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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #933
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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seeders.
Today is Monday the 6th of June and this is episode 933.
It's the 10th.
It's the 10th of June.
Sorry, I made that up.
Stelios is just defining what the day is today.
Stelios chooses what day we're on.
I want it to be the 6th of June.
He wants summer to never end.
He's very benevolent.
I'm your host Stelios.
You know what this means.
The table shall be banged.
And I'm joined by Josh and Dan.
Hello.
Right, today we are going to discuss how reform wins, how the European right is rising, and how goblins, you heard correctly, goblins, are reportedly terrorizing people in Zimbabwe.
That's right.
So, should we begin, Dan?
Yes.
Let's talk about what it's going to take for reform to win, because this is starting to get a little bit interesting now.
This was by far the most boring election of my lifetime, up until about a week ago, and it is now the most interesting election of my lifetime.
So, first thing to say is, by all means, If you haven't ordered yet, we are closing the pre-order period for the magazine this week, so if you want to get a first edition, head over to lowdiseases.com and do that now.
Right, now, if you want to play along at home, you want to go to this website, Electoral Calculus, where basically you can sort of plug in whatever numbers you like and you can find out what's going to happen, but we're going to be talking about some of this, so I'll give you an opportunity to load that up if you wanted to do that.
Let's start off with a little bit of poll tracking, which The Telegraph have helpfully provided for us here.
So we can just sort of get a sense of the scale of how badly things are going, or how well things are going.
But badly, of course, if you are Conservative.
So this is the general sort of poll trackers.
Now, as you can see, both the two main parties, and it was really only the two main parties there, were sort of level-pegging before we decided to lock down the world over a scare.
Is this not June 2021 after the lockdowns?
Yeah, well that's as far as it goes back, but basically they had been level pegging until then.
And as you can see, the fear campaign, which the Troyes decided to lean into, gave them that sort of short-term bump.
But by, you know, what's this?
This is...
This is end of 21.
People were getting a bit fed up with it.
The fear-mongering was no longer working.
And basically, since then, the Tories have been well behind.
And it's only accelerated ever since then.
And you've got this sort of irredeemable gap in the middle.
A couple of things I'll also point out on the polling tracking.
That's people's views on immigration.
Any chance we can get this in not-dark mode?
Because we can't see the key now.
So, as you can see, people who think that immigration is doing damage to the UK, I mean, overall it is the view now.
Immigration has become the main issue for this election.
Strongly amongst Tory voters.
Only Labour voters still think that immigration is a good thing.
Not sure why.
Because they're immigrants, probably.
Well that could be it.
Immigrants largely vote Labour.
In fact, the vast majority of Immigrant groups vote Labour for at least the first generation, right?
You know, in Muslim communities, it's like 99% Labour.
Although I would say easily the most anti-immigration and probably racist people I know are people who are first-generation immigrants who came here sort of 20, 30 years ago.
They like sticking the ladder out underneath them, don't they?
It's funny, isn't it?
Yes, so immigration is the major issue.
Right, now let's look at polling by age because it's worth making this point as well.
So Labour are dominant amongst the younger people, the sort of 18 to 24s.
I mean, there's just a sort of unassailable gap there.
If you go into the 25 by 49s, these people were somewhat affected by the fear period that we had around here and it sort of improved the Tories' chances.
You can see why they lent into Project COVID fear so heavily, but it never sort of permeated through to an actual commanding position.
50 to 60, they actually had a lead amongst these people during the Project COVID fear, although that has since dropped away.
But the defining feature of the Tory strategy is this.
If you look at the over 65s-- now, for the over 65, that's basically all they've got.
It's 65-year-olds.
So, I mean, that is why you're seeing what looks to be, like, completely insane Tory messaging around this election, which is, you know, let's do conscription.
Let's send the young people off to fight in that Ukraine war that you've been sitting there watching on the news every night.
Well, it's not a serious policy proposal, is it?
It's just sort of boomer bait.
It's for the boomers.
Is this the group you love so much?
And talking about it in Broconomics?
Well, it may have come up in Broconomics once or twice, but you know, the conscription policy, which to be fair isn't mainly conscriptionism, mainly it's just free workers for the NHS.
State slavery, yeah.
Yeah, and delivering things to old people.
Now that policy, it's something like two-thirds don't like it, but the third that do like it, Oh 65 plus.
That's as explicit as you can possibly get of the Tories admitting we've given up on the young and the middle-aged we're just going for the old because at least we know they're likely to vote for us.
Well I think it's worse than that.
I think what they're doing is effectively torching their long-term viability as a party In order to try and lock up, to stop that bleed that you're seeing there in the only group that still votes for them, which is the over 65s.
Because not only have you got conscription, which like I say is mainly just slave labour for the NHS and delivering things to old people, as if, you know, presumably they don't have Amazon or something, but also there's of course the quad lock that they've now put on pensions.
Now, nobody under 65 is going to give that policy any credence whatsoever, because everybody under 65 understands perfectly well that they're not going to get a pension.
But the people who are 65 now, you know, you might stretch out for a few more years where they can have their sort of quadlocked pensions and their slave labour.
So, yeah, that's basically why the Tory policy in this election campaign looks so mad.
It's because they're torching it just to shore up the over 65 vote.
Polling by country.
I'm not sure London is a country.
Maybe it should be.
Actually, let's statehood for London.
Two-state solution.
The rest of us in London.
I quite like that.
I can live with that.
Yeah, London, of course, there's no meaningful reform presence there.
Tories have always done low there.
The rest of the South, that's the only area where the Tories still have a reasonable showing, even though it's behind, And as you can see, Reform are shooting up there.
But in places like the North, again, you know, some growth.
In fact, look, in the North, Reform are level-pegging with the Tories now.
Scotland, well, they've got that Scottish National Party, which appears to be not particularly Scottish, not particularly national.
It's not even fun.
It's like the scandal party at the minute.
Everything they do is going wrong.
All of their foundational leaders have been kicked out of the party for various reasons.
Nicola Sturgeon is under investigation, I believe, for fraud, as is her husband.
And just think of how much she risked and for what reason.
She sort of lost her position for the scandal that erupted after.
I mean, that was the uproar.
There were other reasons, but you remember with the Isla Bryson affair?
She gets to spend more time with the cats or whatever it is that she's into.
But even there, look, the SNP have fallen behind Labour, which is quite remarkable.
Let's have a look at England as a whole just for the fun.
Oh, there you go.
Yeah, strong showing there and reform are heading up to that sort of Tory level.
Well, the Tories are on decline, aren't they?
So even amongst their sort of chosen demographic, which is pensioners, they're still going down and losing people to reform.
So even though they've cornered this demographic and sort of scorned everyone else which isn't going to help them in the long term as you say even amongst that target constituency they're still going down yes so the damage is being done well thus the policy is to try and shore them up interestingly we don't have a huge difference between the sexes because you often see those sort of charts of in the u.s of how the democrat vote is heavily female skewed there's a bit of that going on but that seems to be less of an issue
um here um which is which is broadly the same pitch although reform does much better with with men than it does with women women tend to like seeing lots of fighting age males being shipped over or something or whatever it is but um but uh yes it's not quite as strong on that um brexit vote you can probably work out for yourself let's have a look at how it's held up since the last election and look at that tories have just bled away support
so i mean they've lost a full half of their support from the people who voted for them last time um and some of them are going to labor but but pretty much they're all going to reform so So primarily you would say that the vote in the upcoming elections is primarily a non-conservative vote, an anti-Tory rather than a pro-Labour.
Let's look at Labour to address that point.
They haven't gone anywhere.
It's the same vote share.
Labour are not getting more popular, the Tories are just hemorrhaging support.
That is the lesson from this election really, is that it's not that Labour are particularly good or particularly resonating with people, it's just that The Tories are monumentally bad, yeah.
Yes.
And I blame David Cameron for this because he came in and he wanted to modernise the Tory party.
And what do we mean by modernise?
Basically he's getting rid of all the white men who believe in conservatism.
Just get rid of them, sideline them, push them out.
He was sort of almost a Blairite, I think it's fair to say.
He was basically Blair wearing a blue rosette.
Yeah, he called himself the heir to Blair.
Yeah, he's very much a Blairite.
And all the circular people, and that was when I was still involved in the party, all the circular people around him, they loved Tony Blair.
They were obsessed with him.
They talked about him all the time.
It's like, how can we emulate him?
How can we become like him?
And there was only a few of us involved back then who were saying, By the time of 2010, we were saying, no, no, no, this is the time to go back to proper conservatism.
They're sick of Labour.
This is your moment.
