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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seaters, episode 851 for today, Thursday, the 15th of February, 2021.
	I'm your host Connor, joined by Josh and Bo.
	Thanks very much, gents.
	Today we're going to be discussing UK politics, having a normal one, because we're just a hotbed of ethnic grievance these days for some reason.
	TfL's humiliating new overground names, dunking on Sadiq Khan's always going to be a bit of fun, and Lewis Hamilton showing us that idiocracy has now become real life.
	If you notice us sweating at any point, it's because it's boiling in here, so please excuse our red faces.
	It is also February, which is very strange to be this warm in February, isn't it?
	It's meant to be the coldest month of the year in Britain, and it's very much not.
	Yeah, we're English.
	We're going to grumble about the weather.
	I mean, get used to it.
	It's part of the national character.
	Before we jump in, we do have a couple of announcements.
	First of all, of course, Lads Hour.
	It's been moved to the Friday because today is Calvin's Common Sense Crusade.
	If you haven't signed up yet, go watch that.
	We've got Lads Hour tomorrow.
	We've got a special guest.
	It'll be announced on Twitter, but we're doing meme politics.
	I believe that Callum's hosting that one.
	Tune in, three o'clock.
	We've also got an announcement on behalf of some of the friends of the show.
	Matt Goodwin and Constantine Kissin are debating Aaron Bastani and Polly Toynbee at the Emmanuel Centre.
	I believe this is on the 18th of March, on Is Immigration Good for Britain?
	And we've been asked to shill it, because if Navarra media are shilling it, and the audience is all going to be a bunch of leftists, it's going to be really terrible if they sit there and cheer for more immigration.
	So it would be good for us to go down and Persuade them.
	Karl and I are going to be there, so you might end up saying hello if you buy a ticket.
	So, link will be in the description on the website.
	Without further ado, let's jump into today's stories.
	So, UK politics having an absolute normal one.
	There are two by-elections today, as we're aware.
	It's Willingborough and Kingswood.
	I always get the two mixed up.
	There's also an upcoming by-election happening in Rochdale, who obviously have the stain of being one of the epicenters of the grooming gangs, and they haven't quite expunged that stain with their new candidate.
	But before we get into that, we are pleased to announce that Calvin Robinson has joined us.
	My good friend from GB News is now doing his common sense crusade over on lotoseaters.com from three o'clock every Thursday afternoon.
	And to celebrate his launch, we are running a promo code.
	50% off a gold-tier subscription for the first three months.
	That's for new and existing subscribers.
	All you have to do is use the code CRUSADE when you sign up.
	And you can also send Calvin your video comments if you are a gold-tier subscriber.
	Just make sure to start them with Dear Father Calvin for his fatherly advice segment so that we know the difference between that and the podcast.
	Go sign up, get excited, and if you're watching live now, tune in in about two hours.
	Right, so, to the by-elections in question.
	So these are the Wellingborough and Kingswood ones.
	So Wellingborough is being run by Ben Habib of Reform UK, who you have spoken to.
	Fantastic interview here.
	Ben is very much on our side.
	If there's ever going to be a future leader of the Reform Party who isn't Nigel Farage, I certainly think it's Ben, and you did a Great job as a fellow reform candidate interviewing him, so go and watch that everyone.
	But just some details on the by-elections.
	Of course, if you are in Wellingborough and you're watching this, what are you doing?
	Go out and vote for Ben.
	The Wellingborough by-election was triggered by the deselection of Peter Bone MP, who There's a Conservative MP who was deselected, like many Conservative MPs, over a alleged, alleged sex scandal.
	The sex scandal in question, again, with many Conservative MPs, involved a young man.
	So he was kicked out after a parliamentary inquiry found that he had exposed himself to a male staff member who was trapped with him in a hotel room in Madrid.
	Very upstanding.
	Very good.
	So he then met the threshold for a recall by his local constituents.
	Can I say something super quick on that?
	Please do.
	He was, at least, you know, a fairly important MP.
	He's a staunch Brexiteer.
	He was one of their sort of quintessential backbench MPs that would try and pull the Tory party to the right.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And fairly likeable as well, from what I recall.
	Like, if you'd stand up and ask a question or something, he wasn't sort of immediately obnoxious or anything.
	I remember him having some strange stuff on COVID, but that is because he was near the end of his life, so... I'd forgotten that, or never knew that.
	But just, you know, in the general sweep of Tory MPs, some are more likeable than others, right?
	Certainly from our side of the aisle, we're more right leaning.
	It's like picking your favourite disease, isn't it?
	Yeah, favourite bacterial infection.
	Malaria?
	So yeah, it's a bit of a shame, or maybe it's not, maybe it's for the best that he was exposed.
	He did say alleged, so I actually don't know, I'm genuinely asking.
	Was it proven?
	He disputes it.
	Parties say that they found him guilty for it.
	So I'm saying alleged because there has not been a criminal complaint and he's not been put through the courts.
	But again with the Tory party, even the accusation, many such cases.
	We now have Crispin Blunt.
	We just had Andrew Rosindell acquitted after how many years of a rape allegation.
	So this is just something that sort of plagued the post 2010 Conservative government.
	No, it doesn't look good, at least.
	And this is one of the compounding factors of why the Conservatives are currently losing the election, as well as repeatedly betraying us on Brexit and immigration.
	It's all sorts of sleaze, isn't it?
	I mean, I remember a bit before your turn when I was a little kid, but during the John Major years, it was just a constant thing that sleaze was attached to.
	Blair and Brown would always love to hop back to it, the sleazy Tory party.
	But to be fair, it's across all parties, I think.
	It just seems odd to me that public officials would be so Sleazy.
	It's like, apart from your actual day job, the only other thing you have to do is not be, like, you know, a sex criminal or a criminal of any sort.
	I know what you're about to say and I'm going to pre-sage it, but yeah, people who are drawn to power aren't very typical of the general population.
	That's a fair point.
	And that most people don't want to go into politics because of all of the negative stuff that's associated with it.
	You know, everyone hates you, you're assaulted from all sides, you don't get given any credit even if you do a good job and so most people are put off by that fact and you've got to be very interested in power and very sort of self-assured to want to do it in the first place.
	You're more likely, if you're in politics and media, going to have dark tried personality traits because you're going to be more focused on yourself, you're more drawn to power, you're more drawn to Sex and wealth as an outgrowth of that power, so... And we're not saying that this is a reflection of Peter Bone's character, just a general sense of the sleaze, for example.
	Though, something sleazy about this, the Conservatives appointed his girlfriend as his replacement candidate.
	Now, if you were gonna try and not look sleazy and try and win the seat, you wouldn't pick the alleged sex pest girlfriend as the guy to replace him.
	So just to be clear on that, was he married?
	Yes.
	He used to always... He used to cheat on his wife.
	Oh, is that what happened?
	Yes.
	With the person that's now standing for the torch?
	Yes.
	Not good.
	That's how you avoid sleaze, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Who were you going to refer to who used to talk about Mrs Bone?
	Yeah, all the time, whenever he announced a question in Parliament, he'd always say, oh, Mrs Bone would like to know.
	Yeah, well, Helen Harrison, who was a councillor and is now the MP candidate, wasn't Mrs Bone, so he got himself into a bit of trouble there as well.
	The Kingswood by-election is actually because Chris Skidmore MP stepped down over the government's net zero policy.
	Now the Chris Skidmore MP was the guy who signed the Net Zero by 2050 pledge into law under Therese May's government.
	And the reason I mention this, I was on a panel with him two years ago at Tory Party Conference, basically debating him, because I'd written a policy paper saying the government's spaffing away money on net zero policies and they shouldn't do this.
	They helped shape the nuclear financing bill, which is the only different bit of energy tech we should be investing in.
	And Chris Skidmore was asked a question, oh, how did you change the net zero by 2050 mandate?
	How did you revise it down?
	He just said, we just changed the law.
	And I looked at him and said, you didn't cost it.
	And he looked at me like I just sort of like slapped him with a towel or something.
	It was very, very bemused that he would not waste all of our money.
	So glad he's gone.
	Another wet bites the dust.
	So, go vote reform if you're in Wellingborough, go vote reform if you're in Kingswood, because at the moment the Tory candidates they're putting up are blooming useless.
	I just want to say, actually, thanks for saying that, because you are a member of the Tory party, but you're just saying what you honestly think is the best for the election, so I appreciate that.
	I am a results-based man, and I know there are certain Tory MPs Basically Miriam Cate, who deserve to keep their seat.
	Other than that, the Conservative Party has committed complete suicide.
	It's going to go extinct in the next election and you'd be hard-pressed to say that it doesn't deserve it.
	I hope you're elected in South Swindon over the Tory candidate.
	Obviously.
	So, I just wish reform as a floating voter a little bit more forthright.
	All I know is I'm voting Bo, that's all that matters to me.
	Vote Bo!
	I'm not Swindon resident, I endorse the message.
	Anyway, so this is quite interesting on Kingswood.
	The Tories seem to be thinking the same thing as me because none of them are visiting Kingswood.
	So I've got a friend that lives in the constituency in Bristol, and she said that the Tory leaflets didn't start.
	Labour started early.
	Reform started early.
	The Tory leaflets only refer to the fact that the Labour candidate was living in Lewisham for quite a long time and has moved back to Kingswood to contest it.
	Because he was from there.
	He was the mayor of Lewisham.
	Why Lewisham needs a mayor, Lord only knows.
	And he's now been bussed in to do this.
	Analysis by Mail Online shows that a dozen Tory MPs has actually visited the place.
	And they've got a list just down here.
	So that's Sajid Javid, not someone you want campaigning for.
	He's standing in there on the next election anyway.
	And Jacob Rees-Mogg's one of them, as well as Lee Anderson and Robert Jenrick.
	Now, Lee Anderson and Robert Jenrick have been compromised in times, but they've at least voted along with our side of the fence.
	And behind closed doors, having met, spoken with the people that work them and the MPs themselves, they are on our line of thinking.
	They're just hamstrung by the party apparatus.
	The reason I mention Rees-Mogg is because Rees-Mogg is getting redistricted.
	Rees-Mogg has become a bit of a linchpin behind the scenes of forces that would like to drag the Tory party more rightwards than it currently is.
