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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 25th of November 2022.
	I'm I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello.
	And today we're going to talk about...
	So we're back!
	Also, I didn't want to own anything anyway, and football's hilariously incoherent current thingism, which certainly never ends.
	Yeah.
	I'm actually quite excited for the Iranians, I'll be honest.
	Yeah.
	I'm just quite excited for Gareth Southgate's next press conference where he has to explain why he's doing what he's doing.
	Because he's not the best.
	They're not sending their best.
	No, they're certainly not.
	Otherwise, just some notes first.
	So firstly, just to mention it, we are now hiring a new video editor.
	So if you want to go and check that out, you can go check out lowseasers.com.
	I think it's careers, somewhere at the bottom.
	And then you can go read the job description.
	And if you fit that role, please apply.
	And if you don't, don't.
	Anyway, a lot of people...
	It's a running joke at this point.
	There's people from Antarctica who want to work.
	It says in the office.
	Yeah, you have to work in the office.
	Anyway, some other things to mention.
	Firstly, of course, the merch store as well.
	Just being there.
	But otherwise, I suppose we shall begin.
	So, we're apparently back on Twitter.
	Didn't have it on my bingo card.
	But there's a lot of stuff that's happening at the moment that I didn't have my 2022 bingo card.
	How's it feel?
	Pretty good, actually.
	But anyway, we'll get to it in a minute.
	Before we go on, we have a merch store.
	And this is the first shirt that we have.
	We've got, like, the regular, sort of, Lositas merch.
	But we've got a particular shirt here that I thought was quite good.
	If you want to get this one up, John, yeah.
	So this is a quote.
	Well, it looks like a quote.
	They're lying.
	We know they are lying.
	They know we know they are lying, and yet they are still lying.
	Now, everyone thinks that's a Solzhenitsyn quote, but I did some digging, and it turns out it's not a Solzhenitsyn quote.
	The closest I could find was from a book called A Mountain of Crumbs by Alina Gorokova, in which she says, the rules are simple.
	They lie to us.
	We know they are lying.
	They know we know they are lying, but they keep lying anyway, and we keep pretending to believe them.
	So basically, this quote is the distillation, the sort of, you know, the filtering of the essence of what Solzhenitsyn would have said.
	But it's not what she said, and it's not what he said either.
	But it is really apt, isn't it?
	You know, because we're just being constantly lied to on a daily basis.
	I'm just totally sick of it.
	So I was really proud of that shirt.
	And go and get one if you want to support us.
	But anyway, so let's begin with Twitter.
	Apparently it's doing really well.
	Really?
	I'm shook.
	Yeah, I know.
	Can you imagine?
	Making the platform more open and allowing people to come back and have fun and actually use the platform without being suspended.
	Apparently, this was a couple of days ago, but it's added another 1.6 million daily active users in the past week.
	Another all-time high.
	Good to know.
	And of course, I was brought back from the dead.
	I was talking a little like Jon Snow or Gandalf or something.
	It's like, you know, it's so weird.
	But yeah, so go follow me because I'm having fun.
	Anyway, so now the natural response to all of this is, of course, leftoid journalists freaking out.
	Like, to be fair, I haven't actually seen that much about this.
	I've only seen a few articles of them freaking out.
	But we'll go through them because they're quite funny.
	This one actually mentions me by name.
	I am a right-wing vlogger who got my start in the misogynistic online harassment campaign known as Gamergate.
	Got your start.
	He's so glad of Mr.
	Peterson to let you in and work on the internship of misogyny.
	He's been known for his unbelievably dumb takes on subjects ranging from feminism to politics.
	Now, he's got a couple of links here.
	I was like, oh my god, what are my unbelievably dumb takes from this Gizmodo journo?
	The first one was that I pointed out that the Chicago kidnapping was a product of stochastic terrorism from Black Lives Matter.
	Do you remember the Chicago kidnapping?
	Yeah, they tortured and interrogated and just basically were just assholes after they kidnapped this, what was it?
	Autistic kid.
	Yeah, wouldn't he disabled though as well?
	Yeah, and they cut parts of his scalp and stuff while yelling that he was white and Trump repeatedly.
	And it's like, this is clearly a product of stochastic terrorism.
	And clearly the fault of, I would say, Black Lives Matter.
	And they're like, no, it's not.
	No, it's not.
	How dare you say this?
	But whose fault is it?
	Yeah.
	What other motive possibly is there?
	What other massive social movement is there that demonizes white people to benefit black people?
	These black individuals may have picked up.
	And the other link is to the joke controversy of PewDiePie in 2017 where I was like, making jokes is not actually anti-Semitic.
	No, it's not.
	No.
	Go listen to George Carlin.
	Yeah.
	And the thing is, this seems so quaint, right?
	Because PewDiePie was, if you recall, pretending like he was watching Nazi propaganda or something.
	And it's like, yeah...
	What's Kanye doing these days?
	The bar has been raised, hasn't it?
	Just totally moulding, which is hilarious.
	So anyway, getting on Twitter, a lot of people started deleting their accounts, like Sam Harris.
	Gone.
	Yeah, this just seems weak to me.
	Yeah, me too.
	And Claire Lehman, the founder of Quillette, she deleted hers as well.
	Gone.
	What's this about?
	Is this people just upset that they're not banned?
	I don't know.
	Just, I can't take the free speech.
	Well, you were fine with the regime for the last few years.
	That was perfectly comfortable.
	Yes.
	I would like it when the leftists are in charge, so I can pretend to be a freedom fighter.
	I don't get it.
	No, it's weak, and I don't understand it.
	Presumably this is like, I don't know if someone's trying to craft a narrative that, well, you know, the right to banning people or something, and we'll prove that by leaving.
	Well, speaking of banning people, Ethan Klein did get banned, which is just really hilarious.
	Breaking the rules.
	Yeah, actually, for breaking the rules.
	Of all the people, though, again, just six months ago, nothing he could have done would have gone banned.
	Now, and of course, weirdly, The Amazing Atheist got banned as well.
	I don't know why he got banned, but that's odd.
	But anyway...
	I looked up his archive, and it said he was banned in August as well.
	Really?
	So I don't...
	I asked him in the comments of that thing to ask, you know, what did you post, and he never responded.
	Right, right.
	Anyway, so Elon replied to Ramsey Paul.
	If you scroll up, just so you can see Ramsey Paul's name.
	He says, Twitter is reportedly nuking pedo accounts.
	This is eliminating much of Antifa Twitter.
	And so Elon replies, look, removing child exploitation is priority number one.
	Please reply in the comments if you see anything that Twitter needs to address.
	That's good.
	And apparently there have been child porn exploitation hashtags that no longer appear and stuff like that.
	That's weird.
	Yeah, why did they appear before?
	Yeah.
	Why did he take Elon Musk?
	When they're a dedicated team, we're told there was a dedicated team of human beings, not bots, who sat and made sure anything like that was immediately destroyed.
	Well, when you say anything like that, the trust and safety team were like, well, we can't have mean words.
	I've got more important things than children being destroyed.
	You know Donald Trump's still on the platform.
	I mean, this is part of the reason they end up getting called Groomers.
	Yes.
	Anyway, good on Elon Musk.
	You know, dadism in action.
	We're going to ban the pedos.
	If you can get these...
	Is that dadism?
	Oh, yeah.
	Or is that common sense?
	Well, I mean, there's a crossover there.
	There's a Venn diagram.
	If you can get the first image up...
	You can see this Chad Loder guy.
	This guy is an anti-fire journalist.
	And notice that Ramsey Paul, the Elon Musk-Ramsey Paul exchange, you know, Twitter is reportedly nuking pedo accounts.
	Antifar Twitter's in trouble.
	And this anti-fire journalist is like, back up and archive your Twitter ASAP. A, your Twitter isn't the Library of Alexander.
	Why do you need it backed up?
	Oh god, my tweets are going to be lost for time.
	Yeah, okay, big deal.
	But B, why did you feel personally attacked by pedo accounts being nuked?
	Weird, isn't it?
	Just anyway, moving on, he got banned.
	Oh, that's weird.
	There's more of that.
	Yeah, but yeah, he got suspended.
	So, you know.
	Who knows why.
	Yeah.
	But there's some good news for the anti-fun nonces.
	Elon Musk asked, should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts provided they have not broken the law or engage in egregious spam?
	Now, this was interesting because this came shortly after he was saying, no, I will not allow Alex Jones back on for personal reasons because he doesn't like Alex Jones, which is fair.
	And people were like, no, come on, that's not on, right?
	And so he put it...
	Sorry, I'm laughing because there's the point in there as well of broken the law.
	I saw a bunch of Channel 4 Westminster journalists being like, well, in the UK, it's illegal to post anything grossly offensive.
	As if they seriously think he's going to apply that.
	Oh.
	Well, we'll get to the standard in a minute.
	So what was interesting about this is, do you remember the Trump poll that he did was 52-48 because there was a kind of F curve, so it looked like it was being gamed?
	Well, in this one, not at all.
	72% yes, 28% no, 3 million votes.
	That's pretty overwhelming.
	That's great.
	And as he says, the people have spoken.
	Amnesty begins next week.
	Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
	Which is excellent.
	So all of those lefties who got banned for being left-wing, they're back.
	And this caused much moulding among left-wing journalists again.
	Oh no!
	Democracy!
	What's wrong with democracy?
	But if you go to the next one, you see, this was just a Huffington Post.
	If you go to the next one, John, this is Huffington Post author.
	Oh look, Elon Musk is letting banned accounts back on Twitter.
	Chief twit rules by polling now.
	As in, people have a vote on it, and he does what people are asking for.
	Like, he's actually being a representative.
	Do you remember when that happened before?
	When?
	Oh, well, yeah, I thought you were going to give me an example.
	What example?
	That's the thing I was like, no.
	I do not remember when this happened before.
	So, yeah, like, what a strange and novel concept democracy is to left-wingers.
	Anyway, this is opening the gates of hell.
	Dun-dun-dun.
	Says Taylor Lorenz.
	Oh, fucking hell.
	I didn't clock then.
	Elon Musk, I didn't even look actually, who wrote this until right now.
	Elon Musk plans to reinstate nearly all previously banned Twitter accounts to the alarm of activists and online trust and safety experts.
	At least they're calling themselves activists now.
	And that always makes me happy, that online trust and safety experts are on Suicide Watch.
	Yep.
	Uh, piss off?
	What Musk is doing is existentially dangerous for various marginalized communities.
	Imagine thinking that trans people, if Elon Musk allows people on Twitter to talk, trans people stop existing.
	Existentially dangerous.
	The gays are over if Elon Musk allows free speech on Twitter.
	Certain things do.
	Go on.
	Because these people's worldview is that I'm only valid in, let's say, cake gender.
