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Oct. 11, 2023 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #760

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	Hello and welcome.
	It's like a podcast of Lotus Eaters.
	Anyway, I'm joined by Harry.
	Hi.
	Wednesday, my dudes.
	Oh yeah, it is, isn't it?
	I kind of want to purposely make these intros as bad as possible, just to see how far I can get away with a book called Shoot Me.
	Probably get away with a lot, to be honest.
	Anyway, five more times, I'll make it better.
	But today, we have a good show!
	We have very good news!
	The Lord has returned!
	The King of Kabul is back!
	The Lord of Kabul, he's not the King.
	Don't you take that from the Taliban, that's... Oh, sorry.
	Terrible of me.
	This podcast supports... No, we don't.
	Let's not get into that territory already.
	No, no, that's such a joke.
	But anyway, Lord Miles is back!
	So we're going to be talking about that, the Lord of Kabul has returned, the fact that things don't work anymore, and diversity is diverse.
	So it's a big shock to a lot of people.
	Terrible news.
	Sorry, it was a delayed reaction.
	So we'll check that out.
	But before I begin, I have an announcement to make, which is that there's a Lads Hour, I think, tomorrow.
	It is tomorrow.
	It's not, you think, they happen every Thursday.
	I don't know about that.
	What, are you going to change it?
	What are you going to do about it?
	I'm going to, yeah, maybe change it.
	I'm going to say it's a Friday thing now.
	I'd like to see you try.
	It's the Gold Deer Zoom call is now lads hour.
	That's where it really at.
	I know Dan really wants it to be on a Monday or Tuesday because he's... Oh God, why?
	Because Dan isn't in otherwise, so he doesn't... He really wants to be in a lads hour.
	Presumably so that he can rank women or something.
	That sounds like a good lads hour.
	It does sound like a decent lads hour.
	JK Rowling, Emma Watson.
	I mean, who's winning these days?
	Do you know how to do that?
	We get in so much trouble, it'd be so much fun.
	Anyway, but there's Lads Out tomorrow that's less, well, I suppose going to get a shot.
	So do come and check it out.
	It's the British City Tier List, Lads Out.
	It's going to be ranking British cities, and I suppose including those that ain't.
	So, go and check that out.
	That's tomorrow at 3pm UK time.
	Otherwise, we shall begin with the news, because it is news time.
	Lord Miles has returned!
	He is back amongst us, amongst the West, for a whole, um, three weeks.
	Until he goes back.
	Yeah, apparently.
	I mean, that's what he said.
	He said, and you'll understand this context as we go further in, he prefers Afghan Callum to English Callum.
	I think a lot of people do, to be fair.
	Oh, so.
	What, even you?
	Well, I literally got some random guy come up to me and said, I love you.
	That's pretty.
	I never had that here.
	Yeah, no, I'm not talking about, like, you in Afghanistan.
	I mean the guy who is just you, but Afghanistan-y.
	Oh.
	Oh, yeah, there's a few of them.
	They're pretty cool.
	They're nice guys.
	Alright, but for people who don't know, Lord Miles, he disappeared off the face of the Earth because he was detained by the Taliban.
	I'm not going to get into all the details because that's for him to reveal.
	That's his whole situation.
	So I'm going to be talking about what's publicly available.
	But now there is a lot more publicly available.
	People have noticed I've not been talking about the fact he disappeared because I was under orders not to.
	And now he's back.
	We can do something about it.
	Although you had repeatedly said in the recent weeks leading up to this that, by the way, he's alive.
	By the way, he is alive, and you kept saying this, and then RawEggNationalist and other people went, I have received video and audio and all the confirmation that you need to say he's alive, and I saw so many accounts on Twitter going, he's dead.
	Yeah, he's dead.
	His friends are saying he's alive, that must mean he's dead.
	Speaking of that, I'm going to title this segment, Lord Miles Never Dies, which I'm well aware will age terribly at some point.
	Maybe soon.
	Who knows?
	It's just a bit of a bit of a funny character.
	I mean, he knows, you know, there's risk reward and high risk, high reward.
	When's he getting captured by Hamas?
	Um, I did ask him.
	I mean, because surely he's got a list of terrorist organizations he wants to be caught by.
	No, because the Taliban aren't a terrorist organization.
	Oh, sorry.
	That's the thing.
	Well, I mean, Hamas would be the first in that case.
	Lord Miles has nothing to do with terrorism.
	He's never engaged terrorists.
	He only hangs out with people who are off the prescription list.
	Yeah, there we are.
	Let's make that legally clear.
	So, people who don't know, you can go and check out.
	I did an interview with Lord Miles ages ago.
	This is that, where you can go and see it.
	We talked about dog tourism.
	In comparison to the recent photos, he's got such a baby face here, doesn't he?
	Afghan ages you in a way that's unnatural, so there's that.
	But if you don't want to go check that out, I suppose we'll jump into the news, which is that there's, you know, four British men have been freed after an Afghan detention.
	The BBC reports here.
	That's not Miles.
	He's aged quite a bit.
	Oh, no, I'm joking.
	That's, um, that's, um, I don't know if his name's being used publicly in the media, so I won't, but that's someone who is a good guy.
	I'm glad he's back as well.
	You've spoken to him.
	I haven't been able to speak to him since they've been back.
	Oh, right.
	Just don't have his phone number on me.
	Whatever, I'm not going to get into that.
	But the other guys who are back as well, I'm very glad they're back.
	And if they're watching, you know, fantastic news chaps.
	It's good to see you again, back in the West.
	So there's that.
	And well, you know, Miles aging aside, there is some news in this that was interesting.
	I did see a lot of the responses, which is like, you know, we're talking about Miles because Miles is the Well, every single person was shocked that he's still alive.
	Once again, after a few weeks now, if not a month or two, of you, NuanceBro, RawEggNationalist, everyone saying, by the way, he's not dead.
	We've spoken to him.
	I've received evidence he's alive.
	A lot of people were like, nah, he's still dead.
	I'm like, what is the?
	There was a one point I can't remember which guy it was.
	I was insisting that because Miles put out that he needed money because, you know, being detained is not cheap.
	weirdly enough that he was uh being used as some kind of funnel for money to the taliban no someone was saying that the um the taliban me and a bunch of other influencers all got together to harvest money off his dead corpse through his page i was just like that's an instance right because you were to be fair this was only like a couple of guys but it was just like what the hell is wrong with some people i'm trying to think of the logic of this so you're friends with miles and in this scenario yeah i went i'm gonna kill miles your friend has been murdered by the taliban
	and you've decided you know what taliban kind of kind of a gross move but we could make some We've made some great videos, we could make some great money as well.
	Have you seen the Scarface gif where it's all of them push it to the limit and they're laughing over the money that they're making?
	Was that you and the Taliban?
	That was one guy's fantasy.
	I want to make it clear, that was a very fringe opinion, but a lot of people did think he was dead, which was foolish.
	I can kind of understand you, given that you're a Taliban agent.
	I'm not!
	Let's make it clear, MI5.
	But the funny thing was, I saw that a lot of people were suspicious and obviously being like, well no, he must be dead.
	And if it was anyone else, I would actually be like, you know, fair enough to be suspicious.
	But one thing I've learned hanging out with Lord Miles is never bet against him.
	No matter how ridiculous he tells you the things he's been up to, he'll then come back with photographic evidence of him doing it.
	So that's that.
	Anyway, he is insane.
	And there we go.
	They do actually use Kev's name here.
	So Kev here, who was detained.
	He's a UN aid agency worker out there.
	And then there's another guy who's unnamed.
	So I'll leave it that way.
	And Lord Miles being the third British passport holder who was detained and then has been released.
	So there's that.
	I can see the office... Well, read real quick.
	The Presidium Network, who are working, I believe, on Kevin's case and the other unnamed chap's situation, have been very supportive.
	They said the two men probably need medical help.
	So there's that.
	I also saw that the Foreign Office said that it regrets this episode and it says, on behalf of the families of the British nationals, we express our apologies to the current administration of Afghanistan Which is a weird phrasing.
	For any violations of the laws of the country.
	So, that's all that's out there for now.
	We apologize that you were forced to kidnap and hold our... No, no, no.
	There's more details there, but again, it's up to Myles to tell us his story.
	I have seen some details and it looked like earlier on today I think Myles has released some information about what went on in a Twitter thread.
	Yeah, but the other two guys, they're at different circumstances and I won't get into those now because, as I mentioned, Lord Miles is going to be selling his story and, boy, does he need the money after Patreon decided to kill his Twitter account.
	Patreon, honestly, you were the worst company in the world.
	Wait, they killed his account or Patreon account?
	No, they banned him.
	They banned him and went, you're banned.
	And he was in jail.
	Well, he's under detention from the Taliban.
	And he gets this email and he's just like... Cheers?
	Sorry, like, I'm getting detained against... You know, I don't have a choice in this.
	I'm sorry, anyone on Patreon, you're making a big mistake.
	If you're thinking of making content, set up a Subscribestar.
	Do not use Patreon.
	They're the worst.
	We know from many other examples prior to just miles that Patreon will absolutely just tank your account if they don't like you.
	It's just, they're just dicks, genuinely.
	Anyway, but a whole other situation.
	So, I'll let people speak for the details of what happened there.
	I do love that they include Miles like this.
	They keep labelling him like, you know, an extreme tourist, which I suppose he is.
	I suppose that's... He's a dark tourist.
	Yeah.
	I think dark tourism is a more accurate description, because I saw a bunch of tabloids where he does danger tourism.
	It's like...
	Nah, not really.
	And it's dangerous tourism.
	But when I think of danger tourism, I saw a video earlier of a guy jumping off a cell tower that's a billion feet in the air, and the parachute doesn't deploy and he just hits the ground, and he's alive because he hit snow.
	But it's like, that's danger tourism, where it's like, I'm risking my life literally just because of adrenaline.
	Surely that's just thrill-seeking, I don't know.
	Well, I suppose that's the kind of tourism where you go and you find those experiences because you can't get them in your home country.
	I presume so.
	I mean, Miles does have other interests than just, you know, I want to die.
	I know it may be hard to believe.
	I don't believe you.
	I've met him briefly the once and he definitely had a streak in him.
	So we'll go to the tweets he's made because, again, this is his story.
	So he says here, eight months in Taliban intelligence, quote, custody.
	Best adventure I've had yet.
	All the previous tweets are true.
	Best mates with many of the top commanders.
	After numerous picnics, Go for picnics with the Commanders of Intelligence.
	Cool.
	And you can see here, lovely lads treated me as a guest.
	I will be returning to Kabul next month.
	Right.
	I just want to point out, everybody in the office has noticed this.
	You watching have probably already noticed this.
	Callum, this chap right here, that's just you.
	That's not.
	That's you.
	He's got eyeliner.
	With a tan and eyeliner.
	That's... What's going on Callum?
	I know you were away for a few weeks.
	How do you think I was talking to Miles?
