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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 18th of November 2022.
	I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about, finally, some good news!
	Rejoice, folks!
	You wouldn't let me look at the segment before we did this, so I have no idea what the good news is.
	I didn't want to spoil it.
	I assume it's Christianity.
	No, no.
	That's what I used to mark it, the good news.
	Yeah, I got sick of your dadism segment, so I've become a born-again Christian, and I'm going to tell everyone about why, um, that would be Islam for me, wouldn't it?
	Probably, yeah.
	Anyway, also, do you feel represented?
	Will be the second segment.
	I feel it's so hard right now.
	Such representation in this country.
	And the beginning of the end, which, you know, maybe the good news won't last that long, is my point.
	It isn't good news, now everything else sucks.
	Is it even worth living in Britain?
	I don't know.
	Anyway.
	Well, we'll have to debate, I suppose, which the facts are not on our side.
	Starting off with the good news, though.
	Good news, everyone!
	Finally, thank Christ, we have some good news.
	The die cult is dead.
	Oh, really?
	Unironically.
	Oh, that is good.
	It's dying at a rate we never thought possible.
	Fantastic.
	I'm getting tired of winning in this front.
	I'm not getting tired of winning.
	I've only just learned we're winning.
	We'll see you in a minute.
	We'll start off with the Origin of Intersectionality Premium Podcast on the website, which everyone who isn't subscribed should definitely go and check out and subscribe.
	This is where it came from.
	Yeah, and that's the thing.
	If you wonder what the die cult is, or why the hell you have a woke department of HR that's fired you for saying that maybe men aren't women, this is why.
	Yeah.
	Because who would win?
	The entire Western civilization and canon of thousands of years?
	Or one stupid lady?
	The stupid lady won, and that's why you're losing your job, bucko.
	But don't worry, now they're losing their jobs, which is the good news.
	Thank God for an economic downturn.
	Yeah.
	Silver linings, folks.
	Every day I pray for a session, not because I'm going to make money, unlike George Soros.
	All the foreigners will leave and all the die cult will become Serbia, which, you know, has ups and downs.
	We'll start off with the news, which is...
	I'll get my harpsichord, isn't it?
	Anyway, tech layoffs are disproportionately hitting HR and die teams.
	That could spell trouble for companies.
	I would be very surprised if it spelled trouble for the companies themselves.
	No, well, the dye companies who have this agency work are probably going to be pretty hard hit.
	That's fair.
	Those companies who are essentially paying like a progressive tithe, they're going to do fine.
	The church is doing terrible in this economic downturn.
	So tech layoffs are decimating human resources and corporate diversity teams.
	Great!
	Well, that is good news.
	F's in the chat, boys.
	I like the use of the term decimation as well.
	It seems to be brutal.
	We could go higher though.
	I don't know what the term is for 1 in 2 over 1 in 10.
	Well, decimation just came to mean in English.
	Just like gutting destruction.
	Yeah, I just wanted to be a Latin nerd.
	Well, yeah.
	Maybe the Jacob Rees-Mogs of the chat can let us know.
	Anyway, when Stripe and Meta announced job cuts earlier this month, affecting 14% and 13% of their workforce.
	Right.
	Slash it.
	Slash it.
	It's a good start, but Elon got rid of 50%.
	Yeah, let's make it around 20 at least.
	Come on.
	I love Ron.
	Anyway, respectively, they noted that layoffs would disproportionately affect recruiting because neither company plans to hire much next year.
	Amazon, which plans to axe around 10,000 workers, reported the same on Monday.
	This is slightly worrying.
	I mean, from Meta and what I know, who cares?
	Yeah, yeah, no, social media is bleh.
	Yeah, with Amazon, I'm a little bit worried because it is representative of just the lack of economic activity.
	That's probably 90% of the UK economy.
	Yeah, there's no parcels to ship, then things are going south.
	Anyway, but otherwise, I mean, they do actually have a huge section of DAI as well on Amazon.
	I should have brought it up, but there is a link I found recently that I spoke about where they have a fat inclusion network.
	So, is Amazon axing 10,000 workers?
	Fatties.
	No, well, they're diversity hires, I was thinking.
	Do you have things also just stalking through?
	Wear yourself.
	Get on these scales.
	I mean, we could dream.
	I guess, yeah.
	He has been working out a lot, hasn't he?
	It's called the Body Inclusivity Network or some crap like that.
	Jeff Bezos openly fatphobic.
	Well, they've got the Black Network and then the Alphabet Network and then the usuals.
	And then just Amazon specifically has the body inclusivity one.
	And it's just like, I watched the promo videos they have in the company, right?
	And it's all just like really fat women talking about how chairs aren't designed for them.
	Maybe I should have got it.
	I don't have a hand.
	Chairs are designed for normal-sized humans.
	Yeah, and ironically, they were complaining that, what was it, like cinemas and airplanes aren't designed for some people, and this is discrimination against lifestyles.
	I have to explain to them that these things were designed in, like, the 60s.
	Yeah, this is for a human, not cow.
	So, anyway.
	Lyft, which cut 13% of its workforce earlier this November, it's good to note, which is that this is all the tech companies, which really sets the pace for everyone else.
	One employee of the Diversity and Inclusion team said most of her department had been cut off, including her.
	Get your violin, Lance.
	Yeah, a tiny violin.
	I love it.
	She's doing the interview and she's like, most of my team are gone.
	And me.
	Let's round it up to 100%.
	Yes.
	Stopping you.
	Similarly, Twitter, now owned by Elon Musk, saw its dye team evaporate.
	Yep.
	Love the language.
	Almost overnight.
	Twitter's chief diversity officer.
	I think liquidate would have been a more impactful statement.
	Yeah.
	Impactful word to use.
	I mean, for those Soviets as well, they should get used to that word.
	Liquidating them.
	You know about the guys who went into Chernobyl after it went bad?
	Yeah, so everyone that went into Chernobyl to deal with the problem, they were called liquidators in Russian.
	They also got liquidated.
	Anyway, so Twitter's Chief of Diversity Officers, Dalia Brand, resigned within hours of Musk's acquisition.
	So, I mean, technically the trash took itself out.
	Yeah.
	And employees reported that the company has been dissolving its employee resource groups.
	I'm going to be covering this on Monday, and I've got a New York Times article.
	We reached out for Twitter's comment, but we didn't receive a reply because Twitter no longer has a communications department.
	Brilliant.
	We're no longer going to talk to corporate journalists.
	Well, that's getting axed.
	That's money saved, isn't it?
	The witling of talent-focused functions.
	As if that's...
	Yeah.
	There's a lot of talent involved here, Callum.
	What's your job?
	I'm a...
	I'm black.
	A pandemic management specialist.
	I clean the toilet.
	I mean, that really is dressing up your job.
	I'm representing the Hispanic community.
	Talent-focused function right there.
	Anyway.
	Human capital investments do not provide an easily visible bottom-line return.
	They don't.
	Especially for consumer tech companies, which prioritize engineering, research, and development.
	Yeah.
	I don't know why they try to write this as a dick.
	It's just like, yeah, they value things.
	They're tech companies.
	Even with pledges and recognition that the people's experience matters...
	HR and DAI are often seen as pure overheads.
	It's because they don't add anything to the financial health of the company.
	At least HR does something.
	DAI does nothing.
	We covered this thing where it's the Christian tithe on the guilds, basically.
	It's exactly the same thing.
	Stakeholder capitalism.
	It is literally just like, I have to pay this to the stakeholder.
	Who's the stakeholder?
	The guildmaster, basically.
	The brown race.
	I don't know.
	Nonsense.
	Anyway, but they say in here it's usually seen as pure overhead and perhaps a little bit distant from the profit-making engine, says Julie, who's just lost her job.
	Distant from the profit-making engine?
	She's the chief diversity officer and management at consulting firm Bain.
	But isn't that interesting?
	Perhaps a little bit distant from the profit-making engine?
	A little bit.
	Makes you sound kind of like a parasite?
	Mm.
	Sounds like.
	But experts caution that this line of thinking is short-sighted.
	That's a good thing.
	I don't care what experts say.
	The expert parasites say that.
	The market ebbs and flows when the company recovers.
	Companies that make deep cuts to recruitment or die will scramble to rebuild those teams and catch up their talent initiatives.
	Why?
	Why would they?
	But hang on, let's assume they do.
	Okay, let's assume they do.
	So what?
	Like, the profit-making engine has been left untouched.
	They'll scramble to make those things up.
	It's like, what, to regain as many parasites as they had before?
	That's two years without parasites.
	I guess.
	You no longer have worms.
	Yeah, you're going to have to scramble to make up that.
	Why shouldn't you just have intestinal worms all your life?
	Why not get rid of them for two years?
	Early cuts to the talent operations.
	And by the way, I'm not talking about the people here.
	I'm talking about the apparatus, YouTube, for no one else.
	It's just like you're literally stealing money and doing nothing in return.
	Yeah, it's the ideology and the sort of organization of it that's the problem.
	Early cuts to talent operations can also be set an alarming precedent.
	Tech companies are tastemakers for the future and work of all corporate culture.
	And this is where we can really pop the champagne lads.
	Because she's right on this.
	Which is that, yeah, they are the forefront of the entire Westerns.
	And if they're killing the DAI teams, oh boy.
	Facebook, Google and Microsoft made sizable diversity pledges in the wake of George Floyd's murder last spring in 2022.
	The sudden reversal from the DAI and HR work in dropping related initiatives and cutting of staff could inspire other industries to do the same.
	Champagne.
	If what tech is doing is where everyone is headed, this can be scary for people who care about workplaces that are intentionally striving to create dynamic and conditions where humans and all different types can thrive, says Heidi Brooks, Senior Lecturer of Organisational Behaviour and recent unemployed person.
	Right, okay.
	So, no, no, but this is fantastic, because what they're saying here is the intersectional parasites who have latched on like lampreys onto the side of the big productive corporations.
	Give us money and we'll measure the brown people.
	Exactly.
	But it's all leftist ideology.
	You know, the leftist ideologists are getting cut out of these corporations because they are removed from the profit-making engine of the corporation.
	Right.
	And they're like, hang on a second, our ideology isn't going to survive if it's not being paid for by these people who've guilt-tripped into giving us jobs?
	They say, yeah, but the economy won't support that anymore, so bye!
	Great news.
	This is actually really great news.
	Your civic religion was literally just a privilege.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And it was being paid for by everyone else.
	Yeah.
	It can take years to change a company's culture, she whines.
	And given that most companies make dye commitments just two years ago, employees in culture change jobs...
	Culture change jobs.
	That's very interesting.
	Commissars.
	Yeah.
	We're just beginning to get their footing.
	Just two more years, bro, and we'll make everything inclusive, bro.
	So what you're saying is we didn't have the tendrils in deep enough, and now we're being pulled out and it's just going to go back to how it was.
	So, we had literally two years of you being the commissars in the Great Purge of the West.
	And you're like, well, I just needed a couple more years.
	And then I could have really solidified this.
	Quote, I would expect they feel pretty undermined and concerned, having not yet had the time...
	I can't believe we don't have champagne for this segment.
	We should have.
	To produce real culture change, says Brooks.
	Just another two more years.
	Just another ten years in Afghanistan.
	Piss off, communists!
	Piss off!