	There's something I'm just bringing out of the ether.
	And if everyone agrees, and if one person doesn't agree, it's no longer valid.
	Cake gender is over, yeah.
	And these people are trying to erase my existence.
	Which doesn't mean kill them.
	It means disagree with them.
	And in which case, if that is allowed to happen, Carl, think of the cake genders.
	Existentially dangerous.
	It's like opening the gates of hell in terms of the havoc it will cause.
	I'm living for this.
	People who engage in direct targeted harassment can come back and engage in doxing, targeting harassment, vicious bullying, calls for violence, celebration of violence.
	I can't even begin to say how dangerous this will be.
	Dude, it's Twitter.
	Like, it's...
	You literally...
	Ha ha ha, just log off.
	Yeah, close your eyes.
	It's not even real.
	You actual weirdo.
	Freaks, honestly.
	Anyway, moving on.
	People responded to Elon.
	on some chap responded saying look uh whatever twitter decides to do it should be clear and consistent about its rules and penalties for breaking them enforcement should be unbiased and the mechanisms for enforcement shouldn't be easily abused by people with an agenda yes Very sensible comment.
	Everyone can agree with this, apart from Taylor Lorenz and various other leftists who are moulding over the fact that they're losing control of the discourse-generating centre of the internet, right?
	Musk responds to this, saying, well, the more I learn, the worse it gets.
	Oh, sorry, talking about the...
	Sorry, if you scroll down just a little bit, I forgot this one.
	Some chap here says, I heard from a primary source that the political groups would regularly contact Twitter to de-boost their candidates' detractors, and Twitter would happily do it.
	That seems to be putting a finger on the scale of democracy.
	And to which Musk replies, it is objectively the case that conservative political candidates were more negatively affected than progressive candidates.
	Anyone using Twitter knows this.
	The question is simply one of magnitude.
	Yes.
	Release it.
	Well, yes, that's exactly right.
	I don't mean to rush you, but...
	Well, exactly.
	I don't think you're suicidal.
	I hope Elon isn't either.
	Well, this is the question, wasn't it?
	If you go to the next one, responding to the call, raise your hand if you think Elon Musk should make all internal, sorry, next one, John, all internal discussions about the decision to centre the New York Post story on Hunter Biden's lap top before the 2020 election.
	In the interest of transparency, Musk simply says, this is necessary to restore public trust.
	Oh, that'll be interesting.
	That's my point.
	You need to do this fast.
	Oh, yes.
	Because if you deely-deely, I don't know.
	I don't trust these people to just let you actually bring reality to the public.
	Yes.
	That's going to be quite the event.
	Slack conversations.
	Yeah.
	Just what was behind it?
	Just let's see them talking about it.
	Here's this employee who goes to this person's rally constantly and then that person's attractors, which constantly de-boosted on this date.
	Remember that Jen Psaki said that the Biden regime was working with Silicon Valley companies.
	All those emails will be there.
	Yes.
	So lots of communications with the Biden regime to Twitter and...
	We know they're sent to Facebook.
	We're not going to get those.
	But that would be incredibly fascinating.
	Just new thread.
	All corruption.
	And then just screenshot after screenshot after screenshot as replies.
	Just keep going.
	That'd be so good.
	One a day.
	Make it a Christmas miracle.
	And it would be.
	Anyway, so Elon's view on content moderation.
	Someone says, please limit content moderation to illegal content or at most a narrow interpretation of moderation under Section 230 and give users the tools that enable the freedom to choose the content that they like to see.
	And Musk replies, that's the general idea.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	And of course, because this is something the left is constantly going on about, and to be fair, you don't really want it, even though you should have the freedom to do it, Elon Musk is reducing hate speech.
	Apparently hate speech impressions are lower.
	They're down by a third from the pre-spike levels.
	When he took over...
	Well, the Antifar accounts are gone.
	Well, yeah.
	Congrats to the Twitter team.
	And he replies to himself, saying, I have half a mind to wag my finger at the 1,500 accounts that caused the spike, but I shall forbear.
	Reduce...
	Reducing max allowed tweets per day to a number below what a speed typist on meth could do was helpful.
	So apparently there were a bunch of people just hysterically posting offensive tweets.
	I have no idea.
	Probably a lot of bots.
	Yeah, of course, it's bound to be bots.
	But the EU is not happy about this because they, previously, was like, oh, Twitter's slipping on removing hate speech.
	But the thing is, right, the EU report carried over six weeks in the spring found that Twitter assessed just over half the notifications it received about illegal hate speech within 24 hours, which is pre-Elon Musk.
	So, like, them putting up this report now, it's like, okay, but that's not him.
	Anyway, so Elon Musk liquidated the Brussels branch.
	Preserved.
	Yeah.
	Oh, what, the EU's saying something?
	No, you're all gone.
	Yeah.
	The two executives who are in charge of Twitter's digital policy in Europe have left.
	Some of the chats are like, what if it just blocks the EU for a day?
	Well, wouldn't that be hilarious?
	I would do exactly that.
	Do you remember when Google did it?
	Yeah.
	To try and make sure that they weren't being censored.
	Yeah, it's a good tactic.
	Yes, they've done this a couple of times, actually.
	These executives are the driving force in getting the company to comply with the EU's Landmark Digital Services Act, and Elon's like, nah, we'll get rid of that.
	Thanos snap.
	Anyway, so the New York Times is crying.
	No, sorry, the Washington Post.
	But I mean, what's the difference?
	Jeff Bezos' paper is weeping into their smartphones.
	Musk's free speech agenda dismantles everything, blah, blah, blah.
	But you remember how they were all crying?
	I think we've been over this article before, sorry.
	But they were all literally crying, right?
	So they complained that in recent days, Musk has restated both Trump and Babylon Bee, along with a handful of other controversial accounts.
	I don't even get a call out and watch the post.
	Gutting.
	They are talking about me.
	But Musk is looking to automate much of the trust and safety team's work to police content, eliminating some of the nuance from the complicated decisions for a cheaper approach.
	He's literally turning it into an NPC machine.
	You lot were all NPCs.
	I can literally replace you with NPCs.
	In Twitter's early years, the company's executives called the social network the free speech wing of the free speech party.
	Yeah, that was 2009.
	How things have changed.
	But then came Gamergate.
	The brutal 2014 campaign against women in the video game industry.
	Zero casualties.
	On either side, actually.
	Well, you know, it's always good to support the troops.
	Yep.
	And the site started to evolve.
	Just evolved, you see.
	It was a natural process.
	In 2015, Vijaya Gad committed in a post-op-ed to invest in tools and systems that would better detect and root out abuse.
	Musk's sudden demand to unsuspend the Babylon Bee was problematic.
	To who?
	Not to me.
	If the company restored two accounts without clear reason, it would undo years of careful work.
	The careful work specifically here...
	Of censoring.
	Well, it was a specific censorship law, which is the one Tim Paul brought up to Vijaya, you may remember.
	Of misgendering.
	If you make misgendering a crime, you are intrinsically making the system systemically biased against Republicans.
	And the NPC just didn't understand that.
	I think she understood it.
	She just rejected it.
	I think she's just in favour of it.
	Which is nice that Elon fired her on the first day, actually...
	But as owner of the company, Musk could just revoke the policy on transgender abuse.
	Yeah, he could.
	Well.
	He did.
	Literally, who cares?
	So naturally, the media is trying to jam a wedge between Musk and Apple because they're like, right, okay, we need to start doing something about this.
	We need to start bringing Musk down.
	And you get speculative articles like this on CNBC. It's like, well, Musk's plan for Twitter could put it in conflict with two of the biggest tech companies, Apple and Google.
	It could.
	It might.
	Hint, hint, get this idea into the discourse.
	Hint, hint, people at Apple, you should be taking action against Elon Musk, because he's literally existentially erasing trans people.
	I know what they want them to do, which is set up the alternative Twitter for all leftists to go on to, and because it's got Google money, it'll do its thing.
	I do remember Google +, though.
	But yeah, what happened to that?
	But Elon has actually been criticising Apple and Google as well, because apparently their fees are a 30% hidden tax on the internet, as he described it.
	Apparently they charge 30% of transactions or whatever to be on their app stores.
	So anyway, then they just carried on.
	Oh, Elon Musk is flip-flopping.
	He's not a politician.
	Elon Musk, master businessman, can't make up his mind.
	Right, so he's changing his position.
	Depending on the circumstances.
	Yeah, to represent sensible positions on events.
	I always hate this.
	Ridiculous.
	Do you remember, I think I read to you, it's the ten monolithic ideological positions of the North Korean state.
	Like, that's the title.
	Yes.
	Like, ridiculously long.
	And it's just about how...
	No flip-flopping here, damn it.
	Yeah, no, I mean, one of the quotes is, for 10,000 years we won't change our mind.
	Yeah.
	Is there anything you could place in 10,000 years?
	10,000 years.
	You won't change your mind or something.
	Are you sure?
	10,000 years.
	10,000 years.
	That's remarkable.
	Anyway, moving on.
	The Vox is trying to drive a wedge between Musk and his employees at Tesla.
	Oh, problems at Twitter and Tesla.
	Are the Tesla employees happy with what he's doing at Twitter?
	They're all doopers.
	They don't care.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But they're like, well, you know, the stocks are down.
	Musk is distracted by his shiny new toy.
	Twitter, ooh, he doesn't care about you.
	In the wake of the Twitter acquisition, some experts and analysts are concerned that Musk's new job might be undermining his responsibilities at CEO of Tesla.
	Who are these experts and analysts?
	Name them.
	I want to know.
	Oh, they have names in my head.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But the point that I'm making is pretty clear, and you can see exactly where we're going.
	This is all a pretty weak source at the moment, but you can see that the mob of progressive, you know, what's called the cathedral, the sort of array of progressives in all of these walks of life, Musk has come in like an absolute bulldozer, smashed their control of Twitter, and now they're trying to regroup.
	To be fair, it's a pretty unexpected tactic.
	Make $44 billion and then just buy it is not what anyone was expecting.
	And then fire everyone and rescind all of their policies and bring back all of those people that everyone hated.
	Just build your own platform, bro.
	Just make $44 billion, bro.
	It's literally a private company that can do what it wants.
	I can see Google money starting to move.
	Exactly.
	You know, they're trying to figure out a game plan now.
	It's like, okay, we need to stop.
	Okay, so maybe getting him off the Apple Store, blah, blah, blah, you know.
	Or they're trying to figure out what they can do to actually put the brakes on Elon Musk because, let's be fair, he's doing a great job and he's doing whatever they have.
	We can't have that.
	Yeah, sorry?
	We can't have that.
	Yeah, exactly.
	We can't have that.
	He's doing a great job for them, not for us.
	And he's absolutely smashing it.
	So, good stuff.