	I should have known it.
	Ah, how you doing brother?
	Anyway, about the cover...
	What was that accent?
	You tell me, you're the one who's been to Afghanistan.
	You're the one who is Afghan.
	Well, you should have worn your special outfit for this segment.
	Yeah, that might have been fun, but I might do a video about this for myself, about just the other stuff that went down, because of course, me and Miles's friends, when he went missing, were just like, ah, Where is he?
	I instantly tried to try and figure out why I went out, and there's that side of it, but you gotta check out Miles.
	I do love the responses here.
	It's like, yeah, eight months with the Taliban, it's whatever.
	You know, best buds with them now, went on a few picnics with them.
	Please God, let this happen, because it would be so funny.
	Yeah, that's the thing about Miles.
	I mean, I said, hey girl, yeah, it's me.
	Eight months with the Taliban.
	It was a really nice adventure, lights up sick.
	Yeah, and it's a hell of a story.
	The Talibars don't wear makeup.
	Some of them are just like that, alright?
	Leave them alone.
	On his way to Jerusalem.
	I saw that one as well.
	Yeah, the return of the return of the king.
	And of course, I mean, there are a lot of memes about this, to say the least.
	As you can see here, I saw Cody from Alternative History Hub.
	It's just like, you know, Miles, five seconds after getting released and seeing the news in Gaza.
	I've got an idea!
	This is what I'm saying.
	It's going to be Hamas next.
	He's going to come out being best friends with them.
	Guys, I've managed to negotiate peace talks between Palestine and Israel.
	We managed to do it.
	They're both British territories now.
	He's got them in both arms and he's just like, boys, we found common ground.
	No more brother wars.
	Western women have got to go.
	No, I don't know about that.
	But he is, I don't think, getting dropped in Gaza, as we can see now.
	I think the Taliban have rerode the flight, so he won't be going to Heathrow.
	Dropped off at Gaza International, where he can...
	I have spoken to him this morning.
	The memes are so good.
	I did mention to him, so how do you feel about a weekend away in Gaza?
	And he was just like, well, maybe, I don't know.
	Some considerations taken into account first, you know.
	He's got some post in the mail that needs responding to.
	I bet.
	Bit of a gas bill.
	Left one light on.
	The electric's gone mental.
	Octopus energy, no!
	This is the worst challenge yet, speaking to call-centred drones.
	Why do you have the same accent?
	That's weird.
	That's strange.
	Wait a second, Habibi?
	Oh, my answer!
	Don't worry, it's cancelled.
	So, there's that.
	I saw Callum Abroad did a pretty funny tweet.
	For people who don't know, this isn't my second channel.
	This sounds a lot like it is.
	No, this is a different guy.
	I'll just show him off because he seems to be a nice guy.
	He's got a good name and everything.
	Anyway, so he likes hanging out with interesting people as well, as you can see here.
	Urban youths.
	What circles have you found yourself in, Callum?
	The travel community are an interesting bunch.
	All of this because you got bored working a 9-to-5 office job.
	Look, who doesn't?
	That's, I think that's sympathetic.
	Anyway, he's been in contact with Miles, as you can see here.
	It's confirmation that I spoke to the real Lord Miles, who's been detained by the Taliban.
	He's fine and craving a bacon cheeseburger.
	I think he's got it.
	He did indeed.
	I think he has mentioned this publicly, so I will mention it, is that when he was on the phone to the British government who were negotiating on behalf of the whole deal, he was just like, yeah, so I really want a bacon cheeseburger, if you could organize that for me, please.
	So when he arrived back in the UK, he was like, you better have it.
	If you don't have it, I'm not talking to you.
	We're not having a chat.
	I'm not getting harmed and there's nothing bad happening to you.
	I'll make it explicitly clear.
	I, Miles Arvin of Acorn Routledge, am perfectly fine and I'd rather enjoy myself.
	Now, don't worry about me and when I come out, I'm going to have a lovely holiday and meet you and all my other friends in London for a nice little party at Wetherspoons and get a great Well, I would fancy a bacon cheeseburger.
	I don't know if I've told my friend this, but I really hope when I get home I'm to have a bacon cheeseburger waiting for me.
	Well, mate, I'll have you a bacon cheeseburger and some Doritos.
	Because I actually had a bacon cheeseburger yesterday.
	Rubbing it in there!
	Callum, jeez.
	Oh my god, that was a bit unnecessary.
	Below the belt.
	You know what's doubly weird about that is that, as you can see here, Callum Abroad, he went to Kabul as well.
	He's travelling around Afghanistan at this point.
	And before that he was... Is he doing it right now, as we speak?
	Not right now, I've been told.
	But he was just like, well, you know, YOLO.
	Well, apparently... Also bored of his 9-to-5.
	I wouldn't recommend it for everybody, but apparently, as long as you're just a funny, wacky dude, it's easy to get along in Afghanistan.
	To be honest, I'm not recommending everyone travel, obviously.
	But one of the things I have learned from checking out sort of the travel community, as I'm going to call them, because, you know, Calum, abroad here, you know, he's one of them.
	You know, Miles, interesting guy.
	There's another few people I've been introduced to who travel to really interesting places all the time, and that's what they like doing.
	Their secret weapon really is just being charismatic and friendly to the locals.
	Just find out whatever they like and just get along with them.
	So like Miles has said previously...
	Is that what you did?
	What Miles said previously, he went to the Turkish checkpoint in Kabul when it was collapsing.
	And they were like, no, no, no, we're not letting anyone in.
	And he just went, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't worry, I'm not Greek.
	And then they went, ah!
	And then let him in.
	Ah, come on in, buddy!
	So, you know, as long as you get along with the local...
	If it works, it works, I suppose.
	It's the best advice, best travel advice someone can ever give you.
	We'll check out the previous tweets that he's referencing here about the fact that he said all of his previous stories were true.
	Real quick, I suppose.
	So this is a friend of Lord Myles to give an update.
	Four months in Taliban custody.
	That was halfway.
	And as you can see here, just me and the boys.
	Chillin'.
	Why would you not be?
	Still loves Afghanistan, so feels like he's on holiday.
	He's sunbathing, playing Team Fortress 2 and writing his second book.
	He's playing TF2 the whole time?
	For a lot of it, yeah.
	Oh, nice.
	Playing TF2, writing and reading T.E.
	Lawrence over and over and over again.
	That sounds pretty chill.
	Yeah, exercising, has chocolates, cakes, he certainly did.
	So this is all about his Afghan gold mine adventure as well, which he, I believe, has spoken publicly about, which he found out that there's an Afghan gold mine that the Americans had done the mapping for.
	And then the recommendation in the report was mine immediately because it's so easy to get.
	And then, you know, COVID happened so they couldn't... And they never did anything with it after they pulled out?
	Well, they weren't there anymore.
	They lost the country.
	Because how else do you export the resources of a country you're occupying if you don't occupy it?
	Drones?
	Yeah, so Lord Miles is just sort of like, yeah, I'll have that.
	I'll take that business.
	So that's what he's trying to do as well.
	So yeah, he's talking about the fact that they were kind to him.
	Hasn't been this relaxed in years.
	Lovely to get away from it.
	I do wonder, I'm going to ask him at some point, which is just, how did you deal with not having constant internet access and a phone?
	Because that must have been just... Because he's very much a Zoomer like me who sits there.
	Death staring.
	So... Wondering about which part of The Middle East you're going to visit next.
	Yeah.
	Just, you know, check whatever's trending, I suppose.
	So there's that.
	And he goes on and on here.
	And then, you know, if you're a journalist and you want to get his story, do contact him.
	I don't know what the current situation of what his dealings are with that, but of course, if you've been in prison for, well, been in detainment, I should say, for eight months, you might need some money.
	And eight months pay.
	This is what you might need to at least get back on your feet, so there's that.
	I do love all this as well, it's just like the Taliban having fun.
	I mean, really, the memes from the Fall of Kabul are never going to die, either, so...
	What is this stupid meme about the lines?
	Do you understand it?
	Well, yes.
	Right, okay.
	If the line is straight, it means you are the dominant one because you don't feel the need to lean into anybody else and therefore, like, leech off of their energy.
	Whereas if you're leaning into someone, it means that you're dependent and submissive on them.
	What we're seeing here is that every single one of these people is leaning.
	So, parathetically... Except for this Chad.
	Well, no, his line is also going off in an angle.
	So what this actually means is that they are all so relaxed on one another and so dependent on one another that their coexistence turns it back around into being based.
	All right, fair enough.
	Sounds like when you see a couple lean into each other rather than like the man or the woman leaning into one another, that means that they're in perfect balanced harmony.
	Sounds like right-wing witchcraft to me, so I'm pretty horrified.
	It pretty much is.
	Anyway, so I disavow completely.
	But we'll just end this off with that fact we were talking about earlier.
	It was kind of weird.
	I don't know who was disbelieving, but don't worry, I'm not going to lie.
	What would be the point?
	So some people were disbelieving that, you know, there's me here.
	Yeah, what would be the point, Callum?
	Why would you lie?
	Oh, you know what?
	I want more followers on Twitter.com.
	You know what I'm going to do with them?
	Engagement bait to get money from Elon Musk?
	I don't have to put a blue.
	Oh yeah, you don't actually, do you?
	Oh, you're a sucker, eh?
	Yeah.
	Fair enough.
	I don't know.
	I lie, it's kind of pointless.
	So, there we are.
	There's also Oliver over here.
	I've been channeling to him the whole time.
	Very good guy.
	Have we got a picture of the gains that he's made?
	I don't know if we do, actually.
	I don't think we do.
	Because we should get up a picture of the gains that he's made because it's very impressive.
	RawEggNationalist tweeted it out.
	And you've got nothing else to do.
	I mean, here's the shoes he's apparently selling as well.
	The Taliban have a weird thing where they like to wear these certain sneakers.
	And that means your special forces, or your high tier, which is a whole other... Someone else can explain it better than I can.
	Miles can explain it better than I can.
	Don't ask me to explain the preferences and behaviours of the third world.
	So you got some Taliban guys to sign them.
	So if you want a signed pair of sneakers...
	From Taliban Special Forces, if you and your buddies are doing airsoft and want to roleplay that bit harder, then you could do that, I suppose.
	And I sponsor this off with just the fact that there's some other guys who are making good memes.
	Are they reading his books?
	The Ministry of Culture of Afghanistan has now revealed the list of top-selling books in Afghanistan.
	Number one, Lord Miles in Afghanistan.
	Number two, Afghanistan, Napoleon, The Life of Ahir Ahmed Shah Massoud.
	Number three, How to Fix Your Car.
	Pretty popular, actually.
	Is this real or is this like an AI generated image?
	Number four, keep an eye on the feminists and homosexuals.
	That's also a good read.
	Is that a book?
	That's just good advice.
	Number five, The Art of War.
	But there we are.
	This is a real image as well, for people wondering.
