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April 24, 2024 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #900
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Hello and welcome to the podcast for Lotus Seaters, and today I'm joined by Carl and Nick Dixon.
Hello.
And today we're going to be talking about the fact that the local man did nothing wrong, Keir Starmer, English Patriot, and Sadiq Khan joins the far right.
Which, I think are sort of very bizarro links, actually.
It's good news.
Just a quick thing.
Patriot Hour.
With the local man, when we, I assume we're going to use his full name, can we say it in the style of Terry Christiansen?
Like a shrieking, hysterical, Liverpudlian queen?
I can't do the accent.
I figure you could do accents.
I don't know who this is.
Do you mean the guy from The Word?
Yeah.
He's from Manchester.
Is he Manchester?
Yeah, yeah.
They sound the same to me.
Sorry people from Manchester.
How dare you.
But the point is he's got the worst accent and whenever they say Yaxley Lennon, I always hear it in his voice.
So, you know, just a small request.
Real name.
Real name.
But, uh, I have an announcement to make first, which is we have a careers page, and on here you can find careers.
So, read this out.
We are looking for people with skills in videography, audio, and editing, available to work from London or Swindon.
If you're interested, go look at the full specs, and I think there's like three jobs on there now.
So, you go to logiseas.com and then go down to careers at the bottom.
There we are.
But otherwise, we shall get into the... I can't do Liverpudlian, it's not gonna work.
I don't know, don't... If I get... Find an accent you can't do, okay?
And just quickly, if I get sacked from GB after this segment, I'll be just going on that page.
It's just... I need a job!
I got sacked talking about local man.
Well, let's begin, shall we?
So, a local man, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was arrested a while back, and there was a big controversy, and his court case has finally come up.
And I thought we'd go through it, not because random court case is interesting, but it's a perfect distillation of just how much the police hate the English, and it's crystal clear in his specific example, because of course, they hate him.
And we'll get this on screen.
This is Rich Dinman recording at the time in which the local man was being employed by, I believe, Urban Scoop to go and film.
As you can see, there's a dashingly Asian chap in the background there who's giving us some good information on this.
He was there to record the anti-Semitism rally, not for anti-Semitism, the opposite.
They were Jews who were against it this time around.
I mean, no one's going to have people accuse Tommy of being many things, but they're not going to accuse him of being an anti-Semite.
And he was turning up to report on it for his company, and the police turned up, as you can see in this video, telling him, go away.
You need to leave.
And when asked why, they couldn't really give a sufficient answer until someone turned up and said there was a Section 35 order, now this is British law, saying that you can remove someone from an area if you believe there's going to be serious amount of violence or reason to get rid of them.
Okay, that's what they said.
The police kept insisting that it was completely proper once they removed him physically from this place.
As you can see, this is them on Twitter at that time.
Refusing to mention him at the start as well.
They refused to comply with our dispersal, section 35.
40-year-old local man.
Yes, 40-year-old local man from Luton.
We are aware that this man suggested he was in the area as a journalist.
This was not a relevant factor to his arrest.
It was an obvious lie.
Are we allowed to fat shame the Met?
Or is that a crime?
I mean, it is kind of silly, isn't it?
I'll be honest.
Tommy should have just legged it.
What's Bro going to do?
Chase him down?
The point being that they just lied.
They lied to no end.
Because there was no section 35 dispersed slaughter.
They keep getting rid of all fitness tests, don't they?
Because there was actually, we did a story that it was, the test was sexist.
Like the beep test or something.
So you just get rid of it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wouldn't be surprised.
I do want to run us back to memory lane as well.
Cause remember when the police issue something like this, you know, the state issues a statement saying we've done nothing wrong and you're a journalist.
What's your job?
Oh, it is to take whatever the official pronouncement from the institution is and repeat it uncritically to as many people as you can.
Yeah.
You just copy paste it.
You're damn right.
He's been down this road before.
Yeah, this is the Huffington Post at the time being like, why was he arrested?
And if you scroll down to the bit where they're like, why was he arrested?
It was like, well, the police explained in a statement.
There you go!
That's all we need to know.
No more!
No more investigation needed.
I will be a mouthpiece for the state.
Cool.
That's literally what they are.
I do think, I know everyone knows this here, but I just think this far right thing is getting a bit silly with Tommy.
The way they put it at the start of every article.
Because look at his views.
What are they really?
They actually seem quite liberal.
He was talking about multiculturalism the other day and how he embraces all these different people.
He's obviously very pro-Israel.
So if anything you could say he's like neo-con.
You can imagine how disappointing he is to the actual far right.
Yeah.
And as you can see, this is the footage here of when he was dragged outside, and then the police officers here are saying, you must go or you will be arrested, and he's like, look, I'm here to do my work.
That's an exemption under this order, but also this order is ridiculous.
Go to hell.
And then they decided to physically drag him out.
I'm going to do the audio on this, it's quite loud.
There we are.
You can see them dragging him out there.
Knocked over that woman.
Good job, Matt.
And then eventually they pepper spray him in the face, because why not?
They had several officers surrounding him.
They were physically removing him already.
So one of them, I couldn't find the original footage, literally just goes into his jacket, pulls out some pepper spray and just sprays his eyes and puts it back in.
They're just like, I'll injure a million women before I let this man wander around and do his job.
There was shock in the pepper spray.
You sort of go, why is so excessive on this one person?
The obvious answer is because he's an avatar for everything they don't like.
And they've been trained Pavlovian style to consider him to be just an evil.
Yeah.
His mere presence was enough to get everyone in on physically removing him, pepper spraying in the face.
I mean, this is a video.
Does it really take a dozen men to remove?
Well, if he's the heart of all evil, Sauron himself has appeared to support Jews.
All right.
There we are.
I mean, he was standing around by people who are openly Jewish.
We know how the Met feels about that.
Yeah.
So that's what happened a while back, and then this has all gone to court after all the expense and everything else.
I thought we'd just enjoy, um, well, what's happened.
Because what's happened is that, well, it was all shown to be bollocks.
Oh.
Funnily enough.
Imagine.
Let's enjoy this.
The crowd was yelling at him.
I know, but he's, the one who falsified evidence, I actually really respect his honesty.
He just sat there and admitted it.
I was so like, really?
You're just going to admit that?
And that you don't have a lawful order?
He just said, well, we haven't got a lawful order.
He's already told the judge that none of this is lawful.
And he was a senior ranking police officer.
I was surprised by his lack of intelligence as well.
Shocked, shocked that someone with that low IQ can make it to the top of the police.
But yeah.
No, you should have watched it.
It was so cringeworthy.
He didn't have a clue.
And then he blamed everything on dyslexia.
The reason I falsified the evidence was because I was dyslexic and my laptop battery was dead.
I'm starting to think it might not be IQ that gets you firing the police.
I've heard it's more about how you play the system and politics.
I'm starting to think that maybe a higher IQ would be a detriment to advancing in the police action.
Isn't this a bit too tiered?
Shut up.
I think, genuinely, they advance people who aren't terribly smart because they're compliant.
Yeah, I've spoken to police and former police about this, because sometimes I have a pop at the police on GB or whatever and they say, well, hey Nick, it's not all of us.
I've actually spoken to them about it and they'll say, yeah, if you really want to do the job properly, it just doesn't really work out so well.
It's much more about getting ahead, brown nosing, etc.
Yeah.
Like it is in so many jobs, obviously.
But, you know, that's wrong.
Yes.
Especially as something as important as safety.
Yeah.
I don't know, dealing with crime?
Maybe we should have this work?
Yeah, because that there, I mean, that is him coming out of the court case.
So this is, you know, the bad man here.
Yeah.
And he's saying, well, I've just listened to the police officer admit that he falsified evidence, which... Is he going to get fired?
Is there going to be any accountability for this at all?
Or is it because it's this local man that it's totally fine for him to do it?
This was to do with getting the date wrong on the form, right?
Worse.
So we'll get to that in a bit, I suppose, the specifics.
Someone tried to get the date right.
That's what was announced there.
I've got the next one here, which is that you can see someone from Sky News turned up.
Oh yeah.
Talked to the bad man.
And that low IQ point you mentioned seems to be Infecting wider society.
Because as we can see here, it's not just the police.
Do you get by and appoint a judge?
Yes.
By and appoint a judge?
Yes.
By and appoint a judge?
And that's due to the severity of the alleged offence.
It's due to the severity of the alleged offence.
What was my alleged offence?
Well, you've got one in my face.
What's my alleged offence?
What a great journalist!
What a great journalist!
This is the problem.
What is my leg's offence?
You don't know, do you?
He's charged with refusing to leave an anti-Semitism protest in London.
He's charged with failing to comply with section 34 of this Direction, excluding a person from an area.
So do you plead guilty or not guilty to that?
Are you the judge?
What are you doing?
You have no...
No, this is what we do, right?
Journalists will come to court, and if you've got something to say, we will keep you to hear what you want to say, and then you go into court, and that's it.
I'm asking you to make a statement, that's all.
That's normal.
I thought as a journalist, you'd know that.
That's good.
Oh!
What am I watching?
Professionals at work, Callum.
You're calling her low IQ, but to be fair, she did successfully operate Google to find out what the case was about.
See how rapidly she found out.
That was impressive.
When she showed up, she had no idea, obviously.
Just look at the professionalism of the entire system.
So the police are like, yeah, we made up the thing that wasn't real.
The journalists say, yeah, I don't know what you were charged with.
Well, that's good because it was made up.
It wasn't real.
And then the court case, I assume, get thrown out.
So like, total lack of professionalism from any of them.
What is British society?
I mean, the entire media, the entire policing service, are just people who don't know how to do anything.
I mean, they're acting like school children.
Yeah.
At this point, you'd almost want them to be evil yet but efficient.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Except they're just shit.
The thing is, they may as well all just be admitting, yeah, no, we hate you because we've been trained to hate you.
Because you are who you are, and we are paid by the people who pay us.
And they've told us, you're the bad man.
So it doesn't matter if there's an actual order or there's a crime.
It doesn't matter if I don't know what the hell has happened.
My entire job is just to be a parrot.
Yeah, I literally, not even a parrot, because a parrot doesn't judge you.
My job is to sit here and call you evil while they tell me you're evil.
I don't need to know rules or laws or facts or anything like that.
I mean, look at her face.
She got all that camera equipment, got up in the morning, went to the office, got the stuff.
Where are you going to do this story?
We're going to go to the courthouse, Tommy Robinson, blah, blah, blah.
He's already bad.
Traveled all the way there.
At no point did she think, you know what, maybe I should ask, you know, what it's about.