And when obviously I was supporting David Davis, but the majority decided to go with David Cameron and we got this modernisation.
So what that meant was parachuting candidates that he wanted into the safest seats, which makes it quite interesting to when you come to what the Tory party is going to look like after the election.
So I put this thread up.
So there's going to be a number of my threads on here, but they're so good.
That's why I needed to share them with you.
Well, I basically just say, look, based on the latest polling that we've had, the polling after reform came out, Rishi Sunak does get back in, but his majority is slashed from 27,000 to about 27,000.
That's pretty close isn't it?
Which is, well this is the thing, I mean I'll show you this, but even if they get 55 seats here, all of them, all of them are super marginal.
So Rishi Sunak stays in, Nadeem Zahawi, now he's stepping down but if he wasn't stepping down he should win his seat because he's got one of those nice safe seats.
Priti Patel, she'll probably come back in and she'll be a contender for the Tory leadership coming back in.
Suella Braverman, her seat is a bit of a knife-edge, Fairham.
Fairham is kind of Hampshire's Clacton, so if she had flipped to a form like I was sort of suggesting that she do, then she'd probably have a much stronger chance, but for whatever reason she wasn't accepted or wasn't brave enough, her seat's a knife-edge, but she might get back in and be another leadership contender.
Who else stays in?
Nuss Ghani will probably win Sussex World.
Ranil Jayawardena, he'd be in and he'd have a four digit majority, a majority in the thousands, so that would give him a nice safe seat.
But the Tories in, what, 2019 were winning by 10,000, 20,000, sometimes even 30,000.
These are a couple of thousand.
So this is a very, very delicate... Well, this is my point.
If you've got a majority in four digits, you're a leadership contender on the other side of this.
And the other one I'll highlight here is Sabit Behati.
So that is what the Tory party is going to look like after the election.
These are the people who hold their seats.
Now let's talk about who's going.
Gove, now he's smart enough to step down before he gets kicked out anyway, but he'll be gone.
Globalist Chancellor, what was it, Jeremy Hunt, he's going to be gone.
Oliver Dowden, Deputy Prime Minister.
He was responsible for that online harms bill, which was absolutely horrendous.
It was just enhancing internet censorship.
Yes.
Yeah, I mean, Labour will do that more of course, but that's a subject for another time.
Grant Snaps, one of the few that people actually know.
He's going to be gone.
Paddy Mordaunt, Portsmouth North.
She can bugger off.
Won't get Bill Gates writing a foreword for her next book.
I don't know who this guy was but apparently he's the Lord Chancellor, Alex Chalk.
He's gone.
Mel Stride from Work and Pensions will be cashing in his own pension early.
Gillian Keegan, the Education Secretary, she's also gone.
Now, this is remarkable for me because she stands for Chichester.
Mm-hmm.
Chichester, I don't know if you've ever been there, but it's basically distilled middle-class Toryism in a place.
If you were to concentrate the juices of middle-class Toryism and then just splash it liberally, Chichester would grow up.
I mean, actually, this Ralph Lauren denim shirt is from House of Fraser in Chichester, which I bought when I was 17, 26 years ago, and I had no idea that the shirt was going to outlast conservatism in Chichester.
Well, there we go.
Mark Harper, he's going to need his own transport, the Transport Secretary, because he's going to be gone.
Esther McVeigh, I kind of like Esther, because she pushed back at least a little bit on the lockdown madness.
The Loch Ness Monster, yeah.
Yeah, but she's gone as well.
Liz Truss, who is perhaps most famous for briefly being Prime Minister and appearing on Conor's show, she's going to be gone.
In reverse order of importance, yeah?
Yes, yes, quite.
And Kemi Badenoch.
Now, her seat is a bit of a coin flip, but I think she'll probably win it because she's going to get lots of support from Tory HQ.
So, she's my favourite for Tory leader after the election.
Now, regardless of the rights and wrongs of it, I do think it's worth noting the optics of the Conservative Party primarily being a Southeast Asian Heritage Party led by a black woman when immigration I do think it's worth noting the optics of the Conservative Party primarily being a Southeast Asian Heritage Party led by a black woman when immigration is the top issue of Now, whether that's right or wrong or not, I'm not passing comment on that.
I'm just saying that optically it might be a bit of an issue for the Tories.
Well, even operating within their own diversity paradigm, they've gone for the diversity of London.
That's the diversity that they want Parliament to reflect, which isn't actually the case in the past.
In pretty much the rest of the UK.
Maybe if you live in somewhere like Birmingham or some of the Northerly towns that have seen lots of mass immigration, then maybe it's going to start looking like your High Street.
However, to the rest of the UK, it doesn't look like that.
And the point that I want to make on this is you know who understands this.
go and have a look at Keir Starmer's Twitter feed.
And he's got lots of images there, and just scroll down his Twitter feed, and I'm telling you, it's just white British, white British, white British, every picture, every video, it's just white British throughout.
So he's not overtly saying it, but he understands the mood of the country, and he's shifting in that direction.
Well, you know who's been whispering in his ear to do that right?
You tell me.
Er, Mr. Anthony B. Lyer, I think it was?
Yeah, Tony Blair.
That's the one.
So I think the Tories, you know, they're going to be knocked down to maybe somewhere between 50 to 100 seats, maybe even lower, maybe even zero seats, but they have an optical issue.
With the fact that they've been through this modernization and the safest seats are now in the hands of people who, like you say, are reflective of London, perhaps not everywhere else.
That would be a massive change, and there is the obvious question of what would happen in the next five years, because it seems to me that if we look at it a bit philosophically, what we see now is the failure of the third way.
So for instance, up until the 90s, mid 90s, there was the The dilemma between capitalism and communism.
And then some people started saying, no, we need to sort of mix them and have the third way.
That's why a lot of parties, especially Labour, and then afterwards Cameron, as you said, said he's the heir to Blair.
And they seem to be enacting the same policies as just, you know, with breaks.
So I don't know what Starmer is going to do now.
Most probably he's going to accelerate on what we're living.
I believe he'll probably get down immigration, because what he's primarily concerned with is control of the public sector.
And he's getting his tendrils through that, or at least re-accelerating that Blairite agenda.
But I think he probably will push back a bit on immigration, because it will get him what he wants elsewhere.
But have you heard him talking about the demographic issue of England as being also cultural and national?
Because if he's not, then who is to say that, you know, a week or a month after he gets elected, he's going to say, yeah, but we need to fuel the GDP.
And the demographic is merely an economic problem.
I'm most certainly not advocating for labor here.
And I'm not saying it's going to be good.
No, I get your point, but he at least understands the optics of this going into the election, I'll say that much.
In fact, it's so bad for the Tories that, again, I put this out, if you go to the betting markets and you believe that Tories are only going to lose 100 seats, which would be a really bad election in itself, if you believe that, then you can have this six-bed, 3,800-square-foot house for only £9,231. 3,800-square-foot house for only £9,231.
The betting market will give you the odds to turn that into that house.
So, Tory boys, if you're listening, you've got an opportunity to get yourself a mini-mansion for £9,000 if you actually think that your party's going to do well.
Best of luck with that.
It got so bad that I had to write this open letter to Rishi Sunak.
He does know who we are now, because he released a statement about our media platform, so obviously he'll be listening.
Yes, hopefully so, but my open letter to Ishisonic, for those who are listening, I'll just read that out.
In light of the poor record of your government and the multiple unforced serious errors of this campaign, I have placed a bet large enough to secure my wife a new kitchen if you stand down ahead of the election.
I now believe it is your duty to do so.
So hopefully he will read that and take the appropriate action.
Right, so getting to what reform needs to do to win.
Now, if you've had a look at the calculator thing that I put up, I don't think it's going to be done in one shot, but this is what it would take for reform to become, for the zero seats thing to become reality and reform to become the official opposition.
This might happen in the election afterwards, but it's not actually that far from where we are now.
So basically, all it requires is from here, for reform to go up nine points and for the Conservatives to go down nine points.
That's all it takes.
And I know it says two seats for the Conservatives.
Ignore that because both of those don't exist anymore after Boundary Reviews.
But honestly, it's not a big shift from where we are right now to actually get zero seats for the Conservatives and for Reform to be the official opposition.
It is that close.
So what do I think will actually happen?
I mean I've been having a bit of an argument with Peter Hitchens this week because he Bizarrely, he's going to be the last person in Britain voting Tory, despite the fact he wrote several books on why we need to get rid of them.
Now it's possible, and for whatever reason he's backtracking.
But Peter is a good guy.
He was a visionary on this stuff before it was possible, and now it is.
And I'm hoping to get him on Broconomics, so mad respect, Mr Hitchens.