	With that, we'll move to the sad news.
	See, at least this is sandwiched between, like, good news, bad news.
	Oh, and on a highlight, so...
	Oh, okay.
	I didn't want to own anything anyway, and neither did you, or anyone, apparently.
	Remember that?
	Remember that slogan?
	You'll own nothing and be happy?
	You'd just own nothing now, weren't you?
	Yeah, you wouldn't even be happy.
	Anyway, this is talking about immigration because the newest figures came out for the UK. Half a million this year.
	That's net.
	Breadsticks.
	Not gross breadsticks.
	That is mad.
	Yeah.
	And we did a...
	Podcast about this while back, where immigration is the reason you can't get a house.
	You're under 30, under 35 now in England.
	Yeah, too bad.
	Sucks to be you.
	Anyway, we'll move to the data here.
	We have immigration being the highest on record of all time.
	Literally of all time.
	I think the Norman conquests, even proportionally, are not as high.
	Oh, nowhere near.
	Not even sure.
	Nowhere near.
	Certainly in pure numbers, it's nowhere near.
	No, they estimate there may be 100,000 Norman...
	Invaders?
	No, no.
	It's 10,000, roughly 12,000 in the actual army.
	But over the course of Norman migration to England, possibly 100,000.
	That's a very upper limit.
	This is 700,000 in one year.
	And that's the net as well.
	500,000.
	We used to be on 300,000.
	Just for reference for American viewers, I think it's 700,000.
	We get a million a year.
	What are you talking about?
	That's just legal.
	So for our normal figures of 300,000, proportionally you'd have to triple the American immigration rate.
	So now we're at what?
	Times five?
	The immigration rate of the Americans, proportionally.
	There we are.
	Fantastic.
	That's two Lutons every year.
	Everybody loves Luton.
	There's like, what, 300,000 people in Swindon?
	Yeah.
	The next link here, we have the Telegraph breaking the news.
	Foreign students and their dependents could face curbs as net migration hit half a million.
	Could face curbs?
	Why?
	Why?
	Why don't we just have zero?
	They changed the headline.
	Oh, did they?
	I actually have the original headline written down, which is that the immigration levels have now surpassed levels even seen before Brexit.
	Yes.
	They got rid of that, because I suppose that was too incendiary.
	There you have it.
	They wrote in here, data from the Office of National Statistics show that net migration rose from 173,000 in the year to June 2021 to 504,000 in the year of June 2022.
	I love it.
	When we're locked down with COVID, we still have net migration of 173,000 people.
	Nobody really knows how that's possible.
	But it was, apparently.
	Unbelievable.
	We can't go out.
	Nothing's open.
	173,000 foreigners are like, yeah, I'm going to move to Britain.
	And the UK government's like, yeah, we're going to let it happen.
	Even on the lockdown, we can't apparently just do the normal thing.
	The figures will raise concerns over the government's election manifesto pledge to bring down net migration.
	Just concerns.
	Will it really?
	I don't know.
	Speculation.
	I'm just going to get my clown wig and my red nose and go honk honk.
	Might raise concerns.
	Literally, they were like, are we going to get down to the tens of thousands?
	Actually, what we're really going to do is record eyes.
	I love concerns.
	I mean, to be frank, we've had terrorism now in response to this sort of situation.
	You may remember in Dover, there was that guy who did it, so, you know, concerns.
	Just concerned citizens, I'm sure.
	A promise repeated by Rishi Sunak and Suala Bravaman, the Home Secretary, and told the Tory conference her ambition was to reduce it to under 100,000.
	Well, you're the government.
	Just set it to zero.
	Well, it was the same commitment that they had made since, um, can you remember...
	Well, it's probably for decades.
	2010?
	Yeah.
	Was when they made that commitment and got in power.
	They made it for five more years before then.
	They hadn't got power, so they've been in power for 12 years.
	So nearly 20 years, the Conservatives have been saying, we're going to get it below 100,000.
	Give us five more years, bro.
	We'll solve it, bro.
	Just give us five more years and trust me, I'll bring it down.
	Oh wait, it's got to 500,000.
	They could at any point, literally, just put a complete moratorium on giving out visas.
	Or just women.
	Even just the just women thing.
	We would half it overnight.
	We would, yeah.
	Actually more than half, because you only get rid of husbands bringing their wives there.
	And crime goes down.
	Yes.
	But they could do this anytime.
	They could literally do it tomorrow.
	They could do it today.
	They could do it yesterday.
	You'd be like, no, it's zeros.
	Love my zeros.
	This is like the Republicans own the President, the House, the Senate.
	They've got like a 66% majority and just going to do nothing with it.
	However, it is understood that Home Secretary ministers are pressing number 10 for the need of more measures to curb uneconomical legal migration.
	They're thinking about it, boys.
	Just do it!
	Don't worry, Carl, they're thinking about it.
	I tell you what, if I was in control, I would liquidate the Home Office.
	There would be no one to apply to to get a visa.
	Think of the things they thought about.
	They've not done them yet, but they're thinking about maybe doing them at some point in the future, perhaps if you re-elect them.
	These could include restrictions on the rights of students to bring dependents, which, why have you got that right anyway?
	A crackdown on those who do not complete their courses but remain in the UK. That's already illegal.
	That should already be a deportation order.
	But they're thinking about maybe they should start deporting people for committing a crime.
	Why do we need like 300,000 foreign students here a year anyway?
	Well, it's almost like the university system in this country is a leftist rigging machine that is propped up by foreign students.
	Good point.
	We can't lose that.
	Yeah, I know.
	That'd be tragic, wouldn't it?
	All those professors, all those HR people at a university who would go without their yoga bars.
	Anyway, so a curb on foreign students.
	Who's going to serve my coffee in Prague?
	On uneconomic, low-quality courses as well.
	Something I'm thinking of.
	Just thinking about it.
	Uneconomic, low-quality courses.
	What's that code for?
	Who knows?
	Woke nonsense.
	Yeah.
	So the Conservatives are starting to think about maybe we should do something about that.
	You re-elect us, we might.
	God, I hate you.
	The salary threshold for skilled workers could also be raised.
	It's currently £25,000.
	So...
	I don't know what they'll get that raised to.
	Whatever.
	Who cares?
	They're not going to do it.
	That won't even happen.
	The UNS figures showed that 1.1 million people came into the UK in the year of June 2022, an increase of 400 goddamn thousand.
	The separate Home Office figures, however, show that they had risen by 1.4 million people.
	I love the way that they frame this.
	Like, well, they just came here and there was nothing we can do.
	It's just like, oh my god, it's an act of god.
	You know about some Indian tribes who say that they sprouted from the earth?
	Yes.
	Yeah, that's what happened, I think.
	Well, they talk about it like it's a hurricane.
	Or like it's Canadian geese flying across.
	Just like, well, there's just more geese here this year than normal.
	It's just weird.
	There was nothing we could do.
	I'm sure they'll go back.
	That's why we call them guest workers, said Germany.
	Enjoying your Donica Babs, lads.
	Anyway, but the point there.
	ONF says it's 1.1 million.
	Home Office says it's 1.4 million.
	So that 500,000 figure is from the 1.1.
	Right.
	So it's actually about 300,000 more.
	So it's actually 800,000.
	Yeah, it's 800,000.
	That's net breadsticks.
	Again.
	Oh god, this is insane.
	Who are they, in case you're wondering?
	Well, there's less annoyance about the people who are here, who are coming, but that doesn't make up for the fact that you had a promise and you failed it yet again.
	So, students accounted for the biggest proportion, 277,000 coming in, nearly double the previous year.
	But even though there's still half a million, like, you know, mercenaries.
	Well, people who need housing, GPs, infrastructure for roads, the metro, etc, etc, etc.
	Like, these things also have to be built.
	Well, they'll never be built, they'll never be expanded even.
	A humanitarian and other family visas accounted for the second largest proportion of immigrants, 39% of them, at a quarter of a million there.
	About 70,000 should be boat people.
	Sorry.
	Just 70,000.
	Yeah, it's a tiny drop in the ocean.
	That's for one year as well.
	Less than a tenth of it is for boat people.
	Of those numbers, 90,000 Ukrainians, who, you know, at least that was, you had to sponsor your house to do it.
	I'm sure no one's staying in the hotel.
	And at least they were probably mostly women.
	74,000 Hong Kongers?
	Actually, welcome.
	Yeah, fair enough.
	Thing is, you then have to count...
	Okay, we're going to let in 100,000 Hong Kongers this year.
	We probably don't need 100,000 Pakistanis.
	Nope.
	Because, um...
	Why would we?
	Like...
	Surely the immigrant making the coffee and Pratt argument is solved by all those Hong Kongers who are making coffee and Pratt, I'm sure.
	But the point being there that, yeah, you have a target, you break it even more, and you don't think to adjust the figures and be like, well, we're not going to take the uneconomic migrants because we've got Hong Kongers.
	No, no, we'll have both.
	There's just no limit to any of it.
	They're just like, stamp, stamp, stamp, stamp, stamp every single thing that comes across their desk.
	21,000 Afghans or Britons returning from Afghanistan.
	That's such a tiny number.
	It's such a tiny number compared to the rest of it.
	That's what we got out of the war.
	456 dead and 21,000 Afghans living here.
	Oh, that's this year alone.
	They'll be joining 80,000 Afghans who already live here.
	So that brings us up to 100,000 Afghans now living in the UK. Oh, good.
	Which I'm sure will go swimmingly.
	It went so well with the Pakistani immigration project.
	They're not at the bottom of the earnings list at all.
	Anyway, separate home office data.
	That's the issue with the Pakistani immigration.
	It's the only one I can mention on YouTube.
	Also released on Thursday showed a number of asylum applications and this year has gone to a two-decade high.
	72,000 people.
	Asylum was granted in 77% of cases, rising to 98% of those from Afghanistan, Eritrea and Syria.
	And now you can't get a four-star hotel anywhere in the land.
	Thing is, that number there, 77% of cases were granted.
	That's not because 77% of them actually reached the definition of an asylum seeker if you were to talk to them, because you can go and talk to them yourself.
	You just go down to your local hotel, have a word, and talk to these people.
	And you will know that they all came from France, and therefore don't reach the definition of an actual asylum seeker.
	The reason they're approved is because it's easier.
	Probably, yeah.
	I'm telling you, man.
	Otherwise they've got to, like, now we've got to get rid of them.
	Yeah, and the deportation scheme barely works.
	Of those 33% who have to be deported, roughly about 9% of that 33% will be deported.
	So all those people who are here illegally, they'll just remain here.
	Just in the black market.
	The backlog of cases waiting for an initial decision at all has now reached 122,000.
	Sorry, that was previous year.
	It's now at 140,000.
	Fantastic.
	Just smile.
	Literal joke of makeup at this point.