Literally, if Sauron's like, OK, but what am I charged with?
I don't know what Gandalf is charging Sauron with, and I don't care.
Like, it doesn't matter.
You know, and look at her face.
She looks so smug.
Yeah, got you now.
It's like, what are you talking about?
Like, you have arrived with nothing.
Just children, just children fighting.
So what was funny about this is of course that it went to court and after the, well, acting police officer admitted he just made it up, this got thrown out!
The judge was sitting there just going, what?
Why did you admit that?
So the defense barrister apparently said, quote, Can we have any confidence that there was a lawful order in place?
To which the police officer said, no.
Case dismissed!
That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen!
I mean, I know Tommy's in and out of court every day for the last three years, it seems.
But this is the funniest one ever, where just the police who arrested him were like, wow, yeah, I did make it up.
I was actually slightly surprised that the BBC admitted it and they also admitted it was pepper spray.
I was reading the article and I'm kind of surprised they even put that in, you know what I mean?
Because if you remember a while ago, Tommy, I think, helped an elderly couple who were being attacked.
BBC reported it and they literally did use local man.
They said a man sort of helped out and they didn't even name him.
Really?
Oh, I didn't even hear about that.
Why would you?
Yeah, why would I?
Here's the full thing that I got sent by John, because I think John was actually there, so he had to go and give testimony if he was required, but the court case got thrown out, so it's not really stupid!
But here's the full thing if you want to read it, and it's the judge summarising his introduction, here's what was alleged, here's the evidence, here's my conclusions, and the conclusions of course being the most interesting part, but the evidence obviously being the meat of the substance like usual.
I'm kind of surprised it doesn't say real name.
Steve and Lennon.
So the thing that's really funny is that the judge is listening to the police officers giving their evidence, and their evidence is that we fucked it.
Which is not a very convincing case for the prosecution.
So the police officer in question says that, well, there was a dispersal order in place, but that dispersal order was for the Palestinian march, not the pro-Jew march, because no one was expecting them to do any violence.
That doesn't make any sense.
And then, so the judge listens to that and is like, well, well then it's not relevant.
He says, yeah, yeah, but we did make another one.
We made another dispersal order, which then this guy violated, but it was, it was issued after we'd arrested him.
So we arrested him for a future crime.
Yes.
Which is the law.
We arrested him for something that wasn't declared to be a criminal act, but then we retroactively declared it to be criminal, so everything's fine, governor.
Yeah, so if you're wondering how- British law, ladies and gentlemen.
If you're wondering how that works- Quite an ancient tradition that we can take pride in.
The reality is that the police noticed he was there, decided, we hate him, so, okay, go and arrest him, section 35 order, and then they realised that there wasn't one, so then after they've arrested him and pepper sprayed him and it's all been livestreamed, they then made one up, because the time on it is wrong, it's after when he's arrested, and then they- and then- What was I about to say, John?
They were also able to do it for the wrong event.
They were also able to do it for the wrong day.
And then when asked, where's the paper trail?
Because you're saying you've adjusted this.
They're like, well, we don't have one.
So I was like, well, then I'm going to have to assume the one you've given the court is the original one you wrote, which is all wrong on every count.
So yes, you did just arrest this man because you felt like it.
And then Pepper sprayed his face because you felt like it.
Can he sue them?
Yes.
Oh, okay, great.
False imprisonment.
Yeah.
But if nothing else... Well, I mean, pepper spraying someone without just cause... Unusual, not unusual, unjustified use of force.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, it's just nonsense.
And he said he is looking at suing them, which... I mean, we've got the easiest case in the world, so... Because they literally admit they made it up and nothing happened.
Yeah.
And they falsified the paperwork but did it incompetently.
The police officer is then asked, why did you falsify paperwork?
Because that's criminal.
He then blames it on dyslexia.
He's like, well, I got the time, the date and the place wrong because I'm dyslexic.
And it wasn't his battery dying as well.
Was that the other thing?
Was that unrelated?
His laptop battery died.
Yeah.
So trust me, bro.
So he had to rely on, you know, his wits.
He had to rely on his British education.
The autocorrect wasn't working.
Couldn't Google a date.
Couldn't ask anyone.
Didn't know the month.
Yeah, so the only really relevant thing out of all of this, though, is because obviously that's reality.
We all know that that's what's true, is that he mentions that he anticipated the presence of a right-wing group because of Mr. Robinson.
Now, that's the dead giveaway.
Yeah.
That's, we just don't like him because of his political views, so we broke the law to physically remove him because we don't like him, and we made it up after the fact.
Forgetting that the traditional way of doing this, if you're a crop police officer, is to make up the reason to arrest him and then arrest him.
Not arrest him and then make up the reason.
That doesn't work.
That's bad corrupt policing 101.
Honestly, the quality of our corrupt police has just declined.
So many times, in so many ways.
Like you're meant to go and make up a bullshit reason to arrest someone before you... In the 70s, they wouldn't have done it like this.
No.
I'm just saying.
The crime is real, man.
But that's one thing.
What's amazing is that that court case happened on the same day as St.
George's Day.
So what happened in response to St.
George's Day is some English patriots turned up in London, dressed in St.
George's crosses.
And of course, this being a patriotic thing, the police turned up and beat the shit out of them.
Yeah.
Because why wouldn't they?
Nothing better to do.
So this here was sparked by the fact the police turned up and arbitrarily decided to block off this road with their vans, you can see on the periphery there.
And then on the pavements, they also decided to block it off with their bodies so that you couldn't move.
And obviously this led to a scuffle, because why did you do that?
I mean, they seemed to be quite aggressive with these people for some reason.
Yeah.
What were they doing apart from walking along?
Bring the horses in, bring the batons in, beat the crap out of them.
It's just an excuse.
Did you see Tom Tugendhat's tweet on that?
No.
He said, these men aren't patriots, they're just thugs.
Oh!
I replied, yes, we know the Tories hate English people, it's one of the many reasons the party's on the verge of destruction.
Fair enough, isn't it?
I mean, the answer, how did you know they were thugs?
Well, they had England flags.
Yeah.
That's how we live.
Awesome thugs.
I mean, calm down, mate.
You're about to lose the election anyway.
You don't need to hurry it along anymore.
He's on the zero seats train.
Yeah.
Trying to help.
But the obvious comparison that everyone made was, well, this is, you know, trending.
Here's Ede at the top here, where the police officers here are getting bin bags thrown at them and missiles.
Whereas the English guys at the bottom, well, just, they don't have any missiles.
Yeah.
They don't have any stuff to throw at you.
They're literally just walking, then you block them, and it leads to a scuffle, unsurprisingly.
You chose to do that.
There was no need for you to do that.
You chose to cause a scene there.
Whereas when you are physically being attacked by Muslims, you did nothing.
In fact, you ended up retreating in that footage.
Yeah, but the Muslims have a love symbol, and the English Patriots have a hate symbol.
What are the two symbols?
Um, well, whatever Muslim Palestine flag they were flying and the England flag.
Star and Crescent versus the Christian Cross.
The Christian Cross is the evil thing.
Yes.
One of the police.
And this is never mind the Palestinian protests, which are a whole other dimension of violence.
I mean, attacking the police with fireworks, which passes explosives, so.
Yeah, but look at them.
They're not English.
Therefore, they're good.
That's, that's the thing.
Why is that?
Police logic.
Why did I go over this?
Because it's a pretty minor case.
Man gets issued with Section 35 or gets arrested.
Turns out the police made it up.
I don't know.
It's nice to have a win, right?
Yeah.
But I think it's just a brilliant example of how little they care.
I mean, the British police just are genuinely an enemy, institutionally, of the English people and the British people.
They will break the law to enforce their political will, is what they've just shown in that court case.
There was no law to implement, they just decided to make it up.
It has become like that to such an absurd degree, hasn't it?
And, you know, you can feel sympathy, less so in these cases, but the other day the guy was arguing with the Jewish guy, and you watch the full video, he came across a bit better, and you see the police are trying to do a job, and there's individual good police officers, but yeah, institutionally, the regime wants them to hate the English, and it wants them to pick sides, it picks pro-Palestine over Israel for whatever reason, and it's just, and it's this anarcho-tyranny of arresting the person who's not doing anything, versus the angry mob, So yeah, what can they do?
The regime makes them like that, doesn't it?
I think a lot of it is a class issue as well.
The regime hates the English, so the police have to as well.
Do you think X will help a little bit?
I think this is a one-off win that Tommy's won because of some bad police work, but actually they'll then double down on attacking him.
Or do you think things like X make it quite difficult for him?
You know, Elon's X makes it quite a bit more difficult.
Just, I mean, I can't help but notice the composition of the police.
You can see women in the top police standing on the front lines, but I don't see any women on that one.
Right.
Well, no need.
We're actually going to fight people.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
As in, there's a kind of symbolism.
We're going to get the big boys out, and we're going to get the horses out, and we're going to show these working class thugs who the boss of this place is.
And they're not afraid to do it.
But they can't do it.
Normally they're told, like, we can't possibly maintain, man these marches, there are too many people.
Then, lo and behold, they can when they want to, like so many things.
When crime is happening, we don't stop it because that would cause us to be attacked.
But when no crime is happening, you will attack.
OK, whatever.
Right.
I mean, look, there's just such a tiny woman at the front there.
It's like, really?
It's because you know you're not going to do anything about this top march, you know?
Yeah, but your question about transparency, because, I mean, the system here is an activist fighting a corrupt police force, and on a wider scale, an entire ethnic group being oppressed by their police force and then trying to deal with that.
I mean, these are not uncommon.
These are pretty common throughout the world.
The idea that X is going to sufficiently help with this, I mean, yeah, media transparency, probably absolutely fantastic.
I mean, without Elon Musk, where would we be right now?
This would all just be deleted.
I'm just maybe detecting a very slight change and even Michelle Druby on GB said, you know, pointed out the hypocrisy or potential hypocrisy of that Gideon Falter banning Tommy from his march.
That's quite as, you wouldn't normally hear that from, you know, necessarily at 6pm on something like GB.
So I just wonder if this is becoming so absurd that more and more people are going to notice, combined with X, combined with just the obvious persecution of one person.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
We'll see a bit of a change, but maybe we won't.
The problem is it would require a sympathetic elite class, or at least some elements of it to be sympathetic, and if members of the government are like, well, they're just thugs, it's like, okay.
Right, yeah.
You know, thanks, conservatives.
Yeah, yeah.
At least for us plebs, I mean, we can see the level of corruption and the level of two-tier policing, so there's that.
Let's move on.
Oh, is this my bit?
Yep.