But look, basically my point here is I think you need to look at the elections of 1906 1910 and 1918 so 1906 the situation is we have a very unpopular Tory government but it is not the Tories themselves that are unpopular it is the ruling class as a whole that are unpopular So what happens is the election of 1906, the Liberals get a massive landslide.
But nobody's actually that up for the Liberals.
It's just like it is now, where Labour are going to get in kind of by default.
So what happens is they get a massive landslide, and of course they're useless, because the whole ruling class was useless at that point.
The next election, 1910, it's a hung Parliament.
The election after that, 1918, the Liberals are destroyed and replaced with the Labour Party.
You can see a similar thing happening here where we're going to have a large Labour landslide at this election.
You can well imagine the next one as, you know, just a slightly improved version of that polling data that I just put up.
A hung Parliament in 2029.
Well it's perfectly feasible that they're going to sort of hemorrhage votes as it goes along because there's this sort of pendulum swinging in British politics whereby The incumbent party tends to do reasonably okay but they slowly hemorrhage popularity and votes as time goes on and eventually that's going to bleed over to a party that's going to be there to mop it up which might well be Reform.
If the Tories stay on this trajectory they're gone in two elections.
They are an ex-party in two elections.
They're gone, replaced with Reform, Um now there's going to be a bit of an effort for obviously people like us and people watching at home to stop them from going wet because they will they will start to tend wet as they go along.
Um but you know I I think two elections you know we could have a completely different paradigm and you know at that point then you can start going after Labour you know to get rid of the other the other part of the um the Uniparty.
So um you know what I actually think is going to happen is it's going to need to be a double tap.
This election puts Conservatives on the ground.
The election after that, one to the head.
That takes them out.
We need to make the next Parliament all about mass immigration being toxic.
Put that issue to bed for a generation.
Get people away from that.
And then the election after that, we need to make it about how the big state is toxic and destroying everything.
And by then, the financial and economic pressures, as I've explained on Broeconomics many times, will be becoming more obvious.
And I think really things get interesting when Farage steps down because he doesn't want to do this too much because he wants to go and enjoy his house and his talk shows and you know he's good at politics but he clearly doesn't want to be doing it too long.
Things get really interesting when you replace Farage with a millennial.
Because I've always said you can only upgrade a boomer so far.
Well, as a millennial, if Farage wants to make me PM, go ahead.
Well, and the message is, whoever is that next man, and maybe you're watching right now, this is your job.
We need to smash this consensus.
We need to move reform to the right, where they're talking about re-immigration.
There's lots of stuff we need to do, and if that is you, get on it!
Get it done!
And finally, for everyone else who isn't that man, go and buy The Islander.
Right, so before we start with the segment, I wanted to say something to the audience.
I'm sitting still.
If you listen to anything, it is Josh that bangs the table, and Dan's bracelet that also does the same.
No, because I've been getting lots of comments that I'm banging the table or something.
I like a good table-banging, you know.
It's how people know you're serious.
If you don't hit the table, how do they know that you mean it, Stelios?
Right.
So, we had the EU elections now, and the right won massively.
And we will tell you a lot about this, but before we talk about it, just head to our website and check out our magazine, The Islander.
Right.
In a short time before these elections, there were many incidents of assassination attempts and also attacks against politicians.
So just to name two Social Democrat politicians who were attacked, the Slovakian PM Robert Ficho and the PM of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen.
She was attacked.
But also, we had further incidents.
We had a Polish border guard who died by someone who tried to cross the border between Belarus and Poland illegally.
And we also had the attack in Mannheim that led to the death of the police officer, Reuven L. And it was an attack against the conservative politician, Michael Sturzenberger.
So Olaf Scholz, who is the leader of the SPD party that is currently ruling Germany, wanted to virtue signal to the German people that he is going to actually do something about the attack.
And he says, Germany plans to send criminal asylum seekers back to Afghanistan.
Who abuses the protection we provide loses the right to this protection.
The German Chancellor announces plans to change German law and create new charges.
Now, why am I starting with this?
It's very simple, because many politicians in the EU say they're going to do things about the number one issue in people's mind in Europe, which is safety, and they end up doing absolutely nothing.
And a lot of people were not convinced by his message.
So we have from Ann Wokeness, today is the start of a new era in Europe, and they are registering a lot of victories for the right.
So in France, the national rally headed by Marine Le Pen wins a historic 31.5 of the EU vote, forcing Macron to dissolve the national parliament.
Germany.
The IFD surges to become the second largest party.
Liberal parties tank.
Belgium.
Prime Minister resigns after his crushing defeat against the right.
Italy.
Meloni's Brothers of Italy wins in a historic landslide.
Austria.
The FPO Freedom Party of Austria is that, doubles their seats and becomes the largest party in the nation.
In Spain, the right is beating the left by 10%, and in Luxembourg, the first ever seat for ADR.
And the list goes on.
And that was yesterday around 11:35 PM UK time, and there are many more things to...
The only thing I don't like about that is Italy, because Maloney is a fake right-winger.
She's a globalist.
She has let down many people.
And the question is, if the European Union shifts to the right, will that enable her to guard her borders a bit better?
So the concerns that you are echoing are concerns that many people have.
Right, so let's look at this projection here yesterday.
So they are talking about the parties in Europe.
So the European People's Party, which is a center-right party, is gaining close to 13 seats.
And it has become the largest, it is the largest party in the EU.
Socialist Democrats, they lose around four seats.
The Renew Party loses around 22 seats.
Conservatives and Reformists gain around three seats.
Identity and Democracy gain about nine seats.
The Greens lose about 19 seats.
And you will see, I think they lost even more.
The Left is losing one seat and Non-Aligned gained 36 seats.
Now we have here more analytic results and I can show you these results and then compare with the previous one.
So let us see here in the... Wait.
We can see here the legislative period of 2019-2024.
of 2019, 2024, we have here a fewer positions for the right.
And you will see that they get increased.
But what you see is that the people who have primarily lost are people from the Renew Europe Party, the Greens, and Social Democrats.
They lost about three seats on the left.
Lost about one seat.
The Greens have lost about 21 seats, and Renew Europe has lost a lot.
So you see all the parties... What's Renew Europe?
What are they about?
You'll see they are basically modern liberal and democrats.
But it's... Oh, right.
The emphasis is on modern liberalism.
So they want a big state, basically, and they call that liberty.
They call that the necessity for liberty, that you have a very big nanny state.
Yes.
So if these were the previous results for the legislative period of the previous five years, and now we can look at what happened right now.
So you see the center-right EPP has gained around 10 seats.
The Renew Europe has gone to 79.
The Greens dropped to 52.
And as I said, the Social Democrats, they lost about two or three seats and the left lost about one seat.
But you do have here a massive expansion on the parties on the right.
And as you will see, and as we will say, one of the people who are primarily banging the drum of the rise of the extremist rights are precisely the EPP.
They're pulling out the horseshoe theory, for them anything further to the right than centre-right is not right-wing but is straightforwardly far-right, and we will hear even more about that in the next five years.
They're the wets, aren't they?
The wet right.
Well, I would say that they call themselves center-right, but in any conventional sense of the term, they're not.
I think they're basically what we were talking about before, third way... They're wets.
Yeah.
Well, it's sort of neoliberal, neoconservative sort of center ground.
I don't really have any Beliefs or values, I kind of go whichever way the votes and money take me.
That sort of politics, right?
Who really want to be seen as acceptable by the left.
This is one of their major pitfalls.
So you could say that they are basically advocates of the third way.
Third way is just that they use it with brakes instead of just head-on acceleration like the parties to the further left.
They don't want to be scorned when they get invited to dinner parties by their left-wing mates in the city.
It's just a big collection of people who want to be involved in something glamorous but aren't good-looking enough to do show business.
None of those people should be involved in politics.
Right.
We have here from Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost, France did the meme.
So we have this funny meme here that is talking about how the term far right is a term of abuse.
And it says the modern leftist political compass, everything is far right except from, you know, very far Basically, you're either a Stalinist or you're far right.
Yeah, everything right of Mao is far right.
And they have here where Le Pen won in France.
So the brown is for the National Rally Party of Le Pen.
And you see here, I think this is Paris here.
Yeah.
And as you can expect, Paris... Is that lots of white to signal the surrender flag, is it?
Paris in France is what London is in England.
Of course, yeah.
I feel sorry for the French.
It's bizarre because Paris has been ruined the most.
It's funny how that happens, isn't it?
Yeah.
Now, Macron dissolves Parliament.
He got double scored.
And he gives a speech after a crushing defeat to Le Pen in the European Parliament election.