	The ONS even tells us how many Brits have left in the next tab.
	They say 90,000 Brits left.
	So, yep.
	We can now update the graph.
	A little graph I've been keeping.
	Of the foreign-born population.
	Because we now have another year to add, don't we?
	If you can see on the far right there, you see that gradient?
	That looks healthy.
	Yeah, I'm definitely looking at the far right these days.
	It's almost 90% in the upward direction there.
	This is mad.
	That's a single year.
	So we're now up to, I think it's 17.8% foreign-born in this country.
	The greatest rise ever.
	A single year.
	There we have it.
	We can also track that if we just continue the curve, just to the 2031 census.
	We can check how many people will be foreign-born in England and Wales by 2031.
	That's a whole nine years away.
	In nine years' time.
	And that's just born in another country.
	That's not the descendants, the second, third, or fourth generation children of these immigrants in these ethnic enclaves.
	In nine years, of those only who were born in a foreign country, it will be about 25% for the whole nation.
	That's insane.
	England will literally not exist.
	We have the graph before as well, if you go to the next one here.
	This is the immigration graph of just how's it been going.
	As you can see, something happened in the 1990s.
	We are still yet to know more.
	A man at Chibi News will come and let us know once he figures it out.
	Now we have the updated version, which I made yesterday.
	It's off the chart.
	There's the chart.
	It only goes up to 400,000.
	So, it's just...
	I had to put it there.
	There you are.
	To be fair, I think you put it a bit too low as well.
	Slightly, maybe.
	I mean, it literally should be double.
	I don't think I even included legals that we don't have.
	So, there's that.
	So we're going well.
	Thanks, conservatives.
	We'll go to the controlled opposition, who even started signalling that they're opposed to endless migration.
	That's how bad it is.
	The Socialist Party is like, we can't say that we want more of this.
	They will, if they gain power, obviously.
	But publicly, Keir Starman had to give a statement saying, maybe that should be lower.
	Maybe the Conservatives have gone mad.
	Yeah.
	Rashid Sunuk, as he was referred to by Joe Biden, says that he's not going to deal with it.
	As in, you know there's boat people that we have to deal with, plebs, all over the country?
	Hardly his problem, is it, Callum?
	Oh no, literally.
	His constituency isn't his problem.
	No.
	Every other constituency has to have their hotels shut down.
	His, not so much.
	Average Richmond man.
	If you go to the next link here, we can see David reporting the Alton Court Hotel in Rishi Sunak's constituency.
	Oh.
	They were marked to have 72 asylum seekers in this beautiful establishment.
	And it was cancelled for no reason.
	Weird.
	Hmm.
	Amazing that.
	Anyone who's watched Yes Minister knows how that happened.
	Yeah.
	Which is just, the Prime Minister doesn't want it.
	Yes.
	We've looked at the Transport Supremo, and it's not happening.
	We also have Liverpool MP. This is the first black Liverpool MP who's totally black, for sure.
	Anyway, but she came out with a statement that she supports refugees.
	She just doesn't want to pay for them.
	Nope.
	No.
	No, no, no.
	You wanted the refugees, you got them.
	But there's no funding, no consultation with the council and unsuitable accommodation.
	We welcome refugees.
	Sounds like a dive.
	Sounds like a you problem.
	Yeah.
	Look, any MP who tweeted refugees welcome should be getting busloads of them.
	Lisa Nandy.
	In their constituency.
	If you had any spine, just drop them off.
	Make them homeless.
	I don't care.
	What difference does it make?
	They're homeless in Calais.
	You've not changed anything.
	They started homeless and they're homeless.
	Anyway, also Fawlty Towers has now fallen, in case you're wondering.
	Torquay is gone.
	Really?
	Yeah, I'm not kidding.
	This is actually quite sad.
	Quiet seaside town of Torquay is the latest to have all of its hotels filled with illegal immigrants.
	Good luck going on holiday next year.
	For people who don't know, Torquay is a beautiful holiday destination.
	Fantastic place.
	And has become a meme in British culture, thanks to Fawlty Towers being set there.
	And has been ever since enjoyed as a holiday resort.
	Even if it's a bit, you know...
	It's very British.
	I love it.
	That's why.
	And now it's not.
	Now it's a refugee town.
	That was never a statement in the English language.
	In British English.
	Refugee town.
	Never had that before.
	Now it's a thing.
	Five-star hotels are now being used in Westminster.
	Why wouldn't you?
	I can think of lots of reasons why I wouldn't.
	Well, you've run out of four-star hotels, so we've got to go up a star.
	I guess we're just going to have to keep going up, lads.
	This individual found a five-star hotel in Westminster, because remember, it's Westminster.
	It's incredibly rich.
	There's only five-star hotels left.
	So we've got to use those.
	These people, they wouldn't say how they got here to the person recording.
	She asked them, and they just went, no, I don't want to talk about it.
	It's not a good talk.
	Direct quote.
	Why are they here?
	Why are they here?
	Yes, they are.
	Just deport them.
	The mercenary adventurers just...
	Poor man.
	There's also a £20 million apartment complex that's just been finished.
	Now used to house them as well.
	The reason for this...
	Can we click on that second image just so you can see the quality?
	This is what was being advertised to potential renters, but we need the housing for illegal beggars.
	We're paying for this.
	Criminals.
	So, yeah, you might wonder how does that happen?
	And the thing is, because of course, well, the Home Office goes to companies like Serco and says, can you solve this for us?
	And Serco just goes, you bet we can, as long as you pay enough.
	Yeah, ka-ching.
	Yeah, and the payouts are ridiculous.
	And they're like, okay, well, what's 14 billion between friends?
	Well, what's corruption between friends?
	If you go to the next one here, we can see Serco put out this call, calling all landlords.
	I remember knowing this at the time.
	I don't know why I didn't bring it up.
	They were literally just calling up every landlord in the country saying, whatever your apartment, whatever your housing, we will pay you gangbusters if you just let us operate your housing.
	Here's the contract.
	You have to do nothing.
	We'll deal with it.
	And you get a load of money.
	Just take the bribery cash.
	Remember, what is it, there's that movie where Yuri over there goes back to Ukraine and just steals loads of AKs and sells them.
	Lord of War.
	I haven't seen it.
	That's a great movie.
	And his uncle, who's the Soviet commander of the base, says, well, someone will figure it out.
	You know, I used to have 40,000 AKs, now I have 10,000.
	And I need to order more, apparently.
	And he says, we'll just cut them in.
	Point.
	Or if you just cut in all the landlords.
	Good point.
	Corruption will never end.
	That's what will happen.
	And they are incredibly generous.
	And we have more evidence of that from Nigel Farage, who has decided to interview yet another patriot prophet, as I'm going to call these people, because they deserve more praise than we can possibly give them.
	This is an individual couple.
	They're running a hotel.
	They were offered 500 grand to destroy the neighbourhood.
	And they turned it down.
	Good for them.
	Let's play the clip and hear about their story.
	Okay, we was offered £132,000 every 13 weeks.
	So, roughly just over half a million pound a year.
	The reason we turned it down was because of our morals and beliefs.
	When we bought this hotel, there wasn't any migrants or illegal immigrants in this town.
	And within a year, the whole scene has changed.
	Skedness is a seaside resort, and it's been a hub for tourism for generations.
	And people come here for the beach, the sea, Arcades, donkey rides, amusement parks, et cetera, et cetera.
	And bringing so many migrants into this town is going to put tourism off.
	It'll become a ghost town.
	It'll become known as a refugee town.
	The stipulation was to close the whole hotel down, the bar, the restaurant, the rooms.
	We've got 10 staff on site at the moment.
	We'd have gone down to one member of staff.
	We only had to change the laundry once a week and to provide one basic meal.
	That was it.
	We would never ever be a part of the contribution of what is going on.
	We would rather lose everything and be able to sleep at night knowing that we didn't contribute to what's going on.
	Good for them.
	This is not the only story like this I've seen.
	I saw another one the other day.
	It was this lovely old looking hotel.
	I played it to.
	Is that the one you played?
	Yeah, and the guys say, well, I can't, you know, the local community would never forgive me.
	Well, you've been loyal to us, why would it not be loyal to them?
	And they were offered, I think it was a million quid, that guy.
	And again, think about that for a minute, because this is about 2% of our economy now.
	That's the other point to mention.
	And this is only expanding, this pyramid scheme that people think could just make more money.
	Those in Serco and the Home Office who are, I think, just taking bribes.
	That's honestly why I believe at this point.
	steal taxpayers' money, okay?
	You take it to yourself, you then deal it out to your friends to import foreign, well, beggars.
	Occupants, yeah.
	And you launder this through the hotel industry for one point, if not the landlords.
	And the deal is that all the local people who own these hotels have to fire all the British workers because you don't need them.
	As they said, you only need one cleaner.
	There'll be 20 people off in that hotel.
	You think there must be several hundred of these at this point.
	That's thousands of people out of work, no longer paying taxes either.
	So, I mean, it's just a cannibalistic machine destroying our economy.
	This is insane.
	Yeah.
	We have Nigel Farage saying that the occupied government deserved to be completely wiped out in the next link here, which, get on with it, mad.
	Yeah.
	He sent an email to every party member saying that he didn't waste 25 years of his life for them to destroy it.
	Yeah.
	Go and join the Reform Party.
	Go support Nigel Farage.
	Let's get rid of the Conservatives.
	They have to go.
	If that's what you want to do.
	And the thing is, I do hinge that personally on just he has to get back into the game annoyingly.
	I know a lot of people don't trust him for reasons, but it's just...
	Who cares?
	That's how British politics works.
	Look where we are.
	He's literally the only politician we have who's like, we're going to do something about this?
	Okay, fine.
	In the public view as well.
	He's got the name.
	But we got the next one as well.
	The leftists are complaining that some people died trying to cross the channel.
	Nature herself is rising up to defend the country since our government won't.
	Yeah, they didn't like France, so they tried to flee it.
	Understandable.
	But if you just go through the legal port of entry, you don't die.
	You don't get a Darwin Award.
	You might think the worst takes from all of this situation, that continues to get worse and worse every single goddamn day, might be from the leftist media.
	Maybe.
	Yeah, it was The Guardian.
	No.
	No, completely normal reporting.
	This whole article's boring.
	Really?
	It's just them stating the facts.
	I mean, gleefully, but still.
	Like, nothing bad.
	Which means we're going to have to go to the bad take machine.
	Okay, what Tom Harwood said about this?
	Yeah, yeah, okay.
	I thought we were going to try and make ourselves gleeful.
	So we have here Tom Harwood.
	I'm not sure why the entire media is going along with the claim that vote leave promise specific migration numbers going down.
	It's like, what?
	Wait, what do you mean?
	As if people voted leave because they wanted the migration to go up.