Do I need my little clicker?
Oh, yes.
Thank you very much.
I know the whole system's changed.
All right.
I can figure it out.
Don't worry.
What?
Yeah, there you go.
So I thought we'd do a little piece called Keir Starmer, English Patriot.
You know, I love to talk about Starmer.
Weirdly, I was talking about him last time I was here.
That's just coincidence.
It's not just that I love Starmer.
But he says, Labour is now the true party... I can't do his voice, but I'd love to do it.
But he says, Labour is now the true party of English patriotism.
I know you didn't see that one coming.
No!
Where have you been, Karl?
Didn't you realise Stan was a patriot now?
I kept watching the Labour Party conferences.
Ah, that must have been it.
But look at the flag!
Look at it.
Anyway, so he says, there were many moments in my life when I felt great pride and gratitude to be English.
Being the first person in my working class family to go to university.
Belting out three lines in the crowd at Wembley in 1996, not 66, not that old.
Finally reaching the peak of Scarfell Pike, reference to the lakes, and with his civilian mother.
So, you know, touching moment, that's all great.
Then he says, and defending people facing the death penalty in other countries who look at our dedication to the rule of law with admiration.
How did that one creep in there?
Like, I'm struggling to see how that makes him a patriot.
Especially as if you actually poll the British public, particularly the English.
You find that most of them want the death penalty.
Yes, you do, especially for child murders, serial murders, and multiple murders.
I did a bit of research into this.
If you just ask people, should we bring back the death penalty, half of them are like, oh yeah.
And then if you're like, should we bring back the death penalty for terrorists and child murderers, it absolutely goes up like 65%.
Yes.
Yeah.
As you point out to me, it was only abolished due to the sort of radical activists.
There were communists in the Labour Party.
Sidney Silverman, these type of people, leftists.
It was only in the 60s.
People now talk about it like it's always been the case.
They go, of course I'm not for the death penalty.
Even alleged conservatives.
It's like, why?
Why are you some sort of radical leftist?
Well, it's why the Moores murderers didn't get executed.
Right.
You know, like they're actually evil people who should have been killed.
But what?
Yeah.
And this is a funny bit.
He's saying, so I've been stopping the death party in other countries, you know, and defending these people around the world.
Then you go, colon, the people.
Guess who it is?
Yep.
It's baby killers and axe murderers.
So I raised this last time when I talked about euthanasia, but I thought we'd revisit it in this new context.
Starmer takes great pride in going around the world helping the worst people on earth.
And this, in this new context, also makes him a patriot.
No one knows why.
So, Petra for what?
The very tenuous link is that it's our English values that he's taking around the world, but as you pointed out- The London axe killer who slaughtered his girlfriend in front of her children, and Keir Starmer's like, yes, that's right.
You've not even read the worst one.
The Malawian murderer who tied up his two-year-old stepson before burying him alive.
I know, I know.
It's sick, sick stuff.
These are the people Starmer is letting off with his death penalty project.
This is what he's proud of.
OK, so you've got a choice here, people.
You've got Starmer's Save the Baby Murderer patriotism or my Hang the Baby Murderer patriotism.
You make your choice.
Right.
This is insane.
I mean, I thought and the fact that he's last time I thought about the fact that he wants to bring an assisted dying euthanasia.
But he's so he's pro killing people, but not ones who have murdered people.
Yeah, exactly.
Those are absolutely insane.
But what's even more insane is he's now somehow claiming this is patriotism.
So, papesism is going to other countries to defend unspeakable crimes.
It's like a new crusades to start with.
I bet none of those thugs were even like, you don't want to murder the baby murderer.
Don't hang the baby.
None of them.
None of them spoke up about it.
That's why Keir Starmer didn't answer.
It's just madness, isn't it?
Anyway, but he goes on.
To me, what he's trying to do here is square the impossible circle of being a lefty and a patriot.
So he says, I don't know exactly what it is, but he says, and he talks about, and since the Tories have been in power, Pride in our flag, indeed pride in our national identity, has become more contentious.
Shouting woke doesn't just undermine the proud British vision of free speech, dissent, and independent thinking.
At best, it suggests they don't have faith in the strength of our history, identity, and flag to withstand discussion.
Can you scroll and find some of these from the calendar?
I just can't get over the idea of like, oh man, they disagreed with me, they hate free speech.
Yeah, that's, oh there it is, shouting woke go up.
So shouting woke doesn't just undermine the proud British tradition of free speech.
Why is, so why is criticising woke, which is a movement that wants to shut down free speech, anti-free speech?
It's so raw, it doesn't make any sense at all.
Sure, but the idea that it's since the Tories took power that Pride in the Flag was diminished.
It's like, no, since Blair took power, Pride in the Flag was diminished.
It's very evidently the case.
In 2013, Boris Johnson was trying to do exactly what Keir Starmer is doing.
He was like, we need to be proud of being in this.
Everyone's like, I can't do that.
It's 2013, Boris.
Blair did a similar thing.
He had a sort of token flag standing next to the flag.
He had Cool Britannia.
I found out the other day, Toby Young was part of that, he told me.
He was doing a thing for Vanity Fair and he said, just get Blair to stand by the flag and be part of this Cool Britannia thing.
I was like, Toby, what did you create?
And he's like, I just wanted it for a magazine.
And Blair, apparently Blair's people were saying, but won't that give credit to John Major?
Because all these things are already booming.
And they're like, no, no, people will buy that you've somehow done it.
Yeah.
So that was Toby's fault.
Well done, Toby.
But it doesn't make any... Starmer has the impossible position, doesn't he?
Of having, like, obviously his base are woke, but he wants to seem patriotic to gather up the Red Wolf people as well.
But it doesn't make any sense at all.
That's the problem.
I mean, how can you be both?
How can you be... How can shouting woke be anti-patriotic anyway?
So that didn't make any sense.
Then he does a strange thing where he swaps between English and British suddenly.
He says, I'm proud to be English precisely because it's a place where we can disagree, whether that's a debate in the House of Commons or in the local pub, the pub guy, and still celebrate a common identity, a shared history and a future together.
That's what makes Britain the strong democracy.
That's the envy of the world.
Now, what's strange about that is he talks about his common identity.
Well, yeah, English is a common identity.
British isn't really, especially now anyone can be British.
So it's a kind of slight of hand.
I mean, it never was definitionally.
Right.
Beginning of English, Scottish, Scottish, Welsh and Irish.
English also have a shared history, do they?
Well, that wouldn't mean that those who don't share that history aren't part of the English.
Put a pin in that, we're going to come back to that in a minute.
Yeah, we've got our Patriot special today.
It was just very strange that he just talks about, I'm proud to be English so we can disagree.
Then he goes on to talk about Britain.
The whole title's about England and it's about the St.
George's flag.
He has to make it about Britain, strangely.
Just as a quick thing as well.
Is there anyone, anyone in the audience, leave me a comment on the webpage.
If the things that people around the world envy any aspect of Britain in the modern day, just what makes Britain a strong democracy.
And that's the, that's the envy of the world.
Can we get some, some feedback from people around the world?
Do you envy Britain at the moment?
Got the nice red buses.
In London.
Well, they're red and black.
Is that our democratic system?
You can't say anything that makes people proud around the world.
Yeah, but they're not even red.
They're not the old red buses.
They're like half black now.
Like, they're sinister.
We don't have the phone boxes.
No, I'm struggling.
We don't have the phone boxes.
And as if people around the world were like, yeah, well, they've got the red phone boxes.
So, you know, they're winning.
So we go around the world saving axe murderers.
That's what makes my heart swell with pride.
God save our axe murderers in Uganda.
Where's my St George's?
I need it.
That's the verse they don't sing anymore.
Saving Malawians who buried their stepson.
I'm sorry, the dark era guys.
The new Blairite era, that's going to actually be the national anthem.
Yeah, it's horrific.
They never seem to confound their neighbour's tricks, but all that bit.
Rebellious Scots to Croton.
Yeah, I won't let the Tories chip away at our boldness and confidence.
To me, you just sounded like RuPaul there.
You go girl.
What's it about our boldness and confidence?
Meaningless, sort of fierce, fierce girl style.
Does Keir Starmer think that people don't know who he is?
Because, like, anyone who's spent any amount of time watching Keir Starmer in an interview realizes that fierceness and boldness are not adjectives people would ascribe to him.
Yes, not boldness or confidence.
My father was a tool maker.
All right, mate.
Does he bring that up?
No, but he starts by claiming to be working class in the first line.
As you say, Sir Keir Starmer.
Yeah, yeah, and you're not anyway, but whatever.
So yes, he's suddenly talking about British.
He sounds like RuPaul.
Then he says, the cross of St.
George belongs to every person who loves the country and seeks to make it better, a symbol of pride, belonging and inclusion.
What are you talking about?
What's the inclusion?
It's the crusading flag, mate.
It's for killing Saracens.
I don't know what you mean, inclusion.
What does it include?
It's literally exclusive.
It's exclusive, unless you're English.
It's the flag of the English.
It's a Christian cross.
I know!
I wonder if this is why he's fudging it with Britain, because the British flag is somewhat inclusive, it includes various nations.
And it's, as you say, it's the kind of imperial project, whatever you want to call it.
But the English flag, it's just the English.
It's the most exclusive thing you've got, mate.
That's kind of what a lot of flags are.
But notice what he's trying to do here.
He's trying to say, look, to be English is to be a progressive.
To be English is to be woke.
It is to be a lefty.
It is to be a Blair.
It is to be on the left wing train because this and this we'll cover this again in a minute.
It's an identity that is a strong identity that is not part of their group.
And I can see that it's widely held.
Lots of people actually resonate with this.
It's like, hang on, I am English and that's important to me.
They're like, oh yeah, that is important to you.
It's a very inclusive thing.
Isn't it, fellow progressives?
It's like, no, it's not actually.
It's super exclusive.
And actually, England is a really far right country, which is why whenever there's a small gathering of English people anywhere on earth, you're like, oh my God, far right.
Well, maybe they're right, but they are right, to be honest.
Anyway, he says it's about inclusion, then he says, as you can see, then he says, and respect for each other as fellow British citizens.
So he's gone with the wrong flag again.
You know, that's the blue one, mate.
Like, he just, he seems confused.
Ah, yes.
Respect.
Yeah.
Respect that the Scots and the English show to one another, the English and the Welsh show to another, and the Irish and the English.
Respect is the word that's on everyone's minds there, isn't it?
Respect.
Yeah.
And then, then there's another bit of Ospo.
Yeah.
Shall we ask Dank?
No, we're nearly at the end, but then he goes, a country with a proud national identity, confident on the world stage and sure of its future.