	Our ideology would have worked, I swear.
	You absolute parasites!
	The slashing of HR and DAI as companies tighten their belts isn't a widespread phenomenon yet.
	Evelyn Carter, president of diversity consulting firm Paradigm, says...
	Diversity consulting firm?
	I need some consultation.
	What about diversity?
	Okay, get more brands.
	Oh, really?
	I didn't know that.
	Well, it's a good thing Paradigm is here.
	Five million now, please.
	Money, please.
	She says the organisation has met with 100 wealth management companies interested in DAI. I'm sorry, I'm going to keep calling it Die because that is what it is.
	What a world.
	What a world.
	I've met with a hundred wealth management companies that want to die.
	That's my job.
	Anyway, consulting the same week Meta announced order to lay off.
	Organizations cutting their die teams will find it a mistake.
	Well, I love this kind of Christian apocalyptic thinking here.
	It's like, well, you know, you can sin if you like, but God will punish you in heaven.
	You know, you'll find it a mistake.
	In the future, the mysterious future that will probably never come to pass...
	Just saying.
	This person doesn't make it as clear as the following article I'm going to go into.
	Oh, really?
	That Christian-like, hmm, really?
	You're not going to pray to God this week?
	No donations?
	You're not worried about going to hell?
	The eternal soul?
	Intersectional hell?
	Anyway, but we have Brooks here who's whining.
	Oh, it's not happening yet.
	Everything's fine, actually.
	Yeah, this is her.
	Real time.
	In case you're wondering.
	It's just an artist's rendition.
	Anyway, there's lots of this pleading.
	I found endless articles about this, but I'll take the next one because I think it is also just the best.
	This is from Harvest Business Review.
	Don't let layoffs undermine your die efforts.
	Why?
	What's really important?
	Money or religion?
	Well, for these people, it's their religion.
	How leaders and their companies navigate the economic downturn in the coming year speaks volumes.
	You're going to feel the salt.
	Is it the white supremacy reasserting itself?
	Yeah, I love what you can sit and be like, you're all racist because you're firing us.
	I can't believe you'd do this.
	Yeah, I will.
	I'm surprised it happened too, to be honest.
	But it does determine who stock you should buy, for sure.
	I mean, if they're not cutting these people, then what are they going under?
	Yeah.
	76% of job seekers and employees consider diversity and inclusion when sizing up potential employers, she says.
	Oh yeah?
	I think they're probably sizing up the company of, will I be fired for not becoming retarded on purpose?
	Do I fit any of their categories?
	Well, no, I mean, it's even if you don't fit the categories.
	Like, now you have to believe a load of nonsense.
	I don't really want to work somewhere where I have to do that.
	There was the Sam Bankman-Fried guy who recently was doing some sort of Twitter DM interview with a journo, and the journo just published the DMs, and he's like, yeah, well, we all lie about the woke shibboleths in order to make everyone like us, and so we get into the club.
	It's all a big lie.
	We all know it's a big lie.
	This is like the Catholic Church before the schism.
	You're just openly selling indulgences.
	Savvy companies need to embed dye in every stage of their employee life cycle.
	I love how they talk about us like we're bugs.
	Including separations.
	She writes...
	A company that has invested time, money, and effort into building an inclusive culture does not want to have its employer brand story compromised.
	Oh, not my employer brand story.
	No, but a threat is all that is.
	You don't want to have it compromised, do you?
	I'll go on Twitter.
	I'll say you were a racist.
	You have no power here anymore.
	And more importantly...
	Sports is going down.
	Yeah.
	The last thing a company genuinely committed to inclusion wants is to communicate is that its leadership targets marginalized talent in the layoff process.
	Is it?
	They're still talking like the mob.
	Yeah.
	Like, you don't want to harm us.
	We'll take you down.
	You don't want it communicated that you're targeting marginalised people.
	It'd be a shame if something would have happened.
	Exactly.
	It'd be a shame if someone posted that on social media, wouldn't it?
	She says, considering demographics when determining which roles to eliminate.
	When was the last time you watched Fight Club?
	I don't think I have, actually.
	Still never got around to it.
	My god.
	Okay, don't worry.
	The reference will be lost on you.
	But just the point here of like...
	How do you not watch Fight Club?
	In Zoomers.
	Other things to do.
	But she says that you should start eliminating people based on demographics.
	So we know where this is going.
	If you recently hired diverse talent to increase your pipeline...
	I just can't get over that.
	Yuckamagamur sounds human compared to this crap.
	And then decide on the last hired first fired policy you're likely to disproportionately impact women and people of colour.
	That's so revealing.
	That is so revealing, isn't it?
	It's like, well look, the financial engine, the economic engine of the company are the oldest people and who are they?
	Well, they're going to be mostly white men.
	The company was successful until we did something.
	Something happened in the 1990s.
	And then the company became unsuccessful.
	So we're firing all the people that made it unsuccessful.
	Oh my god, that affects women and people.
	And that means we're racist and sexist.
	Yeah, Netflix found this out.
	Netflix recently took this approach and was rightly criticised when it came to light that they were reducing many workers with marginalised identities.
	There's no money being made anymore.
	But the skinny white tech nerds, they're just fine.
	Yeah.
	We recently consulted with a startup that tried to be fair when it conducted its layoffs.
	Oh yeah.
	This is a beautiful story.
	Oh.
	Rather than making decisions at the top, company leaders delegated the decisions to whom to lay off to managers in an effort to empower them.
	We're not gonna...
	God, that sounds like a pass in the book, doesn't it?
	Yeah, I mean, number one is lack of duty.
	But they wanted to...
	They listed it as in, it's like, well, upon high, we would just fire brown people because we're all racist.
	So we've handed it off to the managers who are not racist.
	We've given them anti-racist training.
	The net results, she asks, the layoff list included a significant number of employees of colour.
	The leaders were astonished when they discovered why.
	Within each group, the numbers weren't skewed, but they added up across the organization, and the company went from being relatively diverse to increasingly white and male.
	Now, all I'm saying is, who's doing all the real work?
	Eh?
	You tell me!
	If that's your example of, like, there was a really successful company, it had all these white men, then they diversified, then it became unsuccessful, so they fired all the diversity and now they're white and male again.
	Every goddamn time.
	Revealed preferences would indicate that certain demographics are doing more work than others.
	It seems to be the case from every HR department in America, so the solution is that that data is wrong.
	The solution is, you're a racist.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so she then goes on to say that we should design inclusive severance packages.
	Oh, brilliant.
	Of course you should.
	I've had enough.
	Anyway, we'll go to Elon having fun as well.
	This is an article from the New York Times.
	I don't know if this is your one that you mentioned.
	But there's a quote in here that's really relevant to what I'm saying, which is, quote, Twitter executives, during the layoffs...
	Also suggested addressing the lists for diversity and inclusion initiatives so that cuts would not hit people of colour disproportionately and to avoid legal trouble.
	Threats from the mob.
	And Elon Musk was like, I'm from South Africa.
	Yes.
	Mr Musk's team brushed aside the accusation.
	Where's my emerald mind?
	I'm not interested.
	We tried that.
	Mugabe?
	Not successful, turns out.
	Anyway, we've seen North, this African-American says.
	We'll get the next one here as well, because amazingly, the people who specialize in 72 genders, sorry, 97 genders, aren't very useful.
	This is from Liberty Take Top.
	We're just including some other stuff in relation to diversity inclusion, just to get a sense of what we're cutting, what we're losing out on.
	Can't believe this was so distant from the financial engine of the company.
	I didn't include this because there's a graph showing how many jobs have been laid off in tech.
	It's 50,000 this year alone.
	Excellent.
	50,000.
	Excellent.
	Anyway, learn to code.
	Let's take a look at this.
	The application for transgender San Francisco residents to receive guaranteed income has 97 gender options.
	Right, it's Libs of TikTok, and if you click on the left one, you can see it there.
	It's all blurry, probably, for people at home, because there's just so goddamn many.
	If you scroll down, there's some more tweets from her, where she says, these are all the pronoun options for the new government program as well.
	There you are.
	We have she, her, hers, he, him, his.
	Alright, those are the pronouns.
	No pronouns, just name.
	They, them, theirs, so we're into schizophrenia already.
	It, it, is, co, co, coz, z, z, z, z, z.
	And then they're just not listed at the bottom.
	You could have just skipped all of that and just had not listed.
	Here's the...
	Well, I don't want to miss anyone.
	It would be rude.
	Okay, all of the made-up ones, who cares about those?
	It's the it.
	Like, reducing yourself literally to a non-living object.
	Oh, yeah.
	I mean, that's way weirder than making up E-M-ers.
	No, but, okay.
	I mean, it's all...
	Making up make-believe ones, fine.
	Really?
	No, no.
	It's stupid and childish, right?
	But to literally dehumanize yourself into an inanimate object...
	I respect that.
	That's some honesty.
	I suppose.
	Yeah.
	I'm literally an NPC that gets programmed.
	You should call me It.
	Yeah.
	I got nothing against that.
	Keep it up.
	That should be the thrill, frankly.
	I mean, that's just so awful.
	Are you It, Him, Her, and It?
	There you are.
	Yeah.
	That would simplify it.
	That's not the worst one, though.
	I don't know if you saw it.
	Matt Walsh put out the, you can identify as F-sexual, is what I'm going to call it.
	Yeah, it rhymes with...
	Yeah, well, it's a...
	Laggot.
	A bundle of sticks sexual.
	Yeah, this is real.
	You can go check out yourself.
	If you're signing up for government welfare in San Francisco, you can identify as F-sexual.
	God, sometimes I do wish I lived in San Francisco.
	San Francisco.
	Come on, the people who program that.
	I'd have such a funny profile.
	There's so many gamer words.
	You know when you're watching TV adverts, or even YouTube adverts, and you don't think about it, but someone had to sit down and actually make what you're watching.
	It's a team of people that thought about it.
	And then when you watch TV adverts, you know how you think it's a random order made by a computer?
	No, someone actually had to sit and stitch together each one of those in an order, and schedule them for each day on each channel.
	It's a person's job.
	A human being sat down and wrote all of this.
	How many F-sexual people do we have?
	I don't know, but someone got paid.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that's the thing.
	Probably a team of people.
	And they've now all lost their jobs.
	Cool.
	Anyway.
	BDSM is a sexual orientation.
	No, it's not.
	I'm leather sexual.
	That's not what that is.
	It's the man in the dog suit is telling you.
	But a sexual orientation is which gender are you attracted to?
	BDSM is not a gender.
	Like sexual...
	Yeah, well, that makes sense.
	Yeah, I suppose that vaguely makes sense.
	I think that's a subsection of the lesbian community.
	Yeah, so it's very specific.
	But at least it refers to a kind of gender.
	But, I mean, either way, I mean, this is what the West has occupied itself with.
	I mean, when we talk about the West, I keep making this point because it's just true, and I need more of the writers to accept it, which is, you think of the West, oh, yes, free speech and liberty and liberalism.
	No, it's on God.
	It's this crap.
	And when you think of the West, I mean, like, we run on a private company basis, as in, like, that's how our world is orientated, because we live in the real world, not communism, at least.
	And, well, the major tech companies, this is their bread and butter.
	This is what the West looks like.
	This is what they do all day, every day.
	To the entire foreigners of the globe.
