least if they're anonymous.
Obviously this is completely different when you're speaking to someone face to face and you can recognise their sex.
But from speaking about somebody in the abstract that I've never met before and don't know what they look like, don't know what their sex is, then I'm probably not going to do that.
Plus, just in terms of the way that we use language nowadays, referring to he will be misleading, potentially.
But no, I respect that you've gone out of your way to inform us.
I mean, I always appreciate that.
And I'll certainly bear it in mind and may even do my own research.
Maybe I'll end up agreeing with you on that one.
So, I think we are moving on to the comments now.
Yes, we're moving on to the written comments.
We've got the first one up top here.
Stefan Schoenhoff says, Regarding the Canadian suicide booths, yesterday a story came to light in the veteran community.
A vet called the VA regarding his PTSD and traumatic brain injuries and was repeatedly badgered to consider MAID. The operator on the line also informed him that another vet had opted to self-delete, but not to worry the man's children would have their therapy covered.
Oh, fantastic!
And their therapy, if it turns out to be too much now that we're offering it to mature minors as well, might also end up with, oh, if you feel so bad about your dad dying, you could always join him.
Just fill out this form.
I imagine this is where it's going.
So people...
I mean, I'm sure members of the Canadian Parliament might tell me, oh, these are all just anecdotal ideas of yours.
It's like, no, I can see where it's going.
Don't ask me to switch my brain off.
I highly recommend Angry Cop's YouTube video on the situation.
That's very interesting, and thank you for reminding me of that, because I had seen a few mentions of stuff like this where Canadian veterans from the military had been offered this situation.
Despite not receiving basically any support.
So that's a great way to pay them back for their service, isn't it?
Sorry, you've given a part of your life for this country, you've suffered for this country, you've done so much for this country, now kill yourself.
Absolutely vile.
And there's no place for it, as far as I'm concerned.
No place for it at all.
But let's get on with your comments.
Sure.
Alex L. Oh no, we eat too much fish?
It's almost as if we're an island or something.
That did occur to me, actually.
Baron Von Warhawk.
They're coming for your fish and chips.
Odd way to start a civil war, but this is a clown world after all.
I imagine we'll see news reports of riot police clashing with North FC hooligans with a come and take it flag with a codfish on it instead of a cannon.
Yes!
Come on, our lads!
Maureen Peters, as far as I know, a rather large section of the people with Asperger's can't tell whether others are being dishonest and or lying, so are easily influenced and are used.
It certainly explains why Greta, after her grand speech at the UN, had no idea what to answer when she got given an unexpected question.
If you're that passionate about something, you should have...
Should have been able to answer a basic question, but to be honest, fish and chips does not sound appetising at all.
Still preferable to insects, though.
You've not lived.
I mean, to be fair, most of the time I don't have fish, but I tend to have a good chippy, chips, cheese and gravy.
Now, that's the Northern Special.
That's what I love many a night out.
I have been drunkenly staggering home, and the glow of the chippy at 3am has guided me.
It's like the light from the heavens descends upon you.
It really is.
Because you get no natural light up north, it's only from the chippy.
Yeah, yeah, we're basically like, we're like Sweden and Norway, you know, we get the northern lights up there, etc.
But yeah, no, actually, that reminds me, I've only ever seen from the UN Greta clip, her, you know, whole like, oh, you're destroying my future, how dare you?
I've never watched any more of that, and I'd be interested to see her trip up when asked questions.
She really does as well.
She just, like, goes quiet and comes back.
I mean, it's almost like she's a child and she has no right to expect anyone to listen to her.
And this is quite a heretical view here, but I actually prefer fish without batter on it.
I know I'm going to lose my citizenship now, but I think that the batter ruins the flavour and it's better to cook it in oil or butter with herbs.
Much nicer.
Leave your complaints in the comments below.
Yes, I'm going to get deported to the continent now.
I'm so sorry.
We always knew you were Italian, you just looked it to me.
Well, be careful because the Italians are about to elect the fascists, so don't get on my bad side.
Sophie Liv Pedersen.
Yes.
Hating the potatoes.
The things grown in the ground is one of the most sustainable food sources on the planet.
And the fisheries.
Yeah, that's a problem with overfishing the oceans.
Yet somehow we haven't put sanctions on China yet.
Only ourselves.
Joy.
Fun thing though, I did have fish and chips last week and it just knocked me out cold for three hours.
I was just laying there in a heavy food coma.
Yes.
That's what British food is designed to do.
This is why people say, oh, it's bland and stodgy.
Good, it'll keep you full.
You want a full meal, don't you?
There's a reason we're all so round.
I mean, why do you think Baz from North FC looks the way he does?
Don't pinch his chips.
Shaker Silver, what culinary horror will come from the AstroTurf meat-free agenda?
I'm here waiting for Beyond Meat haggis.
Oh, God!
I quite like haggis, actually.