	This is Lord Miles when he was detained.
	He gave them a copy of his book.
	But you just have a few copies with him that he's like, oh, here you go.
	Yes, he was like, oh, hello, Mr, you know, MI5 of the Taliban.
	And they're like, oh, good to meet you.
	You're very famous.
	Couple of selfies.
	And then he was just like, yeah.
	Have a read of my book, would you?
	They're like, oh, it's pretty good.
	So then you got them to sign them as well.
	Oh, nice.
	Memories.
	But anyway, the Lord is back.
	It's good to see him, as you can see here.
	He's in good spirits.
	Not been, I suppose, the time I would spend if I had time to kill, but whatever.
	It is what it is.
	And he had a hell of a time.
	So look forward to the interviews and I look forward to chatting to him in person and getting going for that Wetherspoons party with him.
	Oh boy, can't wait to order more peas.
	Nothing working.
	Gets back to England, first thing he wants is Wetherspoons.
	Yeah, weird choice to be honest.
	He doesn't know that it got expensive, does he?
	Oh no, he's missed so much.
	God, he missed out on inflation.
	No he hasn't!
	No he hasn't!
	He's gonna catch right back up when he gets back.
	Oh boy.
	Okay.
	And now that we've had that white pill, let's not.
	Let's not have a white pill.
	Let's go and talk about how nothing works anymore.
	My favorite.
	Yeah.
	This is something I've been noticing for a long while.
	You've probably noticed it.
	I know that whenever we go for walks for lunch... Don't reveal too much!
	When we go for walks in the parks and the posy fields holding hands together, I often point out to you and I say, listen, darling.
	Look at that sunset.
	Look at that sunset.
	But also look at all of these potholes in the roads.
	Yeah.
	Terrible.
	Yeah.
	No, we often talk about... You ruin every good moment.
	I know.
	I'm terrible like that.
	Yeah.
	Nothing works.
	Everything is always constantly being in a state of being fixed and then not being fixed anymore.
	And then don't look at the chat.
	Ignore what the chat is saying.
	Everything's constantly being- You're shamed.
	Everything's constantly being fixed to the point where it's never fixed anyway, so you might as well just not stop fixing it or not try fixing it in the first place.
	Buses aren't on time, trains aren't on time, infrastructure projects never get done, buildings are crumbling, you walk around your average town and everything's falling apart and is abandoned.
	So, I just wanted to highlight a few ways in which nothing works anymore, because it is a serious problem in Britain, at least, certainly in England.
	I don't know about America, I've not been to America before, so maybe everything in America in terms of the infrastructure is still working.
	Everywhere has problems, for sure, but from someone who has travelled in the recent time as well, to places that are considered way poorer and places that are considered way richer.
	The UK is just stupid.
	Like, we can't even get the most basic beautification projects.
	There's never anything new in terms of beautification.
	In fact, all there is is turning stuff off, or ripping down stuff.
	And you even go to some of the poorest places... And then it never gets built up again.
	So, like, town centres like my town centre, you pull down all of the arcades where a lot of the shops were, and then they say, don't worry, we'll build something in its place, and it's still just, literally, it's still just a pile of rubble there.
	It's uniquely embarrassing in this country.
	Yes.
	And it's probably because of all that incompetence that goes around, and the fact that most of our country, in terms of the government and the bureaucracy and the councils, would much rather fill diversity quotas than actually do the things that they're supposed to do.
	But I'll tell you what does work.
	Our website!
	And it works so well that we've got a constant stream of videos and articles coming up all the time, every single day, including Dan's most recent Brokenomics, which came out what day is it?
	Yesterday, where he actually spoke to Scott Adams, the influential and infamous cartoonist who is a famous drinker of coffee, judger of people as he drinks coffees as he observes demographic trends in the US, and they were talking about reframing your brain, the glass ceiling for white males in corporate America, elections and other such things, not that I would ever question election integrity on this channel,
	But well worth a watch, and you should subscribe to the website for as little as £5 a month to do so.
	Anyway, so I just decided to take a look around what was being reported in the news that wasn't related to anything in the Middle East, because I'm not qualified to talk about that sort of thing.
	If you want to listen to a proper breakdown of it, listen to yesterday's podcast where Beau, Carl, and Dan spoke about it.
	And I'm told with some quite nuanced, with some good nuance, so that's always good to hear.
	But, so, what's going on in England was my main thing, which was, well, okay, the first thing I found, one's with prison, our prisons don't work.
	A lot of our prisons are just crumbling and unable to take the amount of people that you have in them.
	They're just overstuffed with prisoners.
	And in this, it was quite interesting because they were saying here, so HMP Wandsworth has seen no real progress in the past year and reflects the failures of the prison system as a whole, according to the independent monitoring board for the UK prison system.
	The report was written before the alleged escape of Daniel Khalif, From the prison.
	So this same prison had an escapee recently, alleged.
	He's been charged for it, but he's pleaded not guilty.
	So we'll have to see.
	I mean, we know that... Was he found in the prison?
	No, we know that he was in the prison and then he wasn't in the prison and was caught cycling around London.
	So I think it's a pretty open and shut case.
	Morning, governor!
	But he's not been convicted yet.
	So we have to still say alleged escapee.
	Yeah, they had an escapee.
	A prison service spokesman said that it had taken decisive action to address the serious issues raised.
	The IMB report covered the year from 1st of June 2023 to 31st of May 2023.
	June 2023 to 31st of May 2023, sorry, 2022 to 2023, it found that years of underinvestment in the site facilities and staff at the prison had led to an unsafe environment where violence continues to rise.
	And for examples of that, they said that during the past year, staff shortages had undermined the prison's ability to function effectively.
	They've only got 50% of available officers, typically, and it's even rare that they reach that many.
	The assaults have risen 20% in all areas, including assaults on staff.
	There were 524 assaults on prisoners by prisoners, so that number isn't including the figures on staff themselves.
	And overcrowding, they've got overcrowding raised as a concern by the monitoring board.
	Most men sharing cells designed for single occupancy.
	In two wings of the prison there were only 11 shower stalls for 265 men.
	So it's disgusting.
	This isn't to say that if the prisoners in here are violent criminals, I'm not saying that we should feel terribly sorry for them.
	It's just the fact that standards.
	We need to hold ourselves and our facilities and our institutions to particular standards.
	That this is not hitting whatsoever.
	So for instance, I've been reading through Peter Hitchens' Abolition of Liberty book recently.
	And in that there's a chapter that he has on prisons and he tells about Wormwood Scrubs, which he visited back in the year 2000.
	And he just described terrible conditions, it's filled with rats, the prisoners run the place, people are being assaulted constantly, and the most that goes on to try and stop it is the fact that they have pictures, signs on the wall saying, say no to bullying.
	Are you a bully?
	Don't be a bully!
	That's the kind of... They've also got signs saying, are you a murderer?
	Maybe don't do that in future.
	Please don't murder anybody.
	We'll have a stern word with you if you do.
	So there are standards that we need to hold these sorts of facilities to if we expect anything because Obviously people have this argument over whether prison is for rehabilitation or if it's for retribution, all these different questions.
	That's outside of the remit of this particular segment.
	All I'm saying is that if we're going to imprison these people in the first place, we should maybe make it so the prisons actually work.
	especially given that a lot of the time the prisoners are going to be released halfway through the sentence anyway so that they can be on home leave and parole, as is what happens in the UK.
	And so we want it to be so that they're coming out and not just immediately going back to doing what they're doing or dying of disease or becoming a strain on some other part of the infrastructure like the NHS.
	There's so many reasons why we should hold ourselves to proper standards.
	Elizabeth Davies, who is the IMB chair, told BBC Radio 4 that the issues at Wandsworth Prison are reflective more widely of the issues facing Victorian-era prisons.
	None of these issues are unique to Wandsworth and none of these issues are new.
	She highlighted Pentonville in North London as another prison with severe overcrowding and low staffing levels.
	And speaking of which, there was a recent article talking about this as well, which has been declared unfit for prisoner rehabilitation.
	Once again, whether you want to say that prisons are there for rehabilitation or just to keep these people off of the streets, let's look at what the issues that they have highlighted in here are.
	They found pairs of prisoners were crammed into cells with unscreened toilets where they ate and slept.
	A 2023 report found that 75% of Pentonville's population is on long-term remand and that there is a lack of focus on preparation for release.
	So as far as I can tell, remand means that they're being held there before their trial.
	But so before they've been properly convicted, they're being held in this place which is massively overcrowded where they have to literally eat and sleep where they're assing.
	So it's pretty disgusting.
	The board said that many prisoners were released directly from court, having received no resettlement preparation, and 40% of those released during the reporting year from court or prison were released with no accommodation to go to.
	So we're just releasing them homeless, not saying that the state should be providing these people with homes or anything, I'm not a socialist.
	Yeah, we're giving them out to friggin' random invaders, why not?
	Yeah, but basically we're just creating more homeless people who've just come out of a prison where they might have been violent criminal, they might have done something, but, you know.
	Not a very good situation.
	So the prisons don't work.
	Prisons don't work, and interestingly, Wandsworth itself has also got a problem where drones are being used to try and deliver contraband to the prisoners.
	So that's fun.
	Although, interestingly enough, the people living around here, they say in here that Maria, who did not wish to give her surname, had lived close to the prison since 2014.
	The 44-year-old said the area felt really safe when she first moved in, but claimed she slowly started to notice More drones, some of which keep getting caught in the trees, and they're believed to be carrying contraband, and more dodgy people hanging around, which is kind of to be expected.
	But a lot of the other people listed in this article who they spoke to also said how they felt that it was actually a quite safe place to live.
	So there's an interesting contrast there.
	So the prisons don't work, what about the schools?
	What about the schools?
	Are the schools working?
	What do you reckon on the schools, Callum?
	I bet they're fine.
	No.
	Oh.
	A lot of people don't go anymore.
	After COVID, people just decided, literally, some of the reasonings we've got in here are, after COVID, a lot of people just decided, I would prefer to sit around in my house and play video games all day, than go back to school.
	I can kind of get that.
	I mean, my schooling.
	I don't know, I was never particularly impressed.
	I'm not saying that the schooling is particularly great, but once again, that's just another thing that doesn't work, is the actual quality of the schooling that you get isn't amazing, and then you don't get the schooling at all because they don't actually go to school.
	So the figures given here, 16.3% of pupils aged 11 to 15 fell into this category in 2023, three times higher than pre-pandemic levels.
	For pupils eligible for free school meals, the figure was more than twice as high at 35.7%.
	Overall levels of absence based on missed half-day sessions also doubled.
	Interestingly, that was more girls than boys.
	So a lot of girls are just skipping half the school.
	And how would you solve this problem?
	I haven't a clue.
	I haven't a clue either.
	But do you think that just kind of trying to negotiate with the students by saying, you don't have to come into school.
	Okay, we've got like a six and a half hour school day.
	What if we make it four hours?