	And his seat is under threat because the Kingswood seat, that's probably going to flip Labour, is going to be divided into two and half of it is going to be hitched to his North Somerset seat.
	So people are going to say, with Rees-Mogg, is he going to get a Michael Portillo moment?
	For those who don't realise, Michael Portillo was once touted as a future leader of the Tory party, and because of redistricting in 1997, he was kicked out of his seat.
	And for being thoroughly unlikable.
	Well, you say that, but he's done quite well on television since.
	No, no, now he's... I quite like Portillo now, but back then he was like a really smarmy, he was like a Tory boy cliché or something.
	Back then, he was thoroughly unlikable.
	I can't say anything about that.
	But now, he's actually quite like... I actually quite like him now.
	I don't like his wardrobe these days.
	Very bright.
	Oh, he does dress like a Batman villain, yeah.
	He does, yeah.
	Yeah, but he's likeable enough, but... Well, he's also out now, isn't he?
	That's true, yeah.
	Oh, is he?
	Oh yeah, he's... yeah, oh yeah.
	Tory party, many such cases.
	I mean, who else would wear, like, a pink blazer, you know?
	Come on.
	Yeah, but again, back when he was in government and stuff, he wasn't out.
	So he's grown into himself, I think, Portillo.
	But point being, I think it's very interesting that even very well-established figures, you know, prime-time GB News hosts, entrenched in the Tory party, seen both sides of the fence, is a Brexiteer, Jacob Rees-Mogg.
	Even he could go extinct in the next election.
	So again, this is a seismic defeat the Tories could be facing and it's not impossible that Ben Habib wins today.
	Again, very much hope he does.
	So these are the general election polls.
	So this is going to be symptomatic of these by-elections, the future of the election.
	Currently Labour are polling at 44%, the Tories at 25.
	Reforms ticked up to about 10%.
	I've seen the polling as high as 12, which is encouraging, particularly to nudge the Tory party to the right.
	And I think a lot of MPs are seeing the writing on the wall here because I think there are well over 55 MPs now that have announced they're not standing at the next election.
	That's mad.
	That's mad.
	I've never known anything like that.
	There are five more in the next month, right?
	So the last few that just announced is Mike Freer, who we've already covered for stepping down because his office was firebombed by an Islamist, but he blames emails and social media.
	Coward.
	Bob Neill, who's from Bromley and Chislehurst, he's stepping down because his wife has cancer.
	Kwasi Kwarteng, the very short-lived Chancellor, is stepping down because obviously they did a coup against him.
	Ben Wallace was in there?
	Yes.
	Cash?
	Yeah, Bill Cash.
	Bill Cash is retiring because he's quite old.
	Alok Sharma, the fella who got knighted for being the cop ambassador and crying because they didn't ratify the Paris Accords.
	What a coward.
	Nicky Allen and Tracy Crouch.
	So, just more names rolling through.
	The death toll keeps me racking up.
	So, why could the Tories be possibly losing?
	Well, we keep covering the reasons on the podcast, but why aren't they self-correcting ahead of the next election?
	This man.
	This man right here.
	Again, I hate Michael Gove with a burning passion.
	I've made no secret about this.
	I once spoke to one of his advisors, I've told this story before, and he said that Michael Gove is the most Conservative Member of Parliament.
	Okay.
	And he said, Miriam Cates is more National Socialist than National Conservative.
	So the front bench are calling their own backbenchers Nazis because they're doing some actual conservatism.
	They're just not using words correctly.
	Yeah, they're just thick.
	Thick as concrete.
	Mike Graham could have grown them.
	So point being, Michael Gove gave this interview to The Times a couple of days ago, and he said, there are record numbers of adults who have never left home or are joining the boomerang generation forced to return to their parents well into their 20s, 30s and beyond.
	With the number of first-time buyers falling as young people grapple with the cost of living crisis and sky high private rent sectors and rising house prices, Gove fears they could turn away from democracy and capitalism if the government doesn't find a way to solve the housing crisis.
	Gove is leading a campaign to introduce leasehold and rental reforms, and he said, if people think that markets are rigged and democracy isn't listening to them, then you get, and this is worrying to me, an increasing number of young people saying, I don't believe in democracy and I don't believe And you can see that in polling with people saying, I just want to fix this.
	I'd be prepared to have an authoritarian leader who would just fix this.
	And that is dangerous.
	I think he's got it the wrong way around.
	I don't, you know, democracy is rigged rather than capitalism is rigged.
	I mean, I think that's more common a belief than the other way around.
	But by who?
	By who, Michael?
	I wonder who messed up the housing market?
	Do you want to know what I Control-F'd for and couldn't find in here?
	The word immigration!
	Not mentioned once!
	Not once!
	It's almost like he's just lying to you because they're the ones that raise the level of immigration.
	But don't worry, don't notice the effect of demand on housing, you racist.
	It's just about supply.
	We're just going to flat pack tower blocks from here to infinity to house all of Africa.
	Lovely.
	It is lying by omission to not talk about mass immigration when it comes to sort of a problem with housing, the housing crisis, housing markets.
	Not mention that you're bringing in net hundreds of thousands of people every year, year on year.
	That is a lie by admission.
	That's exactly what it is.
	I mean, just look at the man, Tom Watson, I think who I obviously don't like, called him a pipsqueak of a man.
	It's like, there is a photo in here of him being a fundamentally unserious person.
	I mean, this man basically pulls all the strings behind children's TV presenter sort of Yeah but he's he's masking himself as bemused while also actively destroying the country so I've got no time for Michael Gove.
	It's like a spitting image puppet or something I don't know.
	A little plaster cast face.
	What he's referring to, by the way, in saying that young people don't like democracy, there was an Onward research paper from two years ago, I've referenced this before, and they said that 58-66% of voters, 18-35, would support, quote, a strong leader who does not have to bother with parliament or elections, and 45-59% support, quote, putting the army in charge.
	Based!
	I spoke about this in Trigonometry actually, it's coming out soon, and I basically won the boys over.
	They said, well we can't really argue with you, we do need a Bacali.
	The true argument is that it's tyranny by other means, but that clearly didn't come up, did it?
	Sure.
	It's essentially that everyone realises that democracy has very few avenues to hold elected leaders to account if they keep saying one thing and then just keep doing another.
	And both parties have the exact same message.
	So people are turning to increasingly desperate solutions to change the country being taken away from them, and I'm not shocked.
	I would say, I would just to play defence on behalf of the concept of democracy.
	It's just to say that, you know, there's many, many different flavours of it, aren't there?
	It's like saying you don't like soup.
	It's like, what flavour of soup are you talking about?
	There could be any number.
	I don't like liquids.
	Right now, we live in a flavour of democracy which isn't very Democratic.
	But it doesn't always have to be that way.
	Of course, yeah, the Swiss have a different model of democracy than we do, don't they?
	Where they have lots of referenda and there's a lot more direct democracy about decisions.
	For example, you could have a direct democracy, or at least something where you have loads and loads of referendums.
	Or you could have a type of Russian or North Korean democracy where there's zero real democracy, right?
	So it's on a spectrum.
	But right now we're at a not very good I think my actual objections, sort of memetics aside, are that it puts your rights up for debate to public vote.
	So a majority can vote to take away, you know, your property and your money, your life basically.
	And if a majority signs off on it, then it's fine.
	There's no consideration in the current system.
	The tyranny of the majority.
	Exactly that, yeah.
	It's been something banded around even in the House of Lords.
	I think it was Lord Hallisham in 2011 said much the same thing.
	I don't even think it's a majority though, and this is what I think we're going to see by looking at the other by-elections and the current housing policy.
	I'm going to combine the two.
	It's the tyranny of a very proactive minority with an entrenched ethnic and religious in-group that act as a clientele class that have been imported by the political class to instantiate them forever.
	The reason I say that, speaking of housing policy, oh I wonder why the Tories are losing?
	Maybe it's because this is happening.
	So this is an exclusive from the Daily Mail that happened the other day.
	People have just moved, an elderly couple, have just moved to a new home.
	This is Jose and Ted Saunders, or Jose, sorry, and Ted Saunders, not two blokes.
	They were insulted and shocked when they received a strongly worded letter from the North Northamptonshire Council, and they'd just moved into their £200,000 house, and the North Northamptonshire Council said that we are going to forcibly buy your home through compulsory purchase to house asylum seekers.
	So they're going to literally take your homes away to house Tom, Dick and Abdel, who arrived yesterday with no documentation and are probably working in the illegal economy and are never going to economically contribute and commit crimes at a much higher rate.
	Why are we obliged to house a bunch of men from God knows anywhere?
	Because the Tory party say so.
	Because diversity is a strength.
	It's at best our entertainment.
	Our country is so strong right now, isn't it?
	The economy is just doing so well.
	Recession last year.
	Highest amount of immigration in history.
	Africa has all that wealth just spread around, but they're being so generous that they're exporting everywhere.
	They have a great civilization, don't they?
	If you notice that diversity isn't a strength, well, now that's a real problem.
	You should probably be interred or prosecuted for such a thing.
	I'm sure the next Labour government will do exactly that.
	There's a few more details on this actually in the Telegraph reporting.
	So the letter had said that the council was seeking a considerable increase in positive immigration decisions being made in favour of asylum seekers, mainly young men, almost exclusively young men.
	And the authority was struggling to source suitable accommodation for them.
	It said the ideal long-term solution would be to provide accommodation by using empty properties that would benefit homeowners and the project.
	It said the council could not make compulsory purchase orders on this property.
	So they're saying, oops, we didn't realise you'd moved in because you just moved in.
	This went out to you by mistake.
	Aw, bad.
	Okay, yes, turfing people out of their homes directly is worse, but why are you giving brand new properties in a housing shortage caused by immigration to immigrants subsidized by the taxpayer?
	I think that the government trying to requisition property off of you, you know, sure they're offering perhaps something equivalent to the market value, but... It's your own taxes bag.
	Yeah, it's absurd that that should be sort of, uh, Not to get into dangerous ground, but that's why the Second Amendment exists in America, is stuff like that.
	Yes.