I mean, those are all false.
What is that national identity?
I mean, this guy can't even decide if it's England or Britain.
It's inclusivity.
Right.
Then does anyone feel, as you said, confident on the world stage?
And is anyone here sure of Britain's future?
Unless you say you're sure it's going to keep getting worse.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was going to say that.
I'm actually quite sure that the future is more decline.
Maybe that's what he means.
We're sure we're going down, but at least we know.
We're confident in the decline.
Yeah, so there you go.
But that's just the thing.
That's what he's offering, right?
We've had managed decline, well, for the last 50-60 years, right?
And Kirstein is like, I'll be a continuity candidate of managed decline.
It's that simple.
He knows it.
We know it.
Everyone knows it.
Things aren't going to get better under Kirstein.
How the hell is he 40% in the polls?
Because the Conservatives literally look at the English working class and go, eugh, scum.
Every other candidate is also like, I would also do managed decline.
Yes.
Just apparently faster.
Yeah.
I know.
It's kind of, it's so transparent.
And by the way, some people have figured this out.
Anyway, ends by saying, we'll always put the country first, but you're like, well, is it Britain or England?
Cause you started with England and now you're talking about Britain.
But, if we are talking about Britain, because he seems to want to fudge it and make it about Britain, let's just remember that Labour MPs didn't even want to hand out leaflets with the flag on, and this was less than a month ago!
So, let's just be very clear.
This was 30th of March, updated 12th of April.
Labour MPs warn that campaigners refuse to use election leaflets carrying the Union flag, the naughty, naughty flag of badness.
But look at, look at what they're saying.
It's associated with the National Front.
It's like, it's the flag of the United Kingdom.
When was that?
Like 50 years ago?
I mean, I know.
I mean, even if you went with that.
Who the hell are the National Front?
I know no one thinks about them.
I mean, there's one guy from them and I hope not hate, but other than that, no one really thinks about them.
I mean, This is extraordinary.
This was less than a month ago.
People say, look, we can't give these things out.
We don't want to be associated with them.
It's not clear that it's Labour.
People are complaining about them on the doorstep.
We don't want to be associated with Britain.
We hate it.
No, no, no, no.
It's not sure that it's associated with Labour.
Yeah, no, that's absolutely right.
If they were red flags with a hammer and sickle, they'd be like, oh, it's a Labour leaflet.
But no, British flags, people are like, who's this?
No, they're absolutely right!
The National Front, are they back?
Yeah, exactly, the National Front.
Exciting!
Some feel the plastering of British flags on campaign materials is over the top, amid reports that street teams are uncomfortable handing out the pamphlets for fear they associate with groups such as the National Front or the country of Britain.
Yeah, hello, we'd like to be the government of Britain.
Ooh, bit flaggy, mate.
I know, so there you go, there's your patriotic Labour Party.
And so another fun fact on this from Michael Deacon in Telegraph, he's seen through this, he says Labour patriotic, all the other ones sick here, not quite convinced, and one reason he cites Let me just find it here.
He says, Sakhir's claim is patently untrue.
Indeed, a poll published yesterday suggested that a significant proportion of Labour supporters, one in eight, believe that the St George flag is racist.
Why has their leader just written a long racist article on the Telegraph?
Well, again, he's trying to... so the issue is the St.
George's flag is a parochial flag, right?
It belongs to an ethnic group and in a way that is kind of what they mean when they say racist, as in it is of a race, right?
That's what they mean when they say racist and like every other national flag of an ethnic group is the same.
The British flag is different because it's a civic flag, right?
It's not any particular ethnic group it belongs to and therefore, you know, makes sense.
Well, they've made it weak.
Yeah, they have.
But the point is, there is a difference in the sort of sentiment that underpins it.
And that's why Keir Starmer wrote that thing going, oh no, the English flag means it's propositional.
It just means inclusivity and diversity.
It's like, no, it doesn't actually.
It belongs to the English as an ethnic group, and you can go and do one.
Yeah.
And then Deakin says it's relevant anyway because the election outcome's already settled.
But then he also adds, and the third reason Stalmer shouldn't do this probably, he says, which is that Sikir's plan is terribly short-termist.
Declaring that your party is patriotic may please a few voters today.
It's a surefire way to put off the next generation because many members of Gen Z believe that patriotism, maybe we should say Gen Z and be patriots, or at least British patriotism, is not just uncool but actively shameful.
On Sunday, a national newspaper ran an eye-opening article written by an anonymous teacher who works at an unnamed academy in the south of England.
According to the teacher, today's teenagers openly loathe this country.
The other day, he or she wrote, I asked a class of 13-year-olds to raise their hands if they hated Britain.
30 hands shot up with immediate, absolute certainty.
Two-thirds of teachers vote Labour.
There you go.
This is a bit of a weird one, that you're there being like, yes, this country we've built is full of people who we brainwash as children to hate the country, but now we're going to campaign on loving the country.
Remember, diversity built Britain, and all these teenagers hate Britain.
I guess they're racist too.
You know how teenagers just grow up hating?
I know.
And since our history is full of basically people, you know, immigrants from all around the world since very early, and since, you know, Queen Margaret was a person of color and all this, why do they not celebrate our history and love it?
This is a contradiction.
I mean, Toby, to be fair, has pointed this out.
There's always this contradiction.
They try and rewrite the past, that it was always diverse and gay and trans, but they also hate the past and want to overturn our history.
It's like, which one is it, guys?
You've actually got to pick one of those.
Yeah.
See what I mean?
You've got to pick between rewriting or hating the past.
But yeah, this was just a good point.
I mean, it was quite disturbing, you know, the hands-off shooting up, knowing they hate the country, but, you know, not really why.
Why do we hate the country?
Orwell talked about it, you know, the unique hatred the English have and the British have for themselves.
It's very strange.
But this is different.
This is them being polluted by leftist narratives surrounding Britain, the Empire, racism, exclusion, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So trying to like, you know, switch that narrative out underneath the flag is what they're trying to do.
It's like a shell game at the moment.
But the thing is they've polluted the teenagers against the concept of Britain or England.
So it's like, okay, well, you know, well done.
I suppose following this, you imagine Starmer is probably trying to keep, he thinks he's got the young people on board anyway, and he's trying to win a few Tory votes or something with the flag stuff or the Red Wall.
But yeah, it points out, as you say, the teacher was not surprised.
At a previous school, he or she had found that peoples were imbued with a sense that their country is particularly bad.
This antipathy, the teacher believes, is fostered by a modern curriculum packed with hand-wringing about Western imperialism and institutional racism and designed to open minds to the equals of Western civilisation.
Leftist BS.
Leftist BS.
My, my, my son, my son, they actually recognize St.
George's Day in my son's school yesterday.
And, uh, and so they were talking about like, you know, St.
George slaying the dragon and stuff.
And the teacher was like, yeah, but the dragon wasn't real.
He didn't do it.
And my son was like, is that true?
I was like, no, he did.
That's why you don't see any dragons around, so... He did do it, and he was French, and he favoured the custom freedom.
He was against... Oh no, the dragon I'm talking about.
Oh yeah, the dragon's free.
The dragon favoured free movement.
These are some things I've been saying.
You haven't read the deep law.
Peace laws, yeah.
I've been reading the text, and this is what it tells me.
So there you go.
So Michael Deacon, you know, ironically pointing out he says Sakhir should be planning for the long term by making clear that he and his colleagues despise the country with every fibre there being because that'll be the only way to win Gen Z's votes.
So yeah, it's also true.
You could just finally tell them the truth, Sakhir.
Yeah, we do actually hate this country because it's a white supremacist, racist, imperialist project filled with mostly English thugs, actually.
And Gen Z would be like, brilliant, Labour.
Yeah, exactly.
It's weird he's not doing that.
But he's trying to do both.
It's the impossible balancing act.
So there you go.
It's actually a page with Keir Starmer.
And we probably don't need my bonus topic.
I think that's covered it.
And we're going to stick, I think, with this kind of theme.
So that's my little bit there.
Yeah, because... Well, I mean, I actually really approve of Keir Starmer just coming out and declaring he's far right.
Because that's what it means to be an English patriot in this day and age.
And we're reliably informed this by the Met, actually.
If we can get the next one up, that'd be good.
Because being English is what being far right means, as the Metropolitan Police told us about the people who went to celebrate St.
George's Day in London.
with their English flags.
As you see lit today, an event to mark St.
George's Day is expected to take place.
This will include far-right groups.
Okay, what kind of people want to celebrate St.
George's Day in England, on St.
George's Day?
Well, the English.
They're the people who celebrate St.
George's Day.
Well, it's not Scottish.
It's not the Irish.
It's not the Pakistani diaspora.
It's not the Indian diaspora.
Um, maybe a couple of Sikhs actually tend to, which is nice.
Um, but mostly it's just the English.
And so when they say far right, they mean the native ethnic group of the country.
And so when they say in Ireland, the far right around, well, that means the Irish.
When they say in Wales, the far right around means the Welsh.
When they say in France, the far right around, that means the French.
That's what far right means, the native ethnic group of the place.
And so let's move on to Sadiq Khan.
I like Sadiq Khan a lot because he's a man of many faces, wears many hats.
Sadiq Khan is many things.
For example, here is a proud Pakistani mayor of London.
I'm going to play it just so you can understand just how proudly Pakistani he is.
Not in English.
That had to be done.
I'll stop it, just so you get the point.
I don't know if I get to Pakistan, but it's not for me.
It's for my family, for our community.
The most important thing is that this is that London and Pakistan, UK and Pakistan, friendship.
It's our ties, our culture.
I'll stop it, just to get the point.
Why were the words friendship and helping others only announceable in English?
Well, I guess there's no Urdu equivalent.
When you're a certain age, just think of the old fashion show sketch with the commentator, Chris Waddle.
But that's kind of what that was.
But anyway, as you can see from the title, I am proud to be a Pakistani mayor of London, which is good.
I mean, there's no reason he shouldn't be proud of his ethnicity.
I think that's perfectly normal.
And then, you know, he follows that up being like, well, look, you know, London's the greatest city in the world.
I'm proud of my Pakistani heritage, my faith, my South Asian roots.
Proud to be a Londoner and a Brit.
And it's like, OK, this is starting to get a bit weirdly convoluted, right?
There are lots of hats that he's wearing here and he's just proud of all of them.
So, I mean, Siddique Khan's a very small man, but full of, you know, bursting full of great pride.
There is, of course, him being a proud European as well, which I think is funny.
Let me start with Three facts.
Number one, my name is Sadiq Khan.