	I voted leave so we could have hundreds of thousands of more Pakistani immigrants move here.
	He says the campaign was about taking control.
	Yes, to reduce.
	No, to increase it.
	I want to take control to finally abolish all restrictions on immigration.
	Yeah, it was unfair that only the entire EU could come here with our sake.
	He also has the future one, which is a student should not even be classified as migrants anymore in his next week.
	Why?
	Don't they occupy space?
	Don't they live in houses?
	There's no reasoning given.
	It's just they shouldn't.
	That's just...
	Again, why?
	Does he think they just...
	What's he think?
	Shouldn't they live in pods or something?
	And if the students don't, why do work visas count then?
	Why not get rid of all work visas from the statistics?
	Yeah.
	Why not get rid of all foreigners?
	As if they don't occupy space and use up services.
	This is such a stupid argument.
	Dumbest thing I've ever read.
	Gita Forks, someone at Gita Forks decided to also take this on.
	I don't know what's infecting Westminster, but stop drinking the tap water.
	That's for sure.
	Why?
	I don't know!
	Why would students be removed from migrant figures?
	They are migrants!
	It's also the case, you know when they leave...
	Why are you trying to reduce them artificially?
	You know when they leave?
	The plan being that once you're done with your degree, you go back.
	That's when you get reduced from the immigration figure?
	Okay, well, because you're out, you're literally, you know...
	Logic.
	Yeah.
	Destroy that, don't want that.
	Kind of that.
	Anyway.
	But a fellow with a Rwandan flag in his bio did actually put all of the situation best.
	Just gonna take it from Maximus.
	Just send them machete emojis.
	I do like this mini-rebellion of just adding Rwandan flags.
	However, he says that thanks to the wonders of UK immigration policy, you will now compete with the world's richest in housing markets and the world's poorest on the labour market.
	And lose your culture in the process.
	Yeah, that's exactly what's happening.
	And we'll end this off just by mentioning ethnicity day.
	That's out in four days.
	Oh yeah, I'm looking forward to that.
	Tune in.
	Yeah, that'll be on Tuesday.
	And the last thing to mention, which is to try and cheer us up, could be worse, lads.
	Someone is having a worse day than us.
	Oh good.
	Just to sidetrack this, this is some individual here who is, click on the first image there, ex-NHS doctor now.
	Obviously sane person, yeah.
	Yep, yep.
	And what's their complaint today?
	If you go to the next image.
	Today I gave a talk at Bristol University on gender inclusion healthcare.
	Attendees were, as I understand it, health professionals.
	The Q&A section had over 45 transphobic questions.
	Around 80% of the questions.
	I love the picture of him biting his knuckles.
	It's just like such childishness.
	Yeah.
	Like, oh, I was biting my hand.
	Look at the bite marks on my hand.
	You didn't even puncture the skin, you pussy.
	No, the questions came in immediately, without warning, and were consistently in response to slides.
	They were not evidence-based.
	It's a question.
	The question is not evidence-based.
	No, I guess it's not.
	This dude slides to try and cheer us up after all that.
	Just to see.
	They're insane, in case you're wondering.
	We go to slides and we can see them.
	We have him giving us Trans Gandalf.
	Quote here from Trans Gandalf.
	Passing is subjective and is not necessarily the goal of transitioning.
	So why are you transitioning?
	Anyway, you look hot either way.
	Yeah, right.
	Okay, there we are.
	I hope that cheered you up with the black pill.
	No, not terribly.
	Well, I tried.
	Otherwise, let's compete for the world's richest for housing, the world's poorest for labour, and lose our culture in the process.
	God, I hate the concept so much.
	Anyway, I do actually have something a bit more cheery for the final segment, which is nice, because football is hilarious.
	I love watching football activism, because if there's one thing footballers aren't famous for, it's their brain power.
	I don't know.
	Creativity, yes.
	I didn't say creativity.
	It's brain power.
	It's part of it, I think.
	Footballers are not famously intellectual.
	And that's not a criticism either.
	Until their job is not kicking around a ball.
	When their job becomes reasoning through abstractions and politics, then it becomes slightly more difficult.
	Kicking a ball, you don't need to be a scholar for that.
	You can just be a regular dude who's good at kicking a ball.
	It's like, great, go and kick a ball.
	You do have to be disciplined.
	I'm not saying there's no virtues to it.
	But don't start talking about abstractions.
	Because you don't know what you're talking about, and you end up looking like an effing fool, as Gareth Southgate has recently achieved.
	Before we go on, though, go and watch our Politics and Philosophy of They Live, because, honestly, this is kind of what's going on here.
	These people are wearing the kind of progressive skin suit, only they're too stupid to keep it a secret.
	Anyway, moving on.
	The One Love armband was, of course, banned because the Qataris were like, no gays, sorry.
	Who could have seen this coming?
	Yeah, who could have seen this coming?
	You know, this was designed to, as Metro tells, designed to raise awareness about LGBTQ plus discrimination in Qatar.
	Really?
	Okay.
	Is that what the armband was for?
	That's what it was for.
	Secretly?
	Oh, wow.
	No, no, no, no, that's fine, right?
	And so the FA, the Football Association...
	Because remember, they had an armband for that.
	It was banned by the Qataris.
	Yeah, it was.
	So I was like, you can wear this one.
	And then they realised, hang on, that's a gay one.
	Oh, yeah.
	That was the process of events there.
	Right.
	Well, the Football Association is like, look, we're collectively very frustrated by the decision, which is unprecedented, and we want to actively support inclusion in football.
	So you're Islamophobic.
	Got it.
	Right.
	It ended, our players and coaches are disappointed.
	They're strong supporters of inclusion and will show support in other ways.
	So the Germans were like, right, we're going to cover our mouths because we've been censored.
	It's like, okay.
	This is crap.
	You look kind of stupid.
	I mean, it's forms of protest.
	This is rubbish.
	Yeah.
	Everyone was like, it looks like someone's just let one rip.
	Right.
	It looks stupid.
	You know, the tape over the mouth would have been more effective.
	But anyway, okay, whatever, whatever.
	Well, I mean, the Iranians are not singing their national anthem.
	That's powerful.
	We'll get to that.
	Yeah, but it's powerful.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's more important, right?
	But this is cringe, and remember their airline diversity wins?
	Well, they lost two months to Japan, so it doesn't win again.
	Anyway, so England are like, look, we're going to take the knee.
	What?
	What?
	Take the knee?
	What?
	To protest LGBTQ rights in Qatar?
	The hell are you doing, Gareth?
	This is a know-nothing statement.
	Absolutely.
	That's exactly what it is, right?
	He says, what we stand for as a team, taking the knee, is what we stand for as a team and have done for a long time.
	They didn't make their anti-racism gesture.
	Again, note it's an anti-racism gesture in their games against Germany and Italy in September, but will do so when they play Iran in their opening match.
	Because you can't wear an LGBT armband to protest at Qatar.
	You're going to take the knee in anti-racist solidarity against Iran.
	What are you doing?
	They don't know.
	They don't know, right?
	And the thing is, what is this...
	Okay, what's the origin of the taking the knee?
	Okay, fine, you're taking a knee in solidarity against racism, against Iran, to protest LGBTQ rights in Qatar.
	Where does this come from?
	I think it's lost to time, actually.
	Actually, it's Colin Kaepernick in 2016.
	Is it?
	Yes, in America.
	Oh.
	Where Colin Kaepernick was like, the American flag's racist.
	So I'm not going to sing the national anthem or stand for it.
	I'm going to take a knee.
	And Gareth Southgate's like, yeah, I need to do that in front of Iran to protest gay rights in Qatar because the American flag's racist.
	What are you doing, Gareth?
	You don't know what you're doing, right?
	Has he been licking the line paint?
	Yes, so Southgate is currently in Qatar protesting American police violence against the Iranians.
	Well, I can see why that's permitted in Qatar.
	Yeah, true.
	Because gays aren't allowed to marry in Qatar.
	Right?
	This is just, what are you doing?
	And this, of course, got rolled into the George Floyd protests in 2020.
	The chat is just like, just play football, just play football.
	Exactly!
	Just play football, bro!
	But no, no, no.
	Of course, in 2020, this got rolled into the George Floyd protests, and I'm sure George Floyd is just thrilled to see people taking a knee.
	I mean, it seems like solidarity with Derek Chauvin, obviously, but like...
	You don't have the ghosts in Harry Potter.
	Like, you die...
	Your ghost is how you died, right?
	I've never watched Harry Potter.
	Well, Headless Nick, he's still...
	I'm imagining George Floyd is, like, for the rest of his existence.
	And everyone's taking a knee aside.
	That's not what I was after.
	And I love the way the Washington Post framed this.
	Two knees.
	One protesting the grass, one pressing against the back of a man's neck.
	What?
	Protesting the grass?
	You have to choose which knee you will defend.
	Which way, Western man?
	Exactly!
	There are no half choices.
	There's no room for indifference.
	There is only the knee of protest or the knee on the neck.
	And Gareth Southgate's like, well, I'm choosing a knee.
	I'm not sure why I'm choosing a knee, and I'm not sure which one.
	The NFL, the owners, instantly chose the knee on the neck.
	Anyway, Reuters describe it as an anti-racism gesture.
	England players took the knee in this historic anti-racism gesture.
	The sporting news were like, however, prior to the decision, England has already confirmed they will take the knee prior to each game of the World Cup 2020 finals in a separate stance against racism.
	There are different kinds of knee-taking.
	Well, now, if you can get to the next one, you see, it's not that there's different kinds of need-taking, it's different reasons for taking it.
	So it's like, right, so actually, this is nothing to do with the Americans, there's nothing to do with the Qataris, there's nothing to do with the Iranians either, because of course there are human rights violations currently going on in Iran.
	The symbol for that's a hijab.
	That's true, because it's oppressing women.
	But instead, as Sporting News had pointed out, they said, oh well, it's just a separate stance against racism.
	So we're just generally taking the meaning.
	Okay, so it's an ideological salute.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So it's a pledge of fealty.
	We're just generally taking the meaning.
	And so the Guardian were like Okay this is a protest against inequality now?
	Where?
	I don't know!
	Why are you morons kneeling?
	You don't know why you're doing this, do you?
	No one knows why you're doing this, right?
	Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, said he had no issue with England players taking the knee, a protest that emerged from the Black Lives Matter movement, which it didn't.
	What are they going to do?
	You complete the form.
	I guess.
	I'm fine with that, you told Sky News.
	I think that's a choice for Harry Kane and the team, and indeed for Wales as well.
	These are their choices, not for the government to tell them what to do.
	And I think when you're playing in a country like Qatar, which does have different standards in the way it treats, for example, the LGBT community, it's perfectly legitimate for them to make that stance.
	What?
	What?