	You should be able to defend your own property from confiscation by a bunch of foreign insurgents who broke into the country.
	They are actual criminals.
	That's sort of Killdozer territory in my mind.
	Well, well, let's not go there, maybe.
	Council C said that they had to adopt such tactics because of the faster processing of asylum claims by the Home Office.
	Oh, just kick it up a chain and blame everyone.
	Yeah, of course, it's never anyone's fault.
	Just the form got lost somewhere, I'm sure.
	In terms of trying to acquire more social housing, councils would adopt a variety of measures, one of them being identifying empty properties that they can bring back into use.
	It comes after The Telegraph revealed on Tuesday, and this is a real corker, the Home Office has quietly built up a stock of 16,000 properties For asylum seekers, despite house shortages, the properties were drawn from the private rental and social housing markets, and they're being used to house more than 58,000 asylum seekers across England, Wales and Scotland.
	That's double the 29,000 asylum seekers in the so-called dispersed accommodation a decade ago.
	So it's doubled within 10 years, under whose government?
	Who's been in charge all that time?
	Oh, would it be this particular mug?
	Yeah, it would.
	Thanks, Michael Gove.
	So, Ben Habib actually met with the couple that were turfed out of their home.
	We can play a little bit of this.
	So, this letter was from the council and you got this on the 12th of January.
	You moved in in November, didn't you?
	Yeah.
	And you got this letter.
	Just spell out what this letter says.
	That letter says that they, because the property is derelict, that they can compulsory purchase it.
	If there's any repairs to be done in it, they could take it off the price of the property.
	And these properties are for migrants.
	Extraordinary, isn't it?
	And how did you feel when you got a letter?
	You've moved into your new wonderful home, you settle down, law-abiding citizens, and you get a compulsory purchase order from the council accusing you of occupying a derelict home.
	How did you feel when you got this?
	I had to pay £200,000 for it, which didn't feel very well.
	No.
	It must have been one hell of a shock, mustn't it?
	Not being funny, you don't get any other politician doing that.
	Oh, absolute credit to Ben there.
	It's in his constituency.
	Again, hope he wins because he's the only one calling for net zero migration.
	So, Tory party going to be absolutely destroyed.
	Covered that about two weeks ago now.
	Another quick example is Tobias Elwood as well.
	He had a Palestinian protest show outside his home about 60 to 80 people in Bournemouth chanting ceasefire and free Palestine.
	Acts completely confused about the fact this has happened.
	But then, as since said, someone like as tepid as Liz Truss represents a move to the extreme right.
	But this is why in that previous live stream I just mentioned Karl said they're in like late Soviet levels of denial and are unable to self-correct.
	This guy is the perfect example.
	Right, so what are we going to get instead?
	I'll finish up on the third by-election that's happening.
	This is Labour.
	Can I just ask a quick question?
	Yep.
	So, sorry, who exactly protested outside Elwood's house?
	A pro-Palestinian?
	Yes.
	So what, has he been pro-Israeli?
	Yes, he said we need troops on the ground.
	OK.
	He's a member of the 77th Brigade, which is the Cyber Warfare PsyOps Division, and he's also very pro-British troops in Ukraine as well.
	He's a super war hawk.
	Right.
	Elwood is like one of the most ridiculous neocon establishment Tories.
	Again, hope he gets absolutely wiped out electorally at the next election.
	So this is who we're going to get instead of the next election.
	Were you familiar with this fella, the Rochdale candidate, Azhar Ali?
	So his endorsement was delivered in Urdu.
	So this is a bit of context here by Muammar Najimi, who's actually a native speaker.
	And this, as Falkan, he's translated the other candidates' endorsement of it.
	The reason this is interesting is because he says that only 8% of Pakistanis in Pakistan speak Urdu, but the Wilson-Laber government in the 60s imported 50,000 of them from Mirpur, which is the Urdu-speaking region, which is particularly tribal and regional, so very low skill, low intelligence.
	Not compatible values, basically crazy Islamists that often marry their cousins.
	And so that now has created a massive ethnic enclave in Rochdale, the exact kind of people that are perpetrating the grooming gangs, the rape gangs that were targeting white children.
	And so they have just become an ethnic bloc that allows candidates like these two to speak their language and say that we're going to vote only in your interests and against English interests and get elected as MPs.
	Now, call me far right, but I don't think we should be having foreign agitators in an already existing epicentre of child rape campaigning off of their native language against the interests of Brits.
	Don't think that's very healthy.
	And it turns out when you have that, this is what you get.
	He's been deselected because he said that basically the Jews did a false flag on October the 7th.
	So he got caught on tape, and this was leaked to the Daily Mail, and he said that he blamed, quote, people in the media from certain Jewish quarters, fueling criticism of Labour MP Andy MacDonald, who was kicked out.
	He was the MP for Middlesbrough, and he said, between the river and the sea, last year, basically.
	You know, clear all the Jewish people out of Israel and therefore give it back to the Palestinians.
	So he got kicked out of the Labour Party because they're trying to reform their Reputation of being anti-semitic not going so well.
	He said Israel planned to get rid of Palestinians from Gaza and grab all the land and he boasted about preventing Israeli flags being flown from public buildings in Rochdale after the October the 7th attacks.
	Not great optics for a Labour Party who wants to not be seen as anti-Semitic.
	Now again, I'm not Jewish.
	I'm not particularly offended by anti-Semitism.
	I'm not pro-it.
	I just don't particularly care.
	Why is this a battle we're having in British politics?
	Why is Israel v. Palestine affecting any of our local elections?
	Any of them?
	Why are any candidates getting deselected over this?
	It's really embarrassing for the Labour Party as well.
	It's actually too late to take his name off the ballot as a Labour candidate.
	So he's running as a Labour candidate and if he wins he will immediately have the whip withdrawn.
	Our involvement ended in 1952.
	Yeah, it should have been.
	Unfortunately, we mass-imported all the foreign agitators that care about foreign terrorist groups.
	So now, every single weekend, we've got hundreds of thousands of people marching through the capital city, my home city, calling for Intifada.
	Thanks.
	Sorry, diversity is a strength though.
	So, I'm not quite sure what you guys are talking about.
	I'm sorry, I must be an ostrich head in the sand.
	He actually retracted his apology and it doubled down apparently behind closed doors.
	So he apologised and the Labour Party still kicked him out.
	So now he's promoting graphics like this.
	So, Starmer dressed as a clown with terrible mid-journey editing.
	He's saying, a strong voice for Palestine.
	Vote for Rochdale.
	Speaking for Palestine.
	Not for English people in Rochdale.
	Speaking for Palestine.
	Foreign land.
	As a local MP.
	Why is this happening?
	It is mad that that land dispute, that religious dispute, spills over into England of all places.
	I mean, you know, it's sickening.
	It's sickening that it's happening.
	But from Labour's got a real problem.
	Haven't they?
	On the one hand, got a massive amount of the Muslim vote, and on the second hand, Starmer apparently committed to stamping out anti-Semitism.
	Even the whiff of it, really.
	His wife and kids are Jewish, aren't they?
	Right.
	They attend synagogue, so it's a real issue.
	So he's got a problem.
	Just politically, it's a real problem for Labour.
	Their predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, was more or less ousted on anti-Semitism grounds, and they've got a large Islamic voting base, and if they push too hard in one direction, they're going to alienate one section of their voters.
	If they do too much the other way, it's another one.
	And he's not the only one as well.
	So as of this meeting that was caught on tape and reported to the Daily Mail, there was another Labour MP that's now been exposed in Guido Fawkes.
	This guy is Graham Jones, and he was former Member of Parliament for Hindburn, who's trying to be re-elected in the seat again.
	And he referred to effing Israel and said to Ali that any Briton who goes over to Israel to fight for the IDF, which I think if you do have dual nationality, you can do, should be immediately incarcerated upon their return.
	That's not illegal.
	Not ISIS fighters, but... Exactly.
	That's Lisa Nandy, isn't it?
	Yeah, it is, yeah.
	More British Muslims joined ISIS than the British Army, and yet... Oh no, we should bring back Shamimah Begum!
	Think about our human rights!
	I agree with you, we should drone strike in the middle of the desert.
	It's one of the few uses of tax money I actually approve of.
	Yeah, I'll give you the Xbox controller, I'll do it myself.
	Yeah, I'll pay money to do it.
	Yeah, they suspended him too.
	The BBC understands Mr Jones is suspended for comments he appears to have made about Israel, but Labour has yet to identify the specific remarks.
	I think I can hazard a guess, it might have been the ones that were just reported.
	Now, point being, why have I done all this?
	Well, it's not just to say, go out, support reform against the sort of Tory wets that they've stood up and clearly don't believe in, and to hold their feet to the fire, but it's also to say that Well, for the next five years at least, given the Labour government seems inevitable at this point, we're going to get religious sectarian politics, particularly Muslim, ethnic and religious in-group preferences.
	As you said, Labour on a knife's edge, trying to batten away accusations of anti-Semitism while also pandering to the Muslim vote.
	So we're in for some really hard political times ahead.
	So I wish I had some good news, but go out and vote is, I suppose, all I can encourage you with.
	The only person standing between us and that sort of nightmare future that Labour will bring us is Starmer, one of the weakest men I've ever seen or heard.
	Not fun.
	Great.
	London.
	You two know about it.
	I still live there, yes.
	Sorry to hear that.
	It's better than Swindon.
	I don't know it too well.
	I've been there a handful of times, but what I do know about London is that when it's marketed to the rest of the world, it's normally red buses, red post boxes, English people, and also, you know, the London Eye, Parliament, all of these sorts of sites.
	And one of those things is the London Underground, and it's recently, or should I say, the Overground, which, you know, is part and parcel of living in London.
	See what I did there?
	Unfortunately.
	I think it's had six lines change their names, hasn't it?
	And the changes are so egregious.
	Normally I wouldn't talk about, oh, who cares about the the rail network in London.
	Well, you'd certainly do spend enough bloody money on it.
	But, um, before I get onto the actual news, it's worth mentioning that Calvin Robinson has joined Lotus Eaters.
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	And if you use the code crusade, you get 50% off gold tier, which is the highest tier on our website, which, um, allows you to submit video comments to his fatherly advice section.