	What if we make it two hours?
	Would you come in for half an hour?
	That's not the way to assert authority over children.
	Really is it?
	Is to try and negotiate with them saying, we'll give you free food, we'll give you less hours, you can play video games, you know.
	Is that the way that you would do it?
	No.
	That's more likely to make me not bother.
	Yeah, so this is in Rhyl High School in Wales again.
	Staff are visiting pupils' homes, shortening days and running a food bank to help get children back to lessons at school.
	Kai, a Year 11 pupil at Rhyl High, believed some had struggled to readjust after so long at home.
	He was in Year 7 when Covid struck and worked online at home during Year 8.
	Some people thought, I don't want to do work, I'd rather go on my Xbox or PlayStation.
	When they got to secondary school the work was harder as well.
	We weren't used to it and so in some of our minds we were thinking, this is just too stressful.
	Jessica in the same year believed that some students had lost social skills.
	Everything changed and no one really gets it, she said.
	So the schools aren't working either.
	And even worse than that, not only are the schools not working for the educational things that you're supposed to do in them, they're also just falling apart.
	A lot of them are literally falling apart, which is rather worrying.
	So this is new RAAC school list of buildings with unsafe concrete.
	Government published an updated list of 174 schools and colleges in England it says have crumbling concrete.
	According to the original list, 19 schools in England with nearly 10,000 pupils had to delay the start of the new term.
	So we're going to negotiate School hours down to try and get these kids to come back into school.
	At least there's less chance the concrete will collapse on them.
	Yes, but also we might have to reduce the school hours because we want to reduce the chances of a concrete block smashing you in the head.
	Because it falls off.
	RAAC is a lightweight material that was used mostly in flat roofing for those unaware, but also in floors and walls between the 1950s and 1990s.
	It's a cheaper alternative to standard concrete and has a lifespan of about 30 years.
	On Tuesday, an Education Select Committee discussed the RAAC crisis and was told 29 schools require temporary classrooms, of which 11 already have them in place.
	As of Friday, this is a contemporary to when the article was written back on the 19th of September.
	As of Friday, orders have been made for 180 single and 68 double classrooms, plus a mix of hygiene facilities.
	Toilets.
	But they were unable to provide figures for the number of classrooms that have already been delivered.
	So, all up in the air.
	How did this start?
	Why did people start to notice this?
	Well, because in some schools, literally the ceiling did start falling on people.
	Problems with what the construction industry terms reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, RAAC, were brought to a head in August 2023 when an RAAC ceiling panel, which had been deemed safe already by inspectors, good job inspectors, It collapsed at a school in England.
	It doesn't name the school itself, but it does say, also back in 2018, a roof panel at Single Well Primary School in Gravesend, Kent, also collapsed.
	Presumably also almost smacking someone on the head.
	This is just what our country has come to now.
	People don't work.
	People in prisons.
	Our prisons don't work.
	The schools don't work, and when they do, there might be a chance that they collapse on you, which is why we're having to shut so many of them down.
	Are you proud?
	Are you proud?
	There is a real feeling of just degradation.
	It's entropy.
	It really is a feeling of entropy, and I don't want to be miserable, but this is... This is why so many people are leaving the UK.
	Yeah, this is the feeling that I get.
	Yeah, like you say, it's the small things.
	It's not just one thing.
	Okay, the prisons aren't working.
	They're potentially releasing people into homelessness.
	There is one thing that's kind of causing all of this.
	I'm just gonna say.
	Begins with an I.
	Timigration.
	The Irish?
	Yeah.
	I should have known.
	Yeah, the Irish did this.
	I should have known it was the Irish.
	It's all those Irish bloody builders coming in during the 60s and 90s, building our schools, stealing our jobs.
	But I'm not joking.
	Stealing our prisons.
	Well, I mean, they were.
	But I'm not joking, though.
	Like, the massive demand that is created by a huge increase and sudden increase in population, like, yes, it is going to make your ability to keep quality on anything terrible.
	Because you just can't scale up as fast as needed.
	And then you get the simultaneous problem, and I'll cover this in a moment because it'll be relevant, that with government projects and even private projects that fall under the remit of government regulations have to end up inevitably pandering more to filling diversity quotas than actually getting their jobs done.
	I covered HS2, we'll mention HS2 in a moment, but HS2, when I covered it a few weeks ago, if you looked into the documents, a lot of the money seemed to be just being funneled into NGOs and government quota systems to make sure that the government could say that they're hitting their targets for the amount of diversity that they should have.
	And once again, if you're trying to fill positions with Making sure that the people are brown enough.
	If you get the color swab out and make sure, okay, you're our new head manager of this site.
	Yeah, looks about right to me.
	You're not testing for competency.
	You might get the best brown person possible, but if you're getting the best brown person possible and that criteria in the first place has meant that you're not getting the best overall person possible, because you've narrowed down your search.
	But I do have the brownest.
	But I do have the brownest.
	There you go.
	Things just don't get done.
	You notice it all over the place that things just in this country don't get done anymore.
	Projects get started and they run out of money halfway through because apparently, like with the council tax information that we got earlier this year that I looked into with Josh, the council is just more than willing to throw millions and millions and millions of pounds at lost causes rather than actual things that are important and make the country run on the day-to-day basis.
	Absolutely ridiculous.
	But what's the real problem?
	What should we really be focusing on?
	Immigration.
	We've got all of these problems.
	We've got all of this immigration.
	Immigration, please.
	Just once.
	Just one day.
	Could it be that one?
	No.
	Teenagers smoking.
	Yeah.
	Rishi Sunak has decided that he's going to put a bill forward in the parliament to try and raise the age of smoking, the legal age where you can begin smoking, one year every year from the rest of time until it's basically illegal for anyone to start smoking.
	Because New Zealand did it.
	Yeah, because New Zealand did it.
	And the government nanny state wants you to know that everything is constantly falling apart.
	The schools might literally collapse on your children, but at least they won't be smoking.
	This is, this is, this is what our government cares about.
	Who smokes anymore anyway?
	If you're a teenager, you're into vaping, you're into smoking, what are you... I still see teenagers smoke, but the fact of the matter is that if you do this, it won't... If you do this, it won't stop teenagers smoking.
	They'll just do what they've always done, because teenagers, shockingly enough, aren't old enough to buy cigarettes anyway.
	Well, they might do drugs, uh, they might also just... What do you do?
	I drank.
	Oh yeah.
	You can do that too?
	Yeah.
	And with both smoking and drinking, one of the amazing things that you can do as a teenager is ask someone to buy it for you.
	Really?
	I have no idea.
	The government might not have thought this far ahead, because the government never thinks further than its own nose these days, but that is something that people can do.
	And once again, the fact of the matter is, smoking, you can call it a vice, shouldn't be the decision of the government whether you're allowed to do it or not.
	But either way, where are the priorities, ever?
	Where are the priorities?
	That's a good question.
	When in the last 100 days has the government actually sat down and said, okay, we're reforming immigration so there's less of it, so that we can scale up demand?
	I mean, they like throwing red meat out every so often.
	Suella Braveman will come out and say multiculturalism has failed, now time to ban smoking.
	Oh, but I mean like an actual legal change.
	Like, the one thing they did do is bring in the points-based system, but then made it really, really easy to reach the number of points.
	So immigration spiked that year, and then it's been 365 days since then.
	Was that the same year that they changed the visa rules so there was no longer a quota, like a hard limit on how many non-EU... It's 2021, so it's been two years actually since they've had that data.
	Yeah, because they changed the visa rules so that they no longer had a hard limit on the amount of non-EU migration you're allowed to enter into the country, which is why all of your towns are being flooded now with non-EU migrants instead of just Polish people like it was before.
	Oh, the good old days.
	Thanks, uh, when it was just filled with Polsky Schleps.
	When I was an alien in my own community, but, um... Well, at least we fought the war together.
	Yeah, there you go, at least they're also anti-communists.
	And what other priorities do we have?
	Well, as I mentioned, HS2, all of that money, I looked into it, it's been about £92 billion.
	The project that was started back in 2013 to create a multi-, a high-speed rail route from London to Manchester, cutting through the centre of the country, is now not going to Manchester.
	It's now just going to Birmingham.
	That whole reason that we built this in the first place, because we've already looked into it and the changes in the infrastructure that are going to be made mean that you will save four minutes on a journey from Birmingham to London and vice versa.
	The whole point of it to go further up north and be a better link with the north and south?
	Gone.
	Because the government has thrown so much money at this project, £92 billion so far, possibly £100 billion because we don't know if they're fudging the money.
	But they've built nothing with that.
	If I gave you a hundred million pounds and you built nothing, my concern wouldn't be, oh, we need to shorten this project.
	It's, I want someone's head for stealing all of my money.
	Well, if I remember correctly from the segment I did a few weeks ago about this, when you look into the documents, you do find that they at least donated, I think it was about 68 grand to a charity for Bengali pensioners.
	Yes, well what happens is, it's very, very simple.
	Political economy is very simple, actually.
	What you do is the government creates large-scale infrastructure projects, you pay your taxes, and then they give those taxes to Bengali pensioners.
	Yeah.
	That's just how it works.
	That's just how it works.
	So this article is incredible.
	Originally meant to connect the north of England to the capital of London, Sunak announced on Wednesday at the Conservative Party Conference that the rest of the HS2 project will be cancelled, referring to everything beyond the line from London to Birmingham in the West Midlands, which is already under construction.
	I go on about it.
	Whenever I mention HS2, I go on about it every single time.
	But not just my town, Crewe, other towns across the north that this was going to connect to, Basically destroyed their town centers.
	They knocked everything down so that they could rebuild new infrastructure in place for what they imagined would be new commuters who would be connected to the line by HS2.
	And now it's not going through them.
	So the government created this project everywhere.
	All of the local councils scrambled so that they could try and adapt to this project.
	And now all of that wasted time, all of that wasted money, all of the businesses that had to shut down was all for nothing.
	It's been 10 years of HS2, almost 100 billion pounds, nothing to show for it.
	But he said in his speech, he said the remaining 36 billion pounds earmarked for HS2 will instead be reinvested in hundreds of new transport projects in the North and the Midlands and across the country.
	However, Conservative Mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street had previously disputed the claim that tens of billions can be reinvested in the short term by scrapping HS2.
	He told Politico on Tuesday that such claims would be spin.
	As the cost of the Manchester leg of the HS2 is largely not yet on government balance sheets, he said that money that can be reallocated exists in long-term years, but it doesn't exist in the current spending horizon.
	So it's just projections that that's how much money that they would have had to spend on it in the first place.
	It's not money that's been put in the coffers and specifically set aside for this project.
	It's just he's saying, well, we planned to spend an extra 36 billion pounds on it.
	So that money that we don't have yet, but plan to spend, we now plan to spend it on something else, which will inevitably get canceled.
	So yeah, nice little white pill for you in the middle of this one.