	And we're keeping it up because we're all going to Qatar, lads.
	One thing just before we go on is just to remember, right?
	Elon walked in and on day one fired half the company and the service didn't change.
	No, I've not really had any difference.
	No.
	They're very fair checkmarks, even though it includes complete randos, are just as retarded as ever.
	Yeah, but the service was exactly the same.
	Yeah.
	But I mean, have you seen some of the verifieds?
	Oh, the service is worse now.
	The verifieds are more messy.
	They're all idiots anyway.
	Well, I mean, yeah.
	I've seen them complaining about that, but that's not the same thing.
	It's the only thing that's changed.
	Yeah, but the ability to access the service has been completely the same.
	It's just carried on as normal, and half the people are no longer there.
	It shows they were not necessary in any way, shape, or form for the running of the company.
	But that's what I mean.
	Zero has changed except that verified service.
	Even though it's changed nothing in real terms.
	Anyway, let's go to the Qatar, because we are taking our ideology abroad.
	Sorry, just to mention as well, some breaking fake news.
	Study shows that kids who are homeschooled could miss out on an opportunity to become a gay communist.
	That is true.
	Bringing the real news, Babylon Bee.
	Anyway, we'll go to the Daily Mail with Qatar, because we are bringing it over there.
	There you have it.
	It's zero one to the Germans already.
	Yeah, I was going to cover this on Monday as well.
	Three Lions Pride logo on the World Cup plane is dwarfed by Germany's diversity wins embezzled on their plane.
	Except when it doesn't win.
	The Western nations are currently having a dick measuring contest.
	About who's the gayest.
	Well, yeah, I mean, who's the most intersectional?
	It's got nothing to do with even being gay.
	That's the thing.
	And we'll go to the UK with our entrance.
	Come on, boys.
	Where's the gay?
	Find it.
	This is a pretty hard one.
	This is a Spot Waldo situation.
	Wally.
	I can't see it.
	Was the word rainbow at the end separated by space because we wouldn't want to be offensive to our Arab hosts?
	I don't think rainbows are actually offensive to Arabs.
	No, no, but it's subversive.
	It's done on purpose.
	On his shoes, there's a little stripe.
	Oh, I can't see it.
	Like a Nike stripe.
	Okay.
	Literally impossible to see.
	Little rainbow stripe.
	Yeah, so that's our effort.
	Poor showing.
	Germany's got one up that.
	Oh, yeah.
	We also had something else, though.
	If we go to the next one here, we have some armbands.
	Of course, the fake intersectional armbands, to be warned.
	Like, Nazi armbands, but yeah.
	We can't wear the real ones, because they're banned by the Arabs.
	Shame.
	We'll go to the Yankees.
	The Yankees have a very good entrance.
	They redesigned their logo, of course.
	How embarrassing is this?
	They include black and brown people of colour.
	All I'm seeing is swastikas.
	That's all I'm seeing with this.
	Yeah, well, it's entirely political, as we mentioned.
	I mean, do go check out the intellectual podcast if you don't know what we're talking about.
	It's 100%.
	But Germany did win.
	They went all out.
	You go to the next one here.
	Just look at it.
	Diversity wins.
	Written in English.
	Not in German.
	Yeah.
	Or in Arabic.
	No, and then a selection of people.
	Who are they virtue signaling to?
	Various ethnic groups.
	I don't know how many Germans, but all holding arms.
	Yeah, there you are.
	What an embarrassment.
	What a terrible embarrassment that is.
	Okay, Germany.
	I know you're sorry for the genocide, but you've done enough, I feel.
	What have the Africans got to do with it?
	Quite a few on your side, actually.
	We'll hide those photos.
	Anyway, I'm just glad that all of this is dying, at least.
	On the government front, it's still there, but on the private sector front, the religion's dead.
	Presumably, it will extend to the government eventually.
	So, good news, lads.
	Fingers crossed.
	So that was the good news.
	Back to our regular scheduled programming.
	Back to the regular scheduled programming about the collapse of the West.
	So, I've recently finished a book called The Concept of Representation by Hannah Pitkin.
	I finished doing, like, a study on it, so I've got all the notes, and I'm going to do a book club on it coming soon.
	But after doing this, and going through this philosophical examination of what the concept of representation means, I've just realized that, okay, we are in no way being represented.
	Now, you could have been quite flippant and gone, well, anyone could have seen that.
	But actually, it gets kind of worse the more you look at it and the deeper you look into it.
	And the more you break apart the concept of representation and say, well, in this way, in this way, in that way, in the other way, you realize that almost in none of these ways are you being represented in politics.
	So we're at the point where we actually can't really justify calling ourselves a representative democracy.
	We're in fact an unrepresentative democracy.
	And even that democracy part is slightly in question because, I mean, the vote just keeps getting overturned with someone like Rishi Sunak, who I'm going to use as an example throughout this segment.
	It's just kind of depressing, to be honest, to realize that actually, yeah, nothing about this has anything to do with me.
	Anyway.
	I mean, literally a monarchy in which the king is at least one of yours, even if he's a tyrant, would be closer?
	Yes.
	And you'll notice this.
	You've had people like David Mitchell writing The Guardian.
	You know what?
	Have all of the unelected people in charge?
	I'd like to go back to the king being in charge.
	In The Guardian.
	David Mitchell.
	Because he's English.
	It's because he's English.
	And because he would feel more represented by King Charles.
	And I think a lot of people actually would...
	You saw the bump in his popularity when he became king.
	It's like...
	Like, Parliament is super unpopular.
	And for good reason.
	And anyway, so, before we go on, go and check out this hangout that Callum and I did about Europe's only indigenous people, who are the Sami.
	I don't know there are indigenous people in Europe.
	Foreign invaders of Northern Scandinavia are the only indigenous people.
	Who could possibly need representation in Europe?
	Because there's just simply no indigenous population here at all.
	Anyway, so let's begin with this picture.
	And this picture's been doing around...
	Just look at it.
	Just look at it.
	Look at how happy Rishi Sunak is telling his story.
	Justin Trudeau, his boss, Klaus Schwab.
	I mean, this is at the G20 summit.
	What's Klaus Schwab doing there?
	You know why he's there.
	I know why he's there, but I want people to articulate to themselves why.
	Why is this guy who's never been elected to any office at a meeting of 20 world leaders?
	It's because there's no world government summits or anything, Kyle.
	There's nothing like that going on.
	Exactly.
	He is unironically there because he, for example, is penetrating the Canadian government with Justin Trudeau and the New Zealand government with Justin Ardern and various others.
	And the Dutch and the Argentinian.
	And all these others, right?
	He's got like a Pokemon card list.
	Exactly.
	And just look at them.
	Just look at them.
	What's the badge for?
	Who knows?
	In what way do you feel that any of these people represent you or your interests?
	Exactly, you've got no connection to them whatsoever.
	Yeah, me and Schwab, so much in common.
	But who does Rishi speak for?
	Schwab.
	Who does he make present with his presence?
	Because this is what the word representation means.
	So just as a quick history, in the English-speaking language of how representation came to be used in a political sense, originally, representation in the early Middle Ages would be used for art.
	I will represent in my drawing of an apple, an apple, as in to re-present something that is absent.
	So to take something that you know is not there and to figuratively, but not literally, make it present and act.
	So, you know, to give an impression of the thing, right?
	And so, okay, it makes sense in arts.
	And then in the church, they would say that the Pope and the Cardinals represent Christ and his apostles on the earth.
	And so then you've got the kind of abstract representation, but they're not necessarily acting for.
	It's almost like a theatre play.
	And that's another way that it was used.
	To represent a set of events.
	And it was only in the 17th century, leading up to the English Civil War, that Parliament had eventually come to become considered to be a representative body.
	As in, the collection of knights and burgesses from around the nation were brought to the Parliament initially to answer the King's summons so he could be like, I'm taxing you, I'm taxing you, I'm taxing you.
	And they would have to take this information back to their constituencies or their communities.
	And eventually it became apparent that, hang on, we can use this mechanism to send messages to the king through the night of the Burgess who was going on our behalf.
	And eventually the parliamentarians started calling themselves members of parliament and gained a kind of class consciousness about, hang on a second, that means we could collectively say no.
	And we're a recreation of the entire nation.
	Exactly.
	That actually comes with Enlightenment ideology.
	So at this point, they're not a recreation of the nation.
	But they realize, well, hang on a second, we can actually say no.
	And so it's at the beginning, leading up to the English Civil War, where the class consciousness gains so much power, it realizes it can overthrow the king, the term representation starts taking on this distinctly political term.
	And then after the English Civil War and into the 18th century, when it comes up to the American Revolution, you of course get no taxation without representation.
	To make me re-present, to serve my interests and to make sure that I have a say at the table.
	And so, look at this.
	In what way do you feel that you are made present in this conversation with Rishi Sunak being there?
	That's a great point.
	No taxation without representation.
	How are you being represented?
	In no way at all, right?
	And this is why I went and did this book, because you hear the term representation being thrown around all the time by leftists, but no one ever takes the time to explain what representation actually means.
	This is why this book club on it will be useful, right?
	So let's begin with Rishi Sunak, right?
	He is the MP from Richmond, North Yorkshire.
	Well, he speaks for the Yorkshire Action.
	Yeah, that's right.
	According to the...
	He don't.
	For anyone who's wondering, he doesn't.
	He is not very representative.
	Because there are lots of different ways of addressing representation, right?
	So first of all, you've got formal representation, which is to...
	This is kind of Thomas Hobbes' sense, as in the absolute sovereign represents the entire nation and everything within it, in all times and all places.
	It's like, yeah, so there's this kind of formal political representation that he's at the top of a hierarchy of power.
	Okay, well that's true in a way, but that doesn't really say anything, and it doesn't mean that the person doing the representing has any obligations to the people below them.
	They don't do anything.
	I do whether you like it or not, is what Thomas Hobbes is saying.
	And then you've got another type, which is kind of descriptive representation, as in he appears to be something, like a sample of that thing.
	So if I'm like, right, get me an apple, and you get me an apple, right, this apple is representative of most apples, yeah, it will be.
	You know, it'll be an apple, right?
	Then you've got other ways.
	You've got substantive representation.
	So the person is acting in your interests.
	So they don't have to look like you or even have any particular formal qualifications or authority.
	But if there's someone who's acting in your interests, as in what you would do if you were there...
	Your lawyer.
	Your lawyer.
	Exactly.
	An attorney, a representative in some way like that.
	Exactly.
	And that particular brand comes from the legal system.
	And then you've got symbolic representation, as in waving a flag.
	Didn't see any British flag on Rishi there, did you?
	You know?
	Didn't see any symbolic representation going on there, you know?
	So, anyway.
	He was wearing a badge for someone.
	Exactly.
	Don't know what it was, though, right?
	So, anyway.
	So, going on to Richmond, North Yorkshire, right?
	So, in the 2011 census, the 2021 census is partially out, and we'll get into it in a minute, right?
	So, in 2011, 95% of the population identified as white British, otherwise being English.
	So 95.8% were English.
	This is a small English town, right?
	The next biggest group being Europeans.
	The next biggest group being Europeans, as 1.4% are the white.
	Half of them would have been Irish.
	1.1% is Asian or Asian-British, and 0.8% is Black, Afro-Caribbean, or Black-British.
