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March 22, 2024 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #877

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters and I'm joined by Bo, a recently cancelled candidate, and Nick Dixon, a futurely cancelled candidate.
	And good to have you back.
	Thank you very much.
	Good to be back.
	Loving the new setup.
	It's not that new anymore, new to me.
	Slightly gutted it's still in Swindon.
	Other than that, great work.
	So today we're going to be talking about the fact that Bo gets ticed and diced.
	Which is Beau getting kicked from Reform for advocating Reform's policies, Keir Starmer wanting to kill us all, and also the sacred flag, which will be a trip around the world.
	I don't know.
	I just made up.
	I'm interested to see what that is.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, I suppose we shall begin with an announcement.
	I have one announcement to make, which is... Sorry, I've got a screwdriver.
	I like it.
	So today we'll be making Lads Hour, because it's Friday, of course.
	So if you go and check out the website, that LotusEaters.com website, the one that you're currently on.
	After this, at 3pm UK time, we will be doing Lads Hour, and the subject will be, if you were king, what would you do?
	Because...
	Well, I just thought it might be funny.
	So let's see what happens.
	Are we assuming sort of a medieval absolute monarch?
	Because if you get to be nowadays king, there's very little you could do.
	Right.
	You're like, I'd go to Switzerland on a diplomatic visit.
	You're like, yeah.
	I'd watch some Polo.
	I was taking it very literally.
	I'd Photoshop a picture of myself.
	I'd kill my wife and then have sex with a horse woman.
	I'd go out with a D-list actress and move to America.
	Yeah, I suppose we'll make up the rules as we go along, but that shall be done.
	Otherwise, we have very big news, which is sad news, but good news.
	So let's have a look, I suppose.
	You've been cancelled from Reform, haven't you?
	Right, yeah.
	So yesterday, little old me made the news a little bit.
	Quite literally, some of the mainstream news.
	So yeah, I got cancelled.
	In a limited sense.
	I got deselected.
	Hope Not Hate did a hit piece on me.
	I've been mentioned by them before but they did a whole thing.
	What's the name?
	Greg Davies?
	Is it Greg?
	Greg something or other.
	Gregori.
	Yeah.
	They did a whole thing.
	Some of my greatest hits actually.
	So the first thing I need to say is that I do need to apologise for absolutely nothing No, no, I double down on it.
	Like an actual man, I stand by everything I've ever said within reason.
	And they picked out a bunch of quotes that I said.
	Yeah, I stand by it.
	I like the way you did that.
	As your Wolf of Wall Street moment.
	I'm not fucking leaving!
	Colin McGregor did a famous, I apologise for absolutely fucking nothing.
	I honestly wear it like a badge of honour.
	Honestly, really do.
	Commies are going to commie.
	I'm not actually any more annoyed or pissed off with Hope Not Hate than I was two days ago.
	That's what they do.
	If a fox gets in a chicken coop and kills all the chickens, you don't really blame the fox.
	It's what it's going to do.
	You're more annoyed at the person that built the fence, or failed to build the fence, that let the fox in in the first place.
	Because this led to, within very short order, within a couple of hours or something, I was deselected from reform.
	So first thing to say on that is just for me personally, it's not really that much of a big deal.
	Like I was, to be perfectly honest, it's a weight off for a few different reasons.
	I can go back to saying whatever I want to say.
	I don't have to toe any sort of party line.
	And the whole thing is quite stressful and very, very time consuming.
	One thing I must say on that immediately is that I was in it in a very real sense at the time.
	And though I'm going to be quite rude about reform here, The normal people that are running it, not the leadership, the normal people that are in it, the activists, the people giving up their time, they're the salt of the earth.
	They're great people, giving up their time and energy just because they want their country back.
	So I don't want to cast aspersions on those people, even though it seems now that they, along with me, was hoodwinked in some way.
	I don't want to pour any scorn on those people.
	I'd say they're mostly, or entirely really, great people trying to do the right thing.
	The thing about politics I find is that people forget it's completely volunteer based.
	The vast majority of the actual work is just people who are giving up their time and money to try and help you.
	And those people are the best human beings you could ever ask for.
	Yeah, because it's not like Hope Not Hate have robbed me of my rightful place in Parliament.
	I was going to come third.
	Almost certainly going to come third.
	Going to get two or three thousand votes.
	I was a paper candidate.
	Reform asked me in the first instance if I would do it.
	And I knew I would lose.
	I'd be a paper candidate and I did it anyway.
	It's like a symbolic thing.
	It's far from the end of the world for me.
	But yeah, so Hope Not Hate did this piece and some of my quotes and it's nothing bad really.
	Again, I stand by everything I ever wrote or said, basically.
	And they're all basically reform policies as well.
	You know, calling for a clear out of the civil service, calling for No migration or even mass deportations needed.
	Of criminals and illegals especially.
	Yeah yeah well one of the things that was actually a sort of a libel or slur is that they claimed I wanted to deport British citizens and no point did I say that there was a community note on Twitter pointing out that that's not I didn't actually say that.
	I've got no intention of bringing any sort of libel case because I feel like that's weak.
	I'm not going to do anything like that.
	And don't we also want to flush Scotland away?
	Oh yeah!
	Yeah, yeah.
	We'll get to that probably.
	Yeah, no, I mean, we can touch on that now.
	Of course, everyone knows the problem with Scotland is that it's full of Scots.
	Yeah, they should have seen that coming.
	It's in the name.
	As we all know.
	But this is a joke?
	Yeah.
	That's the thing that was really funny.
	I'll let you explain, I suppose, but in here they have a section complaining, oh my god, he said rude things about Scotland, and it's like, yeah, it's comedy.
	Yeah, it was clearly a joke.
	In the actual stream that they got that off of, I was on with Graham Moore and the English Constitutional Party, and I said, they don't like to quote that bit, but I said, I'm joking here, what I'm about to say is firmly tongue-in-cheek And all that sort of stuff, so it's clear it was joking.
	I mean, here's the line, if you want to read it.
	The Scottish economy is tiny anyway, just a statement of fact.
	I mean, what do they actually export?
	Iron brew and smack?
	That's obviously a joke.
	That's funny, isn't it?
	I mean, anyone hearing that is like, that is funny.
	The fact that they included that, I was just saying to you before, if I was doing a hit piece on you, I wouldn't have included that, because then everyone would just look like, oh, this is banter.
	This is hilarious pub banter.
	Right?
	Yeah.
	I maintain that that's funny.
	And no, I don't apologise.
	No, I'm not humbled or chastened or repentant or anything.
	No, no, no.
	Oh, I forgot to mention one of their other main exports is tramps, of course.
	If anyone's been to London.
	No, it's my God-given right as an Englishman to be rude and dismissive about Scots and Welsh and Irish.
	It's not going to stop.
	It's not like they don't do it, you know what I mean?
	Well, that's the beauty of it.
	When you're rude to each other.
	They hate us.
	They actually hate us.
	We're just joking.
	Yeah, yeah.
	As far as the English are concerned, they're like a turd that won't flush.
	That is quite rude.
	But one thing I would say, if you ever watch the stream, I was talking historically.
	I was even actually paraphrasing Edward I Longshanks.
	He said, there's a line when he deprived Scotland of its sovereignty at one point in one of his many wars with the Scots.
	I can't remember if he was deposing the Bruce or something, one of the Bruce's.
	And he said, when a man does a good day's work, when he rids himself of a turd, When he conquered Scotland once.
	Edward I?
	Yeah.
	I for one am surprised they didn't get the Edward I reference there.
	Scottish nationalists don't really know history.
	It's the greatest thing that ever happened to Scotland joining the Union.
	Anyway.
	Yeah, no, I've got very little respect for Scottish nationalists.
	Another thing I would say is that Scottish people by and large are brilliant.
	Their land is absolutely beautiful.
	It's absolutely beautiful.
	But Scottish nationalists?
	No, I've got no respect for them.
	No, no, no.
	The way they conduct themselves in Westminster is atrocious.
	They're very small, aren't they, the SNP?
	Very mean and small.
	Yeah, no.
	I'm not going to apologise for anything.
	But that's the funny part.
	I mean, that is just pure comedy.
	These are statements about policy, much of which is reform policy, getting rid of foreigners who have committed crimes and whatnot.
	So that's the hit piece.
	One last thing I want to say about Scotland is that when I made it into the mainstream media, first of all it was the Daily Record, which is a Scottish newspaper.
	I believe they outed Woes and maybe did something against Morgoth and all sorts of people.
	They're weirdos.
	I'm actually on the front page of the print version today.
	Oh, there you go.
	People's eyebrow, the bow brow.
	I want a copy of that.
	If there's anyone out there, this is a direct appeal.
	If there's anyone out there that gets a copy of that, please send it in to the Lotus Cetus PO Box Address.
	I really want a copy.
	I talked earlier about how I wear these things as a badge of honour.
	That's not coke!
	That's my genuine opinion.
	I'd love to have a copy of that, that I would actually frame.
	That is impressive to make it onto the real front page, not just the internet.
	I'm quite impressed by that.
	Because I've been sort of cancelled in a mini way.
	I haven't made any front pages yet.
	I mean, I might after this segment, but that's... I don't know how we're going to end it.
	But that is impressive.
	Can I ask you one question?
	Is there any part of you that thinks...
	Because I remember even Karl doing a segment a while ago where he said, or it might have been a tweet or something, he was saying that Farage was right to distance himself from Karl and he understood it.
	Is there any part of you that thinks this is party politics, you've said some, let's say, intemperate things, they have to be like, okay, we want to be a mainstream party and we have to do this, or do you just think it's just full capitulation to the mob?
	Yeah, no, the latter.
	Because I hope not how you end organisations like them will not stop They'll never stop, like a Terminator.
	They will come for every single person, every single candidate reform goes for.
	I was just low hanging fruit.
	I'm just an obvious choice.
	I've got so many articles out there, loads, hours and hours of content.
	I was just really, really easy to pick off.
	I knew, I almost certainly knew I was probably going to be deselected before the general election happened.
	If there's weakness.
	Because, I mean, what that is is quote-biting, which is, you know, boring, not interesting.
	But I should explain there's a bit more context to this than just yourself, although that's the big thing for us, obviously, is we can see here that you're one of three for Hope Not Hate have come up.
	So it's an actual purge by Hope Not Hate calling up reform and saying, ban these people.
	And then you've got to ask, well, who the hell are these people?
	If you're new and you don't know, well, they're communists.
	I mean, I've done this before, which is here's some archive links of their head of research, Matthew, or is it Collins over there, who's saying on Facebook he's a member of the Communist Party.
	Here's him posting with the old symbol of Hope Not Hate.
	There you are.
	Billy Bragg?
	Yep.
	That's the exact same account.
	And then further, the same account is talking to the Communist Party of Great Britain.
	But the thing that's hilarious about this is that Hope Not Hate advocate themselves as like anti-extremists.
	Here is Michael Collins talking about his past before becoming a communist.
	My name's Matthew Collins.
	I'm the head of intelligence or research at Hope Not Hate.
	I'm a former member of the National Front.
	Oh!
	So he used to be in the National Front.
	Sorry, what?
	Oh!
	He used to be in the National Front, then left and became a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
	And he's the one dictating to reform who is an extremist.
	I couldn't believe that when I saw it.
	I thought like it was an AI or something.
	I was like, did he actually say National Front?
	I checked out.
	He was quite big in it.
	He was an organiser.
	He was getting stuck into some sort of protests that got nasty.
	He was really involved in it.