	Hopefully your segment for following up will be a bit more happy because nothing works and nothing will work.
	Everything is falling apart.
	I was just checking because the Labour Party conference, which I am clipping through...
	Yes, you are.
	I've seen you having some fun with it.
	Some, uh, woman got up and started talking about how we're the seventh richest country in the world, and I don't know how we can't afford to splurge more money on ABC.
	Who cares, right?
	So I thought I'd check it out and just remind myself, like, bring myself back to reality.
	So for income, we're the 15th.
	And, uh, for GDP per capita, we're now the 28th.
	Yeah, we're not doing great on GDP per capita, especially for a country that is supposedly Excuse me, what's the figure they always use?
	The 6th or 7th largest economy in the world?
	Yeah, that's what they always say.
	But that's because of the fact it's massively propped up by debt spending.
	Yeah, so we're actually 28th.
	We're getting beat by France.
	Thanks.
	Oh yeah, I forgot to mention it during the segment as well, but one of the reasons that the prison sentencing works the way that it does in the UK, where you get given a particular sentence, and for like 90% of those crimes, when you get sentenced for them, you'll actually only serve out half of the sentence, and then you'll serve the rest of it on parole, basically, is because of the fact that the prisons are so overcrowded that they just constantly need a revolving door of prisoners going through them, because otherwise
	They'll just burst at the walls, apparently.
	What a beautiful system.
	I know!
	Well, diversity!
	It's diverse, it turns out.
	I am shocked.
	I'm sure you're shocked.
	There are lists of people who are shocked.
	Diverse in what way?
	Well, they have, like, different opinions and stuff, which I didn't expect.
	I thought when we categorized everyone into white and non-white, that all of the non-white people were the exact same kind of, like, brown sludge of people.
	That is indeed the government's position.
	It's not mine, though.
	All this podcast, we think that maybe there's a bit more to the world than literally two pixels.
	But anyway, I'm shocked.
	When I'm talking about Israel-Palestine, that thing happened, and I've spoken about this before in the segment I did, and I don't want to even hear my own opinions on Israel-Palestine.
	You can go check out yesterday, where people went through it in details.
	I'm really sparked by this, because I remember seeing... There's some people I watch and follow from the Israel-Palestine side.
	And one of them was responding.
	I mean, no shade given, but this guy was retweeting an image.
	It was Tim Paul and some guy.
	And because it had just happened, they changed the thing that we're going to talk about to be about Israel-Palestine.
	It was like, Tim Paul's opinion on Israel-Palestine and this guy's opinion.
	And I was just like, and this Jewish guy was just like, I don't want to hear the opinion.
	This guy's, you know, connected to Israel, you know, works with them, does this and that, and has, you know, been dealing with this topic for 10 years, and he's just like, I just don't want to hear it.
	And I'm like, yeah, fair enough, I don't want to hear mine either.
	Yeah, realistically, the reason that we didn't really properly speak about it on Monday and the reason I'm trying to sidestep it now is because I don't have anything of real value to contribute to it.
	There are people who can, yes, they went through the history, for example, and you can go and enjoy that.
	But otherwise, I'm going to focus on domestic problems because, I mean, this is where I live and it sucks.
	So this is trueflation, it's the measure of inflation from, well, Dan's recommendation here, which shows since October 2020, the British currency has now inflated 33.08%.
	That's good.
	Three years.
	So if your pay hasn't gone up 33.08%, you're losing money.
	And you can calculate that percentage yourself since then.
	And great.
	And I love this.
	How does this track your lived experience?
	Yep.
	Yeah, definitely cost that much more.
	Yep.
	Literally everything.
	But the thing I'm talking about here is that you may remember This sort of crap was the day-to-day occurrence in England.
	And I noticed since the Israel-Palestine stuff, and the explosion of people waving Hamas flags, sorry, Palestinian flags, not Hamas flags, all over the West, There's been a bit of a shift in the culture, because of course all of those things happen in the capitals, which is where all the leftists live, and liberal, neoliberal types, who have now had to be like, hang on a minute, what do you mean the foreigners don't agree with me on Israel-Palestine?
	I imagine they open the curtains that morning and there's just a gigantic Palestine flag.
	Like the BLM posting that image of the paraglider with Iceland with Palestine.
	They just do that and they have like Looney Tunes eyeballs just go, what, what, what?
	Like I know, people who watch the show, we're all pretty clued up, we try to pay attention to what's going on.
	You interact with normies and you forget just how, well not even normies, never mind the normies, the normies are trying their hardest.
	We're talking about the neoliberal and the progressive types.
	Like, how dumb they are!
	We discussed it on Monday, they don't know anything!
	Really nothing!
	I mean, it was amazing!
	And you can see here, like, Adol Ray over here, the guy who I am going to say, told everyone a good morning, how good it was that there was no white British person on the panel to talk about the eradication of the white British from London.
	Great guy, I'm sure.
	Brown man advocates for the...
	Advocates for the inclusion of more brown people.
	He's actually like a genuine racist.
	No, I know he is.
	Seemingly so, from what I've heard about his conduct in Good Morning Britain.
	Am I shocked?
	It says here, facts about migration.
	UK cannot survive without lots of it.
	Oh, jeez.
	I didn't know.
	We'd literally sink without.
	We won't stop it.
	We're an ageing population in need of labour.
	Who's we?
	Who's we in this, Adil?
	I don't know.
	They want a better life and will do anything to get it.
	Have you polled the British public?
	Do anything to get it, including eradicate the British race.
	Yeah.
	Well, we've never had open borders.
	Close enough.
	I mean, that's not even technically true.
	Like, we did have open borders before the 1800s.
	Like, there were no border checks because you didn't need them because the whole world wasn't invading us.
	We also, if I remember correctly, had close enough to some open borders policies around 1948 when we did the Immigration and Nationality Act, which is why we had to change a lot of immigration rules.
	Sure, but if you want to take, like, the utopian concept of literally no border controls, I mean, there were port controls vaguely.
	Like, you had to register the boat you were doing, but...
	There were no proper government immigration controls up until I think it was the 1700s or the 1800s.
	And the reason was because of a French terrorist who was trying to kill the ruling political faction in France, turned up in Britain.
	And obviously the French were like, deport him.
	And we went, we don't know if he's even here.
	Macron's been operating for a while.
	So that's when immigration controls came in, because of foreign terrorists.
	Up until then, England had actually been doing alright, even in the ages of mass movement, that people like to talk about.
	The whole 500 people, that mass movement, from whichever European nonsense was going on.
	I think if you look into the figures, it's something like over the past thousand years, prior to the mid-1950s, when you start to get transport for London, cooperating with Jamaica, and you start bringing lots of people from the West Indies.
	Um, up until that point, we had about 300,000 people immigrate to the country, so we have more than that in a single year now.
	A third?
	Yes, of a year.
	So over a thousand years, we had a third of what we get in a single year now.
	Yeah.
	Great, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Just a few months.
	A thousand years, same thing.
	But my point being that this is obviously bollocks, and we've always known this is bollocks, but this tweet was made just on the eve of the news that maybe the diverse population holds different views on Israel-Palestine.
	And I saw Destiny tweeting this, which is rather funny.
	I don't normally agree with Destiny, but that's quite funny.
	People listening, Palestinians in Palestine, their views on adultery, death, their views on homosexuals, that's pretty much death.
	Their views on Sharia, now please.
	Palestinian Diaspora though in the West!
	Black Lives Matter!
	I believe in LGBT!
	Socialism!
	Make sure I get my caramel marker!
	You can see the bug face as well, but there's a whole other conversation.
	It's not true though, if you actually go and check out the Palestinian Diaspora in the West.
	When it comes to actually supporting Palestine, it doesn't matter what they do, they'll still do it.
	They'll still wave the flags, because they are tribally loyal.
	And you can see here, End Wokeness being like, this is not Iran, this is central London.
	Isn't that wonderful?
	Just average London things.
	Yep, there we are.
	That's the obsession.
	Not in Poland, in central London instead.
	Quite astute observation.
	Andy Ngo did a good documentation of just the endless purritus here.
	I don't know, communist?
	Revolutionary communist group.
	Oh, say it out loud!
	I remember we met some guy who was telling us about the Iranian revolution.
	He met someone who lived through it and was asking them.
	And they were talking about the Communist and Islamist alliance to overthrow the Shah.
	And then the Communists were genuinely surprised when the Islamists turned around and said, Communism is haram.
	Now face the wall, please.
	And we just chuckled because it's just like, how can you be so stupid?
	But Communists are never expecting it when they have to face the wall, are they?
	No.
	Is that Millennial Woes there?
	What?
	No, that's not Millennial Woes.
	Weird place.
	What are you doing?
	That's new.
	Anyway, it goes on and on, Andy documents, and go and check out Andy's Twitter, of course, to get more stuff like this, because he's now a refugee in England.
	He's also going to live with this now being his reality, which is, it's diverse, it turns out, in London.
	Very diverse.
	And of course, you or me, or anyone else who is not a moron, was pretty much not shocked by this.
	It's like, yeah.
	Once again, just because you import people onto the magic soil doesn't mean that they change all of their allegiances or their culture or their, you know, loyalty.
	I did notice Elon Musk was like demographics is destiny.
	So yeah.
	I mean, I shared this out and also shared a recent tweet that he put out where he said that he supported the expansion of legal migration.
	I just said, is there people?
	This is good.
	This is good.
	This is a good moment of learning for a lot of people.
	Including maybe Elon, and I'd like him to learn from this, and I think it is a moment in which people can, well, fess up to reality a little bit, which is, do you know diversity is quite diverse?
	And he includes this, and if you don't like this, well, come and join us.
	Come and join the camp of Close the Borders Now Re.
	Well, the funny thing is that Elon often comes across very schizophrenic on these issues, which is why I suggest perhaps there's more than one person running his account.
	Primarily because being from South Africa, He's well aware.
	He's very aware of how there are ethnic tensions in the world.
	Indeed.
	I did notice the Turning Point UK tweet of this.
	This is the Israeli embassy in the daytime.
	And it's just like, yep, that's multiculturalism for you.
	Conflict.
	Cultural conflict.
	Constant cultural conflict, because there are multi-cultures all living next to each other, separate, never changing, and instead bringing all of their conflicts, intercultural conflicts you might say, to our front door.
	I'm sorry, but this is such a good summation.
	They are actually right here.
	It's like multiculturalism has failed.
	No, this is multiculturalism.
	This is not failing.
	This is reality.
	This was the plan.
	I suppose they're putting in the phraseology of the plan of, oh, we'll just all get along has failed.
	Yeah, because it was stupid to begin with.
	If we all have access to the same variety of cuisine, then all of a sudden conflict evaporates.
	Ah yes, Israel-Palestine, they've been trying to kill each other for a long time, they've never got along.
	Until Abbas over here, he found out that they share falafels.
	And now they're both best friends, I'm sure.
	All we needed was a cookbook.
	They both have an aversion to pork.