	I mean, I'm not saying Qataris aren't racist, but that wasn't really the point of what you were doing, was it?
	Idiots?
	Do you even know?
	Well, let's ask Gareth Southgate.
	Because when people are like, so why are you taking the knee?
	Gareth Southgate said, we've discussed taking the knee, and we feel we should.
	Also, this paint tastes great.
	But he just doesn't know.
	He doesn't know why he's taking the knee.
	It was just like, it's what we stand for as a team.
	I'm scared.
	We feel we should.
	The American team don't even do it.
	No, of course not.
	You remember that comedian at Comedy Only Show who is American and he came over and went, you guys are still obsessed with Black Lives Matter.
	How has that happened?
	We're over it.
	Yeah, because there's not an election year and the Democrats have canned them.
	But, like, we feel this is the biggest, and we think it's a strong statement that will go around the world for young people to see that inclusivity is very important.
	Bugger off.
	Right, so now it's about inclusivity.
	We just feel we should for inclusivity.
	I don't know.
	You don't know why.
	You've no idea why.
	I don't know why, because you're not clear.
	Just say there's a gun to your head.
	So, this was just an amazing clip, right?
	If we can get to this next one.
	Have we got the clip for this?
	Alright, let's watch this.
	It's amazing.
	Look at his face.
	That's a cheese toastie.
	That is a cheese toastie.
	That's an amazing face.
	You can just play it in the page if...
	We have discussed taking the knee.
	We feel we should.
	It's what we stand for as a team and have done for a long period of time.
	We understand in the Premier League that The clubs have decided to only do that for certain games, big occasions.
	We feel this is the biggest and we think it's a strong statement that will go around the world for young people in particular to see that inclusivity is very important.
	I think we've made it clear as a team and the staff and an organisation that we want to wear the armband.
	I know the FA are talking to FIFA at the moment and I'm sure by game time tomorrow they'll have their decision.
	But yeah, I think we've made it clear that we want to wear it.
	I don't feel...
	enough to comment on what's going on in Iran and I don't think it's really my place to comment on it either I think the Iranian players and manager understand they are in a difficult position but I think they're better informed to speak about those things if we were asked by by their team to support them in some
	way we would obviously have to listen to that and consider that but I think we're all hoping to focus on the football now Focus on the football!
	You haven't mentioned the bloody football, Gareth!
	We finally got to it.
	The football?
	We're out of time for the conference, actually.
	Yeah, but I love this, like, right, I'm taking a knee in front of Iran to protest women's rights with an anti-racism gesture for equality and inclusion.
	I don't feel qualified to comment on it, though.
	Then why are you doing anything?
	Of course, you're totally right.
	We're going to stand up by taking the knee and sitting down to racism.
	Yeah, it's just so incoherent.
	This is just so dumb, right?
	But this is the cherry on the clown cake.
	Gareth Southgate.
	We won't get dragged into virtue signaling.
	What?
	When is he planning on not getting dragged into?
	What are you talking about?
	Like, that's all this has all been!
	It's a massive virtue signal because you can't properly articulate why you are protesting American police violence by taking a knee for LGBT rights in order to protect women from the Iranian government, a subject you have no knowledge of.
	Like, that's all this is, Gareth.
	If only you could focus on the football, right?
	Like, are you mad?
	I'm just...
	Like, this is so incoherent, man.
	He used to be in the Yugoslav army, and they had to take Marxism classes.
	And he told me about how he got a special badge because he was top of the class for Marxism classes.
	Hated it, but learnt everything about Marxism.
	The thing is, I'm imagining whoever's bottom of the class still passed out, so they must know nothing...
	And whatever, they have to stand up in front of a crowd or a panel and just go, yeah, Marxism, we stand up for it, or, you know, workers and revolution and stuff.
	And I completely gobbledygook, like that.
	And still it was accepted.
	I presume it was because of Gareth Southgate's totally incoherent position that they're being pressured into finding a new form of protest, right?
	There is now pressure for England to come up with a new, the England team, to come up with a new form of protest, particularly after Germany's players responded to FIFA's intervention by covering their mouths before the defeat of Japan.
	Have an idea.
	They could S in their hands and clap.
	I think everyone would get the message at that point.
	If they do, then it will be in contrast to Wales, who said they won't be making any protests against the game, in their game with Iran.
	Just, nah, just here for the football, mate.
	I love the Welsh.
	Manager Rob Pace suggesting the Germans will wish in hindsight they'd focus fully on football.
	Which is true.
	That's exactly what happened.
	Diversity was not their strength that day.
	But Gareth Southgate was like, we want to stay true to our own values.
	It's like, Gareth, you kick a ball for a living.
	You're a professional ball kicker, Mareth.
	Your values are having the discipline to stay in peak physical fitness.
	That's actually a value of a football player.
	Not whatever dribble is coming out of your mouth.
	We want to stay true to our own values, but at the same time, we do not want to make things heard and aware of how we feel.
	We want to get everyone's opinion across in the right way.
	I don't care about the opinion of footballers.
	Again, like, not trying to be insulting, but not our best and brightest, right?
	I think they have some great opinions on the conflict in Yemen.
	I mean...
	Just...
	Where do we get in, right?
	I feel it's really difficult at the minute to do that without upsetting people's rules or whatever it might be.
	There's a really fine line with all of this, and we're trying so far to stick to our values and what we believe in as a team to make sure we don't get pushed over.
	It's like...
	Just play the game, man.
	You're obviously completely out at sea.
	You don't know what's going on.
	There's a raging storm around you and you have no idea.
	Just play the goddamn game.
	And as you said, compare this to the Iranian team's protest against their own government, which was not singing their own anthem.
	That's a good protest.
	It's meaningful.
	You go to the next one, you see the guys just standing there with grim looks on their faces like, yeah, you know, I'm playing for the Iranian national team, but I'm really unhappy that the Iranian government's like, yeah, we're going to execute 15,000 protesters.
	Seems a bit harsh, you know?
	But, presumably, to spare us all the embarrassment of watching Gareth Southgate trying to explain what taking the knee means, FIFA have lifted the ban on rainbow clothes.
	So go on, wear your stupid rainbow clothes, because watching Gareth Southgate get, like, mired into the ideological debate of what all this is about is just embarrassing for everyone to watch, right?
	Apparently there's just completely...
	This is just the fans, actually.
	I'm just teasing.
	But there's rainbow bucket hats and wristbands were confiscated from Wales fans before a match, and it's just, like, great...
	I want to do that in an American school.
	You know they stand there, like, put your phones in the box.
	In the trash.
	So there's been a reversal on this, so you will be able to dress like a gay.
	If that's what it means to you, which it's not.
	It's intersectional nonsense, everyone knows that as well.
	Yeah, this has nothing to do with gays, or anything to do with ideological dominance.
	But anyway, the point is, Gareth Southgate has no idea why he's doing any of this.
	He can't explain himself, and he's an idiot.
	Did notice you called him a professional ball kicker and all the chat became alive with CBT from Wikipedia, freeencyclopedia.org.
	Anyway.
	I mean, he literally is a professional ball kicker.
	I suppose they are the most highly paid ball kickers.
	I'm not saying it's not lucrative.
	Someone can fact check that.
	We'll go to the cheese toastie.
	So for all the bull crap that we have collectively been going through over the last couple of years, I think we all now know who our real friends are and who the real people are.
	And I for one was lucky that none of my close friends turned out to be POSs.
	And I also think I found a spine and said what I needed to say.
	I'm glad to hear it.
	I really want one of those omelettes now.
	Is that an omelette?
	No, previously it was an omelette.
	Yeah, I want to see what those cake things are.
	It's totally true.
	It's nice to hear.
	Yeah, no, good.
	Lucky for you.
	Tony D and Little Joe with another Lotus Eater White Pill.
	From the Good News Network comes the story of edible drones.
	Yes, the Swiss are working on an edible drone.
	The wings are made of rice cakes and gelatin wrapped in plastic.
	And the idea is if you're stuck out in the middle of nowhere, the Swiss will come to the rescue with a drone you can eat.
	They're also working on getting some water in there.
	I'm just outraged that they're not partially made of chocolate.
	I love how much Tony's enjoying this.
	That's horrible.
	Why?
	You're in the mountains, you've been starving for a week, you've been eating tree bark, and then they eat the drone.
	I would be very thrilled if an edible drone, you're stuck on some craggy mountaintop and they're trying to rescue you.
	It's a drone.
	No, that's actually clever.
	I can see why Tony's excited about it, I support that.
	Can they not put a Twix on the side of it?
	I have to be like, eat the drones.
	I can't think of anything worse.
	I'd rather eat people.
	It just seems gross.
	What?
	Why?
	There's something dehumanising about a drone turning over.
	I was like, yeah, eat the drone.
	I don't agree.
	I think it's a good idea.
	Oh, no.
	I'm eating the other plane passengers.
	I've just got a pile of drones.
	What if you're on your own?
	I can't do that.
	Well, I'll eat the tree bark.
	I don't know.
	Don't do that if you're starving.
	A rice cake is not the worst thing in the world.
	No, it's not that.
	It's the platform.
	It's the platform that makes me go off.
	For God's sakes.
	Airdrop it into me.
	Don't send it on a drone.
	Yeah.
	Parachutes, kosher.
	Little drones.
	Do you see the drones being used in Ukraine?
	Actually, I'll just kill bots now.
	No, I haven't seen that.
	So I think it's like Raytheon or something you've developed.
	They're making an advertisement for them.
	You can fly them in.
	The best part is, not only do they fly and blow up and kill people, they find their targets.
	You can sit them by closed doors, and it will just wait, because it's got a huge battery life, until the person does finally come out, and it will just fly up and blow up in their head.
	I hate drones.
	Basically just, you know...
	Robots are gonna die.
	So robot missiles.
	Yeah, I... Anyway, let's get the written comments on the site.
	Yep.
	Um...
	Right, so Smith says, Callum, politics of Lord of War when?
	I think there was much politics.
	I've never seen it, so I don't know.
	I'll tell you briefly, because it's a great movie.
	So, two lads grow up in Ukraine, Jews, sorry, no, they're pretending to be Jews, to get out of the Soviet Union, get to America, realise that life is crap there, can't really get any money, so the older brother becomes a weapons dealer, starts selling weapons.
	It goes really well.
	Becomes like an international arms dealer doing okay.
	He's not a big boy in the business.
	And then Soviet Union collapses and his uncle was the general of like a huge area of Ukraine.
	So he just goes back and there's this beautiful scene where they've got rows and rows of AKs and tanks and helicopters.
	And this is all true as well.
	Like he's a real guy.
	He's a Uzbeki instead or something like that.
	And he just says to him, like, how many AKs have you got?
	And he says, for the battalion, the 40,000.