And he says, you would expect someone to sort of engage in self-criticism, but you're going to tell me, Stelios, you're talking about politicians.
He says, the rise of nationalists, of demagogues, is a danger for our nation, but also for our Europe, for France's place in Europe and the world.
And for those listening at home, there's a picture of a man who's thinking about how he can rig the upcoming election.
He's also doing that white supremacist hand signal.
The ADL is going to be after him.
I'm sure they will.
But what is interesting is that you would expect people who lost to sort of at least pretend that they got the message and at least
Acknowledge in their rhetoric that there are more dangers to European nations than right-wing demagogues and nationalists, because there are many threats that Europeans face, many threats that Europeans have, and many concerns that Europeans have, and they think the EU leadership does not address.
I want to show you here a video.
If it is, I think that would be hilarious.
So I wanted to show you the youth wing of Macron's party reacts to the news that there will be snap elections after the party's disastrous defeat to Marine Le Pen's national rally in the European Parliament election.
so let me shoot a room of 40 soy boy french do the soy boy meme simultaneously Yeah, I mean if that's accurate, that's hilarious.
Here we have people from Marine Le Pen's party.
They are cheering and they have the French flags.
You see that this is a major victory for them and they see this as a sort of Opportunity for national renewal and awareness to be reflected in the rhetoric of French leadership and also EU leadership.
Right, so we have Belgian Prime Minister who resigned and we have here Alex de Kroo unexpectedly resigns after a brutal EU election.
Right-wing parties swept the floor.
So you see, Macron announced that he is going to host, is going to organize an election for next month.
The Belgian Prime Minister, who is supporting globalist agenda, as you can see, he has the rainbow flag behind him.
He resigned after a brutal defeat.
So some things are changing in Europe.
Now let's go to Germany, because Germany is A curious case here.
You see, the AfD party has won around 5.2%.
The AfD?
Yes.
What did they say?
I don't know.
I said AfD.
Is that how you would say it in German?
You're more accurate than me.
Yes.
So you have the CDU, that is the Christian Democratic Union, who went to 30%.
The AfD to To 15.90%, and the SPD, which is the Social Democrat Party of Olaf Scholz, less than 14%, and the Green Party, 11.90%.
And isn't it funny, because didn't Olaf Scholz bring in votes for 16-year-olds on the assumption that they were all going to vote left-wing, and they just all went out and vote for the Nazi Party instead?
Well, I don't think that it's a party of that sort.
No, no, no.
From his perspective, he thought that votes for 16-year-olds would lock in a sort of lefty, green paradigm forever.
Yes.
And they just went, yeah, I'm not living like this in this country for the next 40, 50 years.
Yes.
And they went straight to it.
And I have in the end a claim by Ralf Schulhammer about the young people in Germany.
And why they voted for AFD to a very large extent.
So, in the previous election five years ago, the Christian Democratic Party had close to 29%, so they gained a point.
And the Green Party was in 20.5%.
So the Green Party's agenda was the second, and now they've sort of lost half of their support in five years.
It's amazing they've still got half.
They have de-industrialised, they have destroyed Germany.
Yes.
And the SPD party was two percentages more, and the AfD was around 11.
So, things are changing.
And here, let's see how Germany voted in the European Parliament election.
That's CDU in black and AfD in blue.
You have here.
Yeah, top marks to anyone who can guess where the Cold War line was drawn through Germany.
It's almost like the people who lived under communism can recognise communist mismanagement more easily.
It's funny that, isn't it?
Except for that one bit there, which is Berlin, which was a little island in itself.
Very own London and Germany there.
And here I have the reaction of the Greens.
Again, this is priceless.
They're not particularly happy, are they?
Do they strike you as a happy audience?
Well, the thing that offends me about this video is look at all that bloody lens flare.
The Green Party are using lights when they have done more than anyone to turn the power off in Germany.
That was a fascinating video of nothing happening there, yeah.
Yeah.
They should be doing this with bloody, I don't know, candles or something.
Right, so I want to talk a bit about Greece, my country.
In Greece we have several interesting results.
Is that a pizza?
You've got a pizza party.
Where?
At the top there.
Here?
P-I-Z-A.
There's a Z missing.
Up there, look.
There?
Oh yeah!
It looks like the pizza part.
How do I vote for them?
There are some very interesting ramifications and consequences of this election.
You see, the entire country has sort of voted for the New Democracy Party, and they gave them around 28.3%, except for here, Xanthi and Rodopi, which are Basically, the parties that won there are parties for the local Muslim communities.
This is something that a lot of people from the right are saying, you know, you have parties that are essentially Muslim parties and they are winning in these places here.
Now Stelios, because I am unfathomably based, if I was also Greek, which of those parties would I vote for?
Which of those parties?
I really don't know.
But I will say that for the first time in many decades, there are more than 20% to the right of the ruling party that is claiming to be centre-right.
So what happened here is that basically they alienated a lot of their base voters.
So the 28% run, that's the centre-right, is it?
That's the centre-right.
Who's to the right of them?
They are attached to the EPP.
So to the right you have Greek Solution here, you have this party called Victory, and you have here the Voice of Reason, and you have other parties here.
But the important thing here is that a lot of people are looking at this as a defeat.
In Greece.
Why?
Because we had national elections about a year ago, and the party who won, New Democracy, had more than 40%.
They won around 40-40.5% of the vote, and basically they alienated more than 12% of the population and their voter base.
So they appealed to swing voters who aren't as loyal, and basically they betrayed A lot of the ideological supporters.
And you know how they did so?
The main issue that people, the main three issues that people have raised concerns against them.
Number one, it is a cost of living crisis.
Number two is immigration.
And number three is the way in which they legislated for gay adoption.
And this is a very big issue.
But for two to three months, They literally put the whole country to fight each other with respect to whether homosexual couples adopting children is a human right or not, and basically there was zero public discussion of a healthy sort in this.
So people were absolutely frustrated when they saw that All of these issues that everyone in Europe is talking about, be it immigration, be it safety, be it the raising cost of living crisis, they weren't treated as national emergencies, but this one was.
You say adopting children, but we could get slightly more specific, because every single time I see an example of this, by sheer coincidence, they've always adopted a boy.
Well, I really don't know about this, and I cannot comment.
But you see here, the party, the main center-right party lost close to 12%, but the left parties didn't win.
So, for instance, you have the Syriza party here, which is the coalition of radical left.
They basically are in 15%, so they didn't win.
And you have also Varoufakis' party.
He says, in yesterday's European elections, I suffered a crashing personal defeat, along with my comrades in Greece and Germany.
Our six societies, caught up between the radical center and neo-fascism, cannot help a dying Palestine, a war-torn Ukraine, our own people.
But fight on, we must.
I want to ask, what is the radical center?
You know, just a question.
Radical Center.
I don't know.
Maybe it's the people.
I don't know.
Some people just love throwing isms.
Yeah.
They just love throwing isms.
But the people are getting radicalized.
You know, my section is all about that happening here and your section is all about the people have had enough of this shit.
Well, people have had enough of unrestricted immigration and you can see it here from Vesegret24.
And we see also from BBC News, this is how Don Butler reacted to the EU results, because this is interesting to see how a lot of people are rushing to give their interpretation of what happened and essentially turn on, switch on the ideological machine in order to present this in the way that fits their narrative.
So Don Butler says, we were all warned about the rise of the far right and insoles.
The attack on woke feeds into this dangerous rhetoric.
The surge in support for the far right across Europe is a warning for us all.
Far right on reform, some Tories should be nowhere near power.
What do the EU elections and the right wing in Britain have to do with insults?
There's nothing to do with it.
What the hell?
She's scared.
Well, I have the impression she just wants to virtue signal to women who are particularly averse to insults.
Women that are particularly averse to being mentally stable, yeah.
So I have here a clip from Ursula von der Leyen.
EPP is the strongest political group in the European Parliament.
EPP has the most leaders.
Together with others, we will build a bastion against the extremes from the left and from the right.
So this is my point about the EPP.
It's wet like her.
I mean, I didn't even know that she wasn't a socialist until you showed me that clip.
But I mean, it's the same bloody difference with the EPP.
They're just wet.
This is, basically, it shows a lot.
It shows how they basically do not engage in self-criticism because there are some interesting portrayals we can make, some interesting analogies to make.
Because you would think that someone who's on a wooden boat that is sinking because it is flooding and there are sharks around it, you would expect that person to try to save the boat rather than just trying to sink it.
So what do I try to say about this?
Is that it is absolutely beyond doubt that one of the things that does fuel the extremes, the extreme right is uncontrolled migration.
It does.
Not everyone who is frustrated with unrestricted immigration is far right, but an extreme right.