	Finally, no more Brother Wars.
	Yeah, no.
	That's not what's happening.
	And this lady is my, um, character of the day.
	My, my, my, just my new favorite rescue animal of, uh, the world.
	And I say that, we referred to people like that before.
	The journalists were like, whoa, whoa, hang on a minute.
	They always find something new.
	They're so terrified to figure out what everyone's been telling them.
	So this lady here, she can see a Ukrainian flag.
	She decided to go down and, as she says, pay her respects to the Israeli embassy.
	Pay your respects to it?
	Like a wailing wall or something?
	I never realized how she phrased that.
	It's kind of weird.
	Pay respects to the dead at the Israeli Embassy, alright?
	I imagine, yeah.
	Pay my respects to the Israeli Embassy.
	I'm laughing because I don't know what else to do to that.
	That's just weird.
	I was unable to get very far.
	Terrifying.
	And she posts a bunch of pro-Palestinian protesters and whatnot here.
	As you can see, it's rather blew up.
	Six million views there on some lady's account.
	Because she says, oh, I didn't feel safe.
	I tried speaking to a few protesters and making the point that it was totally inappropriate.
	Diversity is our strength.
	Sorry, but that is such a rescue animal thing to do.
	Don't you know it's inappropriate to wave Palestinian flags outside?
	I tell you what I saw that was really funny.
	Sorry, I'm losing it.
	I saw some really good... I saw some really good contrasting posts of Right, we'll give him a moment, guys.
	I saw some really fantastic contrasting posts of, I think, what's his name, David Wiseman, something like that, of Jewish leftists from mid-2020 saying, saying, I support BLM no matter what.
	In fact, I might buy myself a shirt, and then immediately after the BLM Chicago post going, you know what, maybe the right were right about BLM.
	Hold on a minute.
	Oh no, now it's affecting me?
	Oh no!
	Well, I love, like, Israelis over here.
	Know what's coming.
	Israeli staff.
	And she's like, well, I tried to tell them it was inappropriate.
	For some reason... Guys, guys, guys!
	Can't we all just settle down?
	I'm sorry, but you are- Stop waving those flags, please!
	You're triggering me!
	You are the most rescue of rescue animals.
	I mean, you're kind of like when your girlfriend texts you about being like, uh, babe, what's going on with Israel-Palestine?
	You just say, just go back to bed.
	Just- just- just scroll down for me, because, uh, couldn't these, uh, put an oops here?
	Yeah.
	What did she say on October 6th?
	Good to hear Prime Minister- I'm gonna get to it, in fact, because it's- Oh, okay, all right.
	I love- fucking hell.
	I don't want to talk about it.
	There's loads of other people just being like, yeah, well, duh.
	Because she has done some previous tweets.
	Oh, here we go.
	So this is from October.
	Good to hear the Prime Minister say that multiculturalism is something to be proud of.
	Just to remind you what that looks like.
	Yep.
	There we are.
	Proud to be immigrants.
	Immigrant families often exhibit conservative morals.
	Yes, they do.
	Yes, they do, Bella.
	Conservative to their personal culture.
	Big shock.
	And a sense of communal solidarity.
	Yes.
	Yep.
	Yes, they do.
	Here's some solidarity going on right here.
	Look at this.
	The Turks, you've got the Moroccans, you've got the Iranians, the whole Arab world.
	What it turns out is that conservatism actually takes different forms depending on what you're trying to conserve, depending on your identity, where you're from.
	They compelent.
	Compliments the party's stance on family values.
	Yeah, they do.
	Conservatives should... I can't read it because there's a camera in the way.
	Stop bashing multiculturalism.
	Yeah, they stress family values.
	Like, you could say it's a big tent movement here.
	It's a rather big tent, the Palestinian movement.
	People who don't care.
	You can literally tell them about what Hamas have been doing in the last couple of days.
	They don't care.
	They will never care.
	You can tell them about the worst things Hamas have been doing.
	They do not give a damn.
	Because guess what?
	I'm on this team.
	I have decided that the moral ones don't give a damn about your opinions.
	And if you turn up and try to explain to them, wasn't it a bit inappropriate?
	I'm sorry, but you're such a rascal.
	I do not want this on my doorstep, and I don't...
	I don't want to get too much into the whole, you know, the actual conflict that's going on there.
	What do you do with her?
	Yeah, I know for a fact that I've seen people suggesting that what needs to happen, and I do have a bad feeling that this will be what happens, which is that Israel says, we need to get rid of all of the Palestinians, we're going to throw out all of the Palestinians, and then our country And European country, we'll get to that in a minute, your prediction, will say, great, now we can accept all of these Palestinians.
	Let's send them all to Bella's house.
	No, no, we'll send them just to London in general, shall we?
	Yep.
	I wonder what that will result in.
	I don't know, probably something like this.
	Probably something as in, like, diversity on the streets.
	And Ellie Jones can be shocked.
	What do you mean this place used to be Jewish and now it's Muslim?
	There's no difference!
	She's also, uh, not just in case of like, oh I just love conservative immigrants.
	She just wants more, as we can see here.
	We need more immigrants and more houses.
	For who?
	The more immigrants, obviously.
	Both are key economic growths.
	So, no, no, that's not even slightly true.
	Housing demand from immigration shouldn't lead to higher prices if enough houses are built.
	Oh great, we'll just literally tarmac the whole country then.
	Because you know what this country belongs to?
	Everyone else.
	You know, Rory looked into it yesterday, and he showed me an image that he'd got, which was, they said that they were... Have you got it?
	No, I'm gonna bring up, because she says here, like, during the post-war period, we just built more houses.
	Complete bollocks.
	This is the thing I was gonna promote.
	Sorry, Rob.
	No, go on.
	Literally, broke emomics, house prices, Dan did a thing.
	It's a very good thing.
	Like, I'm only halfway through, and I want to say a thank you letter to these two chaps for coming on.
	Like, the data in the history is just like, no, we did not build enough houses, even then.
	What the hell are you talking about?
	Well, yeah, Rory was looking into it and the government, I think, has pledged currently, they won't hit these targets, but they've pledged to build about 340,000 houses every single year.
	And Rory looked and said, okay, if you were going to try and pave over the sort of area needed for that, what would it look like?
	And it was literally the space in the Midlands and the South East between London and Birmingham would be entirely paved over for that.
	Great.
	Just so that we can accept more... Not for us.
	It's never for us.
	It's never for the people who live here.
	So we can accept more of these fellows.
	From London to Manchester, we can see this.
	Fantastic.
	Won't that make the world better, Bella?
	I'm sorry, but there's such an embarrassing individual.
	And the thing is, you think I'm trying to pick on her.
	It's not.
	Her opinions are stupid.
	But she's uncommon.
	This is a very common perspective.
	The fact that she's uncommon about all this is just mad.
	Don't call it a grave.
	It's the future you chose.
	We are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine.
	And the machine is bleeding to death.
	It didn't have to end like this.
	You could have prevented this.
	You only had to listen.
	Thank you, big man Tyrone.
	Coming in with the win every time.
	A warning from the future.
	He's not the only one.
	Constantine Kiston has been pointing out, you know, a lesson from this you could learn, you know, if you're big on the conflict.
	One thing you can definitely learn is, you know, multiculturalism, that kind of has been failing for a long time.
	We can see here the Manchester Arena bomber, I believe it is, or is... I can't read the full description because I feel like Manchester bomber Salman Abedi Far-Right attends a rally in London organized by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign of which Jeremy Corbyn is a patron.
	For some reason he then went on to do what he did because he's inspired by the fundamentals of Islam, which is called Fundamentalism.
	Anyway, let's see a difference, shall we?
	So Celtic FC over here, Free Palestine.
	Great.
	Thank you, Scotland.
	What's that got to do with Glasgow?
	I mean, I remember when I went to Northern Ireland and saw the Irish Republican side where they have loads of Palestine stuff.
	And then you go to the English side or whatever and you see all the Unionist side and you see all this Israeli stuff.
	And I just looked at it and went, I have nothing in common with either of you.
	This is what you talk about.
	Why do you have... I think it's because, and I've seen people explain this and I think it's quite a good description of why people are pinning their allegiance to one side or the other, is that because of the fact in the West we are so bereft of allowed, similarly with Ukraine, we don't get our own nationalism.
	You're taught from a very, very...
	Yeah, you've got taught from a very young age that if you have any sort of pride towards your own group, that that's the most evil thing that you can do.
	But you still have an innate desire to pin your allegiance to a side.
	So you see something else going on halfway across the world, well I guess I'm going to pick one of them sides then.
	Unlike Poland, who Ligia Warsaw here just pulled out a ban that said zero tolerance to immigrants.
	I gotta say, I think their sporting culture is a bit more, um, well, in their own interest.
	Yep.
	So, let's just end this off with, here you go.
	This is, I believe, in, what is this?
	Durban Performing Arts Centre.
	Somewhere in America, I think it is.
	Average American Concerns, I'm sure.
	Again, I'm sure every America First individual is massively obsessed with this.
	Nick Fuentes is in that crowd.
	Who knows?
	She's not the only one as well, you can see it internationally.
	So this is Lauren Shen posting here.
	You've got the Immigration Minister.
	I believe, what is this, Canada?
	I think it's Canada.
	Anyway, so I used to tweet out here that he's disgusted and ashamed to see these scenes in Montreal of people wearing Palestinian flags because they're glorifying death and terror in Montreal, the city I love and represent, Hamas is a terrorist organization, no one blah blah blah.
	This really does... He's really annoyed.
	But then again, you're the Minister for Immigration.
	And this is what you tweet on a daily basis?
	This really does have the teaching the immigrants not to rape women vibes, doesn't it?
	It has that same energy to it.
	What do you mean the foreign world is foreign?
	Oh my god.
	I mean, we're actually dealing with rescue dogs or children level of intelligence here on a daily basis when it comes to the immigration debate.
	This is probably why nothing ever happens in the West, because there's just too many stupid people when it comes to this subject.
	In positions of influence and...
	And power.
	But also the cities, I mean that's where the power is usually, the capital cities.
	Yep.
	And because they've been so evacuated of normal people, the people who are left are either just like, what if I just explained to them how Palestine shouldn't be protesting here in front of the embassy?
	Or actual just like, I don't know, shills?
	If you want a good example of it, there was a video clip that came from Fox News a few weeks ago that a load of leftists on Twitter were really celebrating of them going, The reporter was walking around saying, here's the crime statistics, here's the things that I've seen that are going wrong, there's massive homeless encampments, and all of the people they were interviewing, because Seattle, I assume, like you're saying, with most of the cities, has been evacuated of sensible people who don't want to have to put up with urban decay on their day-to-day business.
	Saying things like, I've never seen any crime around here.
	One woman went, crime is a social problem that will be solved by giving people their basic needs.
	Never works, never has worked.
	No more democracy then.
	They've tried it for generations and it's never once worked that way.