	Right, so...
	Descriptively, Rishi Sinek isn't really capable of representing Richmond.
	Descriptively, he doesn't look like the average Richmond man.
	It's a conversation we would have in any reverse situation, which is that you need to have...
	Where are the diversity representations?
	Yes, but in the reverse, the conversation cannot be had.
	Where's the majority representation, is the question, right?
	And Richmond is, of course, an incredibly old constituency, right?
	The reason that Rishi Sunak is in Richmond, parachuted in...
	Well, his family goes back to the 1850s, don't they?
	Anglo-Indians?
	No, they...
	Well, we'll get to it in a minute, actually.
	No, I mean in Yorkshire.
	No, not in Yorkshire, no.
	He doesn't go back to any amount of time in Yorkshire.
	But this borough first started voting Conservative in 1886, and they've held it continuously since 1929.
	Rishi got 63% of the vote last election.
	So it's the safest of safe seats for Conservatives.
	And so if we go to 2021...
	Him getting the vote there almost means nothing.
	You could put John Fetterman there with a Conservative berry.
	Yeah, you could.
	You absolutely could.
	Literally, the population there just unthinkingly vote for the Conservative Party.
	And they just always have and probably always will because they're retards.
	But if you go to the next one, I think it's the next one, the foreign-born population, John Fetterman.
	This is from the 2021 census.
	I won't make you go through it because you'll have to dig around to find it.
	But what do you think Richmond's foreign-born population in 2021 was?
	After 10 years, it earned millions and millions and millions of new immigrants.
	Even the average of the country is 16%.
	So let's say 5?
	8%.
	Half the average for the entire country.
	So 92% of Richmond was born in Britain.
	You'd have to work hard to find a foreigner, an immigrant in Richmond.
	So where's Rishi from?
	Well, he was born in 1980 in Southampton General Hospital.
	Great Yorkshire.
	A bit far from Yorkshire, aren't you, Rishi?
	What's going on there?
	I don't think you can get much further from Yorkshire.
	I mean, it's literally as far down as it goes, right?
	Maybe, like, St.
	Ives?
	Yeah, yeah, I mean, you'd be somewhere in Cornwall, right?
	And he was born to Southeast African-born Hindu parents of Indian Punjabi descent, Yashvir and Usha Sunak.
	So these are the Indian administrators of the British Empire who have come back to Britain on the dissolution of the British Empire, right?
	So, again, not your average Yorkshireman, right?
	He attended Stroud School in Winchester College.
	He was head boy there.
	He was a waiter in a curry house in Southampton.
	He was a waiter in a curry house in Southampton.
	Average Yorkshire growing up story.
	He did politics, philosophy, and economics at Lincoln College, Oxford, like most Yorkshiremen do.
	And then he went on to get an MBA from Stanford University.
	Where he's a Fulbright Scholar.
	Just average Yorkshire life.
	His paternal grandfather was from Gurjranwala, which is in present-day Pakistan, whereas his paternal grandfather was from Lodhaina, Both cities at the time were in Punjab province, British India.
	Part of Greater Yorkshire, I hear.
	Yeah, yeah, part of Greater Yorkshire, yeah.
	And his father was born and raised in the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya as a general GP in the NHS. His mum was a pharmacist and owner of pharmacy in Southampton and has a degree from Aston University.
	So just average Yorkshireman.
	Chad's just going, hashtag just Yorkshire things.
	Yeah, yeah, just typical Yorkshire things.
	And so, okay, so descriptively...
	He doesn't really fit the description of an average Yorkshireman.
	But I mean, maybe there are other ways that he could represent them.
	Maybe he's similar in income, perhaps.
	Maybe the average Yorkshire income is something like 700 million a year.
	Who knows?
	Well, I mean, actually, we can look it up and it turns out it's 27,000 a year, which is slightly above average, actually.
	Damn, I had delusions.
	Yeah, and so, I mean, you've got that, and you go to Rishi Sunak's net worth.
	It's reportedly 730 million pounds as of 2022, because, well, for lots of reasons actually, but partially because he married the daughter of an Indian billionaire called Narayana Murthy, who's an Indian tech billionaire.
	So, you know, average Yorkshire things, just what you do in Yorkshire.
	They also own a six story holiday apartment in California worth $7 million.
	Like most people in Yorkshire, yeah.
	And of course he gets £150,000 a year as an MP and Chancellor.
	So why not?
	That's more of a Manchester thing.
	Yes.
	But yeah, so typical, right?
	And then after he went to Stanford, he came back to the UK, worked as an analyst for Goldman Sachs, Typical.
	Just...
	Small town's job.
	You know, you work...
	How hard are we going to hit this point?
	You've got to say...
	No, no, you've got to understand that Richmond, North Yorkshire, is a company town.
	And that company is Goldman Sachs.
	Everyone works there.
	It's like Bourneville, right?
	It's just like...
	Your son gets an internship.
	Exactly.
	You've got nowhere else to work, you know, in Richmond.
	You've got nowhere else to work.
	It's like the mines in Wales.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's just a company town, right?
	Father worked at Goldman Sachs and his father and his father before him...
	Yeah, and in 2001, he joined a hedge fund management firm, and then he became a partner of that company in 2006.
	And then in 2013, he went to work for other venture firms that were owned by his father-in-law, just as normal Yorkshire business goes.
	And then he ends up becoming an MP. Never mind Yorkshire, none of this applies to anywhere in the country either.
	Exactly, right?
	So not only is he not representative of Yorkshire, he's not really representative of the English experience of the world at all, right?
	So who does he represent?
	Well, I mean, I guess then we have to fall back on formal representation.
	At least the Conservatives voted him to the leadership of the party.
	Because they didn't, actually.
	Never mind the public.
	I mean, no one's asking the public.
	Yeah.
	So he gets parachuted into the safest seat, becomes an MP. He's like, hey, I'm going to backstab Boris, and I'm going to try and become Prime Minister.
	And I was like, I would rather a literal potato than you, Rishi Sunak.
	So a potato was put in charge.
	So Liz Truss won two-thirds of the vote in the Conservative membership, by the way.
	So, you know, literally demolished him.
	It wasn't even close.
	Demolished Rishi Sunak.
	Then, of course, the globalist wing of the Conservative Party were like, well, we need our guy in charge.
	And so she was ousted.
	And, of course, then Sunak was, and I love this, selected to replace Liz Truss.
	Yeah, that's a great way of putting it.
	Selected is correct.
	It's absolutely the right terminology, because that's it.
	And you may remember that a lot of the leftists were like, well, we found a clip of Rishi Sinek when he was young, going like, I have friends who are aristocrats, I have friends who are upper class, I have friends who, you know, work in class.
	And he goes, well, not working class.
	But yeah, of course he doesn't.
	How could he?
	Well, he meant the more golden sacks.
	Well, maybe, yeah, yeah.
	That's where he picked up George Jackson, you know.
	So he's not voted for by the electorate.
	He's voted for by people who literally just vote for the Conservatives, because idiots.
	And he wasn't voted for by the Conservative Party, and now he's the Prime Minister.
	And now he's swanning around with Justin Trudeau and Klaus Schwab.
	And I haven't got the clip, actually, but did you see the clip of him on the phone to Zelensky?
	Oh, God.
	Oh, God, it was embarrassing.
	People haven't seen it, you should.
	Just type in Sinek Trudeau-Zelensky and you'll find it.
	Yeah, it's embarrassing.
	And they're like, oh, we're really fighting for you, Zelensky.
	We've brought it up.
	We've brought up that a missile hit Poland.
	I was like...
	All right.
	Thanks, bro.
	I mean, imagine even from Zelensky's perspective, you'd be like, oh, you've brought it up.
	Oh, that's wonderful.
	Thanks.
	Yeah.
	Get me more billions.
	At least send me a gun.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Anyway, so then when Rishi Sunak was installed as Prime Minister in the Kingdom, he posted this on his Twitter profile, you know, whoever manages his Twitter profile.
	And brilliant.
	Let's just see the text second, right?
	Brilliant to drop in on tonight's Diwali reception number 10.
	Typical Yorkshire holiday.
	Diwali.
	Old, really old Yorkshire tradition.
	Well, we have it as a national holiday in England because so many of us do it.
	Exactly.
	It goes back to, I think, 750?
	Something like that.
	I will do everything I can, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	But then click on the image, bring the image up.
	So thinking about representation as the making present of something that is otherwise absent, because that's what representation means, what is being made present here?
	Hinduism?
	Yes.
	Indian culture.
	India is being made present in number 10 through a Shisanax display.
	I mean, there is a reason why the Indians were so happy.
	We'll get to that.
	So, the question then, oh, I mean, how's Britain going to be governed since we've now got an Indian Prime Minister?
	So, well, according to Hindu principles, basically.
	What?
	Typical average, average auction man runs his life according to Hindu principles.
	There's obviously an Indian chap who'd written this in The Spectator.
	All right.
	Well, I mean, don't go wrong.
	They're like, on the good side, like, you know, Hinduism isn't about having a victim mentality and playing to identity politics.
	Oh, brilliant.
	Yeah, well, you know, it's not Bangladesh.
	No, it's not.
	You know, so as things go, it could be worse.
	So you could argue there's a kind of inflection of substantive representation there.
	Maybe he'll make money and be conservative.
	Maybe.
	The Indians do make more than the British in England.
	They do.
	They do very well.
	But the point is, though, I mean, just listen to this, right?
	It was also at Diwali two years ago that it became clear to the world that Sinek was a practicing Hindu.
	He was photographed lighting candles outside number 11.
	It took me back to my life at home in the 1960s when my mother lit lamps and made rangoli on the doorstep of our semi-detached house in Hounslow.
	We were the only Indian family in the street and the decoration marked us out as different.
	That's interesting, isn't it?
	Different.
	Here is something different.
	Here is something that has come from somewhere else that is not shared by the majority of the population.
	And now it is what is being represented in 10 Downing Street.
	Difference.
	That's how they describe it.
	Not the people here.
	Exactly.
	What are they representing here?
	It's very concerning, right?
	And he's like, never would I have believed back then that a Prime Minister would be lighting Deer Wiley candles in Downing Street with a shrine inside No.
	10.
	Yeah, it sounds kind of crazy when you start laying out like that, doesn't it?
	It sounds, in fact...
	A bit concerning.
	But anyway, so who's thrilled by Rishi Sunak being installed in number 10 and having his Diwali there?
	Well, Indians.
	Well, that's weird, isn't it?
	Because you'd think the British public would be like, great, we've got an economic Jedi, as he was described.
	I'm not even joking.
	It was described that way by the Times, I think it was.
	The regime calls itself good.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But you think the British is probably like, okay, great.
	But no, it's the Indians that are thrilled.
	Rishi Sunak, a proud Hindu, is the new UK PM, writes India's biggest English daily, Times of India.
	The story mentions the word Hindu five times.
	Being Hindu in 10 Downing Street chimes India today, adding that Sunak got the job in the UK despite being Hindu, not because of it.
	I mean, that is true, but he got the job in the UK because he was a Goldman Sachs banker.
	Like, that's the reason he's got the job.
	He wasn't voted for.
	It wasn't the British public like, yeah, we're really tolerant.
	We're going to vote for the Indian guy.