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	Obviously, it's great stuff.
	It's Calvin.
	So go watch it!
	Anyway, so as I was talking about how iconic these sorts of things are, They're so iconic that this is actually Mexico City.
	They've just copied our style of underground here, as well as our London buses as well.
	Apparently, here's my London, which is not exactly a great outlet, but they're being used in Mexico and they're complaining about them being way cleaner than ours, which I find hard to believe.
	Mexico City, of course, being the kidnapping capital city of the world.
	Yeah, but that means that there's no one around to actually ride the buses anymore.
	That's true, actually.
	Everyone's in the back of a car with a bag over their head.
	So, uh, obviously they're iconic.
	It's part of Britain.
	It's part of our branding for tourism, isn't it?
	And most tourists go to London, even though I think most people should see London as well as the rest of the country as well.
	Scotland.
	Bit of a trek.
	But needless to say, these things are symbols of Britain, aren't they?
	Things that shouldn't be questioned, in a sense.
	Things that were nice before 1997.
	Yeah, that's funny.
	Interesting line to draw there.
	I wanted to move onto this.
	So it was announced in August that they were going to change the names of six overground lines.
	Apparently this is going to cost 6.3 million and take two years.
	Which I don't understand.
	I can come up with six better names than the ones they've given.
	And you can pay me 50 quid.
	I'll do it for free if you want.
	Keeps getting cash injections from the last two years from the Department for Transport that just spend it on projects that don't deliver on time.
	including trying to roll out 5G across all of the tube networks and it's now been kicked into the long grass until late 2026.
	You can't even get internet in a lot of them, can you?
	Maybe just the Elizabeth line.
	No, even the Elizabeth line, it's the only Bond Street station that has 5G.
	It's Jubilee line, some of Jubilee line that has 4G.
	The rest of it's occasional Wi-Fi that drops out and only if you're on O2.
	Bloody, you can tell I get these things all the time.
	The London Overground... Yeah, quite, yeah.
	I'm getting PTSD flashbacks.
	The London Overground was just a network of one name for a bunch of different non-interlinked lines.
	So it does make sense to brand them differently.
	I just know what the names are and they're ludicrous.
	Yes, and I also think that calling the station The thing that you're travelling to, so if you're going to a part of London, having the station named after the part of London you're in is fine.
	So that's what they're doing.
	They're keeping the actual station names, but the line themselves are getting different names to go from there to there.
	I'm a country boy, I don't understand these things.
	It's like how the Elizabeth line goes from Abbey Wood to Heathrow Airport, but the entire thing is still called the Liz line.
	They've forced up the Elizabeth line as well.
	Have you got it recently and have you seen the Pride trains?
	Yeah they've got the intersectional pride flag and they've got that you know the diversity realism art style where they make these sort of shapeless blob people that look like they're made from a canva graphic and they're all very corporate isn't it yeah yeah that it's got some idiot on a wheelchair and some woman in a hijab and someone with like mastectomy scars it's mad it's absolutely mad But anyway, let's move on to Sadiq Khan's tweet.
	This was supposedly part of his 2021 re-election manifesto, so he's actually fulfilling what he promises.
	It'd be nice if other politicians could do that.
	I suppose I may as well not go on about that but here we are.
	So the lines are the Liberty Line, Lioness Line which is after the women's football team which lost in the final of the Women's World Cup, the Mild May Line, the Suffragette Line, the Weaver Line and the Windrush Line.
	And if you're not from Britain, some of these might be a bit confusing.
	But thankfully, Sadiq explains, because many of his voters are not from Britain either.
	And so he's going to need to contextualise.
	So he starts off explaining the Windrush line.
	This is the one from Highbury in Islington to Clapham Junction, if you're interested.
	Pretty meaningless to me.
	I'm more at home on a tractor than I am in the underground.
	Or the overground.
	He says, the Windrush generation continues to shape our city today.
	This line honors them and runs through areas with strong ties to Caribbean communities.
	In what days does it continue to shape our city, Sadiq?
	Life crime statistics, yeah.
	Is it the fatherlessness by any chance?
	They really do treat the Windrush like the UK's Mayflower.
	It's like they settled an undiscovered continent.
	It's enraging.
	Also, until a handful of years ago, no one ever talked about Windrush.
	It's one of those things that suddenly everyone always knew and always used to talk about.
	Not the case.
	It's a racial stick to beat the native population with.
	Highbury and Islington in North London over to Clapham in the West.
	I mean, it is sort of, you know, in and around near Tottenham.
	Clapham in the West?
	I thought Clapham was South.
	And then New Cross is definitely South.
	New Cross is right before Lewisham, so South East.
	Yeah, well, Highbury and Islington is just north of the river, right?
	Clapham is south of the river, you're right.
	But yeah, it does go through sort of black areas.
	New Cross, definitely.
	In fact, actually Clapham's now got a bit more gentrification.
	It's very Australian.
	Right, yeah.
	No, no, it is.
	That's where all the Australians who move over to the UK live.
	Like, if you go on a dating app in London, you will see Australians from Clapham, and that's it.
	Clapham used to be a byword for very deprived and poor and crime ridden.
	It's not so much now.
	I think it actually cost quite a lot of money to live in Clapham.
	I've been there relatively recently and it seemed quite nice.
	It's not too bad.
	Islington is horrible.
	That's really horrible.
	Isn't that Corbin's?
	Yeah, I was about to say.
	So another one here is the Weaver line, which is Liverpool Street to Chessant.
	I need to be careful how I pronounce that.
	Spitalfields, Bethnal Green and Hackney.
	Ooh, dear.
	No thanks.
	So, the colour is maroon, and the Weaver line runs through Liverpool Street, Spitalfield, Bethnal Green and Hackney, areas of London known for their textile trade.
	And knife crime.
	Shaped by migrant communities and individuals.
	Yeah, but the migrant communities shaping the knife crime.
	Again, look, if this was just a line name, fine.
	Actually, it's not a bad line name.
	But the reason behind it is this circuitous folding in of migrant communities.
	Not women from Britain who did the majority of weaving pre-industrially, so that's also anthropologically ridiculous.
	And then also migrant communities and individuals.
	So, migrant communities are just like an insect hive mind, and then you have individual persons.
	So we have migrants and people, apparently.
	I caught up on that as well.
	I thought it was a funny turn of phrase.
	Like, he's trying to be, you know, preempt some sort of backlash, isn't he, by adding that.
	But it just makes it seem like he doesn't think that migrants are individuals.
	Very poor choice of words, Sadiq Khan.
	Five more years.
	So another one here is this one, the suffragette line.
	There's going to be a lot of bombs on that, aren't there?
	They keep on running into horses for some reason, I don't know why.
	Do you remember Horrible Histories when they did the suffragette song?
	And there's this amazing bit where she throws herself under a horse and it cuts to the bloke wearing the moustache and he just goes, we can't give women votes if they're so stupid they'll do that!
	Well, Horrible Histories has made the case, who are we to argue?
	Only joking of course.
	I'm not.
	So the suffragette line celebrates the working class movement, it wasn't working class, it was upper class, born in the East End and fought for votes for women.
	Barking was home to Annie Huggett, the longest surviving suffragette.
	But it's also worth mentioning that It was voted for by a parliament full of men as well, and also most of the prominent suffragettes were aristocrats, weren't they?
	They were sort of the wives of prominent people who were just like, how come I can't talk about politics?
	It's also worth mentioning as well that women got the vote only, what was it, seven or so years after universal male suffrage.
	So it's always banded about, oh, look at how terribly oppressed women were, but then a lot of working class men didn't get to vote either.
	They also got it without conscription, which I agree with.
	Women shouldn't be conscripted, but special privilege versus... yeah.
	It does make sense that Sadiq Khan would want a sort of virtual signal in favour of domestic terrorists, which is what the suffragette movement was.
	They bombed people.
	They bombed people, so they used violence to get their way.
	He's courting his own voter base there, isn't he?
	He literally did pro bono work for terrorists, so you're not wrong.
	But it's also really weird.
	I'm just hopping aboard the Suffragette.
	It sounds weird when you say it like that.
	It sounds like an innuendo, doesn't it?
	It does, yeah.
	It sounds like you're trying to convert a feminist through other means.
	Poor, the Suffragette line smells a bit.
	Smells like cat urine.
	So the next one is the Mildmay line.
	Oh I hate this.
	So the Mildmay Mission Hospital is a small charitable hospital in Shoreditch that has cared for all Londoners for decades.
	All Londoners, you've got to get that in there.
	It played a pivotal role in the HIV AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
	So it's basically a hospital that specialised in Helping people with HIV which largely affected gay and black people.
	Yeah, so if you didn't shoot heroin or bum without a condom on, you were fine.
	And we're naming a line after that.
	Great!
	I love what's happening to my home city.
	It's funny how they have to search harder and harder for something to virtue-signal about.
	I was born and raised in London, well, greater London.
	I've never heard of that.
	Shoreditch is in the east, right?
	I mean, it's not a million miles from Liverpool Street.
	I've been through, I've drunk in Shoreditch, dozens and dozens, I've never heard of that in my life.
	Well, now you can take the sodomy line back home now.
	Goes for a lot of tunnels, that one.
	Yeah.
	And here's another one.
	They didn't even win!
	Yeah, they didn't even win.
	Running through Wembley, the line honours the historic achievements and lasting legacy of the England women's football team and continues to inspire and empower the next generation of girls.
	You know, the men's team is better.
	That is worth saying.
	Women's football as a totality is a joke.
	It's terrible in comparison to the men.
	It's absurd how poor the standard of football is.
	In all women's football, even in the World Cup, it's clown shoes.
	It's not even funny.
	Women's goalkeepers are just... It's actually comical.
	Women's football, I don't mind saying this, as a totality, is pathetically poor.
	No, I think that the quality of football is demonstrated when you get the professional teams playing like the under-15 side and getting thrashed.
	So it's not, we're not having a go at women, we're just saying that when it comes to football, blokes better.
	Yeah, like most of the country, I would have a really strong opinion on this if I bothered watching it, but I have so many better things to do than watch women's football.
	Yeah, I can't watch more than a few minutes at a time.