Number two, I am the Mayor of London.
And number three, I'm a proud European.
He's a proud Pakistani-European-Londoner.
Indo-European roots, I suppose?
Maybe?
I don't know how far back in this we're going.
Is this going to be like Turan?
Do you know what Turan is?
No.
So there's all the Turkic groups, which includes like the Finns, the Hungarians.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
They all think they're part of the same country and one day all of the Turkic Empire and the Finns and the Hungarians will be back in one state called Turan.
Is he going to make this but Indo-European?
No, no, I don't think that's giving him far too much credit.
I think he just identifies with absolutely all of these things, no matter how nonsensical it is.
And then you've got, you know, he's proud to be a Muslim, of course, which, I mean, I'll be a proud feminist in City Hall.
I'm a proud feminist in City Hall.
I can only find this sun column or whatever it is.
But he is proud to be a Muslim, obviously.
And he's proud to be a feminist, which is nice.
I'll be a proud feminist in City Hall.
I'm a proud feminist in City Hall.
I'm a proud feminist.
I'm a feminist.
I'm a proud... He's a lot more proud of being a feminist than he is a Muslim.
Like I said, I couldn't get a clip of him saying, I'm a proud Muslim.
Pakistani, British, European, feminist, Muslim.
Londoner.
Is that worse?
I think so, but... I don't really know how I'm supposed to categorize Sadiq Khan.
I mean, now, an uncharitable person might say, well, he's a bit confused, isn't he?
He's a bit confused.
There seem to be a bunch of contradictory identities in there.
Or he's lying.
Or he's lying, but we're gonna assume...
He's just got a lot of pride in him, Callum.
He just needs outlets.
Just a good faith man.
Yeah, he's just trying to learn about the world.
He's just proud of whatever's on the front of his mind.
He's like, oh yeah, I'm a feminist.
Yeah, I'm a Muslim.
Yeah, I'm a European.
Yeah, I'm a Londoner.
Oh, I'm a... You know, I'm just proud of all of these things.
Yeah, you can imagine him sort of turning up at an event.
Which one is this?
Yeah, exactly.
I'm a proud bricklayer.
What is this?
I'm a proud feminist.
No, that's the wrong one.
Oh, Muslim.
Don't like women, actually.
I don't know what the hell he thinks of himself as being, but he was born in London for anyone who's wondering.
And so I guess he's a proud Londoner.
We're going to get him wearing Indian uniforms soon.
Yeah, I mean, you know, yeah, exactly.
He's the British Justin Trudeau when it comes to identity.
I don't know what the hell he thinks of himself as being, but he was born in London for anyone who's wondering.
And so I guess he's a proud Londoner.
And I tell you what, this is just, I, it was probably inevitable that Sadiq Khan would become a proud Englishman.
Amazing.
Amazing.
On this day, in the year 2024, Sadiq Khan became a proud member of the far right.
I, for one, welcome him.
I don't.
The far right needs more feminists.
It needs more feminist Muslims.
I think that the far right needs more Muslim representation.
More Pakistanis, more Europeans, actually.
Maybe he's like Madonna.
Remember when she said you need to be a thingy in the kitchen, thingy in the bedroom?
Remember that famous quote?
It depends where he is.
I'm a feminist in the streets, you know, but I'm a... A Muslim in the streets.
I wonder if he gets his wife to write on a chalkboard like Ali Dower does.
Or like the Germans do.
Anyway, um, so I thought we'd just go through this just, uh, cause it's very similar to the Keir Starmer push to make, uh, being English an inclusive identity.
Uh, and if I tell you what, if Sadiq Khan could do it, anyone could do it.
Uh, but he just says, you know, I'm, I'm glad we reclaimed our flag from the English.
Our flag, sorry, Pakistani, feminist, Muslim, European, Londoner.
England, England, England.
Why did the English have your flag exactly?
The one that you didn't want to go anywhere near until today.
Actually like a toddler being like, that's mine.
Yes.
That's actually, I should have thought of that because I have a toddler that goes, that's mine.
And you have to be like, can you share?
And he says, no.
But then when you have something, he says share.
And that's exactly what Sadiq Khan is doing right now.
Right.
Um, but the thing is, he says, England is a nation that is small in size, but grand in vision.
On this day of celebration, it's an opportunity for people to come together and mark with joy our traditions, culture, and history.
Wait, he's empire posting.
Until literally 50 years ago, we had a world spanning empire.
Small in size, but grand in vision.
Sadiq's right.
A quarter of the globe is not enough.
We need a third of the globe.
Like what are you saying, Sadiq?
The England I know and love is a country where we are proud of our heritage and our heroes.
Or like Sir Clive of India.
The guy who conquered India for the British Empire.
Maybe he does want to conquer India.
I hear there's been a few issues between Pakistan and India.
What about Cecil Rhodes?
Are we proud of Cecil Rhodes?
He's proud of conquering India, only if it's for Pakistan.
Is that what you were getting at?
Well, I don't know.
I'm saying, you know, maybe he wants to conquer again.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Maybe.
I mean, he's a proud Pakistani Englishman.
Very ambitious.
But I mean, let's be fair.
I mean, if he's a proud European, proud Englishman, proud Brits, I mean, there's a lot of imperialism tied up in that.
So maybe it runs in his veins, as it were.
But anyway, he says, we're proud of our heritage and heroes.
Like, OK, are we?
I mean, I am, but are you?
Do we think that Sadiq Khan is taking care of the statue of Nelson when the Palestinian protests are happening around it?
Probably not.
Or any of the monarchs.
Or Winston Churchill, or, you know.
But anyway, no, we are, right?
There is a statue of Gandhi, actually, outside Parliament now.
I do wonder if he's going to blow that up.
Yeah, is he one of our national heroes?
We are a nation which gave birth to parliamentary democracy.
One of our proudest daughters pioneered computer science.
One of our proudest sons invented the World Wide Web.
We are responsible for giving the world, and this is the good part.
We.
Yeah, we.
We gave the world.
We gave the world, Shakespeare says.
Shroud, Pakistani, Englishman, European!
Colonizer is like, yes, Shakespeare belongs to me!
Like, the toddler meme is so true, it's just like, Shakespeare, mine!
The Empire, mine!
I swear to God, if he was a Frenchman or a German saying, we gave the world Shakespeare, I'd say, you absolutely did not.
I would spit.
Yeah, you did not.
Get away and enjoy your Goethe or whatever, you bloody... But no, we get... No, but it gets so much better as well, right?
are responsible for giving the world the words of Shakespeare, Jane Austen, The Beatles, Amy Winehouse, and Stormzy.
Oh, thank God.
I'm so love that centric.
I want to kill myself.
But just, sorry, Stormzy.
Stormzy, yeah.
Yeah.
One of the great ones.
You know, a lot of those plays, no one knows if Shakespeare or Stormzy wrote them.
Just the apex of English culture, to be honest.
Like, Stantonicus has a slightly different tone.
It was Stormzy.
Yeah, that's incredible.
Yes.
Stormzy must be thrilled to be in that list.
He smashed it there.
Well, if I was Stormzy, I'd be like, wow, they're mentioning me a long time.
Shakespeare?
Jane Austen?
You know what Jesse Lee Peterson would say?
Where's Amy Winehouse now?
She's dead.
I rest my case.
That's what he always said.
Unfortunately, he said that about Shakespeare, too.
Anyway, he lives through his writing.
But yeah, That's a shocking list.
It's an inclusive list though, it's going to include everyone isn't it?
It's got the boomers in there.
It's a very diverse list.
This is actually their vision of the future of England because I mean the mass ethnic displacement is just going to end up with, let's say their vision for England 2300 is going to be hordes of foreigners being like we invented fish and chips, like we invented the tea and the coffee.
We invented the British Empire that conquered our homeland.
Yeah, the Indian and the Pakistanis are debating about whether or not you should put the jam on first, the cream on first, because of course one side invented, the other side invented the other way.
No, but unironically, in a hundred years time, if they're like, okay, now the British Empire has faded into memory, we're going to make films about it, right?
Like the Napoleonic Wars and stuff like that.
So now we're going to have, right, okay, so we need the British Army moving into Africa or moving into India, and it's going to be made up of Africans and Indians because Britain was always diverse.
So, I mean, how are you going to explain this?
It's going to look like an absolute clown show.
But anyway, he says, as well as celebrating our successes, St.
George's Day is often a time when we discuss what it means to be English.
Who has ever sat down with Sadiq Khan and discussed what being English means to him?
You think that happens in his own household?
Maybe it does in his own head?
Because he's mental?
I don't... I mean, and to be honest with you, I don't sit down on St.
George's Day with my kids and discuss what it means to be English with them.
I do that every single damn day because our identity is constantly under attack, you know?
Gather round, children.
No, no, I'm making my oldest son read Churchill's history of the English-speaking people.
I'm like, look, Alfred was at Chippenham, where he was defeated by the Vikings, and they went to Somerset.
I'm like, son, that's half an hour away from where we live.
You live in that land.
You know, I'm really hammering this into his head.
It's like, this is yours.
It's not Sadiq's.
You know, his ancestors were literally 30,000 miles away.
Your son's going to be the last person that knows our history.
Yes.
In 30 years, he'll be giving a Putin speech of like, an Hengiston horse that just arrived.
God willing.
This is why I've invaded London.
But he says, history shows it's not always easy to define being English.
Many call the reductive, cruel Tebbit test, coined by the former Tory MP and Cabinet Minister, which sought to determine the strength of allegiance of all South Asian and Caribbean immigrants and their children by which cricket team they cheered.
Is that cruel?
Do they identify with the Caribbean or India, or do they identify with England when they're cheering the cricket?
It seems like a really fair measure to me.
Because, I mean, you saw the videos going around the other day of the kids in London being like, yeah, I'm from the Caribbean.
I've got loyalty to my homeland.
I can think of worse cruelties in our history.
It's not that cool, is it?
The worst thing that British ever did was question the cricket allegiance.
It is, of course, entirely foolish to believe that a person's loyalty to our nation can be measured by the feelings invoked by a badge on a set of cricket whites.
Is it though?
Like, do we measure?
I mean, we haven't got a metric for it.
I mean, Andy Murray's always at pains to say how he supports Scotland's negatives for England.
Absolutely.
Quite normal.
It's totally normal.
It's actually completely fine.
But he thinks that your loyalty to Britain is measured by a commitment to protect our democracy.
It's our democracy, Callum.
And the rule of law?
Has anyone got the bingo card?
To preserve our institutions and uphold shared values like respect for others, equality and justice.
That's right.
If there's one thing that the British Empire was about, it's equality.