	Because, I mean, I think they would do that, actually, to be honest.
	If the right candidate came along who was Indian, it was just like, yeah, no, we're going to make Britain great.
	If you would represent the British interests.
	Interests, exactly.
	By the way, I'm Hindu.
	Yeah, I don't care.
	Yeah, but I love Britain and I'm going to make Britain amazing.
	I'd be like, okay, great.
	You know, it'd be literally like the Priti Patel sort of, um, what's-her-face, um...
	Nigerian woman?
	Oh, Kemi Badenoch.
	That's it.
	Kemi Badenoch situation.
	Where it's like, look, we're just going to make this a good country and everything's going to be great.
	Like, okay, great.
	Do it.
	I don't care.
	As long as you're acting in my interests.
	As long as you're not Catholic.
	Exactly.
	That's a joke.
	But then you get more.
	Sunak, ex-India company set to run Britain, says the Indian Telegraph.
	Okay.
	That's weird to start getting these colonial references.
	Another one said, another Dilwali gift to the nation.
	Indian origin Rishi to rule the whites.
	Who is being represented here?
	What is being made present here?
	Who's thinking, oh, I'm being made present?
	Asharka's great-great-aunt, maybe?
	To rule the whites.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	So, moving on.
	Another Indian person was like, oh, well, from India's point of view, this is a dream come true.
	That's nice.
	Yeah.
	I'm glad we exist for that purpose.
	Yeah.
	That's all the history of England has ever been.
	Let's get some more Indian takes, shall we?
	The former Bihar State Governor Chief Secretary, M.A. Ibrahimi, tweeted, Revenge of history as well.
	It's revenge.
	Another Twitter user, Ranjan Kumar, who described herself as a banker, joked, Reverse colonization.
	Joked.
	Hmm.
	So returning to this image at the start, what's being made present here?
	Are any English people being like, there's our guy, sticking it to the globalists, insular England?
	He's routinely defending our interests and our interests only as he hands over a billion dollars to Pakistan.
	I mean, that's a betrayal of India, but it's a thing for the globalists.
	But the Indians are thrilled.
	Right, so when it comes to...
	You've got them, Klaus Schwab, and who?
	Biden?
	Biden was happy about it, I guess.
	Yeah.
	Even though he called him Rashid Sunuk.
	Yeah, but Biden because he just hates British people.
	So he views it as Indian domination of Britain, right?
	Because he's a senile old racist.
	I don't think Sunak really thinks like this or anything like that.
	I don't think Sunak's like, yeah, great, India's now conquered Britain, right?
	No, he's a self-loving rich man.
	Exactly.
	He's a rootless cosmopolitan, right?
	I think Rishi's Indian-ness is pretty thin, to be honest.
	But the point is, who does he represent?
	Who does this represent?
	What do our politics represent now?
	Well, whatever that badge is.
	Exactly.
	Because Sinek does not descriptively represent the British people, let alone the people of Richmond.
	He doesn't look like them.
	He doesn't live like them.
	He doesn't believe like them.
	He isn't even interested in their interests.
	He doesn't know any of them.
	I don't know any working class people.
	Well, his mansion, he's got one mansion in Yorkshire, one in London and one in America.
	And the one in Yorkshire has a huge swimming pool that's heated 24-7.
	Just like most Yorkshire people.
	Most people can't really shrug to keep their heat on at all this winter.
	That's stupid.
	They've got 24-hour heated pools, those people in Yorkshire.
	They're all doing great.
	If it's a swimming pool in Yorkshire, you have to be a lunatic.
	Well, that's why you need it 24 hours heated, don't you?
	Yeah, but imagine having a swimming pool in your backyard in Yorkshire.
	You are mad.
	So when it comes to descriptive representation, what he is, is not like the average Yorkshireman or the average Englishman, really.
	So symbolically, what does he represent?
	Well, the Indians think he symbolically represents India.
	They very much took this as a symbolic representation of Indian power and dominance if their responses are anything to go by.
	Finally, an Indian is ruling the white man.
	Quote.
	I mean, Kim Jong-un does, unironically, represent Koreans more than this dude represents us.
	Yes.
	In multiple ways, actually.
	They have no democracy.
	That doesn't matter.
	No, no, you don't need a democracy to have representation.
	And as we're seeing, you can have a democracy and not have representation.
	And so the question then is, does he substantively represent the sort of insular British interests?
	I'm going to say no.
	You know, I don't think anyone would have voted for him to pal around with Trudeau and the WEF, raise taxes, increase immigration, all these other things that the Conservative Party have done that everyone hated.
	I don't see how they in any way substantively represent British interests.
	And so the most Sunak can do, really, is claim that he formally represents because he is in the official position of Prime Minister.
	So there we go.
	He's basically reduced to the lowest and thinnest kind of representation, which is Hobbes' representative in the absolute sovereign, who is because he is.
	And that's the only way in which he technically is the representative of Britain.
	But in no way does he really represent Britain.
	So if you're feeling that we live in a representative democracy, well, I don't really agree, actually.
	We live in some kind of democracy, but it doesn't represent you, does it?
	100% true.
	It's an interesting point as well, because we never think about that topic.
	No.
	Like, you see endlessly people talk about the glories of representative democracy.
	No one ever actually defines what that would even look like.
	No one ever explores the concept of representation.
	And then when you do, you realise, well, hang on a second.
	A, the leftists have kind of a point in the concept of representation.
	And we are definitely the fringe majority.
	Wait, we shall move on to the beginning of the end.
	Oh, brilliant.
	Speaking of cynic, it is the beginning of the end, at least I'm hoping for the Conservative Party, as the beginning of the end was announced by Nigel Farage of Boris Johnson when he was caught partying.
	It was a good prediction, actually.
	Yep, 100%.
	I'm now looking at maybe this is the beginning of the end of the Conservatives.
	Which is a big claim, considering they're able to survive, apparently, nuclear blasts.
	Well, they're older than the average giant tortoise, so good.
	Yeah, it's amazing.
	But we'll start off just with a plug from the website, being the second birthday hangout we did.
	It's fun.
	Which, it's been a bit annoying, though, over those two years, to have a look and just watch so much opportunity being wasted.
	God, it's so insufferable, isn't it?
	By the Conservative Party.
	And it's just madness.
	I mean, even the things that were written in black and white of we will do this, they didn't do.
	Yeah.
	Their own manifesto.
	Straight out the window.
	Yeah, and basically, well, that's all dead, because we don't have even a democracy, never mind a representative democracy.
	So, no, poo-poo that.
	Instead, we have some installed guy and his mates, and, well, they rule the country now, and they have just decided to make their first big move.
	And I thought we'd go through it, because, holy crap, I can't think of a stupider thing to do than they did.
	If we scroll down on this, I don't know if you can get down to the graph, which just shows the, like, polling.
	I don't know if you can go to the right there so we can see the most recent stuff.
	But it's just the fact that you can see...
	Oh, that Sunak bump!
	Yeah, Sunak bump was...
	They've taken him to a whole 27%.
	That's because he doesn't represent anyone in this goddamn country.
	Everyone can see it.
	No.
	Not even slightly.
	Even the lunatic fringe Labour Party somehow represent the public more.
	Everyone recognizes they're mad, but it's like, well...
	Yeah.
	At least...
	At least we might vote for them, I guess.
	The Labour Party is A, full of English people, and B, full of idiots.
	Which I would say is quite fraudly representative of most people in this country.
	It's certainly the case that you do run into a lot of lunatics, and, well, there's a lot of them there.
	Anyway, the Conservatives are on 27%.
	If you scroll down just a little bit, you should be able to see.
	I think the only rightist group that isn't...
	I don't even know what to call the Conservatives rightists.
	You can see Reform there, bumping up.
	They're now, I think, the most recent ones on 9% of votes.
	Oh, good, good.
	Which is a huge for our system, because remember, it's first past the post.
	It's like America, except we now have a third party.
	In 2019, they were polling higher than the Conservatives, so it could happen again.
	Yeah, I think officially they are now polling the third biggest, sorry, fourth biggest party.
	They're just behind the Lib Dems.
	Okay, fingers crossed.
	If you vote Conservative, just don't, and vote Reform.
	None of this, like, oh, there are a million little, you know, no, no, we'll just go for Farage's party.
	He's the guy with the name.
	Let's do it.
	As much as I hate some of the things Faraj has done, I do have to end up agreeing.
	Because I don't trust them fully, but frankly I trust them.
	I have a lot more than the rando installed dictator.
	I expect them to do something that is at least vaguely based.
	Speaking of which...
	What have they been up to?
	So we'll go to the next link here, which is, here's inflation, lads, because yesterday or whatever, it was the budget, and this is the thing I'm going to just, like, this is the major moves they decided to make.
	It's like, right, so we don't represent any of you, so what are we doing, at least?
	How does this affect your interests?
	And, well, number one...
	So inflation since the tax year of 2020, so when COVID lockdown started, it's now 20.7% in total over that period of now.
	That is mad.
	So there you have that.
	Thanks, lads.
	Good job.
	Yeah, he's the most recent one.
	Well, he was in charge of the economy for all of that, so he is directly responsible, actually.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You're entirely correct.
	Never let that slide.
	And now in charge, we have the highest inflation on record, I think.
	So this is the ONS. This is the BBC summation of the ONS. But the ONS original graph here only goes back to the 90s, and it's the highest even in that graph.
	You have to go back to think, I think it's 1980s to find inflation higher than what we're currently living under.
	Or 70s, I forget which decade.
	It'll probably be the 70s under later.
	Yeah.
	If we go to the next one here, we now actually have something even worse though, which is we have the council tax going up to 5% without your vote.
	Just enjoy.
	So there we are.
	But that's not the only tax going up.
	All of them are going up.
	Name a tax.
	I'm not even joking.
	We now have officially the highest taxes since the country was literal rubble.
	So, going back quickly to the concept of representation, who voted for higher taxes?
	It wasn't in the bloody manifesto, was it?
	But also, what a situation.
	The country had been bombed by the Nazis to the point that it was made of dust, and it still had...
	That's the tax level we're at.
	I... I... The deeds are not good.
	Income tax is going up.
	Inheritance tax is going up.
	State pension tax, that's going up.
	There's national insurance there.
	Dividend tax, that's going up.
	So even if you train your stonks, too bad.
	Even if it's just a side gig.
	Corporation tax, that's now going up to 25%.
	It's 12.5% next door in Ireland.
	Well, I guess we're moving to Ireland.
	I just...
	It's half right next door.
	And they're like, yeah, well, I got 25.
	As if that's not going to disincentivise people.
	Speaking of which, before we went live, the GDP per capita in the UK now is just under 50 grand.
	We're still poorer than we were in 2008.
	Meanwhile, in Ireland, it's 100 grand.
	Double.
	Double what we are.
	Per capita.
	That's their GDP. And in between 2020 and 2021, they went up, like, 14 grand per person.
	It's just, like, we are now the Irish of these islands.
	It's frustrating revenge.
	We'll get the next one here, because, of course, they also decided to implement the Labour policy's policy of theft, which is a good policy, because it means...
	Oh, yeah, that makes perfect sense.
	Yeah, so they're deciding to steal all the energy companies' profits.
	Guys, guys, guys, we need growth.
	We need growth.
	What are we going to do?