	I've tried a number of times, a half-dozen times, ten times I've tried to sit down and watch a game of women's football.
	Get 5, 10, 20 minutes into it and I'm just snorting and sniggering to myself and tutting and shaking my head and I just can't watch anymore.
	If I want to watch bad football, I'm a Plymouth Argyle supporter.
	They can't string a number of passes together.
	They can't do a ball across the field.
	They haven't got the power in their legs.
	Honestly, women's goalkeepers are You get the idea.
	I haven't really got the words to describe female goalkeepers.
	I feel like I should have just done it about women's football.
	Untapped Goldmine here.
	So, the final one is the Liberty Line, which I think is probably the least egregious name, I suppose.
	That's fine, yeah.
	This line runs through Havering and celebrates the historic independence of the people of Havering and its status as a royal liberty.
	Havering, sorry to nip it.
	But that is, this is my neck of the woods.
	I don't know this area, so thank you for correcting me.
	An area that traditionally had more self-governance and autonomy.
	That's interesting.
	Which is a bit ironic from you, isn't it?
	From the man who expanded EULAs out to everywhere that said in the consultation, no thanks.
	Self-governance and autonomy is what I want, and this is just mocking me.
	If I get on the Liberty Line and I'm just there surrounded by migrants, just like, oh, this is my liberty, I can't afford a home, I've paid an extortionate amount of money to be in London and I'm surrounded by people that don't even like me.
	And the care worker who's FaceTiming the person she's sending all our tax money back to.
	Yep.
	Liberty!
	I was born and raised and went to school, primary and secondary school, in Havering.
	Sorry for getting it wrong.
	And lived in Havering, the London Borough of Havering, my whole life until just a few years ago.
	Romford is probably the biggest town near me.
	Been to Romford thousands and thousands of times.
	Been to Upminster thousands and thousands and thousands of times.
	Again, born and raised and lived for nearly my whole life near Elm Park Horn Church, which is between those two places.
	So this is really, absolutely my neck of the woods.
	And until, I don't know, maybe 2014 or 15 or 16, it was just almost entirely white.
	It was just pure Essex.
	Right?
	Because the London Borough of Havering, if anyone doesn't know, is on the outskirts of the Greater London Area.
	It's on the outskirts of London.
	It's sort of more Essex than London, almost.
	And so anyway, it's just, yeah, that classic sort of Tory, most of the seats are fairly safe Tory most of the time.
	So it's sort of, no wonder they want to deliberately flood it with foreigners.
	Because Romford now is completely, within just a few years, in five, six, seven years, since Theresa May, it's completely unrecognisable.
	There's just no need to change any of this.
	I know the little line that goes from Romford to Upminster.
	It's just one little platform in Romford Station.
	It's just the most absurd, unnecessary virtue signalling.
	At least it's one of the nicer ones, I suppose.
	You could have had the Windrush line or something like that.
	Same thing's going to happen, I think, towards my area because they're expanding, apparently, the Bakerloo line out to Lewisham.
	Currently, I don't have a tube station anywhere near me.
	No transient population, still suburban, but they've started building the preparatory tower blocks for all of the diverse enrichment that they're going to flood my area with and it's only going to be a little while until you start getting overground or tube coming to the southeast.
	It's going to be so depressing.
	Just keep an acid attack kit near your front door.
	Right.
	Yes.
	I'm laughing, but it's genuinely good advice these days.
	I mean, the number of them just recently in London, which, of course, is not a crime that is known to happen domestically.
	Oh, no, did you not hear?
	We had a couple of them happen in the Victorian era.
	Therefore, it's a British pastime, don't you know?
	That's why, since record immigration, we're number one in the world for acid attack.
	Had to pore through all of British history to find this one example to disprove you.
	But there have been some alternatives suggested.
	I thought perhaps naming a line the Knife Crime Line is a good idea.
	I don't know whether you've got any honourable suggestions to represent modern London.
	The Unaffordable Line is another good one.
	I'm trying to think of some other ones.
	Shall we go the other way and call it the Enoch Powell Line?
	British Empire Line.
	That's actually a good name of a line.
	The Cecil Rhodes Line.
	Jihad Express and it goes from Newham to Whitechapel and that's it.
	East India Line.
	I don't know.
	It's not even British.
	But anyway, this next meme is making fun of it.
	It's a little bit graphic.
	It has been censored, but if there are kids watching, cover their eyes for a little bit.
	But Kali Drukpa... Best account on Twitter.
	...shared, POV, you are taking a train ride on the Windrush line, and this is a guy, I think he was a migrant, wasn't he, who just randomly started hitting people with a machete.
	Yeah, he took some guy's hand off, basically.
	So yes, this was on the Tube, this was the Underground, wasn't it?
	Rather than the Overground.
	I think it's the Jubilee Line.
	Okay.
	Looks like the Jubilee Line to me, yeah.
	So yes, this is an accurate representation of London life, it seems.
	I wouldn't know.
	But on a slightly more upbeat note, I saw this and it made me laugh.
	Dr Francis Young said, cheer up Walter, they named an overground line after you because this is Walter Mildmay, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer to Queen Elizabeth I and founder of Emanuel College, Cambridge.
	So there you go.
	I think that was the 16th century.
	Oh yeah, you should just name certain lines after figures from British history and use the stops that they would frequent.
	You've got Dickens-related stuff.
	I was exactly about to say Dickens.
	The Bakerloo line station, I'm sorry, Baker Street station, is modelled after Sherlock Holmes.
	It's in the tile work, so why can't we have a bit more character like that?
	That would be good.
	Sorry, we have to spend all our money on social housing for Somalis.
	Forgot about that bit.
	It should just be whatever the name of the place already is.
	That's what it was before.
	It's actually easier to navigate.
	If they've got these names that represent a place, it actually muddies the water.
	So you're like, I'm taking this line to so-and-so.
	And it's just easier to say, I'm going to here.
	You don't need an added layer of complication to it.
	It is useful if you're navigating London just off the top of your head to know the lines which connect.
	Because obviously loads of them have overlapping stops and so the colours make it easier to associate.
	But just don't name them stupid bloody things.
	Sorry.
	So it's also worth mentioning as well that this costs over £6 million to do.
	And just looking at the Underground, which is part of the rail network in London, and so it's fair to associate it with the overground names.
	The amount of crime that skyrocketed, we've got the data for 2023 now, and comparing it to 2022, look at theft, public order offences, violence, criminal damage, hate crime, interestingly enough, has gone up as well, and work-related violence and aggression.
	I don't know what that is.
	They'll be harassing tube workers.
	Okay.
	So all of these have been going up, particularly theft.
	And wouldn't you think that people care more about not being beaten or stolen from when they're travelling than the name of the station?
	What's also very interesting is within that year the Elizabeth Line opened and the areas it passes through, one it connects to Heathrow Airport, so everyone that's just coming off the plane, don't know who those people are, but two the areas it passes through are some nice stops and some enriched stops so i wouldn't be surprised if that's contributed to a significant bump in the difference in crime in the last year
	but of course this is just another example of wasted money and also the fact that sadiq khan made stop and search illegal didn't he so now the police can't stop people who are suspected of carrying weapons which mysteriously meant that crime went up Well they changed the crime recording database as well because Sadiq Khan said that because it had over-representation of diversity in the statistics it was therefore racist.
	So they just said stop gathering statistics.
	Yeah, it's not that they're just committing more crime.
	My goodness, that would be unforgivable, wouldn't it?
	But I've gone on for too long.
	Quick little anecdote.
	Years and years ago, like 2002 or something, I was in inverted commas, jumped on the train, and they were going to nick my phone.
	I got my phone out and it was so old and crap, they were like, and then left me alone.
	They wouldn't even steal from you.
	I had a really old phone, a really old Nokia from like 1998 or something.
	They were like, just left me alone.
	It's like a tape from Hellscape.
	The moral of the story is... They left you some change.
	Sorry for me.
	I'm going to end on, if you're in London, just be really poor.
	When the criminals inevitably try and steal from you, they won't actually find anything worth stealing.
	Don't worry, it's so expensive in London, but you won't have to try very hard anyway.
	The fastest way to do it is just rent.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Right.
	We do have to ration them according to slots here and obviously I'm not the most graceful person in the world so sorry.
	I'm also sweltering.
	Is the aircon on John?
	Because genuinely it's inhospitable in here.
	I've got a stinking cold and I'm like sweating out.
	My shirt is going to look like a Rorschach test.
	I mean we've got an office sauna though, that's something.
	Okay, shall I start my segment?
	Go for it.
	Of course.
	So just before I start my segment, which I wanted to talk about, really, the influence that celebrities can have over our democracies, over our societies, over politics in general.
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	On the topic of celebrities.
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	All right, so I wanted to talk about, just a bit about, and I think a lot of our audience already know this, Don't take your political cues from celebrities.
	Or the wider point I want to make is don't really take them from anyone.
	The sort of thing I wanted to say is people should make up their own minds.
	Again, I don't want to condescend to any of our audience because I'm sure most of them already do that.
	A lot of people in the world don't do that.
	They take their cues from all sorts of places.
	I think one of the most obvious times that happens is a household.
	If you belong to, say, a Labour voting household or a Tory voting household, your parents bring you up to be a Lib Dem, a lot of people never really question that and then go through their whole life with the same voting patterns that their family has.
	I find that quite strange.
	I didn't even talk politics with my parents until I had a fully formed opinion.
	That's the way to do it though, isn't it?
	I think you let your kids make their own decision.
	Maybe point them in a direction, but don't do it too forcefully.
	I think one of the most pernicious things in our new modern world in 2023 and in the few years before is the influence of celebrities.
	Perhaps you did grow up in a fairly unpolitical household.
	You haven't had your mind made up for you since childhood.
	You don't really, you don't spend any time thinking about politics.
	You're not party political or anything like that.
	So you might get your cues from celebrities.
	It seems to be the case, right?
	So in the Biden election and in some of the Obama years and things, it does seem that some particularly influential celebrities seem to actually move the bar.
	I remember the woman Tina Fey from 30 Rock.
	She played Sarah Palin on SNL, and she did it so convincingly for people that people attributed to Sarah Palin her joke, I can see Russia from my house, and they just thought that Sarah Palin was a total dimwit.