	People never talk about this.
	And you're like, why are we listening to these people?
	As you say, and now they're communist extremists.
	And this is where the right goes so wrong, as you say.
	I understand party politics, but this thing of like capitulating.
	I mean, they're trying to take out GB News every day, which is my job.
	And now they're trying to take out you guys.
	It's just, why play their game?
	Well, so that's the next thing I want to say, just to go to Richard Tice, which...
	You know, it went up through the party quite quickly and we found out through back channels that he did make the decision and thought what I'd written was unacceptable on whatever level.
	So there's no other conclusion to come to than that he's a moral coward.
	He's afraid of being called a racist.
	And that's not caused by communists.
	By our political implacable enemies.
	And a former racist.
	Yeah, a former racist.
	Genuinely, National Front guys.
	So what is that?
	You must call it, you must call it sort of a type of spinelessness.
	Well, they're trying to replace the Tories, aren't they, as a kind of mainstream alternative.
	And they're trying to be a kind of inch to the right on the Overton window.
	It's a kind of Thatcherism plus a bit tougher on immigration because that's the current problem.
	You know what I mean?
	That's sort of where they position themselves.
	So they're just like, OK, we can't afford any Right-wing people.
	Well, I joked earlier about... And what's the point in existing?
	I joked earlier about not apologizing for anything.
	If I was to give any actual apology, it would be to the people that said, that told me, that reform are just a containment project, and what are you doing?
	You're misguided.
	And I argued that it wasn't, and that it's a political calculation, they're polling well, what other options have we got?
	You know, they want net zero migration.
	And I dismissed Well, I do owe them an actual project because they were right.
	They were right.
	He is revealed as a containment project and I feel like Isabel Oakshott probably wears the trousers quite a lot.
	It's weak.
	It's weak sauce.
	He's a weakling.
	I actually posted a few weeks ago, I can't remember what it said off, but I posted that Reformer, decent banter, and they might lead to Rishi getting his comeuppance, but they're not radical enough for where we are right now.
	I actually posted that because they're just so, when I say radical, they're just very, very mainstream, very cautious, and they want to be the new Tories, as you've discovered.
	Well, there's a tweet there by our very own Dan Tubb.
	I mean, look at the eyes.
	I mean, it sort of Because when you're in the party, you've got to toe the line at least to some extent.
	Types would do and say things that I absolutely didn't agree with.
	Like this.
	Like Chile and Zelensky.
	Because it's a foreign nation.
	I'm sorry, we're in crisis every year.
	Every month things get worse.
	There's a reason people don't care that much about foreign wars in this country.
	And it's not just because we're an island nation.
	Things are getting bad.
	When this happened I had to keep my mouth shut.
	Just sort of let it happen.
	Because the dear leader has decided... I mean look at the expression in his eyes!
	Is that mental?
	Is it me or is that mental?
	That might be a bit personal rather than a policy point.
	Well, fair enough.
	But the policy is meant to, I mean, is unfortunately containment.
	But talking about that containment aspect, because I had this worry in the back of my head and I was like, OK, probably not, because you've spoken to the leadership, you've interacted with them, everything was fine.
	We've both interviewed Tice.
	Yeah, the people I'd met have been fantastic.
	Everyone's been fantastic.
	All of the activists.
	You speak to them and they get it on every single level.
	And then there's the policy, and the policy is pretty good as well.
	I mean, I suppose we'll bring it up.
	This is the article they said, or at least Tice himself said, this is the reason he got rid of you.
	And in here, you're arguing for, as you say, a purge of the civil service and a deportation of illegals and criminals.
	Which is hundreds of thousands of people.
	And he said, this was the reason you were gotten rid of.
	And that's party policy.
	So when looking at the face of it, it's like, okay, well, all of the pieces are in place for them actually to be something.
	And then 30 minutes before we got the news of the hit piece on you.
	There was a defection from the Tories in Manchester to reform, and the reform candidate was kicked out.
	And I was like, okay, I'm a bit worried that these guys are actually just going to try and now defect as many Tories as they can.
	Which is mad, because that's the people who just ruined the country.
	And then we get the news that they kicked you, and it's like... And then we found out they kicked a whole bunch of other people in this week as well, because of a communist group told them to.
	And I think they're re-vetting everyone with the help of Hope Not Hate.
	I'm not sure if that's entirely true, but you know... Who else isn't doing it?
	That is the key mistake, isn't it?
	There's party politics.
	I've had Richard Tyson on my podcast.
	Seems like a nice guy, etc.
	But then there's that capitulating to the left in a way they wouldn't do.
	Occasionally, a lefty has to go because they're actually anti-Semitic or something, but mainly they just ignore the right.
	They don't care.
	You know, they just get away with doing what they want.
	Even on GB News, we have like Michael Walker, who's basically a communist as far as I can see.
	Karl's never on there, you know.
	So there's no equivalent on the right, even though Karl's far more moderate.
	The hard left are allowed on GB News, but the centre right aren't.
	Yeah, madness.
	So that's where we are.
	That's where the open window is.
	It's been that way.
	I mean, you've had Neymar on here.
	He would sort of say it's been that way since the 60s.
	We're trapped in that paradigm.
	And we have to somehow break out of that.
	And this kind of thing, it just puts you back to square one.
	Dr Parvini does talk about the friend-enemy distinction, and so if you're going by that, you know, Trice again has revealed himself as being in cahoots with communists, at least on some level.
	So again, what conclusion can you really come to with the friend-enemy Like, what is it?
	What is going on?
	I mean, my main feeling about all of this was not really anger or sort of personal disappointment.
	It was more sort of frustration that the country's back to square one in many ways.
	That reform was some sort of vent, something to vote for, perhaps.
	But it's just not though, right?
	If your long-term tactic now is that you are happy to be bullied by communists, you will just end up in the same place the Tories are because that's how they ended up there.
	And okay, if that's what you're doing, On a leadership level, you're not interesting.
	You're the same people who just ruined the country because they allowed themselves to be bullied by communists.
	Is there any argument that they would try and get power and then actually do some good stuff, but on the way to that, they have to be careful or something?
	Maybe.
	Maybe.
	I mean, hopefully.
	I mean, hopefully.
	I don't wish reform as an entity, all the activists and all the people, I don't wish them ill will.
	If they could change the leadership and get someone else, someone with some actual charisma and leadership, some balls, I mean, it's quite, it's like, it's like a prayer.
	Would that make a difference if Farage comes back?
	Maybe, hopefully.
	I don't know.
	But it's a level of trust.
	And if you treat your own activists in a way that's, okay, they've said something like the average voter, kick them.
	Do I really trust you when you get to the halls of power to be able to implement what you're saying?
	Because the thing that comes to mind is Maloney in Italy.
	This lady who campaigned endlessly on, we need to close the borders, we need to deal with these people coming from Libya.
	And then once she got in power, has utterly betrayed literally everyone that got her there.
	I also think a little bit of Trump with the sort of Jan 6 people and there's always this feeling with Trump that has he really supported, you know, the activist base, whatever you want to call it.
	Though I was thinking about Trump as well with this article, I haven't read this article, but we could always argue that it's a sort of, if you say something outrageous, you could argue it's a sort of Trumpian first offer, you know what I mean, when he's like, well, the Mexicans will build the wall, you know, this was like, this is rhetoric, this is kind of, there is something to be said for sort of bold rhetoric that isn't always to be taken literally as well, you could make that case.
	Well, in the, sorry, follow.
	Yeah, sure.
	So, I mean, this piece is there.
	They archived it, if anyone wants to go read it.
	And in here, Bo is literally arguing, okay, Britain is broken.
	Sorry, David Cameron.
	And then there's the parts that, okay, well, what killed it?
	Mass immigration.
	So that's the problem.
	That's what you've got to fix.
	I mean, the line in here, I actually quite like.
	Firstly, an honest acceptance of the cause of all the most serious problems, mass immigration, and the leftists who have caused it and perpetuated it.
	The housing crisis, crisis in the NHS, street attacks, sexual assaults, organised crime of every stripe, the constant war on our culture, history, heritage, the loss of a high-trust society.
	All this and so much more can be attributed to mass immigration and the traitors who have forced it upon us.
	I mean, just correct diagnosis.
	Stand by every word, Greg.
	That's also a reformist position.
	College was tweeting stuff yesterday, during the day, saying all that sort of thing.
	But I get deselected for it.
	The only thing that seems possibly even contentious is the word traitor.
	But then again, if you're talking about the sort of politician, the political class that's completely failed the country, I think almost everyone agrees with that.
	This is normal to be used in political life here as well.
	I don't really come to any other conclusion.
	And then the solution, as you pose here, is like, OK, we need to purge some departments, get rid of the cancer and the cancer here being people who are actively subverting the law.
	So, I mean, you say civil servants and judges who can be shown to have acted against the law or proper procedure or against the interests of the nation should find themselves unemployed and expect prosecutions to follow.
	Pensions cancelled.
	And then just list all the departments that needs to happen.
	Ah, that's reform policy.
	Right.
	Titus has actually talked about that the Home Office isn't fit for purpose and they need to create a new department for all sorts of things, Veteran Affairs, Border, all sorts of stuff.
	That's the bit that's been quoted out of context that sounds bad, like you're talking about immigrants or something, but what you're actually saying is what sounds like to me now what you're saying is what Millet said, like afuera, like these departments need to go because we're bloated and bureaucratic.
	And for the record, I've said this long before Millet, Yep.
	The next point here being that, okay, all the laws that are stretching us need to go.
	The ECHR needs to be ripped up.
	The Blair-Wright Supreme Court abolished.
	That's like... A FWERA.
	A FWERA, yeah.
	But the EHRC one there, again, that's reform policy.
	This is the bit I don't get, looking at all of this.
	That's even Sweller-Bradman policy.
	Yeah!
	That's Tory-Wright policy.
	And then you go on to say that the law firms who are property of all of this need to be investigated.
	And then the only bit that I can't see as policy here is the bit that you say that small organizations, this would include a list of, which would be depressingly long, of organizations that have tried to subvert the country.
	This being the Socialist Workers Party, the Communist Party, hope not hate getting named, the Running Meat Trust, BBC Channel 4, etc.
	All need to be looked at and then dealt with.
	And it's like, okay.
	That's the only part that I can't find as policy, which is the banning Hope Not Hate, for example.
	Right.
	Which, I mean, they literally get money from the state, or people like George Soros, so that doesn't seem that hard.
	Well, we're forewarned twice that the Spring Conference said they would want to do away with the BBC fee.
	So has the BBC gone?
	Right.
	But, well, he's obviously Again, incahoots in some way, or at least it's at least kowtowed to hope not hate.
	So maybe that was the only thing that he took umbrage at.
	What was your problem with the male group?
	Because most of those I'm agreeing with.
	Then I'm going the male group.
	What was that about?
	Well, just seditious.
	Right, right.
	Traitors.
	A lot of stuff they print.
	It's just, well, I was in the Express, wasn't I?
	I was in the Express.
	I was named in the Guardian.
	I was in, what else was it?
	The Mirror.
	Going for it.
	Yeah, so... I think the conventional wisdom is that male is more right-wing than those, but you're saying it's not.
	Yeah, just... It used to be the case that if there were organisations or media organs that were openly seditious, then the state would do something about it.
	That used to be the case.
	And for some reason, Our elites have decided to do nothing about it.
	You know, like the BBC or Channel 4 News or something.
	Just being, well, traitors essentially.
	And you just do nothing about them and in fact keep funding them.
	No, I don't.