	We're going to steal all their money.
	That's really going to incentivise them to make more money to get stolen.
	So anyone in this country will know for the last year or however long, the late party have been endlessly whining that, well, the energy companies are making money, so just steal it.
	And so they're doing this, and of course the energy companies are like, well, fair enough.
	Bye.
	No, they're putting up the price of energy.
	Of course they are.
	What do you think will happen?
	So no, the energy company's not losing anything.
	We're losing money.
	Your energy bill's going up.
	If you go to the next one here, you just see the immediate announcement after that.
	Like, we're going to steal the energy company's money.
	By the way, next thing, all your energy's going up.
	I'm not even joking.
	This is what happened in the chamber.
	And nobody went, what?
	What do you mean?
	Rishi Sunak, the economic Jedi, strikes again.
	Yep, the next one here.
	Not representing my interests, not representing me descriptively, not even symbolically representing me, they are just formally representing me.
	Because they are the ones in Parliament, and I am not.
	It's that simple.
	Because the British public are so stupid, it's to not vote Nigel Farage.
	That's what it is.
	Well, that's not even true, because we haven't really had an election since 2019, in which the conditions were different.
	True, fair.
	It's not the public's fault, and frankly, the public...
	It will be come the next election, though.
	If they vote Conservative, that will be true.
	Well, they'll vote Labour.
	Well, since then, I remember the statistics, what was it like?
	Seven out of ten of people who vote for Boris just aren't voting.
	And that's why the polls are so, like...
	But those people, yeah, not voting means you get more of this kind of policy from Labour.
	Well, yeah, you do actually have to vote, it doesn't matter.
	If you don't think it does...
	It doesn't very much matter.
	Bro, like, think of Brexit, think of when UKIP were like, what, 60% of the polls?
	You could see the fear on the establishment's face.
	And if it didn't matter, why would they be so afraid?
	Anyway, who are they deciding to stand for?
	Who are they representing in the government?
	Because you could argue, well, we had the lockdowns, and it was obviously a cock-up, to say the least.
	And, well, we're all paying for it now, you could argue.
	Well, someone has to pay for it.
	This wasn't all free.
	Yeah, it has to be us.
	Well, who's not going to pay for it, is the real question.
	Probably Rishi Sunak.
	Yeah, almost certainly, because of smart tax planning.
	But there's other people who won't be paying for it.
	Those who don't work won't be paying for it.
	Well, of course they won't be paying for it.
	They don't pay for anything.
	No, but even...
	So this is universal credit, so this is...
	It's broad, but it's basically...
	Of course that's going up.
	Of course that's going up.
	Benefit, shall we say, in the simplest possible terms for the international audience.
	And that's going up with inflation.
	Wages aren't.
	So the people who work will be paying for the lockdown against them, which helped them in no way, whereas those who didn't work, they're getting no problems whatsoever.
	They will have...
	I was looking forward to a nice weekend this weekend, Callum.
	Too bad, because also...
	This is really annoying me.
	Why didn't you start with this one and then end in the good news one?
	I'm evil.
	So we also locked down the country.
	Who was that for?
	Remember?
	It was for Grandma.
	Grandma and Grandad.
	Both my grandmothers died during the lockdowns.
	Not of COVID. So, did a good job, I'm sure.
	That's how they wanted to see the country go.
	They died of loneliness.
	No, but on their way out, I'm sure they wanted to see the whole country go.
	Oh yeah, they wanted to sacrifice their grandchildren's future for a couple more months of life, perhaps?
	No, funny enough.
	There's no way my grandparents would agree.
	Those who only rely on state pensions, so those who have no other possible income or just didn't plan for anything other than the state taking care of them, they won't be paying for it either.
	You know, I'm totally against state pensions these days.
	Yeah, I mean, this is the thing.
	Not because I know anything about the pension system.
	Out of malevolence.
	Well, my dad used to work in pensions.
	I know a little bit.
	Of people who live on state pensions, there's been a little bit of, let's say, anger about this.
	And it's not because people hate pensions.
	No, no.
	Of course not.
	Of all the people, pensioners ruin this country is not something anyone believes, for Christ's sake.
	No, we hate the government.
	But the state pension system obviously is a pyramid scheme.
	That's the way it's designed.
	There is actually no pot of money in which my national insurance contributions go into, and I will take out when I become 68, which is when I'll be retiring.
	There will be no money.
	Abolish the pension, and I'll take care of my parents, you take care of your parents, everyone takes care of their own parents, like it used to be.
	Well, the money doesn't...
	This is my point.
	There is no pot in which my contribution is going anywhere.
	They go into the government and they get immediately handed out to those who are currently retired.
	Exactly.
	That's the pyramid scheme.
	Yeah.
	And their children should be looking after them.
	So let's go back to it.
	Yeah.
	Like every country in Europe does have...
	And then that'll incentivize those childless millennials.
	Be like, well, hang on a second.
	No one's going to take care of me in the world.
	No, they're not.
	We have a civilization instead of a company for a country.
	Instead of a black hole of demography, you know?
	Yeah, but it's also just the point of, well, every country does have this pyramid scheme, and yeah, Britain's is the worst in Europe, I believe.
	Oh, brilliant.
	We give out the least.
	France is way worse.
	But their taxes are way higher as a result, so the pyramid scheme is not a good idea.
	This is the reason why...
	Let me take care of my own parents.
	Now, legally, if you're living in Britain and work, you have to have your own private pension through the company, because even the government realised pyramid schemes.
	Not a good idea, turns out.
	Pyramid schemes?
	Not sustainable.
	Took them until, like, 2018 to figure that one, but anyway.
	So yeah, but those who live just on, say, pensions, you won't have to pay a penny for the lockdowns, even though apparently it was mostly for you.
	So, not dig at you, but just good got.
	Like, you can see the reason some people live.
	But again, just another way in which you were not represented.
	Because if you'd polled the pensioners of this country...
	Were they for lockdown?
	Yeah, would you be for lockdown?
	There are going to be some consequences, but it might mean you're less likely to catch COVID. They'll be like, no, just give me COVID right now.
	In fact, there was the polling at the time, I believe.
	I bet it was.
	As long as she didn't ask you, Gulf.
	Anyway, Nigel Farage did a video in response to this announcement.
	And the reason I'm bringing this up as a topic is because, holy crap, man.
	Liz Truss was in charge for all of five minutes.
	Declared, how about some tax cuts?
	I was immediately removed.
	The pound fell.
	Economy went to hellscape.
	And this was clearly orchestrated.
	Whereas this dude comes in and says, highest taxes since Zavor.
	Huge regulation.
	Massive corporate income tax.
	And the pound dropped like a penny and then bounced back.
	Somehow that's good for them.
	Somehow that the global economic forum thought would be good and did not punish the country with.
	Do you see how this whole thing's a sham?
	Because Nigel Farage, this was his response, in which he titled it, Jeremy Hunt declares war on workers, which was correct, which is, you will pay for lockdown, and also openly just says to entrepreneurs in this video, leave.
	A British nationalist's advice to any entrepreneur in this country has got to the point of, leave.
	Don't stay here, for the love of Christ.
	You'd be an idiot too.
	I'm reminded of that Joker quote from, like, Heath Ledger, where he's like, you know, everyone goes crazy if there's no plan, but even when the plan's insane, everyone's fine.
	Something along those lines, you know.
	It's like, okay, the plan is, what, to impoverish us all and turn us into serfs of the West?
	Everyone's like, oh, thank God, the pound's back up.
	Are you kidding me?
	The city and Wall Street are like, yeah, that'll be fine.
	Yeah, and just the British public are like, okay, good.
	Some order, some stability.
	It's like, yeah, being We're going to be a slave!
	It's really...
	I don't think you...
	I think you're a bit too black-filled in the public.
	This really has not gone down well.
	Well, I tell...
	The public will have to impress me, frankly.
	Because they haven't impressed me any other time.
	That's true.
	The American public impressed me getting Trump in office.
	That was impressive.
	Yes.
	Boris was a known quantity.
	Here's the newest news from that, because there's, you know, the city and Wall Street's opinion on this, and the World Economic Forum, which is that...
	Pound up, because UK facing biggest falling living standards on record.
	Yeah.
	The plan is insane!
	Here's the reality, of course, which the BBC even had to admit in this article, which they published immediately after, which is like, so everything will get worse, but for some reason, those who control the economy haven't destroyed the country in response, in the same way they did with Liz.
	Yeah, for some reason, the people in charge are all fine with this.
	If you scroll down, there's a graph here which just shows that after the announcement, it's expected that household income is to fall in real terms at least 7%.
	So there you are.
	Thanks, lads.
	But weirdly, the economy did not collapse.
	It's almost like we know the rigors.
	Anyway, we'll go to the next one here because there's also the fact that we also decided to kneecap ourselves in this statement.
	Of course Jeremy Hunt chose to.
	So, highest taxes since Zavor, so our whole country was rubble and we needed the tax revenue, whereas now our whole country's not rubble, we still need to take that much for some reason.
	Who knows why?
	Oh, so many different reasons, but mostly giving our money to foreigners.
	Well, yeah, literally in this case, because one of them is the sun god, and we're applying climate reparations to Pakistan, because that nuclear program won't pay for itself.
	Oh god, this is pissing me off so much.
	Yeah, so here we have it.
	This was Jeremy Hunt, the installed, unrepresentative financial dictator, who decided to say that, well, on climate change, we've done more than any G20 country.
	Well done, Jeremy.
	Oh, thank god.
	He went on to say we will do even more.
	Oh, good.
	We haven't done enough.
	Having done the most isn't enough.
	I mean, our population are poorer than ever, half worth what the Irish are, But we can go further.
	We can make the Irish worth triple what we worth.
	And then I had to check in.
	Talking Pints, which is nice before I was your show on GB News.
	I saw a clip from...
	Oh, sorry, just had to mention as well that the NHS are very quick to make sure that they deal with the waste he insisted they will deal with.
	This is NHS England proposing jobs that have just been announced.
	Here you are.
	NHS zero project.
	Callum, remember, the dye people are all getting cut.
	So we need a new precinct class.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Now it's the climate change class.
	Net Zero Carbon Lead.
	This is there.
	Also, Regional Net Zero Manager at the NHS. $40 now there for that one.
	The other one's just being full-time.
	Who knows what they're getting paid.
	I'm sure it'll be disclosed.
	I actually write a letter to the Treasury asking them, how much do you spend on diversity and inclusion?
	Just in salaries.
	Not asking anything broad.
	They wrote back to me saying, we're not giving it to you.
	Can't you put a Freedom of Information request in?
	That's what I did.
	Oh, that was it.
	The response was, it would risk personal data.
	Sue them.
	I'm at step one.
	So, obviously, a grand number of how much you spend on salaries for diversity inclusion doesn't have anyone's personal data.
	What are you talking about?
	If you're a UK-based lawyer, and you're willing to work with us, we can't pay you any money.
	But if you want to help do...
	Before you jump the gun, I'm at step one, which is you raise this with the...
	There's a guy who's literally in charge of freedom of information requests, whose entire job is to look at the BS the departments bring out as excuses as for why they can't bring that up, and it's at that level.
	So if you're a UK-based lawyer and you're interested in getting involved, do email us.
	It would be fun if it has to go that far.
	I hope it doesn't.