	Now don't get me wrong, she ran with John McCain, so not the brightest person in the Republican Party, but she had wrinkles in her brain, she wasn't that stupid, but just by pure memetic power, that can eclipse anyone's messaging, some celebrity making fun of you, and that does have a massive influence on politics.
	Yeah.
	I mean, say you're young, say you're only 18 or 19 or something, and you really don't know anything one way or another, but you feel obliged to vote and you're a massive fan of Lady Gaga or Robert De Niro or something, and they're just telling you, you should vote a certain way.
	That can actually swing things, right?
	It could be hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people, and not just in America, all over the place.
	Right.
	So there's one link here.
	John, if you could play that first link.
	If anyone remembers, Lady Gaga was just completely partisan in favour of Sleepy Joe.
	Vote like your life depends on it.
	Or vote like your children's lives depend on it.
	Because they do.
	She's doing a drive-thru.
	And to all the women, And all the men with daughters and sisters and mothers, everybody, no matter how you identify, now is your chance to vote against Donald Trump, a man who believes his fame gives him the right to grab one of your daughters or sisters or mothers or wives by any part of their bodies.
	Vote for Joe.
	He's a good person.
	Thank you.
	Are we just ignoring all of the videos of Joe Biden sniffing children's hair?
	Yeah, yeah we are.
	Wait, wait, keep playing it.
	Oh.
	Is there more?
	Now he's got Lady Gaga.
	Lady Gaga.
	She's not too good.
	I could tell you plenty of stories.
	I could tell you stories about Lady Gaga.
	I know a lot of stories about Lady Gaga.
	Now, I do need to make the point that, you know, both sides do this.
	There's people that are based, celebrities that are based, you know, like Jake Shields, the UFC fighter, screams to mind.
	Oh, Sean Strickland, Kobe Covington.
	Yeah, there's a few.
	Mohamed Mazdalal, yeah.
	Class and Fury is not woke, right?
	So both sides do it, and I wouldn't ever sort of say that they shouldn't be allowed to do it, but people just need to be, I think, Just need to be a little bit savvy about who they're taking advice from.
	And the same goes for us as well, because we're part of that.
	We're as much propagandists, in inverted commas, as Lady Gaga.
	Ouch!
	The point I'm trying to make is we're partisan.
	Oh yeah, of course.
	Whenever you voice an opinion, a political opinion, you can be accused of being partisan or propagandist or whatever.
	So that is my overarching point, is that people need to really think for themselves, make up their own minds.
	People these days don't really seem to.
	I don't know many people that make an effort to actually look at and read the manifestos of the parties.
	that they could vote for, right? - It's all sort of vibe, isn't it? - I mean, you're a very political person, the circles you move in, not many people really actually read manifestos, actually try and drill down into the policies of the parties that they could potentially vote for.
	- My contentious take is actually that a better political system would mean that not everyone has to be politicized all the time.
	So at the moment, there are lots of non-voting Dinos, and they're not particularly bright, but they're wholesome enough people.
	You know, they go to their core Senate job, and they have a couple of kids, and they live in a Barrett New Build.
	Should they necessarily be forced to be political if they're not by nature political?
	But all of their media is filled with political talking points.
	Late night comedy has become not funny and has just become another mouthpiece of regime propaganda.
	Well, building upon that actually, part of the reason I agree with you, I actually try and discourage people to vote.
	Not because I don't think it works, but more so that you've got to be of conviction.
	I'm not making the argument that you're shaking your head at.
	I know what I'm basically trying to say that the people who are sort of undecided when it comes to an election, they don't know anything about politics and they're sort of easily swayed either way, they're not desirous people to have voting.
	And I'm not saying they should be disenfranchised or anything, I'm just saying that These people are most prone to being swayed by celebrities and that sort of thing.
	And when people say, go out and vote, it's very important that you vote, what is actually implicit in that is they're saying, well, we know that the people who are still undecided on the cusp of an election probably haven't been following it very closely, don't follow politics very closely, and therefore are more prone to being manipulated.
	Therefore, go out and vote for us because our propaganda is more effective at the minute.
	Can we also just address the demographic question in the room?
	It's not men usually being swayed by this stuff.
	It's usually suburban housewives who might be swayed voting against Donald Trump because they listen to one Lady Gaga song and she says he's an existential threat, and particularly young women.
	This is why some on the right have gotten into a frenzy about the whole Taylor Swift thing, because they think that she's going to mobilize all the affluent white female liberal awfuls from various cities and flip America into a permanent Democrat party state.
	It's not usually men that are persuaded by celebrities to vote for a particular political candidate.
	Yeah, I mean, I don't know about that in great detail.
	You may well be right.
	I'm sure you're right.
	But yeah, I mean, yeah, different demographics are more susceptible to different things.
	That's certainly true.
	I just think, two points really.
	One is, think for yourself.
	Do your own research, I suppose is one way of saying it.
	And also, do vote if you can.
	I know it's not exactly what you were saying, but I suppose in the broadest sense, if you choose not to vote, if you choose to just absent yourself from the whole process, I just don't agree with the argument that that's sort of the right way to go.
	Because if you want to change things, if you want to change your government or your governance or the way politics is done in your country, it's either by force, by some sort of militia or something, or at the ballot box.
	And, you know, the former of those two things aren't desirable.
	I don't just buy the argument that, like, democracy doesn't work and, like, lol, vote harder, that whole thing.
	I do.
	Yeah, no, I mean, I think it's defeatism to me.
	I don't know, it just seems...
	I don't know why.
	I believe in voting but I think it's just about being informed.
	I think people who are following like a political podcast like this, you know, you've got that interest in politics and therefore I would encourage someone to go out and do it but if someone's voting purely because they're told that it's like a public duty but they don't really care, it's kind of like flicking on the national football team when they're playing, when the World Cup's on, just to kind of say you supported them when you're not really that interested.
	It's that same sort of thing.
	May I steelman the abstention position?
	If you are so informed as to understand the character and the policies of your exact local candidates, not just the party at the national level, and you find all options wanting, is it fair to say, well, there's actually no point?
	Because frankly, before Richard Tice committed to the inquiry this week about safe and effective things, I was thinking, okay, I'll just leave it out.
	But, because I don't see any viable options at the moment, nationally.
	I see individual candidates that I particularly like, but the viability of any major party at this point is, I think, moot, at least in this election.
	Yeah, I know it's a weak thing to say, but you can have, you can spoil your ballot.
	I know it's not really worth a great deal, but... You've done it before.
	Yeah, I've done it before, yeah.
	The two points I wanted to make is, one, think for yourself.
	Make up your own mind who you think is likely to, sort of, act in your best interests.
	And also, Vote for what you really want.
	Vote with your heart.
	Because there's the other argument of voting strategically.
	I've done that as well in the past and I'm disappointed in myself when I've done it.
	I just really, really hate this party or this candidate so I'm going to vote for the person who's most likely to beat them even though I don't like them either.
	That was a 2019 election basically.
	Right, yeah.
	In fact, that's when I did it.
	I voted against Corbyn.
	And I'm disappointed in myself for doing it, because I just voted for the person who was most likely to beat him there.
	And they did.
	It also depends on the nature of the seat as well.
	If it's a really safe seat, you've kind of got the luxury of voting for whoever you want.
	Because it's pretty much guaranteed.
	Where I grew up was an incredibly safe Tory seat, so it didn't really matter how I voted.
	It was a done deal already.
	But if it's quite close, then I think tactical voting makes a bit more sense.
	Although I do agree with your general sentiment that if you vote tactically, eventually your actual ideal will become further and further away because you're voting for a party that isn't ideal for you.
	That's the classic thing that the Conservatives are doing at the moment, and all the big parties have done for years and years on end.
	It's like, you've got to vote for us, regardless of how despicable we are, because the alternative is worse.
	They're saying vote reform, get Labour at the moment.
	Yeah.
	So I'm saying, vote with your heart.
	You might not win, but you can't vote strategically forever, because you'll never get what you want.
	Never.
	And, you know, history has shown that small parties can break through eventually.
	It might take a while, or it does take a while.
	You know, there was a time before the Labour Party, right?
	It used to be the Whigs and the Tories, didn't it?
	Right, yeah.
	The modern parties in America haven't been around since the beginning of the Republic.
	They're slightly different versions of them.
	So it is possible, you've sort of got to believe.
	I know I'm coming at it from a very sort of pro-reform, because this is the exact message reform need.
	I get that.
	And I know I'm open to the criticism here if I'm just sort of shilling for reform, which I suppose I am, but I truly, I genuinely believe it.
	You've got to, even though I didn't do it one time.
	You've got to sort of vote for what you truly think is the best thing, even if that candidate is not necessarily likely to win in the next election.
	Because otherwise, you'll always get the slightly lesser of two evils.
	Well, anyway, I want to come back and just maybe highlight one particular example of a celebrity that is sort of quite political, that has got such a big reach Such a big influence that can actually, you know, move the needle, as I say.
	I'm talking of Sir Lewis, Lewis Hamilton.
	I don't know if John put the picture up yet.
	There he is, yeah.
	So a week or two ago now, it was revealed that Lewis Hamilton will move from Mercedes to Ferrari.
	I know both you guys aren't particularly that interested in F1, and I won't really talk about the racing.
	I was the one that told you that that happened!
	What?
	I told you that Lewis Hamilton moved to Ferrari, and you're like, what?
	It must have been on the day it was released.
	It was, yeah.
	It must have been within minutes of it happening.
	It was, yeah.
	Oh, okay, alright, okay.
	So firstly, just very quickly to say, I'm not going to criticise Sir Lewis on his driving.
	He is among the best.
	I mean, on paper, he is the GOAT.
	No one's won more races or got more pole positions than he has.
	I think most people that actually know about it would only probably put him in the top half dozen or so of all time.
	Nevertheless, the point is he's an extraordinary talent.
	Very good in the wet.
	None of this criticism about his driving.
	He's a superb driver.
	Seven times world champion.
	Should really be eight.
	He was robbed in Abu Dhabi in 2021.
	Anyway!
	But when it comes to politics, the man is out of his mind.