	I don't agree with that.
	Am I even allowed to say so?
	I mean, those organizations, I mean, BBC and Channel 4 have actively engaged in racism against white breads.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that's just a single point.
	But the idea that that's even a part of your culture, how do you even get that being a single policy?
	You know, the culture from the top down is rotten.
	But to get to the last point here, because this is the thing that actually got lied about, which is Hope Not Hate said that you wanted to deport British citizens.
	Here's what you wrote.
	I suggest that the government of the day creates an entity, sorry, an entirely new department, the Department of Remigration, with its own minister in cabinet.
	This department will be responsible for the processing and deportation of potentially millions of foreigners and their dependents who have come here since 1997, when our migration policy was first subverted and then ignored.
	Or, who have no legal right to be in this country whatsoever.
	Any foreign national currently in our prison system, for example, would absolutely be re-migrated back to their country of origin without delay.
	Yes please.
	Isn't that reform policy?
	That foreign criminals should be deported?
	Mm.
	That's the bit I find mad in all of this, because as far as I'm aware, Pace's decision was made within like 20 minutes of the hit piece.
	Pretty quick.
	Well, I don't know if it's that quick, but it was between it going out and me getting an email from the party was a few hours, I think two or three hours or something like that.
	So I don't know how quickly he actually made the decision.
	Essentially straight away.
	They're seeing it as a sort of low risk thing.
	We'll get rid of this, you know, candidate like you say, you didn't think you were going to win anyway.
	It's sort of no skin off our nose.
	So it's an easy calculation, but probably they got it wrong because now the backlash online has been quite bad and they've probably lost a lot of potential voters.
	That's why I'm looking at it, yeah.
	The thing is, I'd say, I don't want to keep banging on about Tyce himself, but you know, the buck stopped with him.
	And Carl said it quite well in the office the other day that it kind of boils down to The fact that he doesn't want to go on Radio 4 or a dinner party and someone can call him a racist.
	He's scared, like a child or like an old woman.
	He's scared of being called names.
	I was hoping to go to... It's pathetic.
	It kind of is pathetic.
	Just like, man up.
	Because it's not going to stop, Richard.
	It's not going to stop.
	They won't stop.
	Well, those three candidates are the beginning.
	Of course.
	They've already moved on from me.
	I know they have.
	I don't know what we can mention specifically, but speaking to you this morning, more candidates are already being attacked.
	Okay, well, there's just, what, 650 to go.
	That's all you need to do.
	It's just they're going to keep going, candidate by candidate, until there's nothing left.
	I know what you mean about he wants to be in the polite society.
	I was hoping to go to Farage's birthday till this segment.
	But it's even made me think twice because I could have voted before.
	Now, if they've capitulated to basically our worst enemies, because as I say, hope not hate, are gunning for my... the GB News since before they even started.
	And then they're responsible for a load of advertiser boycotts.
	I think it's them.
	There's all these other ones that stop funding hate.
	They're all the same.
	These people.
	And so it's like, hang on, if you are capitulating to the people that try and destroy us every day, it does give you pause, like, can you vote for these people?
	It's a handful of spiteful mutants.
	I don't know how they wield so much power, you know?
	Well, they wield zero power, unless you give it them.
	Oh, wow, right.
	And that's the big story for me, because, I mean, if you go through the other candidates who were purged, for example, It's pretty nothing burgers.
	Like this guy, he was a fan of Tommy Robinson, so they kicked him just for that, okay?
	And then there's another lady, she said that this guy, his parents are Sri Lankan, and he was a BBC presenter who was saying that he didn't like being around white people, so the candidate said, well maybe you should be deported to a black country then.
	Maybe you feel better there.
	And they kicked her for that.
	It was like, really?
	She's making the point that if you hate white people, maybe don't be around them, and you kick her.
	Why?
	Because Hope Not Hate said so.
	That's not Hope Not Hate with any power.
	That's you giving them power.
	Capitulating.
	Absolutely folding like a cheap suit.
	It's because he doesn't want to go on Robert Peston.
	Robert Peston, there's a racist in your party and you haven't fired them.
	Ergo, you're a racist.
	He'll do anything.
	Then let that happen.
	I mean, it's just not leadership, is it?
	Apart from anything else, it's not leadership.
	And all these views, and the views I put in that article, which I published long before I ever was asked to join Reform.
	So it's on them, they never did any research into what I've written or done.
	They're the views that the vast majority, it seems now, of native Brits hold those views.
	It's not extreme, Nick Lowles, it's not extreme.
	It's normal, it's reality.
	Go to any pub.
	Yeah, well that's the trick of the elite, isn't it?
	They're the minority, they're the extremists with the extreme immigration policy, and then they paint the ordinary person as the extremist.
	That's the classic.
	Yeah, gaslighting.
	I suppose that's the story.
	Is there anything you want to say?
	No, it's fine.
	Move on.
	Okay, fair enough.
	Well, let's move on to Keir Starmer.
	Okay, well it's hard to follow that, that's the big news.
	I thought, you know, because my background is comedy, I did stand-up for 11 years, I thought I'd come in with just a fun, cheery topic, so I've gone with Keir Starmer wants to kill us all.
	Haha!
	Just some bants for you Callum to cheer you up.
	So yeah, because I hate to call him Sir Keir Starmer so in fact I won't.
	I just read it off the screen for a second and got brainwashed.
	But Keir Starmer, he's confirmed last week he wants to legalise assisted dying when he wins the election.
	I've got to use my clicker which I've never used before because I'm used to the old set up where John does it.
	But he said it in here, he said, I think we need to make time.
	I'm personally in favor of changing the law.
	We will make the commitment.
	And he was talking to Estevan, so I can give you that commitment right now.
	And of course, you know, one thinks of, you know, Estevan is sympathetic, but it's, you know, is assisted dying, a.k.a.
	euthanasia, a good idea?
	And this actually is an issue that Starmer seems to be quite consistent on, which is very rare for him.
	But even if you go back to 2015, it says somewhere in the Spiked article, doesn't really matter, but in 2015, He was already voting for it as an MP.
	So this is something he's very, very passionate about.
	And actually, annoyingly, the people are on his side because the vast majority of voters support change in law on assisted dying.
	And this came from Opinion Research on behalf of Dignity in Dying.
	And they asked 10,000 people or more, in fact, and three quarters said they'd support making it lawful for terminally ill adults to access assisted dying in the UK, with only about one in eight stating they would oppose such a move.
	OK, so you go, all right, well, Fine.
	You know, people are sympathetic.
	I understand that.
	People are in pain.
	I get the argument.
	But then, what about a slippery slope?
	And I know you guys have talked about this in regards to Canada.
	So Michael Deacon had this article last week in the Telegraph.
	He's saying we'll live to regret this.
	And it's just a classic slippery slope.
	He talks about that poll, 75% said they'd be in favor of it.
	Have they not heard the horror stories coming out of Canada, where he says assisted suicide was legalized in 2016 in Canada, ever since there've been numerous cases showing how humane intentions can lead to chilling consequences.
	Take the 61-year-old man who was euthanized in 2019, even though the only health problem he'd listed on his application form was hearing loss.
	What?
	Yep, that's right there in a few paragraphs down.
	Jesus, what?
	The 41-year-old woman who was euthanized in 2021 after telling doctors she wanted to end the suffering caused by fibromyalgia.
	In private, however, she told friends she actually wanted to die because she was so poor.
	Can you imagine that?
	That's going to be Labour policy, offing poor people.
	Isn't that... Have we tried?
	Kill all the poor!
	Right.
	Isn't that tragic?
	I mean, that is crazy.
	There was another example in Spiked here, where they talked about an autistic man in his 20s.
	This is Kevin Yule's piece in Spiked.
	I've misscrolled, but they say one such case was an autistic man in his 20s.
	His record said that he was a victim of regular bullying, that he felt unhappy since childhood, and that he longed for social contacts but was unable to connect with others.
	On this basis, and on his request, his doctor euthanized him.
	So that was... And they actually did kill these people?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	This is what's happening in Canada.
	There it is.
	Because there's the thing, if you asked me that question, I would have probably been on the side of, yeah.
	I'm on the assisted dying side.
	Because there's a fundamental question, just as like, you know, in abstract.
	If I'm really, really ill, do I want to be able to get myself killed?
	And I'm on the side of yeah, fundamentally.
	But when you put it like that, that, well, okay, you actually do change the culture in a fundamental way that we're now able to just kill people because they're poor.
	Yeah.
	That's actually put some pause in me.
	Yeah.
	From the moment you're born, in this new system, you'll be a potential death target by the state.
	It just depends if you want to live like that.
	That's the slippy side.
	I would completely agree with you.
	I don't think Oh sorry, I do think that if I was, say, in a coma and was unlikely to ever come out of it, I would rather they turned the machine off on me.
	Absolutely.
	If I was in terminal pain they couldn't really do anything about and I was very old, again, I would probably like to die.
	So yeah, on the face of it, yeah, I'm with it.
	That's terrible.
	There you go.
	That's absolutely diabolical, isn't it?
	That's Canada.
	So if we go back to Michael Deacon's piece in the Telegraph.
	I mean, isn't this just a question?
	I mean, is this just an oversight in the law?
	Because, I mean, someone coming in and saying, I've got hearing loss and the doctor's like, oh, just seems a bit disproportionate.
	Right.
	We'll get on to that.
	I think it's where we'll see it's actually a feature, not a bug.
	OK.
	Anyway, Deacon goes on, disturbing though it may sound, many Canadians actually think that poverty is justification enough.
	According to a poll from last year, over a quarter of them believe that poverty is a legitimate reason to be granted an assisted suicide.
	Meanwhile, some Canadian campaigners want to expand the right to assisted suicide even further.
	So that, just cut, Callum's dying right now.
	He's been ill for days.
	So the anorexics and the mentally ill can benefit from it too.
	Oh god.
	Anorexics, did you say?
	Yep.
	This is where it would go.
	And here's my little take as well.
	Imagine, like, being right-wing often gets called a mental illness and the Guardian stuff.
	Isn't it a short step to, like, you're right-wing, isn't it?
	I think you're probably mentally ill.
	I think you should probably die.
	That's just my satirical take.
	But this is the stuff that's actually happening.
	I was going a bit imperialist in my mind.
	I was thinking, hmm, get a case to wipe out all of the third world.
	I'm sorry, but if you're literally in a position where, well, he's a bit poor, better put him down, for his own sake, like a horse with a limp.
	Yeah, very Labour, isn't it?
	Not that Labour have done any shit, of course, because it's only in Canada, but this is the lefty, liberal way of thinking that's led to this.
	So, anyway, Deakin goes on, this is the trouble with assisted dying, you start off legalising it solely for people suffering from terminal illness, but then there's pressure to legalise it for other health conditions, and depression, and eating disorders, and drug addiction, so before you know it, you don't even visit your GP anymore for fear of what he might prescribe.
	Good morning doctor, I think I've sprained my ankle.
	Not to worry, there's a wonderful new treatment that's guaranteed to end your pain, and not just in your ankle either.
	Not a bad joke for a broad sheet, but you see where it's going.
	He points out you wouldn't get a GP appointment.
	Isn't that actually what you do with horses though?
	Right.
	Like the ankle goes and it's like, oof.
	Yeah, may as well do the whole thing.
	Yeah, yeah.
	That's going to be people now.
	What's that film where they have to eat Soylent Green?
	Old 70s film.
	And anyway, it's just a state that at a certain age, at like 60 or something, just as a matter of course, you are put down.