There are right-wing people who are frustrated with unrestricted migration.
But if they are doing basically everything they can to flood Europe with unrestricted migration, yeah, and then it's a bit rich to start and saying, "Well, yeah, but the extreme right is rising." What did you do to prevent it?
The answer is nothing. - It's such a perversion of the language because it is people like her, the centrists, the extremists, because they're ruining us with debt and mass immigration.
The people that they call on the extreme, people like us, We just want to have a country and we want to have homes and we want to have families and we want to live a good decent life and earn a good wage.
That is all we want.
We are not extremists.
They are.
Exactly.
And you could say that one of the main purveyors of the constant appeal to the far right is actually the center right, because they think that by doing so, they are voting.
They are appealing to the same area voters.
They're, in a sense, fishing from the same pond.
So I have here a response to this, and I'm saying it is the left that is Europe's major problem.
Leftism is bad in itself.
In addition to that, European multicultural leftists promote, whether intentionally or unintentionally, agendas of the non-European extreme right, because there is a pattern.
You will see a lot of people who are immigrating into Europe.
They are supporting left policies of open borders.
And in their country, they're supporting ultra-nationalist policies.
Whatever problems Europe has, its current leaders are not able to solve them.
They're not guarding Europe's borders.
They're patronizing to European patriots.
They destroy the European economy with suffocating regulations.
In the name of democracy, they pronounce the popular will to be hate speech.
They make a parody of democracy by giving power to unelected bureaucrats.
And perhaps worst of all, they dismiss the worries of those who feel unsafe.
Because this is, I would say, the main thing.
People feel unsafe.
They feel that there is no rule of law.
And when they try to talk about it, They are renounced as advocates and purveyors of hate speech.
And Winston Marshall is saying something good.
He says, the globalists left right still don't understand modern populism.
Instead of contending with the failures of 25 years plus of establishment politics, they smear and besmirch the reaction to it as far right.
Because to contend with the legitimate concerns of ordinary people, who have turned away from the elite concept of correct think, would be to contend with their own failures.
I think he's absolutely correct here.
And especially when it comes to Europe, because you're correct, terms are used in particular contexts.
So for instance, in the UK, conservative means something different than what it means in America, in the US.
And also you could say the term liberal.
And in some cases, whatever the term far-right means in the US and the UK, in Europe it has historical links to the extreme right.
And one of the reasons why they constantly do this is because they want to get people on the right to get so bored with being bombarded with the propaganda and just start identifying with the term so they can use their propaganda machine to the European people and say, yeah, but look at who they are.
Remember what happened in World War Two and basically try to interpret everything in terms of The main narrative of World War Two.
And we have here something by Ralph Schollhammer.
He has a really interesting article here, a small article on how young people in Germany voted to a very large extent for AfD because they want to have a future and they're not interested in the virtue signaling of
of the Green Party and other parties that are just patronizing to them and all they're saying is that vote for us and you will be the agent of progress.
They don't understand progress in these terms.
So, by all means, check Ralf Schollhammer.
So, a lot of things are happening in Europe, a lot of interesting things.
We will have to see how things eventuate, because a lot of politicians are letting people down, but I think that these are massive news, and I'm just interested to see what is going on afterwards.
Okay.
Well, I've only got six minutes to do my segment, so... Why?
Because we've got 10 video comments, so in the chat, if you would like me to do my segment, let me know.
If you just want to go to the video comments and do the written comments, please say so, because we've got a lot to get through.
We've had feedback saying that people want to hear more from us doing the comments, and so I don't want to hog it with a segment that I can do another time.
What do you reckon, chat?
I'm gonna have a quick look.
You could always give us a quick taster of it and then come back and do it another time.
The chat is unanimously going for goblins.
I mean, we have 36 minutes plus.
I know, but we've got to do the video comments in the chat, don't we?
Okay, we've got hype for the Goblins, it's fine.
If we need to overrun and do some video comments, but we have listened to you, don't worry.
We are going to do them, but I do need a mouse and a... Of course, Josh.
A stream deck, I nearly called it a steam deck.
You will see, I literally will be still here.
While we're sitting, I will not bite the pie.
This is democracy at work, chat.
You have voted for the Goblins and you've got the Goblins.
It's gonna be a good segment.
There's so many goblins in the chat.
It's just a feed of goblins.
So, I think we all understand and know that goblins are real.
I think we've determined that this is the case.
Goblins are real.
They live amongst us.
This much is obvious.
And what I wanted to look at today is The terrible news that goblins have been terrorising Zimbabwe and I feel very sorry for Zimbabwe because no one, I think we all are familiar with goblins right, no one wants to put up with this.
This is a terrible and grave indiscretion.
Also, we have a magazine.
It does prepare you against goblin attack.
Here is the Glamorous Assistant Stelios holding it up.
Oh, I've taken it now.
But he was holding it.
Here it is, Islander.
This guarantees 100% protection against goblins, if you read it and imbibe its wisdom.
So make sure to pre-order it because on the 17th, I believe, it's going to go off of sale.
So you've got to pre-order it before it releases.
Otherwise, you will miss out from that 100% goblin guaranteed protection.
So anyway, the reason I found out about this was actually something that Samson, our producer, put me onto.
It was this story here, Police Officers Dessert Station Sighting Goblin Attacks, and this was published at the end of May, so not too long ago, and I'm going to read a little bit from it.
It says, A councillor, ward councillor, confirmed an unusual situation.
We built a police station for the officers and initially they patrolled in pairs.
Ngulani explained, however, they haven't been able to stay for extended periods.
And this is, according to him, they described being harassed, bodies being violated, doors opened on their own and things climbing on the roof, making it impossible to sleep.
And apparently the police from Plumtree, which is where this police station is, withdrew the officers stating they wouldn't endanger them further because they were worried they were going to get harassed, potentially sexually harassed by these goblins, female goblins of course, harassing the male police officers and this is obviously a cause for concern and this is just scratching the surface of the goblin problem because this is March, so a month
You know, two months prior, should I say.
That's how the calendar works.
Apparently, there was a family being terrorised in a similar province, right?
So, this is titled, uh, Horror Film Come to Life!
Goblins Terrorise Bulawayo Family!
Children Beaten!
Food Vanishes!
And, uh...
What the article actually says is very interesting and this is a direct quote from I think a member of the family.
We don't know what to do anymore.
It started last November one morning our children woke up and their heads were shaved.
We thought it was a one-time thing.
Could you imagine waking up and your children's heads have been shaved?
By the goblins.
By the goblins, of course, yes.
What else would it be?
Let's be honest.
The next day, our youngest child woke up in the middle of the night screaming.
He had been stabbed in the leg with a knife.
OK, that's pretty serious.
These goblins are getting out of control, aren't they, Stelios?
He also woke up with his head shaved again.
Are they just barber goblins?
You know, you have deep goblins and stuff.
Well, all of these barbershops opening up in Britain is making me start to worry about, you know, the introduction of goblins into our system, you know, shaving heads.
There is a portal from a fantasy universe to our world.
Sorry, can I just establish what's going on here?
Africans are being terrorised, having stuff stolen.
Head shaved, being stabbed.
Being stabbed and sexually assaulted by goblins.
Yes.
Well I can empathise with their problem because here in Europe we're having the exact same thing but it's not goblins doing it.
I know, yeah, well it's even more difficult for them because rather than tangible, you know, Physical people doing crimes, it's goblins which are magical in nature and therefore harder to... And able to burrow away during the day.
Exactly.
So they carry on to say this family, we sought help from different prophets and churches but the situation only worsened with each attempt.
Doors and windows would come open inexplicably, our children's clothes, especially their uniforms, their school uniforms I presume, Would be torn.
They were no longer able to attend school so these goblins are preventing their children from being educated.
They must be racist or something.
We hired a spiritual healer for a cleansing ceremony.
The following day the house mysteriously burnt down.
But only the bedrooms were affected.
Everything in the kitchen and dining room was untouched, which is interesting.
So the goblins, you know, at least a little bit benevolent, don't want to ruin their kitchen and dining room but just the bedrooms.
So Furthering their war on education, they've terrorised schools and I like this picture here.
Presumably this is something left behind by a goblin, like a talisman.
It looks like some buckteeth that's really hairy with a sort of beaded It looks like a goat that's walked into a fan.
It does, yes.
This looks like a bad Stephen King short story monster.
But supposedly the school had to close because the teachers and children were too scared to go to school.
That's not an African fleshlight, is it?
There's a lot of tooth there for that.
That would be very dangerous to use.
It's not the only school.
So this was, I believe, 2022.
There was also one in June of 2022 as well.