	Let's just get the ducks in a line.
	But on talking points, I have to talk about the palpable...
	Energy?
	okay i really feel like energy i don't know it's a meme thing at this point good it is real you could feel it watching nigel's show and there's the the conversation on the show which um i don't actually feel like you need to watch which is a weird thing to say because i think just listening to the questions give you enough of well how's a public feeling not to mention how's that 50 percent of the conservative voters feeling which are going to flip if things continue this way and hopefully more
	We have a lady here who just brings up her issues, and we'll play the first clip because it's hurtful.
	Play that one.
	As a self-employed bookkeeper running accounts and payroll for small businesses around Salisbury Plain, I've never known such concern at the uncertain financial demands facing them.
	A family-run garage of two generations, employing five mechanics, has seen its annual electricity bill increase from 2,900 to 13,500, 465%.
	To what extent has the dogged pursuit of net zero contributed to many small businesses throwing in the towel?
	Wow!
	But remember, we're not going to cut our net zero commitments.
	In fact, we're going further than ever before, was the announcement that was made.
	And meanwhile, people in this country, as you had there, the mechanics and sorcery plane, are just going bankrupt.
	And it's all totally futile because we're 1% of global emissions.
	Yeah, but we have to bankrupt the whole country, otherwise, you know, the world might be 1% worse.
	Yeah.
	Make it 10% worse, I don't care.
	It's crap, as long as I can keep the lights on, frankly.
	I'm in favour.
	I can't remember the guy, he wrote a book about climate change, and everyone assumes that, like, the working class of England in Sheffield, for example, when the...
	The air turned black, frankly, because of how polluted it was.
	The public at the time were outraged and would write to their MPs or go on strike with the trade unions at the time because of the pollution.
	No, if you look at the conversations that were happening at the times of the 1800s in Sheffield, the demand was for more power plants, coal power plants, to pollute the air even more so we could have more electricity because we just didn't have enough.
	This is the reality of human life.
	It is not the delusions of some California-based lunatic.
	It is instead how people lived.
	And I have to include the second clip from this point segment because it's just Sebastian, which is a good comrade of ours.
	But also just mentioning, if you're young, why would you stay here?
	Let's play.
	You mentioned this earlier, you talked a bit about brain drain, and it's a huge concern that I don't think enough people are talking about.
	We seem to be an incredibly hostile business environment, and it's easier than ever for young people to want to move elsewhere.
	They can go to Portugal, they can go as far as Dubai, Singapore, and the tax incentives to go there are great.
	I'll never leave this country, I love it, every field and every hedgerow, but I know a lot of people will seriously consider whether they can see their future here.
	He's entirely right.
	If you're young, you've got some skills, or even if you just want to not live in a hellhole.
	Japan and South Korea will literally pay you to speak English and not have to learn their language first before you move there.
	My sister did that for like three years.
	But if you're being offered that at university, or you could stay here, have the highest taxes since the war...
	And watch the country just slowly be liquidated.
	And have the Irish dab on you at every possible opportunity because they are unironically doing a hell of a lot better than we are.
	Because they've got half our corporation tax.
	And will presumably within the next 20 years annex Northern Ireland, if not no other grounds and demographics of that place.
	So if you buy a house in Northern Ireland, I guess it's a good investment.
	I mean, I'm sorry, but yeah, I mean, if I had to describe to you what the Conservative Party would have had to do, let's say we were back when Boris was getting into office, and I had to say what would have happened to get to the point that the Conservatives would be dead forever, and I said, oh, they'll lock down the whole country, they'll put people in their homes, and then they'll pay out to everyone who benefit from it.
	Launching our money overseas.
	Yeah, we'll have the highest taxes since the war, there'll be 20% inflation.
	I mean, I would have been like, this is not going to happen.
	That's ridiculous.
	What are you, an idiot?
	Yeah, exactly.
	They don't have to actually be pants on every...
	No, we'll live in it.
	And if you're young, Peter Hitchens' advice is true.
	Move before it's too late, frankly.
	And even as an English patriot, I can't stop anyone.
	I can't even recommend stopping anyone.
	It's just true.
	Anyway, checking out the left-wing response to any of what we're living.
	Remember, this is what the opposition is presented to us as something as if it's worth engaging with.
	We have the first image here from Paul Mason, who's come to tell us that, well...
	Oh, just don't ever listen to a thing Paul Mason says.
	He's just an insane communist and he knows nothing.
	You click on the first image there, though.
	But he is actually, as you say...
	The fiscal black hole is a lie!
	Oh, you idiot.
	He is a representative of the economic left who are poised for power if there is no actual opposition that turns out.
	This is the thing, like, Paul Mason is representative of, like, the English midwit class.
	Well, the socialists, yeah.
	Yeah, they're socialists, yeah.
	So he says there's no black hole.
	Do you want to guess why he says there's no black hole?
	Because he had a lobotomy at 17, I don't know.
	Shall we go to the next image, just to build up the tension?
	Say the line, Bart.
	A country is, in fact, like a household with a printer in the basement which can spit out £50 notes, he says.
	Oh, God, I can feel the intellect.
	Paul's carrying around his giant brain.
	You get the next image, please.
	Any country with a central bank cannot go bust in its own currency, he writes.
	Oh god, that's so dumb.
	I have visited Zimbabwe and seen the future.
	We will all be trillionaires!
	This is what the opposition were presented with.
	I mean, we have literal black hole of death over endless taxes, no representation, practical dictatorship on basically any representation.
	No interests of the youth, no interests of anyone who's up and coming, no interests of any entrant or...
	We're for occupied government, just...
	Or for Money Printer Go Burr, but what if we meant it Go Burr-er?
	Just...
	I just...
	I just can't get over it.
	But there is one other group in this country that is doing well with the status quo.
	He gets to write newspaper articles.
	He gets to...
	I mean, where was that from?
	The Times or something?
	The Economist.
	The European, actually.
	Oh, right.
	I think the Economists think that's too stupid for even that.
	No, the Economists are much Communists.
	Oh, they would publish it then.
	Yeah.
	What if Money Printer went Burr-er?
	But there is one other group in England.
	You'll be glad to know.
	I mean, no one's doing well.
	No.
	Except, you know, the elite.
	Yeah, obviously.
	There's one other group, Carl.
	Our dear, blessed League of Immigrants.
	I know this is who we...
	I suppose, yeah.
	Out of all the people doing well in England at the moment, it is the boat people.
	I mean, when we get up for work in the morning in this country and we put on our socks and we're all groggy and we get on the way to work, I mean, truly, I do sing a prayer for these people and say I'm glad I'm working for them.
	If I'm working for anyone, it's not my family.
	Best bosses in the world.
	We have a group of lads from Skegness over here who are here to tell us about where they're from, which is Skegness.
	I'm not kidding, let's play.
	Where you come from bud?
	Where you from?
	What country?
	Iraq?
	Syria?
	No.
	Afghan?
	UK. You're from UK? Yeah.
	Oh yeah, are you working here then?
	No, no, I'm English.
	You're English?
	Yeah.
	Are you living here then?
	I'm from Skenis.
	No, you're not.
	Skenis.
	Mate!
	Oi!
	Oi!
	Where you from?
	Albania.
	They know that everything's in their favour.
	Yeah, they know the whole system's rigged.
	They have the beneficiaries at his expense and they're laughing in his face.
	Yeah, they're laughing in all our faces.
	You're going to pay us money and we're going to just laugh at you.
	I don't want to believe that.
	When you go and meet these people, they can't believe what we're doing.
	No one else can believe it either.
	But we'll go to Labour, who have their opinion on these people, which is that anyone who whines about it and gets upset is just wrong.
	I can't believe it.
	As you see here, Stella Creasy.
	Because remember, they're trying to win power right now, so they're on the side of the people who are making...
	Again, what's great about Stella Creasy?
	What's great about...
	There's this long-running thing that, well, the English are kind of intellectually lazy.
	They're kind of not very academic.
	They don't think too hard.
	And Stella Creasy is just...
	And Paul Mason, these are just particularly fine examples of English mediocrity.
	They're perfectly representative of about half of the country.
	Of the below average IQ, which is half of the country.
	Yeah, the lower half of the curve, the bell curve.
	These are perfectly representative.
	I don't know if you scroll down on this, John.
	I don't know if my response is in there, but she's arguing that basically we border Iran and therefore we must take all Iranians.
	I don't know where else you get to the conclusion.
	I don't know if my response is one of the top ones, but it's just like, if you ever looked at a map lately, scroll down a little bit more, John, and we can probably see it.
	Yeah, there we are.
	There's a map.
	She's not seen it yet.
	I've checked the statistics.
	She's not blocked me either, so I'll keep responding, lads.
	And join me in posting maps.
	Geographically ignorant people, to say the least.
	Does she actually say we border her up?
	No, but she's saying that we need to take them because they're our responsibility.
	How?
	On, what, metric?
	Do we rule Iran?
	I mean, once upon a time.
	Yeah, but not now.
	Well, we ruled it with the Soviets, actually, the last time we did that.
	I don't know if you're aware.
	What, with the Shah?
	No, the Second World War.
	So we and the Soviets together invaded Iran to secure the oil for the war effort.
	That's the last time we had any interaction.
	That seems like it was quite a long time ago.
	No, but then it also means that it's also the Russians' responsibility to take everyone from Iran.
	And they have much cozier relations than we do.
	And they've at least got the space.
	Yeah.
	They don't have the money.
	Anyway, so moving on to the next one, which is the good news, though, folks.
	I know I'm not often with that.
	Rebellion is brewing.
	Oh, good.
	This actually...
	I feel like we're in a book club from Frank Dakota.
	You know what I was reading to you when the yellow bomb was instituted in China?
	The grain procurement is what they call it.
	And then the rebellion started amongst the plabs.
	Well, rebellion is brewing in response to all of this.
	Good.
	So let's check it out.
	So we have this hotel, reward for not accepting migrants, twice, say Gnese council have tripled their business rates.
	Well last September they write: "We were the first hotel to be offered the opportunity to close our hotel completely and house 52 refugees for an obscene amount of money," the hotel writes to its local residents.
	As tempting as this was, we refuse the offer for the following reasons.
	In our opinion, filling the town with refugees has a negative impact on the local economy.
	That's one reason.
	Everything else.
	Whilst five hotels that have taken them in in the area couldn't give two hoots about this.
	They have a very good reason, though.
	In all caps, the hotel writes, they don't live in the area, it doesn't affect the area they live in!
	I love the boomer.
	I feel like shouting too.
	Just four weeks ago, we were given exactly the same opportunity.
	I mean, this is spilling the beans, and I'm glad they are, because so many hotels, the chains, who don't live in the area.
	It's just like, not my problem.
	As they say, an obscene amount of money being offered for this.
	An obscene amount of your money?
	Yeah.
	And lo and behold, we turned it down again.
	Our reward for this was the local council have now tripled our business rates with no viable reason from either them or the valuation office.
	So it's entirely a political subjugation of any hotel owner in this country who doesn't bend the will to destroying the place.
	That's how the home office operates against us.
	If you wanted to make the public incredibly angry and want to rebel, it's worked.
	I'm not even joking.
	Let's go to the next one here.
	There's another hotel owner who spilled the beans after we look at this, which is in Skegness.