	Yeah.
	Well, again, it's sort of the thin end of the wedge, it seems here, that once you allow it, It wouldn't be too many steps before the state decides that you have to die at a certain point.
	A bit worrying, isn't it?
	For no real reason.
	These are the people that already think we're overpopulated due to climate change, you know, and that humans are a cancer on the planet.
	You know, Islam has got a bad economy he's inheriting.
	Maybe too many old people.
	You don't want to think where this could go.
	So let's just have a look at the male stats from Canada.
	So Canada had a 35% rise in euthanasia deaths.
	I think it was so in 2021, they had 10,064, 13,500 in 2022.
	And I'm not good at math.
	I'm an English major, as they say in America.
	But it's 4% of all deaths in Canada that year, I calculated.
	If you look at the deaths in Canada that year, 334,623.
	But 13,522 they offed via the state.
	7% of all deaths in Quebec are state-sanctioned murders.
	13,000, that's loads, that's like a battle!
	- 13,500 in 2022, they offed via the state.
	- 7% of all deaths in Quebec are state-sanctioned murders.
	- 13,000, that's loads, that's like a battle.
	- Yeah, yeah, because this is how it goes.
	And if you go, there you go, medically assisted suicides in Canada, see how it goes up and up and up.
	This is what happens.
	Let me go back to the Spike piece, because he points out... What's that one?
	That's... Oh, that's the 4% of all deaths thing.
	So yeah, Kevin Yule has this piece in Spike, which was pretty good, and he points out... He talks about the places it's come in and how it's expanded everywhere it's been brought in.
	California, Hawaii, Oregon... Oregon, sorry, I sound like an American there.
	Vermont, Washington State...
	And he says expansion.
	Oregon.
	Oregon, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That's an old Columbia Criminal song when he said Oregon.
	So, expansion of the criteria is a feature, not a bug, of assisted suicide laws.
	Once the right to die is enshrined in law, safeguards are almost immediately called into question by those who feel that they're suffering unbearably, but do not qualify under the existing rules.
	There's a grim logic to it.
	When death comes to be seen as the best treatment for suffering, then how can the state deny it to anyone who suffers?
	And that's the key.
	You know, why would you, why would you not give it to the ex-person who's got autism or is poor?
	Which is a kind of suffering.
	So, he says, the essential problem in assisted suicide is that it turns death into a solution to life's problems.
	It does not alleviate people's suffering.
	It merely encourages them to seek death as an alternative to decent medical treatment or proper social support.
	That's very much this, you can tell it's a sort of liberal argument.
	He talks about social support.
	It's the, it's the slippery slope argument.
	To me, you could argue that the kind of general liberalism that he's espousing and that Spike espouses does lead to that.
	You're right.
	Callum needs help.
	I need painkillers.
	Maybe we should off Callum.
	He's not going to make it.
	So the point is, I mean, to me, you The problem is, he's making a liberal case against it.
	He's saying it's a slippery slope, let's be careful.
	This is Kevin Yule, and he has actually written a book, it turns out, on this called The Liberal Humanist Case Against Suicide, and he's an atheist, but he's made this case.
	But to me, if people are just matter, and the goal is just sort of pleasure in life, and we're in a material, secular society, materialist, then if we're in pain, life becomes pointless.
	This, to me, is the logic that leads you here.
	And he's made an interesting point on this.
	He talks about, I mean, he is a liberal, but he actually talks about, let me see, let me go to this next piece.
	He says, why, atheist, humanist author, why I'm against assisted suicide and euthanasia.
	But, I'm not scrolling.
	That's weird.
	Have you taken over from me, Calum?
	But he said, But actually, if you look at this piece, he only explains why liberalism has led to this.
	this.
	He said, Doctor, you'll explain that pro-euthanasia organizations were originally established in America and the UK in the 1930s, and that must be a way eugenics was advocated by someone in the medical profession.
	Obviously, he said the Second World War changed attitudes on that.
	Then he says, renewed support for euthanasia and assisted suicide in 60s America came with the advent of the sexual revolution and individualism.
	By this time the arguments have been repackaged from for the benefit of society to for the benefit of the individual.
	This inside-out morality saw the individual forcing their feelings on society.
	So he's saying how you sort of go from liberalism to this.
	Let's say one thing about, of course, religion.
	Most religions, certainly Christianity, I think nearly all religions, they say that life is sacred.
	And it's sort of morally wrong or it's against the will of God to ever take a life, including turning a machine off.
	We are not to play God.
	Yeah.
	For example, when Ariel Sharon, if anyone remembers Israeli leader, Ariel Sharon, he was in a coma for years.
	I think it was like five years or something, maybe even more.
	And he was never going to come out of a coma and they kept him alive with a machine.
	And it was part of their religion that you can't turn it off.
	Now, for me, that seems Wrong, I'm afraid.
	It seems like a hell.
	Like you're playing God by keeping him alive with machines.
	If anything, it's the other way around.
	But, however, if it sort of immediately gets used for anything other than those sort of extreme situations, then it's not the same thing.
	It's not necessarily about whether you think life is sacred or not, is it?
	It's not about that anymore.
	Or like very, very quickly, it's about how many people are we killing unnecessarily?
	Yeah.
	Well, I think it's about both.
	So yeah, it's very much about that, which is a slippery slope.
	How many people are we killing?
	But it is also ethical.
	And let's let's look at the ethical case, because he's got an interesting point here.
	This guy, Kevin Yule, again, who in a different article for Spike, he says, what assisted dying in a death penalty have in common?
	I start to think about the irony of How liberals are against the death penalty, but they're often pro-euthanasia.
	Now, Yul is very consistent on this.
	He's against both.
	He says, if we're serious about opposing capital punishment, we need to oppose the premeditated killing of a human being by the state in all circumstances.
	That means opposing euthanasia and assisted suicide with just as much vehemence as opposing the death penalty.
	Supporters of capital punishment and state sponsored euthanasia share a similarly low view of human life.
	Certain lives as being devoid of all value.
	We need to stop being selective and start opposing state-approved killing in all its forms, is the case he makes at the end here.
	Now, I disagree with that, but at least it's consistent.
	At least it's consistent.
	I'm taking more the biblical view, which we see in Noah.
	Let's just get a bit of Bible.
	I don't know.
	No one saw this coming on.
	You're reading the Bible now?
	Oh, yeah.
	Let's go with it.
	This is from Noah.
	Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.
	The reason I like that passage is it's the paradox that if life is sacred, you shouldn't take it.
	Therefore, if you do, you must suffer the death penalty because it's so sacred that you took it and we must therefore give you the ultimate punishment.
	Some people struggle with that logic, but it's there in the Bible, guys.
	He said that bit when he was drunk, didn't Noah famously get drunk?
	He did, that's at the very end.
	That's the banter sort of sitcom ending at the end when he's suddenly drunk.
	Yeah, so to me, the problem is when you say, this is the problem with the secular approach, when you say man isn't made in the image of God, as they've said that all bets are off, you know, why not have abortion?
	Why not have euthanasia?
	And then why, you know, death penalty is actually out, counterintuitively.
	What about the idea of suicide being illegal?
	In Britain it used to be, back in the 50s and earlier, it was illegal to commit suicide.
	If you attempted suicide and failed, the police would then want a word with you.
	Yeah, yeah.
	This is weird, isn't it?
	Even if you kill yourself at one of them.
	What?
	What would they do?
	Come around and put you in handcuffs?
	Yeah, you could be arrested and prosecuted.
	But isn't there something moral about that?
	Saying, hang on, we don't actually want you to go around killing yourselves, come on guys, and therefore disincentivise.
	I'm just not sure what the hell the police are going to do if I... You guys are all libs, that's what we're realising today.
	I'm born in the Tony Blair world.
	I don't know what came before.
	Trapped in the Blairite paradigm, as someone likes to say here.
	I do feel like life, although it might not be sacred in my opinion, it is the most valuable thing though.
	It's like hyper, hyper valuable.
	You don't have to believe that life's actually sacred to actually put an incredible amount of emphasis on it.
	As I do.
	But I feel like if you own anything, it's your own life.
	I feel like if you want to kill yourself, you should be allowed to.
	If you did want to leave an instruction to have a machine turned off if you're in a perpetual coma, that should be your prerogative.
	Yeah, Chris would probably disagree.
	They'd say, God's given you that life, you didn't do it.
	Yeah, no, they would disagree, yeah.
	You didn't do it, so, um, out of luck.
	Um, well, that's a bit of Bible on lotus eaters.
	But, um, I thought this was quite interesting.
	I'm making this death penalty comparison.
	British people, of course, as we'll have covered on this show, I'm sure, are against the, uh, I'm sorry, for the death penalty, for the most heinous crimes, uh, multiple murder, terrorist murder acts, murder of a child, in favour of it.
	But, you will not- What's the crime for attempted suicide?
	Not sure, actually.
	Is it death?
	I don't know.
	But can I just say, you will not see these stats used by politicians, but I bet we're all going to see from Starmer the stats about, oh look, everyone supports euthanasia, 75%.
	But okay, well if we're going will of the people, then we need death penalty back as well if we're going down that route.
	Just a little irony, but that's not going to happen.
	So basically, here's the positions.
	This Kevin Yorke guy is typical of a position where he's sort of more libertarian, whatever you want to call it.
	He's against The death penalty is against euthanasia.
	I can sort of live with that.
	I'm actually pro death penalty against euthanasia and I'm making my case here.
	But there's another position, obviously, which is that you're Pro-euthanasia, but you're against the death penalty.
	Okay?
	And obviously, the person who has that is our man, Kier, just to bring it all back.
	Because, uh, so Kier Starmer worked for free as a lawyer to save baby killers and axe murderers, which is in The Sun.
	So did you realize that, um, Starmer was going around the world saving people?
	There was an investigation of a Jamaican guy who slaughtered his girlfriend and nine-month-old baby.
	Sorry for the graphic content by stabbing them in the neck.
	There was a Malawian murderer who tied up his two-year-old stepson before burying him alive.
	There was a Ugandan axe killer who slaughtered his girlfriend in front of her children and was spared execution by a law change Sakir campaigned for as a founding member at the Death Penalty Project.
	Whereas there was another one who was a BBC presenter who was killed and he tried to get the killer off there and it didn't succeed because you can't win them all.
	So, my point is here, it's just interesting.
	I'm not saying it's identical, but it's just an interesting irony that Keir Starmer, you know, he's totally against the death penalty, he campaigns against it around the world, but he only wants to kill innocent people who maybe have autism or fibromyalgia or they're a bit poor.
	You know what I mean?
	The ones who deserve it, yes.
	So that's where it's gonna go.
	So that is my case.
	Now, obviously, satirical content before I get sued by Starmer, I'm not saying he literally wants to kill people, but isn't it just kind of interesting that, yeah, I'm just questioning the morality around these things to make you guys think about it differently.
	It's just like a really weak, sort of perverted way of looking at the world, right?
	That convicted murderers should be spared death, but normal, innocent people shouldn't be.
	I mean, yeah, it's just reverse, isn't it?
	It's just, again, it's sort of ultra, ultra weak.
	Have you seen the clip a few weeks ago of him sparring with, punching a punching bag?
	Oh, it's terrible, the punch bag, yeah.
	Awful, yeah, yeah.
	It's like, are you an alien?
	Have you ever seen boxing or punching?
	Yeah, have you ever seen a thrown punched ever?
	Let alone done one yourself.
	Have you ever seen it?
	He's meant to be good at football, which is really weird, and he's on about St George's Cross today, as we record, but yeah.