And there's a different picture of some goblin memorabilia here.
This is not an isolationist incident.
Dozens of African news services are reporting on the goblin phenomena.
There are patterns that people are noticing.
So another school has been besieged and, you know, it's been a problem.
They say, this one here, saying that church and village leaders have been called for a cleansing ritual following alleged incidents of goblins sexually harassing teachers and students at the Majiji Primary School in the Bubi District.
Of Mata Beta Leila Land, North Province.
And the decision was made by village heads, villagers and parents and school authorities at a meeting held last week to discuss the emergency of the reported goblins.
So they're taking this very seriously.
Obviously, all of the village leaders, all of the people in the local community are coming together
to deal with this goblin menace and it says, this is a direct quote here, the school headmistress asked the apostolic church to hold a night prayer at the school following a rise in number of teachers who had been sexually abused by goblins and apparently one of the members mixed salt and warm water and sprinkled the substance all around the classrooms to chase these these goblins away, you know, because of course everyone knows that salt and warm water is how you deal with goblins, I mean.
This segment is reshaping my entire world view because I thought these were all problems that we were having in Europe but it turns out Africa has this problem as well, only goblins.
And in fact, going back to 2013 here, four Zimbabwe schools closed because of the goblin problem.
There's also this story as well, this is the Daily Mail picking up on it.
In 2012, female students sent home from Zimbabwean school after they claimed they had been attacked and possessed by goblins.
Not just attacked, but they're getting taken over by goblins.
Apparently, this is the report of a parent, she fell into a trance and all of a sudden she started screaming and kicking into the air vigorously for about five minutes.
She did not say anything during the fit and when she recovered she said she had seen a baboon trying to slap her.
Was the baboon possessed by a goblin?
No, no, no.
What it is, is that these goblins, also sometimes referred to as tokoloshis in the native language, can transform into things and can be invisible.
Shapeshifters.
Yeah, and sometimes they're only visible to the person they're harassing.
And so it turning into a goblin and trying to, into a goblin, into a baboon and trying to slap her makes perfect sense.
But it can also make African school children, it can possess them and then make them behave atrociously and kick up an enormous fuss and just make the place intolerable.
Yes.
I see.
But also think of the possibilities, because students could be so bored of going to school and they could start saying that they're afraid of the goblins.
No, no, no.
Children in Africa, Stelios, are really keen to go to school.
They're not, you know, slacking off like Western children.
Because, as we're reminded by the UN and lots of transnational corporations, African children want nothing more than to learn.
I stand corrected.
So I won't hear any slander against the African work ethic here.
So there's actually a video of the aftermath of a goblin attack here and I'm going to turn the sound off because you don't need to hear it and it's pretty low quality.
Do you hear the goblins?
You don't hear the goblins.
You hear lots of people, but here they are.
It's just some people sort of milling about.
They seem a bit alarmed and startled, running away.
You can't really see, but this lady's particularly frightened.
I don't know what she's doing.
Stretching the straps of her shirt over her head for some reason.
Maybe the goblins are telling her to do it.
But it carries on.
Here they are running away.
You can't really see because it's off camera, but you get the gist.
I think there's someone lying on the floor in a sort of goblin-induced... One cannot unsee the truth, and one cannot unsee the goblin.
Yeah, so obviously this is a very tangible and real thing.
There they are, they're lying on the floor, there's something going on.
Maybe they've been possessed by a goblin, but you get the general idea.
But I did some digging and it turns out that goblins have been a problem since at least The 50s.
So this newspaper from Bantu World, that's a newspaper, this was 1955 and this is the the native name for a goblin.
Goblins perhaps a western equivalent but it's talking about them stopping a church service so they've been interfering with religious matters.
How do you pronounce that?
Tokoloshe?
Tokokoshi.
Tokoloshe.
Tokoloshe.
Right.
So it's getting even more sinister than that, right?
So...
Recently, well, relatively recently, this was 2012, since, you know, the 50s, there was a case where 26 women woke up without undergarments and they actually were discovered, it says, under the chief.
I don't know whether it was found, like, under him or whether it was under his leadership, they went out and tried to find them, but it'd be interesting if the goblins planted it on the chief.
Um, to try and undermine his authority.
So the goblins are stealing women's underwear while they sleep?
Mm-hmm.
And then piling it up at the local leader's house?
Not necessarily.
It's unclear what the wording means, whether it's just under the leadership of the chief, they found the underwear, but they haven't specified where it was found, rather than it being found under the chief himself.
But here we are, they were blamed, the goblins, they finally got the culprit.
Thank goodness they found who did it, because, um... That poor leader?
There must be very unsettling for him to wake up and suddenly discover he's covered in women's underwear that goblins have put there.
I know, yeah, it's very strange, isn't it?
And the fact they removed them while they were sleeping at night as well, that's quite an invasion of their privacy.
Yeah, this starts giving some very wrong vibes.
So at the more sinister end of The Goblin Menace, there was a case in 2016 of a man who was tricked by goblins into stabbing his wife to death because he thought she was a goblin and he was dreaming of getting attacked by goblins, which was obviously a goblin trick.
The goblins made me do it!
And he stabbed his wife to death with a chisel before stabbing himself in the neck and shouting for his neighbours to come and help.
Why would the goblins do this?
I don't know why the goblins would do this but it's because of their evil nature I think.
There's something about the goblins that just leads them to do really terrible things and it's a horrible thing for this man and obviously his dead wife to go through.
Presumably there's not a lot of goblins.
There are small cases of them.
It's enough that it's a sort of menace on Zimbabwe.
What are you talking about?
They make up like 13% of the population or something?
It may well be that it's about 13% of all the problems are caused by these goblins, yeah.
But maybe something like closer to 50% of the crime?
Well, it seems like it's a large portion, yeah, perhaps even greater than that.
Right.
So, um, there's good news.
You can fight back against the goblin menace, um, because there was a clinic in Zimbabwe in 2013 that was cleared of goblins, um, they had a cleansing ritual in, in the, uh, the clinic, although the nurses were hesitant to return to the clinic because, um, the association with the goblins, of course, and, uh, There's this wonderful... You just don't want to live near them.
You do not want to live near goblins because they just ruin everything.
So, there's actually a ritual that can be done here.
This is a report from a prophet in... Prophet Siseba.
So this is obviously a very noble man.
Siseba the wise.
Yes, a man of God who, through his faith alone and not donations, is able to fight against this goblin menace.
And he said, I had to prepare.
That is the reason we spent the night sleeping and praying.
I had to set traps because if I had not done, that goblin was going to kill me, he says.
A goblin has a powerful spirit.
So we had prayer for the chicken so that by the time the goblin died, the spirit would move from the goblin into the chicken rather than a person.
Because when you kill a goblin, obviously the spirit is loose.
And you don't want it to latch onto a person.
But if you put it in a chicken...
You contain the goblin problem.
Yes, exactly.
You shouldn't eat the chicken.
I don't know whether you can eat the chicken, they don't specify.
Maybe you've just got to kill the chicken and bury it somewhere far away, I don't know.
Catapulted or something.
Maybe, but there was also a bit of a scandal with this sort of exorcism, goblin exorcism, because there was Jameson whiskey involved and...
They say, and the prophet says about this Jameson whiskey that was involved in this exorcism, as for the Jameson bottles, it was just a coincidence because all we wanted were empty bottles where we put our prayers.
The bottles would explode as a signal for us to go ahead.
So he wasn't drinking them.
He wasn't, you know, a bottle of whiskey down.
If I'm getting this right, when Africans are around, large quantities of empty alcohol bottles, that somehow causes the goblins to manifest.
Potentially.
But he's saying that the goblins actually don't like the empty bottles because they contain the prayers which then defeat the goblins.
So if you empty the bottle of the whiskey and then fill it with prayers it actually fights the goblins.
Yes that does make sense now, yes.
There has also been some research into this goblin phenomenon and there are lots of African women who believe that goblins also give them cervical cancer and there's the quote here at the top of the research paper, goblins left dirt in my birth canal and basically it reports lots of people who believe that goblins leave dirt in in their birth canals which gives them cervical cancer um because these goblins terrorize lots of women
the cervical cancer spreads between lots of different women because uh everyone knows that that's how it works obviously because i mean there is there is no other way that that dirt could have got there so yeah so it must be goblins absolutely so remarkable um to to sort of uh break the gag now what is actually going on with this goblin stuff i'm I don't actually believe in goblins.
Well, you made a really strong case for it.
It's true.
Josh, who said that once you eliminate the impossible, the only Yeah, I'm not having it.
There's goblins in Africa.