It's the Scot in me, clearly.
I had it when I went up to Scotland, and it was nice.
I've never had it.
It just looks unappetising to me, but...
Well, it is kind of like innards, isn't it?
Yeah.
It doesn't sound...
Same reason I've never had black pudding.
I've never...
Black pudding's alright.
Everyone tells me this, but I just...
You know me, I'm a very picky eater, so I just look at it and I just know it's congealed blood, and I just go, no, I don't fancy it.
I'm happy to eat pretty much anything except insects.
That's fair.
And human beings.
To add a caveat.
Just in case.
I know Josh comes across a bit Hannibal Lecter-esque.
Might have a nice key and tea later.
An old friend for dinner, eh?
There's a haggis pie there, Michael's showing.
That looks really nice, actually.
A vegetarian haggis.
Oh no, you're winning Josh over.
Michael, John switched out for Michael and now we're losing him.
So, Colin Peay says, The serfs can eat the plants and bugs.
Real meat will only be for us elites.
And that is exactly what's going to happen.
Particularly if they raise the price, people won't be able to afford to eat meat regularly.
And therefore, a meat-only diet will be like a status symbol.
And malnourished people don't fight back as hard.
Paul Neubauer, plants can't give you the type of proteins you need.
That's absolutely true.
I've looked into this, and plant protein, it misses two to, depending on what plants you go for, they all consistently miss at least two to three of the essential amino acids you need for a complete protein.
So if you eat them regularly, if you eat all this plant-based meat, you're not actually getting your nutritional requirements.
Not in the way that they sell them to you.
I've known quite a few vegetarian people and they always complain of being malnourished or iron deficient or deficient in loads of vitamins that I have in abundance.
My missus is a vegetarian, she has to take lots of vitamins and I just wave the meat in her face sometimes.
Not like that!
No, I was eating steak the other day and I was so pleased with myself because I'd done it to perfection.
I used to be a well-done man, but I've started to become a medium-rare kind of guy.
You've come round to rare eventually.
No, I've started doing it medium-rare and I just realised how tender it was.
Oh my god, this food's so tender.
You can hear them laughing at what he said.
Yeah.
No, it was just, oh my god, the steak's so tender.
And even then, she was just like, tender, is it?
Tastes nice, does it?
Do you mind if I have some?
And I was like, are you sure?
Are you sure?
And I gave her a tiny little scrimp of the steak, and she just couldn't handle it.
She was like, it tastes horrible.
And I was like, I'll win you back eventually.
I'll win you around.
So, Ewan Baker says, this is why we shouldn't let idiots corporatise our food.
Now they think they have the right to tell us what to eat.
It's an amazing overstep throughout history.
People have basically eaten what they can get their hands on, but government's not dictated.
You know what?
You need to eat some more plants.
You can't have any meat.
Ridiculous.
Anyway, should we move on to some of your...
The whole division of labour made it so we didn't just only have to eat plants.
I mean, this is going back quite significantly.
But yes, on to socialised healthcare in Canada.
Colin P says, so the World Economic Forum Control Canada is leading the way in population reduction.
Yes, and that's a good thing.
Baron Von Warhawk says it looks like this is the logical end point for abortion and this is actually kind of going to be part of an article that I've written that's finally been fully edited and will be going out on the website probably next week where I talk about abortion.
It was actually very interesting.
I recently read Ron Paul's book on abortion.
And of course, he addresses the whole thing that people say about, well, you're a libertarian, you can't be pro-life if you're libertarian, yada, yada, yada, yada.
But he argues that, yeah, abortion has extra effects, external effects on society where it's sort of devaluing, like so much else is devaluing the way we view life in the first place.
And one of the things about Roe v. Wade opening it up the way it did was that everybody knows that your existence is purely conditional now and Purely unconditional on whether your parents think you're convenient to have or not.
God forbid.
I mean, there's many occasions when I was actually born where my parents found me inconvenient.
Yeah, so all of a sudden society finds you inconvenient.
You're inconvenient on the healthcare system.
Well, you know, I mean, we do worse.
We abort literal babies, so why not just...
Why not just abort adults as well, you know?
It's like our entire societal ethic has been defined by Patrick Bateman.
It absolutely has.
But yeah, the rest of the comments seem to just be agreeing with what I was talking about there.
Benjamin Charles says, Years ago Rush Limbaugh pointed out the problem with euthanasia.
How long before the right to die becomes the duty to die?
It's a good point, actually.
Freewill2112 says, Didn't the Nazis start off by euthanasiaing the mentally and physically disabled?
And we know where that led.
State-sponsored euthanasia is a dangerous path to follow, as history shows.
Remember how many leftists have argued that republicanism and...
Being patriotic and being right-wing and caring about freedom is some sort of mental illness.
And if they're killing the mentally ill...
That's a good point.
Especially when it seems the hospitals aren't showing any duty of care to make sure people are in their right minds and signing up to this stuff.