	Yeah, I just thought it was interesting.
	So we've kind of covered all of this today, because I'm sensing that you guys are probably pro-death penalty, pro-euthanasia.
	So the guy from the Smite title is anti-both.
	I'm just for killing.
	I think I am.
	I think I am pro-death penalty and pro-euthanasia, but both in sort of extreme cases, both sort of slam dunk cases only.
	But then that's the way it used to be for abortion, wasn't it?
	Only in like extremely rare cases.
	Kind of extremely rare cases.
	What was the old axiom about safe, rare, legal?
	Safe, legal and rare.
	Same with the death penalty.
	Only if we're 1000% DNA level sure that it's the correct person and for the most heinous crimes.
	Yeah.
	And the same with euthanasia.
	If it's, you know, if the person wanted it and they're in extreme pain and can never get out of it, or a coma that they're never going to come round from, you know, extreme cases.
	So, I guess so, yeah.
	But it's how do you keep it on those cases.
	I know, I know.
	You're not going to.
	And I think the worst position is the STAMA one, the Anti-Death Penalty Pro-Euthanasia Campaigning on both radically.
	You know what I mean?
	I can kind of live with your guy's thing.
	I can live with this guy Yul's thing of like, no, we'd never do it.
	And I can live with my thing, because I've justified it, of like, no, there's a reason to kill these people, but not innocent people.
	I can live with all of them except Starmers.
	But Starmers is the position in the country, whether actually the majority believe it or not, that's what we're going to end up told is the only normal position.
	Even though the death penalty was eradicated largely due to work of a radical lefty guy, that Romanian guy Carl told me about.
	Someone posted on my YouTube, he wasn't Romanian.
	His parents were Romanian.
	The guy's Sidney Silverman.
	I mean, these people.
	So, you know, we'll accept it as a norm now.
	And we were told this is normal now.
	Euthanasia is normal.
	We can never do the death penalty.
	But this is an upside down world we live in.
	Anyway, I just want to quickly, tiny plug, if you want more on this, go to my podcast with the Reverend Dr. Jamie Franklin.
	It's called The Current Thing.
	We talked about it in more detail there.
	You get the Christian perspective.
	Hope you'll forgive me a small plug because I've come all the way here.
	No, that's fine.
	That is pretty much my case.
	Thank you very much.
	All righty.
	It's not like I'm a lawyer in court.
	I rest my case almost bang on 20 minutes as well.
	Look at the professionalism.
	I did notice you like checking your phone.
	I checked it too much because he's got a clock.
	I've got a clock.
	There's a clock there as well.
	It's actually hard to look at.
	It's now a stupid face thing.
	I can't keep putting it in front of my face.
	You know when it used to be a touch thing.
	They've made it harder.
	Yeah.
	So I was just, it looked quite comical the way I did it.
	And I'll get all sorts of comments.
	Where's Nick checking his phone?
	There is an analog clock over there.
	I can't read analog.
	And on the corner of your laptop and on the screen built into the Yeah, but where's the, there's no timer from, I need to know when I started.
	I need to stop.
	Okay.
	Well, anyway, we shall be moving on.
	on to not enough killing but we have something else to talk about which is the sacred flag Now, of course, there are many sacred flags, depending on where you come from.
	Your national flag is sacred, usually.
	That's the main thing.
	Well, we in England, apparently not so much, because Nike Football have decided to come out and tell everyone that your flag is dogshit.
	We're gonna change it.
	Oh, no, no, no.
	Sorry, sorry.
	This is a playful update to the St.
	George's Cross.
	Oh, right.
	I misread.
	No, it's not.
	For people listening, what we're looking at is they've taken the English flag and they've given it the bisexual colours because...
	Me?
	And then they've put that on the back of the England kit.
	Who did this, sorry?
	Was it Nike?
	Communists.
	Yeah, probably communists.
	Audacity.
	Yeah.
	The temerity.
	Who gave them the green light to even dream of doing such a thing?
	So here's the England kit.
	As you can see, the three lions and the Nike logo there and the shorts.
	And then they've gone, oh yes, the English flag is on the back.
	It's now bisexual though.
	It's like, okay, right.
	What the hell is wrong with you?
	Because, I mean, overwhelmingly, the responses are just people being like, leave us alone.
	Go away.
	This isn't playful.
	Highly disrespectful.
	There's the good father, Calvin Robinson.
	Yeah.
	I do love one of these responses.
	There's a playful update to the Nike logo.
	There you are.
	If you wish to re-get your clothes done, there it is.
	A family member of mine did send me a playful update to the Palestinian flag.
	So there's that.
	But the most funny response, I think, came from a local woman respecter, Joey Barton.
	Of course.
	Who even has it in his bio there, on either side.
	And he just says here, um, well, trying to sneak the woke gay communist nonsense into the English football team.
	There we are.
	Which, I mean, he's right.
	That's so funny.
	He sounds like a kind of average sort of shitposter.
	Like on a forum, woke gay communist.
	You'd have thought like Joey Butt, like a mainstream, you know, former footballer would be saying gay, gay communism.
	Yeah, yeah, gay communism off my shirt!
	I love this, it'll be to appease all of the lesbians.
	That's just like a funny saying, it'll be to appease the lesbians.
	Of course he's... I told you, he's a woman respecter.
	He's a fine lover of women.
	I didn't realise it was a bisexual flag until I saw that, so thank you Joey for that.
	Yeah, for people wondering, bisexuals, they have their own flag, as well as all the men and women they could ask for.
	The thing is about Barton, he's just a bloke, right?
	I mean, I think he's convicted of some reasonably serious crimes, but beyond that, I think... That's his brother.
	What?
	His brother.
	Oh, was it?
	It wasn't Joe Biden himself?
	Okay, I apologise.
	Unless there's other crimes.
	I thought he had to have an ankle thing on at some point.
	Maybe it was his brother.
	I don't know.
	I wasn't following it closely enough.
	But his general commentary and things, he's just a bloke, right?
	He's just a normal dude who's saying what pretty much all normal blokes think and say.
	Yeah.
	So it's a very good indication of how a lot of people think.
	So I mean, this is a big cock up for Nike, right?
	I mean, this is just bad PR, bad community management, not fun for anyone involved.
	I mean, I do have to notice just something real quick, which I don't really know why.
	Maybe I'm being paranoid.
	It's me.
	I noticed that every one of the people being used were black, which makes me wonder.
	And you might think, okay, well a lot of footballers are black, but then at the same time, the kind of people who are obsessed with gay communism are also obsessed with race communism.
	So I don't know, could we be paranoid?
	But I think that's probably an aspect in there too.
	Obviously, yeah.
	It's obviously deliberate, isn't it?
	There's no white guy in the advert.
	And the flag as well, the claim was that it was, oh, it's based on the training colours of the 1966 team.
	I don't know if you're going to get to that, but it's tenuous, wasn't it?
	Do I believe you?
	Yeah, yeah.
	And we're also, you could argue we're all too, like, trigger happy because we've seen so much of this stuff and we're going, oh, this is woke.
	No, it's a tribute to our heroes.
	But it's not, is it?
	You ruin the flag and it looks an awful lot like that bisexual flag.
	Everyone's like, I'm not buying it.
	Just anyone is like, no.
	Dream of buying it.
	Obviously the England kit is often red.
	So the red bit, that's fine, but never pink.
	Never blue and pink, so that is just clearly nonsense.
	You are right to bring up, I do have this small voice in the back of my head occasionally, which is like, am I being a schizo?
	The other day, me and Michael, we were checking out WHSmiths and I was posting some stuff, and Michael had this moment where he's reading the revision books for GCSE, right?
	You know the ones.
	And he's like, you know, revision for history.
	And the back of his head went, they're revising history there!
	No, it's revision pitch.
	Yeah, yeah.
	We get these.
	I had a thing, my parents were telling me, oh, watch this series on Netflix.
	I was like, well, I'm skeptical.
	I'll try it.
	First five minutes, woke casting turned off.
	I'm like, he wouldn't be with her.
	Have I gone too far?
	I asked my mate, he's actually, I was exactly the same.
	He literally did the exact same thing.
	I was like, either way, both sort of sickos or we're right.
	But this is the level of madness is that you think in the back of your head, oh, maybe not everything's madness.
	Oh God, even, yeah, even this is.
	Yeah.
	So I thought I'd go on a, I'd go on a trip with you lads.
	No, we're gonna go all around the world!
	Can I say one more thing just before we do that?
	Sure.
	Have you noticed this, the normie, because what's annoying about this flag thing is, well yeah, it's easy for us to be parodied that we're outraged, and the normies have really leapt on it.
	Because the Conservatives even posted today from their ex-account, there's only one St.
	George's Cross.
	I said half your party probably thinks it's a hate symbol.
	But also, Emily Thornberry, and even Starmer said, yeah, St.
	George's Cross.
	Even Emily Thornberry, famous for attacking the flag and having to resign about it, has come out and said, come on, we don't mess with the flag.
	It's become a thing, like, the normie people can latch onto.
	They're trying to win the vote back there.
	For people who don't know, Emily Thornberry is this Labour MP, the left wing, who came out and tweeted an image of the national flag of England in someone's house with, I think it was, it or something underneath.
	And it was just like, okay, that's what you think of us.
	Disrespectful or something like that.
	She actually ended up resigning, but now she's out there saying, it's our flag, how dare you mess with it?
	Because she's got the message from Starmer, who's got the message from Blair.
	Embrace the flag.
	But speaking of flags... I was just going to say one other thing.
	It's interesting what stuff breaks through to the normies or, you know, breaks through to the popular consciousness.
	Right?
	Yeah.
	I mean... Really random almost.
	Yeah, it seems to be.
	Orwell said something like, if there's any hope it's with the proles.
	It's very middle-class condescending to say, but nonetheless quite true, I think.
	If they only became conscious of their own power, Like a horse shaking off flyers.
	It'd be the simplest thing in the world.
	Say no, no, the St.
	George's flag.
	There's no problem with that.
	We love it.
	Don't make it bisexual.
	There's no need.
	We don't want you to.
	But let's go on my adventure, shall we?
	Let's travel around the world.
	We'll fight around the world.
	We'll start off with Blackpool.
	Which has been a crime!
	Someone has defaced the precious sacred flag.
	And this is really the sacred flag of the country, because as I'm pointing out, the English flag is not something that is taken with any care.
	Instead, this is Blackpool's Rainbow Zebra Crossing, defaced with graffiti.
	That's a crosswalk for the Yankees.
	As you can see here, this is the design.
	They decided to take a zebra crossing which is strictly regulated according to the highway code, and not care, and just shove this through it.
	And the fact this is Blackpool, for anyone who doesn't know, I mean, it's the most, it's the least likely place for this.
	It was near where I'm from growing up, in the north.
	The excitement was getting an awful stick of rock that breaks all your teeth, and that was like a good thing.
	And that's like the highlight, and it's the last place you'd expect this bollocks to reach.
	So it's kind of, I'm amazed Blackpool's even put up with this, but they kind of haven't, as you say, because someone defaced it.
	Because there's the strip in Blackpool, for people wondering, sort of like a crap version of the Las Vegas strip.
	Really, really, really extreme.
	But I really like it.
	We love it.
	We love it.
	I went there and I really enjoyed that.
	And it's got, you know, there are families, which is weird to see, English families, which is like, you know, seeing unicorns these days.
	And then there's the rest of the town, which is utterly dilapidated.
	And that's where you'll find the rainbow flags.