	Sounds more like a 10,000 if you look at it.
	That fall's not very good.
	You should order more.
	And it's just an expose, you know, as a movie of utter corruption that took place.
	And why, after the Soviet Union, you found AKs everywhere.
	Soviet tanks everywhere.
	Anyway, we wanted to trade him for that girl who smuggled weed.
	Oh, the...
	That's the guy.
	That's the Lord of War.
	Oh, right.
	The basketball player.
	Yeah, we wanted to trade the Lord of War himself for the basketball player.
	Oh, right.
	He's still in our jails.
	Yeah.
	He also smuggled, I think it's like $10 billion worth of gold out of Afghanistan for the Taliban, just as we were invading, and they got it back to them so they continued the war.
	He's partly responsible for their victory.
	Man, this guy's busy.
	No, he's an epic figure.
	Like, the movie doesn't do him justice.
	It's actually way bigger than that.
	Right, okay.
	Anyway.
	Maybe you should do something on it.
	There's just not much politics in it.
	It's just horrible.
	Sir Olney says, Carl, you know you could have had an active Twitter account all these years.
	All you had to do was keep your speech safe, legal, and rare.
	Oof.
	S.H. Silver says, Hold off on supporting Musk fully.
	We have to see his Twitter amnesty extends to Alex Jones, Robert Malone, and Peter McCullough.
	It is notable that there are either anti-China or anti-Jab, as Elon was notably pushing for jabs and is very chummy with China for his investments there.
	Well, I mean, if he said there's going to be a blanket amnesty, then Alex Jones didn't do anything wrong.
	So, I assume Alex Jones will be back.
	Yeah, I also assume that you can just make a new account.
	Because...
	I don't know if you know, but Tommy can't actually log into his because he's just forgotten the email.
	Oh.
	But he...
	He's been messaging me, like, how did Carl get on?
	I'm like, just send an appeal.
	He's like, I can't!
	No, no, actually, what you can do, Tommy, is there's a...
	I didn't use my original email address.
	I used a different email address.
	Did you log in with the old account?
	No, no, I didn't log in.
	if you go to Twitter's website, there's an appeal account section on the website.
	So on the computer, and then it's got a form, and then you put in your at and then your email address, the one you want to use.
	It doesn't have to be the same one.
	Okay.
	And then why you should be, you know, your little description.
	And that's how I got it.
	George says, Elon seems pretty committed to the free speech angle and is genuinely taking a populist approach to ruling Twitter.
	I guess this is what a good monarchy looks like.
	He'll soon have to go for the insulated approach of Gab because Apple and Google are not beyond using their duopoly power to destroy opponents to the progressive narrative.
	Yes, well, this is definitely what the left are trying to push for because what else are they going to do?
	Andrew says, there absolutely needs to be legal consequences to what Twitter did before Elon Musk flagrant attempts to undermine national sovereignty of numerous nations.
	Yeah, I just can't wait to see what the interaction between Jen Psaki and the Twitter trust and safety team was.
	General High Ping says, being compared to a demon released from the bowels of Twitter hell seems like a step up from being called a garbage human.
	I just love the gates of hell are opening, says Taylor Lorenz.
	Taylor, you're a joke.
	Paul says, the mainstream economy is steadily locking white people out of higher employment.
	Now, Tories are confused why their base doesn't care about economic talking points.
	Yeah, we've seen that Rishi Sunak has been hiring a bunch of Indians.
	Yeah, um...
	Totally normal.
	I also don't really care what this king does, you know?
	Like, if he tomorrow just announced the...
	I don't know, he's gonna just embezzle a billion dollars.
	What about you?
	Because he's just, like you said, so unrepresentative, not elected, so I just...
	Yeah.
	Utterly illegitimate, is how I would describe Rishi Sunak.
	Anyway, Adrian of the Fountain says, It's real fun trying to explain to people who do not follow politics and are already settled with a good job and paid house that everything has gone wrong.
	That beyond the illusion of safety, the house of cars is crumbling, and that everything they hold dear will collapse and leave them trapped, deprived, and subservient.
	I hate that this seems to be the case, and I hate that they will not listen.
	Well, this is a great point, actually.
	I think your segment today, pointing out that, look, essentially young people are never going to own a home because of the way things are going.
	Well, in this country.
	This country, obviously.
	So what's the message?
	Just leave.
	But then, as you say, people who are, for now, in a good place, they're like, no, everything's fine.
	Yeah, for you.
	Selfish kids.
	Anyway.
	George Happ.
	Clowns like Sam Harris and the Amazing Atheist rage when they are faced with the actual possibility of free speech on the off chance they have to see an opinion they don't agree with.
	Since they are pro-censorship, I have no problem with them having no access to Twitter.
	Well, I don't know if I'd call them pro-censorship, but, like, Sam Harris has been having some very strange takes.
	Really, really messed up with the Hunter Biden thing.
	And that doesn't look like a slip to me.
	No.
	That looks like a sincere belief.
	He committed to it in the trigonometry interview.
	So it was just like, Sam.
	Well, I don't dislike Sam Harris at all, either.
	It seems to definitely be Trump's derangement syndrome did that to him.
	Like, that is genuinely who he is.
	It's not a slip-up, but...
	Yes.
	I think he admits he's got Trump's derangement syndrome.
	It's like, but why leave Twitter?
	Like, just use it as a thing to post your latest podcast and then piss off.
	But even then, it's just...
	It's almost like he knows he's got a sickness but just won't deal with it.
	And it's just embarrassing to see another one of the horsemen fall for that.
	How many are left?
	I think they're all gone now, aren't they?
	Who?
	All the horsemen.
	Daniel Dennett is still alive?
	Richard Dawkins is still alive?
	No, I mean, Dawkins went mad.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Daniel Dennett.
	I don't follow him, so I don't know what he does.
	I don't know how you spell his name.
	D-E-N-N-E-T-T, I think.
	Wolf Grillington says, 30% cut is pretty standard on app stores, but Apple decided they want a cut of the subscription revenue too, e.g.
	an ongoing cut of Netflix subscriptions just because you signed up with an iPhone.
	Got some money hungry.
	Let's see why Elon's complaining about this.
	He's still alive.
	Don't know if he's sane, but...
	Who, Dennett?
	Yeah, I know.
	I imagine Dennett's probably fine.
	I don't know, he just seemed less...
	Look up his Twitter account.
	Go on.
	Does he have Twitter?
	I don't know.
	Look up his social media accounts.
	I bet it's not all that easy.
	In the meantime, Charlie says, It's not just in England.
	I live in an Irish-speaking area of Ireland.
	That almost didn't make sense to me for a moment.
	And I was told by every realtor not to bother looking anywhere near where I grew up, instead suggesting moving an hour's drive away for the best chance to buy a house.
	This is caused by the influx of Americans and rich Irish working tech or retirees, meaning there are villages where there are eight holiday homes to nine family homes.
	Our government can't understand why Irish culture and language is failing.
	Oh man, if the worst thing that was happening was an influx of Americans and rich Irish working in tech, like rich Brits working in tech, like that would be, and retirees, I think I'd probably be over the moon actually, if that was the worst thing.
	Like that's what the Irish are laboring under, success, wealth, Americans.
	Anyway.
	Dennett seems fine.
	There are more Pakistanis in England than there are Welsh people in Wales.
	So Dennett's just posting about random intellectual stuff.
	Like what?
	Just random things.
	There's a thing about memes.
	There's a thing about language.
	You know, complete random crap.
	There's an article about how he does terrorism as a complete bull and a waste of your time.
	As in, like, you know, old white man stuff.
	Yeah.
	No, that's good.
	The last remaining horseman.
	one he's 80 will says the weff lizards have decided that the holidays are not for the plebs foreign holidays were banned through prohibitively expensive carbon taxes on air travel local holidays will be impossible due to all the hotels being full of boat people yeah that seems to be the case .
	Wolf Grillington says, Yeah, I mean, like...
	Of all the immigrants that are coming, I don't care about the Hong Kongers.
	I have no problem with them.
	They're not going to be a problem.
	Well, no one does.
	That's the point.
	Nowhere on earth is people complaining about Hong Kong rape gangs.
	No.
	It's not a thing.
	No.
	Whereas in India and the UK, we both have a similar problem.
	Yeah.
	Free Will says, isn't Serco owned by Rupert Soames, Churchill's grandson?
	I wonder what his grandfather was thinking.
	Never heard of him.
	I don't know if it is the CEO. I don't know whether he does or doesn't.
	They pay themselves.
	I can tell you that.
	Of course they do.
	Wasn't it like 1.4 billion or something the government was giving them?
	That was the last year's figure.
	So I mean, that's why I said it's probably about 2% of the economy now.
	I just hate this country so much.
	And Rishi Sunak's like, hey, we're going to raise your taxes.
	I sincerely think it probably is like a...
	You know what the moderate centrist thing to do would be?
	Send the navy out to the goddamn channel.
	Where would we get our 20 million in bribes?
	20 billion even.
	The French say, Brexit could not have resulted in lowering immigration because the push for more immigration does not come from the EU. Well, it did, but for some reason they were like, okay, we need to replace the EU migrants with other non-EU migrants.
	For no understandable reason.
	But he says, Well, that's some good ideas there, isn't it?
	Raise that at the next meeting of the Common Sense Party.
	So we're going to throw foreigners into the sea, foreign agents into the sea, leave NATO. I mean, if we leave NATO, we can actually start shelling French cities.
	Yeah, then we get bombed by NATO. We're going to go full Serbia.
	We've got a good reason.
	What?
	You know they'll break off, like Cornwall will become our Kosovo.
	And then we'll have to deal with endless crime.
	Kevin says, Serco, just give us your property and we'll give you S-loads of money and we'll run it for you.
	What they don't say is that you'll need an S-load of money and an S-load more to repair the property once the boat people wrecked it.
	Well, to be fair, we don't know that the boat people are wrecking the property.
	I've not seen any evidence they're actually wrecking properties.
	They're just occupying these spaces at my expense.
	And if Lisa Nandy's anything to go by, harassing children.
	Do you remember her?
	Yep.
	Refugees Welcome.
	Actually, I don't want refugees in my town, Wigan, because they're harassing children.
	Well, the hotel was put right next to a secondary school, and I think it was the second time this had happened, and they'd moved the migrants up because there was a problem of harassing children, so they moved them back in, and then they harassed children again, and they were shocked.
	How has this happened twice?
	Kevin says, you can't blame Sweller.
	She wants to lower it, but she doesn't write policy.
	Those leftists, waste of oxygen civil servants write and push policy.
	I say again, make civil servants party-linked, So once a party is voted out of power, The civil servants go too.
	They might think more about what the people they unelectedly make decisions for want.
	She is the immigration minister, so she is going to hold responsibility there.