	He really is an agent of the regime or something.
	Fully captured.
	Also he's got a sideline in the fashion world.
	So you can see he's got no sense of taste.
	He once got in trouble for saying to his niece or nephew, I can't remember which one's the male one, that boys shouldn't wear dresses.
	And after that he retracted it and went full throttle woke for years.
	Yeah, I was going to get onto that, absolutely.
	Okay, I'll just talk about that now.
	A few years ago now, it was at Christmas, and his nephew had been given a princess outfit.
	In fact, John, you might be able to find that link somewhere in there.
	picture there you go that's his nephew and at Christmas Lewis Hamilton was streaming it on his phone he said little boys shouldn't dress up as a princess yeah if you do that to your son you're committing child abuse I think I'd sincerely believe that and the backlash from that from sort of the woke karate you can imagine And Sir Lewis completely folded, like utterly, utterly folded, sort of profusely apologising over and over and over again.
	And ever since then, his slide towards sort of wokeism, or worse than mere wokeism, has been, has been, it's fallen off a cliff really.
	So during the BLM era stuff, He went sort of full BLM.
	If you can go back to some of the pictures, some of the pictures, John.
	So there you go.
	So it's full Black Lives Matter and he wanted everyone to take the knee before every race.
	Like the only one pushing for it really was him.
	So, you know, it's funny because Black Lives Matter are sort of, you know, communist Race baiters, they've been revealed as that now, right?
	Oh yeah, the anti-white race hustlers, yeah.
	They've nicked loads of money.
	I mean, thank goodness they did steal all the money.
	Think of all the damage that could be done if they weren't thieves.
	And self-proclaimed communists, right?
	Yeah.
	Trained Marxists was the word of Patrice Cullors, yeah.
	It's funny because I don't remember Sir Lewis really talking about Das Kapital and things before this.
	I don't remember him ever really talking about the workers' paradise, how they should own the means of production.
	That's what he said about Ferrari, he said it's a worker's paradise and, you know, it's nice to see.
	No, I'm joking of course.
	Yeah, you know, it's just, it's virtue signalling to a large degree and, I mean, he's always had a bit of a, well, a bit of a chip on his shoulder really about, about his ethnicity, always going on about how much he suffered as a child through racism.
	Now he's a little bit younger than me, so I remember Britain in the late 80s and 90s, it was pretty un-racist to be honest.
	Is that shirt real?
	Yeah, that's not a photoshop.
	So there you go.
	Immigration is a good thing and science is real.
	Okay, brilliant.
	Let's talk about the science of per capita for this.
	Per capita would be great.
	Let's talk about love is love.
	Yeah, love is love.
	That's a pro-slogan.
	Well, that's what it's used as now.
	I think it used to be like a pro-gay thing, didn't it?
	It became something else.
	Well, yeah, because if you're dismantling all boundaries between types of love, you get some very unsavoury places.
	Yeah, yeah, you're getting very close to sort of trying to justify paedophilia.
	Yeah, the lines on the back is age is just a number.
	Us.
	Sorry.
	So, Lewis Hamilton's a virtue signalling BLM supporter.
	Okay, alright, you can sort of, okay.
	But then, when I saw this one, and this is a good couple of years ago now, this is when I wasn't really quite aghast to see that.
	If anyone knows the details of the Breonna Taylor killing, We'll see that there now, he reveals himself to me at that point of being fully captured, being an agent of the regime.
	You're very close to being ACAB there, right?
	You're very close to really being an agent of chaos, of trying to undermine Western civilization, trying to undermine the concept of police.
	And things.
	So at that point, for me anyway, it was sort of the final straw.
	It's like, well, I'm not just dealing with a virtue signaling race car driver.
	I'm dealing with somebody who is sort of highly, highly politicized and very, very divisive.
	You can see some of the drivers didn't want to take the knee.
	Some of them quite quickly refused to.
	There's Charles Leclerc, a Frenchman in the background.
	I'm not sure who that is.
	Maybe Daniel Kvyat, a Russian.
	Yeah, Max Verstappen, a Dutchman, didn't take the knee quite quickly.
	Some of them did kick back about it.
	Some of them love it.
	Sebastian Vettel is completely mad for it.
	But the Lewis Hamilton stuff goes beyond just sort of Black Lives Matter.
	It's the full spectrum.
	It's sort of the pride stuff and environmentalism.
	I mean, how crazy is that?
	He had a private...
	Says it all, doesn't it?
	Can't you just drive your car fast, please, Sir Lewis?
	What has this got to do with...
	Right, so anyway, the broader point I was making is that Bruce Hamilton is very, very influential.
	I mean, I know you guys aren't necessarily into F1, but, you know, it is worldwide.
	Millions and millions of people.
	Like on Twitter, he's got, I think, 8 million odd.
	Everyone knows who he is, certainly in Britain anyway.
	Right, yeah.
	Well, no, he's sort of, depending on how you measure it, the GOAT in F1, one of the greatest drivers of all time.
	What he says and what he does has a lot of influence.
	Look, there's Max.
	Oh, Kimi, Kimi Raikkonen didn't take the knee either.
	Well done, Raikkonen.
	Anyway, yeah.
	They even changed the livery of the Mercedes car.
	It's been the Silver Arrows.
	It's been painted in silver since the 1930s.
	Because of George Floyd and Lewis, they made the car black.
	I mean, it's just... Mercedes silver is, like, iconic, isn't it?
	You can use that as a term to refer to a certain shade of silver, can't you?
	Like, I'll have it in Mercedes silver, please.
	Right, yeah.
	And just because Lewis wants it, they change it to a black kid.
	Do the next picture.
	Yeah, so there you go, like the full pride thing.
	I mean, it's got nothing to do with driving.
	Let's kick racism out of driving.
	Let's make sure that everyone that watches racing is sort of pro-pride stuff.
	It's just crowbarred in there.
	But, you know, so this stuff will work on lots of people, though.
	People that are not politicize people that don't do their own reading their own research they're just like well I just love racing and all the race car drivers I idolize are this way so I guess yeah I'd better vote Joe or something it's very similar Trump certainly can't vote for the Tories or something I don't know.
	It's very similar to the campaign of kick racism out of football isn't it like well you know the age of the football hooligans that wasn't to do with race in the first place is kind The problem's already kind of solved.
	It's just needless.
	I think it's very deliberate as well, like rubbing your nose in it.
	Because, you know, racing is a very male-centric thing.
	Quite a very European thing as well.
	And so it's like, you know, white European men love this thing, so let's subvert it super hard.
	You know, whatever it is.
	You know, like Tolkien or something.
	Oh, white European guys love that.
	So we've got to screw with that.
	The environmentalists.
	So Lewis Hamilton used to own a private jet.
	He was very proud of.
	But then when the environmentalists said, you know, that's bad, that's a no-no, he sold it, got rid of it, and then started talking about environmentalism.
	Which is, for a race car driver, especially a Formula 1 driver, is absolutely mad.
	The amount of freight they have to fly around the world to make these races happen, the amount of carbon, I mean, the whole carbon thing is nonsense anyway, it's plant food.
	But nevertheless, if you buy into the whole stuff thing, the amount of carbon that F1 as an entity puts into the... It's just crazy.
	Yeah, what does his car run on then?
	Fossil fuels, I would presume?
	They are hybrid engines.
	Half electric, half internal combustion.
	But it's not the point.
	It's not the point.
	Yeah, it's crazy that a race car driver would try and be an environmentalist.
	It's nonsense, right?
	So that's my point.
	He's been captured, or perhaps been made to believe that this is what he really thinks about stuff.
	I don't know.
	The point is, it's just one example, Sir Lewis is just one example, like Lady Gaga, or Jake Shields, or anyone.
	They've got a huge amount of influence and people should just be... They should do their own thinking.
	Don't take your cues from someone who doesn't really know anything.
	He doesn't know anything about political theory, right?
	Like I said at the beginning, I don't remember him ever talking about communism or socialism.
	But now it's like a full race baiter, that Breonna Taylor thing.
	Sorry, you're in the territory of race baiting now.
	You're in the territory of actually damaging nations now.
	It's not just a bit of virtue-signalling.
	It's not just putting the Black Power hand in the air, or forcing all your colleagues to take a knee every race.
	Could we go to the next link?
	I don't know what else we've got here.
	Okay, so play this video.
	It's a hostage video, essentially.
	It's only one minute long.
	I want to do something.
	I am committed to fighting for equality for all.
	I am fully committed in the fight against racism.
	I won't stay silent against racial discrimination and inequality.
	I believe everyone should be treated equally.
	I stand in solidarity in the fight against racism.
	I believe that everyone has to play a part in the fight for equality.
	I'm part of the movement to fight for a better future for us all.
	Let's all do our part.
	Let's all do our part.
	To put an end to racism.
	Equality for everyone.
	So let's all stand up to make everyone see the beauty of it.
	I stand.
	Against racism.
	I am part of the movement to fight for a better future for all.
	Let's all do our part to put an end to racism.
	I think I saw a muzzle poke in the edge there.
	Those all seemed such genuine heartfelt words, didn't they?
	Yeah, it's like a hostage.
	Guys, just drive your cars around the track as fast as you can.
	I'm not interested in your politics.
	Anyway, so that's basically the point I want to make.
	Loose Hamsters is just one example, one that's particularly sort of annoying to me, particularly egregious.
	I think people should just be aware that it's quite easy to manipulate people that aren't politicised, right?
	It's easy to, like as you say, people who haven't really got any thoughts one way or the other, and you just go with people that you respect for something completely different, like for singing songs.
	Or for driving a car around fast, or for being a UFC fighter or something.
	People need to think for themselves and vote with their heart, I think.
	So that's just the point I wanted to make.
	Right, with that, on to the video comment.
	Sorry if I am quiet, I am genuinely feeling faint in here.
	It's so hot, it's unreal.
	Yeah, it's like a sauna in here.
	It's appalling, like, this is awful, man.
	Can we get this fixed before Calvin dies, before he does a bloody show, please?
	I'm sweating out my illness.
	I actually feel better.
	Genuinely, I feel like I'm going to...
	I've got some water.
	No.
	Right, anyway, can we just play the video comments?