	I've been to Blackpool once.
	I really quite enjoyed myself.
	It was a fun day at the seaside sort of thing.
	One thing I'll quickly say about that is there's the rainbow flag, right?
	which is LBG, C, Q+, whatever.
	And then there's the other thing. - And then there's the expanded edition.
	- Aren't some of the expanded colors literally like pedophile stuff?
	Or is one of them about like child love or some crap? - Some of them are explicitly.
	This one is a little more coded.
	So you'll notice the white, pink, and blue stripes, Now those officially are meant to be for transgenderism and asexuality or something like this.
	The white one there.
	So the blue and the pink though are interesting because the person who created that flag said that they chose specifically very pastoral pink and blue because it reminded them of children.
	Which a lot of people hear that and think I'm not sure I like that!
	Get back, Satan.
	Yeah, yeah, no thanks.
	So I can't say any more than that, but the person did say this, so there we are.
	But the BBC write, the vandalism came after one town leader said there had been some negativity on social media towards the putting up of this on the crosswalk there.
	Blackpool Council said that their new thermoplastic graphics that reflect the progress pride flag brightened up the area in a show of solidarity with the long established LGBTQ plus community, because of course that community goes back to the Dane Law.
	They've been there long standing.
	What?
	It's just silly.
	But in case you're wondering, apparently he spent 35 grand on that.
	Nice.
	That's the entire net worth of Blackpool, by the way.
	There's about 15 years' salary in the place.
	I always think it's weird when you get the numbers for how much these things cost.
	It's again like Brewster's millions.
	They've deliberately tried very, very hard to spend as much as it's possible to spend.
	How's that £35,000?
	Can you get some guy to do that in an afternoon for £50?
	How's that not more than £50 to get that done?
	So we'll get to Reading later, it's where I used to live.
	I did a Freedom of Information request with the council to find out how much it cost for the one they had.
	They spent £1,000.
	So yes, they got ripped off.
	Blackpool got bigly ripped off.
	In case you're wondering, that specific council, Blackpool, they are in £211 million worth of debt.
	So they do have money to piss away.
	Yours.
	Right, moving on.
	We have Blackpool's council over here.
	They're proud about it.
	They got community noted, which was funny.
	Important information.
	Painting over zebra crossings in the rainbow colours is considered dangerous and illegal.
	Right!
	So there's that.
	It causes problems for the visually impaired, guide dogs.
	It also causes confusion with drivers, especially foreign ones.
	There's additional problems.
	Horses, especially police horses, hate them.
	They refuse to even walk over them, so that causes a problem.
	And then there's the legal problem, which is they're not in the highway code.
	So legally speaking, there is a very good argument for the fact you don't need to give right-of-way to pedestrians.
	So if you ran someone down, it would be their fault.
	That's a recipe for disaster.
	Yeah.
	If for no other reason than death.
	So there's that.
	In case you're wondering, here's the location.
	So you can go and see it.
	And as you can see, this is Google Street View before it was put in.
	And as you can see, it is horrible.
	Disgusting.
	How would you know how to use this?
	Told you I was from near here.
	It's even called Dixon Road.
	This is my people.
	I suppose it is.
	But as you can see, that's the original.
	Yeah.
	Is that really in need of change?
	Is that in need of spending £35,000 on short?
	£35,000?
	I do not get it.
	Even with the vein on, that car will be going across it just like that.
	Now he knows that he can do it with impunity.
	Yeah.
	Callum's told him, death pass.
	I'm not recommending you do that, do not take me to court.
	I'm saying that that is a legal argument that is out there and has yet to be tried, but there is an argument for it.
	And right in front of a church as well, do you think that would be deliberate?
	I'm sure there's many cross zebra crossings they could have chosen, I don't know if that's deliberate.
	Oh yeah, this is where you start to go, is it me or is it them?
	I'm like paranoid, but it was right in front of the church, yeah.
	Mind you, the church probably painted it knowing where the church is going.
	But these are all over the UK which I find funny because as you can see this is the one in Reading but also if you pop over on Google Earth you can see how it used to be and it's like yeah this hasn't actually made the area better it's a few grand down the drain for what?
	Political messaging, that's what it is.
	The old gaslighting argument is, why are you lot so bothered?
	Ooh, gammons, right?
	Someone said the other day to me about the football, it was like the rainbow shoelaces in the football.
	Actually, my mum was getting annoyed about it.
	And someone else in my family, I have to say, was like, I don't know why everyone's so worked up about it.
	It's like, why did you have to do it then?
	Why did they have to put in all the rainbow laces?
	If it's not a big deal, why was money spent on it?
	Why is there a campaign?
	It's not us that are bothered.
	You felt this was important, you meaning the FA or whoever.
	If it's not important, why is it sacred?
	Why is it something we all have to respect?
	Because as you can see here, this is in Portsmouth.
	This one here, which if you hover over, you can see... Oh no, you can't on this one.
	This one has been here, and there's... Again, literally, who gives a toss?
	Just frankly, why do you need to do that?
	This is in a place called Godalming.
	I butchered that.
	No idea.
	Godalming.
	Why did this need to be done?
	Another 35 grand I presume, well spent.
	Do you think there's many people, actual homophobes, that were going to go out and do a sort of a gender or sex related hate crime?
	And they go, beaten up gays!
	Yeah!
	And then I saw that!
	And then they saw that and they changed their mind, oh actually!
	They are people too!
	Never mind.
	It turns out I love lesbians.
	Got all their films.
	But London, of course, this is an area in London which has four.
	You can see there's two there and then there's two on the other side around there.
	That's one thing I love here.
	I believe we can do this on this one.
	Yeah, you can see how it used to be a whole one year ago.
	All of these are very recent, you may have wondered.
	Because as you can see on Google... Oh no, this one's 2015, this image.
	Where you can see that there's nothing, and it's functional.
	No one was dying, and now you've made things more complicated.
	Is that knowledge?
	Yeah, London Dairy.
	This is in Northern Ireland.
	And they decided to spend 22 grand on theirs.
	For... reasons.
	Which I assume is about a hundred years' salary in that place.
	There you are.
	That's 22 grand.
	That.
	A few strips of paint.
	I wonder, because, you know, some places in London that are massive, they've got massive Islamic populations, which aren't necessarily into that message particularly, or perhaps in Northern Ireland where they're very Christian, again, not necessarily the first audience you'd think of for that sort of thing.
	It's just imposed on them by their counsellors, I suppose, by the counsellor and the counsellors.
	It's just, you're having this now.
	We don't care what you think or how you feel or your opinions or views or anything.
	It's just done.
	You just wake up one morning, it's happened.
	Yeah.
	Well, speaking of Muslim countries, we shall now move to Germany.
	Now, as you can see here, this is a place in Germany that's very famous.
	Many of you may recognize it.
	I'm just showing you the road.
	We'll get back to that.
	But as you can see, there's this big old bloody statue in gold up here.
	This is very famous because my understanding is this was put up after the Germans beat the French.
	And then after another war with the French, where they won, they just added one more block.
	So that block there is just them taking the piss, being like, yeah, I'll beat you again.
	And then obviously they lost the big one and are very sorry for it.
	Was that the War of 1870 or something?
	Yeah, the Unification War.
	Whatever that was.
	But as you can see, this is just a road.
	And again, perfectly functional.
	Well, the Germans are not to be outdone.
	They've done this.
	As you can see, they've coloured it on both sides, the progress flag, over the entire... Well, I don't know what part of the road you'd call that, interchange?
	Intersection?
	I don't know.
	Driving.
	German roundabout.
	Yeah, but as you can see, they've also added the intersect circle.
	Nice.
	Because, of course, it is eternally to be updated.
	Ukrainian parts to be added later.
	But it's not just us.
	Of course, the Australians, they had to get on this.
	This is a... This is a shopping mall, as you can see.
	Westfield in Australia, okay.
	Literally impossible to cross the road here?
	Well don't worry, we fixed it, now you can.
	And you can be gay.
	About it.
	Presumably.
	Or intersex.
	Or trans.
	Or black or brown.
	Which are those two stripes there.
	Nothing to do with homosexuality on that one, that's just... Do you have brown skin?
	Now why have I shown you all this?
	Why have I taken you on this little journey?
	Because you're obsessed.
	I'm mad!
	No, I wanted to show off that this is something that, you rightly point out, for most people is sort of like a joke.
	It's a comedic thing.
	And then a certain group of people, this is sacred.
	This is part of their religion.
	There's something so serious they must cover every crosswalk in all the world.
	From London to Brisbane.
	We must put these things up so people can, I don't know, what?
	Show off their opinions?
	Are they doing it in Damascus?
	Not yet.
	Are they doing it in Riyadh?
	Not quite.
	No?
	For some reason.
	But for some reason, I will invite people to go and have a look at the participants of this opening, because they are pretty weird looking.
	I don't know why they're covering themselves in sheets, but that's a whole other situation.
	Imagine coming to the opening of some paint on the floor.
	You can't even cut a roof.
	What do you do?
	Well, there it is.
	Cost us 20 grand.
	Some horses died here.
	The reason to bring this all up is it's, we've gone over this many times, it's just one of many of the ways you can propagate your ideology, the propaganda of your ideology you need to put up.
	And while someone, some naughty boy, has decided to take, well I gave some, no I didn't give advice to this actually, I take that back.
	Law.
	Someone has gone out and done this, some naughty naughty boy has found some zebra crossings in the UK and has gone and put the English flag on them.
	Hmm.
	Okie dokie.
	That's a thing that I can't sufficiently endorse.
	But as you can see here, someone else is mentioning a lot of people have started doing this.
	Because if we're going to engage in some constructive vandalism, some people have decided this is the way they shall do it, which is they're just going to put the English cross over them.
	Sorry, potentially sensitive content.
	That's what that's been labeled.
	The English flag, for goodness sake.
	Yeah, the bisexual flag.
	It's a very interesting way because I've mentioned before in Eastern Europe, it's quite common for vandals.
	Now vandals in Eastern Europe, quite a lot of them are quite nationalistic.
	So when occasionally it does happen, like you're saying, a rainbow situation will be set up in Belgrade or whatever.
	And what they'll do is they usually do it on an underpass or something.
	There's some footage, which is amazing, where some Serbian nationalists went down and drew the Serbian flag over the rainbow flag.
	And that's how it has remained and will remain.
	And they know that's how that works there.
	I've seen a few clips in America where they'll have something like that and some guy in his pickup truck just does a sort of a rolling burnout across it.
	You know, big black lines across it.
	But that's destructive vandalism.
	So you've got people who hate this and that's their destructive response and the constructive response is to instead just do the exact opposite.
	For the chap who did this, I mean a bit amateur on obviously the lines are quite squiggly so that needs sorting out but otherwise the point there is interesting.
	His heart was in the right place, if not his paintbrush.
	As you can see, the bad man online is advocating that people do this to roundabouts, which I don't advocate.
	It's terrible.
	But to end this off, just to make that point, to show people that this is a real thing, this is in Serbia.
	You'll find it all over the place.
	As you can see here, just parts wherever they can do it.
	Serbian nationalist vandals go out and vandalize the place by making it look good with a flag.
	So there you are.
	There's some funny stuff written on that wall.
	Don't worry about it.
	They're Serbs.
	So that's that.
	I think Serbia is a little bit of a special case you might argue with the history of Yugoslavia and Croatia.
	The breakup of the old Yugoslavia and the various parts of it as you can't really blame them in all sorts of ways for becoming quite fervently nationalistic.