	It turns out crime is a function of people's incentives and behavior, not necessarily the fact that they have too much or too little.
	And then third one, the third one was basically just making excuses where the guy said, well, you know, I drove past the gigantic homeless encampment and saw loads of people shooting up.
	And she went, oh, you were driving in your car.
	They were bothering you so much.
	Well, yeah.
	What about the people who don't have a car to drive in, who have to walk past that?
	What about the people who do get mugged?
	What about the fact that just it's a problem?
	Yeah.
	What about the fact that the people are literally killing themselves, shooting up and drugs in the middle of the street?
	Why does that not bother you?
	That's the attitude these people adopt.
	But getting back to the subject, I can't get over this.
	He's sitting here boasting about bringing 40,000 Afghan refugees to Canada, as you can see there.
	And then he's like, hang on a minute.
	What do you mean these people support Palestine?
	I mean, I don't know what to do with that person.
	I think it's just, I mean, it is the meme.
	Every time, me saying, haha, F yes.
	And then me reaping, this sucks.
	I think part of the reason for it is the fact that on these people, it's purely about just the aesthetics of the fact that I am better than you.
	And I am willing to let myself get shanked in the street by the diversity as long as it makes me know that I'm not as intolerant as those evil rightoids.
	That's where the spirit comes from.
	It's wearing this off just because of time.
	We can see Paul Joseph Watson here, making the point.
	England footballers still taking the knee for this.
	BLM Chicago.
	Oh!
	It's gone!
	There you are.
	BLM Chicago just tweeting, I stand with Palestine with a guy in a glider and a Palestinian flag.
	Obviously referencing the guys who came out on paragliders to kill people.
	Community notes.
	To the win.
	Yeah.
	The ADL though, my favorite one, because you can see the tweet there from BLM.
	And then the ADL win with white supremacist leaders are celebrating Hamas.
	Yeah, the white supremacists that run Black Lives Matter, huh?
	Yeah, truly, truly the worst people.
	Thank you, ADL.
	You are such a neutral and unbiased and nuanced organization.
	And this goes on.
	You can see another Black Lives Matter group.
	This is Black Lives Matter Grassroots.
	So the Black Lives Matter guerrilla fighters saying, hey, we're taking some notes from this.
	That's good to know.
	Well, I mean, the Black Panthers were a thing.
	I don't know how much terrorism they got up to in the end.
	Well, actually, I've not read it, but I own it.
	There's a book called Days of Rage, and from the early 1970s to the mid-1970s, I think there was about 1,200 domestic terror bombings committed by organizations like the Black Panthers.
	But the whole reason I go over this, I mean I saw this, this is TerrorAlarm over here, who is an AI-generated account apparently, talking about how Europe must accept 3.5 million Pali-Italian refugees to get rid of them.
	Pali-Italian?
	Pali-Italian!
	We need to get some more Pali-Italians!
	Let's send them all to Sicily!
	But you can see here, like, Twitter knows, it's like, wow, it's AI-generated news.
	But it keeps happening on this account as well.
	It keeps doing it.
	They used to port them all to Europe, says the former commander.
	It's interesting.
	It's interesting that this is what it defaults to.
	I think this is, whether it's AI-generated or not, it shows that the attitudes of Western elites might as well be AI-generated, because the default answer to everything is, send brown people to Europe.
	But to use it as a prediction tool as well, because it seems the future could be just predicted by AI, if the end of that conflict is that millions of Palestinians are sent to Europe instead of the Muslim world, There is no point to the West if we can't refuse that, and frankly, if that is what happens, good luck in the cities.
	We should obviously just wall off the capitals and be like, you know what, you voted for this, you enjoy it.
	We in the countryside did not and want nothing to do with it.
	Remember, if that does happen, they are too violent and too extremist for the Israelis to have to put up with, but if you say anything of the sort in the UK, you get arrested for a hate speech crime.
	In the UK, don't look back in anger.
	Would you ever say that to the Israelis?
	In the video comments.
	Hello.
	Sorry about the Monday, not you guys, by the way.
	Oh, yeah.
	Sorry that we're here right now.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry we're not all in bed right now.
	Together, just having a lie-in.
	Sorry, what?
	I'm just clarifying to make sure people don't misinterpret my words.
	Well, I think I was perfectly clear.
	Let's go to the next one.
	We keep the wall between us as we go.
	To each the boulders that have fallen to each, and some are loaves and some so nearly balls.
	Oh, just another kind of outdoor game.
	One on a side, it comes to little more.
	There, where it is, we do not need the wall.
	He is all pine and I am all apple orchard.
	My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
	He only says, good fences make good neighbors.
	Excellent quote.
	Yeah, it's got to be true.
	Don't call it a grave.
	It's the future you chose.
	Why is Big Man Tyrone come back?
	What's going on, Scott?
	I think one of the players is already playing again.
	Sorry about that.
	Hearing Big Man Tyrone with 28 Days Later music in the background.
	Oh, God.
	Good fences make good neighbors.
	It is a grave.
	The next one.
	So here in Australia, we'll be voting on Saturday the 14th for the Vote Department campaign.
	Which is a referendum in which I'll be voting no.
	Mostly because it is a subjugation between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals in the Australian Parliament.
	The thing is, a lot of people don't understand what this referendum is actually even about.
	Well, this has led to the Yes campaigners, the people who have arbitrated for the voice department, calling these people idiots and racists, despite the fact that they haven't even told them what would change in the Constitution of Australia.
	Yes, from what I've read into it, it's literally going to be that if this says yes, you'll get an ABO advisory board behind every decision that Parliament makes, which just, again, sounds like another mafia shakedown.
	That's what all of these initiatives, all of these programs to promote diversity, is just a different form of mafia shakedown, every single time.
	Good luck, Australians.
	Yeah.
	The M1 Grands used in World War II by the Americans were chambered in .30-06 and this M1 Grand that I bought is chambered in .308.
	It's a slightly smaller bullet that is commonly used for hunting and stuff and so in this video I'm greasing and oiling all of the components.
	It took me about a half hour to do that and I didn't have a proper brush to apply the grease with so I had to improvise by rolling up cleaning patches.
	There's any American viewers watching who's got an M1 Garand and is willing to let me borrow it for an afternoon to film a video.
	I have a video idea for that actually.
	American gun culture looks like such a fun hobby.
	That's great.
	I really want it.
	Should we go to the written comments?
	We shall indeed.
	So on the Lord of Kabul, Phil Rigby says, glad to hear Mars is alive.
	You need to get him on again and go over what happened while he was in captivity.
	It's up to him.
	Mason Royce says, glad to hear Mars is alive, but I'm a little uneasy about the fact that he is starting to glorify the Taliban.
	I don't know if he's glorifying them.
	He's always just been like, well, you know, they're in charge.
	They're humans.
	Because this is a thing I made in my own video about Afghanistan.
	Regardless of what you think about the Taliban, I mean, funnily enough, there's a few policy points we don't agree on.
	It doesn't matter.
	Like, when you go to a foreign country, you're a guest there.
	And if you think, I disagree with the politics here, so now I'm going to make a huge deal about it.
	Largely, that's a waste of time and kind of stupid.
	Unless you're in a Western country.
	Unless you're in a place in which there's a better alternative, it can be done and is just something that, you know, needs support or time, right?
	But with Afghanistan, the only two factions there, so, I mean, if you've got a ballot, if there actually was a vote, is ISIS or the Taliban.
	There is no liberal feminist blah blah blah.
	That obviously was exterminated.
	That was gone.
	That was something that was imposed on them.
	There's no, you know, bring back the Royal Family Party.
	So, you know, that's my vote gone.
	So are you going to vote for ISIS or are you going to vote for the Taliban?
	Well, the Taliban were on the country under Sharia and yeah, they'll be Islamic and in the strictest sense, but they won't be ISIS who literally just kill everyone who's not them.
	Which, yeah, there is actually difference between them.
	I know that will be a shock.
	It was a bit of a shock to me too.
	The tolerance being demonstrated there is a difference in degrees.
	It's not stark black and white, but like you say, if there's a difference between the one that won't kill everybody and the one that will kill everybody, if that's the only decision you've got to make, it's pretty clear where I would go with.
	Yeah.
	I mean, like, among all the people I met, including, obviously, myself, ISIS would kill.
	Whereas the Taliban are happy to just let us operate as long as we stay within the law.
	And it's their law.
	It's like, okay, well... I think it's an important... You're in charge.
	What am I gonna do?
	It's an important point that you bring up as well, that when you visit a foreign country, you're a guest there.
	If you decide that everybody there has to bend to your cultural ways of doing things, you're essentially acting no different than all of the migrants who come over here and say that we need to adapt everything about us.
	Yeah, I mean this is one of the biggest failures that we've gone over of that American lady we covered once.
	She went to Europe and she had a stopover in Iceland.
	She stayed for a couple of days and she went to some guy who was selling antiques.
	And she found a guy that was selling confederate flag antiques.
	Oh, yeah.
	And she made a big post about it and whined about it to his face.
	And he just looked at her and went, you're not in America.
	And this is something... In Iceland.
	Iceland couldn't be less connected to that whole conflict.
	Regardless of that, it's something you do need to learn that I've learned while traveling, which is just... It's really weird to turn up as a foreigner and then start being like, wow, my opinion on this is you shouldn't be allowed.
	That whole culture is really foreign and disgusting to most countries on earth.
	Yeah.
	Even Iceland here, where you turn up and be like, no confederacy or something.
	Bugger off!
	And Iceland, having been there myself, is one of the friendliest cultures that you can go to visit.
	They're all really accommodating, very friendly people.
	They're really high trust society.
	So don't go in there.
	You don't go into somebody else's house, start stomping and making a fuss and making demands of the people who own it.
	But it's also just really stupid on the side.
	I mean, like, um, You know, Iceland never enslaved a single black person, for one.
	They're not going to anytime soon.
	They didn't enslave Christians.
	Like, your ideological concern makes no sense whatsoever.
	I suppose it's sort of... Well, I mean, the Japanese did side with the Nazis, actually.
	I was going to say, it's kind of like the Japanese and their, like, Hitler chic that they had for a while, where it's like, oh yeah, this SS uniform looks really cool, and you're like, do you know anything about the Holocaust?
	They're like, what's that?
	Yeah, mine then, I suppose.
	I'm not going to disagree that, yeah, the chic is actually... The aesthetics of the outfits, you can't deny that.
	It's striking, to say the least, but... It's cool.
	Are you going to go full Kanye West on us?
	I'm not going to go full Kanye West.
	Is there a net under the thing you're going to bring out?
	I don't think Miles is glorifying them.
	I think that worry is not the case.
	To be honest, I get the worry.
	Don't get me wrong.
	It's just that in her country, you really do need to make an assessment, I feel.
	And with Afghanistan, the only alternative is ISIS.
	And they will kill him, me, and all of us watching.