It wasn't a racial hierarchy as the left would have you believe, right?
It's just saying communist things and saying that's English.
It's just so transparently that.
I kind of preferred it when they were just like, don't you know, St.
George is Turkish?
Yeah.
At least that was just stupid.
Yeah.
They hated it.
They hate us.
They think we're all, they want to undermine our one day.
Yeah.
Now this is like Britain has always been about, uh, gulags and equality.
So what are you talking about?
Equity and all that.
Just take your own values, stick them on the flag.
That's it.
That's literally what he does.
So Sadiq wants England to be a propositional communist nation.
We're not.
And it's actually not hard to determine who is and is not English and what Englishness is.
Englishness is just literally whatever the English do, and they're determined by lineage.
Did you have one English parent when you were English?
It's not that difficult.
Interestingly, that doesn't allow Sadiq into the club.
One of the great many principles underpinning our country is that we can have multiple identities and not subjected to a bogus loyalty test.
Wonder why Sadiq Khan's worried about loyalty tests.
He's a proud European, Calum.
Bogus loyalty tests, such as voting on an issue which would benefit your homeland.
Yes.
Mr. Politician, I'm sorry.
Like, why is Mr. Politician so obsessed with Pakistan?
Because, I mean, I've gone through this before with my whole Pakistan to lend to S point of view, which is that we get nothing from Pakistan.
Literally nothing.
No economic benefit.
You get notice of London.
Yeah, that's been a benefit.
We got no military benefit, no strategic benefit, no diplomatic benefit.
Our relations with the Pakistani state are just negative.
They send us proud Europeans.
I don't know why.
A fellow Englishman!
I don't know what your problem is!
The ancient descendants of Alexander the Great, such as Sadiq Khan, are turning back.
Such a new thing, isn't it?
Forced to choose between our flag and our family history.
It used to be you came to a country, you adopted it.
Even someone like John Lydon was talking about this.
He was saying he was Irish, but then when he came to Britain and England, his mum said, right, you're English now, forget all that.
Ireland and England not always got on so well, but she said, you're English now.
John Lydon from the Sex Pistols.
This is gone now.
Now Sadiq Khan sees that as a terrible choice.
But it used to be like a proud thing.
You came to a country and then you said, right, now I'm British.
Well, that's what incorporation is.
You want to become a part of the place.
But I mean, you can just do what Sadiq is and just literally wear any hat that's relevant, depending on who you're talking to.
But you are right, you know, forced to choose between our flag and our family history.
That's such a great example of what the problem is, Sadiq, because there's your flag, the one you serve under, and then there's your family and your heritage, which obviously wins every single time.
Any normal person would go with their own family before some kind of abstract construct of a foreign nation, which you kind of just are living in anyway.
And you could go back to your homeland.
That's the problem with dual citizenship.
This is why most nations on Earth don't accept dual citizenship outright.
Yeah, sensible.
But then even like places that do, I mean, I think Japan, for example, if you become a politician, they force you to give that one up.
Yeah.
You have to be a Japanese-only citizen to let them out.
And so, I mean, he's completely right, you know, you are forced to choose and Sadiq just chooses everything because he goes on to say, I'm a proud son of Tutting, I am proud to be a Londoner, English, British, of Pakistani ethnic origin and Asian heritage, European and of Islamic faith.
It's like, A lot of those things are just mutually exclusive, Sadiq.
He missed out feminism.
That's a good point.
He's not a feminist.
You know, I guess Posey Parker took that back.
And he says there's no contradiction between any of those.
It's like, no, there is actually, Sadiq.
What if they're mentally ill?
I mean, then you don't have to see them.
Yeah, I mean, maybe he's got multiple personality disorders, but the English and Pakistani are ethnic groups.
And unless you have a parent from each, you can't actually move between them.
You can't just choose.
Your shared history is only one.
Yeah.
Your shared heritage is only one.
And both of his parents are Pakistani, of course.
So it's just, okay, look, I'm not, I'm not saying that you can't be British.
I'm not saying you can't live in England.
I'm not saying you can't be the mayor of London, but what I'm saying.
You're saying you shouldn't.
I'm saying you shouldn't, but that's for other reasons.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Political reasons for that.
You're a Labour Party member, but you just can't.
Say, oh, I'm going to change my ethnic group.
That's just not how an ethnicity works.
It's built into you.
Um, but anyway, he says there's no tension between patriotism and pluralism, which is weird considering the streets of London are constantly filled with that tension.
Um, and he says at a time when forces are trying to divide us and tear our social fabric, we must reject those who claim to be patriots by talking our country down and trying to narrow it to what it means to be English as a way of excluding others.
That's right.
Everyone on the Earth is an Englishman now.
The mission of the British Empire is complete.
Whether you like it or not.
Yeah.
The Imperial Project was literally to turn everyone into an Englishman, basically.
Impose our standards and norms and customs on everyone.
And Sadiq's like, yeah, we will win, guys.
This will work.
Not exactly what Cecil Rhodes meant.
When there'll be more of us all over the earth, the world will be better.
I mean, Cecil Rhodes sort of meant more English, not declare everyone English, job done.
Well, Sadiq Khan's just tapping his big brain and being like, listen, I can fulfill the promise of Cecil Rhodes.
Um, but anyway, on a sensible note, of course, English is, uh, an ethnic identity, which means it's exclusive.
It's a national identity.
It's okay.
All other ethnic identities exclude other ethnic identities.
That's not a form of racism.
It's not hatred.
You're not Kenyan?
I'm no.
And how would you live with that?
I can't, I can't just become a Kenyan.
You know, that's fine.
It's totally fine.
There's nothing wrong with it.
It doesn't make anyone a bad person.
It's just reality.
Um, and he says, I was raised to be proud of being British.
And as long as I can remember, I have been.
But the enormous pride I now feel in being English took longer to develop.
It took until the election year.
I checked with Peter Starmer, we're English now.
Yeah, yeah.
Just, I mean, this is like me saying, well, I take enormous pride in being an Athenian, actually.
I'm not an Athenian.
Took me a bit longer.
Yeah, it took me a bit longer.
But I suddenly feel it because I like Athens now, all of a sudden.
So it's nonsense.
But he says, let us stay true to our values by channeling the famous English spirit, by cherishing and celebrating our diversity.
That's what being English is.
The diversity.
It all boils down to that.
But anyway, you might think that Sadiq would look at this and say, why are my Met Police persecuting my people on the streets?
Yeah, that's his inclusive flag.
Yeah, that's your flag, Sadiq.
They're your people, surely.
They all agree with you.
This is your identity.
Why are you letting your Met Police do this to them?
And why are you letting other groups march without any kind of picker?
That's the feminist European Muslim flag they're just abusing.
It's appalling.
It's just ridiculous, and no one believes it's a thing.
We know you're not an Englishman.
I mean, as you said to the Pakistani television, you're a proud Pakistani mayor of London, and that's fine.
No one's objecting.
Well, I mean, they're objecting, but there are other reasons for that.
Anyway, and he wasn't the only one.
You were a Femi, born in Darlington to Nigerian parents who came here in the 80s.
Still around?
Yeah, he is.
He's still around.
He's a hardcore Remainer, anti-British activist.
He had a spat with Camilla Tomine of GB News the other day.
She told him to go F himself.
And it was quite justified, actually.
He was complaining that he was badly treated, but she posted it and she was completely right.
Right.
There was a community note as well that said Femi was wrong.
But it was so good.
Femi deserves it.
It was so good.
Femi sucks, community note.
But Femi's also joined the far right.
Why don't the English get a day off for St George's Day?
We don't deserve it.
Hello, fellow Englishmen of Nigerian origin.
There's a petition with 70,000 signatures calling for a holiday on St George's Day.
And the problem, Femi tells us, is a national holiday won't restore the pride of people struggling to stay warm and fed.
The petition argues that St George's Day holiday would let English people celebrate their shared history and cultural identity.
I'm not from any region of Nigeria.
I don't know what shared history we have.
I mean, I guess it's British imperial demeanour.
What, so for St.
George's Day, they're going to dress up as subjects and we dress up as governors?
Obviously, Sadiq seems to be recommending it.
I don't know.
But the thing is, right, the petition is arguing that.
And Femi's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on a second.
We aren't responsible for our history.
We weren't there.
So why should we be proud of it?
And even the act of celebrating our past more than our present implies that things have gone downhill, which is exactly what most people feel.
Jesus Christ.
I mean, it's actually like talking to a child.
I wasn't alive, so it's not relevant.
Yes.
But Femi, we've got to accept that you're part of the decline, mate.
Your presence here is the decline.
How narcissistic and egotistical do you have to be to argue, I wasn't there so it's not relevant?
You have to be a mental case to think that's how the world works.
That when you die, everything will cease.
No, everything will carry on without you.
But like, you want to be, say, hello fellow Englishman.
Okay, fair enough.
Okay, fellow Englishman.
By the way, you know, we don't have a history because we weren't personally there.
It's like, that's not how this works, actually, does that mean?
Actually, we've got the inherited continuity of a great civilization that our ancestors built that your parents wanted to be a part of.
Unfortunately, that meant you got born in London or, sorry, no, somewhere else.
You were born in the North.
Kind of.
So yeah, they've gone from sort of, our history's evil, to actually it was full of LGBT people and diversity.
Actually, it didn't happen.
We weren't there.
Not looking.
I mean, we got to the point of book burning.
Yeah, yeah.
It's just the past didn't happen.
How did we start here?
God did it.
Diverse God.
The brown God did it, I guess.
I don't know.
Um, but anyway, he, uh, he says, you know, we don't have a shared cultural identity.
So to brag about our shared cultural identity is laughable.
And it's like, okay.
I thought the shared cultural identity was British actually.
And that Nigerians, English people, and even the Welsh could be British.
But apparently not.
And neither England nor the UK has been working for people and we're experiencing the sharpest fall in living standards on record.
Why should we be proud of that?
And it's like, yeah, we're not taking pride in the fact that the country's in decline.
We're taking pride in the fact that we're decent people and we have a good history, Femi.
Hard to say about declining living standards.
Yeah, exactly.
Weird idea.
Of course, no one likes that.
Sort of the party conference logo.
He continues to then whine about Brexit.
Gaza.
You do.
But the thing is, I think, what have we learned here, right?
And we've learned that the English identity is actually pretty damn strong.
And this is what they're reacting to.
It exists outside of the woke progressive sphere because they kick down like, no, no, that's a national front identity.
Can't have any of that.
And so it's an identity they don't control.