	As much as Sir Humphrey will be doing his thing, still.
	But she can literally say, you will write this thing, and if they don't, she can fire them and replace them.
	Which is what she should do.
	I think the only people they can't get rid of are the permanent secretaries.
	And even then, it's a pretty unstandard, like, if you're having a big problem, you're going.
	Yeah.
	Mark says, I love this headline.
	Foreign students could be blocked from attending all but the best universities under Rishi Sunak's plan to cut immigration numbers.
	All the British kids will have to go to the best universities on earth.
	Indian occupied government.
	I hate this country so much sometimes.
	I hate the way...
	It's impossible to be a patriot anymore, isn't it?
	Well, none of this should be happening.
	No, it's just the country you want to be patriotic for, the thing in your mind isn't real.
	It doesn't exist.
	But, like, when the Common Sense Party, the sensible centrist party, finally takes over, brings back hanging, starts blowing up the bloody migrant boats and deporting every illegal foreigner in this country, and then reduces immigration to zero, not net zero, to zero, then we'll finally have returned to centrist politics.
	Wait, you think I'm not voting for that?
	Exactly!
	I mean, who wouldn't vote for that, right?
	Seriously, who wouldn't vote for that?
	I'd vote for that in a heartbeat.
	Bring back hanging men.
	I tell you what, if I was in politics, my first thing would be, there will be grooming gangs hanging by their necks all along the roads leading to Rotherham and Rochdale.
	Day one.
	You bring back the bloody code, as you've said, public hangings.
	No, no, no.
	The bloody code was called the bloody code because, like, stealing bread was...
	Yeah, yeah, but it's also, like, public hangings are a long-standing English tradition.
	Yeah, but that's for terrible crimes.
	Well, not even necessarily.
	No, but they should be for terrible crimes.
	Yeah.
	But do you remember, you went to Oxford Castle, didn't you?
	Yes.
	There's a story left for people who hadn't heard it.
	They have the gallows there.
	They used to have them on the floor.
	And then people got so excited by these, they kept stealing bits of, like, trousers and whatnot off the dis-east.
	So then they had to move the hangings to the roof of the castle, so everyone could get a nice look as well, as not everyone could see.
	Yeah.
	But, yeah, definitely that.
	And obviously abolish almost everything Tony Blair did.
	Probably retroactively make it so that he's a criminal, a traitor.
	And if he's not in the country, then if he comes back, he's arrested, put on trial and hanged.
	That would be the Common Sense Centrist Party.
	For war crimes?
	For crimes against the British?
	For treason.
	Right.
	Well, look what he's done to this country.
	Treasonous.
	Yeah, yeah, I just think, you remember when we killed King Charles I? Yeah.
	Like, they had to debate what crimes to charge him with.
	I'll think of some.
	Yeah, alright.
	So anyway, vote Common Sense Party.
	Spadroon says, Gareth Southgate explaining taking the knee is like when you've upset your missus and she refused to tell you what you've done.
	Yes, it's just brilliant, isn't it?
	It's like, I do love the Gareth South.
	It's the meme where he's looking around and you've got all the mathematical formula.
	It's like, yeah, you know, what am I doing here?
	And Gareth's like, I just feel like it's the right thing.
	So, Gareth, you're a loser.
	Freewill says, many people virtue signaling just to fit in.
	Lord Nerevar says, we're on the dissident right.
	That's moderate centrists.
	Essentially, you can't lose from all the fiascos in the football.
	Qatar is a disgusting country, and FIFA's insistence on forcing woke issues is denigrating both parties.
	The scorpion and the spider, my friends.
	Also, Callum, I thought you should know I wrote this while petting my sheepdog who is very good.
	Oh, he's a good boy.
	Kevin says...
	You know what's weird?
	I've always wanted to try this for some of the subscribers' dogs, because apparently my dad and my mum all play the show, and their dog has got so used to my voice from it, they thought, because it bonded with me much faster than expected.
	I seem to recognise my voice.
	So I've always wondered, if I went and met Little Joan, would she just...
	I'm sure she'd recognise you.
	Would she be like, oh yeah, I understand that voice, not weird at all?
	Have you thought about getting a dog?
	Yeah.
	I can't, because I live in an apartment.
	Oh, right, okay.
	One day, when I go meet with old Joan, we'll test the theory, I guess.
	Maybe one day when you get a house, you can get a dog.
	Ha!
	Kevin says, the only way to take a holiday in the UK now is to go camping until the woods are just filled with random roving migrants.
	So, complete reversal.
	Used to be British people went to France and stayed in hotels and the migrants lived in tents.
	Now, that's a good point.
	Good point.
	And also, Kevin, we'll kneel because it's what we stand for.
	Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees, Gareth.
	Get an effing grip.
	You're a mediocre football manager, not Nelson Mandela.
	Yes, that's exactly right.
	He is mediocre.
	Did I tell you about...
	I don't know if I told you.
	I was watching 28 Days Later the other day.
	Oh, yeah.
	And it was filmed in like 2002 or something.
	And I'm watching the thing and I'm noticing just...
	Oh, this is London, is it?
	It used to be.
	These are the people who made up London, were they?
	Used to be.
	Only as far back as 2002.
	I mean, almost.
	If you release that today with that demographics in the film, they would probably say the director was far right or something.
	This is like the madness video I got up for you, isn't it?
	Madness video?
	Yeah.
	John, can you pull up a video on YouTube?
	Yeah, Our House by Madness.
	Oh, the music video.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I think I remember it.
	Yeah, we'll watch this quickly, right?
	It's just not going on YouTube, so it's fine.
	But it's just remarkable.
	Yeah, this video.
	Let me just play this.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah.
	This is London.
	Once upon a time.
	Have you seen our house?
	Sorry?
	Oh yes.
	Have you seen it?
	I'm not having it.
	Have you seen our house?
	Have you seen our house?
	I would assume this was a seaside town.
	Have you seen our house?
	Have you seen our house?
	Over there, mate.
	Over there?
	Stand there.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, this was Swindon in the 80s.
	Not London.
	There's no way.
	Back to historical record.
	Yes, it is.
	Chat, let's just get into it.
	Well, I mean, it's a great song, but this is what the country used to be like, man.
	Something happened in the 19th century.
	Before you were born.
	Anyway, Charlie says, regarding FIFA, I see that Denmark are threatening to pull out of FIFA over the one love armband, not the deaths of migrant workers, the corruption, or the lack of human rights in Qatar.
	It was the Qatari stance on the LGBT that did it for them.
	I hadn't even thought of that angle.
	It's just like, ugh!
	I don't care how many migrant workers died constructing this stadium.
	Could you imagine if they had accepted the armband tomorrow and they'd be like, well, you know, there may be all these dead migrants and you still think black people are subhumans because you're all Arabs, but at least you like the gays.
	At least I'm not homophobic.
	Northance Knight says, the only thing more cringeworthy than footballers virtue signaling is that recent performance of that Brazilian deaf-mute trans woman trying to sing Whitney Houston.
	I haven't seen it.
	I am actually wondering if anyone has asked the Qatari hosts what they think of black people.
	Because that's still a sore topic in the Arab world.
	I mean, it can't be very positive.
	But it's been completely left out, right?
	No one's mentioned Qatari racism.
	So maybe Gareth Southgate is accidentally right to take the knee for racism.
	He just doesn't know why.
	He just didn't know.
	He accidentally blundered into doing something that makes sense.
	Think about that, right?
	We've only talked about the migrants who have died in the construction.
	Of all the things the West could give a crap about, people dying from producing your cheap crap is not something we actually really care about.
	No, not really.
	Whereas racism...
	When the Arabs don't have the best opinion of black people, they don't have the best words for them either.
	Weirdly, we don't seem to care about Iran and the women either.
	Feminism seems to have really dropped the ball on this.
	Everyone's like, no, no, the gays in Qatar.
	What gays in Qatar?
	There are like 2 million people in Qatar.
	12% of them are actually Qatari.
	So...
	Hang on.
	So what percent of those are actual Qataris?
	And then if we just take the round number of 99% of Muslims think that homosexuality is a moral wrong...
	But I think it's why 1% of people are naturally gay.
	They're half a percent, isn't it?
	Maybe.
	120 people.
	120 Qataris?
	Yes.
	They're gay.
	Or at least...
	Roughly.
	Sympathetic to homosexuality.
	Yeah, so...
	I don't know how many Iranian women exist.
	Presumably 60.
	They're going to execute 15,000 protesters, apparently.
	So it's just like...
	It's weird that tens of thousands of women are getting literally oppressed, and the hypothetical 120 gay Qataris are the real victims here.
	Hypothetical gays?
	Well, I mean, we don't know.
	They're theoretical, homosexuals.
	Yeah, I mean, you're right.
	We don't know.
	It's a hypothetical constituency, although we can point to the Iranian women getting whipped in the streets.
	You know?
	And the feminist is like, well, but the pretend gay is in Qatar.
	Also, if you're a Qatari and you can afford to move.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's the other thing.
	This is not like being gay in Afghanistan.
	No.
	So anyway, Adrian says, taking the knee is what we stand for.
	If you stand for it, why are you kneeling?
	Idiots.
	Any player who takes the knee, benched.
	There's more than enough players in the UK who'd happily take their place and not indiscriminately virtue signal about things they can't comprehend.
	Yep.
	They focus on the game.
	Oh yeah, well, they're going to lose again, aren't they?
	I heard the new form of protest that England will adopt is to randomly do the Harlem Shake.
	I don't hate my country, says Free Will.
	I love my country.
	It's the politicians I don't like.
	Good point.
	I don't know, man.
	What is your country is the question that constantly racks my mind.
	I always come to the conclusion of what's in front of me I can see, and what in front of me I can see is not something I'm proud of.
	Wuhan Wet Market says, I'm not a great man of history, honestly.
	It must be pretty awesome to be like.
	It is like receiving, as he says, like receiving a pardon from Alexander the Great in the army or something.
	The richest man who ever lived.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And also, it's all the other people around it, right?
	So he's like, you know, Joe Rogan, Tim Pool, the Jagad, Jack Dorsey, they're discussing me.
	And then, like, Elon's like...
	So are the alt-right a bunch of cuck...
	Like, really?
	That's what you're having a conversation about?
	Am I wrong?
	But also, yeah, and then Elon's just like, yeah, okay, he'll do it.
	That's interesting.
	On that bombshell.
	Also, last thing, tell Callum there is no show tomorrow.
	I'm reminded about it's on Monday.
	We'll be back tomorrow at one o'clock.
	Thank you and goodbye.
	No, on that bombshell, it's time to end the show.
	So if you'd like more from us, go and check out Logistics.com, of course.
	Otherwise, we'll be back.
	I almost actually said it sincerely.
	We'll be back on Monday, one o'clock.

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