	Be careful when you do go around other places and start making demands of them, because in the Middle East, you might just get yourself shot.
	Yeah, I mean, don't turn up and be like, well, you know, I think Israel's on the right.
	I mean, just don't.
	You're not going to change anything.
	If you're a billionaire and you turned up, you're not going to change anything.
	So work with the power we have, which is literally one vote in a Western country where the vote doesn't really matter.
	So that's great.
	Such a positive spin on that.
	Yes, truth.
	George Hap says, uh, very happy that Miles is alive and well.
	There should be another interview with Callum, the reunion of Legendary.
	Frank Reynolds says, idiots on the internet insisted Miles was dead despite what Callum, Dankula, and the Foreign Office were saying.
	Once this was proven false, the same idiots have shifted to he was never in Afghanistan.
	Have they?
	Actually, I've not seen that.
	That's amazing.
	Someone needs to send me examples.
	I mean, to be fair, to be clear, I mean, this is like a very small group of people, but you check them and you're like, this isn't a troll account.
	This is actually a human being.
	And you just think, what is wrong with you?
	I think people will tag us in it anyway, but somebody please tag me and Callum in one of those, because that would be just funny to laugh at.
	Yeah.
	I mean, to be fair, if he was hiding out in Birmingham, what real difference would there be from being in Afghanistan for eight months?
	Oh, way less.
	Way, way less than people think.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	No, but I don't know how we say that, and it's always kind of a meme.
	It's like, this is just like Kabul.
	It really is.
	It's exactly like Kabul.
	It shouldn't be funny that we say that.
	No, like, the people think, like, if you went to Kabul, you would find sand everywhere and camels or something.
	It's like, they don't even have sand.
	They have dust.
	I mean, the conceptions of what life is like in the Middle East are obviously so cartoonish in your life before you go there and think about it.
	And it's like, no, the chicken shops are literally the same.
	The clothing is exactly the same as in Birmingham.
	You go to the airport, the voodoo is there as well in the toilet.
	Do you know what voodoo is?
	I have no idea.
	Enlighten me.
	If you lived in Birmingham, you would, because it's the place where you've got to clean yourself before you pray.
	Which is why I've never been to Birmingham.
	I've never lived in Birmingham.
	I've been to Birmingham, but I've never lived there.
	And we can discuss about the quality of Birmingham tomorrow, at Ladsow, when we talk about the best and worst British cities.
	Yeah, when people say it's just like this place in the Middle East, they're way more factually correct.
	They're not really joking.
	That's the terrifying part, really.
	So, on mine, a man who thinks about the Roman Empire based says, nothing is working because the money intended for such projects go to those who audit and monitor said projects.
	Ah, reminds me of the good old days.
	Despite government and bureaucratic corruption, things still got done.
	Oh Rome, you left us too soon.
	Yeah, that's the thing as well.
	At the end of the day, whether something is public or private, what really matters is the quality of the people who you put in charge of a project.
	If you still had everything publicly owned but the people who were in charge of it were the absolute best quality you could get for it, you'll still get things done.
	The fact is, we've got the worst of both worlds where Public already gives people perverse incentives for the way that they do things, but we also have that perverse incentive being malformed even further by the fact that we've got the worst possible people in charge of all of our projects.
	What have you seen?
	I can't.
	Oh, okay.
	All right.
	Tantalize me, why don't you?
	Sorry.
	Shaker Silver.
	Something missed in diversity quotas is that it's not for the sake of any minorities genuinely disadvantaged.
	It's just a process to undermine meritocracy in private and public institutions to allow the elite to select more of their own to join their ranks.
	So if you live, I know the solution to this.
	Oh, great.
	Tell us.
	More female prison guards.
	That works so well against these big, violent male prisoners.
	What we obviously need in that case is a greater parity in the gender of prisoners as well.
	I think we need to start randomly arresting more women to make sure that we get those parities up.
	Here under OS, what for?
	Equality legislation?
	For being a wahmen.
	I always knew that would come back to bite me.
	Zombie Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, throwing racist slurs from beyond the grave.
	Epic duty you're doing there.
	As usual, sounds like the family unit has fallen apart, although that happened a while ago.
	What?
	I think this is regarding the schools, the people not going back to school.
	No, the name.
	Yeah, that.
	That might be more.
	Sounds like something he's doing.
	Okay.
	Sounds like something Philip would do.
	God, I miss him.
	Usually, if the state fell apart, children will have the family unit to fall back on, but the left decided to get rid of that and replace it with the state.
	Now that the state is going down, this will have a detrimental impact on children, which will end in a generation of violent simpletons.
	Possibly.
	Well, you are right that the family unit has fallen apart a bit, so when all of a sudden the state steps back from it, the people who are left who are the family don't know how to operate as a family properly anymore, so you end up with lots of problems.
	Ethelstan95.
	Seems like a lot of these problems with failing institutions stem from bureaucrats passing off responsibility onto those god-awful organizations like Serco and G4S, whether it be prisons or migrant facilities.
	Probably.
	If something is nationalized, authorities should not be able to pass the book onto private contractors.
	Spend the proper money and get the job done properly, or lose your job in government.
	God.
	That, once again, that would be a good thing.
	If the government was run by people who actually cared about the quality of the projects that they were doing, not just the quantity, both in terms of how much money that they can funnel to themselves and their friends of the projects, things would actually get done.
	The French of Kabul, if that makes you feel any better in the UK, isn't alone where everything falls apart.
	I haven't heard of any Western countries where this isn't the case to some extent.
	Communist-style concrete blocks are the worst in that regard, but other important infrastructures such as bridges are in a very bad state.
	That's always good to know.
	That's always really good to know, and the bridges, you know, this might be the last time you get to drive over them because it could just collapse under your feet.
	Bongoon...
	Bongoon the first.
	I don't know why that name made me laugh.
	Finally, someone is addressing the roads as an ex-longboarder skateboard.
	The roads in the north are abysmal.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Most of the south the pavement and roads are gleaming in comparison.
	To be fair, that's just how bad the North is.
	Yeah, that is just how bad the North is, because the roads down here aren't that much better.
	But you are right, in a lot of towns... I always use my hometown, Crewe, for instance.
	The roads are in a constant state of being closed off so that they can be paved back over, and then they open them, and three months later the same road is closed off again for the same reconstruction work.
	They just don't do a good job when they do try and fix these things.
	Absolutely terrible.
	Pathetic.
	Rue the day.
	I realize that this requires effort and determination, but I imagine children might go to school if they felt like it had some type of point.
	Yeah, that's a good point, yeah.
	If you felt like you were getting something useful out of the schools, like an education.
	Yeah, maybe we should add financial advice to the curriculum, or how to pay taxes and avoid taxes.
	Yeah, or even just a cultural education that gave children something they could be proud of, rather than decolonized studies that make you hate the place that you're from.
	You know the best thing I did have at school, that I think is fantastic, and would make people more inclined, is the options thing that we did.
	I know not all Americans don't get to do this.
	Oh, well option K.
	I don't know what that is.
	That's what it was in my school.
	Carry on.
	It's basically just when you get to year 9, they're like, yeah, so what do you want to drop?
	I'm like, pfft.
	Yes.
	Art.
	English.
	Get rid of it.
	It's pointless.
	That was good for me as well.
	I think I carried on to b-tech music, English, geography, and triple science.
	I stayed on with triple science.
	The ability to drop more things and to do it sooner, so you can actually focus on what your passion is and what you're good at.
	So useful.
	Also, it starts to treat you with some agency, where it's like, maybe you should, you know, try and focus on something in life.
	And it means you actually have a goal.
	I mean, I dropped the stuff to do more sciences when I got to college, dropped even more stuff to do more sciences.
	I was like, yeah, no, I'm good at science.
	Went to university that did physics.
	Like, it actually works to actually make you think that this is worthwhile.
	Yeah, my problem with that point in my life was that I was actually really good at science.
	I was, it was one, all three of the triple science was my best class.
	I got full marks on a few of the exams.
	I was really good at it, but I found it really boring.
	So I didn't carry it on into college.
	Just because, you know, yeah, I'm fantastic.
	I'm fantastic at this, but it's dull as dishwater.
	I want to learn about Shakespeare, damn it.
	And then I didn't even, English in college was okay.
	I've never heard that before, dull as dishwater.
	Have you not heard that phrase?
	No.
	Is that just a Northern thing?
	Maybe.
	I'll start using that.
	Yeah, it's a really good phrase.
	I've been trying to pick up more and more British phrases and using them in my language.
	Yeah, I want to try to cut out the Americanisms from my manner of speech as well.
	I don't care about that.
	I just like the weird ones.
	I just think they're funny.
	Dull is dishwater.
	There's one for you.
	Yeah.
	So California refugee, not going to school is better than pedos grooming them into chopping off body parts and reading porn.
	That's why I'm very conflicted about this.
	Because I also have those concerns.
	Let's go on to the last few comments though before we get But honey, if Tibby doesn't go to school, how's he going to meet pedophiles?
	Oh, bl*****g - Okay.
	Okay, well, Le French of Kabul says, why is the UK leaving pro-Palestinian protests alone?
	In France, we don't.
	We disallow them and disperse them if they dare to try.
	Some arrests have also been made.
	One leftist party is also investigated for an apology for terrorism following comments on the Hamas attack.
	Well, in the UK you're allowed to fly Palestinian flags.
	They're not a prescribed group.
	It's if you support Hamas.
	But there's, um, the government currently, I think Swilla Braveman mentioned this, she's doing it in a nice, like, blunt instrument way possible.
	Because of course these people are celebrating Hamas attacks.
	I mean, what else are they celebrating?
	The West Bank hasn't done anything.
	So how are you celebrating them exactly?
	So obviously you are, so she's trying to make the law now that if you fly a Palestinian flag under certain conditions, then that's also a crime because Hamas is a prescribed group, so we'll charge you with the Terrorism Act.
	You know, I can see an argument there.
	A lot of people on the right are very worried this will come back to be used on us for... Same like prevent.
	I'm not so worried about that because it already is used on us like that, so this is really just an expansion of how they already treat us treating them, so I'm not worried.
	Yeah, we live in the UK, it's not good.
	We're all familiar with how bad our government is to us.
	I just want to get Geordie Swordsman's comment here.
	What is it?
	Do you want to read it?
	Sure.
	I don't think the leopard would eat my face.
	Statement from face-eating leopard party voter.
	Yeah, he's a wonderful guy.
	The leopard was so kind to me before, why is it eating my face now?
	Alright, so...
	Okay.
	Sorry, Pete's just writing something there that was for internal use.
	I'll mention, I'll just end this off with, if you want to contact Miles, he's out there.
	He'll probably be a bit busy for a couple of days doing his things.
	Negotiating money.
	The thing I was laughing at in the group chat is one of the people close to the situation, in response, has decided to get approved for an Afghan tourism visa.
	He just got it back in the mail approved, so godspeed.
	We'll see you tomorrow.

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