And it's become apparent to them that there is actually a kind of a resurgence, just a groundswell of regular English people are like, you know, and I've seen this a lot from normies, like people, like, you know, when I'm at school and stuff like that, they're like, why don't we have a St.
George's Day thing?
And stuff like this, I've seen normal people saying this.
And so they're like, Oh no, this is a rogue identity that has its own power.
And so they're trying to bring it into the fold and say, yeah, so what your identity is communism really, isn't it?
You know, it's always been communism.
That's just not how people feel about it.
Um, and so it all sounds very sort of leaden tongued and tin-eared when they say it, you know, when Keir Starmer or Sadiq Khan or Femi like, yes, hello, fellow English Patriots.
Haven't we all been English Patriots together?
And I was like, no.
You don't, you're not convincing in any way, shape or form because everyone knows that to be an Englishman or woman is to be exclusive.
And there is no place for the philosophy of inclusivity, inclusivity, and diversion, uh, diversity.
And the thing is, there are lots of records about the English identity from lots of different people.
And one of my favorite hobbies is to find foreigners talking about the English.
Because it always makes us sound amazing, right?
So this is just a collection of quotes.
So you've got 14th century French chronicler, Jean Froissant, described the English with great haughtiness, who are affable to no other nation than their own.
True?
Yep.
True?
Yes.
A German knight, Nicholas von Poppelau, visited the country and complained that the English think they are the wisest people in the world, and the world does not exist apart from England.
Checks out.
They're all just Europeans to us.
Yep, not even that, foreign.
Yeah.
15 years later, the Venetian travellers stated the English are great lovers of themselves and everything belonging to them.
And whenever they see a handsome stranger, they say, he looks like an Englishman.
Well, we don't say that anymore, but fair enough, you know?
And so that just, that just makes us sound amazing.
And people kind of are angry about it.
The Greeks of Sicily thought we had long tails and they were threatened to cut off our tails and say, I don't know what they're talking about there.
Don't tell them about the tail.
That's pretty cool as well though, isn't it?
You're going into battle and they're thinking, these guys have tails.
I guess they must have had long hair or something.
But the French accused the English of being drunken and perfidious.
Totally true.
Not wrong.
You see that Ryanair flight that went viral?
No.
After 20 minutes of takeoff, all of the alcohol was consumed.
For the next eight hours, there was no alcohol to be consumed.
And a riot ensued on the plane probably.
But call it with the perfidious chat.
They were aloof, they were phlegmatic, and they were insensitive to their own suffering and to the suffering of others.
They were not afraid of death.
This is why they quarreled with so much ferocity.
They robbed and murdered one another quite openly, sometimes even their king.
So were they known for their violence.
They make us sound amazing.
They just pasted that from your Twitter bio.
They may as well.
They make us sound like chads.
Yeah.
Medieval Chads.
Oh my God, the English.
We don't know what we can do about them.
They keep beating everyone up.
It's like, yeah, kind of.
That was what the Hundred Years War was.
And their tails.
Yeah.
Being a prick, you need to be killed.
It just makes us sound amazing.
And and this this is what I got first put onto this.
We're going through this Dutch professor's study of the English in the early 20th century in a book called The English, Are They Human?
In which he came to the conclusion, no, they're not human.
Uh, they, they hold themselves as something above humanity, uh, because they hold really high standards and they have particular ways of doing things.
And they think that if you're not doing this, these things this way, then you're not properly English.
And the rest of humanity does all of the things differently to us.
And therefore, um, we are, we are not really human to the continental mindset.
Okay, fine, yeah.
That's how we had the Empire.
We had all the fair play.
We're going to conquer you, but in a kind of benign way and have things like fair play because we are better than all.
And we're going to impose high standards on you.
You're going to stop slaving, stop burning widows.
You know, we just do things in a better way.
And he was like, well, maybe after the Empire's gone, they'll come back to earth and be human again.
Actually, I'm kind of worried that he might be right.
So, no, no, we are actually better than you.
According to history, your own critique of us and what we feel about ourselves.
We should act differently.
We shouldn't have these high standards.
We should be exclusive.
All right.
Let's go to the video comments.
Nice.
Yesterday was basically about the old world blues, and to that end I have a film I'd like to recommend.
Now to me, the zenith of civilization was the 1920s through the 1940s.
It was certainly the height of public architecture, civic virtue, and a general sense of beauty.
And there's this wonderful film called The Naked City.
Yeah, it did look nice.
We were talking about this the other day.
watch in its own merits, but it has a party trick that was filmed in the actual real-life streets of New York City in 1948, forever preserving them in amber.
Of course, now that makes it a very difficult watch, forever reminding us that for that one brief shining moment, there was a place called New York.
Check it out.
Yeah, it did look nice.
We were talking about this the other day.
I think there is probably a really shining time in the United States between, what, like 1910 to 19... 1890, maybe?
Because it's such a large place, and when you look back at the states of Europe, the amount of ethnic diversity you have, or just minor differences even between regions, is huge.
And that's because you've got a huge amount of time, right?
Yeah.
Whereas the United States was basically, you know, the continental United States, taken by that one ethnic group.
Along with, I suppose you could say, the black Americans, slaves.
They're also their own ethnic group in a way.
Yeah.
But you've got those two groups and because it's all the same ethnic group over such a large space, there's a sense of unity that obviously is now falling apart.
Yeah.
Because there's mass immigration, so you have areas that are massively different because of that.
There's also just time, which makes things different.
Their own unique politics and the individual places get massively different over time as well.
But it's amazing to think back in the 30s, for example, how uniform the United States would be in that minor way.
Because I'm thinking just of those presidential maps, if nothing else, the way that one president would just take everything.
I was like, oh, yeah, he did.
How would he do that?
I was like, well, the country kind of agreed on a lot of things.
Didn't Nixon do the same thing?
A whole bunch of presidents.
Yeah, Nixon, Reagan.
But when you look at the map, you're like, there's a lot of homogeneity of thought here.
Yeah.
It's a very unique time in American history, it'll never happen again.
Well, there's no more land to conquer.
Go to the next one.
Maybe that's why the song's called "When Dubs Cry", because you heard them laughing, it's a bit weird.
I had no idea.
For the audio listeners, you haven't gone mad.
Someone did decide to send in a video of doves.
I didn't know they made sounds like that.
I've only heard them cooing.
The next one.
Sargon, oh Sargon, lost in the stream.
In the land of circus you're oft will be.
Move or lose, attack through the door.
But in our hearts you're cherished for sure.
Sargon, slow Sargon, I think this is about my Twitch account.
Alright.
Because I've got to run it myself.
Take you back to boomerang things.
Probably.
If the AI generated song is anything to go by.
Is this because it says mouse clicks echo?
Is this some sort of autistic thing where they're all going like, why do you always do this, Carl?
Because you do one tiny thing wrong or something?
I guess it must be.
I've screwed the stream up somehow.
Click, click, click, click, click.
Fix it.
Yeah, I don't know.
I tell you what though, that AI generated music is amazing.
Like someone sent me one that was genuinely catchy and I was enjoying it and I caught myself, I was like, hang on, this is just.
Stop it Karl.
This is just a digital way of manipulating my brain.
This is not like a person who's like, I've got an idea.
I want to transmit a feeling to another person.
I have techno-synced.
You shouldn't be enjoying this.
I agree with you.
It's not an authentic experience now.
It's just being manipulated by a machine.
I know you're right, but at the same time... I know I'm right!
We talked about this in your Dystopian video.
It's just like, well, if it's good, it's good.
There is that, and I had to... There's no intentionality, is what he's saying.
Which is the basis of art.
You're making me think...
What is that thing?
I know the Matrix is making me think that this is a juicy steak.
That's kind of what Carl's saying.
The Matrix is making me think I'm enjoying this song and having emotions, but I'm not.
I'm miserable and hate the song.
No, no, it's more than that though, because I mean, okay, well, if it comes to that, why can't I just get an electrode and jam it into my head that just produces the pleasant feeling in my head?
You know, I'll just take a pill, it'll just make me feel good about it, it's Soma, you know.
Just take LSD, you'll be fine.
Yeah, but I don't!
And so, that's why I hate AI generated stuff, even if it's getting quite good.
Alright.
Well, on that note, we have an announcement to make before I go to the video comments, which is I'm leaving.
No!
Callum cannot leave.
Who else shall see us Koopa torment?
It's alright, I'll get over it.
I'll just spend all my time torturing everyone with this!
Mwahahahaha!
Hey, I just gotta stop.
Good luck with the torturing, I suppose.
I just... I appreciate it.
It's nicer than a tribute.
It is sad.
I mean, I'm worried about your last day where you'll just get so outrageous with the things you say.
You know what I mean?
Like, you already say a lot of stuff.
I just don't want to be on that one because of my reputation.
I don't want to be like, Nick Dixon sat next to him and offered no pushback.
You know what I mean?
When the arsehole cop seemed to just smirk at the appalling things.
Oh no, you're going to get the Dan Wood treatment.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know what?
Not only would I not fuck her, I wouldn't even rape her.
Let's go to the next one.
Carl, I've been a fan for quite a while, since the OG GamerDate days.
However, with the ending of Contemplations and Symposium, I just don't feel like the legacy either represents my interests anymore to continue supporting it.
It feels like the promise of nourishing content has degraded over time into just complaining about the same issues of the day over and over again.
And with hosts that are increasingly frustrated in just accepting of solutions that are so short-sighted and knee-jerk.
I still wish you guys luck in your future endeavors, and maybe someday I'd be willing to rejoin if there's less of the managerial state advocacy and more genuinely nourishing content.
What?
Less than managerial state advocacy?
Probably doesn't mean me.
I think he's probably referring to Connor or Harry, I presume.
But then again, that's a presumption.
I have no idea, but we've got big things coming.
They just take time.
So that's why we had to end Contemplations and Symposium just to free up... Josh was telling me he did 170 of them or something?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's quite a lot.
Yeah, but we've got like massive stuff in the works.
It just takes a bit of time.
But you'll see soon.
We won't, because he's gone.
Well, not that guy, yeah.
Other guys we'll see.
Callum, mate, so sorry to hear you're going.
Of course, I am subscribed to Britannica, so I'm already up to date with your travel vlogs.
I'm looking forward to seeing more in the future.
But as of now, this one's for you, mate.
Nastolovye.
Yuckida?
Smacking an entire thing of tequila like that.
Rough.
Legend's got the guitars in the background.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, let's go forward.
Psalm 97, colon, two clouds and darkness are round the mountain.
Light as the sun's darkened path, the habitation of this lone path.
Psalm 97,3, a higher-dourishly fortune, and turn a supplementary round about love.