	This is the atmosphere in Skegness.
	We won't play this clip, but it's a council meeting in which you can see all the residents turning up there.
	They look quite angry.
	Yeah, they spent the whole thing shouting.
	There's article after article of councillors saying, I plead with the public to please stop shouting at us.
	No!
	No!
	Get bent.
	No, the shouting will continue until, like, representation improves.
	And the shouting is not just you're stealing my money and destroying my country.
	The shouting in this case was a guy saying they've been hanging around the schools.
	Quote, Are any of you going to be responsible for what happens?
	We all know what will happen.
	Because it's happened everywhere else in this goddamn country.
	It's happened everywhere else in Europe when this has happened.
	And he literally just points to the councillor.
	Will you be responsible?
	And there's a round of applause from the audience.
	And it's just like, yeah, none of them will.
	They'll all skulk off to their public pensions after all this.
	Which will be backed up by the triple lock.
	Anyway.
	But another hotel owner has spilled the beans on all of this.
	And this is just enlightening.
	And really enlightening.
	About why every hotel signed up to do this.
	And why the hotel in your town has done the same thing.
	And it's a guy explaining that he really isn't obscene about the money they're being offered.
	He says here that he would have had to see 95% of his staff, including himself, who lives there, in the hotel, would also have been made redundant by taking the obscene bribe.
	Okay, go on then.
	Let's play.
	How unsuitable would this have been for asylum seekers?
	Completely unsuitable.
	And that's not being in any way...
	I mean, the hotel's historic.
	It's got a historic history.
	The rooms are beautifully done.
	The restaurant's got a roaring trade.
	We've just won an award, a prestigious award.
	And it just would have seen, you know, the majority, 95% of the staff, who are mainly local, laid off, including myself, and it's my home.
	Yeah, and I mean, I don't think that probably a lot of our audience on radio and television wouldn't realise that as part of the contract, it's a basic level contract, accommodation only, so all of the staff pretty much would have been made redundant.
	You'd have had a couple of housekeepers left on, maybe once a week who came in and just changed linen.
	That's it.
	Absolutely.
	Maybe somebody to just supervise what's going on.
	That's it completely.
	So you're talking about 25 to 50 jobs, as I say, in the high season.
	Gone.
	They're very tiring weddings, but we take a lot of pride in them.
	I mean, we have over 100 a year.
	They're all pretty much local weddings, you know, local families.
	Who've been, their fathers have married here, their mum and dads, and we're very proud of that, and we do them very well.
	And we've got over two, three hundred on the books for the next few years.
	What do we do about that?
	I mean, we can't just turn around and say, I'm sorry, and you're not having your wedding here now.
	We're handing the place over.
	So we've got to stay loyal to them.
	They've been loyal to us.
	We've got to stay loyal to them.
	But £1.1 million for a year's work, I mean, a lot of people would be tempted by that.
	Many hotels have been tempted by that that are probably on their uppers after COVID. Yeah, and I can understand that.
	Money is always a great temptation.
	This has been a long time.
	The family who own it have put a lot of money, time and effort into it.
	We are one big family here.
	All the staff are.
	They told us straight away about the offer.
	Of course, the first reaction was, oh, and then, but they told us as well straight away, there's no way they would even countenance such a move, you know.
	That's an absolute patriot.
	Yeah.
	Every one of these hotels who...
	I mean, you go anywhere in this country, you can find some really beautiful hotels.
	They are just locally owned.
	It used to be a beautiful country, Callum.
	They're not premier ends.
	No.
	Corporos.
	It used to be an amazing country.
	I've gone on way too much, so I'm going to have to wrap this up super quick.
	But I just love the line, we have to be loyal to the locals.
	They've been loyal to us.
	It's just, yeah, you've run through the corpos, you've taken all their hotels, and now you're going to have to take it from the Patriots.
	It's not going to happen.
	The last thing, just because I know this is very depressing, I'm on something to cheer you up, perhaps.
	We'll go for the world's worst take, shall we?
	Oh yeah, we shall.
	Which is, I'm inviting you all to come and join me in the new game I call Bullying Tom Harwood.
	So...
	No, I'm joking.
	It's just responding to him with the details of immigration, which he never wants to talk about.
	So him just posting, you know, rent controls, delete supply.
	I'm like, so does immigration.
	If you go to the next one, I'm just very much enjoying it.
	He's whining here that what we should do is start sacrificing firstborn children instead of lowering immigration.
	You can read that.
	I'm not joking.
	There you have it.
	His solution to why there's so much demand from houses is we have started sacrificing first-born children or built-in houses.
	No other options on the table.
	Nothing at all.
	Won't even entertain it.
	If we go to the next one here, we see the fact that he also just, well, the whole country's ruined.
	I don't know why.
	It's clearly not enough immigration, was my guess.
	If you scroll down here, we can see his response, which is, yeah.
	It's just a bad take machine.
	Just every time.
	No matter what the problem is, more immigrants will solve it.
	Yeah.
	They're actual angels.
	Lockdowns aren't one of the primary factors behind our economic collapse.
	Yeah, sure, Tom, whatever you say.
	Meanwhile, we'll end off where you just go forward to, I think, Greg Abbott, who is the next one here, in which we have Greg Abbott just mentioning that he's got a solution, and he's enacting it in Texas, which is, quote, deploying gunboats to secure the border.
	I'm not even joking.
	That's, like, number four there.
	There's a lot of other things that are based, but we'll end on that to kind of cheer you up.
	But otherwise, yeah, hopefully the beginning and the end.
	Here's a simple graph for simple things.
	True and false, can and can't.
	So let's try to prove something simple.
	Here we can't prove something true, here we can't prove something false, here we can prove something false, and here we can prove something true.
	So let's ask the right question.
	Are you a woman?
	Nobody here is a woman because woman isn't a true thing.
	Here we can't prove that somebody isn't a woman, so we have to take them at their word.
	Here we know how to falsify things, checking measures and logic, but we don't know what we're measuring in woman.
	Here a woman is an adult human female, plus some other baggage that varies from person to person.
	So am I just a dummy who's simplifying things, or are we the dummies who are complicating them?
	I don't know that went far too quick for me.
	Uh...
	I mean, kind of...
	I don't want to endorse that because I know what's in the top right of the political spectrum.
	But anyway, we'll go to the next one.
	Sadly, Neil is wrong on climate change.
	The world isn't warming evenly.
	The equator remains largely the same, but the poles warm and the ice melts.
	This doesn't free up land for agricultural use.
	It weakens the jet stream, leading to predictable deadly weather events such as floods in Pakistan and heatwaves in Europe.
	The submerged towns of the Mediterranean are a warning of the consequent mass migration that lotus-eaters rail against.
	Unlimited dumping of CO2 into the atmosphere will need cleaning up, and the solution was in a 1986 film about aliens with acid for blood.
	That's the atmosphere processor?
	Yep, that's it.
	Remarkable piece of machinery.
	Completely automated.
	You know, we manufacture those, by the way.
	Amazingly, if we hadn't butchered the country since, like, 2008, what could have happened is we would be in the same position the Russians are in, or the Norwegians, and we'd have icebreakers, and we'd be able to make real good use of that melting of the ice.
	Oh, that would be good.
	Trade with Asia, but no, we don't.
	Yeah, I don't think there is really any benefits for us.
	No.
	Sadly, let's go to the next one.
	I just wanted to wish you guys a happy birthday for your two-year anniversary of the Lots of Seaters.
	Yeah, that's really it, really.
	This is my last video, so you won't be seeing me for the next few weeks.
	But when I do come back, I'll be showing you more Sydney and some more theories of my videos.
	But until then, take care!
	Thanks very much, and have a good trip, wherever you're going.
	Do let us know if that's Klaus Schwab on the road.
	Yeah!
	Invading Sydney trains or something.
	The next one.
	Personally, I think the problem I have is that I think we've put the president and the federal government on a pedestal.
	If you look at it, Ron DeSantis has done a lot more just being a governor of Florida than being the president of the United States.
	If we could have more governors...
	Doing well and more states doing their own thing, it can negate basically everything that the federal government is doing, similar to how the UK left the EU. So just put that into your minds for a little bit.
	Ron's actually said this himself, kind of torpedoing his own movement.
	Because he said he loved being governor because he can actually do things.
	But if the Republicans did own all the governors, they could do way more damage than just the presidency.
	Tony D and Little Joe with another Lotus Eater white pill from SegMary on the Lotus Eater subreddit comes the story of Saint Nicholas.
	Now kids, we all know that Saint Nicholas, Santa, faked his own death back in the 4th century.
	His tomb was vandalized in the 11th century.
	But was lost in time.
	It's been rediscovered in Demre, Turkey, at the Church of St.
	Nicholas in Myra, underneath the floor.
	They used a machine to figure it out, and clues from this mosaic.
	Like a real-life Da Vinci code.
	Santa's Greek.
	Well, St.
	Nicholas.
	But he is Santa, isn't he?
	He eventually became Santa.
	It's been like, you know, 1,500 years.
	Go to the next one.
	If you're feeling negative about the midterms, go and talk to Dan Bongino and go and talk to Tim Pool.
	Seriously, the red wave happened.
	And it was great.
	I mean, it is good that Pelosi's out.
	You know, it is good that the Republicans have had some successes.
	If you go and listen to the Vox podcast on the Red Wave or any other such left wing outlet, they're very pleased.
	And there's a reason they're pleased.
	Yeah.
	They didn't get destroyed like they were expecting.
	Well, as Milo put it, an active weather event of American politics.
	The position in presidency should lose more.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Very quickly, George says, Since tomorrow is International Men's Day, I wanted to wish you lads a good one.
	Men build civilizations and it's their nature to handle any adversity life throws at them.
	Well, just wait until we don't.
	We'll do our best, I guess.
	I would rather make the other fellow die for his country.
	I don't want to be the one dying for my country.
	I'll just pull out a couple.
	The only representation the parachute PM has is for those who are global knobs.
	Yeah, that's true.
	I'm no fan of His Majesty King Charles, nor was I before.
	However, if the governing of the realm of Britain and Ulster were left to him and his court, yeah, I'll take that over the knobs in Parliament.
	A lot of knobs in comments today.
	Nobs in Parliament attempting to put up the smokescreen that voting does anything.
	Sure, here in Ulster, our local government has essentially been out of session for the last several years due to two major parties can't come to any form of agreement or compromise, and both have collapsed the government, yet still get paid.
	Yeah, the Northern Ireland Parliament just needs dissolving.
	The whole thing's a waste of time.
	The Cuxervatives have done so little, you would swear Sir Humphrey Appleby was in charge.
	Speaking of which, I just saw Sophie, we'll end on, I suppose, just mentioning, did you see that video of Xi Jinping and Trudeau?
	Yeah, just being totally whipped.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that's how the system really works.
	Yeah.
	At this point.
	There is no national patriots standing up for their country, at least in the West.
	No.
	Anyway, that's out of time.
	I suppose we'll have to fight to be the Patriot Prophet, as Ivan Alin said.
	Anyway, we're out of time, so if you want to check out more from us, go to lowseers.com.
	Otherwise, we'll be back tomorrow at 1 o'clock.
	No, we won't.
	It's Friday.
	For far to behold it, we'll be back on Monday.
	Thank you, and goodbye.

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