OK, well, my explanation, you know, being a man of science, I've got to come up with alternative explanations.
That is true.
However... It's published!
That's true.
However, I think there is an alternative explanation here.
Because the people of Zimbabwe largely come from the same ethnic group, which is a tribe, I can't remember the exact name, but they are Bantu in origin, and
If we go to this, this is the Bantu expansion, and it shows you the dates that the Bantus of West Africa moved eastwards and southwards, and here we have the Shona people, sorry, the ethnic majority in Zimbabwe, and their path south and east would have gone through certain lands which contain pygmies.
Pygmies, obviously, very small.
Hunter-gatherers, right?
They had a different lifestyle to these Bantu-speaking people, and Bantu ethnic people, should I say.
But when the Bantus moved down across Africa, I mean, presumably they integrated harmoniously with the tribal people that they found?
No, they didn't.
They killed them.
That's what happened.
But they might have come into contact with the Pygmies in places like what is now the modern-day Congo in Central Africa, and the small people that would have appeared and disappeared into the forest like it was, you know, second nature to them, and may have sort of made their migration difficult, might be the source of these invisible people
that are terrorising them and carrying out these mischievous attacks upon them that don't really amount to much because, of course, they're hunter-gatherers against an agricultural society and so there's only so much they could do and because, you know, this migration was BC, right, thousands of years of communication has turned this into a sort of mythical story as opposed to, you know, A perfectly explainable one.
Are there any pygmies still around?
Yes, there are.
They still live in hunter-gatherer tribes to this day in remote rainforests and things like that.
Well, I want to meet one.
Really?
Yes, I want to meet a pygmy.
If anyone's got one...
We'll fly you out to Africa.
Also, I think it is smoked whiskey that works best with goblins.
From Isle of Islay.
So that is my charitable explanation.
That's saying, OK, maybe there's a grain of truth to this.
And here's my uncharitable explanation to this goblin phenomenon.
Oh yeah, there are the pygmy villages, by the way.
There's a map of them.
Yeah, there they are.
Oh, I couldn't... It's the blue ones.
That's where you can go.
I don't really want to go to the DRC.
You can go to Cameroon.
But anyway, this story, I think... Why can't the Pygmies be the people who are coming over on the boats and being the delivery drivers?
That'd be hilarious if your pizza was delivered by a Pygmy.
Well, they're hunter-gatherers, so they're not really going to get along well with a bicycle, or apps, or the modern world.
I don't know, I just...
I think there's something in this.
But anyway, this is my uncharitable explanation.
This is a story about a sorcerer, a village sorcerer obviously, we know them as witch doctors in the west but they're sorcerers really.
Like Fauci.
Yeah exactly, village sorcerer Fauci.
So there was an explosion which was blamed on goblins.
This killed six people and this was in 2013.
So six people died from this explosion which was obviously caused by goblins and it was a ceremony that was trying to purify the goblins.
He chopped off the head of a goblin, this is the actual story, and the goblin exploded which killed people.
Well actually an investigation found out that They were trying to extract mercury from landmines to sell on the black market for a sizable amount of money and they blamed it on goblins because they were doing naughty things.
They were doing things that's illegal in Zimbabwe.
Doesn't mercury poisoning give you powerful hallucinogenic effects?
I'm not sure.
It may well do.
But if they're extracting mercury from landmines it would be awfully coincidental that a goblin just happened to explode When they're dealing with explosives, isn't it?
And that it's a socially acceptable story in Zimbabwe that they can, you know, get away with.
Although they did face consequences in this case because they were found out.
I'm now starting to wonder, I'm looking at the Lord of the Rings in a completely different light.
Is it possible that J.R.R.
Tolkien went to a pygmy village and just did a lot of ayahuasca?
He's a well-travelled man, we can't rule it out, can we?
But it's worth mentioning as well that it's not just me that's onto this goblin menace.
My stream deck's not working, but Lord Miles, who has been on this podcast before, posted about 5k likes and I'll drive 8 hours to interview the village being terrorised by goblins, and there's 27,000 there, so he went and did it!
And he went to the village, there he is, There he is with one of the villagers and apparently he's got a video on the way so maybe he's going to help me unveil this goblin menace in Zimbabwe.
He went to Goblinville.
Exactly.
You can't read out that middle bit.
No, I'm not going to.
However, just as a final point, this is a government website and within this it says British nationals, about 15,000 live in Zimbabwe, whereas 112,000 Zimbabweans live in the UK.
So my message to all of you at home, if you live in Britain, is that if 112,000 Zimbabweans are here, Who's to say they haven't brought their goblins with them?
I mean, these goblins are dangerous.
We've seen they kill people, they assault people sexually.
Oh, they can steal your underwear.
They steal your underwear.
And they give it to a Zimbabwean.
Exactly.
And so they do all of these terrible things.
Perhaps we need to be a bit more cautious when dealing with these people because of The Goblins, obviously.
And yes, I wanted to draw attention to this, this plight, because it's a very important topic that doesn't see the light of day very often.
Crime when Goblin Mode?
It did indeed.
Good God, that was a powerful segment, Josh.
Well done.
Thank you.
let us go to the video comments i'm sorry to be the one to have to break this to you but we do not care I might get some pushback for this, but there's a certain type of right-wing commentator that I'm finding I really distrust.
They are easily audience-captured, or just rehash talking points from the people they interview or surround themselves with.
Everything is shallow and without substance, which makes me wonder, does the right also have an NPC problem?
Well, apparently there was no video for the audience there, so we might need to explain it quickly.
Audience, are you seeing it or not?
Because there was a slight delay before it went up.
Yeah, let's replay.
Oh, no, they did see it, I think.
Celebrities!
They've seen it, it's okay.
We can go to the next one.
So well we may as well briefly mention it.
I think that a lot of right-wing commentary and political commentary more generally is focused more on growing an audience and getting money and signaling to your in-group is how you do it.
So rather than actually making meaningful commentary that's going to affect politics they signal that they are the The epitome of whichever group they identify with the most politically and that they uphold all of these values and it's more about signalling group membership and basically virtue signalling.
Luckily we don't do that here.
No, but I think there's a fair amount of that going on and it's what's impeding a lot of genuine depth and discussion I think.
Let's go to the second one.
I'd like to thank Beau for the series he's been doing on the fall of the Roman Republic.
This is extremely important to me because I never really learned about it in school and I've always really wanted to know what happened.
How did they transition from the Republic to the Empire and what made the Republic go away?
And since I live in a Republic, I feel like it's pretty important if I figure that one out.
Yeah, Epochs is superb.
If you studied history at school, you'd be well forgiven for not liking history, but if you watch Epochs, you will love it.
Let's go, third one.
Since milkshakes are a thing again, I'm a bit annoyed by all these folk talking about it saying, it's just a milkshake, bro, what of it?
But these are the same people that are throwing a guy in prison over stickers and treating him worse than we treat most terrorists?
Or the fact that they're still complaining about the Jess Phillips thing and the way they talk about it kind of makes it sound like Karl Hatter locked in his basement or something when it's just words on the internet, bro.
Yeah, well, they're just holding double standards on purpose because we're their political enemies.
They're not going to treat us fairly.
Did Joseph Stalin treat the people in the gulags fairly?
No.
So we shouldn't expect fair treatment because they're not going to give it to us.
I would like to recommend buying Peter Kemp's 10 Years at War trilogy from Passage Publishing.
Before becoming a soldier who ended up fighting in both the Spanish Civil War and World War II, Kemp was a classic student who ended up having to prepare for a career in law until he became so alarmed by the spread of communism that he ended up enlisting in Franco's forces to help fight the communists.
So, two points on that, Weston.
Yes, you're right, but two, you need the light sources in front of the camera, because that was a bit like a trailer for The Dark Knight.
You're looking very sinister, but in a cool way.
Yes.
Right.
Let's go to the next one.
Very true.
I just wanted an opportunity to complain about Swindon.
You never miss these opportunities, do you?
I don't, yeah.
It's a thorn in my side.
As a native Swindonian, I've had it with this slander.
And so, Mr Josh, if that is your real name, I'm going to create a new series of video comments forged in the mould of my Ohioan series, which will be available on my YouTube and Rumble channels while I get around to finishing it.
Prepare yourself, Mr Josh, for the gentleman's observations of Swindon.
I'm preparing to be cultured.
I'm really looking forward to it.
I also have issues with some areas of Swindon.
I think Old Town is good, but I really dislike the Johnny Morrell building.
It's just... But Josh has been called out and somebody's on the case of making Swindon look good.
So best of luck, sir.
Mad respect.
Let's go to the next one.
Hey, how are you?