	They were sort of forced not to be for decades upon decades when they were finally allowed to.
	They become sort of extremely proud of their national colours or whatever.
	Yeah, but there we go.
	The flag, it's sacred.
	For us, maybe, not for others at Nike.
	And if you see people doing that in public, of course, I would advise you to take pictures of it and then totally forward it to the police and not us.
	Moving on.
	Yes, shame them by sending them to Calum.
	Yeah.
	Let's go to the video comments, shall we, if we have any?
	If we don't, oh, we do.
	Let's do it.
	An anonymous hero just posted this through my door.
	I mean, it's very exciting, but it does look a bit demented.
	So if you're out there, get in touch.
	I'm a graphic designer.
	I'll make it look less mental for free.
	For people listening, she's got this thing talking about what the government's put up to.
	A leaflet.
	Yeah.
	I just love that response.
	Imagine sending that.
	I love your leaflet, it's great, but you look mental.
	Let me fix that.
	It's homemade Amitra.
	I saw one of those just on a train.
	I got on a train from Paddington to Swindon and there was just one on the seat and of course the scream.
	I was like, what's this?
	I had a quick look and yeah, it's quite based if I remember rightly.
	Sorry, I'm just dying.
	Yeah, sorry.
	There's two ways of doing it.
	You either go sort of full reactionary, not saying like me, or you go full sort of conspiracy, don't you?
	I sort of slightly diverge with some of the full conspiracy people.
	You know, the kind of, you know, the jab's gonna... I mean, I hated the jab, I didn't take it, but it's there to kill us all sort of people.
	That looks like more one of those sort of people.
	Yeah, I mean... Not necessarily wrong, but yeah.
	Let's move on.
	Bad feminist authors like Carolyn Criado Perez are desperate to be taken seriously.
	It took me far longer than usual to read her book due to the sheer number of sources needing to be checked for veracity.
	In most cases, she misrepresents the papers or studies by quoting one or two of the sentences out of context.
	Her chapters have a messy tendency to start with how the heading causes women to be overlooked before repeatedly trying to link other issues.
	Most amusingly, she cannot help but reveal her motivation for writing each chapter with the inclusion of one sentence exposing an underlying grievance.
	I was hoping you were going to tell us the sentence.
	So I'm very interested in that because I keep getting the adverts for this bloody book.
	And the adverts are all like, don't you know that women have the worst, and it'll be a case of, do you know women feel 24% more pain than men?
	Right.
	And I'm just looking at that like, what?
	I thought they had a higher pain threshold.
	Yeah, how do you even prove this?
	Like, it's just statistics that make me think, okay, I just, I can't even engage with this, because that's just too honest.
	I know it's a slightly different context, but this invisible woman thing, normally it was used for like middle-aged women, as if middle-aged men aren't just also invisible.
	I mean, it's just such nonsense.
	But you've got all the money, don't you?
	Yeah, data bias, I don't know.
	The world's biased against left-handers, you don't see me complaining about it.
	Well, that's because you deserve it.
	Ed Dutton told me I was a mutant, but you don't see me.
	You talk about how left-handed people are bad and evil.
	I'm left-handed.
	He was telling me the other day, they're geniuses.
	They're more likely to be geniuses than artistic... He's a turncoat.
	He says different things.
	Machiavellian says different things.
	Higher Machiavellianism, probably a spiteful mutant.
	That's what he would say.
	Yeah, I love Ed.
	He was having a problem with me being left-handed.
	You're both left-handed.
	Carl's left-handed.
	Carl's left-handed.
	There you go.
	All the best people.
	Creative people, smart people, great people.
	Sorry, Callum, moving on.
	Right-handers get ill and they're from Ireland.
	Well, one thing I would say is that the only sort of interaction I've ever had to have with all this sort of thing, because I basically ignore all the women's stuff, like even Posey Parker stuff.
	I'm just not interested.
	I'm just not interested in it.
	But Carl sort of asked me, when I was new at Lotus Theatres, to review a Mary Beard book, where she was making this argument that women for all of history have been overlooked, marginalised and ignored.
	And it's just nonsense from start to finish.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, move on.
	Let's go to the next one.
	All right, let's have a flower Friday and look at my garden.
	So this is all self-seeded.
	I haven't had to do anything this year.
	I've just brought some of the potted stuff out front and these are going to really be beautiful.
	So yeah, just thought I'd share it this time because, you know, once you get things established, they go pretty good.
	Oh, and there's a crow friend of mine.
	I've been feeding them.
	So they, uh, they know me now.
	We're buddies.
	Good, I love crows.
	He seems like a very nice soul.
	Yeah, California refugees actually moved to or from, like, had to get out of California because it's Democrat.
	I can't remember, I believe he left.
	Yeah, makes sense.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I think the American flag, so it must be.
	Can't be Californian.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I don't want to do it either, so... He's covering his mouth.
	It's completely harmless.
	There's no harm done here.
	People listening were looking at vape quality control in Thailand or wherever, And they have to suck on your vape before they put it in the pile and get sold to you.
	So, you've shed lips with a Thai man?
	Vaping's awful.
	It's degenerate.
	And that just proves it.
	Do you smoke?
	God, no.
	Okay.
	But I find the people who hate vaping, or even non-smokers, or hardcore smokers, You know how I freaked out about the seats before we went on?
	When I did Lawrence Fox's show, he was going to smoke indoors during the show.
	And I was like, so I just like, then I can't do the show.
	Sorry, Lawrence.
	I'm out.
	Yeah.
	I was like, I have to go.
	And then he didn't smoke through the show.
	He said, I've done that just for you.
	I never normally do that.
	He was kind of annoyed.
	But it was that or I'm not going to do the show.
	You know, I just hate it that much.
	I'm a fascist on smoking.
	Maybe we'll get to it if I do that Lads Hour thing of like, what would you do if you were king?
	I'd get rid of smoking.
	You ever been to an all smoking bar?
	They still have them.
	So, they don't have them in this country.
	In Russia, I think.
	Yeah, I went to Serbia with a friend and they have them still.
	And I went in.
	Worst experience I've ever had, honestly.
	Well, All Smoking Bars was just life before you were born.
	I was just saying, what are these... I know, I've like, ever been to one, yeah.
	It was all bars in this country.
	These old women, I smoke since I was 14.
	You still do like a chimney.
	I smoke, yeah.
	It's an old school thing.
	I know that it's a leftover from the olden days.
	No, no.
	I like people who smoke.
	They're often good people.
	Great people.
	But the thing is, I just hate smoking.
	I hate the fact that I'm a fascist on it and a sort of eco-lefty.
	I'm annoyed at myself but I just can't stand smoking.
	Even though a lot of times smokers are good guys.
	I get it though because I don't vape.
	I've never ever inhaled one Lug of vape ever and will never.
	It's like I don't drink one drink.
	If I'm going to go out drinking to get drunk, that's what I do.
	I won't sit home and have one can of beer.
	I feel like it's the same for vaping.
	It's like just smoke or don't smoke.
	Well, that's my feeling.
	Just anyway.
	All right.
	Feel bad for these guys.
	He's like when your dad makes you smoke a whole pack of cigarettes.
	We're going to make you vape 800, 8000 vapes a day.
	We're going to make you a vape.
	Lord.
	1,800, 8,000 vapes a day.
	Good Lord.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Give us some Friday cheer for the weekend, Wendy.
	Bye.
	Hello from Wendy!
	And wait until you see what I have in store for you!
	The Easy Cracker!
	Now you can crack eggs quickly and effortlessly without all the dropped shells.
	Whenever I crack an egg, there'd be a mess on the stove, a mess on the counter, and eggshells in my quiche!
	What the hell?
	What?
	Not sponsored, in case you're wondering.
	He just pays £2 a day effectively to send him what he'd like and he's sending that.
	There we are.
	It looks convenient, although I've never had a problem cracking an egg the manual way.
	If you are, I can beat Spaz.
	Can you do one in each hand?
	No.
	I need this.
	I bet my brother can do that.
	I can do that.
	Can you?
	Yeah.
	Legend.
	I'll smoke him.
	Could you do four?
	No, no, no.
	That would be magical.
	That's the kind of stuff the Reform Party's missing out on.
	Can you juggle?
	Can you juggle with three or four balls?
	Not even slightly.
	Can you juggle?
	Of course he can.
	He's not going to ask the question, is he?
	You can see.
	He just wants to tell you how he does it.
	So you just asked just to show off how many balls?
	No, no, because I can do four little balls.
	I can do three endlessly and I can do four in a little bit.
	The point I was trying to make, it's not just to show off, is that you're able to do things with both hands.
	Because a lot of people, if you're left or right-handed... Yeah, I can do that.
	I can brush my teeth with both hands.
	You do it on purpose, it's meant to be good for you to develop both sides.
	But as left-handers, we have to develop both sides.
	We live in a right-handed world.
	Ambidextrous, bro.
	You've got nothing on us.
	Devils are showing off!
	Good lord.
	Question for the panel!
	If you could delete any historical figure from the timeline, who would it be?
	For me, the obvious answer is Karl Marx, but a close contender is Woodrow Wilson.
	Without Wilson, World War I would have been over much sooner.
	The Treaty of Versailles wouldn't have been so punitive, which would take the wind out of the sail of the fascists, for sure.
	The Russians wouldn't have had the disastrous defeats that gave the Bolsheviks their political leverage.
	And the Russian forces would have been home before the revolution even happened, meaning they could have quelled it even if it did happen.
	Wilson was also the source of racialism in the federal government and the Federal Reserve.
	Can you imagine a timeline without Wilson?
	My god.
	Who's your pick?
	One thing I would say is I sort of think Wilson was one of the worst US presidents ever for the Federal Reserve, if nothing else.
	But Americans hate him so much.
	They hate him so much.
	They've got right... I'm not saying they're not wrong to, but that's a good question.
	It would be difficult to... Maybe Tamerlane, just to reduce the amount of human misery that there's been.
	I'd probably go Blair.
	Do you know why?
	Because I was thinking the other day, the question, who did more damage to Britain?
	Hitler or Tony Blair?
	No, we rebuilt after the Luftwaffe.
	It was fine.
	We all came together in the face of Mr Hitler.
	Think about it, whereas Blair's destroyed the country.
	So, you know, I'd probably go, I'd have to go Blair.
	That's quite a sinister one because he's still alive and he's not a figure from history, is it?
	That's probably more of a hate crime.
	I'm probably in trouble.
	You're allowed all of history though he was saying.
	I don't want it to be someone like Genghis Khan or Tamerlane who butchered millions of innocent people.
	Blaire's dad, Blaire's grandad.
	Just take out the whole gene pool.
	The Blaire gene.
	Because he's alive so I felt like I wasn't playing the game.
	I want to do something mental like just get rid of Alexander the Great.
	Just go back to like the earliest human and just the one who's had a proper impact and then that changes everything.
	Yeah, it's Kill Adams.
	Most nihilistic thing you've ever said.
	Alright, well let's move to the written comments so people look at it less.
	Right, Russian Garbage Human says, Nick is back, in all caps.
	Hey!
	So good to see you back.
	We've had some cracking guests lately, right?
	Oh, thank you so much.
	On Beau's segment, Threatenaut donated $20 to say, dissolve parliament, declare the channel crossing an act of war, declare war on the French, stop giving aid to Africa, nuke the WEF, wherever they are, nuke London, Reclaim the Holy Land if I were King.
	Right, okay, that wasn't a party political broadcast.
	He's like, I'm still a candidate for reform.