What the fuck?
That's the future.
And just robots for reciting Bible verses in Stormzy.
That's disgusting.
The equivalent of Shakespeare.
We gave the world the King James Bible, says a proud Muslim Pakistani.
Robot.
That's pretty cool.
I was very sad to hear that Callum would be leaving the Lotus Eaters.
I really enjoyed your contributions.
I have subscribed to your YouTube channel and will begin watching the videos of you traveling to weird places.
Since that's something you enjoy doing, might I recommend the country of Oman?
Check it out and see if that's something that interests you, but there's a lot of mountains that you can go hiking and mysterious forts to explore.
So I am sorry to see you go, but all the very best for the future!
Oman?
Is that in the Arabian Peninsula?
If it's dangerous, he'll go.
I mean, it's not dangerous.
That's the sad thing.
It didn't sound that dangerous.
That's the problem.
No, I wouldn't go traveling in Oman on my own.
I did meet a fellow once who was in UKIP, who was one of the old boys, and he used to be in the SAS.
He's like really, really old.
And he told me about how him and the boys back in the day, you know, back when British boys would go travel in the world, they cooed the government of Oman for the British government, because Lamal, Like, he was actually part of the team that went in there, got rid of the old Prince, put the new one in, and then they just did PsyOps for the next year to make sure he was legitimate.
And it's just like, oh, okay.
Damn, that must have been fun.
So I don't know if there's anything left from that, but that just sounds really funny.
Go and find out.
You know, Sadiq Khan lamenting it.
Risto says, happy episode 900.
Congratulations from a long-term subscriber.
Thank you.
And a couple of other people say the same thing.
AJ Teef says, always good to see Nick on the podcast.
It's always good to have him.
Thank you.
George says, I like Tommy and his message, but at this point, I suspect the state keeps him at bay with these endless lawsuits, which his supporters have to fund.
It's funneling money from patriots to lawyers with nothing really being achieved.
That is a fair point.
They're going to keep persecuting.
What can they do?
Yeah, I mean, I've had these What would you call them?
Like worries about Tommy for quite some time now, which is the, I mean, for the last four years, he spent a lot of his time basically just being screwed.
Yeah.
Which he's got to break out of that cycle.
I don't know how.
Maybe this is a good step forward because I mean, if they're actually going to be like, look, we're going to get sued by him.
I mean, what if they have to give him like 50 grand?
What if there's more?
You know?
Yeah.
Like they're going to be like, okay, hang on a second.
We can't actually keep doing that.
Because now there's cameras everywhere.
It's lawfare, isn't it?
It's what they're doing to Trump so they can do it to anyone.
It's not even lawfare when they're making it up.
We're not even charging him.
It's bad lawfare.
Kevin says, the Met is like the reverse image of Hot Fuzz these days.
JJHW says, the police were stopping Tommy from making money for political reasons.
It's economic terrorism under English law.
I'd be bringing a private criminal prosecution and take down the entire Met as a terrorist group.
Well, I don't think it's going to take down the entire Met.
Definitely needs to sue them.
Well, you've definitely got grounds.
Omar says, it only takes one man to police Tommy, but the maths checks out.
If you remember, the Met Police are one twelfth of a man each.
Nice.
Fair point.
The letter M is for mental illness, did it?
It says, Callum, have you ever falsified evidence due to your dyslexia?
Weirdly enough, no.
That's not how that works.
Really?
Hasn't happened very often.
No!
I just... None of that case made any sense whatsoever.
And what was even weirder is the police officer then coming out and just being like, yeah, I made it all up.
What?
Why would you do that?
Why would you admit it?
Why wouldn't you just lie?
I was just like, well, you know, I've got no confidence in anything I did.
Yeah, I mean, why wouldn't you just lie?
You've already lied once.
Back on the streets!
Get policing again!
Just lie twice.
Obviously, there's no punishment in the Met for lying.
Ewan says, isn't the pep spraying GBH?
Maybe.
I mean, I don't know.
Lord Nerevar says, with Tommy being set free and the Met cracking down on St.
George's Day demonstration, it feels there's something of a resurgence in English identity in this country.
Yeah, and that's what I was talking about with the Sadiq Khan and with the Keir Starmer thing.
They can tell that there's an important identity out there that they don't know.
I've noticed that the people are a little less afraid to fly the flag and a little more confident in their country.
That's just me.
No, I've seen that too.
I've seen it.
Just going around, I saw more English flags just on my local estate than I had in previous years.
So it's like, I think there is something happening there.
We didn't think about it growing up because it was just the norm, but now that everyone told us a decade of it's evil and where it's gone, we go, what's this thing you're talking about?
And we've sort of looked into our own history more on our own.
Yeah.
And just like, it's just not even that, just the normies just feeling like, no, I'm going to get an English flag for St.
George's Day.
That's the proper thing to do.
But I saw like people who are like, just, just people you wouldn't expect, just like, you know, mums and stuff.
Yeah, but I'm including them as well.
I mean, it's all filtered to them.
If I speak to my parents, they hate the woke stuff as well.
It's filtered to them as well, just a bit slower.
I think it's just great.
Colin says, there's something that strikes me when the left refer to Tommy, real name.
I don't know if Tommy has changed his name officially, but either way, is that not dead naming?
Yeah, well, that's a good point.
But they do only have double standards.
Derek says, in a just world, Keir Starmer would never receive the knighthood.
Yeah, but wasn't he given his knighthood by the Conservatives?
I'm pretty sure he got it like in 2012 or something.
If Starmer didn't have double standards, he'd have no standards at all.
Obviously true.
So, Starmer wants to kill people we ought to help and help people we ought to kill.
And he's going to be the PM, yes.
Baron Von Warhawk says, soon the only flags that will be flown in England will be the pride flag, the hammer and sickle, the Ukrainian flag and the ISIS flag.
Uh, no, that's absolute nonsense, Brown.
He'll be the EU flag as well.
Oh.
2014, he got the knighthood.
So it was the Tory.
They're so awful, man.
Real Lady Custody says, I'm Scottish.
I envy Britain from the 19th century.
I want off Blair's Wild Ride now, please.
Fodder 17 says, Britain is an effing laughing stock now, and our politicians are the only people who have not yet realized it.
Yeah, I mean, no one looks at our country with envy at this point.
I don't know why we have to explain that.
Aspiring immigrant says Britain is amazing, great values, let me in, give money.
Henry says, who's envious of the people in Britain?
Probably all the foreign sex offenders who are granted asylum in the UK.
There's a convicted sex offender that gets executed back home.
Probably true.
Yeah.
Roman Observer says, as an Italian, I envy the fact that you have more warships than us, for now.
As for the rest, I welcome you in the queued by international bankers club.
I'll tell you what, Matt.
How many, do we have a Navy anymore?
Yeah.
How much?
We got one aircraft carrier.
Amazing.
So we share that with the French.
I don't believe so.
We're ordering another one.
I'm pretty sure that we share our aircraft carrier with the French.
I thought they had their own.
You've got some destroyers and stuff.
They're just, they're not very good.
That's... I mean, like, compared to the Chinese.
They're just from the 19th century.
Probably.
I mean, Rory would know best about this.
Yeah, I don't.
He's obsessed over it, but... Josie Angels on Rumble sent us a chat saying, Takiya, Tawira, Kitman, or Maruna, which one is Sadiq Khan guilty of?
I don't know.
I don't even, I don't know what the other two are.
I know what taqiyyah is.
Also not a crime.
What, to lie?
No, it's not a crime.
Like taqiyyah is lying for the faith.
Yeah.
So it's excused.
So it's not even a sin.
Yeah, no, I don't even think that's what Sadiq's doing though.
I think he's just a very confused person who lives at crossroads of many different things and is trying to please everything.
He's trying to be everything to everyone all the time.
Derek says there's double think, then there's octuple think regarding Sadiq Khan.
A lot of people are accusing the Labour Party of having double standards.
Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan.
A lot of people saying we've got double standards.
I just want to put this to bed.
No, they don't.
Because that would imply they held a standard to begin with.
They don't have a double standard.
Their standard is to lie.
Simple as that.
Sadiq has actually no idea what he's dealing with here.
He's quickly going to learn that the English are more than just tea and beans on toast.
Yeah, occasionally they're thugs.
His treatment of our capital city has radicalized a large number of English people against his internationalist regime.
I think he's going to start feeling that soon.
Not violence, of course, but resistance, like the Ules Blade Runners.
What do you guys think?
Do you think there's going to be civil disobedience?
Yeah, perhaps.
I mean, the stark two-tier policing, the anarcho-tyranny is becoming so absurd.
I do think, you always think something's going to happen and nothing does.
I see people getting more and more enraged.
I don't know where that leads to.
But that's definitely going to happen.
But I don't know what they do at that point.
It's probably dangerous to speculate.
But yeah, Blade Runner type things, maybe.
It's cool they got themselves a good name as well.
That's good.
If you're going to be some sort of resistance movement, you need a cool name.
I'm not going to advocate that because I've seen Lawrence and they come to your house a lot, don't they?
I'm totally against it.
I'm just going to say, inshallah, more of it.
Omar says, I think London Stannies, like Sadiq, are just bitter their own heritage and culture doesn't match up to what surrounds them on a daily basis, even if you don't live in the better parts of London.
Maybe.
And I guess we'll end on this really... Go on, go on.
I was just going to say one thing before we ended, but carry on.
OK, and I'll end on this amazing comment from Furious Dan.
To BRAP or not to BRAP, that is the question from William Stormsphere.
I just didn't want to end without plugging, can I just say go to my podcast, The Current Thing, featuring Carl Benjamin and many other great guests.
Wow.
And go to, well that one's coming out next, that's why he's not there yet, and go to nickdixon.net, my sub stack, if you like my stuff.
And, you know, you can find me on xNickDixonComic and my YouTube is somewhere, it's not very It's not big yet.
It's not like Callum or Sargon, but you know, we're just starting out on that.
But yeah, Current Things, excellent podcast.
So thank you very much for having me.
Sometimes I don't get my plug in before the end.
I think I've come to Swindon.
What was that all about?
You know what I mean?
I just wanted to get it in there.
Can't just look at me blankly.
No, sometimes I don't get any plugs and I think, you know what I mean?
It wasn't wasted, obviously, because just doing Lotus Seat is for the fun of it.
There we are.
Do go and check out the current thing.
That's what I'm saying.
That's the bottom line.
And maybe I won't see you again, Calum, on this podcast.
I'm worried about that, but I guess I won't.
When I've got AIDS, I'll come back.
Good to work with you.
Good luck.
All right.
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