Or just forcing them into it, basically.
Rose Ganella.
Good God, it reminds me of something a Disney villain once said.
A heavy tax shall be levied against all parasites and sponges, such as the elderly, the infirm, and especially little children.
It also reminds me of Lord Farquaad, Many of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
That's the Canadian government right now.
Somebody edit in Trudeau's face on Farquaad as he says that.
Alpha of the Betas says, at this point in the 1973 dystopian sci-fi movie Soylent Green is actually better than Canada.
At least they're recycling their people, I suppose.
In the movie, the euthanized get wheeled on a gurney into an auditorium where they watch a movie that shows the natural beauty of the world and plays music of their choice in their final moments.
They don't get emotionally blackmail the elderly and mentally ill into euthanasia because it's cheaper.
That's Canada today.
It's obscene.
The phase banality of evil comes to mind.
It is quite banal, the whole reasons they're forcing them into it in the first place, which is, well, we could save some money.
Never, ever do I want to hear the argument that private companies are only motivated by profit and will cut things and hurt people to save money ever again!
Never ever again.
That's never been purely, strictly true just for private industry.
I mean, if they wanted to be even more evil, there is a way they can optimise it.
If you're watching at the World Economic Forum, cover your ears.
Of course, Josh has been thinking this over while we've been doing this.
How could I make this more efficient?
I'm a scientist.
I excel in evilness.
But no, they could be harvesting people's organs and selling them on the black market and making about a million a pop per person because there was an article that I read talking about the Chinese organ market and how much each organ was worth.
So a million per person, 10,000 people roughly so far, that's a lot of money.
Well, at least if they were doing this efficiently and properly, they could reduce taxes for the rest of the population, but they're not even giving you that, Canadians, honestly.
And Maureen Peters says, Absolutely, I agree with that.
Let's go on to your comments.
Sure.
Spring Valley Itland.
I absolutely love the soft-spoken, well-dressed psychologist not pulling any punches when it comes to calling out Islam and Muslims.
You go, Josh.
Thank you very much.
Slightly embarrassed, but I appreciate the compliment.
Omar Awad.
Even if most of these a-holes were...
Economic characters using loopholes and lies to stay in the country.
Actual asylum is a privilege.
We have no obligation to take in anybody besides through our own compassion.
Any legal agreements or international treaties are an expression of this.
This invasion is only occurring because too many people feel no moral burden unloading their conscience on the backs of the poorest and vulnerable who are the most affected most.
And I 100% agree with that.
It is a privilege to be granted asylum in a country.
Especially an economically and mostly politically stable country like England.
If Britain somehow collapsed, if we had the fish and chip rebellions or something like that, and I had to claim asylum somewhere.
I'm all for it at this point.
If what ends up overturning the government in England is North FC rising up because the government's trying to pinch me chips...
If they take our pints away, it will be chaos.
It will be.
Liverpool alone will go down in flames.
Just all the alcoholics twitching with anger.
Oh god.
I welcome it.
Oh dear.
Where was I? Oh yeah.
Maureen Peters again.
There are so many immigrants here in the Netherlands that about 700 of them need to sleep outside one of the reception centres.
Doctors Without Borders have arrived a few days ago and are providing help with the local Dutch people.
Our Oh, bloody hell!
Christ!
No, people are ripe to fear walking out in the street because you don't know where these people have come from.
They're probably lying about their identity.
They could well be fleeing their country because they're a criminal that are wanted, and perhaps even on death row for all we know.
I mean, honestly, I'm the sort of person, because I imagine you've probably had this as well.
We're both quite tall.
We both cut rather large figures.
So people tend not to bother you in the street.
I've still had it a few times.
Yeah, I've still had it a few times.
Mainly from people in groups where they feel they can get away with it.
But when I was most recently in London, when I went to go see a band, I did not feel safe on the streets of Brixton.
Which wasn't just because of the fact that I was side-eyeing a load of migrants or anything.
No, while we were there, we went into a corner shop and a literal gang of migrant children came in and started trying to rob the place.
While there was an older gentleman, maybe being a bit too charitable there, an older man was waiting outside with a murderous look of intent in his eyes and he was proper eyeing me up.
And that made me a little bit worried.
No, I don't blame you.
That sounds horrible.
No, I don't blame me either.
But yeah, so it's not nice to walk around the streets of your own capital city and feel like a bunch of foreigners are about to stab you for no reason.
So, yeah, no.
Migration bad.
Lotus Eaters comes to the definitive answer.
Migration bad.
We've never said that before.
But I think that's about all we've got time for.
We're going to end it there.
But for all of those Gold Tier members out there, I've just checked the website.
The Gold Tier Zoom call is there now, but if you've received the link and the email that we would have sent out anyway, you can still access through that if you want.
So thank you very much.
We'll be back on Monday, 1 o'clock British Summertime.
We'll see you then.
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