	Josie also donated five bucks to say, Bo, thanks for taking a stand.
	In the United States, the Tea Party candidates were set up to be knocked down by the Rhinos.
	It backfired.
	Is this similar?
	Looking forward to updates on the backlash.
	Cheers.
	Well, Niaj did back in, what was it, 2019 or whatever, at the last minute get the Brexit Party to stand down so that Boris could have sort of a cleaner sweep than he would otherwise have got.
	People fear that something like that might happen again.
	Conor said the other day that reform might get folded into the Tory party in some way at some point.
	That's a fear.
	I don't think that will happen, but it might do.
	It's not a ridiculous Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
	Who knows?
	But it is a worry.
	You know, to what degree, how deep is the containment project?
	I don't know.
	Yeah, I sort of tend to feel that the new, whatever the Farage thing will be, it will either be the Tories or reform.
	It almost doesn't matter what the name is.
	It will be the Farage, sort of maybe Patel, Suella Broadman, Anderson side of the party.
	It almost doesn't matter what it will be called.
	That will be a thing probably, right?
	Quite possibly.
	We'll see how many defect to them.
	If it gets a critical mess and there's dozens and dozens and dozens of them defect.
	I mean either the Tory party gets reform to the right or it literally goes to reform.
	Because the Tory's going to go One Nation aren't they?
	They're talking about Penny.
	They're going to go mental.
	They're going to go the other way towards them side.
	So you're going to need something.
	Anyway.
	Facedape says as a Scotsman I am offended at what Beau said about us.
	Then about 12 seconds later I forgot about it and went on with my life like a normal person.
	I also still support Beau for PM because who cares.
	The thing is, the Scots and the Welsh and the Irish give as good as you got.
	It used to be the case that all four of those nations just ripped the absolute piss out of each other endlessly and remorselessly.
	That is healthy.
	It's not offensive, it's not wrong.
	That's healthy.
	That's what people are like.
	They have this in Yugoslavia too.
	That's the good side, so back when they were unified they used to have these ethnic jokes and it's actually how they vent steam.
	It's not even ethnic in this case, we're all the same ethnicity, isn't it?
	No, we're different ethnic groups.
	The Scots and Welsh, they're their own ethnic groups.
	Is that Celtic?
	Because ethnicity is a cultural thing.
	Okay, or... Not a racial group.
	Oh, okay, so that's what you're saying.
	So the Montenegrins and the Serbians, for example, they have a good joke about each other and the Serbians tell this one.
	The king of the Montenegrins decided one day that there's a famine and that he can't bear to see all of his people starve to death.
	It's dishonorable to starve to death.
	So him and all the Montenegrins decide to get on the cliff and they're going to jump into the sea and kill themselves.
	He says, okay, on the count of three we shall jump.
	One.
	Two.
	Wait, wait, wait!
	There is a message!
	The Serbians, they have sent us potatoes!
	And it says, are the potatoes peeled?
	No.
	Three.
	They just can't be bothered to peel the bloody potatoes.
	But the point being, like, everyone has this.
	And that's the right way to work.
	So pretend there's no sort of... And it's all a joke, right?
	It's all a joke.
	I'm from the border.
	I'm from Cumbria so next is Scotland.
	My cousins are Scottish.
	It's all banter.
	Not that it's me that said the hateful comment.
	It was you.
	Another person saying it's a joke in a minute as well.
	I'm like a quarter Welsh.
	My maternal grandfather is a full-blown Welshman.
	I still take the piss out of them.
	I don't want to make the taffs feel sheepish.
	You only use the term full-blown for Welsh or AIDS.
	Quite terrible affliction.
	Angel Brain says, as a Scot, I can confirm that that line is funny.
	It's wholly inaccurate.
	There's no way that we're exporting our iron brew or smack.
	We're not sharing the good stuff.
	Oh, and for the record, nothing against iron brew.
	It's quite a nice drink.
	Yeah, I used to drink a lot of it.
	You need to keep the sugar in it though, otherwise it's...
	That's correct.
	Cookie says, a question for Bo, would you return to Stanford Reform if they said they had reviewed the hit piece and found it to be a smear?
	Oh no way!
	No way, not in a month of Sundays.
	Really?
	Because that would be quite bold of them if they said, actually we've had a look at it, Bo's alright, we welcome him back.
	You still wouldn't?
	No way.
	Interesting.
	You're like, if you like it then you should have put a ring on it, you'd be like...
	No, no, no.
	No way.
	No way.
	They've revealed themselves as... It's like when you apologise for things these days.
	It's like, are you really sorry?
	Like, what are you apologising for exactly?
	Or, what does that mean?
	It doesn't mean anything.
	Alistair says, speaking as a Scotsman, I am more than happy for the half-baked sceptic, oh sorry, septic Englishman to call me whatever he likes.
	Despite his disrespect for my homeland, I will continue to watch History Bro in action.
	I have to admit, my beloved country is rapidly becoming the boil on the arse of the UK though.
	Well one thing I do need to stress is that I was really talking about Scottish nationalists when I was being actually rude about people.
	The Scottish nationalists, most Scots People are lovely, great, warm, welcoming people.
	And their country, geographically, is absolutely beautiful.
	People know.
	People get it.
	Bilbo says the Reformers have lost his vote, so he's going to spoil his ballot, so there's that.
	George says Richard Tice is a traitor, pandering to people who hate him regardless.
	Yes, I don't care.
	So he then goes on to say, for all the pressure on Jared Batten to keep Carl and Dank until the end, the only positive out of this situation is we got Bo's beautiful face back on the front page of a fake newspaper.
	I'm tempered to get them as a collector's item, and in future I will have them as artifacts for when Bo becomes Lord Protector.
	That was actually a pretty cool pic.
	They could have gone a lot worse if they wanted to smear you, couldn't they?
	Yeah.
	Not a bad pic.
	We were laughing because it's the hand-picked picture that Bo wanted for his account on the website.
	Like, thanks for using my headshots.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, he's like, oh, what do I pick?
	And then whenever Karl gets mentioned, it's like him ten years ago.
	Milkshake in his face.
	Yeah.
	One last appeal.
	If anyone could send a card copy of that newspaper to our PO Box address, I'd honestly love that.
	They don't sell it around here.
	Well, I haven't seen it, yeah.
	The Shadow Band has donated 50 bucks to say for Callum's aspirin.
	So there we are.
	I won't be getting that though.
	Quite a lot of aspirin for 50 quid.
	Yeah, that was 49 pence.
	So, someone online says, the Nazis literally did this, euthanized the disabled before moving on to other people.
	That's not so much about your segment, I think he's into mine now.
	Oh, I have moved on, yeah.
	In which case, I'll let you read them, actually, if you'd like.
	Well, there's so many.
	How long do we have?
	Just two minutes?
	Pick a couple.
	Yeah, well, OK.
	Omar Awad says, look guys, we just want safe, legal and rare-assisted dying.
	I think politicians like Keir need assisted retirement.
	I'm not sure if that one's a hate crime.
	David Ferrugia, suicide rates amongst men are far too high.
	Legalising state-run human glue factories will only lead to feminists encouraging and even incentivising men to kill themselves in higher numbers.
	As for capital punishment, I believe it should be reserved for the most heinous crimes, such as the rape and murder of children, mass murder and voting for the Greens.
	Nice, got a joke in there at the end.
	I think it's a joke.
	Let's have a look.
	Oh yeah, Captain Charlie the Beagle.
	The Canadian healthcare system seems to have seen the Michelin web sketch of Have We Tried Killing the Poor and went, write that down, write that down.
	Yeah, okay.
	Fair enough.
	Any others?
	Oh yeah, I'll do one more.
	Ewan Baker says, I have autism and fibromyalgia.
	Starma is coming for me.
	Thanks for your comments.
	You, do you want to do something?
	Are you poor?
	Are you autistic?
	Be afraid of this man.
	We're coming for you.
	Alright, so The Threadnaught donated 10 bucks to say, when things are painted over pride, I as a non-trans straight man do not use them as they are designed not being for me.
	I hate June so much.
	I don't know if you guys have seen the last straight man in North America avoiding the gay stairs.
	Oh yeah I did!
	That video?
	Yeah that was funny, yeah I did see that actually.
	So for people who don't know what I'm talking about, they decided to paint the stairs with the Pride colours, and then next to it there's this really large incline of stone that he had to climb up instead to avoid using the gay stairs, and then this year I saw that they'd actually painted over the stone as well.
	So then the same guy did it again, except he just crawled up the handle.
	You know, in between the stairs, he's crawling off the handlebars.
	I've seen that.
	Yeah, legend.
	I've seen that guy.
	I was like, legend.
	So now they're going to have to paint over the handles.
	And then, I don't know, he's going to paraglide in or... Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	...high jump.
	There we are.
	So Sophie Liv says, your flag is stupid anyway.
	You just stole mine and made a white-red cross in the section.
	Well, to hell with you, you Danish whore.
	No.
	Georgia or... Loads of people use that flag, don't they?
	It's used all over the world in all sorts of different iterations.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, no.
	She's having a laugh because someone's confused.
	But I do think that's... I've now gone off YouTube.
	Yeah, I could say this.
	I'm excited.
	I'm excited for a bit of constructive vandalism to be happening in the country.
	Because if people have given up, and there's a lot of them who have given up on... Not for my real views.
	Yeah, I can say this.
	Because so many people have given up on elected politics.
	I'm not saying you should do it.
	I'm saying that because so many people have given up on elected politics.
	Very similar in Serbia and Russia.
	I mean, people, you'll go meet them and they say, we don't have elections.
	I don't engage.
	And instead they do weird, direct stuff like that.
	They engage in their local area and engage in some kind of, you know, some kind of vandalism like this, or they use stickers or posters, you know, the sort of things you would do with a political party, except there isn't one for them.
	And I have a weird feeling that it's the same for the English as it is for those ethnic groups.
	They just do it anyway.
	Yeah, they just do it for ideas instead.
	Which is a real weird thing to see because we don't do that.
	But maybe that'll be the case now.
	I've been on GV News too much.
	My brain was going, for Ofcom Balance, I need to say, people shouldn't commit crime.
	I almost, literally, my brain was almost having to balance you out.
	I wasn't saying commit crime, I was saying that I'm excited to see what will happen.
	Yeah, you want to look at the tweets and... Yeah, I just... If crime does happen...
	I will be one who is looking at it!
	There we are.
	Can I just say something really quickly?
	Are you ending the show?
	I was ending it, but yeah, go ahead.
	I just want to say Nick Dixon comic on X.
	My podcast is The Current Thing.
	I've had Callum on, Carl Benjamin, if you've heard of him, Academic Agent.
	I've had Ed Dutton.
	And yeah, Current Thing is my podcast.
	My other podcast is the Weekly Skeptic with Toby Young.
	It might be a bit too cucked for some people here.
	And NickDixon.net is my sub stack.
	I just wanted to get my plugs in because I come all the way here.
	Do you mind?
	Because you always end the show without me doing it.
	No, usually, I don't know if this was something we haven't updated you to, but we usually have a series of links at the end for people to go find.
	I'm so sorry.
	In the old show, you just used to end it, and I used to think, why have I come all the way out here?
	If you ever want someone to come and chat about history, talk to you about history, I'd be happy to.
	Let's do it.
	You're my kind of guest.
	Only interview cancelled people.
	All right, great.
	Good policy.
	Yeah, I'm truly being cancelled, yeah.
	And then there's, of course, my channel, History Bro, which you've already subbed to already.
	I'm being instructed.
	We're out of time.

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