	Sorry.
	So I want Connor to explain exactly what he's going to do to fix Billie Eilish.
	Now, as a good example of a segment that could be done is, okay, what do we do given the hand we've been dealt as a society to make relationships with women kind of like that?
	Because there's only so many quote-unquote good women to go around.
	So what do we do?
	Because not all of us are cut out to be MGTOW.
	We just need relationships.
	So what do we do?
	Frankly, I don't think anyone should consign themselves to MGTOW.
	I think that's just defeatist.
	I think it's usually largely cope from people that don't analyze themselves.
	But if you are struggling, I mean, Just go out and meet people.
	No, that's such a... Sorry, that's a very Boomer... Because that's not how people... Genuinely, that's not how most people meet.
	Most of our generation don't drink.
	Most people are staring at their phones a lot of the time.
	Majority of relationships started on dating apps and that now.
	So, what is actually really helpful is if you are slightly older and you know two young single people that might get along, actually like the Gen Z's and the... Gen X's and the Boomers should start matchmaking.
	That's much better than sort of... Take the Indian approach and just...
	Take the pre-modern approach that we always did.
	Isn't that what I was saying?
	Get off dating apps and meet real people.
	That's what I'm saying.
	When advice is given, it's usually just go to a bar and talk to someone that's like, Okay, I see.
	Yeah, yeah.
	That never was particularly the case.
	Right, yeah.
	That's what most people say.
	Yeah, but meet people in general.
	Go out and do stuff and live in the real world.
	Touch grass.
	Yeah, definitely.
	That's what I'm talking about.
	Yeah, sorry.
	From my experience, normally people approach a relationship more seriously if they know you as a friend of a friend or you're within a certain circle.
	So I think nothing really beats Knowing someone in the real world, because the dating apps, you're engaging a lot of the time in a false economy because it's seen as this sort of revolving door because it's so convenient to find people that all of a sudden finding someone who might be right is not that significant to people. - I have a bigger group you're engaging a lot of the time in a false economy because I have a bigger group of friends.
	I think all my relationships have just been someone, you know someone.
	Friend of a friend.
	You don't go to a bar and just try and talk to a stranger.
	It's through a mutual friend.
	If you have a bigger group of friends, I've had dates with people before where I've spoke to them in a bar.
	It does happen.
	Right.
	It's just increasingly scarce.
	I will say on dating apps, so go and watch mine and Dan's Brokonomics on that for more insight.
	They can work.
	It's just that you need to set your parameters to be very restrictive.
	I mean, ironically, I did a thing on dating apps saying don't use them and it worked.
	But generally, friend of friends or matchmaking is going to be better.
	As for fixing Billie Eilish, I'm not going to do a segment on that because it's also partially a meme.
	Like, yeah, she's attractive, but she's beyond saving.
	Isn't she gay now?
	She's quote-unquote queer.
	I mean, you're still in for a chance, Conor.
	You can fix her.
	Good musician, horrible political opinions.
	Right, so we've got a super chat actually.
	$10 from Josie Angels.
	My granddaughter is coming to Met Film School this autumn.
	Advice other than don't do it.
	That's for the Londoners, so not me.
	Don't live in central London, live on one of the outskirts that doesn't have a tube line, because it's a lot cheaper, it's more suburban and less stabby.
	And you can probably get a house share in the southeast or something like that, on the border of Kent, which is a bit more hospitable.
	Be careful when going out late at night.
	Genuinely.
	Yeah, the transport system, the underground and everything, you should be alright during rush hour.
	It's late at night, when the carriages are fairly empty.
	You get some psycho, like the video we had earlier.
	If you just commute in and out, it's so busy and there's London Transport Police quite often and you should be alright.
	It's just certain times of day, certain areas obviously much worse than others.
	Particularly as a girl as well, you know, I've got the tube absolutely hammered before, like not even sure where I am and at late at night and I just kind of materialise where I'm meant to be.
	Don't know how it happens actually, it's kind of like magic.
	That is not our advice by the way, don't tell us to do that.
	Don't do that.
	Well if you're really rich, just get black cabs everywhere, although you would need to be quite rich to do that.
	It's quite pricey, isn't it?
	Yeah, quite.
	Just a couple from my segment then.
	Lord Nerevar, Tory's panicking that they're moving too far right.
	It's basically like if Labour were worrying about representing the workers too much.
	Well, they don't.
	No, you idiots.
	That's your entire purpose.
	Why do you think the electorate is blasting you in the polls right now?
	Zuma Teobu, go Bo.
	Be sad to see Epoch's end, but would be well worth seeing Bo on the green benches grilling Sir Keir during PMQs.
	Well, actually, technically, Epoch's wouldn't have to end.
	Because you would come back to your constituencies during constituency surveys, so you'd be able to pop in over the weekend and film.
	I would still live here.
	Yeah.
	Right, yeah.
	Yeah, I would... I don't think I'm going to win.
	I obviously want to, but the polling doesn't suggest I would win.
	But if I did, I probably would still do Epochs.
	And I'd do it for free as well.
	I would stop taking a salary.
	Because even though you're allowed, I believe you're allowed to, I just wouldn't want to take any outside money.
	I think I would still make an effort to do it.
	I would definitely still make an effort to do it.
	It's not too late to move to South Swindon and vote Dade.
	I'm committed to Epochs come hell or high water.
	Short of being hit by a bus, I'm going to keep doing Epochs.
	Is Jacob Rees-Mogden doing an 8 o'clock weeknight show on GB News?
	Then Bo can do Epochs.
	Definitely.
	One last one.
	Kim Fox, young people can't find housing, so to fix it we're going to take over 16,000 houses and give them to foreigners.
	Suppose it could be worse, you could be threatening pensioners with compulsory purchase orders.
	Yeah, exactly that.
	Josh?
	So, Brandon Fisher says petition to rename the Windrush line to the Punch line.
	That's quite clever actually.
	Why aren't I getting it?
	The punchline.
	Oh, oh, oh.
	Wow.
	Dad joke, dad joke.
	I enjoyed it.
	Clearly all the heat's gone to my head.
	I like a good dad joke.
	Ewan Baker says suffragettes were just bored rich women whose husbands were off to war.
	Yeah, usually they have affairs.
	They don't wreck the whole political system of the country.
	And that could also make bombs, apparently.
	Yeah, well.
	Inshallah.
	Lest we forget.
	Funny enough, there's been a resurgence in that, hasn't there?
	Omar Awad, I reckon we should name the lines based on quality.
	The worst line should be named Sadiq Khan line, so you remember who to blame.
	Scathing as ever.
	What's that central line?
	Or maybe Piccadilly.
	What's the one with all the bed bugs on?
	Victoria.
	Yeah, Victoria Lines.
	It goes to Brixton.
	Yeah, Victoria Line.
	Victoria Line and Bakerloo Line are both terrible, but I hate the Central Line most.
	Yeah.
	Because it's always so packed.
	It's the deepest, which means it's the hottest.
	It's rickety.
	It's both the most packed and the hottest, so I hate it, yeah.
	The Overground section sounds like the bowels of a beast.
	Yeah, it's fundamentally unpleasant.
	Even though I know about it, yeah.
	Yeah.
	I've been hungover on the Tube and it is absolute hell.
	I've never been so close to throwing up, like, About six hours after I've woken up after a heavy night as being on the tube after, I think it was New Year's Eve.
	Even the seat coverings, if you did, they wouldn't have noticed.
	Yeah, well, probably improved the smell.
	In summer, on a hot day in summer, the central bit of the central line going through Oxford Street is truly a sauna.
	It's not like a sauna, it is a sauna.
	And then you're packed in literally face to face, scrunched up against people sometimes.
	And, uh, yeah, it's sometimes a bit hellacious.
	A bunch of my friends that live in London just cycle everywhere just because it's supposedly nicer, but then also you run the risk of getting crushed by lunatics on the road.
	Yeah.
	I wouldn't want to cycle through central London to be honest.
	It's dangerous, isn't it?
	Sorry.
	You can read some of your comments if you want though.
	Okay.
	Where are we?
	OK, Beau, I have an interview with Reform on Sunday as a possible MP candidate.
	It's far too early in this process for me to be planning heavily on success.
	However, I think our best chance is to make an appeal to courage.
	That's what I tried to do a little earlier, yeah.
	And to have a call to action to get people to speak to each other about reform in the real world.
	Yeah, great idea.
	There's no path through the legacy news media.
	It's time to go around them.
	Yeah, I mean, that's what we're trying to do.
	If you send me an email as to where you're standing and things, we'll get in touch and we'll talk about that sort of stuff.
	Charles Francis says, I've done my best to like Lewis Hamilton, but he's just a jerk.
	On top of everything else, he actually comes across most of the time as very well-meaning, sort of softly spoken, sort of benevolent, but yeah, you scratch the surface and he's basically ACAB race baiting, right?
	I mean, there's no other way of... He didn't take the knee for murdered farmers in South Africa, did he?
	No.
	Who's the guy who was in... the actor who died?
	Chadwick... Chadwick Boseman, yeah.
	Black Panther, yeah.
	Black Panther guy.
	So when he died, that weekend Lewis Hampton I think got pole or won the race and over the radio he shouted out, you know, this one's for Chadwick.
	Chadwick Boseman said after the film was completed he identified more with the villain.
	And the villain's plot is to arm all black people in America with space-age weaponry to kill all white people.
	Lovely guy.
	He was mates with Lewis Hamilton.
	Um, another one, um, from Bleach Demon.
	Lewis Hamilton is the Siddiq Khan of F1.
	Not that good, always looking to be Rumpert.
	And turning F1 into the women's football of motorsport.
	Still waiting on Bo's history of rally.
	I'd say I'd do that.
	I would do that.
	That's not Sir Walter Raleigh, but Raleigh cars, right?
	Yeah, Raleigh cars, yeah.
	Got excited for a second.
	Yeah.
	Talk about back in the 80s when they were sort of unrestricted, you know, crazy, crazy powerful.
	Dangerous, aren't they?
	Yeah.
	Well, looks like we're out of time there.
	Yep.
	Well, so back in half an hour for Calvin's Common Sense Crusade.
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	Thanks very much, gents.

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