Do you have a telescope powerful enough to see a star that has collapsed in on itself?
I think it's called a, uh, a, uh, a black hole.
Black hole?
A black hole?
You mean to tell me that the man has a hole just for black people?
That is fucked up.
That is fucked up.
I should fuck up all your shit.
That was actually what I was saying.
This is completely in context and that was also great.
I enjoyed it.
Let's go to the next one.
Hey guys, just a little thought.
It's so weird that people ...will just touch, like, the horses of the Kingsguard, or they'll wander into, like, villages in the Cotswold, not knowing that these are people's houses.
There just seems to be, like, this element of, like, people overlooking that this is an ancient country, and that everything in this country is just some form of, like, theme park.
It's like a thing to do or see.
It's just so bizarre.
I've been thinking about this actually, and I think that people who do that come from countries where artifice is completely hegemonic, right?
It's everything.
So Chinese tourists are particularly bad for it.
Some parts of America are particularly bad, where it's something sort of real and wholesome and authentic, and they just don't get how it can be real, how it can be organic and not put there for tourist consumption.
It's very strange.
Let's go to the next one.
Sargon.
- Dan is about to take care of things.
I am the captain.
Mad respect for the boss man.
Let's see Sophie's video.
Watch.
Of course one of the nicest things about Denmark is the beaches.
Always love going out there and look there's some fishing boats.
And of course ending the day with some fish and chips.
Good enough for you Harry?
Fresh fish caught in the morning.
I assume from one of those boats.
Wait, is Sophie in England?
No, she's in Denmark.
But I have to say that this fish and chips portion isn't particularly big.
I'd return that back.
I want more chips.
You've been here for a long time, Stelios.
You're demanding the Englishman's portion of far too many carbohydrates.
Yeah, and there's also the frustrating thing that sometimes the more you pay, the less you eat.
No, I'm not having it.
Let's go to the next one.
And targeting white people and Indians as well.
White Indians, because of the colonial affect about them.
Yes, Conor, Indians have taken full advantage of the Empire as was, and have spread out around the world.
Unfortunately, due to the rest of the world being hopelessly and actually racist, they often face persecution.
Notably, in the 1970s, Pierre Trudeau threw open an invitation to persecuted Indians around the world to move to Canada.
They came, and I'm friends with their children, who say their parents will never vote against the Liberals.
Prime Minister Castro is desperate to repeat this, but he's playing with fire with Muslims.
Yeah.
It's interesting how Justin doesn't look like his father, doesn't it?
Have you seen the picture of him next to Fidel Castro?
Yeah.
He does look like Castro, actually.
Yeah, he does.
Have you seen the picture of his mother caressing Fidel Castro?
Yeah, I saw that one as well.
Yeah, his mother was very friendly with Castro.
Let's watch the next one.
Ah, that's it.
Right, so we will go to the comments now.
Yes.
We have time, some extra time to take more.
Do we not?
Ryan, we could take a minute or two on, can't we?
Yep, OK.
Right, a couple from my section then.
Dan, what are your thoughts on Reform's proposed tax cuts?
No idea, haven't watched it yet because it was only just before we came on, but I will take a look at that and probably do a video on it soon, maybe a Brokernomics on all the manifestos and stuff.
Nord Verevar says, Farage as leader of the opposition is the absolute best case we can hope for off the back of this election.
Make it happen.
The Tories need to stop splitting the reform vote.
Absolutely right.
I agree entirely.
Bleach Demon says, I can only hope reform will remove the uniparty types like Tice.
Yeah, well, Tice has been binned, hasn't he?
But they're on a momentum upswing and they want positive news at the moment.
So they can't just proper bin him.
They've got to move him sideways and then outwards.
But yeah, but he will be gone because he's a massive cuck.
Baron Von Warhawk says, At this point, voting for the Tories should be seen as completely taboo for any true Englishman.
Quite right.
Time after time, Tories have shown themselves to be the biggest pack of traitors since Mosley and his black shirts.
Um, Derek Power says, hearing about politicians simping over Blair radiates nothing but ick.
And Alex Ogle says, the table shall be banged.
One can only hope that means the first incident upon the table surface, but there is room for uncertainty.
To paraphrase Stephen Fry from the comedy series, It's a Bitter Fry and Laurie, what in the name of Greek buggery are you talking about?
Basically Alex, in the previous weeks, a lot of people are saying that when I'm in a segment, they hear the table being banged.
Someone is hitting the table.
They think I'm doing it, but I'm not.
Stelios would never bang a table.
He's been accused of this table banging from his opponents, but he's a good, honest man.
You know who I blame?
Goblins.
That's true.
We do have some goblins in the studio.
Goblins made you two do it.
In fact, we had a power cut last week, didn't we?
That was goblins as well.
They ate the cable.
Yeah.
Okay.
So, Lord Nereva, where were you when Europe overwhelmingly flipped far right?
I was at work, trying not to laugh in front of clients.
George Happ, some right-wing parties winning across Europe is great to see.
If only we had something similar in the UK and not just hate-not-hope containment-like reform.
Baron von Warhoek, careful boys, let's not celebrate so soon.
Just because some politicians claiming to be conservative have gotten elected doesn't mean they aren't just pretending to get votes.
We should only celebrate only boats start getting turned back, pride flags start going down, and soars get banned from entering these countries.
Well, I mean, at least a good thing.
It's a step to the right direction.
And I think It's the more conservative voices are heard in the EU Parliament, the more easy it's going to be for every other conservative politician to enact conservative policies.
As we said before, things can also go south.
Annie Moss, I'm so glad I learned about goblins today and either this.
Kudos, Josh, that this should have been on yours.
Bald Eagle 1787 says the CDU are the Tories of Germany.
They're always in coalition with the SDU and all the Greens.
There can be no change in Germany until the CDU is destroyed.
Kevin Fox, Macron could not recognize that the people are moving to the right because that cognitive part of his brain was removed during his last visit to Davos.
And Omer Awad, the non-right parties are so low energy they seem performative.
I guess it's hard to summon real emotions about not having as many serfs to pour your Pratt brand coffee.
You want to go to yours, Josh?
Sure.
So we've got a little bit of misinformation from Lord Nerevar here saying there were no goblin problems in Rhodesia, just saying.
And I don't mean to, you know, I like what you're going for here.
OK, this is hate speech.
However, That news article was from 1955, which is when Rhodesia was still a thing, right?
That's before Zimbabwe and Mugabe and all of that stuff.
So the Goblin Menace goes back far beyond these petty squabbles of mortal men.
But they've been harassing the Bantu for decades.
They have, yeah.
At least 100 years, it seems.
Sophie Liv says, I can see Callum didn't manage to stay hidden while visiting there.
You need to reign You're gobbling back in.
We've been trying to get Callum to stop visiting Zimbabwe and terrorising the locals but he's a difficult man to control.
Eating their food and tricking them into stabbing each other and the likes.
Bleach Demon, do these Zimbabwean goblins arrive in little rubber boats too?
Well, we've not been able to get to the bottom of that yet.
But we think, you know, as a company, our collective goblin wisdom at Lotus Eaters is that they can travel by any mode of transport that a human being can.
Which is interesting.
Make of that what you will.
Yes.
So Bold Eagle 1787, thanks for the donation, says how ironic would it be if it was white liberals that were the goblins after education is colonialism to them?
So they're perceiving the white liberals in Zimbabwe, they're terrorizing them.
Somebody in the chat has been quite clever by saying that you should have named the segment The Goblin Menace.
I quite like that.
Revenge of the Goblins.
Goblin menace, yeah.
I don't get it but... From the Phantom Menace from Star Wars.
Okay.
Probably.
Yeah.
Chase Balls says, all of the mainstream left-wing parties deserve to sink as they have got absolutely no policy to answer to the goblin problem.
I thought that had been put in the wrong section for a second there.
Michael Brooks, goblins equal aliens?
Well there was actually, when I was talking to Carl trying to convince him about UFOs, one of the most credible UFO sightings was outside a school in South Africa.
It was a different ethnic group to the Tokoloshe goblin Plagued Bantus, so it's acceptable.
In fact, it was a multi-ethnic school and therefore there were a plurality and therefore more feasible beliefs.
Baron Von Warhawk, the final comment I'll read today.
Zimbabwe goblins, huh?
I think we know where Callum and Lord Miles should go for their next video.
Well, funny you say that because he is going there, Lord Miles at least.
So yeah, that's your goblin forecast for today.
Right, right.
Okay, so I really enjoyed this podcast today.
Thank you for doing this.
And I hope you enjoyed it as well.
And don't forget to visit us tomorrow at 1pm for the next podcast.
See you and goodbye.
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